March 30, 2025 • 38 mins
Tonight! I talk about the Cryptids of New Hampshire. The Wood Devils of Coos County and the Pigman of Northfield. My personal experience and my theory on why we see them. Also, I am an official Ancient Astronaut Theorist.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Well, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Buddhist af Podcast.
I am your host. No chance of VISUK and we
got a little heavy last week, so going to do
a filler episode. I guess kind of like you know
when you watch an anime and it gets like super
intense and dramatic and you're like, oh, like you know,
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you're built up so much so that you need to
clean our palettes a little bit. And so last week's
episode was the genocide, and Cambodia took a lot out
of me, put a lot into it. So I am
glad a lot of people are actually listening to it.
A lot of feedbacks and really positive feedback. So I'm
glad to hear that some negatives. I didn't pronounce the
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words correctly. I get it. I even said that in
the beginning I'm not going to be able to say
the words correctly because I'm not Cambodia, and I tried
my best, So I appreciate again, I appreciate the feedbacks, good, bad, neutral, whatever,
but awesome. We are going to get a little silly
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this week, so we're going back to my home state
of New Hampshire, the Granite State, and We're going to
talk about something that I've been wanting to talk about
for quite some time, but didn't think it was the
right time to talk about it. But since it's spring
and you know, we're being a little silly, I'm going
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to talk about the cryptids of New Hampshire. For those
of you who aren't familiar with cryptids, bigfoot and locked
in Sponster, like Champlain Monster, things like that, like things
that people claim to see but we really can't prove
if they're real or not. So that's what we're talking about.
And we're talking directly about the New Hampshire cryptids. And
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so I've got two today that we're pretty interesting and
maybe if I get some more feedback, if you guys
like this, we'll talk more about it. But first thing
we are going to talk about is the wood Devils
of co Ez County in New Hampshire. So these are
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if you haven't heard about them before, these are like
really tall, thin, bigfoot like creatures and their way of
being elusive is to stay completely still so that you
can't see them. So it's one of those things where
you like see out of the corner of your eye
while you're walking around the forest, but you're not quite
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sure that you see them or not. So first subject
of the podcast is the wood Devils of Coaz County,
and I've got my tea with me. It is green
tea kobocha, and I am traditionally drinking it out of
a mason jar because I like drinking things out of
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a mason jar rather it be tea water beer. Beer
tastes really good out of mason jar. By the way,
if you haven't tried beer out of a mason jar,
try it. I guarantee you that you are going to
like it. But here we go. The wood devils are
one of New Hampshire's most famous cryptids, often compared to Bigfoot,
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but with distinct differences that make them even more mysterious.
Reports of wood devils go back at least a century,
with hunters and outdoorsmen in Coz County, New Hampshire's northern
and most rural region, describing encounters with strange, tall, humanoid
creatures in the woods. Unlike Bigfoot, which is often reported
across the US, wood devils seem to be regionally a
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regional phenomenon, concentrated in the White Mountains and surrounding wilderness.
Stories were passed down through local families, with many insisting
that these creatures are more than just folklore. So how
to spot one if you happen to be walking in
the woods of northern New Hampshire. Their height is anywhere
from seven to nine feet tall, much like a sasquatch leaner.
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The build is thin, almost wiry, with an eerie humanoid appearance.
Coloration covered in light gray to brown fur, allowing them
to blend with the trees. Facial features rarely seen in detail,
as most sightings describe them, disappearing before a clear view
can be obtained. Movement incredibly fast and agile, often described
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as moving unnaturally quick for something its size. Behavior they
are the masters of stealth. The wood devils are said
to be almost impossible to detect unless they move. If
a person approaches one unknowingly, it will reportedly stand completely still,
pressing itself against a tree to remain hidden. This camouflage
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ability leads to speculation that many people may have walked
past them without even realizing. They are incredibly fast and silent.
They can move at blinding speeds through the woods, often
disappearing before a witness can process what they saw. Unlike foot,
which sometimes leaves large footprints or broken branches. What devils
leave little to no trace the unusual sounds that they make.
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Some reports claim that they make high pitch screams, whistles,
or strange chadlike noises, though others describe eerie silence when
they're near. So I have talked about my own personal
experience when we were up in Conway, New Hampshire, where
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Alex ended an episode. I was carrying him from the
parking lot and as soon as I put him down
on the ground on the end in the entrance to
the to the forest, he just had a breakdown. He
just started crying. And as soon as I picked him
up he was fine. I put him back down, he
starts crying again, pick him up, fine, put him down cry.
So I was getting frustrated, and so I took him
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back to the car and we sat down in the
car for a little bit too. He calmed down, and
then we walked through the parking lot back and sure enough,
as soon as he sets foot onto the dirt, he
starts panicking again, and so Mary takes him, picks him up,
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takes him further further down the road into the woods,
and I follow behind. And what I heard that was
scary was that I heard nothing. As I was walking,
I heard my own breathing, and then nothing else. I
couldn't even hear Mary or Alex, which they were probably
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about twenty feet in front of me. I didn't hear them.
I didn't hear any wind, I didn't hear any animals,
no leaves, nothing like you would think. This is in September, October,
and you would think like squirrels or chipmunks or something
would be like skittering about the leaves, crunching things like that.
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But I heard nothing. I was in a complete vacuum,
and I didn't think too much of it. And so
I started what what a lot of people would consider
calling out. But I wasn't doing it verbally. I was
doing it in my head psychologically, and so I would
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repeat myself in my own head. I would repeat, you know,
I am here, I am listening. Does anyone have anything
to say? Probably not a good idea, but I did it,
and I repeated it over and over as I'm walking
towards Mary and Alex, and again they were twenty feet
away from me. I didn't I couldn't even hear them.
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They were saying something, but I couldn't hear them, which
is also very strange. And so again as I'm walking
towards them as they're waiting for me, I am here,
I am listening. Does anyone have anything to say? And
so I heard nothing back, but I started feeling really strange,
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like as soon as I caught up to Mary and
Alex and we started walking and again no no wind,
no chirps, nothing, complete vacuum silence, as if we were
in a deprivation chamber. And so I, again, without telling
my wife because she gets scared of these things, and
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Alex is holding my hand tightly by the way, I
am here, I am listening. Does anyone have anything to say?
And as we rounded the corner, Mary looks at me
and she goes, what's wrong with you? Like that's the
first thing I heard from her as she's saying, so,
what's wrong with you? And I just looked at her
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and I don't know why I said this, but it's
what I was feeling at the time. I looked at
her and I said, I want to run right now,
and she says, you are crying, and I said, yeah,
I want to turn around, and I want to leave
because something is telling me that it doesn't want us here,
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and so she kind of brushes it off and goes, well,
we were like a couple minutes away from the waterfall.
That's what she wanted to see. She was a couple
of minutes away from the waterfall. Let's just keep going
till we get to the waterfall, and we're going. I
take a deep breath. Alex looks at me. He looks
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right at me as giving me this like reassuring look
like it's okay, papa, and he excuse me, and he
holds my hand and we kept walking. I stopped saying it.
I stopped saying you know, I'm here, I'm listening. Does
anyone have I just stop and so again nothing. The
waterfall is probably five minutes away. You would think when
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a waterfall is five minutes away, you can at least
hear water. Again, nothing, complete silence, and so we walk
up to there's a bend, and finally we start hearing
signs of life, We start hearing other people, we start
hearing the water, we start hearing the wind. And I
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felt a little bit more relieved, and so I go
and I would walk along. I let go of Alex.
He's running after Mary, and we get to this plaque,
and I didn't think about it. I'm not a plaque person.
I don't really stop to read the plaques. I just
went to go look at the water. And Mary goes
that come here, and so I walk over and she
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has me read the plaque, and the plaque says that
the Native Americans never settled in this area because they
believed that there were evil spirits that lived in this
area and warned anybody who tried to build in that
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area that they weren't going to have good luck. And
so we kind of looked at each other and kind
of brushed it off and laughed about it, and we
went about for a little couple more minutes, and then
we turned around, and as we were turning around, I said, Okay,
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we're leaving now. We're not here to in my head again,
we're leaving now. We're not here to cause any trouble.
We come here with respect, and we're leaving the forest.
And sure enough, as soon as we started walking back
towards the parking lot, the sun started shining through the trees.
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The forest came back to life. Which now Mary, because
I already told her about what I was feeling, what
was going on now, She's like, it's it's lighter, Like
it feels lighter, it feels happier. And we started seeing
little wooden creatures, you know, woodland creatures, squirrels, jepmunks, what
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have you, birds flying around. It was just the weirdest experience.
And I think maybe we were being watched, and so
maybe there is something to these, to these wood devils,
and so occasionally witnesses report the feeling of being watched
without seeing anything. Sightings and encounters hunters and campers. Many
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of the reporting encounters come from hunters and hikers in
the deep forests of co Z County. Some say they
caught fleeting glimpses of something large darting between the trees
lumberjacks and outdoorsmen. Older stories suggest that lumberjacks working in
New Hampshire's vast forests sometimes saw tall, thin figures watching
them from the trees. Modern encounters, while rare occasional, Modern
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reports come in, often describing tall, shadowy figures moving unnaturally fast.
So if these aren't wood devils, what are they. Some
people suggest that they are escaped animals from zoos undiscovered
primates or relic hominoid. Some speculate the wood devils could
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be a regional subspecies of bigfoot adapted to dense forests
from New Hampshire. Others proposed they could be a relic
population of an ancient hominoid species, possibly surviving in isolation
misidentified animals. Some skeptics suggest that the sightings could be
bears standing on their hind legs, but this fails to
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explain the speed and silence described. Moose or deer moving
quickly through the trees at the right angle could create
the illusion of something hominoid, humanoid, sorry, supernatural, or interdimensional beings. Favorite,
by the way, the more out there theory is that
wood devils could be interdimensional beings, often only briefly glimpsed
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when they phase into our reality. So that is my
favorite theory, the phase theory or the radio frequency theory.
So if you aren't familiar with that theory, it's basically,
say you're in a car. So you're driving along in
a car and you're listening to a radio ninety two
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five for instance, Oka, and you're listening to I don't know,
maybe country music because I'm a big country music fan.
You're listening to country music, okay, a ninety two point five,
And just because you're listening to ninety two point five
doesn't mean ninety seven point five isn't playing. You're just
not tuned into ninety seven point five, but it's still playing.
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And so when you finally tune into it, you now
are listening to ninety seven point five and you're listening
to whatever that's playing. So Earth as it is, Earth
is just one Earth. There's just different planes of Earth,
different phases of Earth, a multiverse for instance. So you
are walking in the forest at ninety two point five,
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and these wood devils are walking in the same forest
at ninety seven point five, and eventually, once in a
while you'll get that frequency where like you're hearing two
radio stations at once. That that's what the phasing theory is.
You just happen to glimpse another reality. And as ancient
alien as it sounds, by the way, I am an
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ancient ancient alien astronaut theories, I can show you proof
that I have been accepted. That is my favorite theory.
So if you're at block ness and again you're tuning
in a ninety two point five and suddenly Nessy who's
ninety seven point five, starts along Locknest. Lock Nest is
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always there, but once in a while, you guys hit
that Reich frequency. You can see NeSSI and Nessie's probably
looking at you, like, what the hell is that thing
standing on the side of the bank. So I like
that theory a lot. It can say things for it
can make a lot of sense for a lot of things,
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where like if you're sitting in a room and all
of a sudden you see something out of the corner
of your eye. You're tuned into a frequency that you
didn't even know you were tuned into, but you saw
something out of the corner of your eye and you
look over and it's not there because your frequency fixed itself.
So very very good theory. And like I said, if
you keep an open mind, maybe maybe that's exactly what
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it is. The idea of them standing perfectly still against
trees fuels theory that they can manipulate perception. So if
it's like lights and shadows, right, if you're looking at something,
your brain kind of fills in the rest of the gap.
So like if it's dark and you're you're staring at
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the chair and the chair has like a hoodie rest
against it. Suddenly your mind is filling in the gap,
kind of like AI. Actually your mind is filling in
the gap. But now it looks like someone is sitting
in that chair with a hoodie on. So that's what
a lot of people are saying that these are. You're
staring at a tree and you're kind of moving back
and forth, and the light's playing with your eyes, and
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all of a sudden your eyes go boom. There's a
face there, So could be maybe maybe there, maybe not,
who knows. It's crazy tea time. Ah, that's good tea,
all right. So why are they unique to New Hampshire
the remote mountainous terrains of co Es County. By the way,
co Es County is the county in New Hampshire in
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two thousand and four that had the most drug overdose
drugs Seeing creatures, I'm not saying. I'm just saying I
love New Hampshire. Cohest County offers the perfect hiding place
for elusive creatures. Unlike other big foot like beings, what
devils are a leaner, faster, more ghost like, making them
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stand out amongst North American cryptids. Many locals believe if
they exist, they have always been there hiding out a site.
So the final thoughts on the wood Devils. The wood
Devils remain one of New Hampshire's most fascinating cryptid legends.
Excuse me, Whether they are real, misidentified animals or simply folklore.
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The idea of a tall, silent creature blending seamlessly into
the forest is eerie. So another thing before we jump
off the the wood Devolves are who's that poet that
lives in Robert Frost? Okay, Robert Frost's farm is probably
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too fifty minutes away from our house, and I have
been there several times, one of Mary's favorite walking spots.
And every time I go to Robert Frost farm and
I go walking with Alex with Mary, I never go
by myself because why would I Why would I exercise
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on my own? But I always stop at this one spot.
It's the second or third plaque. They have multiple plaques
along the path that has like Robert Frost's poems and
things like that, and so the second or third plaque,
I always stop there because I always hear chattering what
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sounds like whispers or multiple people talking, but I don't
know what they're saying. I don't know what language it is,
but it's like chattering and you can hear it like
things like that might sound crazy, but I hear that
constantly and it doesn't stop when I stop, Like I
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can stay still and hear it. And Mary knows I
hear it, and every time she sees me stop, she
always goes, let's keep moving, let's keep moving. And I
don't see anything. I stare into the forest and I
don't see anything, but I hear it, and it's it's
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it's prevalent. It's I can't explain it, but I can't
record it. I try to record it a few times
and nothing's come out. Some wind and Mary yelling at me,
but I hear it, and it's very very clear that
there is whispering or chatter going on. So if you
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guys ever come to check out the Robert Frost Farm,
like I said, third second or third plaque, just hang
there for a bit and just listen on like a
clear day, know when you'll hear traffic coming by because
it is pretty close to the close through the roads.
But I can tell when there's reflections of sounds, so
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like if a car goes by I can hear like
its engine and I know what reflective sound sounds like this.
It's clear voices, clear talking. And so when you guys
go to Robert Frost Farms, definitely check that out and
check out the barn because that's where I saw the girl. Umm.
So have you guys ever been in the deep woods
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of New Hampshire and felt like something was watching you?
Take a picture. Let me know if you guys experience
anything at north Conway Diana's Bath? Is it Diana's Bath
or Donna's Bath? One of those two. It's in north Conway.
I forget the name off the top of my head
right now, but definitely let me know. All right. Next subject,
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next and final subject of the night, one more time
for Tea. Here we are going to talk about the
if you're a if you're a Minecraft fan, we are
going to talk about the pig Man of Northfield, New
Hampshire's most disturbing cryptid. I had to put this out
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because pig Man Alex Alex was playing Minecraft while I
was writing these notes and he's like, what are you writing, Papa,
And I go write about a pig man. I'm very
serious about this right now and he goes like in Minecraft,
go yes, like in Minecraft. That's how serious I am
about this. So the pig Man of Northfield is one
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of New Hampshire's creepiest urban legends, blending the elements of folklore,
cryptid sightings, and even possible real life disappearances. This bizarre
humanoid said to have the face of a pig has
been terrifying locals for decades. So let's get to the
origins of the pig Man. The pig story dates back
to the nineteen seventies, though some believe earlier versions of
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the tale existed in local folklore. Like most urban legends do,
the most well known origin stories tied to a teenage
boy who supposedly vanished and became the creature himself, the
Johnny Durand story. In the nineteen seventies, a teenage boy
named Johnny Durand allegedly went missing before Halloween. Some versions
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of the story claimed that he ran away from home,
while others suggest something more sinister happened. Ooh wait, wait,
hold on, let me try my, let me try my
the mandarin voice, something more sinister. Oh that was good. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Now I will never do that again unless you guys
are into that anyway. TEA time after his disappearance, sightings
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of a humanoid creature like with a pig like face
began cropping up in the Northfield area. Locals whispered that
Johnny had either been curted, transformed, or had gone insane,
living in the woods and adopting the persona of the
pig Man. Some say he wore the head of a
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pig as a mask, while others claim his face had
somehow changed into something grotesque. Physical description If you guys
are actually out in Northfield, New Hampshire, humanoid but deformed,
it's like it's like angry with an edge, resembles a human,
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but with an unmistakably pig like face. Some say an
actual pig snout, while others describe it as a hideous,
twisted mutation. Glowing eyes reported very between red to orange,
glowing eyes which often shine in the dark. Covered in
coarse hair. Some witnesses claim the pig Man is partially
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or fully covered in bristly pig like hair, clawed hands,
and filthy skin. A few accounts believe or I'm sorry.
A few accounts describe long, dirty fingernails or claws, adding
to the creature's unsettling appearance, behaviors, and encounters. The pig
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Man isn't just a passive observer. It actively stalks, chases,
and terrifies those who encounter it. Typical pig man behavior because,
as you know, typical typical Johnny. It lurks in the woods.
The pig man is said to hide in the forest
abandoned areas around Northfield, particularly near old farmhouses and culverts.
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He watches from a distance, sometimes grunting or making pig
like squeals to announce his presence. Pig squeals don't really
scare me. Or maybe, okay, I take it back. Maybe
if I'm out in the forest by myself and I'm
hearing this grunting noise, you know, something like that, that's
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not scared. But if I'm hearing this by myself, not
that I would be out in Northfield by myself, but
just just humor me a little bit here. And now
suddenly I'm hearing pig like squeals, and then I hear
banjo music. Now now I'm scared. I haven't even been drinking.
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It emerges at night, of course, it does. Most sightings
occur at night, especially near Halloween, leaving some to believe
the legend originated as a way to scare kids. Some
claim he knocks on windows or lurks outside houses, waiting
for someone to look out aggressive pursuits. Unlike passive cryptids
like Bigfoot and the Wood Devil's, the pig Man is
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known to chase people who get too close. Some stories
describe people running for their lives. The creature emerges from
the woods, snorting loudly. I mean, if you don't want
to be seen, and you're already making grunting noises and
you're making pig squeal, and people are still coming towards you, like, hey,
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let's go find out what that noise is. No, let's
not find out what that noise is. Let's go back
to our car. But some people just need to find
out what that noise was, and those are the people
who usually end up the victim of the pig Man.
By the way, sometimes you just gonna mind your own business,
don't know. I so possible connection to animal sacrifices. Some
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local believe that the pig Man may be responsible for
dead animals found in the woods, often mutilated in bizarre ways.
Others speculate it might be a real person, a deranged
individual who developed an obsession with pigs. I mean yeah,
famous locations for sightings. So if you want to go
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out there during Halloween time, you want to go to
a corvert near Northfield. One of the most famous pig
Man locations is a large drainage covert outside of Northfield.
Stories claim he uses it as a shelter and ambushes
people get too close old abandoned farms. The pig Man
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has also been sighted near old Rundown farmhouses, where he
supposedly hides amongst the ruins. Pig Man Road. Some claim
a remote back road near Northfield is called pig Man
Road due to frequent sightings. However, there is no official
record of this name. So now let's look at it
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from a scientific point of view, because we have to.
We have to play the good guy in the bad
Guy Good got back cop and I am all in
one tea time. Oh, my te's gonna cald, my tea's
gonna calde. I wonder why so number one a ferocious
pharaoh man. Some believe the pig Man is simply a
far old human, possibly someone who abandoned society and began
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living in the woods. If Johnny Durant was real, it
could have become a hermit, adopting a pig mass, or
even developing a bizarre facial deformity due to malnutrition or injury.
By the way, I have set this to several people.
If I were ever to cut myself off completely from
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society and become a hermit, I would grow my beard
out as well as I would grow a mullet, and
so the back of my hair would be super long,
the front of my beard would be super long. I
would get rid of all clothing, and I would tie
the two ends together and just look like Captain Caveman,
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and I would live perfectly happy, just nice and warm
with my beard, hair, underwear, one piece. Yeah so yeah,
completely different from last week's episode. Isn't it too? A
deformed or inbred individual. Another theory is that the pig
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Man isn't supernatural, but instead a result of several genetic abnormalities.
Some stories suggest he was the product of incestuous isolation,
creating grotesque features resembling a pig number three, a demon
or supernatural entity. The pig Man's glowing eyes, unnatural behavior,
and aggressions lead some to believe that he is not
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human at all. A popular idea is that he was
once human but was cursed or possessed, transforming into the
pig man permanently until he meets the one girl who
will just give him all the love before the flower
petals fall. Ah. So I want to talk about Beauty
and the Beasts through briefly here the the animated version
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of the Disney animated version of Beauty in the Beast,
because I was reminded about this when I saw it
a few years ago, not a few years, about a
decade ago actually, So if you can humor me a
little bit, here, do you guys remember the scene where
like Gaston and the villagers storm Beast's castle and you know,
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they're they're fighting the furniture which used to be human,
like they the furniture used to be the servants and
and and and all the stuff for for beasts is prince.
So they're fighting the furniture. And if I remember this distinctly,
because the villagers are in the main hall and a
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bureau jumps from the balcony onto one of the servants,
and as a kid, I laughed hysterically because like he was,
the villager was a complete jackass attacking these defenseless furniture
which aren't actually defenseless, and this barrel jumps and falls
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right on top of them. And I was laughing as
a kid, but now as an adult, with my adult brain,
with my somewhat adult brain, I'm thinking, now, holy crap,
that bureau just killed that man. Like that man had
a family, and now he's not going home to see
his family because he is dead now. And that brought
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about a different story to Beauty and the Beasts, and
I just saw it differently from that point on. So, yeah,
that man's dead. Now he has kids, and now they
will never see their father again because he was crushed
to death by a burero who did a jeff hardy
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swanton dive off the balcony. So yeah, number four. An
urban legend to scare teens. Most urban legends used to
scare teens is basically just to stop you from having sex, Like, hey,
stop going out to make out. Point in your car
because there's some stranger with a hook hand looking for
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kids who's making out. That's how most urban legends go,
but many did stories serve as cautionary tales warning young
people to stay out of the woods at night. Given
the pig Man's Halloween connections, some believe is an exaggerated
ghost story that took on a life of its own.
Pig Man today and lingering fear. Despite no concrete proof,
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local still whisper about the pig Man, especially in Northfield.
Some claim the legend was covered up to avoid attracting
throw seekers. Modern sightings, reports of glowing eyes in the
woods or strange grunting noises persist. Moose grunt. Lots of
animals in the forest have eye shine. If you shine
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a flashlight, add a cat, a bobcat, a puma, puma
or mountain lion for you and the arder the nurse
they also have eye shine. And like I said, moose
bare humans, pig man, they all grunt when you approach,
so that could be a thing. A few daring investigators
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have tried searching the culvert, but found it empty except
for eerie, unexplained footprints. Some hunters claim they've seen something
large and human like dart between the trees, making deep
pig snorts. Final thoughts, the pig Man of Northfield remains
one of New Hampshire's most terrifying legends. Whether it's a
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true cryptid, a deformed hermit, or just a well crafted
local horror story. Would you ever go looking for him?
Or is this one cryptid best left undisturbed. I'm gonna
say no doubt. That's a no for me. Dog. I
am not out there thrill seeking looking for a half human,
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half pig possibly demon spawn minecraft like villain, So nope,
I am not going to be looking for the pig man.
I don't mind looking for the wood devils because I
don't see them anyway, and they're too fast for me.
So yeah, don't go chasing wood devils. Stick to the
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rivers in the woods that you're used to. But that
is the end, guys. I am glad we got through that.
I'm glad I got through it. I don't even know
how I got through that. That was that was completely
silly and unprofessional me and I apologize, Alex. I don't
even know why you're listening to this episode again. This
is a filler episode, but it is Session sixty three,
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and next week we go back to seriousness with an
episode that took another very very very very long time
to come up with, which is why I have so
many stories to talk about now. I've been doing a
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lot of research in between times of writing silliness and
keeping most episodes to about fifteen minutes, just to give
you guys some something, you know, because I do like
being on this platform and I do like hearing you
guys talk back, and so I have been doing a
lot of research, basically retracing my steps again. Last week
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was the Cambodian genocide, which took me over a year
to research and write. Next week, I'm going to talk
about the refugee camps near uben Rachatani where I was born,
one of the many many refugee camps for Lao, Cambodian
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and among refugees after the Vietnam War and after the
Cambodian genocide. So that's gonna be heavy. So I figured
i'd do something light this week and silly, but I
got to act really nerdy and talk about phase theory.
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So now now you guys know about phase theory. Now
you guys know that I am also an ancient astronaut theorist.
And yeah, I got that off my chest. So I
actually feel really good, and tomorrow I will or next
week I will probably be deep funk because I'm talking
about the past and refugee camps, which are extremely dangerous,
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but my parents kept it very light. I didn't know
how much danger I was in. I could have been
kidnapped at anytime. I was just walking around, like I said,
walking around the camp with my gang of kids, and
I was down a ducking it, popping a squad wherever
I felt like it. There was no latrines, no bathrooms,
none of that. I just went wherever I felt like going.
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And apparently it was a very very dangerous place, but
I never knew that. So I'm going to talk about
how dangerous it is or was. Sorry, refugee camps are
all closed now, at least the ones that I researched
and am aware of. I'm gonna tell you about where
most of those were located, especially around the Ubun Ratchatani.
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I'm just going to focus on that area. There was
tons of refugee camps everywhere else, most along the borders
of Laos and Cambodia, but I'm just going to be
zooming specifically into the ubann Ratchatani refugee camps. So stick
around for that next week, and I appreciate you all.
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The Buddhist af podcast is written, produced, spiced up and
archived by myself, knowing chant the VISUK and I appreciate
every single one of you guys for listening every week.
Alex skip this one maybe, but I will talk to
you guys next week as always. Bob Binan, I'll see
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you guys there bye,
Well, what's going on? Everybody? Welcome to the Buddhist af Podcast.
I am your host. No chance of VISUK and we
got a little heavy last week, so going to do
a filler episode. I guess kind of like you know
when you watch an anime and it gets like super
intense and dramatic and you're like, oh, like you know,
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you're built up so much so that you need to
clean our palettes a little bit. And so last week's
episode was the genocide, and Cambodia took a lot out
of me, put a lot into it. So I am
glad a lot of people are actually listening to it.
A lot of feedbacks and really positive feedback. So I'm
glad to hear that some negatives. I didn't pronounce the
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words correctly. I get it. I even said that in
the beginning I'm not going to be able to say
the words correctly because I'm not Cambodia, and I tried
my best, So I appreciate again, I appreciate the feedbacks, good, bad, neutral, whatever,
but awesome. We are going to get a little silly
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this week, so we're going back to my home state
of New Hampshire, the Granite State, and We're going to
talk about something that I've been wanting to talk about
for quite some time, but didn't think it was the
right time to talk about it. But since it's spring
and you know, we're being a little silly, I'm going
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to talk about the cryptids of New Hampshire. For those
of you who aren't familiar with cryptids, bigfoot and locked
in Sponster, like Champlain Monster, things like that, like things
that people claim to see but we really can't prove
if they're real or not. So that's what we're talking about.
And we're talking directly about the New Hampshire cryptids. And
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so I've got two today that we're pretty interesting and
maybe if I get some more feedback, if you guys
like this, we'll talk more about it. But first thing
we are going to talk about is the wood Devils
of co Ez County in New Hampshire. So these are
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if you haven't heard about them before, these are like
really tall, thin, bigfoot like creatures and their way of
being elusive is to stay completely still so that you
can't see them. So it's one of those things where
you like see out of the corner of your eye
while you're walking around the forest, but you're not quite
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sure that you see them or not. So first subject
of the podcast is the wood Devils of Coaz County,
and I've got my tea with me. It is green
tea kobocha, and I am traditionally drinking it out of
a mason jar because I like drinking things out of
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a mason jar rather it be tea water beer. Beer
tastes really good out of mason jar. By the way,
if you haven't tried beer out of a mason jar,
try it. I guarantee you that you are going to
like it. But here we go. The wood devils are
one of New Hampshire's most famous cryptids, often compared to Bigfoot,
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but with distinct differences that make them even more mysterious.
Reports of wood devils go back at least a century,
with hunters and outdoorsmen in Coz County, New Hampshire's northern
and most rural region, describing encounters with strange, tall, humanoid
creatures in the woods. Unlike Bigfoot, which is often reported
across the US, wood devils seem to be regionally a
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regional phenomenon, concentrated in the White Mountains and surrounding wilderness.
Stories were passed down through local families, with many insisting
that these creatures are more than just folklore. So how
to spot one if you happen to be walking in
the woods of northern New Hampshire. Their height is anywhere
from seven to nine feet tall, much like a sasquatch leaner.
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The build is thin, almost wiry, with an eerie humanoid appearance.
Coloration covered in light gray to brown fur, allowing them
to blend with the trees. Facial features rarely seen in detail,
as most sightings describe them, disappearing before a clear view
can be obtained. Movement incredibly fast and agile, often described
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as moving unnaturally quick for something its size. Behavior they
are the masters of stealth. The wood devils are said
to be almost impossible to detect unless they move. If
a person approaches one unknowingly, it will reportedly stand completely still,
pressing itself against a tree to remain hidden. This camouflage
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ability leads to speculation that many people may have walked
past them without even realizing. They are incredibly fast and silent.
They can move at blinding speeds through the woods, often
disappearing before a witness can process what they saw. Unlike foot,
which sometimes leaves large footprints or broken branches. What devils
leave little to no trace the unusual sounds that they make.
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Some reports claim that they make high pitch screams, whistles,
or strange chadlike noises, though others describe eerie silence when
they're near. So I have talked about my own personal
experience when we were up in Conway, New Hampshire, where
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Alex ended an episode. I was carrying him from the
parking lot and as soon as I put him down
on the ground on the end in the entrance to
the to the forest, he just had a breakdown. He
just started crying. And as soon as I picked him
up he was fine. I put him back down, he
starts crying again, pick him up, fine, put him down cry.
So I was getting frustrated, and so I took him
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back to the car and we sat down in the
car for a little bit too. He calmed down, and
then we walked through the parking lot back and sure enough,
as soon as he sets foot onto the dirt, he
starts panicking again, and so Mary takes him, picks him up,
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takes him further further down the road into the woods,
and I follow behind. And what I heard that was
scary was that I heard nothing. As I was walking,
I heard my own breathing, and then nothing else. I
couldn't even hear Mary or Alex, which they were probably
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about twenty feet in front of me. I didn't hear them.
I didn't hear any wind, I didn't hear any animals,
no leaves, nothing like you would think. This is in September, October,
and you would think like squirrels or chipmunks or something
would be like skittering about the leaves, crunching things like that.
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But I heard nothing. I was in a complete vacuum,
and I didn't think too much of it. And so
I started what what a lot of people would consider
calling out. But I wasn't doing it verbally. I was
doing it in my head psychologically, and so I would
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repeat myself in my own head. I would repeat, you know,
I am here, I am listening. Does anyone have anything
to say? Probably not a good idea, but I did it,
and I repeated it over and over as I'm walking
towards Mary and Alex, and again they were twenty feet
away from me. I didn't I couldn't even hear them.
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They were saying something, but I couldn't hear them, which
is also very strange. And so again as I'm walking
towards them as they're waiting for me, I am here,
I am listening. Does anyone have anything to say? And
so I heard nothing back, but I started feeling really strange,
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like as soon as I caught up to Mary and
Alex and we started walking and again no no wind,
no chirps, nothing, complete vacuum silence, as if we were
in a deprivation chamber. And so I, again, without telling
my wife because she gets scared of these things, and
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Alex is holding my hand tightly by the way, I
am here, I am listening. Does anyone have anything to say?
And as we rounded the corner, Mary looks at me
and she goes, what's wrong with you? Like that's the
first thing I heard from her as she's saying, so,
what's wrong with you? And I just looked at her
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and I don't know why I said this, but it's
what I was feeling at the time. I looked at
her and I said, I want to run right now,
and she says, you are crying, and I said, yeah,
I want to turn around, and I want to leave
because something is telling me that it doesn't want us here,
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and so she kind of brushes it off and goes, well,
we were like a couple minutes away from the waterfall.
That's what she wanted to see. She was a couple
of minutes away from the waterfall. Let's just keep going
till we get to the waterfall, and we're going. I
take a deep breath. Alex looks at me. He looks
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right at me as giving me this like reassuring look
like it's okay, papa, and he excuse me, and he
holds my hand and we kept walking. I stopped saying it.
I stopped saying you know, I'm here, I'm listening. Does
anyone have I just stop and so again nothing. The
waterfall is probably five minutes away. You would think when
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a waterfall is five minutes away, you can at least
hear water. Again, nothing, complete silence, and so we walk
up to there's a bend, and finally we start hearing
signs of life, We start hearing other people, we start
hearing the water, we start hearing the wind. And I
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felt a little bit more relieved, and so I go
and I would walk along. I let go of Alex.
He's running after Mary, and we get to this plaque,
and I didn't think about it. I'm not a plaque person.
I don't really stop to read the plaques. I just
went to go look at the water. And Mary goes
that come here, and so I walk over and she
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has me read the plaque, and the plaque says that
the Native Americans never settled in this area because they
believed that there were evil spirits that lived in this
area and warned anybody who tried to build in that
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area that they weren't going to have good luck. And
so we kind of looked at each other and kind
of brushed it off and laughed about it, and we
went about for a little couple more minutes, and then
we turned around, and as we were turning around, I said, Okay,
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we're leaving now. We're not here to in my head again,
we're leaving now. We're not here to cause any trouble.
We come here with respect, and we're leaving the forest.
And sure enough, as soon as we started walking back
towards the parking lot, the sun started shining through the trees.
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The forest came back to life. Which now Mary, because
I already told her about what I was feeling, what
was going on now, She's like, it's it's lighter, Like
it feels lighter, it feels happier. And we started seeing
little wooden creatures, you know, woodland creatures, squirrels, jepmunks, what
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have you, birds flying around. It was just the weirdest experience.
And I think maybe we were being watched, and so
maybe there is something to these, to these wood devils,
and so occasionally witnesses report the feeling of being watched
without seeing anything. Sightings and encounters hunters and campers. Many
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of the reporting encounters come from hunters and hikers in
the deep forests of co Z County. Some say they
caught fleeting glimpses of something large darting between the trees
lumberjacks and outdoorsmen. Older stories suggest that lumberjacks working in
New Hampshire's vast forests sometimes saw tall, thin figures watching
them from the trees. Modern encounters, while rare occasional, Modern
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reports come in, often describing tall, shadowy figures moving unnaturally fast.
So if these aren't wood devils, what are they. Some
people suggest that they are escaped animals from zoos undiscovered
primates or relic hominoid. Some speculate the wood devils could
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be a regional subspecies of bigfoot adapted to dense forests
from New Hampshire. Others proposed they could be a relic
population of an ancient hominoid species, possibly surviving in isolation
misidentified animals. Some skeptics suggest that the sightings could be
bears standing on their hind legs, but this fails to
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explain the speed and silence described. Moose or deer moving
quickly through the trees at the right angle could create
the illusion of something hominoid, humanoid, sorry, supernatural, or interdimensional beings. Favorite,
by the way, the more out there theory is that
wood devils could be interdimensional beings, often only briefly glimpsed
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when they phase into our reality. So that is my
favorite theory, the phase theory or the radio frequency theory.
So if you aren't familiar with that theory, it's basically,
say you're in a car. So you're driving along in
a car and you're listening to a radio ninety two
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five for instance, Oka, and you're listening to I don't know,
maybe country music because I'm a big country music fan.
You're listening to country music, okay, a ninety two point five,
And just because you're listening to ninety two point five
doesn't mean ninety seven point five isn't playing. You're just
not tuned into ninety seven point five, but it's still playing.
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And so when you finally tune into it, you now
are listening to ninety seven point five and you're listening
to whatever that's playing. So Earth as it is, Earth
is just one Earth. There's just different planes of Earth,
different phases of Earth, a multiverse for instance. So you
are walking in the forest at ninety two point five,
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and these wood devils are walking in the same forest
at ninety seven point five, and eventually, once in a
while you'll get that frequency where like you're hearing two
radio stations at once. That that's what the phasing theory is.
You just happen to glimpse another reality. And as ancient
alien as it sounds, by the way, I am an
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ancient ancient alien astronaut theories, I can show you proof
that I have been accepted. That is my favorite theory.
So if you're at block ness and again you're tuning
in a ninety two point five and suddenly Nessy who's
ninety seven point five, starts along Locknest. Lock Nest is
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always there, but once in a while, you guys hit
that Reich frequency. You can see NeSSI and Nessie's probably
looking at you, like, what the hell is that thing
standing on the side of the bank. So I like
that theory a lot. It can say things for it
can make a lot of sense for a lot of things,
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where like if you're sitting in a room and all
of a sudden you see something out of the corner
of your eye. You're tuned into a frequency that you
didn't even know you were tuned into, but you saw
something out of the corner of your eye and you
look over and it's not there because your frequency fixed itself.
So very very good theory. And like I said, if
you keep an open mind, maybe maybe that's exactly what
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it is. The idea of them standing perfectly still against
trees fuels theory that they can manipulate perception. So if
it's like lights and shadows, right, if you're looking at something,
your brain kind of fills in the rest of the gap.
So like if it's dark and you're you're staring at
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the chair and the chair has like a hoodie rest
against it. Suddenly your mind is filling in the gap,
kind of like AI. Actually your mind is filling in
the gap. But now it looks like someone is sitting
in that chair with a hoodie on. So that's what
a lot of people are saying that these are. You're
staring at a tree and you're kind of moving back
and forth, and the light's playing with your eyes, and
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all of a sudden your eyes go boom. There's a
face there, So could be maybe maybe there, maybe not,
who knows. It's crazy tea time. Ah, that's good tea,
all right. So why are they unique to New Hampshire
the remote mountainous terrains of co Es County. By the way,
co Es County is the county in New Hampshire in
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two thousand and four that had the most drug overdose
drugs Seeing creatures, I'm not saying. I'm just saying I
love New Hampshire. Cohest County offers the perfect hiding place
for elusive creatures. Unlike other big foot like beings, what
devils are a leaner, faster, more ghost like, making them
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stand out amongst North American cryptids. Many locals believe if
they exist, they have always been there hiding out a site.
So the final thoughts on the wood Devils. The wood
Devils remain one of New Hampshire's most fascinating cryptid legends.
Excuse me, Whether they are real, misidentified animals or simply folklore.
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The idea of a tall, silent creature blending seamlessly into
the forest is eerie. So another thing before we jump
off the the wood Devolves are who's that poet that
lives in Robert Frost? Okay, Robert Frost's farm is probably
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too fifty minutes away from our house, and I have
been there several times, one of Mary's favorite walking spots.
And every time I go to Robert Frost farm and
I go walking with Alex with Mary, I never go
by myself because why would I Why would I exercise
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on my own? But I always stop at this one spot.
It's the second or third plaque. They have multiple plaques
along the path that has like Robert Frost's poems and
things like that, and so the second or third plaque,
I always stop there because I always hear chattering what
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sounds like whispers or multiple people talking, but I don't
know what they're saying. I don't know what language it is,
but it's like chattering and you can hear it like
things like that might sound crazy, but I hear that
constantly and it doesn't stop when I stop, Like I
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can stay still and hear it. And Mary knows I
hear it, and every time she sees me stop, she
always goes, let's keep moving, let's keep moving. And I
don't see anything. I stare into the forest and I
don't see anything, but I hear it, and it's it's
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it's prevalent. It's I can't explain it, but I can't
record it. I try to record it a few times
and nothing's come out. Some wind and Mary yelling at me,
but I hear it, and it's very very clear that
there is whispering or chatter going on. So if you
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guys ever come to check out the Robert Frost Farm,
like I said, third second or third plaque, just hang
there for a bit and just listen on like a
clear day, know when you'll hear traffic coming by because
it is pretty close to the close through the roads.
But I can tell when there's reflections of sounds, so
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like if a car goes by I can hear like
its engine and I know what reflective sound sounds like this.
It's clear voices, clear talking. And so when you guys
go to Robert Frost Farms, definitely check that out and
check out the barn because that's where I saw the girl. Umm.
So have you guys ever been in the deep woods
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of New Hampshire and felt like something was watching you?
Take a picture. Let me know if you guys experience
anything at north Conway Diana's Bath? Is it Diana's Bath
or Donna's Bath? One of those two. It's in north Conway.
I forget the name off the top of my head
right now, but definitely let me know. All right. Next subject,
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next and final subject of the night, one more time
for Tea. Here we are going to talk about the
if you're a if you're a Minecraft fan, we are
going to talk about the pig Man of Northfield, New
Hampshire's most disturbing cryptid. I had to put this out
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because pig Man Alex Alex was playing Minecraft while I
was writing these notes and he's like, what are you writing, Papa,
And I go write about a pig man. I'm very
serious about this right now and he goes like in Minecraft,
go yes, like in Minecraft. That's how serious I am
about this. So the pig Man of Northfield is one
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of New Hampshire's creepiest urban legends, blending the elements of folklore,
cryptid sightings, and even possible real life disappearances. This bizarre
humanoid said to have the face of a pig has
been terrifying locals for decades. So let's get to the
origins of the pig Man. The pig story dates back
to the nineteen seventies, though some believe earlier versions of
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the tale existed in local folklore. Like most urban legends do,
the most well known origin stories tied to a teenage
boy who supposedly vanished and became the creature himself, the
Johnny Durand story. In the nineteen seventies, a teenage boy
named Johnny Durand allegedly went missing before Halloween. Some versions
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of the story claimed that he ran away from home,
while others suggest something more sinister happened. Ooh wait, wait,
hold on, let me try my, let me try my
the mandarin voice, something more sinister. Oh that was good. Yeah, yeah, okay,
Now I will never do that again unless you guys
are into that anyway. TEA time after his disappearance, sightings
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of a humanoid creature like with a pig like face
began cropping up in the Northfield area. Locals whispered that
Johnny had either been curted, transformed, or had gone insane,
living in the woods and adopting the persona of the
pig Man. Some say he wore the head of a
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pig as a mask, while others claim his face had
somehow changed into something grotesque. Physical description If you guys
are actually out in Northfield, New Hampshire, humanoid but deformed,
it's like it's like angry with an edge, resembles a human,
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but with an unmistakably pig like face. Some say an
actual pig snout, while others describe it as a hideous,
twisted mutation. Glowing eyes reported very between red to orange,
glowing eyes which often shine in the dark. Covered in
coarse hair. Some witnesses claim the pig Man is partially
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or fully covered in bristly pig like hair, clawed hands,
and filthy skin. A few accounts believe or I'm sorry.
A few accounts describe long, dirty fingernails or claws, adding
to the creature's unsettling appearance, behaviors, and encounters. The pig
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Man isn't just a passive observer. It actively stalks, chases,
and terrifies those who encounter it. Typical pig man behavior because,
as you know, typical typical Johnny. It lurks in the woods.
The pig man is said to hide in the forest
abandoned areas around Northfield, particularly near old farmhouses and culverts.
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He watches from a distance, sometimes grunting or making pig
like squeals to announce his presence. Pig squeals don't really
scare me. Or maybe, okay, I take it back. Maybe
if I'm out in the forest by myself and I'm
hearing this grunting noise, you know, something like that, that's
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not scared. But if I'm hearing this by myself, not
that I would be out in Northfield by myself, but
just just humor me a little bit here. And now
suddenly I'm hearing pig like squeals, and then I hear
banjo music. Now now I'm scared. I haven't even been drinking.
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It emerges at night, of course, it does. Most sightings
occur at night, especially near Halloween, leaving some to believe
the legend originated as a way to scare kids. Some
claim he knocks on windows or lurks outside houses, waiting
for someone to look out aggressive pursuits. Unlike passive cryptids
like Bigfoot and the Wood Devil's, the pig Man is
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known to chase people who get too close. Some stories
describe people running for their lives. The creature emerges from
the woods, snorting loudly. I mean, if you don't want
to be seen, and you're already making grunting noises and
you're making pig squeal, and people are still coming towards you, like, hey,
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let's go find out what that noise is. No, let's
not find out what that noise is. Let's go back
to our car. But some people just need to find
out what that noise was, and those are the people
who usually end up the victim of the pig Man.
By the way, sometimes you just gonna mind your own business,
don't know. I so possible connection to animal sacrifices. Some
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local believe that the pig Man may be responsible for
dead animals found in the woods, often mutilated in bizarre ways.
Others speculate it might be a real person, a deranged
individual who developed an obsession with pigs. I mean yeah,
famous locations for sightings. So if you want to go
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out there during Halloween time, you want to go to
a corvert near Northfield. One of the most famous pig
Man locations is a large drainage covert outside of Northfield.
Stories claim he uses it as a shelter and ambushes
people get too close old abandoned farms. The pig Man
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has also been sighted near old Rundown farmhouses, where he
supposedly hides amongst the ruins. Pig Man Road. Some claim
a remote back road near Northfield is called pig Man
Road due to frequent sightings. However, there is no official
record of this name. So now let's look at it
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from a scientific point of view, because we have to.
We have to play the good guy in the bad
Guy Good got back cop and I am all in
one tea time. Oh, my te's gonna cald, my tea's
gonna calde. I wonder why so number one a ferocious
pharaoh man. Some believe the pig Man is simply a
far old human, possibly someone who abandoned society and began
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living in the woods. If Johnny Durant was real, it
could have become a hermit, adopting a pig mass, or
even developing a bizarre facial deformity due to malnutrition or injury.
By the way, I have set this to several people.
If I were ever to cut myself off completely from
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society and become a hermit, I would grow my beard
out as well as I would grow a mullet, and
so the back of my hair would be super long,
the front of my beard would be super long. I
would get rid of all clothing, and I would tie
the two ends together and just look like Captain Caveman,
(29:39):
and I would live perfectly happy, just nice and warm
with my beard, hair, underwear, one piece. Yeah so yeah,
completely different from last week's episode. Isn't it too? A
deformed or inbred individual. Another theory is that the pig
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Man isn't supernatural, but instead a result of several genetic abnormalities.
Some stories suggest he was the product of incestuous isolation,
creating grotesque features resembling a pig number three, a demon
or supernatural entity. The pig Man's glowing eyes, unnatural behavior,
and aggressions lead some to believe that he is not
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human at all. A popular idea is that he was
once human but was cursed or possessed, transforming into the
pig man permanently until he meets the one girl who
will just give him all the love before the flower
petals fall. Ah. So I want to talk about Beauty
and the Beasts through briefly here the the animated version
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of the Disney animated version of Beauty in the Beast,
because I was reminded about this when I saw it
a few years ago, not a few years, about a
decade ago actually, So if you can humor me a
little bit, here, do you guys remember the scene where
like Gaston and the villagers storm Beast's castle and you know,
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they're they're fighting the furniture which used to be human,
like they the furniture used to be the servants and
and and and all the stuff for for beasts is prince.
So they're fighting the furniture. And if I remember this distinctly,
because the villagers are in the main hall and a
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bureau jumps from the balcony onto one of the servants,
and as a kid, I laughed hysterically because like he was,
the villager was a complete jackass attacking these defenseless furniture
which aren't actually defenseless, and this barrel jumps and falls
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right on top of them. And I was laughing as
a kid, but now as an adult, with my adult brain,
with my somewhat adult brain, I'm thinking, now, holy crap,
that bureau just killed that man. Like that man had
a family, and now he's not going home to see
his family because he is dead now. And that brought
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about a different story to Beauty and the Beasts, and
I just saw it differently from that point on. So, yeah,
that man's dead. Now he has kids, and now they
will never see their father again because he was crushed
to death by a burero who did a jeff hardy
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swanton dive off the balcony. So yeah, number four. An
urban legend to scare teens. Most urban legends used to
scare teens is basically just to stop you from having sex, Like, hey,
stop going out to make out. Point in your car
because there's some stranger with a hook hand looking for
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kids who's making out. That's how most urban legends go,
but many did stories serve as cautionary tales warning young
people to stay out of the woods at night. Given
the pig Man's Halloween connections, some believe is an exaggerated
ghost story that took on a life of its own.
Pig Man today and lingering fear. Despite no concrete proof,
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local still whisper about the pig Man, especially in Northfield.
Some claim the legend was covered up to avoid attracting
throw seekers. Modern sightings, reports of glowing eyes in the
woods or strange grunting noises persist. Moose grunt. Lots of
animals in the forest have eye shine. If you shine
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a flashlight, add a cat, a bobcat, a puma, puma
or mountain lion for you and the arder the nurse
they also have eye shine. And like I said, moose
bare humans, pig man, they all grunt when you approach,
so that could be a thing. A few daring investigators
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have tried searching the culvert, but found it empty except
for eerie, unexplained footprints. Some hunters claim they've seen something
large and human like dart between the trees, making deep
pig snorts. Final thoughts, the pig Man of Northfield remains
one of New Hampshire's most terrifying legends. Whether it's a
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true cryptid, a deformed hermit, or just a well crafted
local horror story. Would you ever go looking for him?
Or is this one cryptid best left undisturbed. I'm gonna
say no doubt. That's a no for me. Dog. I
am not out there thrill seeking looking for a half human,
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half pig possibly demon spawn minecraft like villain, So nope,
I am not going to be looking for the pig man.
I don't mind looking for the wood devils because I
don't see them anyway, and they're too fast for me.
So yeah, don't go chasing wood devils. Stick to the
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rivers in the woods that you're used to. But that
is the end, guys. I am glad we got through that.
I'm glad I got through it. I don't even know
how I got through that. That was that was completely
silly and unprofessional me and I apologize, Alex. I don't
even know why you're listening to this episode again. This
is a filler episode, but it is Session sixty three,
(35:29):
and next week we go back to seriousness with an
episode that took another very very very very long time
to come up with, which is why I have so
many stories to talk about now. I've been doing a
(35:50):
lot of research in between times of writing silliness and
keeping most episodes to about fifteen minutes, just to give
you guys some something, you know, because I do like
being on this platform and I do like hearing you
guys talk back, and so I have been doing a
lot of research, basically retracing my steps again. Last week
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was the Cambodian genocide, which took me over a year
to research and write. Next week, I'm going to talk
about the refugee camps near uben Rachatani where I was born,
one of the many many refugee camps for Lao, Cambodian
(36:36):
and among refugees after the Vietnam War and after the
Cambodian genocide. So that's gonna be heavy. So I figured
i'd do something light this week and silly, but I
got to act really nerdy and talk about phase theory.
(36:58):
So now now you guys know about phase theory. Now
you guys know that I am also an ancient astronaut theorist.
And yeah, I got that off my chest. So I
actually feel really good, and tomorrow I will or next
week I will probably be deep funk because I'm talking
about the past and refugee camps, which are extremely dangerous,
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but my parents kept it very light. I didn't know
how much danger I was in. I could have been
kidnapped at anytime. I was just walking around, like I said,
walking around the camp with my gang of kids, and
I was down a ducking it, popping a squad wherever
I felt like it. There was no latrines, no bathrooms,
none of that. I just went wherever I felt like going.
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And apparently it was a very very dangerous place, but
I never knew that. So I'm going to talk about
how dangerous it is or was. Sorry, refugee camps are
all closed now, at least the ones that I researched
and am aware of. I'm gonna tell you about where
most of those were located, especially around the Ubun Ratchatani.
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I'm just going to focus on that area. There was
tons of refugee camps everywhere else, most along the borders
of Laos and Cambodia, but I'm just going to be
zooming specifically into the ubann Ratchatani refugee camps. So stick
around for that next week, and I appreciate you all.
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The Buddhist af podcast is written, produced, spiced up and
archived by myself, knowing chant the VISUK and I appreciate
every single one of you guys for listening every week.
Alex skip this one maybe, but I will talk to
you guys next week as always. Bob Binan, I'll see
(38:52):
you guys there bye,
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