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June 1, 2025 18 mins
An explaination of sorts , and an introduction into what's next.   Hope you're doing good out there.



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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Hey, everybody, it's standing here. Well where do I start?
I guess, uh, an explanation of sorts is in order.
Where did the Kentucky X Files go? The best way
I can describe that, or the best way I can

(00:38):
word that, I should say, is that sometimes time just
gets away from us. And we enjoyed doing the show,
and we definitely enjoyed, you know, all the topics and
from the very serious topics all the way down to
you know, the really lighthearted and fun topics, and then

(01:02):
sometimes the news just provided enough, you know, for us
to just get a you know, get a kick out
of you know. But in the end, I think we
uh flew too close to the sun. We God, it's
been a while since I've actually been on the microphone,

(01:23):
so you have to bear with me here. I think
we got to a point where nothing was really jumping
out at us. So at first we said, well, let's
let's hold off and let's let's wait for something worthy,
uh and then we'll jump in and we'll do an

(01:46):
episode about it. But you know, nothing ever really came
that was powerful enough to get us back into the saddle,
you know what I mean, like back into the routine.
We were basically I want to say burnt out. Well,
you know, maybe maybe that's the closest I can think of,
you know, or just uninspired.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
I guess.

Speaker 1 (02:10):
We never we never really felt like we ended the
show properly. And uh, I'm actually not here today to
end the show for you.

Speaker 2 (02:19):
Actually, uh, in.

Speaker 1 (02:21):
The spirit of the campfire, you know, feeling of the show,
we're gonna be We're gonna be trudging on, but it's
gonna be a little different than you remember. Here's what happened.
So in this year, and it has been a year.

(02:43):
By the time you hear this, it will have been
a year since the very last Kentucky X Files episode.
And in that year, you all never stopped writing in,
and you reached out and you wrote in and you
told your stories, and if I'm going to be quite
honest with you, for the longest time, the stories kind

(03:04):
of went unread. And then bam, a week ago, I'm
going through emails and what do I see but a
pile of stories from people from you. So this new thing,

(03:25):
this first episode, you're going to see first, You're going
to see it launched on the Kentucky X Files podcast
as a way to kind of help you find it.
The new show is called The X Letters, and it's
all the emails from you to us telling us what's happened.
And I thought, you know what, it wouldn't take me

(03:47):
long to just jump on here, hit record and read
these letters. So yeah, yeah, remember that though the X Letters,
that's all you.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Have to do.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
Go find it on all the streaming and go ahead
and follow it, and we'll just continue on the campfire
from there. And uh, I will not say never say
never that the Kentucky X Files will return, because stranger
things have happened. But for right now, let's just let's
just carry on, you know, with with the emails, and uh,

(04:20):
you're more than welcome to email us at encounters at
at Kentuckyxfiles dot com and and let me know what
you think of the episodes, let me know what you're
what you're thinking, or if you hear something on here
that sounds familiar to you, go ahead and chime in,
let me know, and we'll just keep on keeping on
from there. So without further ado, let's let's dive into

(04:42):
the first couple of emails, and I guess we'll just
we'll just kind of play it by year we'll just
go with the flow from there. Again, I'm pretty rusty.
It's been a year, so bear with me and hopefully
you enjoy this.

Speaker 2 (04:57):
Uh.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
Some of these stories are pretty wid some of them
are kind of kind of scary. But you know the
whether whether you know the person sending it saw what
they think they saw or not, they're they're going to
get their day in court. So here we go. Let's uh,
let's dive in here. I'm gonna pull up the first
one here. I've got them, got a big old pile

(05:19):
of them, so all right, Uh, it looks like this
was written. Let's see here. Looks like April of last
year is when this email came through. So let's see
how it goes. All right, Dear Denny, I know how

(05:47):
this is gonna sound. I have written and deleted this
email more times than I can count. My wife told
me to leave it alone, said the more I think
about it, the more I'll convinced myself it was real.
But it was real or it is I'm not really
sure which tends to use, because I think it's still here.

(06:08):
I live about six miles outside of a little town
called Harlan. Nothing out here but trees there's a creek,
and I jokingly say, there's some ghosts of the old
coal mines. It's quiet. Well, it was quiet. That's actually
why I moved out here. I moved here after retiring

(06:29):
from the railroad. Bear with me, folks, the punctuation in
some of these is going to be a little wild.
I bought a little house on the edge of the woods,
and I figured I'd spend the rest of my life
fixing it up, doing some fishing, and just not bothering
anybody or being bothered for that matter. All that changed

(06:50):
about five weeks ago. It started with the birds. Every morning,
like clockwork, the woods would be alive with noise. It
was cardinals, crows, woodpeckers, you name it. But then one
day it all just stopped. Not quiet like it's about
the rain. Quiet, I mean dead silence, not even when

(07:12):
through the trees, no bugs, no frogs, just this thick,
suffocating stillness. Almost felt like a pressure. It was like
the whole world out here was just holding its breath.
That silence had to wait to it and it made
your ears ring. Well, I told myself it was nothing,
But the next night I woke up around three am

(07:36):
to a sound that I can only describe like a
baby crying in the woods. The first thing I thought
was coyote, But this wasn't no damn coyote, and it
sure as hell wasn't no raccoon. It was a soft crying,
almost like a toddler. It was like a kid lost
out there. So I went to the porch with a

(07:58):
flashlight and I called out hello, but I never got nothing.
I took a few steps towards the tree line, and
the crying immediately stopped, like someone hit mute. Then I
heard something snap deep in the woods, not like a
twig breaking, but like heavy, like a tree falling deliberate.
I went back inside. I locked the doors, and I

(08:19):
sat in the kitchen with a loaded pistol and a
cup of coffee until sunrise. That's become the routine every night,
the same crying, the same silence, the same feeling like
someone's watching me. I set up a trail cam. Nothing
just black frames. It's almost like something was blocking the lens. Well,

(08:41):
then came the scratching. It started at the back door.
It was like a slow clawing scratching, like fingernails on
old wood. When I'd flip the porch light on. There
was nothing there, no prints, no marks. It was just
that feeling in my chest like something was waiting. Well,
my wife came to visit last weekend. I didn't tell

(09:04):
her any about this. I didn't want to scare She
was only going to stay one night. Well, about two am,
she woke up saying, I think there's someone outside the window.
I grabbed the flashlight and I went to the bedroom.
Sure enough, something was standing just past the glass. Not
close enough, not close far enough that I could make

(09:24):
it out, but tall, taller than me. I'm around six
to two, and it just stood there. She swears it
looked like me, but I don't think so. The worst
part of the whole thing when I stepped outside, there
was no one there.

Speaker 2 (09:43):
It was just nothing.

Speaker 1 (09:47):
But her side of the bed was soaking wet. It
smelled like a river water. Well, it's safe to say
the wife doesn't like visiting the cabin anymore, and I
don't really blame her. I can't really explain it. But
whatever it is, maybe one of those bigfoots or something.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:08):
Maybe it's an alien.

Speaker 2 (10:09):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Well, I'm not really writing you for attention, Denny. I'm
just writing because I've listened to your show and I
know you all take people serious, people who've seen something
that doesn't really fit into the world.

Speaker 2 (10:23):
Well, that's what this is. I'll tell you what.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
I haven't really slept right up in the cabin ever since.
I still go up and go fishing, but I don't
think I'm going to stay the night, so I go
up during the day, I fish, and I go home.
I'm thinking about selling the place. Maybe if you read
this on the show, maybe someone else out there might
know something too, So please don't use my full name.

(10:49):
I appreciate you. Thanks, guys. Well, that's an interesting one.
I don't know that i've I mean I've heard I've
heard of stuff, you know, in stories like Bigfoot sightings,
where people were in their cabin and you know, something
was banging on the walls or throwing rocks.

Speaker 2 (11:08):
At them, things like that.

Speaker 1 (11:09):
I don't know that I've ever heard the scratching thing before.
So that's that's an interesting one for me. I don't
know if anybody out there has any anything to add
to that one. Just send me an email, shoot shoot
me something, let me know what you think.

Speaker 2 (11:24):
Wow. So I don't know I guess. I guess.

Speaker 1 (11:28):
Let's go, let's do one more see see what we
can figure out here. All right, looks like this place,
this one, says dear Denny. There's no date on this one.
Oh no, there is, Sorry, March fourteenth, twenty twenty four.
All right, dear Denny. I'm not one for ghost stories.

(11:52):
I've been driving long haul for about seventeen years, and
I've seen my fair share of weird stuff.

Speaker 2 (11:57):
Lights in the.

Speaker 1 (11:58):
Skies, shadows on the sh even guys standing dead still
in the middle of the eye of forty.

Speaker 2 (12:03):
At three am.

Speaker 1 (12:05):
That's crazy. That would be enough to freak me out.
But nothing shook me like I saw last week on
Highway seventy two. I was heading westbound, just past the
Mississippi line, clear night Moon was out road dry. I
just crossed through Cherokee, and I saw movement in the
ditch to my right. I thought it was a deer,

(12:25):
so I slowed down a touch and kept my high
beams on.

Speaker 2 (12:28):
I always thought that if you kept.

Speaker 1 (12:30):
Your high beams on, they it would stun them and
they would stay, they would stand where they're at. But
I don't know what I saw came out of the ditch.
And onto the shoulder. It was tall and lean, maybe
seven feet if it was an inch. Looked like a
damn coyote that got hit by a freight train. And
it kept walking, mangy fur, long snout, bent legs, arms
that swung like a man's. But the hands, guys, this

(12:53):
thing had hands clawed, long fingers and they were too
long to be normal.

Speaker 2 (13:00):
I asked it.

Speaker 1 (13:00):
I wasn't about to stop, but I couldn't stop looking
in the mirror. Well that's the thing. This thing kept
pace with me. I was doing fifty five, then sixty five,
then pushing seventy, and it was right there, running beside
my trailer, tongue lolling out, eyes shining like coals. Every
few seconds, i'd dropped down to all fours. Oh, every

(13:22):
few seconds it would drop down to all fours I
misread that, then pop up like a like it was stretching.
I kept hoping it would veer off or get bored,
but it didn't. It stayed with me for twelve miles. Finally,
just past the gravel turn off, it feered back into
the woods. It was gone like smoke. I pulled up

(13:43):
to the next truck stop and set there for a
good hour, hands shaking and hearts pounding. I didn't say
a word to nobody, and I didn't sleep in my
cab that night.

Speaker 2 (13:53):
Since then, I've talked to.

Speaker 1 (13:55):
Three maybe three maybe four other drivers that say they've
seen something near that same stretch. One guy called it
a skin walker. Another guy called it the Alabama wolf.

Speaker 2 (14:05):
Me.

Speaker 1 (14:06):
I really don't give a shit what name you give it.
All I know is that that was no animal. That
thing was smiling at me. I think it was enjoying itself. Well,
I changed routes. I don't run that one anymore, and
if anyone ever listens to this, I highly suggest they
don't run it either, telling them to keep their foots
to the pedal, the door's locked, and keep on a going.

(14:29):
There's something out there that don't mind being seen. Thank you, Balt. Wow,
that's that's pretty wild. I guess that definitely. I mean
that sounds like very very similar to dog man stuff
i've heard, or even skin walker stuff i've heard. Keeping

(14:50):
pace at seventy miles an hour. That's knowing. For me,
that's crazy, Like, how the hell would you even react
to that? That's nuts? And I don't blame him. I
don't if you changed routes, I don't blame. I'm a
truck driver too, And if I say, if I saw
some ship like that, I would definitely be uh, I'd
probably be putting in some uh some you know, some

(15:10):
applications for other stuff and just get out of that altogether. Yeah,
So I'm going to go ahead and take a break here,
and uh, I tell you what, guys, thanks for listening
to this, and let me know, email me, let me
know what you think encounters at ky x files dot com.

(15:31):
Like I said, again, this is going to be called
the X Letters. It's going to be on its own thing.
So I wanted the first episode to be here just
to kind of give you guys a you know, like
a heads up, Hey, here's where the here's where the
stuff's happening at.

Speaker 2 (15:44):
So yeah, we'll.

Speaker 1 (15:46):
See you over there and definitely give us a follower
or whatever, you know what I mean. And I'll keep
uploading them. So take care of each other out there.

(16:24):
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