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Speaker 1 (00:18):
Hey, everybody, Welcome back to the X Letters. These are
leftover emails from the Kentucky X Files podcast and we'll
be reading them on here. So far, i've been able
to get one or two out at a time, and
I'm just gonna upload these, probably in bulk, just so
(00:39):
you can binge them, and then we'll go from there.
I'm yeah, so like I said, like I said on
the last one, I'm still really rusty at this. It's
been a year since I've been on a podcast, Mike, So.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Here we go. Let's dive in. Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The next email I have on my list here is
from February eleventh, twenty twenty four, from a man named
Blake in Arkansas, which still is spelled like ar Kansas.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I just can never get over that. I'm sorry, all right,
Dear Denny.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm not one for tall tales, but I've hunted these
woods since I was old enough to carry a rifle,
and I know the difference between black bear and what
we saw. This happened last November. Me and my cousin
Tyler were out for the weekend hunt in the o
Wood Owi cheetahs och Ochina. I don't know how to
say that I am so sorry. We camped a couple
(01:36):
miles off of the old logging road, close to the
ridgeline that overlooked a creek bottom. That's a that's thick
woods out there, oak pine, some hickory. It's good cover
for good deer. We'd been out all day with no luck.
Just before dusk we started heading back to camp. Uh
that's when we both got that feeling, you know, the
(01:58):
one like someone behind you.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
The woods went quiet. The woods went quiet. Where's that?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I just lost my place, Like someone's behind you. The
woods went quiet. No birds, no wind, no nothing, just
the crunch of our boots. Well, we hear that a lot,
and some of you know some of the stories right
as everything goes silent, you know, the pressure, the presence
or whatever. Anyway, we were about one hundred yards from
(02:26):
camp when we heard something move and it was big.
I'm talking branches snapping, not twigs. Tyler raised his rifle
and froze. He whispered, did you see that? I looked
ahead and saw it. There, just beyond the fire pit
was something standing behind a pine tree, not crouched, not moving,
just standing. The tree was probably ten inches across. Whatever
(02:50):
it was still had mass on both sides of it.
It was covered in dark brown fur. The arms were
too long, the shoulders were too wide. The head cone
the head was cone shaped like an apse. And those
damn eyes. They were amber colored and reflective when it blinked,
Oh I'm sorry. Then it blinked and stepped back and
(03:12):
vanished into the woods. We didn't move, we didn't speak.
We literally just stood there. We just listened. I think
we stood there for a solid five minutes. Then we
heard it again, this time circling to the left, but
it was deeper in the brush. We slowly backed out,
rifles up, and every hair on my body was standing
(03:35):
straight up. We finally had made it to camp, packed
our gear and under ten minutes and we hiked out
with our lights off. I don't think either of us
even breathed until we hit the truck. Here's the thing.
I went back the next morning by myself. I found
where it stood, and there were impressions in the ground,
(03:56):
not footprints, not clear, but heavy enough to crush the
pine needles and moss. Deep down. There was a path
of them. I followed them for about thirty yards and
they just stopped. There was no broken branches, no scat,
just nothing. It was like it stepped out of the world.
I didn't see it again, but I've heard it since.
(04:19):
The wood knocks, the long low howls after dark, and
one night there was rocks thrown from at the cabin
from the tree line. I kept this quiet, but I
know I'm not the only one. There's stories around here
that don't make the papers, stories about eyes in the woods,
voices that mimic your own. I've heard them, and I've
(04:41):
seen the aftermath. Some people think that it's Bigfoot. Other
people think it's just a myth, a big ape.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
But I'll tell you what I don't think.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I think it's older than that, and it's smarter too,
Like it watches us to see how close we're getting.
It knows who believes and who laughs, and it picks
out the It picks who gets to leave based on that.
But I saw it, guys, I saw it, and it
saw me. I'll never go back to that ridge again.
(05:12):
So if you're ever out this way, stay out of
that place, especially after dark. Blake, Wow, that's a that's
pretty wild. I've definitely heard of being watched before by
him and actually catching them watching so I don't know.
That's uh, it's hard to say on that one. I mean, yeah,
(05:37):
I'm a little I'm about a year you know out,
and I haven't even dove into this topic since I
wanted a nice, long, clean break. But I remember stories
about people seeing them, you know, and then trying to
you know, later, trying to follow the trail, and the
trail just breaks. There's no there's nothing, it goes cold.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So I don't know, Blake.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
If if you ever get a chance to hear this,
and I would love to hear more, you know, if
you've been back to it, if you've seen anything or
heard anything, or even you know, if you hear any
other stories that you want to share, I'd love to
hear them, and we'd love to read them out.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Let's go here. Here's another one from.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
This one's actually a bit older. I don't really know
how this one went under the radar, but this is
April fourth, from twenty twenty three. And yeah, anyway, let's
see here. It looks like they did not leave me
a name, but it says here, dear guys, have you
(06:47):
ever heard something scream like a train whistle in the
middle of the night and just dear guys, Have you
ever heard something scream like a train whistle in the
night and you know just to your bones that it
wasn't made by anything from this world? Well that's what
I heard three nights ago. I ain't one to go
(07:09):
flapping my mouth about things I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Fuck start over, start over, right here, edit right here.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Dear guys, you ever hear something scream like a train
whistle in the dead of night and you just know
in your bones that it wasn't made for this world?
Well that's what I heard three nights ago. Now, I
ain't want to go flapping my mouth about things I
don't understand. Folks around here keep stuff quiet like this.
We've seen things, we've heard things, but we don't talk
(07:44):
unless we have to. Not because we're scared, though maybe
we probably are, but because around here, when you speak
something out loud, we think it listens. I lived just
outside a point pleasant I was born and raised. My
daddy worked the barks all barges. I said that wrong, sorry, folks.
(08:05):
My mama cleaned cabins out by the river. I got
a little place up on a ridge that overlooks Ohio.
It ain't much, but it's home. That night, the fog
rolled out early thicke as soup. You couldn't see the
porch railing from the steps. I was sitting out there smoking,
listening to the frogs when the air changed, still heavy.
(08:28):
Even the crickets went quiet. It's always the thing is,
then everything goes quiet, so it's almost as if all
the animals know before we do. Anyway, Sorry, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You know. One more thing.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It is really hard for me to read these and
not chime in, guys, so you get the bear with
me a little bit. I'm sorry if I'm being annoying.
Then I heard it, a long, high pitched screech, like
metal twisting, but deeper wrong. It echoed through the hills
like it was looking for someone.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
My dog June ran under the truck and wouldn't come out.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I saw the eyes. They were red as break lights.
They were about twenty feet off the ground, just floating
there in the mists, staring right at me. I stood up,
heart stammering, and those eyes dipped low, like whatever they
belonged to had dropped to the ground. I didn't hear
it move, no footsteps. I didn't sleep at night next morning,
(09:28):
I hiked down to the river to make sense of it.
The fog was gone, the sky was clear, but I
found something strange by the bank. All the trees along
the edge were bent like, bowed inward towards the water.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Birds didn't want to go near it.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I tossed a rock in and not a single ripple
came back. That just ain't right, guys.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Later that week, a buddy of mine said he saw
something gliding over a route sixty two. He said it
had wings, huge ones and wasn't flapping, just sailing through
the air like making us sound. I didn't even have
to tell him what I thought it was. He just
nodded and said, I think he's back. Well, we don't
say the name around here, not those of us who
(10:10):
really believe, because if you say it out loud, you
never know if he'll show up. Uh, the one they
talk about from sixty seven. Folks say he's tied to
a tragedy, shows up just before something bad happens.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And the way the.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Birds go quiet every now and again, I think something
is coming. I'm writing this because I usually can't sleep.
I just keep waking up to the same sound. I
don't know if I'm dreaming it or not. I guess
I sound crazy, but it's the truth. If this gets
read on the show, just let everybody know to be
(10:45):
very careful. Well, oh, that's that's a very interesting I mean,
that sounds like Mathman, right, that sounds like the old
Mothman thing. Okay, so yeah, he said Point Pleasant. So
I guess it is the mock Man, right. I mean, wow,
that's crazy. And all the time we talked and we
(11:07):
were so interested in the mock Man. At one point
we had wanted to take a trip to Point Pleasant
and just spend the day talking to people and recording.
You know, that would have been crazy. But yeah, I
don't know, folks, that's pretty wild. Well crap, I would
definitely scare the absolute shit out of me.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
But uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Anyway, So I guess I will see you on the
next one. I'm gonna go ahead and end this one,
and guys, let me know what you think. If you
want to keep going, leave me some comments, leave me
some emails, Just let me know, all right, So take care.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Of each other out there.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I'll see you on the next one.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
S A, it's a game against
Hey, everybody, Welcome back to the X Letters. These are
leftover emails from the Kentucky X Files podcast and we'll
be reading them on here. So far, i've been able
to get one or two out at a time, and
I'm just gonna upload these, probably in bulk, just so
(00:39):
you can binge them, and then we'll go from there.
I'm yeah, so like I said, like I said on
the last one, I'm still really rusty at this. It's
been a year since I've been on a podcast, Mike, So.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Here we go. Let's dive in. Uh.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
The next email I have on my list here is
from February eleventh, twenty twenty four, from a man named
Blake in Arkansas, which still is spelled like ar Kansas.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
I just can never get over that. I'm sorry, all right,
Dear Denny.
Speaker 1 (01:14):
I'm not one for tall tales, but I've hunted these
woods since I was old enough to carry a rifle,
and I know the difference between black bear and what
we saw. This happened last November. Me and my cousin
Tyler were out for the weekend hunt in the o
Wood Owi cheetahs och Ochina. I don't know how to
say that I am so sorry. We camped a couple
(01:36):
miles off of the old logging road, close to the
ridgeline that overlooked a creek bottom. That's a that's thick
woods out there, oak pine, some hickory. It's good cover
for good deer. We'd been out all day with no luck.
Just before dusk we started heading back to camp. Uh
that's when we both got that feeling, you know, the
(01:58):
one like someone behind you.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
The woods went quiet. The woods went quiet. Where's that?
Speaker 1 (02:05):
I just lost my place, Like someone's behind you. The
woods went quiet. No birds, no wind, no nothing, just
the crunch of our boots. Well, we hear that a lot,
and some of you know some of the stories right
as everything goes silent, you know, the pressure, the presence
or whatever. Anyway, we were about one hundred yards from
(02:26):
camp when we heard something move and it was big.
I'm talking branches snapping, not twigs. Tyler raised his rifle
and froze. He whispered, did you see that? I looked
ahead and saw it. There, just beyond the fire pit
was something standing behind a pine tree, not crouched, not moving,
just standing. The tree was probably ten inches across. Whatever
(02:50):
it was still had mass on both sides of it.
It was covered in dark brown fur. The arms were
too long, the shoulders were too wide. The head cone
the head was cone shaped like an apse. And those
damn eyes. They were amber colored and reflective when it blinked,
Oh I'm sorry. Then it blinked and stepped back and
(03:12):
vanished into the woods. We didn't move, we didn't speak.
We literally just stood there. We just listened. I think
we stood there for a solid five minutes. Then we
heard it again, this time circling to the left, but
it was deeper in the brush. We slowly backed out,
rifles up, and every hair on my body was standing
(03:35):
straight up. We finally had made it to camp, packed
our gear and under ten minutes and we hiked out
with our lights off. I don't think either of us
even breathed until we hit the truck. Here's the thing.
I went back the next morning by myself. I found
where it stood, and there were impressions in the ground,
(03:56):
not footprints, not clear, but heavy enough to crush the
pine needles and moss. Deep down. There was a path
of them. I followed them for about thirty yards and
they just stopped. There was no broken branches, no scat,
just nothing. It was like it stepped out of the world.
I didn't see it again, but I've heard it since.
(04:19):
The wood knocks, the long low howls after dark, and
one night there was rocks thrown from at the cabin
from the tree line. I kept this quiet, but I
know I'm not the only one. There's stories around here
that don't make the papers, stories about eyes in the woods,
voices that mimic your own. I've heard them, and I've
(04:41):
seen the aftermath. Some people think that it's Bigfoot. Other
people think it's just a myth, a big ape.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
But I'll tell you what I don't think.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
So.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
I think it's older than that, and it's smarter too,
Like it watches us to see how close we're getting.
It knows who believes and who laughs, and it picks
out the It picks who gets to leave based on that.
But I saw it, guys, I saw it, and it
saw me. I'll never go back to that ridge again.
(05:12):
So if you're ever out this way, stay out of
that place, especially after dark. Blake, Wow, that's a that's
pretty wild. I've definitely heard of being watched before by
him and actually catching them watching so I don't know.
That's uh, it's hard to say on that one. I mean, yeah,
(05:37):
I'm a little I'm about a year you know out,
and I haven't even dove into this topic since I
wanted a nice, long, clean break. But I remember stories
about people seeing them, you know, and then trying to
you know, later, trying to follow the trail, and the
trail just breaks. There's no there's nothing, it goes cold.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
So I don't know, Blake.
Speaker 1 (05:59):
If if you ever get a chance to hear this,
and I would love to hear more, you know, if
you've been back to it, if you've seen anything or
heard anything, or even you know, if you hear any
other stories that you want to share, I'd love to
hear them, and we'd love to read them out.
Speaker 2 (06:18):
Let's go here. Here's another one from.
Speaker 1 (06:26):
This one's actually a bit older. I don't really know
how this one went under the radar, but this is
April fourth, from twenty twenty three. And yeah, anyway, let's
see here. It looks like they did not leave me
a name, but it says here, dear guys, have you
(06:47):
ever heard something scream like a train whistle in the
middle of the night and just dear guys, Have you
ever heard something scream like a train whistle in the
night and you know just to your bones that it
wasn't made by anything from this world? Well that's what
I heard three nights ago. I ain't one to go
(07:09):
flapping my mouth about things I don't understand.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Fuck start over, start over, right here, edit right here.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
Dear guys, you ever hear something scream like a train
whistle in the dead of night and you just know
in your bones that it wasn't made for this world?
Well that's what I heard three nights ago. Now, I
ain't want to go flapping my mouth about things I
don't understand. Folks around here keep stuff quiet like this.
We've seen things, we've heard things, but we don't talk
(07:44):
unless we have to. Not because we're scared, though maybe
we probably are, but because around here, when you speak
something out loud, we think it listens. I lived just
outside a point pleasant I was born and raised. My
daddy worked the barks all barges. I said that wrong, sorry, folks.
(08:05):
My mama cleaned cabins out by the river. I got
a little place up on a ridge that overlooks Ohio.
It ain't much, but it's home. That night, the fog
rolled out early thicke as soup. You couldn't see the
porch railing from the steps. I was sitting out there smoking,
listening to the frogs when the air changed, still heavy.
(08:28):
Even the crickets went quiet. It's always the thing is,
then everything goes quiet, so it's almost as if all
the animals know before we do. Anyway, Sorry, it's okay.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
You know. One more thing.
Speaker 1 (08:41):
It is really hard for me to read these and
not chime in, guys, so you get the bear with
me a little bit. I'm sorry if I'm being annoying.
Then I heard it, a long, high pitched screech, like
metal twisting, but deeper wrong. It echoed through the hills
like it was looking for someone.
Speaker 2 (09:00):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:00):
My dog June ran under the truck and wouldn't come out.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
Well.
Speaker 1 (09:04):
I saw the eyes. They were red as break lights.
They were about twenty feet off the ground, just floating
there in the mists, staring right at me. I stood up,
heart stammering, and those eyes dipped low, like whatever they
belonged to had dropped to the ground. I didn't hear
it move, no footsteps. I didn't sleep at night next morning,
(09:28):
I hiked down to the river to make sense of it.
The fog was gone, the sky was clear, but I
found something strange by the bank. All the trees along
the edge were bent like, bowed inward towards the water.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Birds didn't want to go near it.
Speaker 1 (09:42):
I tossed a rock in and not a single ripple
came back. That just ain't right, guys.
Speaker 3 (09:49):
Now.
Speaker 1 (09:49):
Later that week, a buddy of mine said he saw
something gliding over a route sixty two. He said it
had wings, huge ones and wasn't flapping, just sailing through
the air like making us sound. I didn't even have
to tell him what I thought it was. He just
nodded and said, I think he's back. Well, we don't
say the name around here, not those of us who
(10:10):
really believe, because if you say it out loud, you
never know if he'll show up. Uh, the one they
talk about from sixty seven. Folks say he's tied to
a tragedy, shows up just before something bad happens.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
And the way the.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Birds go quiet every now and again, I think something
is coming. I'm writing this because I usually can't sleep.
I just keep waking up to the same sound. I
don't know if I'm dreaming it or not. I guess
I sound crazy, but it's the truth. If this gets
read on the show, just let everybody know to be
(10:45):
very careful. Well, oh, that's that's a very interesting I mean,
that sounds like Mathman, right, that sounds like the old
Mothman thing. Okay, so yeah, he said Point Pleasant. So
I guess it is the mock Man, right. I mean, wow,
that's crazy. And all the time we talked and we
(11:07):
were so interested in the mock Man. At one point
we had wanted to take a trip to Point Pleasant
and just spend the day talking to people and recording.
You know, that would have been crazy. But yeah, I
don't know, folks, that's pretty wild. Well crap, I would
definitely scare the absolute shit out of me.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
But uh yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:27):
Anyway, So I guess I will see you on the
next one. I'm gonna go ahead and end this one,
and guys, let me know what you think. If you
want to keep going, leave me some comments, leave me
some emails, Just let me know, all right, So take care.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Of each other out there.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
I'll see you on the next one.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
S A, it's a game against
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