The Rake

In the black heart of the Appalachian night, something pale crawls out of the treeline. A terrified man calls 911 from a rural North Carolina road, screaming that something not human has climbed into his truck bed. This week, we’re tearing into the most chilling roadside encounter caught on record — the Rake 911 call — and tracing it through Appalachian folklore, mimic voices in the mountains, and the strange, whispering woods that never sleep.
Lock your doors, keep your eyes on the rearview, and don’t stop for the bleeding man by the road.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:17):
A Delta passenger trapped by seat mate who pooped his pants.
Oh that's rough. That's a stink, stinky, stinky, stinky. One
of the scariest things you'll ever go through is shitting
on a plane. Have you ever shipped on a plane before? Robert, Now,
I'm glad I have it. I used to try to
shit at the airport before I go on the plane. Brother,

(00:38):
that's scary hours getting up there and getting hit by
you know, just a whopper of a belly cramp man way.
So have you seen that guy? He makes videos and
shit of him like cooking in an airport, like an
air an airplane bathroom. He'll do like just fucking shrimp
stir fry inside the lad playing bathroom. It's gross. Yeah,

(01:02):
they don't have to make me put my poop in
the overhead compartment. I'll be taking this with me. Thank you.
Put it in the bag. Put it in the bag. Hey,
thanks for joining us here on the Brohio podcast. Uh,
We've been doing this for a really, really long time
and we're still here, still doing our thing. I'm uh

(01:23):
one half of the show. They call me the Delicious
nic Delicious and I'm robbed dog. Hey, guys. They call
him Robert Didey, dangle Dog or corn Cob rob Dog.
There's no call ingway for dinner, never will be. And
his mom just put cigarettes out on his neck before. Yeah,

(01:44):
I've been there, bere know that. Boy o. Hey, So yeah,
we're trying something new. We added a couple of streaming
sources here. I think we're on twitch. It uh poopa cocca. Yeah,
we have someone on Twitch that's commented and said Poopa cocca.
So the people from Twitch are showing up. We're on Facebook,
We're on YouTube. I live everywhere. Man. Try to get

(02:07):
on x but Elon wants a fucking payment of fifteen
ninety nine. No, we're not doing that. I try to
get on TikTok. They wanted some age verification software on me,
so I started getting naked, and I realized I didn't
have enough time nor the proper equipment to convince it
that I'm a thirty year eight year thirty eight year
old man. TikTok's weird. Man, Yeah, it is, it is.

Speaker 2 (02:31):
I've heard these I've heard these things like we're people
that are doing that. Do like TikTok videos because like
the algorithm pays you so little, so they'll upload their
same exact videos to porn hub and then the payout is.

Speaker 1 (02:44):
Like exponentially more boggling. Yeah, it's like, we'll upload this
to pornhub when this is all done. I think that's
a really good idea.

Speaker 2 (02:53):
Two fat guys use their mouths on a microphone.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
On a black microphone. Speaking of black I have a friend. Okay,
I wouldn't call him a friend. There's a black guy
that lives down the street.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Okay, okay, let's let's go back a second. You're not
calling him a friend because.

Speaker 1 (03:16):
A friend. You know, if I was moving, I could
call a friend. Yeah, I couldn't call this guy. He'd
be like, okay, how first I'd get my fucking phone number.
But he's been He's lived on my street the entire
time I've lived here, and he's the only he's the
only black fellow around. So I go out of my
way to stop and talk to him. I'm going on
walks or if I see him out. He's a single dude.
He's got a bunch of toys. He's got a canned

(03:39):
am thing, he's got motorcycles and ship just doing his thing. Man,
you know, good for him, but I don't want him
ever to be like man, I live in a neighborhood
and all these white motherfuckers won't talk to me. So
I always go out of my way to talk to
him and show him hospitality. I'm super kind to him.
He's a nice dude. I don't know a whole lot
about him, but uh, we always talk and shoot the

(03:59):
ship about We talk about cars. I don't know anything
about cars, but he likes to talk about cars. We
talk about uh uh football, we'll talk about football. I
walked by the dogs, but he got a really sweet
bully and uh. I drove by the other day coming
home from work and the dog was out, and this
he takes tremendous Like this dog lays in his lap
and he puts like cocoa butter in this dog's ear

(04:20):
before bed, Like does he takes reallyd to care of
this dog. What a great smell? First off? Yeah, I
love it. And the dog was out and I was like, yeah, shit,
I'm gonna get this dog. And usually he's cool with me,
so I called him, called him over. He came up
to me. I grabbed him by his leash and I
walked him back up to the front door, knocked on
the front door. He's got so many cars and shit,

(04:42):
I couldn't tell her. Yeah yeah, And I was like,
I'm gonna take this badass dog home for a little bit.
And I started knocking the door. Nothing. Then there's like
a little window next to the door, uh, in the
living room, and I peek into the window to see
if I can see him. Yeah, I saw all hole, brother.
He was fucking pile driving some uh uh some woman, yeah,

(05:05):
a lady, okay of sorts, I guess, brother. I saw
all hole for about three seconds. I turned around. I said,
what the fuck am I gonna do with this dog?
He was hammering down. Good for him, man, pile driving buddy, yea.
And I haven't really ever seen it done like that before. Yeah,
this fucking this black guy's fuck dude. There was some

(05:26):
anger in it. There was some I did get out
of there. That's a lot of dickie got to push
into a woman. I went stood out in the front
yard with a dog for like fucking eight minutes. It'll
be okay, it'll be okay. He came out. He's like,
I didn't hear you knocking? And I said, I heard
you knocking, buddy, dude. He was fucking dying laughing. I
was like, is this dog safe to come inside? Fucking god,

(05:49):
damn buddy. And uh so then he took the dog
and I didn't really know what to say because I
caught him having sex. So I said, that's what's up.
And I don't say that like I code changed for
there for a second. You gotta got a code change
a little bit, right. I don't like code changing theovon.
Theovon did an episode with a Limo driver the other day.

(06:11):
I do it too, man, I do a few weeks ago,
and he was code changing so fucking hard, dude, it's
hard not to. They're so fucking cool. Yeah, they are cool,
but dudes are so much dudes. Like if you ask
them Canley, they'd be like, I just want you to
be yourself. Yeah, sure, Yeah, you don't have to change
anything like the world. We're here together. You don't have to.
You don't have to pretend to be something you're not right.

(06:32):
And I've had a lot of luck with over the years,
gaining uh friends of different races because I don't code change.
And I think it's funny, like when somebody is just
unapologetically who they are, like just who they are, and
people can appreciate that. And I've made a lot of
friends doing that over the years. People just like this
fucking guy's dumber than shit, but he's funny. I like you,

(06:55):
and it's worse for me. But this guy, he might
have a child on the way a little He probably
like fifty, okays that old buddy. I don't know because
I have never asked you. I don't crack, right, and
black do not crack. That's true. The brother was fucking
putting it down. I think I see him get airborne
for a second. Good for him, man gets spread. Oh yeah,

(07:18):
it's momentum. I just took a step back. I mean
I saw a butthole, vaginal hole. I don't think I
saw it. All I saw is his butt cheeks. Really yeah,
what if he knows I have a podcast talking about
his butt, He's probably gonna kill me.

Speaker 3 (07:35):
Now.

Speaker 2 (07:36):
I heard that ship you put out, hey, bro. Code
changing is very interesting, though, Man.

Speaker 1 (07:43):
I don't want it drives me nuts. It drives me nuts.

Speaker 2 (07:45):
It really does all of a sudden like I just
want to do cool handshakes by a black person.

Speaker 1 (07:51):
Yeah, if you're like if you're a line meaning people, hey,
how are you hi, what's up? Good to see you,
and you said person like, what a motherfucker? One of
a what a my dude?

Speaker 4 (08:00):
What up?

Speaker 1 (08:01):
Young bull?

Speaker 3 (08:02):
What up?

Speaker 1 (08:02):
Coz? What man?

Speaker 2 (08:05):
Never saw that shit in my life doing that, young bull?
I think he just feel special needs. After it's like,
oh fuck.

Speaker 1 (08:14):
Yeah it was not Uh something wasn't right about that. Yeah,
Oh good times. The Delta passenger trapped by human biohazard
seat made who pooped his pants? Oh boy, leave it
to Delta.

Speaker 2 (08:25):
Conjurary to popular belief, this was not neither. This was
neither of us on this Delta. I'm too cheap to
fly Delta.

Speaker 1 (08:32):
The flyer shared their smelly story on Reddit to detailing
how they assumed the direct flight from Florida la AX
would be smooth sailor before cursing themselves for that narrative
naivity Sorry. Titled five point five hour flight next to
a human bio hazard, the passenger recounted how an older
gentleman on his own, on his own, bore the plane

(08:53):
with assistance from airline workers and sat down next to them.
Quote the moment he sat down, I knew I was
out of luck. The reditor row ominously turns out he
had some serious mobility issues, which meant I was effectively
windows seated prison for five and a half hours. They
noted colorfully how flight attendants would check on their seat
mate and assess the situation. Every breath was a gamble.

(09:16):
The traveler noted how upon landing, their seat mate immediately
stood up against instructions naturally, and that's when the true
horror revealed itself. The redditors recalled, there were literal poop
smears on the seat and on him. The I had
spent entire cross country flight marinating in that odor, they continued,
as I stumbled off the plane shock when the flight

(09:38):
attendants said, I am so sorry you had to deal
with that. Why didn't you ask for a mask? Lady?
I needed an exorcism. Delta apologized to the passenger, with
the fly attendant offering to give them five thousand airline miles,
which they said was nice. Said was nice not enough? Honestly,
I think I deserve therapy in several showers. What's that

(10:00):
equate to? In Cole's cash? A couple of hoodies offered
her a couple of hoodies and goals cash I don't
know how airline miles work. Five thousand air I think.
I think five thousand miles you can fly, you can
fly five thousands.

Speaker 2 (10:16):
So it's like a one for one exchange. I don't know.
I don't have enough money to know about. People are
like they walk down the like the the very rare
instances that I do fly and they walk down the.

Speaker 1 (10:27):
Brush are like, would you like to apply for the
Delta Blue Gold Diamond Passport credit card. I'm like, I'm
not gonna get approved for that ship. Yeah. I had
to fucking borrow money to get this point ticket. I'll
be lucky if I have to fly once a year.
Like no, then I don't know why. But then led
me down this rabbit hole of this video I found

(10:49):
this week. It's of a but just to put a
bow in that story, Delta offer the person a bunch
of you know, we'll call him gifts and a little
accout you mall to kind of smooth it over that
the head of ride next to a ship box for
back to some poopy tire length of a country. But

(11:11):
then I saw this video a little later on. It's
a young lady and she's in the back of an
uber car okay, and the uber driver decides that he
needs to take a shit, so he pulls over. This
is an act, This is a She won't get out
of the car. He's an uber driver. So he pulls

(11:33):
over on the sidewalk and he just go away. He's
holding on a door, buddy, he's hanging. He's squatting, hanging
on the side of his car, hanging brain, just blowing
fucking hot poop on the sidewalk. Oh dude. And uh,
She's like, what are you doing? And he's like, I'm
fucking shitting man. That poor guy. Yeah, poor girl, I

(11:57):
guess too. Uh. Trying to add a the video on
our stream, but it's not gonna work. But I will
play the audio for you that you guys can hear it.
But me and Robert we can see it. Good. It's
all matters.

Speaker 5 (12:19):
Look at this ship here.

Speaker 1 (12:21):
You you ain't canceled my rod. That's Jersey pa, right.
I told you to go to the bathroom. Uber drivers like,
it's like using a steering wheel to hang out of
the car. Taking this is retarding.

Speaker 4 (12:45):
He's going to abandon me, the drug me to wherever
this is that right now or closet?

Speaker 3 (12:53):
Tell me, you got to cancel hot.

Speaker 1 (12:54):
Ride, like you have to ship. This guy's like in
his late fifties.

Speaker 4 (13:00):
It no, you're gonna go brible today, You're gonna go Bible.

Speaker 1 (13:08):
And I love her. I love her. My favorite part
of the old video is like it's like a business
street like when when he really really wants her out
of the car, she's like, He's like, get out, and
then she's like, I'm gonna need a refund. He's like,
I'll give you what you want.

Speaker 5 (13:25):
And I can't believe it.

Speaker 1 (13:29):
This is not really He's got both doors in my car.

Speaker 6 (13:36):
Now you're not at me in my car?

Speaker 1 (13:39):
Why you got my you got my uber? Steal Bunny
just now canceling at my uber? Why you took your ship? Goodbye?
I'll give you a like. And this has got charged.
I'm gonna make sure you don't get charged.

Speaker 3 (13:53):
That.

Speaker 1 (13:53):
I'm a poor guy. He's still better. I'm gonna do it.
I'm gonna do why. I'm making sure that's really nice.
You whom I d had to poop the ship.

Speaker 2 (14:08):
Dude, I've been there where I've almost fucking I've almost
pulled the trigger on pulling over on the side of
the road.

Speaker 1 (14:15):
But were never that. He's uber and pooper. What he
was doing, man, that.

Speaker 2 (14:21):
Poor fellow and that poor passenger he was he was
fighting for his life out there.

Speaker 1 (14:29):
It's funny because he still had his head in the
cab the entire time he was holding onto the door.
Jam didn't fall over. A poor guy, he said, I
didn't know what's an emergency. Oh man. Now, with that
being said, here's a maybe a quick break or a

(14:52):
few of our sponsors. All right, man, let's get going here.
Oh I forgot to put the page you're on subscribers
in this week. Oh man, It's okay. We'll get you
guys next week. Hell yeah, that's the plan. It'll make
us sound like we have even more. Yeah, that poor
that poor fucking guy. Yeah was that Jersey pet I

(15:13):
think it was he that or his dad or brother.

Speaker 7 (15:16):
He said, I'm going gotta go the goddamn bathroom.

Speaker 1 (15:28):
Hey, we forgot to play it on the actual Uh
oh no, we forgot to record it on the actual.
Oh no, the actual episode? Is it? I know, but
nobody could hear it.

Speaker 2 (15:39):
I think YouTube could. I think they could hear it. Okay,
they could hear it. We know it's not gonna be recorded.

Speaker 1 (15:43):
For the episode. We'll just have to put it in
there afterwards. Okay, they'll line it up though. Yeah, that's
all right. We'll figure it out. We won't.

Speaker 2 (15:54):
Just get it be us laughing to the audio. You
guys can't hear if you're listening to is on the stream.

Speaker 1 (15:59):
It was late close to midnight when a man from
Pender County, North Carolina dialed nine from the dark cab
of his truck. His voice trembled and behind the fear,
well there were there was a little bit of confusion.
He wasn't drunk, he was not slurring, not joking. That
doesn't sound like fun at all at all. He was

(16:20):
dead serious when he said something is in the back
of my truck and it's not human. And before we
go any further, we have nine call recordings of this
incident in question. We have audio clips of the sheriff
in that county being interviewed about what happened, about what
his deputies found. There's a lot of evidence around this

(16:46):
encounter of a rake cool and now I'm not talking
about the one used clear up leaves in your front yard.
I'm talking about these faceless, stretched out creatures that have
kind of popped up all over the country. He had
me stretched out. I don't fuck his voice. He told
the dispatcher that he'd been driving Route two ten, a

(17:09):
lonely stretch of two lane highway lying with pine and swamp.
He'd seen a man first, someone standing on the shoulder,
bleeding from the head. It looked like uh. He later
said that it looked like this person had been in
some type of accident, like he'd been in a wreck,
and it looked like he'd suffered a significant head wound

(17:29):
of some type. The man didn't weigh for help. He
didn't move. He just stared at the truck as it passed.
The caller thought about stopping, but instinctually, probably probably for
the best is his gut, told him to keep going.
And then he heard it, one hard thump from the

(17:50):
bed behind him, like a body landing on the metal
in the bed of his truck. He shouted in the phone,
it's in the back. It's moving. The sound of wind
and panic filled the recording as he accelerated, I think,
he said. He made it up a little over eighty
miles per hour before he slammed on his brakes. The

(18:10):
dispatcher asked what it was? He said, It's white, it's thin.
It's crawling up the cab. He said, wasn't me. Then
another crash, tires screeching in and engine winding. The man
slammed the brakes and the thing flew forward, tumbling across
the hood and when it hit the road, it stood upright,

(18:30):
dailna it said. He said. It towered over the truck,
more than seven feet tall. Its skin was colorless and
stretched tight over its bones. Then with a jerky motion,
it sprinted into the woods and disappeared into the dark.
Who hey there, mister Rake, come back here? What is rake?

(18:57):
I don't know, man, We're gonna find out this episode. Yeah,
I'm gonna look at pictures of it. When Deputy's finally
met him, he was shaking. He was soaked and sweat.
The bet of the truck bore scratches, gouged through paint
and dust. There were no animal prints, no blood, just
marks from something that had been there. He described it
as a lanky and mouthformed, had arms that were two

(19:20):
long legs that were jointed the wrong direction. I've seen
the picture before.

Speaker 2 (19:24):
I've seen I think your dog's all a rake Outside
it's meeting call. No, that's what's his fucking dill pickle.
There's a big fat fuck that lives next door with
a Sheldon is his name? Okay, I like you because
he just keeps on getting grotesquely fatter and fatter and fatter,
And then every time they let him out, the woman
next door is.

Speaker 1 (19:41):
Like, look how much weight he's lost. I'm like, it's
just gaming. Absolutely love them, love the dog, but they're
uh not looking at it objectively about his recent weight game. Yeah,
the torso was narrow. The rib was visible through pale skin,

(20:02):
like wax stretched over wire. He swore. It had fingers
that curled backwards when it braced itself on the glass
of the cab. It didn't make a sound though, not
a growl, not a scream, just silence in motion. When
it hit the pavement, it landed like a spider falling
from a wall on all fours first, then rising slowly

(20:24):
to its full height. That motion, he said, made him sick.
It was not human, It was not even animal. It
moved like a mistake in physics, something pretending to be alive.
And I know all about mistakes. That's the way my
wife moves. Anytime I advance on to her. Anytime we

(20:45):
have sex, she moving like she's pretending. Dude, have you
seen that? Fucking that? My wife's being very sexually suggestive
right now, right now? Oh man, Why she's on Facebook
tells me that she's watching me.

Speaker 2 (21:05):
There you go, you've seen those, you'll see those puff coats? Yeah,
the beer, fucking love it. I want one so bad.
But can you imagine how hot it would get? Like
the beer, I'd still drink it. A puff coat full
of beer?

Speaker 1 (21:21):
Yeah? Yeah, yeah? How much do you think it's like
two cases? Probably? Listen. I've seen a lot of these
solutions for smuggling beer, whether it be beer, a beer diaper,
a beer bulletproof vest, what just And there's never been
a point in my life where I was like, I
want beer so bad right now that I'd be willing

(21:43):
to strap a tank to my back and walk around
with the logistics of that. And then if you do,
like someone's car Key's poking to you and suddenly you
got a beer loge going running down your ass, that
what sucked? You're telling me? Buddy? That's my brother. He's
always like, you know, we go these being those games,
and usually before the season starts he's like, all right,

(22:04):
I got a new way we can get booze into
the stadium. And I'm just like, I don't need I
don't need to do that. I don't h beer is
like ten dollars inside the stadium. I don't normally drink
when I'm in there. Yeah, but he's always like, yeah, man,
I was like, why don't we just drinking the parking
lot like everybody else? Right, bring your own fucking go
at it. That's what we do. And if you're here,

(22:26):
your buzz. If you're tactical about it, you can drink
about thirty eight beers before you make it into the stadium. Absolutely.
He typically starts the night before. Yeah, it's alcoholism, but
he typically starts the night before, which call.

Speaker 2 (22:36):
What you want potato potato, right, I fucking He just
likes to have a good time.

Speaker 1 (22:41):
Yeah, for sure, the same way man. He got a
little buzz last time. He's like, Oh, I don't even
think this football team's any good. I just like hang
out with you in the parking lot. Well, they're not
very good. And yes, I have a lot of fun. Yeah,

(23:01):
you ever wear the Loocha door mask there? Yeah? I
have a couple of times There's this one guy. He's
a disabled veteran and I keep on putting an egg
on his running board every week. How disabled? Not very disabled? Okay,
he just got disabled veteran plates on his car, all right,
so he has like all his limbs and everything. Though. Yeah,
Typically all of the veterans that I meet that have

(23:26):
out of respect to the ones that have served and
paid a significant sacrifice, But there are a lot that
are disabled because of rectile dysfunction or something. A bunch
of limp dick dudes. And I know people that get
checks from the military for having a rectile dysfunction the military.
But I bet I can get a purple heart, And yeah,

(23:47):
you can get a fucking hand job next to burn pit.
Fuck you up the rest of your life, dude. Yeah shit,
if you've ever had a hand job next to a
burn pit, send us an email. Brohio Podcast at gmail
dot com. We'd love to hear story. If it was
performed by a rake. You get moved to the front
of the line. Oh yeah, I forgot where you do
a show here? Forgot all about the rake. We're gonna

(24:07):
talk about.

Speaker 2 (24:08):
The rake, all right, Let's let's fucking let's talk about it,
and uh, Rake, there's a lot of words that rhyme
with Rake that I promised myself I wouldn't joke about
this episode.

Speaker 1 (24:18):
And I'm doing pretty well so far. Okay. And the
story about my neighbor hot Dog and that lady is true,
and I believe you she was not in duress. The
sheriff's deputies walked the stretch of road where it happened.
There was no blood, there, no footprints.

Speaker 2 (24:35):
I just I don't I don't understand how all these
things always happen to you, Like why why does why
does all this fuckery always find you?

Speaker 1 (24:45):
And there's been times where people calling there like there's
no way or being truthful about that, yeah, and then
I can present all of the evidence, right and they're like, Okay,
this is wild that all this shit has happened.

Speaker 2 (24:56):
I always believe you, just because I know how just
shit just be happening, you know what I mean. It's
just it's just your life, like you're like a magnet
to fuckery. Like I don't know what it is, it's
something always happens.

Speaker 1 (25:09):
I appreciate it. No, it's cool. I have a genuine
appreciation for it. Yeah, just what it is man. That's
it's a talent. No one's ever called me a ship magnet,
but apparently maybe that's what it is. But it's not.
It's not like bad though. Yeah it's funny stuff. I
don't go out of public getting fights and ship. That's
a ship magnet, right, you think you got the one friend?

(25:32):
They start drinking like fuck all you mother fuckers, you know, like,
oh my god, here we go. Do you think it's
do you think it's honestly you or do you think
it's like that You're that you're just very observant to
crazy shit happening. Well, I I maybe we all see
the same amount of ship, but you just fucking notice it.
You think I got like a sixth sense. You just

(25:55):
see fuckery. I just think that I'm always quick to
blend a hand and just kind of be around and
just kind of And not a lot of people would
have taken that dog and went up and knocked on
the door. I agree, So ninety nine percent of people
would have just like not even been faced with ding
whole like I saw. But uh me, I'm like, I
know this guy. I'm not afraid to beat on a door. Yeah,

(26:15):
you're home, your home, could get your dog. Dude, Like,
if I just want to let this dog go and
it got ran over, you felt bad. I could never
live with myself. Yeah, you know the guy, you know,
the dog gets he was piping her down. Buddy, good
for him, man, poorn dog in they're rake anyways, Sorry, chairs, deputies.
They walked the stretch of the road where it happened.

(26:36):
They couldn't find any blood, They couldn't find any footprints.
There were no debris from a crash, just tire marks
from his truck and the smell of we would just
put say Robert's ass, but the smell of hot rubber
where he slammed the brakes. They filed the report and
drove off into the night. No suspect, no body, nothing

(26:57):
to book man. But thanks to technology, we've got some interviews.
This first clip is the sheriff's deputy of that county,
Pender County or something like that. Whatever, Yeah, I think
he said something like that. This is the sheriff's deputy

(27:20):
explaining the call that night.

Speaker 8 (27:26):
Curry is an area on the western side of our county.
It has a few small stores, residences, and about eleven
o'clock pm that evening, a call came into our now
on one dispatch of an individual standing on the side
of the road and it appeared to be bleeding. Now,
he stated he was traveling fifty five or sixty mile
an hour, so I can see how traveling at that

(27:48):
speed in the dark, it would be difficult to exactly
identify what he saw. But he stated that it looked
like a human being standing there with streaks of blood
coming down. It is very hard to listen to that call,
to that nine one one tape without becoming somewhat unnerved.

Speaker 6 (28:05):
It actually bothered me the first time that I heard it.

Speaker 1 (28:10):
That was the sheriff's deputy interpretation of what happened that night. Okay, Now, anytime,
excuse me, anytime you're dealing with a any type of encounter,
whether it's you've encountered a murderer, you've encountered a lost child,
you've encountered alien contact, you've encountered up trip did it

(28:34):
kind of gets a little bit substantiated. If you were
scared enough to call the police and have them out,
then you get to file a police report. Yeah, I've
seen shit the night before. I've been up in the
woods whenever I've heard things okay, seeing things. I really
think it big foot woke me up one night, but

(28:55):
it could have just me having a small stroke, could
have been Ever in any of those instances, have I
felt so shook to my core that I'm like, I
need to file a police report. You may have seen
a ghost, you may have seen something that went bumping
the night, but seldom or people inspired to say, I
gotta get a law enforcement involved in this one, buddy,

(29:17):
I saw a ghost. I need to call the cops.
I am man with a gun. Put him in a
cuss officer. This guy, for whatever reason, felt that his
encounter had to be substantiated by the police. He felt
in danger enough to call nine and that's what you
do when you're in danger. You call nine one one.

(29:37):
Or we thought that that person was in danger because
they had a bloody fucking face. I need help. That's
what it started as the night on call started as Hey,
there's a guy on the road and he's bleeding from
that he might need Holy shit, he's in the bed
of my truck. That's crazy. Right Here is the actual

(29:59):
nine one one phone call. Okay, round the incident. This
one entire episode is based around this is good just
set the scene. This is July thirty, first, twenty twenty one,
Pender County, North Carolina, North Carolina, North Carolina.

Speaker 3 (30:25):
Okay, now, one one, what's the adject of your emergency.

Speaker 5 (30:29):
I'm driving on two ten. I just crossed the Black
River and I thought I saw a guy standing on
the side of the local leading.

Speaker 3 (30:36):
Okay, where are you at, sir?

Speaker 5 (30:41):
I'm on two ten, I just crossed the Black River.
I'm heading forward to fifty three E. I just passed,
uh Patreus watch.

Speaker 3 (30:51):
Okay, so you're iron near Moore Street, Joe, Okay, and
did you you all a man standing on the side
of the road. What was that, sir?

Speaker 4 (31:14):
Sir?

Speaker 3 (31:14):
Are you okay?

Speaker 4 (31:15):
Sir?

Speaker 3 (31:19):
Okay? What's in the road?

Speaker 5 (31:22):
No, it's not in the truck.

Speaker 3 (31:25):
There's something in the bed of your truck.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Ma'am just turned on my bret, like my trunk or
something in my grit.

Speaker 3 (31:32):
Okay, sir, when you say something, what do you mean?

Speaker 5 (31:37):
I just got it off to the bront of my cart, went.

Speaker 1 (31:39):
Over my room.

Speaker 3 (31:40):
Okay, what was it?

Speaker 8 (31:42):
According to the cab notes and the deputy reports, this
thing jumped into the back of his pickup trunk and
began to actually beat on the top of the cab
of his trunk. You could actually hear something beating on
the top of the truck. The caller stated that it
was beating and scratching on the top of the cab
of his truck. He actually stated that he was able
to engage his bedlight and was able to somewhat identify

(32:06):
this object that was in the back of his truck.
At some point he was able to slam on his
brakes and the force of inertia actually threw this thing
out over his hood and onto the highway, where this
thing stood up in the roadway, made its way.

Speaker 6 (32:20):
To the woodline and disappeared in the woods.

Speaker 1 (32:24):
They just saw the waym and lock about a big gouvernment.
You know, a cargo like gives off a romantic globe.
That was a good timing man, So we like about
a bigger me, all right. So there you heard the
nine on one called. You heard the sheriff's explanation. This

(32:45):
guy goes by the caller. It ain't human, It ain't human.
What the You can hear it? Yeah, you can hear it, dude. Yeah,
i'd been like the guy with the Delta fly boop
smears on the chair poop smears. Oh, man, that rake
would have he would have got off himself, like dude,

(33:08):
ship it everywhere, man, like that fucking girl in the
back of the uber. I fucking done. I'm out of here.
I'd have been hanging brain on the side of the highway, dude,
just letting a log. Wipe my ass with Chipotle napkins looking, Yeah, dude,
what uh what's that? What's that chicken fucking place down

(33:30):
south they all eat at. Uh? Oh god, Bojangles, use
this biscuit something to dry as fuck. Wipe my ass,
some fucking Bojangle Napkins got a bow dangle and need
to take care of that thing. Yeah, so you heard it? Uh,
you're hear it there a little uh a old tense, right, yeah. Yeah.

(33:56):
And this was a nine one one call. You could
tell that operator that was about her fourth or fifth
day on duty and this is not something she'd dealt
with on the rag poor thing man. Certainly, Hey, it's
a what what was that? In the days that followed,
word spread, Okay, locals said that they'd heard stories before
of something pale haunting those woods, something seen at dawn,

(34:17):
crawling out of the ditches, Okay, hunters called it the
gray Man. Teenager said they saw it sitting in fields
waiting for headlights, and online many people gave it a
name that had already begun to take root. An urban
legend called it the Rake. And this next clip, this
is about four or five minutes long, but this next

(34:40):
clip is an interview.

Speaker 2 (34:43):
With I just want to make it, let it be
known that. Of course, since now we're live on Facebook,
my wife just made a comment on the video and said,
bring me home Dutch brothers.

Speaker 1 (34:53):
So thanks baby, we've opened ourselves up to a new
parallel here. She could have just texted me, She could
have text you, but maybe she thought you were home,
and then seeing the YouTube video, it just the Facebook
video remind her that she weren't. Maybe my daughter's not

(35:15):
working tonight. She's she's boarded up in her room. She's ill.
Oh is she? Yeah? Yeah, she's sick. I just hope
it avoids me. Yeah, but with God's protection, all things
are possible. I can ward off all evil and sickness
with the Holy Bible. That just don't don't ask God

(35:38):
to give you any baby for me. Look, because uh yeah,
don't heal my grandpa cancer? Let him fucking die. That's
all my fucking that's all my algorithm on TikTok is about.
Right now.

Speaker 2 (35:48):
Is that girl that's calling all the churches asking if
they can he's got starving she's got starving babies and
wants to see if they can give her some formula.

Speaker 1 (35:56):
All of them say no, oh yeah, testing them. Yeah,
My TikTok is all cats, kittens, betting, scared and stuff.
There's this one lady. She works at a shelter and
she just does like a feral check on these cats
and she sticks a little a little it's like a
stick with a with a baby finger pointer at the
end of it, and she sticks it in. She paints

(36:17):
the she pets their heads and either cat like takes
it or it's like, ah, those are the feral ones. Yeah,
those are the feral ones. Is the ones you don't
mess with. So, like I said, this next clip, it's
about four or five minutes long. This isn't This is
the actual interview with the gentleman who had the rake

(36:38):
in the bed of his truck that night he was
tracked down by this field reporter. I probably should have
got his information since I'm using all his content. We'll
put it in the show notes, but here is that interview.

Speaker 4 (36:56):
I guess I'll start it from the beginning of the trip.
I was coming up Front, Florida to visit my family.

Speaker 1 (37:04):
At the time.

Speaker 4 (37:04):
I was going to a trade school down there. And
when I was driving up here to where the incident occurred,
by the battle by the battlefield, it was already easily
like well into the morning.

Speaker 6 (37:17):
I wasn't looking at my phone.

Speaker 4 (37:18):
I just know it was hitch black outside, and it
was pitch pitch black. I couldn't see the moon stars, nothing,
just barely the road through my headlights, and I have
my window down because the AC wasn't working the best.
And as I was coming around, there's a massive right
curve right there before you cross the Black River, and

(37:40):
then after that you have the battlefield. So on that
massive black curve, as I'm coming around, I had just
started the curve and I was about a third of
the way through it, and I look over into the
ditch on my right because I caught a quick glimpse
of something, and as I take a further look, it
looks like there's a i'd say probably thirty something year

(38:00):
old man standing in that ditch wearing what looks like
an old Civil War uniform just covered. Had to tow
him blood.

Speaker 1 (38:08):
That's new details.

Speaker 4 (38:08):
And the uniform was torn as well.

Speaker 1 (38:11):
Through and the significance of the Civil War. I'm gonna
pause this for a second, the significance of the Civil War,
the Civil War garb outfit uniform. There was a battlefield
right there nearby, and over the years they've had numerous
numerous calls to the Sheriff's department about strange noises emanating

(38:35):
from the battlefield. Okay, and they've dealt with that for
many years. That's the significance of potentially why this guy
saw what he saw.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
I do want to say that guy that not the
guy that's talking is you can't see his head, but
the guy that's in front of the camera that you
can see his face.

Speaker 1 (38:50):
He looks like he eats bugs. Yeah, yeah, he does.
He's got that look about him. You might already eaten
four or five for this. I wish we could share
the video.

Speaker 4 (39:05):
For me off because because I didn't expect to see
it at like one, two, three o'clock in the morning. Well,
I'm calling nine to one one after I see him
to report that because for all I know, it could
have just been a normal guy that was injured and
needed a metical and.

Speaker 6 (39:19):
Needed emergency help.

Speaker 4 (39:21):
It looked like what had happened is he hit his
head on something, okay, and the blood was just pulling
down over his face and torso and well, as I
was calling, you know, everything seemed perfectly normal. Just quick
phone called to nine one one, let them know, Hey,
there's a guy out here, and try to find somewhere

(39:42):
save the part so that way I can take them
to him. Well, as you know from the nine one
one call short right as soon as I reported that,
I already had my window up at that point, all
of a sudden I heard a massive bang in the
on my truck, and my truck bounced down from the

(40:03):
rear like I was pulling a heavy trailer and I
had a pothole. And so I'm sitting there going what
the hell was that? Which I'm pretty sure you heard me, help, Yeah,
what the hell? I turned on my bed light and
I looked in my rear view mirror, and all I
saw was this white like snow white face right up

(40:29):
against my rear windshield, like it was looking into my
truck trying to see what it could see it. It
had salt shallow, sunken eyes. It had no nose. Just
think if you took skin and put it on a
human skull and stretched it thin, couldn't see any ears,

(40:50):
just bad and immediately just I just started screaming. I
didn't realize until afterwards that I had said that's not
human on the call, because it was just the first thing.
I started screaming because I was terrified. I didn't have
my firearm with me nothing. All I had was a

(41:11):
wood splitting axe, so I did.

Speaker 1 (41:13):
That's all I had.

Speaker 4 (41:15):
So and my truck is loud as is and it
picks up speed fairly easily. Well, my truck at the time,
it had a gas powered six literer via Vortec on it.
That's why I had the window up to that truck
is nice and loud. Well, I'm doing in between like
fifty five sixty miles an hour when this happens, and
I just stomped on the gas for a second. When

(41:38):
I looked at this phedometer before I slammed all my brakes.
I was doing maybe eighty and I slammed on those
brakes with all my might, and I went from like
eighty miles an hour down to like thirty five in
just like a couple of seconds. And all I see
is this just a super scrawny long body just over

(42:00):
my truck and a ball rolling. And as I'm I
then swerve to the left and get back in the
travel lane and I floor it. And as I'm swerving
to the left, I see it stand up and it
is easily taller than that truck. No, I'm five foot ten.

(42:21):
The truck is about two inches taller than I am,
and this thing was easily.

Speaker 6 (42:26):
Like maybe seven feet.

Speaker 1 (42:27):
Wow, it's me.

Speaker 4 (42:28):
And as I'm past it, I look in my mirror
and I see a bolt to the left into the woods,
and it looked like some I don't even know what
the hell because it had it looked like somebody took
a normal human and stretched them out. Start.

Speaker 1 (42:48):
Oh god, damn fuck, oh, stretch me out, daddy. And
my wife keeps on sending me them yuckie text messages,
and that's what's gonna happen to her, Buddy, I'll get
thrown on the side of the road and stretched out.
Excuse men like, you don't scare me. Yeah, I know,

(43:09):
I love you, but I know so that was the
interview with the call him. Tuh was short for Thomas
the Train or Tom Foolery. I don't know what its
fucking name is, but that information has never revealed. But
the rake itself is not ancient folklore. It's not a
demon from a thousand year old book. It started online stories.

(43:31):
It's meant to scare readers sitting behind glowing screens. The
first descriptions came in the early two thousands. A hairless
creature crouched at the foot of a bed, its eyes
black as oil, whispering names in the dark. Some stories
claim to follow its victims for years. Others say it
happened before death, like an omen. The name stuck because

(43:51):
of its hands, long rake like claws, scraping the walls
before it struck. As the Internet grew, so did the
pale humanoids crawling across highways, filmed by dash cams in
the rain, Emaciated silhouettes peering through back door windows, hunters
finding claw marks on deer carcasses, but no prints. It

(44:14):
was frick It was fiction that started to bleed into
people's lives until the stories weren't stories any anymore. They
were police reports. They were anonymous posts. They're shaky footage
at two in the morning, just like we just we
just heard from this account, the rake became more than
a monster. It became a modern archtype.

Speaker 4 (44:36):
It was.

Speaker 1 (44:36):
It was the shadow in the corner of your eye,
the sound under your bed, much like the Boogeyman from
when we were kids. I genuinely thought there was a
fucking Boogeyman when I was a kid. My dad just
be like, oh, for no good goddamn reason, He'd be like,
hopefully Boogeyman don't get you. I'm like, why the fuck
do we need to talk about the Boogeyman. There's no

(44:57):
reason for this right now. Yeah, my stepdad was the
bleaking man in our house, and I knew he was real.
I already sleep my little brother and he's he sleeps naked.
That's kind of scary. We uh. We shared a bunk bed,
Like we had a bunk bed and I would do this.

(45:21):
There was like a like a hand railing on up
towards the top, and I would grab. I would I
had top bunk and I would grab the hand rate
railing and I would slide my ass down until my
my fucking butt cheeks. It's like a sun rising in
the distance. It's just at a moon, like the moon
coming out of the clouds. I would lower my ass

(45:42):
just low enough where my brother could see the the
fine powdery hairs on my butt cheeks. Yeah, and I
would fucking fart and then I would retract. I would
go back up to the top bunk. Would you would
you like dart back up or would you slowly go
back in?

Speaker 4 (45:57):
Oh?

Speaker 1 (45:57):
Yeah, try chunky. So I just had to pull myself
buck up kind of quick. That's whatever your body would
allow you. Do you let your balls hanger? Do you
keep them tucked? There's no like balls are tuck, dude,
whether I'm they weren't going nowhere, only so long. I

(46:18):
remember there was like a twenty like a like a
it's like a twenty day period where we had highlighters. Yeah,
and we would draw in the ceiling. We'd draw all
over and you couldn't see it the highlighter until you
turn off the light when a black light. Yeah, and
then uh, one one day my mom went in there
and did whatever, like she saw the black light on.

(46:38):
She looked around and it was just like she was
fucking appalled. But the day before that above Ryan's head
on the bunk, like there there's the bunk bed in
the wall. I wrote Ryan sucks dick, and I'm like,
I'm like ten, dude, he's like eight. I'm like ten,

(47:00):
he's like eight nine, He's.

Speaker 5 (47:04):
Just a little boy.

Speaker 1 (47:05):
And I wrote Ryan sucks dick, and she turned out
she saw that, dude, and she was stomping all over
the house. She's like, who wrote test? Who wrote tests?
And we were both like, oh, we don't. We don't
over wrote it. No, you know, she had the thing.

(47:26):
I'm gonna ground both of you till one of you
admits that who wrote it? And I'm just like, dude,
you gotta take the fucking fall for this one. There's
no way. Why would you write it about himself? I know,
but I'm like, there's no way she's gonna believe that
I wrote that. He's like, I didn't even know you
wrote it. I didn't you did. That's right, that's right,

(47:52):
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(50:11):
and uh. When the North Carolina nine one one call
reservice people knew exactly what to label what labels slap
on it not alien, not ghost, not mutant, not bigfoot,
not dogmen, frogmen, bogmen, the rake Okay, you ever fucked

(50:34):
with the Bogman? No, I wouldn't do that. Don't wouldn't.
You're a swamp thing back in the day, dude, I do.
That was super cool, a little action figure of them
and it glow glowed in the dark. Yeah, yeah, I
had that. Super cool. That's another one of my my
TikTok feeds is nineties like nostalgia toys. I love that. Yeah,

(50:55):
did you have the the Power Rangers. We'd hit the
belt buckle on their heads around their heads were flipping
their chests. Yeah, they have like the normal head their
kid like the teenager head and then the Power Range head. Yeah,
super cool. And there was other ones.

Speaker 2 (51:07):
There was these uh teen teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles that
I had that you would uh they have like these
little pizza discs and they pushed the button that shoots
it out.

Speaker 1 (51:17):
Yeah. Cool as fuk man. There's so many cool toys.
I had a teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles playset. It was
the actual sewer and the actual uh like their their
layer and up top was like the sidewalk, the city sidewalk,
and there was like a manhole cover and then you
had like their little layer underneath of it. Now, that
was pretty cool. One of my favorite toys growing up.

Speaker 4 (51:37):
Man.

Speaker 1 (51:37):
Yeah, so the name the rake, it traveled fast. It
gives people a language for what they can't explain, a
face for what, for what the mind refuses to accept.
But what happens when a fiction starts leaving fingerprints? When
made up nightmares begin carving scratches into the real world?

Speaker 3 (51:57):
Uh?

Speaker 1 (51:57):
The thing about these pale, long creatures as they've been
showing up long before the word rake existed. In twenty ten,
there was a couple camping in the Catskills reported a
humanoid crawling past their tent on all fours. It stopped,
looked toward the flap, and slipped away. In twenty thirteen,

(52:18):
a deputy an Indiana claim he saw something like a
hairless man running on elbows and knees across the highway
in front of his cruiser. That was just you what
you gonna do? Aud a Chunk? Aud At Junky inside
at Chunk. In twenty seventeen, a family in Kentucky caught
night vision footage of what looked like a gray, skinny

(52:39):
figure perched on their fence. That's weird, skeptics call them
misidentified deer. Call them owls, they call them meth heads,
they call them hoaxes. Believers say there's too much consistency
in the details right, too many identical movements, too many
blank light eating eyes. Some say their inter dimensional, slipping

(53:00):
between moments when no one's watching. Some link them to
alien abductions, entities that monitor and mimic human shapes. Others
think they're ancient, that they're spirits of disease or famine,
appearing only in quiet, starving places. What makes the Pender
County call different is the collision of folklore and evidence.

(53:22):
We have evidence with this one. We have a voice,
we have law enforcement. We have physical damage on the truck.
We have a recorded nine on one phone call. We
have a guy that's still willing to tell a story.
We have rubber marks on the highway. We have a
fucking paper police report of everything that happened that night. Yeah,
we have a man's life who changed in ten seconds flat.

(53:45):
If he saw what he said he saw. Then the
rake isn't just online horror anymore. It's mobile, it's moving,
it's among us, pretty good. I'm gonna practice my rake
sounds this entire episode. It's pretty accurate. Oh it felt

(54:07):
pretty good. Yeah, it sounded really good. That's what it
sounds like when you run one over a little bit
of a squish in there. When I make that noise
in the living room, my cat's going to heat. They
love it. They start making noises and looking for me. Dude.

(54:28):
They just know they'll come up and start biting my
leg and shit, I don't know what it means. Yeah,
it means something to them. Obviously, It's not an erotic sound.
But when I make that noise, you're like, what start
looking for me? Fucking drives them crazy. W here's the
fat one. What're they do with the snacks? There is

(54:49):
something unsettling about the detail of the bleeding man. It's uh,
kind of too specific, too calculated. The driver saw a
human shape that appeared injured. Are you in heat now?

Speaker 4 (55:02):
Is that?

Speaker 1 (55:02):
That's what's so fucking funny, dude, laughing at you fucking
cats that I was thinking about. I was thinking about
my cat.

Speaker 2 (55:14):
There's there's a spot right above her leg that car
will scratch her, that she'll sitting there to start turning
around in a circle, and she's always acting crazy.

Speaker 1 (55:21):
He's like, why is she doing now? It's like, because
you're making her horny fucking spot, you're turning her on. Boy,
they don't call him pussy for nothing. He was like, Oh, bruh,

(55:43):
she likes it. You're a milk a cat.

Speaker 8 (55:49):
Boy.

Speaker 1 (55:50):
Cats are weird, man, they are really freaking weird. Oh man,
I've just come to the conclusion recently that they I've
heard I heard this said before many times. They don't
fucking like us.

Speaker 3 (56:04):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (56:05):
Absolutely, they just tolerate us. They just merely exist. Yeah,
with us being around, agreed.

Speaker 1 (56:12):
They they're just faced with the circumstances. Much if like
if you and I were incarcerated for the rest of
our lives, you just fucking deal with it, you know. Yeah, Yeah,
just make like a pickle and deal with it. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (56:24):
I always say, like, how funny it is that, like
they just live their little lives. And sometimes sometimes we'll
just come through and just fucking yoink them up and pick.

Speaker 1 (56:31):
Them up, blowing raspberries in their belly, do ship to them.
My youngest son likes to we call.

Speaker 2 (56:40):
We say like we're like, hey, puma her, so he'll
pick her up and stretch her out like a Puma cat,
like the Puma logo.

Speaker 1 (56:47):
She likes it.

Speaker 2 (56:48):
Yeah, he just grabs his hand right behind her front
legs and right in front of her back legs and
fucking stretch.

Speaker 1 (56:53):
Play her like an accordion. Cats are fucking wild. I
hate them, but I like them. There's so weird. Man,
I love him, but I hate Yeah. Same the the
driver in this story, though, he saw a human shape
that appeared injured and helpless, positioned perfectly at the side
of the road where headlights would catch it. Predators what

(57:16):
a predators do? They lure their prey. Spiders, mimic flowers,
draw insects, close, deep sea creatures, dangle lights and black water.
What if this thing does the same, projecting the image
of a dying human to make you stop and assist. Yeah,
imagine you're alone on a highway seeing someone waving for help,

(57:38):
much like I took the dog back. It's all my
neighbor pile driving another adult. Maybe he's a rake. Brother's
got a hammer. He's not a rag, he's a hammer dog,
he's a jackhammer. He's a bulldozer. You know rake shit,
You pull over, you step out, phone in hand, you
get closer. The man's not way, he's just standing there,

(58:02):
blood down his face, clothes wrong, skin too pale, and
then you realize it's not blood, it's something else behind him.
His fucking knees are backwards, a shape unfolds. That's how
it could work. That's how it could mimic a human.
That's how it could hunt. You get out to be like,

(58:23):
oh you can need help with the spars. Oh my god,
get my fucking gun? Can you shoot a rake? I
probably that's that guy, and the thinks that he's like,
I didn't have my gun. Oh I had was a hatchet.
You seen those people that have backwards knees, Yeah, dude,
that's scary. Do not like it one bit? No, I was.

(58:48):
There's one dude, he kinda he's more prevalent in the
social media than than the other ones. He creeps me out, dude,
Just that ban us so fucking funny. How you supposed
to dog you style a man with backwards knees. Guy
with backwards knees, Dude, that's crazy. It's wild looking yucky. Dude. Yeah,

(59:13):
I don't.

Speaker 2 (59:14):
It makes me feel really uncomfortable. There's not a whole
lot of people that I'll punch in the face just
for looking the way they do. If I see someone
with backwards knees. Dude, that's yeah, buddy, I'm swinging.

Speaker 1 (59:29):
I'm not religious, but you need Jesus. But I hate
to do this to you. Yeah, I might have to
beat you up. I gotta slap you around a little bit.
Oh man, oh oh, I don't like it. Some people
like being slapped around, though, you know what I mean. Yeah,
I guess. Man, So I heard you're like an old lawnmder.

(59:51):
Do you like being choked, dude? No, no, no, I'll
do some choking, but I don't like to. I don't
like to be choked. Well, if you and the old
lady were getting it on and then you start choking
yourself with that scared like, what the fuck's wrong with you?
This feels nice joking yourself.

Speaker 2 (01:00:12):
I'm sitting here looking at this picture of this guy
and it's it's a boy like he's a little Filipino boy.

Speaker 1 (01:00:18):
I've seen him. We gotta have him put down. Yeah,
how do you poop? He's right down his balls, his
butt is tucked in, fucked inward, buddy, he does not
get when he poops.

Speaker 2 (01:00:32):
It's everywhere he's he's he's forever in like the pushing
out your dick. Uh position, So that's kind of cool,
like a like a kangaroo frog. Yeah, I don't know, man,
it looks like a cursive.

Speaker 1 (01:00:46):
Q theories say that it mimics what you expect to see,
bending your brain's logic for just a moment long enough
to make you hesitate. Maybe that's what happened that night
on route to ten. Maybe the rake or whatever it was,
whatever it is, projected that bleeding man as bait. When
the driver didn't stop, it went for the truck instead.

(01:01:07):
If that's true, then it's not random. It's what we
don't want. It's intelligent. It knows us, studies us. It
studies us enough to know enough to wear our skin
like camouflage. And if that is the case, and somewhere
out there, this fucking thing is still practicing. He didn't
hit it and kill it. He just dumped it off

(01:01:28):
the front of his truck and then it ran off
into the woods. It was fine, fucking made that noise
that you just made it. A minute ago after the
call leaked, North Carolina hunters started posting stories of seeing
pale figures near deer feeders. One describe finding a carcass
twisted backward like every bone had been rearranged. Trail cameras

(01:01:51):
caught nothing, only static in light distortion. On Reddit, a
user from the same county said their dog would not
go near the woods for we growling at the tree
line at night. And this last audio clip is the
sheriff kind of putting a bow on all of this.

Speaker 8 (01:02:12):
Can I again, For years, the residents and people out
there in the Curry area near the battlefield have reported
seeing things and hearing things that they couldn't exactly understand.
The Moors Creek National Battlefield does sit well off the roadway.
In the years past, we have had deputies responded that area,
different noises on the battlefield itself, things being seen on

(01:02:34):
the battlefield that just couldn't be explained. The caller remained
on a nine to one one call with my dispatcher.
He stated he was traveling towards four twenty one to
Johnson's Corner where he met a deputy and a highway patrol.
Judging by the distance and the time that it would
have taken him to travel that the timeline definitely matches up.

(01:02:54):
Once our deputies in the North Carolina State Highway Patrol
arrived at the scene of Johnson Corner on four to
twenty one and make contact with the collar.

Speaker 6 (01:03:04):
Deputy spoke with him some. At that point, the Highway Patrol.

Speaker 8 (01:03:08):
Took over that investigation because it was a traffic related incident.

Speaker 6 (01:03:12):
I don't know for sure what he saw or.

Speaker 1 (01:03:16):
Man a lot, right, that is. Yeah, they never did
find what it was, obviously, they never captured it. They
never came to a conclusive disposition of the investigation. The
report was filed. This guy had something jump in the
bed of his truck. Ooh, man, I don't like it.

(01:03:40):
I don't like it at all. I'm not a fan
of it. And these these stories, they always follow the
same script. Nighttime, there's silence, the person feels a sense
of being watched, or there's the faint smell of iron
or wet dirt. I eat poop. I don't eat poop.
I E I E I E poop. Dang, man, I

(01:04:06):
don't think I've ever officially eaten poop, but I probably have.
We've probably all ingested poop.

Speaker 2 (01:04:11):
I've got it in my eye before. Pink guy, right,
that's how it happens. Yeah, sometimes they don't. You know,
you don't wash your hands good enough, think about this.

Speaker 1 (01:04:21):
Where are your toothbrushes at in my bathroom? Right next
to what? Yeah, right next to the shutter. So you're
telling me articles, man, you're telling me. I don't know
if that's a scientific term for charticles. Yeah, you're telling me.
You wipe your ass. Yeah, and then you go over
there to the sink. You gotta start grabbing ship to

(01:04:43):
make things happen, whether that sure, pump the soap, flip
the and by the way, if you're somebody that puts
soap on your hands before you turn the water on,
you're a fucking cereal killer. Is that you totally me? Yeah? Yeah, water,
wet your hands, then soap I do no, No, I

(01:05:05):
do soap wrong and rub it when I get under
the water. I will never let you perform surgery on me,
even if you're the only person left that they can
keep me alive. Luckily, I'm too incompetent to every Well,
let's be honest with one another. You're good brother, Who
fucking die your fuckedor gardles? Man, I was gonna see

(01:05:28):
if you'd give me a hysterectomy. I mean I probably could.
They can google it. Yeah, uh the uh they say
they mentioned the faint smell of iron or wet dirt,
I eat poop. Then the figure crouched, elongated, unhurried, never
fully seen, never caught, and after each sighting equipment malfunctions

(01:05:51):
where there's battery, drains, lenses, fog, audio warps. This to
me is a fucking alien. That's what this is. This
is not an anything else. Besides, this is an extraterrestrial being.
If it's able to mimic humans in a way that
is not humanly, and if it smells like wet dirt
and your cell phone quits working, that's an alien. Sure.

(01:06:15):
The rake isn't about gore, though, it's about wrongness. It's
the it's the body doing what a body shouldn't do,
and that's what makes it so unsettling. So just like unnerving,
it's a movement that shouldn't exist in our catalog of creatures.
And that's why people believe. And that's why people whenever
they see these things, they know right away, like a
fuck me, that's like, that is not a dog. That

(01:06:37):
is not a bear. Yeah, I don't know what that is.
That's a mother fucking rake. That's a fucking rake, boy,
fucking rake dog. Human brain knows every animal on site,
and when something doesn't fit that bill, the instinct is
always pure panic. We MutS spend too much for Facebook.
That shit just shut down.

Speaker 2 (01:06:56):
You're looking at it watching All of a sudden it said,
oh no, never mind, I think we're back.

Speaker 1 (01:07:00):
Did it go down right? Just stupid? Yeah, it says
your live video has ended.

Speaker 2 (01:07:03):
Okay, they don't like us, dude, too powerful, They closed
us out. Hell nah, so these boys are motherfucking.

Speaker 1 (01:07:12):
Ain't talking about eating poop on here? I eat poop?
Nuh huh no, uh not today. You ain't guse We're
still alive on there. It does shows Yeah, I see
it says live, but it looks like no, no, we

(01:07:33):
might be who knows, I'm fucking too stupid for or not.
Let's see every new clip, every granny frame uploaded a
TikTok or Reddit. It does keep the Rake legend alive,
whether staged or real. It spreads much like this nine
one one call. It spreads like fire, and somewhere in
that noise or genuine voices, real people, real panic, real

(01:07:54):
experiences that sound just like that nine on one call.
People who swear something climbed on the roof or crouched
in the headlights before vanishing. Look in their windows at night.
They see it in their driveway, they see in the woods,
just the edge of their property. Genuine people, genuine sightings
washed out by people they're fucking bored and just want

(01:08:16):
to make something for some clicks. Though you know, I
get it. Nobody agrees on where it started. Some claim
it's an ancient evil reborn through human imagination. Others say
it's a tulpa, which is a thought form that becomes
real because enough people believe in it. Once an image
reaches a certain saturation point in the collective mind, reality

(01:08:37):
folds to match. We imagine monsters and the dark obliges,
and there's folklore to back the idea. The wind to Go,
the ass Wang, the Aswang Oswang, the ass Wang, the
night hag, all versions of emaciated predators that feed on fear.

(01:08:58):
They feed on famine, they feed on guilt. The rake
could just be a modern mask for something ancient, shape
shifting into what the century fears most invasion of personal space,
exposure in the night, loss of control. Some paranormal researchers
theorize these creatures are interdimensional drifters slipping through thin spots,

(01:09:21):
whether it be battlefields, graveyards, abandoned highways. Pender County fits
that bill. The land around Route two ten saw Revolutionary
era bloodshed, later Civil War squirmishes, endless trauma, soaked in
the ground. Maybe places like that are cracks, cracks into
a different dimension. Maybe something does in fact leak through

(01:09:44):
a rake. Yeah, maybe a rake leaks through, and once
it's through, maybe it feeds on attention. Each retailing keeps
it alive. Each retailing, every upload a little pulse of energy.
So every time someone watches that night on one clip
that thing in the truck, Beddy just smiled and said,

(01:10:04):
rame getting stronger. Skeptics they try, and they try and
close this case, because that's what skeptics do. They call
it a mangy bear, a drugg man, a prank. Fucking
bears don't have knees that bend backwards. A human on
drugs doesn't outrun a truck doing sixty miles an hour.

(01:10:27):
The Sheriff's office found no footprints, no hair, no blood, nothing.
If it were in fact a hoax, it was one
pulled off in total silence, with no motive and no gain.
Others argue well, I'll call it a mass hysteria. They
say people are desperate for monsters that every region needs
it's cryptid, which is possible. The panic alone doesn't gouge metal.

(01:10:50):
It doesn't leave people too terrified to drive the same
road again. Believers say denial is more comfortable than belief.
If you admit something natural touched our world, you have
to rewrite everything you know about what's out there. It's
just safer and easier to say it's a hoax than
it is to say you're hunting for something. The truth

(01:11:14):
might be worse than both, though maybe it isn't even
a singular creature at all. It's a hallucination made collective.
But that doesn't explain the scratches. It doesn't explain the
voice on that nine one line of that guy Tea
crying that something not human, it's not human, it's not human,
was moving in his truck bed. Yeah, you can audibly

(01:11:38):
hear the creature land in the bed. You can hear
him slam on the brakes. You can hear whatever it
is tumble over the front of his car. You can
hear all those things in the nine of one call.
I'm not gonna maybe I'll go back and play it
one more time at the end of the episode so
we can re listen. The briake squealing is kind of faint,
but you can hear all of these things. The more

(01:11:59):
people heard it, the more sighting surfaced. Uh North Carolina, Tennessee,
West Virginia all the same description. He has gray skin,
long limbs, silent movement, eyes that absorb light instead of
reflecting it, as if that one call opened a door
and the rest of the country started hearing footsteps on
their front porch in that area. Though Appalachia folklore runs

(01:12:24):
thick in that soil, I will say that the Belwich
and Tennessee the mothman and point pleasant the brown mountain
lights that dance like ghosts. Over the Carolinas. People talk
about witch lights floating between trees, whistlers that mimic your
body's call from fifty yards away, and something that knocks
three times unbark after dark, just to count who's out there.

(01:12:46):
Old timers say that if the forest goes completely silent,
and I've heard this many times. If in Appalachia, if
the forest goes completely silent, it's not peace. It is
a war. Learning of impending doom that something bad is
about to happen to you. They've seen pale figures two

(01:13:06):
long before anyone said rake, skinny shape shifters pacing tree lines,
crawling up embankments on all fours, peering through windows of
hunting cabins. And some say there's spirits of miners buried
at unmarked shafts. Others swear they're not ghosts at all,
but the ones that were here before us. Every generation,

(01:13:27):
they have their own stories. A coal worker who followed
lights into the gorge and came back two days later, barefooted,
eyes rolled white. A hiker who heard her mother calling
from the creek, except her mother had been dead for years.
Families hang bells on portrails so they'll know when something
steps out of the tree line. The further you go

(01:13:48):
into those mountains and the Appalachian Mountains, the stranger things get.
Compass needles, spin dogs refuse to enter certain hollows, and
there's a kind of low hummus the aar not when
it's not insects, people say it's something deeper. Folks just
call it the woods talking. And if you ever hear
the woods answer when you didn't ask a fucking question,

(01:14:11):
it's time to peg your shit up, get the fuck
out of there, because the mountains, the mountains already know
your name at that point. Ye An, Appalachia. I'm fascinated
by just the stories and the tales, the folklore around
all of it. There's so much, man, there's so much.
The wood's going quiet. Yeah, when you just open yourself
up and listen, you can hear the woods talking back

(01:14:33):
to you. And you don't want the woods talking to
you like that. I don't. Just being out there and
always feeling like something is watching from the trees beyond
just all something always has its eyes on you, right,
And it's almost like an unspoken low It's it's like

(01:14:53):
an unspoken message we should say. It's almost like they're
not allowed to talk about it. And if you do
talk about it, then you kind of open yourself up
to it.

Speaker 2 (01:15:02):
I feel like that that's that is a thing, right,
they think that, you know, if you bring attention to it,
then it makes it real. Sure, I'm sure that's you know,
there's some sort of validity to that. You don't say
a name name has power. Yeah, yeah, but all that
I just like.

Speaker 1 (01:15:20):
That that Appalachia folklore, It creeps me the fuck out.
It's it's weird. It's and just all the encounters of
people that have experienced things in the woods and the
mountains in that general vicinity. I'm telling you, dude, if
you get in the water one hundred times and each
time you get bit by a shark, well there's fucking

(01:15:41):
sharks in the water, sure, all right. And if one
hundred people go up into the woods in the mountains
and most of them have things that happen, most of
them feel like something's watching them, most of them hear
noises that are otherworldly, well the chances are there's probably
something those mountains, in those hills that isn't like us. Yeah,
just kind of pissing it off.

Speaker 4 (01:16:02):
Not me.

Speaker 1 (01:16:03):
We're not afraid to talk about it. Here in Ohio. Welcome.
You know, we're close to Apple Ashha though. So I mean,
it's I hope all you motherfuckers get eaten by something
in the woods and I get to see ring doorbell
cameras of this ship and they fucking just gobbled up
by a mandingo. Someone put a dick in my research,
someone who has defiled my research. There's a whole entire

(01:16:28):
fourteen font Lieberville Baskerville sighs. Dick, that's enough. I'm sorry.
That's juvenile. Honestly, Uh Bo, you look fine once you
back that ass up. So dumb dude, so stupid. I'm sorry.
I apologize. I didn't you. I should learn that. Let's

(01:16:51):
listen to this nine one one, call one more time.
That's some coming.

Speaker 8 (01:17:10):
Okay, now one one.

Speaker 3 (01:17:11):
What's the adject of your emergency.

Speaker 5 (01:17:14):
I'm driving on two tin. I just crossed the Black River,
and I thought I saw a guy standing on the
side of the road leading.

Speaker 3 (01:17:22):
Okay, where are you at, sir?

Speaker 5 (01:17:26):
I'm on two ten. I just crossed the Black River.
I'm heading forward to fifty three. I just passed, uh
Patriots watch.

Speaker 3 (01:17:36):
Okay, So you're ivering near Moore Street, Joe, Okay, and
did you you saw a man stand on the side
of the road. What was that, sir?

Speaker 1 (01:17:55):
Nope? Right there. You hear whatever that is land in
his truck, and we'll play it again for you. What
was that, sir?

Speaker 5 (01:18:09):
Wh's not hearing.

Speaker 2 (01:18:12):
Sarah.

Speaker 1 (01:18:13):
And if you listen closely, whenever you start screaming, that's
not human, that's not human. You can hear the motor
on his truck. He's revenant.

Speaker 5 (01:18:26):
Wh's not hearing Sarah?

Speaker 3 (01:18:30):
Are you okay, sir? Okay, what's in the road. It's
the holder. There's something in the bed of your truck.
Just ma'am.

Speaker 5 (01:18:44):
It just turns on my butt like my truck, and
it's something in my brit.

Speaker 3 (01:18:48):
Okay, sir, when you say something, what do you mean?

Speaker 5 (01:18:52):
I just talked it off to the butt of my cart,
went over room.

Speaker 3 (01:18:55):
Okay, what was it?

Speaker 1 (01:18:56):
You hear him take off again after that?

Speaker 6 (01:18:58):
According to the cad notes, so hell yeah.

Speaker 1 (01:19:01):
If that was if that was a h a performance,
pretty good, Amen, good job, brother, The oscar goes to Yeah,
great guy. But I'm telling you that that fella sound
like he had genuine fear in his voice. Yeah, everything
matched up too perfectly. The motor, the engine, reven, the

(01:19:22):
noise in the bed. I start here, a man, I
start here, ma dude, But I'm here for whatever it was.
I'm out here for it. Yeah. It kills all of
us some cool ship, especially with the seasonal depression everyone's
got going on. Yeah, oh dude, it's kicking in hard
right now. I guess out. It's snowed up goddamn foot

(01:19:43):
last night, and.

Speaker 2 (01:19:44):
Like, yeah, it's it's bad. My yeah, my seasonal depression
is already kicking in. It's gonna be sixty in two days,
which not too bad.

Speaker 1 (01:19:53):
So it's bad.

Speaker 2 (01:19:54):
Fucking Ohio weather Man. This is this is where people
get sick. Yeah, traady to get this over with, but.

Speaker 1 (01:20:03):
Uh, it is a very important time to mention that
if you are somebody that has a hard time this
time of the year, just reach out.

Speaker 3 (01:20:10):
Man.

Speaker 1 (01:20:11):
You got friends out there. Where are your friend reach
out to us brouh iyopodcast at gmail dot com. You're
not alone in the You're you're feeling it right now
and we're feeling it too. But let's feel it together.
Let's let's feel each other. Oh fuck please, oh shit,
you're fucking you. Uh, you matter, You're important, we love you.

(01:20:35):
And you may say you've heard all this before, but
I want you to know that you may feel like
you don't have anybody, you may feel like you don't
have friends, but you're listening to this show. You do
have friends. You have an entire community. You got rob Dog,
you got me. We're your friend. Okay, if we didn't
meet in person, we'd pick you up and give you

(01:20:57):
a big hug, kiss you. You make you feel good softly,
but not too much sweetly. I'm going to ball you
streetly lild, tenacious d. I wish what's his name didn't
threaten to kill Donald Trump? Ok, yeah, not that I

(01:21:23):
not that I support or oppose the message. I just
wished that he hadn't done that so they would still
be doing their ship.

Speaker 5 (01:21:29):
Right.

Speaker 1 (01:21:29):
Well, I'm sure they've buried the hatchet, right, No, they haven't.
Still haven't they stopped? Dude cold turkey?

Speaker 2 (01:21:37):
I mean, I'm sure Jack Black's got a ton of
shit to do anyways, got a ton of fucking money.
He's Jack Black, right, Yeah, I feel like I could
have been Jack Black. I feel like you could have
too if you missed your calling. You get a cool
Jack Black name.

Speaker 1 (01:21:50):
Like presented itself to me. Yeah. I don't think his
name really is Jack Black?

Speaker 5 (01:21:54):
Is it?

Speaker 1 (01:21:54):
I don't know, but it's cool. Let's look it up.
That was my favorite thing to do when I was
a kid was look up rest there's real names. And
when I find out, oh my god, his name's Terrell.
Paul Coogan's name is Terry, Dude, that was the biggest
letdown ever. Randy Poulfo, oh shit. Thomas Jacob Black. Okay,

(01:22:22):
the Black's his last name. Best name is Thomas.

Speaker 2 (01:22:25):
Yeah, he don't look like a Tom. He looks like
a Jack Thomas Jacob. He's fifty six, dude, damn god,
bless man, we're getting old.

Speaker 1 (01:22:37):
Yeah that's crazy. All right, Well, thanks for tuning into
this episode of the Bryo Podcast. I hope you learned
about the rake. Yeah, it's not human. It's not human.
It's definitely not got a bloody face, the long, pale fingers. Yeah,
what a woman wants, you know. Joe Burrow went back

(01:22:58):
to practice today, right, Yeah? Heard that? Yep? Fuck him,
fuck him, dude, super Bowl or bust these things to
get the fucking ball out of his hand fast. There
ain't nobody from the AFC that's gonna do shit.

Speaker 2 (01:23:09):
Joe Flacco is kind of proved to me that it's
not an offensive line problem. It's a Joe Burrow problem.

Speaker 3 (01:23:17):
Oh.

Speaker 1 (01:23:18):
I think he holds the ball too long. Man, he
holds the ball too long. So Joe Burrow he eases
into the season, but when he hits a stride, he
has these numbers. The problem is not the offense, No,
absolutely not. The offense has put up thirty points a
game for the better part of four years. The defense
lets up that many. That defense, Yeah, it's historically bad,

(01:23:41):
to the point that now there's statistics align with being
the worst statistical defense in modern era foot Yeah, ever,
the worst defense of all time. I'm talking. You can
hang bed sheets up out there. They could fucking tackle
better than these guys.

Speaker 2 (01:23:58):
It's crazy, man, It's it's embarrassing. It's embarrassing what I'm
bought in.

Speaker 1 (01:24:04):
I'm bought in. I'm not a fair weather fan. The
defense fucking sucks, but I'll be there every Sunday. I
know you will because my brother likes hanging out with
me in the parking lot trying to find way to
smuggle beer in. He's like, I got a flask that
rides in your grundle. I'm like, I don't mean that.
I'm not drinking off of that. Let me smell it,

(01:24:28):
all right, guys, tell you turn it into this episode.
Hope you like uh hop over on Twitch you can
watch us there. We had one comment, dude that we
had one viewer, Oh my god, on Twitch episode whatever,
Princess we call this the Princess Diana episode. Oh shit.
Talk shows and podcasts all right.

Speaker 2 (01:24:50):
Oh, definitely gotta change that, you know, dude, that's fucking
crazy years ago. Holy shit, Wow, that's crazy. That's where
you first started doing live videos with Twitch. Hey, we
can catch up with you guys later on this week.
I'm down make that take down.

Speaker 1 (01:25:10):
Yep. Everyone, have a great week, Love you guys. Bye,
But I want to see your dask dang