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Showing posts with label North Carolina. Show all posts
Showing posts with label North Carolina. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 24, 2024


The Enigma of the Brown Mountain Lights

The Brown Mountain Lights, a series of mysterious illuminations, have been a source of fascination and intrigue for over a century. These ghostly lights, seen near Brown Mountain in North Carolina, have sparked numerous theories and countless tales.

Historical Background
The earliest published references to these strange lights date back to around 1910, coinciding with the widespread introduction of electric lighting in the area. However, the nature of the encounters with these lights appears to have evolved over the years, influenced by changing cultural expectations.

Wednesday, November 2, 2022


Knobby: Legendary Bigfoot

Knobby. He has or had a Facebook page and a website. And is billed as North Carolina's most famous bigfoot. He is said to be 200 lbs., 6 ft. tall, and dark-haired with a small head and a flat face.

His first reported sighting was on December 21, 1978, in Toluca. Eighty-eight
year-old Minnie Cook caught sight of the creature near her home. The black hairy animal so terrified Mrs. Cook that after that sighting she never left her house without her rifle in hand. When her sighting was investigated, tracks were found and screams were reported in the area.

Thursday, September 20, 2018


So, I don't know much about the folks who are conducting this Bigfoot investigation. I did meet them at this past year's Crypto Con in Harlan Kentucky. The story they tell is that they were contacted by a family who said they were terrorized by a Bigfoot. That this Bigfoot broke some small trees around the yard and that it was tapping on a window. The Bigfoot supposedly left a large hand print on the window. This reportedly took place a couple days before hurricane Florence hit the location.

There was also some possible Bigfoot poop near the area where the Bigfoot reportedly left the hand print and damaged the side of the home. The investigators didn't do much investigating of the scat and the home owner said it could be from a dog.

Here is the video:

Thursday, July 19, 2018


This report comes our way thanks to our good friend Holly Mullins. As some of you may know Holly is an Intuitive Healer along with several other talents. She also does numerous events and this presents her with the opportunity to meet and talk with a lot of people. She recently talked with a gentleman who had a harrowing experience.

The man has never told his story to the public and Holly was only the second person he had ever told. He also wishes to remain anonymous and for this report, we will just call him Pete.

The event described below happen at Elk Mountain in North Carolina.

Thursday, December 22, 2016


The Crypto Files - Beast of Bladenboro (Ep28)

Bladenboro is a town in Bladen County, North Carolina. Its citizens were in a state of fear after a series of gruesome attacks on dogs and other animals. Reports of a blood-sucking cat-like predator roaming the area had the towns folks on edge. Many reported attacks strangely had little or no blood indicating the beast employed a blood-sucking trait.

Learn more about the Beast of Bladenboro in episode 28 of The Crypto Files.

Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Bigfoot & Banshee - Backdrop photo by Dorraine Fisher

From time to time I get in reports that for one reason or another, I can't follow up on in full. Be it technical reason, or time constraint reasons or whatever.  With that said I want to share a couple reports with everyone.
Here is the first one of a Bigfoot report from North Carolina.

-Start Report-
Name: Roger  ******
Email Address: email address was no good, that is the reason the report is incomplete.
State: North Carolina
County: Surry
Date of Sighting: 4-16-2014 and jan 1-2015
Time of Day: 3-45-am
Nearest Town: mt. airy
Length of Sighting: none
How many Witnesses: none
Any Photos/Videos: photos of tracks with tape measure on them
Describe sighting in detail:
I have never seen a bigfoot, but I found large foot prints in the mud in my yard. They were 15 long and 7 inches wide, with toes on 4-16-2014. On jan-1-2015 something was taping on the back of my house, I went to check it out and I heard a loud scream that sounded like a elephant. CAll ME AT ***-***-**** I live in foot of the mt.in NC.


-End Report-


The above report sounds very promising but the email was not any good and I just will not cold call on someone, I have to have it set up first before I call. I would have liked to got to see these photos of the tracks.



Here is another report of a Banshee sighting but due to time problems I could not call and speak to the witness but I did correspond with them via email. 

-Start Report-
Name: James ******
Email: On file:
Date: 1985 or 1986
Place: Cushlawn Park, Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland.
Describe sighting:
I saw a banshee when I was about 8 or 9 years old, myself and a friend name John ******* had walked another friend home, after leaving him we went to our street by taking a short cut, when we got to the top of a lane and walked another 20 or so feet we both saw it, we were very young and took off running, we both lived in cushlawn park at the time and apparently that neighborhood was built on an old grave yard. Not sure how true that is. I don't usually talk about this but was just reading this now and figured I'd add this.
It looked like what it's always described as, kind of a cloudy dirty white and floating, I didn't see a comb or anything like that, as I said, we took off running very quickly, we had told another guy who was about 16or 17 years old at the time, he went up then and he saw it too.
This Happened in Cushlawn park in Tallaght, Dublin, Ireland.

-End Report-

James also provided his phone number but at this time I'm just unable to set up a call. Maybe one of our team members or myself will get a chance to follow up even more on his report.

For those who may not know what a Banshee is I will post the Wikipedia description of it.

The banshee is a female spirit in Irish mythology, usually seen as an omen of death and a messenger from the underworld. In legend, a banshee wails nearby when someone is about to die. There are Irish families who are believed to have banshees attached to them, and whose cries herald the death of a member of that family. Most, though not all, surnames associated with banshees have the Ó or Mc/Mac prefix, indicating their name is native to Ireland, not descended from invaders.

That is just a overview of what a Banshee is described as.





Thanks goes to Roger and James for sending in these reports. We love getting them even if we can not research it in full. Maybe we will have more on these reports in the future.

If anyone has a sighting to share, then please use the link at the top of the page and send it in.


Thanks
~Tom~



This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.




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Sunday, December 14, 2014

UFO in NC
UFO in NC


This post by Thomas Marcum, Thomas is the founder/leader of the cryptozoology and paranormal research organization known as The Crypto Crew. Over 20 years experience with research and investigation of unexplained activity, working with video and websites. A trained wild land firefighter and a published photographer, and poet.


UFO In North Carolina

After I posted the UFO Filmed in Oregon story, I was sent the following report and photos. The person ask to remain anonymous and I will respect their wishes.

With that said I can let you know what they told me about the photo.

Here is the story about it. I made only a couple of small edits to protect the person identity and make it easier to read.  

Anonymous said:
"I don't remember the date, we was down there (NC) when this was taken, but it was several years ago. It could of even been close to the 07 date, but I would guess closer to 08.

I would even have to dig through my dvds to find the original photo, I've been through a computer or two since this photo was taken.  This copy is one that has had the object enlarged in one & circled & inset to make it easier to see in the other photo but nothing other was added so it is what it is... nothing hoaxed, faked or nothing misleading about it. I wasn't even sure what it is but it doesn't look like a bird or aircraft.

The photo was taken about halfway down the eastern side of the great divide mountain between Blowing Rock NC and Lenoir NC It's a beautiful area . My family lived down there a few years & we drove it on weekends quite often, through the mountain, two lane roads - a much quicker way believe it or not & the views where breath taken all times of the year...."



Here is some enhanced photos of the object.





Zoomed in. It does not appear to be a bird.



I enhanced the photo a little and made it a little darker and sharpened it a little. The object does look a lot like the object from the Oregon video.







Here is a map showing the two cities, Blowing Rock and Lenoir, the yellow circle is just a guess at the target area where the photo was taken.


Target area
Thanks to "anonymous" for sending in the photo and the story behind it. I will also plot this on our sightings map.
If anyone has something to share feel free to contact me.


Thanks
~Tom~








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Tuesday, October 2, 2012

Track found near encounter

Shaken By Bigfoot!


Night Encounter In Uwharrie, North Carolina
By TCC Team Member Dorraine Fisher


            No places are quite as “squatchy” as our national forests. And according to Bobby Lee, a bigfoot researcher from Uwharrie, North Carolina, Uwharrie National Forest is no different.

            Bobby and his 16-year-old son search for the big guys as often as they can at their regular camping area there, but one night last fall proved to be a little scarier than most.

            Bobby claims the two were sitting in their truck at their campsite at about 2:30 in the morning. He had heard somewhere that if you were in an active area, if you cover your vehicle windows, it would make the creatures curious. So they covered the truck windows and waited in the dark. It was pitch black outside and his son had fallen asleep next to him. Bobby sat and listened with his sound-assist equipment when he says he heard footsteps rustling around in the woods. 

            “As it got close, I could hear it grunt, make a growl sound..also could hear it breathing really heavy. I shook my son and told him,  “Wake up! I think there is something right outside of the truck walking around.” Just as soon as I did, the entire truck rocked back and forth just for a second. Then I heard it (the creature) grunt really loud, then run off. We both jumped out of the truck with flashlights and looked all around, couldn't see anything. But we could hear it moving around in the woods,” Bobby said.

            The next morning, they found two tracks about 18 inches long in the grass approximately 20 feet from the truck.

            When asked about his overall impression of the experience, Bobby, an experienced hunter and tracker, said, “It was not a bear. It took off to fast too be a bear. Also the tracks I found the next morning were not bear tracks. I know for a fact that there is something out there, it wasn't a bear, and it wasn't a man. So that leaves me to believe that what shook my truck that night was Sasquatch.” He described the sound of it to be heavy-sounding, much like the weight of a horse.

            And as for the cover-the-windows trick making the creatures curious enough to come and investigate: the jury’s still out on that one. *******DF

[ Bobby Also has a Facebook Group that can be found by clicking HERE]

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