IT LOOKED LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN A MAN AND AN ALIEN
WITH WINGS AND RED EYES.
IT SCARED ME MORE THAN ANYTHING
THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.
Cheeks: IT WAS BIG -- TOO BIG TO BE A PERSON.
IT STOOD AT LEAST NINE FOOT TALL.
[ CREATURE GROWLS ]
I MEAN, IT WAS...MASSIVE.
Stith: YOU KNOW, IF YOU SEEN SOMETHING FLOATING ON TOP OF THE GROUND,
WOULDN'T YOU, LIKE, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE?
GUYS, GET THE GUNS.
Joyce: I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE.
I KNOW IT'S A -- IT'S A BEAST.
NEITHER ONE OF US WERE SURE IF WE WERE GONNA MAKE IT OUT ALIVE.
[ METAL CLACKS ]
[ CREATURE GROWLING ]
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Narrator: THE APPALACHIANS --
SOME OF THE OLDEST MOUNTAINS ON EARTH.
WITHIN THESE DARK HOLLOWS AND DENSE FORESTS,
AN ANCIENT SPIRIT PREVAILS.
Smith: EVEN SINCE THE SETTLERS CAME HERE,
THERE HAS ALWAYS BEEN STRANGE OCCURRENCES.
BEING OUT HERE IN THE COUNTRY AROUND ALL OF THE WOODS --
THERE'S JUST SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
IT'S THE SURPRISE AROUND A TREE.
OTHER FORMS OF LIFE THAT WE MAYBE DON'T SEE.
Stacey: YOU KNOW, GROWING UP,
PEOPLE KIND OF HAVE A NATURAL FEAR OF THE WOODS,
OF NOT KNOWING WHAT'S IN THE WOODS.
[ LEAVES RUSTLING ]
Narrator: ALONG MUCH OF THE EASTERN U.S.
ARE THE DARK INLAND FORESTS OF APPALACHIA.
ON ITS WESTERN EDGE WITHIN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY, KENTUCKY,
THE HILLS ARE THICK WITH RUMORS ABOUT A BIZARRE MUTANT BEAST,
A CROSSOVER BETWEEN MUTTON AND MAN --
A GIANT SHEEP THAT'S GONE SAVAGE.
Noe: YES, IN THIS APPALACHIAN PART OF THE COUNTRY,
IT'S BEEN SEEN A LOT.
I WOULDN'T HAVE BELIEVED IT IF I HADN'T SEEN IT.
IT WAS HUGE. IT WAS HUGE.
Guiley: THEY'VE GOT WOOLY HAIR --
IT'S USUALLY WHITE OR DIRTY WHITE --
HUGE JAWS AND FANGS,
AND A TAIL THAT USUALLY HAS NO FUR ON IT.
Campbell: WE HAD TO GO DOWN TO THE PUMP HOUSE BY THE RIVER,
AND WE'D FIND DEAD DOGS, WOLVES,
ALL KINDS OF FISH THAT HAD BEEN ATE ON
AND THE BONES LEFT.
WE HAD ALWAYS HEARD NOISES THAT WE JUST COULD NEVER EXPLAIN,
LIKE A GROWL ALMOST,
BUT YOU COULD HEAR THEM FROM LONG DISTANCES.
[ CREATURE GROWLING IN DISTANCE ]
Cheeks: THE WOODS ARE MYSTERIOUS.
PEOPLE STILL WON'T GO OUT REALLY AT NIGHT INTO THE WOODS.
IT'S ONE OF THE FEW THINGS THAT PEOPLE AROUND HERE
WON'T REALLY TALK ABOUT,
BUT THERE'S DEFINITELY SOMETHING OUT THERE
THAT KEEPS THEM ALL INSIDE.
[ CREATURE GROWLING ]
Narrator: THAT "SOMETHING" IS A CREATURE
THAT'S KNOWN TO LOCALS AS "SHEEPSQUATCH."
THE LEGEND MAY HAVE STARTED LONG AGO...
...SHEEP HERDERS IMMIGRATING TO APPALACHIA FROM BRITAIN,
BRINGING STORIES OF DEMONS WEARING SHEEP HIDES AND HORNS.
BUT TO THIS VERY DAY, THE BELIEF REMAINS IN FORCE.
SHEEPSQUATCH IS PREDOMINANTLY IN THE WOODS.
I FEEL LIKE THAT IT HAS BEEN VERY GOOD AT ELUDING.
IT'S HAD TO BE.
IT DOES KNOW THAT WE'RE LOOKING,
AND I THINK IT JUST WANTS TO BE LEFT ALONE.
Narrator: SOME CLAIM TO HAVE CAUGHT A GLIMPSE,
AND RECENTLY, TWO ADVENTUROUS BRECKINRIDGE BOYS,
RICKY JOYCE AND DAKOTA CHEEKS,
HAD A SHOWDOWN WITH A SHEEPSQUATCH.
THEY'LL NEVER FORGET IT.
Joyce: WELL, WHEN I TELL MOST PEOPLE I SEEN IT,
THEY JUST TELL ME I'M CRAZY, I'M A CRACKPOT.
BUT THERE ARE A FEW PEOPLE THAT BELIEVE IN IT.
MAINLY THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE AROUND HERE
ARE THE ONES THAT DON'T CALL ME CRAZY.
Cheeks: IT DIDN'T MATTER WHAT ANYBODY THOUGHT ABOUT US.
YOU KNOW, WE KNEW, WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT, WHAT WE SAW.
Narrator: AT 13, DAKOTA MET RICKY JOYCE IN SCHOOL.
THE PAIR HAVE BEEN CLOSE EVER SINCE.
Cheeks: THERE'S ALWAYS BEEN A FORM OF TRUST BETWEEN ME AND RICKY,
ESPECIALLY THE OLDER WE GET.
YOU KNOW, HE'S RIGHT THERE WITH YOU TILL THE VERY END.
Joyce: WE'RE MORE BROTHERS THAN WE ARE FRIENDS.
HE'S TRUSTWORTHY. HE'S LOYAL.
I'VE NEVER HAD A FRIEND THAT HAD MY BACK LIKE HIM.
Narrator: THAT BOND WOULD BE TESTED ON A WARM SUMMER WEEKEND
IN JULY OF 2004.
ON A HUNTING TRIP,
DAKOTA AND RICKY VENTURED
INTO SOME KENTUCKY'S MORE REMOTE TRACKS OF WILDERNESS.
ALL I REALLY NEED IS THIS.
WE GO HUNTING A LOT, BUT THIS TIME, IT WAS A LOT DIFFERENT.
COME ON, LILY. [ PATS KNEE ]
THIS WAS A NIGHT THAT WOULD CHANGE OUR LIVES FOREVER.
Narrator: BASE CAMP FOR THE DEER HUNT --
RICKY'S GRANDPARENTS' CABIN
AT THE FOOT OF A HUNDRED ACRES OF DENSE TIMBER.
[ DOG WHIMPERS ]
BUT THE FIRST MORNING,
SOMETHING'S WRONG WITH ONE OF RICKY'S DOGS.
AND WE CALLED FOR HER, AND SHE JUST DIDN'T COME.
WHEN WE NOTICED THAT THE DOG WAS LAYING IN A DITCH,
WE WALKED OVER, AND THAT'S WHEN WE FOUND HER.
Joyce: IT APPEARED THAT SOMETHING HAD TWISTED ITS HEAD
ALMOST COMPLETELY AROUND.
IT WAS -- IT WAS QUITE A SIGHT.
IT JUST SEEMED KIND OF STRANGE, THOUGH,
THAT SOMETHING JUST HANDLED IT LIKE IT DID.
Cheeks: THERE'S NO ANIMAL UP HERE
THAT CAN GRAB AN ANIMAL
BY ITS CHIN AND THE BACK OF ITS HEAD
AND TWIST IT.
YOU KNOW, NO COYOTE CAN DO IT.
THERE'S NO BEAR AS FAR AS I KNOW UP HERE.
IT BECAME VERY APPARENT THAT WE HAD TO FIND OUT,
YOU KNOW, WHAT HAPPENED.
WHAT GOT HER, AND WHY?
Narrator: ARE THERE CREATURES CAPABLE OF SUCH VIOLENCE
ROAMING THE BACKWOODS OF APPALACHIA?
THE WHITE THINGS.
I HEARD IT WAS HALF MAN AND HALF SHEEP.
IF YOU JUST LOOK AT THE FACT THAT IT HAS CLAWS.
IT HAS HORNS.
LOOK AT THE SHEER SIZE.
YOU KNOW, IT COULD POTENTIALLY
REALLY BE A VERY DANGEROUS THING.
Joyce: BEFORE THE DOG INCIDENT,
FOR MONTHS, WE'D BEEN HEARING NOISES
COMING FROM THE TOP OF THE HILL...
[ CREATURE HOWLING IN DISTANCE ]
...OR GROWLS AND SCREAMS...
THINGS THAT WE JUST DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT.
WE WENT LOOKING,
TO SEE IF WE COULD FIGURE OUT WHAT HAD HAPPENED,
SEE IF WE COULD FIND TRACKS OF ANYTHING BIG,
ANYTHING THAT COULD HAVE KILLED A 150-POUND DOG LIKE IT DID.
Cheeks: WE DECIDED WE WERE GONNA HOP ON THE FOUR-WHEELERS
AND STAKE OUT THE HILLTOP.
WE ENDED UP GOING TO THE FAR SIDE OF THE PROPERTY...
DUDE, I'M TELLING YOU, IT CAME FROM RIGHT OVER HERE.
...WHERE NOBODY REALLY GOES.
THERE'S NO TRAILS.
WE MAKE A COUPLE LAPS AROUND THE FIELD.
THAT WAY, WE CAN BOTH EASILY SEE WHERE THE FOUR-WHEELER HAS BEEN
SO WE KNOW WHERE TO LOOK.
Stacey: I WAS CONCERNED
BECAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT THEY WERE DEALING WITH,
IF THERE WAS POTENTIALLY HARM FOR THEM OUT THERE.
Narrator: THEY SEARCHED THE AREA FOR HOURS, BUT NO CLUES TURNED UP.
EXHAUSTED, THEY RETREATED TO THE FAMILY'S HUNTING CAMPER
SET WITHIN THE HILLSIDE.
Joyce: WE ENDED UP STAYING IN THE CAMPER,
AND WE STARTED HEARING ALL SORTS OF WEIRD NOISES,
THINGS WALKING AROUND.
[ TWIGS SNAPPING IN DISTANCE ]
WE KNEW A CREATURE WAS CLOSE.
[ DOGS BARKING ]
ABOUT 5:00 A.M. IN THE MORNING,
THE DOGS START BARKING,
AND THEY TAKE OFF RUNNING DOWN THE HILL.
WELL, ME AND RICKY SIT THERE
AND A LITTLE HESITANT TO GO OUTSIDE
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE OTHER DOGS ARE NOW GONE.
[ CREATURE GROWLING ]
Narrator: THE CAMPER THAT SEEMED A SAFE HAVEN
WAS SUDDENLY UNDER ATTACK.
SOMETHING ACTUALLY RAN INTO THE TRAILER.
[ CREATURE ROARING ] [ CLATTERING ]
IT KIND OF SCARED THE CRAP OUT OF ME.
Cheeks: IT LITERALLY SOUNDED LIKE ALL HELL WAS BREAKING LOOSE.
IT'S ALMOST LIKE YOU CAN HEAR SOMETHING
PRESSING UP AGAINST THE SIDE
AND YOU CAN KIND OF HEAR THE TENTS START TO BEND.
IT'S JUST THAT WEIRD, EERIE METAL SOUND.
[ METAL CREAKING ]
AND THEN IT WAS JUST FREE FALL.
IT WAS LIKE IT LET GO, AND THEN WE HIT.
I WAS TERRIFIED.
I MEAN, THERE SHOULDN'T BE ANYTHING OUT HERE
STRONG ENOUGH TO PUSH A CAMPER LIKE THAT.
WHAT THE HELL'S GOING ON?!
WHEN IT ACTUALLY MOVED AND TIPPED,
I WASN'T SURE WHAT IT WAS.
[ CLATTERING ]
BUT WE KNEW, WITHOUT A SHADOW OF A DOUBT,
THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING THERE.
Narrator: THEY HAD STARTED THE DAY AS HUNTERS.
[ METAL CLANKS ]
NOW DAKOTA AND RICKY WERE FEELING
THEY WERE THE ONES BEING TRACKED.
NEITHER ONE OF US WERE SURE IF WE WERE GONNA MAKE IT OUT ALIVE.
Narrator: IN JULY OF 2004,
DAKOTA CHEEKS AND RICKY JOYCE
WERE ON A HUNTING TRIP IN THE WOODS OF KENTUCKY.
BUT IT TOOK A HORRIBLE TURN.
ONE OF RICKY'S DOGS WAS MYSTERIOUSLY MANGLED.
THEN THEIR CAMPER CAME UNDER ATTACK.
EVERYTHING POINTED
TO APPALACHIA'S BIZARRE HYBRID BEAST --
SHEEPSQUATCH.
ANYTHING THAT AGGRESSIVE DOESN'T DESERVE TO BE HERE.
[ CREATURE GROWLING ]
IF IT CAN'T COEXIST, IT NEEDS TO GO.
Narrator: AT RICKY'S GRANDPARENTS' CABIN,
THEY GATHER MORE AMMUNITION.
I KNOW THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE.
THIS THING KILLED MY DOG, MAN.
I KNOW IT'S A -- IT'S A BEAST.
WHATEVER IT WAS, IT HAD TO BE HUGE.
Cheeks: WE WERE DETERMINED.
TO FIND SOMETHING HAVING THAT MUCH STRENGTH,
IT MADE ME WANT TO FIND IT MORE.
BUT I KNEW THAT, YOU KNOW, WE COULDN'T JUST GO OUT THERE
ON A FOUR-WHEELER
AND EXPECT EVERYTHING TO BE OKAY.
I HAD SOME BEAST THAT LIVED ON MY PROPERTY
THAT KILLED MY DOG ALREADY.
I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT.
I WAS SCARED THAT IT WAS GONNA COME TO MY HOUSE.
Narrator: WITH GUNS LOADED,
RICKY AND DAKOTA HEAD BACK INTO THE WOODS.
THEY CROSSED THROUGH A CEMETERY AND ENTERED AN OPEN FIELD.
Stacey: YOUR MIND IS TELLING YOU, YOU KNOW, A THOUSAND TIMES,
"DON'T LET HIM GO,"
BUT ULTIMATELY,
YOU BEGIN TO SHARE HIS PASSION OF "GET IT. GET IT."
[ CHUCKLES ]
"JUST BE REALLY CAREFUL, BUT GET IT."
[ CREATURE GROWLING ]
Joyce: I SEEN SOMETHING STANDING IN THE FIELD,
AND AT FIRST, I THOUGHT IT WAS A TREE.
[ CREATURE GROWLS ]
IT WAS TALL,
BUT IT WAS ALSO KIND OF HUNCHED OVER A LITTLE BIT.
IT WAS BIG. IT WAS WHITE.
[ GROWLING CONTINUES ]
AND ITS ARMS WERE LONG, BUT THEY WERE KIND OF OUT LIKE THIS.
AND IT HAD THESE LONG TALONS.
IT WAS TOO BIG TO BE A PERSON.
WHEN IT WAS ON TWO LEGS,
IT STOOD AT LEAST NINE FOOT TALL.
I MEAN, IT WAS...MASSIVE.
WHEN IT NOTICED US,
IT LET OUT THIS JUST UNGODLY, GUT-CURLING GROWL.
[ CREATURE GROWLING ]
IT CAME STRAIGHT AT US.
RUN! RUN!
[ GUNSHOTS ]
Joyce: AND WE WERE SHOOTING.
I DON'T KNOW THAT WE HIT ANYTHING,
BUT I REMEMBER COMING BACK TO THE HOUSE
AS FAST AS WE COULD.
[ CREATURE GROWLING ]
WE SAW SHEEPSQUATCH. THAT'S WHAT WE SAW.
Narrator: AND THIS WASN'T THE FIRST SHEEPSQUATCH ENCOUNTER.
Waldridge: ANYBODY IN THE APPALACHIA REGION
COULD EXPERIENCE THESE TYPE OF THINGS.
THEY MAY BE OUT HUNTING DEER OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE
AND STUMBLE UPON A CREATURE THAT THEY NEVER SUSPECTED.
I WAS ON MY WAY HOME, COMING DOWN ASHBY LANE,
AND THERE WAS THIS BIG, HAIRY THING STANDING ON THE ROAD,
AND AS I GOT CLOSER, I COULD SEE AN EYE.
I THOUGHT IT WAS A DEER, BUT IT WAS TOO BIG.
SOME KIND OF SHEEP THING WITH HORNS.
EVER SINE I WAS A LITTLE GIRL,
I'VE ALWAYS HEARD STORIES
OF THE CREEPY THINGS IN THE WOODS.
I'VE ALWAYS HEARD OF BIGFOOT.
I'VE ALWAYS HEARD OF SHEEPSQUATCH.
EVEN WHEN DANIEL BOONE WAS AROUND,
THEY TALKED ABOUT THIS AREA BEING VERY MYSTERIOUS,
AND THEY WOULD NOT HARDLY VENTURE THERE
DUE TO CERTAIN THINGS.
YOU KNOW, I GUESS THEY CALLED IT "THE MYSTERIOUS GROUND"
OR SOMETHING OF THAT NATURE.
SO, IT'S GOT A HISTORY THAT DATES BACK
ALL THE WAY TO NATIVE-AMERICAN TIMES.
Narrator: FROM THEIR DESCRIPTION,
IT'S CLEAR DAKOTA AND RICKY HAD STUMBLED INTO MONSTER COUNTRY.
WATCH IT! RUN!
[ CREATURE GROWLING ]
[ GUNSHOTS ]
Joyce: I'VE BEEN IN SOME PRETTY SCARY SITUATIONS,
BUT MOST SITUATIONS,
YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE DEALING WITH,
AND THAT ONE, I DIDN'T.
SO, I DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO REACT.
THAT'S QUITE POSSIBLY THE SCARIEST MOMENT OF MY LIFE.
YEAH, MAN. LET'S GET THIS STUFF PACKED.
IT SHOULD TAKE US ABOUT TWO HOURS TO GET THERE.
YEAH.
Cheeks: AS A KID, YOU KNOW,
YOU'RE NOT REALLY SURE WHAT'S IN THE DARK.
ONCE YOU SEE WHAT'S JUST BEYOND THE LIGHT
IS WHEN YOU REALIZE THAT ALL YOUR INNOCENCE IS GONE.
Joyce: IT MADE ME BELIEVE IN THE UNBELIEVABLE.
I DIDN'T BELIEVE IN MYTHS,
I DIDN'T BELIEVE IN WIVES' TALES --
NONE OF THAT UNTIL I SEEN THAT.
AND AFTER THAT, IT CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER.
I MEAN, THERE'S THINGS OUT THERE,
AND WE DON'T KNOW WHAT THEY ARE.
Cheeks: I WISH WE COULD HAVE FOUND ITS BODY THAT NIGHT.
BEFORE OUR TIME IS UP -- IT'S DONE --
IF WE HAVE IT OUR WAY,
WE'RE ACTUALLY GOING TO DRAG SHEEPSQUATCH
OUT OF THESE WOODS.
Narrator: WHILE FOLKS IN BRECKINRIDGE COUNTY
ARE FEARING WHAT'S IN THE WOODS,
IN ANOTHER POCKET OF APPALACHIA,
THE FEAR IS FOCUSED ON WHAT MIGHT ARRIVE FROM SPACE.
DEEP IN THE HEART OF CHRISTIAN COUNTY, KENTUCKY,
LIES THE RURAL HAMLET OF KELLY.
Morse: KELLY IS A QUIET LITTLE COMMUNITY.
NOT VERY MANY PEOPLE LIVE THERE.
PROBABLY ABOUT MAYBE THREE, FOUR CHURCHES AT THE MOST
AND JUST REALLY COMMON COUNTRY FOLK, LIKE ME.
NO THEATER. [ LAUGHS ] NOTHING
THERE'S NOT EVEN A GAS STATION THERE.
Narrator: IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS TINY SPECK OF APPALACHIA
LIVES NATIVE GERALDINE SUTTON STITH.
GERALDINE WAS 8 YEARS OLD
WHEN SHE FIRST LEARNED ABOUT A FAMILY SECRET --
A TERRIFYING ALIEN ENCOUNTER AT THEIR FARMHOUSE
MORE THAN FIVE DECADES AGO.
YOU TALK ABOUT ONE LITTLE KID BEING SCARED TO DEATH.
I WAS PETRIFIED.
[ THUNDER CRASHING ]
I WOULD GO AROUND AT NIGHT, CLOSING THE DOORS AND WINDOWS,
THE SHADES, THE CURTAINS -- EVERYTHING --
AS SOON AS THAT DARKNESS STARTED FALLING.
THIS IS THE GREAT AMERICAN HORROR STORY.
GUYS, GET THE GUNS.
Narrator: IN 1955,
ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS U.F.O. INCIDENTS
ALLEGEDLY TOOK PLACE AT THE SUTTON FAMILY FARMHOUSE
IN KELLY, KENTUCKY.
Stith: THIS IS WHERE IT HAPPENED.
THIS IS THE ACTUAL PROPERTY, THE ACTUAL SPOT --
YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING.
AND SO IT'S KIND OF LIKE, "WOW."
I'LL NEVER FORGET THE DAY
THAT I LEARNED MY FATHER'S DEEP, DARK SECRET.
IT'LL BE WITH ME FOREVER.
Narrator: LATE IN THE AFTERNOON,
AT GLENNIE SUTTON'S FARMHOUSE, THE FAMILY WAS SETTLING IN.
THEY ASSUMED THE DAY WAS COMING TO AN END.
IT WAS JUST BEGINNING.
Morse: IT WAS MAMA, DADDY, UNCLE ELMER,
AUNT VERA, BILLY RAY TAYLOR, AND I THINK HIS WIFE WAS THERE.
AND IT WAS ME, JOHNNY, AND CATHY,
GRANDMA, CHARLES, LONNIE, AND MARY.
AND THAT'S -- YOU KNOW, THAT'S IT.
Stith: IT WAS A HOUSE FULL THAT WEEKEND --
14 PEOPLE IN THAT LITTLE BITTY HOUSE.
THE ONLY COMMUNICATION WITH THE OUTSIDE WORLD THEY HAD
WAS A RADIO.
THEY WERE ALL IN THE HOUSE,
PLAYING CARDS OR DOING SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
AND THE OLD HOUND DOG CAME RUNNING ACROSS THE FRONT,
TAIL TUCKED, EARS DOWN.
HE WENT STRAIGHT UNDER THE PORCH.
IT WAS KIND OF EERIE, YOU KNOW?
BUT IT'S LIKE, "OKAY.
MAYBE HE JUST GOT IN SOME BEEHIVE" -- YOU KNOW, WHATEVER.
DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS, BUT, OH, MY GOODNESS.
AUGUST 21, 1955, WAS A LIFE-CHANGER
FOR THE SUTTON/LANGFORD FAMILY.
[ DOG BARKING ]
Narrator: IT ALL BEGAN LATER THAT NIGHT.
NOW, THEY DIDN'T HAVE AIR-CONDITIONING.
THEY DIDN'T HAVE RUNNING WATER.
SO, ANYWAY, BILLY RAY WENT OUT TO THE WELL
TO GET SOME COLD WATER.
[ PUMP SQUEAKS ]
WELL, HE HEARD SOMETHING, LOOKED UP,
AND HE SEEN THIS OVAL, SILVER OBJECT
GOING ACROSS THE SKY,
COLORS FALLING BEHIND IT.
DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS, HAD NO CLUE.
RAN INTO THE HOUSE, TOLD EVERYBODY.
THEY THOUGHT HE WAS PULLING A JOKE, YOU KNOW?
BUT LATER ON, THEY FOUND HE WASN'T JOKING.
SOMETHING WAS OUT THERE.
Narrator: WHEN BILLY RAY AND LUCKY WENT OUTSIDE TO INVESTIGATE,
THE LIGHTS IN THE SKY WERE GONE,
BUT THEY WEREN'T ALONE.
THEY NOTICED THERE WAS SOMETHING
COMING OUT OF WOODS IN THE BACK --
THREE, THREE 1/2 FOOT TALL,
BIG EARS, BIG EYES, ARMS DOWN TO THE GROUND,
AND IT WAS FLOATING ON TOP OF THE GROUND, LEGS NOT MOVING.
THEY HAD POINTED EARS, CLAW-LIKE HANDS, BEADY-LOOKING, YOU KNOW?
THEY HAD A SLIT FOR A MOUTH.
THEY SAID THEY WERE SILVER-LOOKING, GREEN-LOOKING,
SILVER-PLATED, NICKEL-PLATED.
NICKEL-PLATED'S WHAT THEY CALLED THEM.
Stith: THAT WAS AN EERIE THING.
YOU KNOW, IF YOU SEEN SOMETHING FLOATING ON TOP OF THE GROUND,
WOULDN'T YOU, LIKE, YEAH, YOU KNOW, RUN FOR YOUR LIFE?
GUYS, GET THE GUNS.
THEY RAN INTO THE HOUSE,
AND MY GRANDMOTHER'S LIKE,
"WHAT HAVE Y'ALL GOT OUT THERE TO COOK UP?"
AND HE'S LIKE, "MOM, THERE IS SOMETHING OUT HERE.
I'M NOT LYING."
MAMA, I'M NOT LYING. THERE'S SOMETHING OUT THERE.
SHE KNEW IT WAS REALLY GETTING SERIOUS
WHEN ONE GOT A SHOTGUN, ONE GOT A RIFLE.
Girl: COME ON, GUYS. COME ON.
Morse: LONNIE, ME, MY SISTER, AND, I THINK, MY BROTHER
WERE ALL BEHIND THE BUNK BED AT THIS TIME
BECAUSE WE WERE ALL SCARED.
WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN.
WE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GONNA TAKE PLACE.
THERE WAS FEAR.
THERE WAS FEAR ENOUGH
THAT I THINK WE WAS ALL CRYING,
ALL OF US KIDS CRYING.
[ GUN COCKS, GUNSHOT ]
ALL OF A SUDDEN,
THERE COMES ONE AS BIG AS YOU COULD BE.
BILLY RAY FIRES AT IT.
[ GLASS SHATTERS ]
JC SHOOTS OFF A ROUND TO THE FRONT OF THE HOUSE
'CAUSE ONE OF THEM'S PEEKING IN THE WINDOW,
AND THEY'RE JUST HAVING A BATTLE.
THE DARN LITTLE THINGS GET SHOT, THEY DROP, ROLL AWAY,
AND THEN THEY COME BACK.
YEAH! COME ON!
COME ON, JC!
COME ON, BOY.
YEAH! [ LAUGHS ]
THEY WERE COMING AT THE DOORS AND WINDOWS,
LOOKING IN, LIKE THEY WERE WANTING TO COME IN.
YOU'VE GOT CHILDREN THERE. YOU'RE GONNA PROTECT THEM,
AND THAT'S WHAT THOSE COUNTRY BOYS DID.
DO IT!
WHOO!
Narrator: FOR THE SUTTONS,
MAKING NICE WITH E.T. WASN'T AN OPTION.
THEY FELT UNDER ATTACK.
SHOOT FIRST. ASK QUESTIONS LATER.
Stith: IT WAS JUST SCARY.
THEY WERE SCARED. THE KIDS WERE CRYING.
EVERYBODY WAS HYSTERICAL.
Narrator: EVENTUALLY, THE SHOOTING STOPPED.
THE LITTLE GREEN MEN HAD COME AND GONE.
FINALLY, IT GOT QUIET.
MY DAD SAID, "HIT THE TRUCKS."
SO, THEY TOOK OUT, JUMPED IN THE TRUCKS,
HEADED TO HOPKINSVILLE.
THERE WAS POLICE OFFICERS THERE.
Narrator: IN THE DARK OF NIGHT,
POLICE OFFICERS HEAD TO THE FARMHOUSE
TO CHECK OUT THE SUTTON'S FANTASTIC STORY.
MY FAMILY HAD A NICE QUIET LIFE.
THEY LOVED THE FARM.
THEY LOVED IT OUT IN THE COUNTRY,
BUT THAT NIGHT CHANGED EVERYTHING FOR THEM.
IT WAS NEVER GONNA BE THE SAME AGAIN.
Narrator: IN THE FALL OF 1955 IN THE HILLS OF APPALACHIA,
THE SUTTON FAMILY MAINTAINS THAT ALIENS FROM SPACE
DESCENDED ON THEIR FARM.
THEY CAME UNDER ATTACK BY LITTLE GREEN MEN.
LOCAL POLICE WERE CALLED IN, BUT BY THAT TIME,
HARDLY A TRACE OF THE EXTRATERRESTRIALS REMAINED.
A COUPLE OF POLICE OFFICERS NOTICED THAT IN THE BACK,
WHERE THEY HAD SHOT ONE OFF THE FENCE,
THERE WAS, LIKE, A GLOWING SUBSTANCE ON THE GROUND.
BUT THEY COULDN'T FIND ANY BODIES --
NO HAIR, NO SKIN, NO BLOOD.
NOTHING TO SHOW THAT ANYTHING WAS ACTUALLY HURT OR KILLED,
EXCEPT THAT THERE WAS EVIDENCE OF GUNFIRE.
Morse: THERE'S BULLET HOLES, THERE'S SHELLS,
CASES ALL OVER THE PLACE.
Narrator: BY MORNING,
WORD OF ALIENS LANDING AT THE SUTTON FARMHOUSE
TRAVELED QUICKLY THROUGHOUT APPALACHIA.
AND I WAS GETTING READY, GOING TO THE 8th GRADE,
AND IT WAS JUST THE BIGGEST THING THAT EVER HIT THIS AREA.
KELLY HAD LITTLE GREEN MEN RUNNING AROUND
AND FLYING SAUCERS.
THAT WAS SOMETHING OUT OF "BUCK ROGERS"
OR "FLASH GORDON" OR "SUPERMAN,"
WHICH WAS A BIG THING WITH ALL OF US KIDS.
Narrator: THE SUTTONS WERE ONE OF THE FIRST REPORTED
CLOSE ENCOUNTERS.
THEY WOULDN'T BE THE LAST.
Waldridge: THE APPALACHIA AREA
HAS HAD SEVERAL FAMOUS SIGHTINGS.
YOU GET INTO KENTUCKY.
YOU GET INTO THE KELLY LITTLE GREEN MEN SIGHTINGS.
YOU GET U.F.O. SIGHTINGS, ABDUCTIONS THERE.
Narrator: REPORTS OF FLYING SAUCERS
QUICKLY BECAME AN APPALACHIAN PHENOMENON.
Man: WELL, WE WERE COMING UP THE ROAD HERE,
AND WE LOOKED AROUND THE CURVE THERE,
AND WE THOUGHT IT WAS A CAR LIGHT.
WHEN WE GOT AROUND IT,
IT WAS THIS BIG ORANGE GLOWING LIGHT.
WELL, I FIRST THOUGHT IT WAS AN AIRPLANE, A JET.
FROM WHAT I SAW, IT WAS 6 FEET IN DIAMETER.
AND IT WAS IN A CIRCLE.
REALLY SHOWING ITS TINT TO IT.
Man: WHERE DID IT GO?
IT WENT RIGHT IN THE TREETOP.
IT WAS HUGE.
IT GOT ALL KINDS OF STATIC ON THE RADIO, AND THE CAR QUIT.
THEN IT JUST SAILED AWAY.
Narrator: ADDING TO THE AREA'S EXCITEMENT AND FEAR
ABOUT U.F.O.s -- CLASSIFIED MILITARY ACTIVITIES
AT NEARBY FORT CAMPBELL, KENTUCKY,
HOME OF THE 101st AIRBORNE DIVISION
AND THE SECRET NUCLEAR ARSENAL.
FORT CAMPBELL WASN'T VERY FAR AWAY.
AND YOU COULD ACTUALLY SEE.
THEY WOULD DO THEIR NIGHT MANEUVERS
AND THE BIG FLARES WOULD GO UP IN THE AIR AT NIGHT.
AND SO EVERY NIGHT, WHEN THEY WOULD DO THE MANEUVERS,
IT WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOSH.
IS IT FORT CAMPBELL, OR IS IT SOMETHING ELSE?"
Narrator: FROM THAT FATEFUL NIGHT FORWARD,
THE SUTTON FAMILY BELIEVED IN ALIENS FROM OUTER SPACE.
THROUGHOUT APPALACHIA, U.F.O. SIGHTINGS HAVE CONTINUED,
BUT TO THIS VERY DAY, GERALDINE REMAINS WARY OF THEIR RETURN.
Stith: YES. IT DOES PUT A FEAR IN YOU, BIG TIME.
EVEN NOW IF I'M OUT AT NIGHT, I'LL WATCH THE SKY.
IT'S JUST A MATTER OF TIME.
YOU KNOW, THEY'RE HERE.
THEY'RE HERE.
Narrator: SOME 400 MILES ACROSS APPALACHIA
SITS POINT PLEASANT, WEST VIRGINIA,
A SMALL TOWN WEDGED INTO A SPIT OF LAND
WHERE THE OHIO AND KANAWHA RIVERS CROSS.
ON ANY GIVEN DAY, MAIN STREET BEARS LITTLE EVIDENCE
OF POINT PLEASANT'S DARK SECRET --
THE TOWN FAMOUS FOR ITS FLYING MONSTER.
Bellamy: THERE WERE KIDS IN CARS WITH THEIR PARENTS WHO SAW IT.
THERE WERE TEENAGERS AT A BONFIRE WHO SAW IT.
THERE WERE HUNDREDS OF SIGHTINGS.
Smith: WE WERE JUST OUT PLAYING IN THE WOODS AT NIGHT,
AND IT LOOKED LIKE A CROSS BETWEEN A MAN AND AN ALIEN
WITH WINGS AND RED EYES.
IT SCARED ME MORE
THAN ANYTHING THAT I HAVE EVER SEEN IN MY LIFE.
Jeffers: GROWING UP HERE IN POINT PLEASANT,
I'VE ALWAYS HEARD ABOUT THE MOTHMAN.
AS YOU'RE GROWING UP AND PEOPLE TELL YOU STUFF,
YOU KNOW, YOU START TO BELIEVE IT.
BUT YOU'VE ALWAYS GOT THAT DOUBT IN YOUR MIND
UNTIL YOU GO AND EXPERIENCE IT YOURSELF.
Narrator: IT ALL BEGAN IN THE LATE 1960s
WITH SIGHTINGS OF A MOTHMAN MONSTER.
FIRST, THE LOCATION OF THE SIGHTINGS --
THE TNT BUNKERS,
A FORMER BOMB-MAKING PLANT BUILT DURING WORLD WAR II.
Bellamy: WELL, THE TNT AREA WAS AN ENTIRE COMMUNITY,
A TOWN WITHIN ITSELF.
YOU CAN STILL SEE MAPS OF IT
AND SEE HOW IT WAS A TOP-SECRET FACILITY FOR MAKING EXPLOSIVES.
BUT THEN THEY LET IT BECOME OVERGROWN,
AND THE BUILDINGS WERE ABANDONED,
AND THE IGLOOS WERE ABANDONED.
Narrator: AFTER THE WAR,
THE GOVERNMENT NO LONGER NEEDED THE BUNKERS.
THEY WERE DESERTED,
EXCEPT FOR OCCASIONAL VISITS BY POINT PLEASANT TEENAGERS,
BORED AND LOOKING FOR FUN.
WE USED TO HANG OUT AND PLAY AT THE TNT BUNKERS.
THAT WAS THE ONLY THING TO DO AROUND HERE,
ESPECIALLY DURING THE SUMMER.
[ ROCK 'N' ROLL MUSIC PLAYS ]
Narrator: IN THE FALL OF 1967,
HIGH SCHOOL KIDS SNEAKED OFF TO THE TNT BUNKERS FOR A GOOD TIME.
THEY ENCOUNTERED SOMETHING ELSE.
[ WINGS FLAPPING ]
[ SCREAMS ]
RUMORS ABOUT A MOTHMAN SPREAD QUICKLY THROUGH THE TOWN.
THEY WERE REALLY SERIOUS ABOUT IT AND REALLY SCARED.
YOU KNOW, THEY HAD TO SEE SOMETHING.
THEY WERE TOO SCARED AND TOO EMOTIONAL
NOT TO HAVE SEEN SOMETHING.
AND OF COURSE THAT WAS THE TALK OF EVERYWHERE YOU WENT.
Narrator: WHILE THE TOWN WAS TRADING STORIES,
ONE POINT PLEASANT GIRL CAME FACE-TO-FACE
WITH SOMETHING SHE'LL NEVER FORGET.
Dewitt: I WAS AN INNOCENT TEENAGER
TILL I SAW THOSE RED EYES.
I'VE JUST NEVER BEEN THE SAME SINCE THEN.
Narrator: POINT PLEASANT, WEST VIRGINIA.
THIS SMALL TOWN OF SOME 4,000 SOULS
WOULD BE AS ORDINARY AS ANY APPALACHIAN TOWN,
EXCEPT FOR ITS MONSTER.
THE LEGEND BEGAN IN THE 1960s.
THE TOWN WAS RIFE WITH RUMORS
ABOUT A FLYING CREATURE WITH GLOWING RED EYES.
Dewitt: I WAS ABOUT 13 OR 14.
WE DIDN'T HEAR ANYTHING ABOUT THIS SO-CALLED MOTHMAN
TILL THE VERY DAY THAT THE FIRST EYEWITNESS AT SCHOOL
STARTED TELLING IT.
Narrator: FAYE LEPORT GREW UP IN POINT PLEASANT,
DIRT POOR AND ONE OF 14 KIDS.
A FAMILY OUTING TO CHECK OUT THE RUMORS OF THE TNT BUNKERS
BONDED THEM IN A WAY THEY NEVER EXPECTED.
Dewitt: MY BROTHER TOOK US TO A MOVIE,
AND AFTER THE MOVIE, WE WENT DIRECTLY UP THERE
'CAUSE HE WAS GONNA GO FIND IT.
HE WAS GONNA GO UP THERE AND CATCH THAT THING
AND PROVE IT WAS SOME GUYS IN A COSTUME.
[ CHILDREN LAUGHING ]
MYSELF -- I WASN'T WORRIED ABOUT REALLY SEEING ANYTHING
'CAUSE I REALLY DIDN'T BELIEVE IN IT EITHER.
Narrator: AS THEY DROVE, THE WEATHER TURNED CHILLY,
THE SKY DARK, WITH ONLY THE MOON TO GUIDE THEIR WAY.
Dewitt: WE WERE DRIVING DOWN THE DRAG STREET
TO THE TNT BUNKERS,
AND MY BROTHER KEPT LOOKING OVER TOWARDS ME.
AND THEN HE TURNED BACK,
AND THEN HE'D LOOK OVER AT ME AGAIN.
I SAID, "WELL, WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING AT?!"
HE SAID, "WELL, DON'T LOOK,
BUT THERE'S SOMETHING BESIDE THE CAR."
SO I TURNED AND LOOKED, EVEN THOUGH HE TOLD ME NOT TO.
DON'T LOOK!
AND THERE IT WAS RIGHT BESIDE THE WINDOW,
FLYING RIGHT BESIDE THE CAR.
WHAT IS THAT?!
GET OUT OF HERE!
GO!
EVERYTHING WAS JUST HAYWIRE.
WE WERE SCARED.
Narrator: THEN THE CAR CAME TO A SCREECHING HALT.
THAT'S WHEN THEY MET MOTHMAN.
THAT THING JUMPED ON THE HOOD OF THE CAR
AND WAS JUST LOOKING AT ME.
WE WERE JUST MORE OR LESS IMMOBILIZED.
AND THE WHOLE TIME,
ALL YOU COULD FOCUS ON WAS ITS EYES,
AND THEY WERE JUST SO RED.
IT WAS JUST BEYOND ANY RED YOU COULD EVER FIND.
BUT WHEN IT JUMPED UP...
...THAT'S WHEN I SAW IT OPEN UP ITS WINGS JUST LIKE AN ANGEL.
THEY WERE THAT BIG.
THEY LOOKED LIKE A BIRD'S WINGS, AND THEY JUST UNFOLDED,
AND IT JUST WENT OVER THEM BUSHES
AND INTO THE NIGHT AND WAS GONE.
Narrator: ENCOUNTERING THE DARK-WINGED CREATURE
KNOWN AS MOTHMAN
HAD MADE BELIEVERS OUT OF THE LEPORT FAMILY.
YET EXACTLY WHAT THEY'D SEEN COULD NOT BE RESOLVED.
Dewitt: WE WENT BACK THE NEXT DAY
'CAUSE MY BROTHER WANTED TO GO AND FIND THIS THING,
THIS CREATURE, AND IT WAS BLOCKED OFF BY MILITARY,
AND THEY WOULDN'T ALLOW US IN.
HE TRIED TO GO IN.
THEY WOULDN'T LET HIM, AND THEY GOT VERY STRICT AND FORCEFUL.
"WE DON'T NEED YOUR HELP. APPRECIATE IT."
HE SAID, "BUT JUST TURN AROUND, AND GO ON AND LEAVE,
AND WE'LL TAKE CARE OF IT."
AND MY BROTHER JUST KEPT GOING.
HE SAID, "WELL, I DON'T SEE WHY I CAN'T GO IN THERE
AND HELP Y'ALL FIND THIS 'CAUSE I WANT TO FIND IT MYSELF!"
"WE TOLD YOU TO LEAVE, NOW LEAVE," LIKE SNARLING.
AND I TOLD MY BROTHER. I SAID, "COME ON!
DADDY WOULD KILL US IF HE FOUND OUT WE'RE BACK UP HERE!"
Man: BACK THE VEHICLE UP. LET'S GO.
TURN IT AROUND. LET'S GO.
YES, THERE'S SOMETHING ELSE OUT THERE,
AND I THOROUGHLY BELIEVE THAT THE GOVERNMENT COVERED IT UP,
AND WITHIN TWO WEEKS THEY LEFT
AND SAID THEY HAD IT AND THEY TOOK CARE OF IT
AND NOBODY NEEDED TO WORRY ANYMORE.
WHEN WE EXPERIENCED ALL THIS, TO ME,
IT WAS JUST ANOTHER THING I CHALKED UP
AS AN UNEXPLAINABLE EXPERIENCE IN MY LIFETIME.
BUT I KNOW WHAT I'VE SEEN IS ENOUGH THAT IT GIVES ME THE IDEA
THAT WE'RE NOT THE ONLY ONES THAT'S IN THIS WORLD.
TO THIS DAY, I BELIEVE THAT.
Narrator: WHILE THE SIGHTINGS OF THE MOTHMAN
STARTED AT THE TNT BUNKERS,
A FEW MONTHS LATER, HE WAS SEEN ON THE SILVER BRIDGE --
A SUSPENSION TRESTLE THAT LINKS POINT PLEASANT TO OHIO.
Bellamy: THERE WAS A STOP LIGHT RIGHT AT THE FOOT OF THE BRIDGE.
IT WAS MALFUNCTIONED,
AND ALL OF THESE CARS PILED UP ON THE BRIDGE,
AND ONE SIDE OF THE BRIDGE COLLAPSED,
AND IT HAD DUMPED ONE HALF OF THE CARS INTO THE RIVER,
AND THEN THE BRIDGE SWUNG BACK AND THE OTHER SIDE COLLAPSED.
WHEN THE CARS WERE FLOATING IN THE RIVER,
THE BRIDGE FELL ON TOP OF THEM AND CRUSHED THEM --
CRUSHED THEM ALL.
IT WAS OVER IN MINUTES.
Narrator: IT BEGAN WITH A HAIRLINE CRACK
IN A SINGLE "I" BAR.
IN THE END, 46 PEOPLE LOST THEIR LIVES --
THE WORST BRIDGE COLLAPSE IN U.S. HISTORY.
Bellamy: FRIENDS AND NEIGHBORS WENT DOWN ON THAT BRIDGE.
A LITTLE GIRL IN MY CLASS, 3rd GRADE CLASS,
WENT DOWN ON THE BRIDGE WITH HER MOTHER.
Harris: I DON'T REALLY DISCUSS THE SILVER BRIDGE.
MY FAMILY WAS ON THERE.
DEVASTATED, COMPLETELY CHANGED ME.
AFTER THE BRIDGE FELL, EVERYTHING WAS GLOOM, YOU KNOW.
AND EVERYBODY HERE HAD SOMEBODY THERE ON THE BRIDGE.
A LOT OF PEOPLE SAY THE MOTHMAN WAS HERE
TO WARN US ABOUT THE BRIDGE.
Harris: HE WAS SEEN ON THE BRIDGE
A FEW DAYS BEFORE IT FELL,
BUT LIKE A GOOD OMEN SO -- HE WAS BIG AND UGLY --
PEOPLE WOULDN'T CROSS IT.
Narrator: AFTER THE BRIDGE COLLAPSE,
FEW WANTED TO TALK ABOUT THE MOTHMAN.
THE SUBJECT DISAPPEARED,
REPLACED WITH SUSPICIONS THE TOWN WAS CURSED.
Harris: I DON'T REALLY KNOW
WHY EVERYTHING IS ATTRACTED TO POINT PLEASANT,
BUT POINT PLEASANT HAS HAD ITS SHARE AT TIMES
OF A LOT OF BAD THINGS HAPPENING.
I BELIEVE THAT THERE IS SOMETHING VERY ODD
ABOUT THIS AREA, ABOUT THIS PLACE.
I ALSO BELIEVE THAT A LOT OF THE PEOPLE
THAT COME FROM HERE -- THERE IS A DARK CLOUD OVER THEM,
NO MATTER WHERE THEY GO.
Bellamy: I DON'T KNOW ABOUT ANYWHERE ELSE,
BUT I DO KNOW THAT THE PARANORMAL PEOPLE
LOVE TO COME HERE.
THEY NEVER LEAVE DISAPPOINTED.
Narrator: BRETT KIRBY IS ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE.
IN THE SUMMER OF 2009,
HE ARRIVED TO POINT PLEASANT FOR A VISIT,
SKEPTICAL ABOUT THE LEGENDS OF THE MOTHMAN.
WHEN HE LEFT, HE WAS A BELIEVER.
I CAN'T EVEN EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED TO ME OUT THERE.
IT CHANGED MY LIFE.
Narrator: POINT PLEASANT, WEST VIRGINIA,
WAS THE SETTING OF A DAYTIME DATE
FOR BRETT KIRBY AND JENNIFER JEFFERS,
BUT JUST WHEN THEY THOUGHT IT WAS GOING TO OFFER ROMANCE,
THEY STUMBLED UPON THE MOTHMAN.
Jeffers: HE HAD NEVER BEEN TO POINT PLEASANT,
AND SO, HE CAME UP HERE ONE DAY, AND I TOOK HIM ON A TOUR.
IT WAS REALLY EXCITING, YOU KNOW,
THAT HE CAME TO SEE ME.
WE WENT TO A FEW DIFFERENT PLACES AROUND POINT PLEASANT,
AND THEN I TOLD HIM -- I WAS LIKE, "THE TNT BUNKERS,"
I SAID, YOU KNOW, "THEY'RE OUT THERE."
YOU KNOW, AND HE SAID, "WELL, WHAT IS IT?"
AND I WAS LIKE, "WELL, THEY'RE OLD MILITARY BUNKERS
"THAT THEY USED TO USE, AND, YOU KNOW,
THEY WERE BUILT ON THE INDIAN BURIAL GROUND."
Kirby: SHE WAS JUST TELLING ME THAT IT'S HAUNTED
AND STUFF LIKE THAT.
I THOUGHT, YOU KNOW,
IT WOULD PROBABLY BE KIND OF ROMANTIC AND STUFF.
Narrator: AS BRETT AND JENNIFER'S DATE STARTED TO HEAT UP,
THEY DECIDED TO CHECK OUT THE TNT BUNKERS,
THE SIGHT OF THE ORIGINAL MOTHMAN ENCOUNTERS.
Jeffers: THE TNT BUNKERS WERE WHERE PEOPLE USED TO GO PARTY.
WHEN WE WERE YOUNGER AND IN SCHOOL,
EVERYBODY ALWAYS WENT OUT THERE,
AND YOU ALWAYS HEARD THE STORIES AND STUFF,
AND THEY ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, COME BACK
WITH, YOU KNOW, "WE HEARD THIS" OR "WE HEARD THAT."
BUT I THOUGHT IT WAS JUST BECAUSE THEY WERE DRUNK.
I NEVER REALLY BELIEVED IT.
Kirby: WE ARRIVED AT THE BUNKERS.
IT WAS PROBABLY ABOUT 5:30, 6:00.
THE WEATHER WAS PROBABLY ABOUT 75, 80 DEGREES OUTSIDE.
WE WENT THROUGH THREE OF THEM, AND ON OUR WAY BACK,
WE STOPPED BACK TO THE SECOND ONE.
WHEN I WENT BACK INTO IT AND STUFF,
IT FELT LIKE IT WAS PROBABLY ABOUT 10 DEGREES COOLER
THAN WHAT THE REST OF THE BUNKERS FELT LIKE.
I DID HAVE, LIKE, A REAL EERIE FEELING AND STUFF,
AND THERE WAS JUST A FEELING OF UNEASE FOR SOME REASON.
AND I COULDN'T THINK OF WHY.
Kirby: Wow!
THIS PLACE IS PRETTY NEAT.
Jeffers: AT THAT MOMENT, THERE WAS NO SOUND.
THE ONLY SOUND WAS, LIKE, HIM CLICKING THE PICTURES.
AND THEN HE HAD QUIT CLICKING THE PICTURES,
AND WE WERE STANDING THERE JUST LISTENING.
DO YOU SEE ANYTHING?
IT'S COLD IN HERE.
[ SIGHS ]
Kirby: THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN... [ GASPS ]
...SOMETHING JUST, LIKE, GRABBED MY LEG REAL FAST.
I COULD ACTUALLY FEEL THE FINGERS, YOU KNOW,
JUST SOMETHING JUST CLAMP ONTO THE BACK OF MY LEG,
'CAUSE WHEN IT GRABBED ME,
I SPUN AROUND AND LOOKED BEHIND ME
TO SEE IF IT WAS AN ANIMAL
THAT WAS RUNNING AROUND OR SOMETHING.
IT KIND OF CREEPED ME OUT
'CAUSE I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT WAS GOING ON.
AND I TOLD JENNIFER -- I GO, "SOMETHING JUST GRABBED MY LEG."
AND SHE WAS ALL, "NO, YOU'RE JUST TRYING TO SCARE ME
AND STUFF," AND I SAID, "NO.
SOMETHING GRABBED MY LEG."
I WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOSH. THERE IS SOMETHING HERE."
I SAID, "I'M OUT OF HERE." YOU KNOW, "I GOT TO GO.
"I GOT TO GO. I CAN'T TAKE THIS.
I'M OUT OF HERE."
'CAUSE IT SCARED ME SO BAD.
Kirby: AFTER IT HAPPENED,
I FLASHED A COUPLE, YOU KNOW, QUICK PICTURES
TO SEE IF THERE WAS ANYTHING IN THERE WITH US,
SOMETHING LIKE A MOUSE OR A SQUIRREL OR SOMETHING,
JUST TO EXPLAIN WHAT HAPPENED.
Jeffers: WE WERE TOTALLY FREAKED OUT.
IT WAS JUST SOMETHING THAT I HAD NEVER EXPECTED,
YOU KNOW, TO HAPPEN.
WE RAN BACK TO THE CAR, AND THEN WE TOOK OFF.
AND WE WENT BACK TO HIS HOUSE.
AND WE WERE LOOKING AT THE PICTURES ON THE COMPUTER.
HE CAUGHT MY EYE ON ONE OF THEM AND STUFF,
AND WE WENT BACK TO IT.
AND THE PICTURE HAD A --
TO ME, IT LOOKED LIKE AN APPARITION.
IT HAD, LIKE, THE TORSO
AND, LIKE, LOOKED LIKE AN ARM COMING OFF OF IT.
MY HEART JUST DROPPED BECAUSE I WAS LIKE, "OH, MY GOSH!
"THERE WAS SOMETHING THERE!
THERE IS SOMETHING THERE!"
Kirby: FIRST SEEING THE PICTURE -- IT BLEW MY MIND.
I HAD ACTUAL EVIDENCE ON MY CAMERA
THAT THERE WAS SOMETHING IN THAT BUNKER
BESIDES ME AND JENNIFER AT THAT TIME,
AND IT BLEW ME AWAY.
Jeffers: IT TURNED ME INTO A BELIEVER
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, I'VE ALWAYS HEARD THAT THERE IS DEMONS
THAT WALK UP ON THE EARTH,
BUT I NEVER, YOU KNOW, REALLY EXPERIENCED IT IN MYSELF
UNTIL THAT MOMENT.
Narrator: SOME 40 YEARS AGO,
A DARK-WINGED MOTHMAN DESCENDED TO EARTH IN APPALACHIA.
[ SCREAMING ]
SOME WERE TERRIFIED,
BUT IN THE WAKE OF A HORRIFIC BRIDGE COLLAPSE,
THE MONSTER CAME TO BE SEEN AS A MESSENGER,
A PROPHET TO WARN ABOUT IMMINENT DISASTER.
IF A RECENT SIGHTING IS TO BE BELIEVED,
THE CREATURE IS STILL HERE.
[ GASPS ]
Jeffers: IT MADE US BOTH BELIEVERS OF THE SPIRITS
AND WHAT, YOU KNOW, CAN HAPPEN THAT WE NEVER BELIEVED WOULD,
'CAUSE THAT'S SOMETHING THAT YOU KNOW YOU'LL NEVER FORGET.