WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:03.339 You are now listening to Cryptid Cocktail Party. 00:00:41.039 --> 00:00:42.939 Welcome back, everyone, to another episode of 00:00:42.939 --> 00:00:44.460 Cryptid Cocktail Party, a show where we have 00:00:44.460 --> 00:00:46.340 a few drinks, share a few laughs, take a dive 00:00:46.340 --> 00:00:48.340 into the unknown. I'm your host, Dave, joined 00:00:48.340 --> 00:00:50.659 as always by my wonderful co -host, Sarge. How's 00:00:50.659 --> 00:00:53.460 it going, Sarge? I'm erect. Jesus fucking Christ. 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:56.960 Just my nipples. Just my nipples. Relax. Is this 00:00:56.960 --> 00:00:58.240 because I told you the episode's going to be 00:00:58.240 --> 00:01:00.200 a bummer, so you had to immediately just start 00:01:00.200 --> 00:01:03.100 with that? There's no need to bring my penis 00:01:03.100 --> 00:01:07.129 into this. Okay, all right. Just the nips. uh 00:01:07.129 --> 00:01:09.090 and today we got a very special guest we're joined 00:01:09.090 --> 00:01:11.810 by da uh you may know him from his tiktok logo 00:01:11.810 --> 00:01:14.129 lore with da uh i'll let him introduce himself 00:01:14.129 --> 00:01:16.469 i'm better he's better probably better than i 00:01:16.469 --> 00:01:19.530 am so anyways the da how's it going uh good how 00:01:19.530 --> 00:01:22.439 are y 'all my uh my nipples are soft That's a 00:01:22.439 --> 00:01:26.680 requirement to let you know. So just so everyone's 00:01:26.680 --> 00:01:29.200 aware of who you are, why don't you tell the 00:01:29.200 --> 00:01:30.680 audience a little bit about yourself, what you 00:01:30.680 --> 00:01:33.439 do, who you are? Yeah, I'm Logo Lore with Daw. 00:01:33.579 --> 00:01:36.920 My name is Daw. That channel is on TikTok, Instagram, 00:01:37.060 --> 00:01:40.680 and YouTube. And I'm a graphic designer, art 00:01:40.680 --> 00:01:43.760 director at a marketing agency. And so I kind 00:01:43.760 --> 00:01:45.900 of have a channel that talks about conspiracy 00:01:45.900 --> 00:01:49.480 theories and logo design and kind of how they 00:01:49.480 --> 00:01:51.980 intersect. yeah you uh you do a lot of stuff 00:01:51.980 --> 00:01:54.400 on the uh the mandela effect which i fucking 00:01:54.400 --> 00:01:56.319 love that's actually how i found your channel 00:01:56.319 --> 00:02:01.079 oh nice i quickly became obsessed with it awesome 00:02:01.079 --> 00:02:03.560 yeah that's one of those things i followed forever 00:02:03.560 --> 00:02:05.959 but the further down that rabbit hole i go the 00:02:05.959 --> 00:02:07.719 more i'm convinced that it's all just bullshit 00:02:07.719 --> 00:02:10.599 well yeah i mean obviously yeah i mean i don't 00:02:10.599 --> 00:02:12.199 think it's anything nefarious i think we just 00:02:12.199 --> 00:02:14.939 have terrible memories Oh yeah, that's 100 % 00:02:14.939 --> 00:02:16.879 what it is. You don't think that an underwear 00:02:16.879 --> 00:02:19.620 company is breaking into your home to change 00:02:19.620 --> 00:02:22.240 out your underwear with different tags? No, but 00:02:22.240 --> 00:02:24.580 I believe the globalists are, so I mean... Yeah. 00:02:24.740 --> 00:02:27.680 It is the globalists. That's what it boils down 00:02:27.680 --> 00:02:30.219 to. It's always the globalists. They just can't 00:02:30.219 --> 00:02:34.080 leave well enough alone. No, they can't. All 00:02:34.080 --> 00:02:36.740 right. We ask this for every guest who comes 00:02:36.740 --> 00:02:40.060 on, I guess. Are you a cryptids guy? Is this 00:02:40.060 --> 00:02:42.500 something that you dive into? Or is this like... 00:02:42.759 --> 00:02:45.379 kind of outside of your realm. Yeah, no, I've 00:02:45.379 --> 00:02:47.539 always loved cryptids. Cryptids are like the 00:02:47.539 --> 00:02:50.099 fun conspiracy theory, or they were for a long 00:02:50.099 --> 00:02:53.659 time. Yeah. Because it's just animals. Like if 00:02:53.659 --> 00:02:55.819 I never saw a giraffe and you showed me a picture, 00:02:55.900 --> 00:02:57.719 I'd be like, that's not fucking real. Yeah. I 00:02:57.719 --> 00:03:00.360 wouldn't believe you. Exactly. None of them are 00:03:00.360 --> 00:03:02.580 off bounds to me. Like, have you seen a platypus? 00:03:02.639 --> 00:03:04.840 And you're telling me like a jackalope is impossible? 00:03:06.479 --> 00:03:08.840 Exactly. I mean, honestly, I feel like of all 00:03:08.840 --> 00:03:11.060 the things that are possible, a bunny -shaped 00:03:11.060 --> 00:03:13.539 cryptid, like a bunny -sized cryptid, is probably 00:03:13.539 --> 00:03:16.419 the most reasonable. Oh, yeah, for sure. They 00:03:16.419 --> 00:03:18.740 could hide easily. You wouldn't even know they 00:03:18.740 --> 00:03:21.259 existed. I completely agree. All right, well, 00:03:21.379 --> 00:03:24.319 I think I got a good cryptid for you guys today. 00:03:24.520 --> 00:03:26.159 We haven't done a cryptid in a while, I feel 00:03:26.159 --> 00:03:28.360 like. I feel like we're going back to what we... 00:03:28.759 --> 00:03:31.580 where we started. Back to the roots. Yeah, so 00:03:31.580 --> 00:03:33.699 Dom, glad you could be here for this one. Happy 00:03:33.699 --> 00:03:35.219 to be here. Before we start today's episode, 00:03:35.340 --> 00:03:38.979 real quick, today's episode is both awesome and, 00:03:39.039 --> 00:03:41.500 like I said, it's a bit of a bummer. It's awesome 00:03:41.500 --> 00:03:43.520 because it has all the elements that Sarge here 00:03:43.520 --> 00:03:45.719 loves in a good small -town cryptid story, but 00:03:45.719 --> 00:03:48.219 a bummer because, and this is going to serve 00:03:48.219 --> 00:03:50.280 as the content warning for the episode, something 00:03:50.280 --> 00:03:53.379 we don't normally do, there are a lot of dead 00:03:53.379 --> 00:03:58.830 dogs in this story. Take that, vegans! Not great, 00:03:58.969 --> 00:04:02.310 but I figured I would inform you now so that 00:04:02.310 --> 00:04:04.789 you guys and the listeners aren't surprised at 00:04:04.789 --> 00:04:06.569 the sheer amount of dead dogs that are going 00:04:06.569 --> 00:04:09.050 to be coming up. I'm already rooting for the 00:04:09.050 --> 00:04:13.229 armed villagers. Yeah. And yeah, so I figured 00:04:13.229 --> 00:04:14.669 I'd let you guys know. And so anyone listening 00:04:14.669 --> 00:04:17.149 can opt out of hearing this if they don't want 00:04:17.149 --> 00:04:18.509 to hear. I'm not going to go into like graphic 00:04:18.509 --> 00:04:21.269 detail. There is some because it's kind of important 00:04:21.269 --> 00:04:24.720 to the story. So yeah, so anyone listening. If 00:04:24.720 --> 00:04:25.959 you don't want to listen to it, you don't have 00:04:25.959 --> 00:04:27.819 to. You two, unfortunately, are stuck with me 00:04:27.819 --> 00:04:31.379 for this one. Thanks. I hate it. Yeah. All right. 00:04:31.500 --> 00:04:34.639 So you guys ready to dive in today's story? I 00:04:34.639 --> 00:04:36.639 can't wait. I had to put my dog down like four 00:04:36.639 --> 00:04:38.439 months ago, so this is great. Oh, for fuck's 00:04:38.439 --> 00:04:43.439 sake. I am so sorry. I probably should have asked. 00:04:43.579 --> 00:04:45.899 I mean, that's not a question you would normally 00:04:45.899 --> 00:04:49.399 think to ask. Do you like cryptids? Have you 00:04:49.399 --> 00:04:54.170 had a pet recently die? Yeah. All right. All 00:04:54.170 --> 00:04:56.629 right, so today, gentlemen, we are headed to 00:04:56.629 --> 00:05:00.129 Bladdenboro, North Carolina, a small, uneventful 00:05:00.129 --> 00:05:02.930 town surrounded by dense woods and endless swamplands. 00:05:03.290 --> 00:05:05.569 It's the kind of place where... Not to sound 00:05:05.569 --> 00:05:08.209 cliche, but everyone knows everyone. Nobody locks 00:05:08.209 --> 00:05:10.009 their doors. And the loudest thing you'd hear 00:05:10.009 --> 00:05:12.470 at night is probably like a screen door slamming 00:05:12.470 --> 00:05:15.829 or like a couple screaming at each other a few 00:05:15.829 --> 00:05:18.750 doors down. It's a quiet, safe, tight -knit community. 00:05:19.129 --> 00:05:22.329 But that all changed in the winter of 1953 when 00:05:22.329 --> 00:05:25.250 people's pets started turning up dead. Mauled, 00:05:25.389 --> 00:05:28.709 drained of blood, and left in literal pieces. 00:05:29.089 --> 00:05:31.970 People heard screams. Oh, come on. It's the Satanists. 00:05:33.449 --> 00:05:35.509 People heard screams in the night from something 00:05:35.509 --> 00:05:37.990 that sounded not human, but not quite animal 00:05:37.990 --> 00:05:40.730 either. Today, we are going to be covering the 00:05:40.730 --> 00:05:43.329 legend of the Beast of Bladdenboro. Is this something 00:05:43.329 --> 00:05:46.110 either of you guys are familiar with? No, I've 00:05:46.110 --> 00:05:49.089 never heard of it. It sounds British as hell, 00:05:49.129 --> 00:05:53.370 too. It does. The Beast of Bladdenboro. Unfortunately, 00:05:53.470 --> 00:05:56.389 it's North Carolina, which is arguably worst. 00:05:56.790 --> 00:06:00.389 The Beast of Bladdenboro. That's closer. We're 00:06:00.389 --> 00:06:03.300 getting there. Yeah. So this whole thing kicked 00:06:03.300 --> 00:06:07.339 off, unfortunately, just after Christmas. On 00:06:07.339 --> 00:06:10.899 the night of December 29th, 1953, a woman living 00:06:10.899 --> 00:06:13.480 in nearby Clarkton heard the neighborhood dogs 00:06:13.480 --> 00:06:16.480 just going absolute apeshit. All of them were 00:06:16.480 --> 00:06:19.740 barking. And not like in a fun 101 Dalmatians, 00:06:19.740 --> 00:06:22.579 like we got to get the news out type of way. 00:06:22.939 --> 00:06:27.360 This is more like they're about to fuck something 00:06:27.360 --> 00:06:29.459 up kind of. You don't know when a dog is really 00:06:29.459 --> 00:06:33.069 angry. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, then suddenly, silence. 00:06:33.550 --> 00:06:36.709 It all just stopped. So she stepped outside to 00:06:36.709 --> 00:06:38.470 see just what all the hoopla was about and caught 00:06:38.470 --> 00:06:40.790 just a glimpse of something large and low to 00:06:40.790 --> 00:06:43.449 the ground, moving almost cat -like, slinking 00:06:43.449 --> 00:06:46.649 off into the trees. Now, two nights later, on 00:06:46.649 --> 00:06:50.410 December 31st, Bladdenboro Police Chief Roy Forrest 00:06:50.410 --> 00:06:53.329 was called to the home of a local man named Woody 00:06:53.329 --> 00:06:57.519 Storm. Amazing name. Made up names. Made up names. 00:06:57.699 --> 00:07:00.819 Woody Storm sounds like a meteorologist. Woody 00:07:00.819 --> 00:07:04.339 Storm is the perfect gay porn name, I feel like. 00:07:04.620 --> 00:07:06.459 Okay. What was the other guy's name? Something 00:07:06.459 --> 00:07:12.620 Forrest? Ray Forrest. It's F -O -R -E -S. There's 00:07:12.620 --> 00:07:15.199 no T, so I don't know how to pronounce it. Forrest? 00:07:15.360 --> 00:07:20.620 Ray Forrest. We'll go Forrest. Yeah. Now, this 00:07:20.620 --> 00:07:22.420 is where the story starts to become a bummer. 00:07:22.750 --> 00:07:26.329 Woody found two of his dogs just absolutely slaughtered. 00:07:26.329 --> 00:07:28.949 Their bodies were torn apart, their skulls crushed, 00:07:29.069 --> 00:07:31.509 and one of them has had his head completely torn 00:07:31.509 --> 00:07:35.029 off. Now, like I said, that's a bummer, but here's 00:07:35.029 --> 00:07:39.149 the kicker. There wasn't any blood. An autopsy 00:07:39.149 --> 00:07:41.149 was performed and confirmed that the dogs had 00:07:41.149 --> 00:07:43.970 pretty much been drained dry. They weren't eaten. 00:07:44.329 --> 00:07:47.129 They weren't just killed. As the local papers 00:07:47.129 --> 00:07:48.930 eventually called it, they were emptied, quote 00:07:48.930 --> 00:07:53.620 -unquote, vampire style. Damn. So I think it's 00:07:53.620 --> 00:07:55.860 safe to say that things escalated pretty quickly. 00:07:55.939 --> 00:07:58.300 There wasn't a ramp up from just like stalking 00:07:58.300 --> 00:08:00.639 around the tree line to just full on dog decapitation. 00:08:00.800 --> 00:08:04.379 But don't worry, guys, it gets way worse from 00:08:04.379 --> 00:08:07.100 here. So imagine if you're like a shitty dad 00:08:07.100 --> 00:08:09.139 and you're like, hey, sorry, I forgot your Christmas 00:08:09.139 --> 00:08:12.519 present. I finally got it for you. It's a pup. 00:08:13.500 --> 00:08:18.040 Forget it. That's what I was thinking. I left 00:08:18.040 --> 00:08:19.620 it in the car. It's like right after Christmas, 00:08:19.639 --> 00:08:21.240 the amount of puppies that were probably given 00:08:21.240 --> 00:08:24.519 as pets. I know, right? Dude, I don't know. I 00:08:24.519 --> 00:08:27.980 can't wait to go feed Fluffy. Runs out in the 00:08:27.980 --> 00:08:32.240 backyard. Fluffy's torn in half. Now, on New 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:35.740 Year's Day 1954, two more dogs were found mutilated. 00:08:35.899 --> 00:08:38.820 And by January 3rd, the count had risen to seven 00:08:38.820 --> 00:08:42.519 dogs. All killed in the same brutal fashion as 00:08:42.519 --> 00:08:45.679 Woody's. And again, there was no blood. at the 00:08:45.679 --> 00:08:48.559 scene. Was it two each time? Like Noah style? 00:08:48.899 --> 00:08:55.120 It didn't say. Because it was a pair the first 00:08:55.120 --> 00:08:56.940 time, right? Then they found two the next time? 00:08:57.019 --> 00:08:58.840 Yeah. And then, well, there were seven altogether. 00:08:59.200 --> 00:09:03.720 So that doesn't... So we can take Noah out of 00:09:03.720 --> 00:09:07.039 the equation. He was involved at least. It wasn't 00:09:07.039 --> 00:09:10.559 the Nephilim. No, it was not the Nephilim. We 00:09:10.559 --> 00:09:13.220 can leave God on the table though. We can still 00:09:13.220 --> 00:09:16.659 blame God for this. We can. Now, in one case, 00:09:16.720 --> 00:09:19.019 a veterinarian examined a carcass and found, 00:09:19.059 --> 00:09:21.419 quote -unquote, no more than two or three drops 00:09:21.419 --> 00:09:24.399 of blood. I don't know how you can, like, accurately 00:09:24.399 --> 00:09:28.220 measure that. Just squeezing the veins. Like, 00:09:28.220 --> 00:09:32.559 don't eat a mac and cheese package. Just wringing 00:09:32.559 --> 00:09:35.639 out fluff. I don't understand how, like, that 00:09:35.639 --> 00:09:39.340 doesn't sound very scientific to me. Now, soon, 00:09:39.460 --> 00:09:42.460 another dog was found with its lower jaw ripped 00:09:42.460 --> 00:09:46.190 clean off. and another that was decapitated entirely. 00:09:46.730 --> 00:09:49.830 But the stories didn't stop with just the bodies. 00:09:50.070 --> 00:09:52.470 Several residents began reporting sightings of 00:09:52.470 --> 00:09:55.070 the creature. They described it as a large shadowy 00:09:55.070 --> 00:09:57.090 thing moving through the woods at night. One 00:09:57.090 --> 00:09:59.889 described it as, quote, about five feet long 00:09:59.889 --> 00:10:04.090 with bushy hair and a long tail and a face like 00:10:04.090 --> 00:10:07.570 a cat, but I ain't ever seen a cat that big, 00:10:07.669 --> 00:10:10.730 end quote. Another said it looked kind of like 00:10:10.730 --> 00:10:13.440 a cougar. Some thought it was a bear, but no 00:10:13.440 --> 00:10:14.879 one really knew what the fuck they were looking 00:10:14.879 --> 00:10:16.679 at. Then there were the sounds that it made. 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:19.360 People started hearing high pitched wailing screams 00:10:19.360 --> 00:10:22.440 coming from the swamps at night. Oh, easy. Marjorie 00:10:22.440 --> 00:10:25.299 Taylor. This is how she stays young. Is that 00:10:25.299 --> 00:10:28.360 what it is? Mutilates dogs. She's draining the 00:10:28.360 --> 00:10:33.200 swamp. She means the dog in the swamp. She's 00:10:33.200 --> 00:10:36.100 draining their blood. Yeah. God fucking damn 00:10:36.100 --> 00:10:39.049 it. All right. Can I hear y 'all? What do y 'all 00:10:39.049 --> 00:10:41.409 think the scream sounds like? Can I hear? Can 00:10:41.409 --> 00:10:43.009 y 'all each do what you think it sounds like? 00:10:43.029 --> 00:10:44.549 Then I'll do mine. Here's the thing. I know what 00:10:44.549 --> 00:10:47.950 it sounds like. Oh. Do you have a recording? 00:10:48.070 --> 00:10:49.830 No, but I have descriptions of it if you'd like 00:10:49.830 --> 00:10:53.590 to hear. All right. So they described it as, 00:10:53.769 --> 00:10:57.190 quote unquote, like a woman being murdered or, 00:10:57.370 --> 00:11:01.649 quote unquote, a baby crying, but wrong. I don't 00:11:01.649 --> 00:11:07.340 know what that means. Yeah, it's a baby, and 00:11:07.340 --> 00:11:10.860 he's like, hey, where's my bottle? What the fuck? 00:11:11.799 --> 00:11:14.980 Come on, guy. So for me, it sounds like a fisher 00:11:14.980 --> 00:11:18.019 cat. I feel like that's, if you've ever heard 00:11:18.019 --> 00:11:19.799 a fisher cat, it sounds like a fucking woman 00:11:19.799 --> 00:11:23.620 being murdered or a baby crying, but wrong. Is 00:11:23.620 --> 00:11:25.820 that a real animal? Yeah, a fisher cat's a real 00:11:25.820 --> 00:11:28.659 animal. Okay, not like a wampus cat. No. It's 00:11:28.659 --> 00:11:32.220 like a weasel. Yeah, but a very angry weasel. 00:11:33.139 --> 00:11:35.960 yeah it's like a fat actually a wolverine is 00:11:35.960 --> 00:11:38.539 probably a closer description yeah because they're 00:11:38.539 --> 00:11:41.179 a little bit bigger and fatter yeah we uh we 00:11:41.179 --> 00:11:43.139 have them up in new england like you could hear 00:11:43.139 --> 00:11:45.159 them in the woods behind my house at night back 00:11:45.159 --> 00:11:46.720 when i lived up there it's not great it's not 00:11:46.720 --> 00:11:48.580 a fun sound if you don't know what you're hearing 00:11:48.580 --> 00:11:52.620 it's now these weren't animal calls that anyone 00:11:52.620 --> 00:11:55.899 in bladdenborough recognized and i i feel like 00:11:55.899 --> 00:11:57.919 when you live in like a small community like 00:11:57.919 --> 00:11:59.980 this especially like in the south or like appalachia 00:11:59.980 --> 00:12:01.860 region like you're pretty familiar with like 00:12:01.860 --> 00:12:05.240 what the animals are that are around you. So 00:12:05.240 --> 00:12:08.600 if you don't recognize it, I, for me, that tends 00:12:08.600 --> 00:12:10.899 to add credence to the story. Maybe I'm just 00:12:10.899 --> 00:12:13.500 insane, but I feel like people in small town, 00:12:13.600 --> 00:12:15.620 rural areas know what the fuck is in the woods 00:12:15.620 --> 00:12:17.039 behind their house. And if they're hearing a 00:12:17.039 --> 00:12:20.860 baby crying, but wrong, I tend to believe what 00:12:20.860 --> 00:12:25.600 they have to say. Where? There. So now it's January 00:12:25.600 --> 00:12:31.899 4th. Wow. See the baby. He's got a cigar. He 00:12:31.899 --> 00:12:38.279 grabs a bank. Wassy. All right, so now it's January 00:12:38.279 --> 00:12:41.460 4th. This is just five days after this all started, 00:12:41.559 --> 00:12:44.980 and the panic in the town is very real. Reports 00:12:44.980 --> 00:12:47.480 are flooding in daily, more animals turning up 00:12:47.480 --> 00:12:49.480 dead, with each kill becoming more violent than 00:12:49.480 --> 00:12:51.639 the last. People were scared, and they wanted 00:12:51.639 --> 00:12:54.580 this thing captured or killed. So Chief Roy, 00:12:54.759 --> 00:12:57.500 overwhelmed with calls and too few officers to 00:12:57.500 --> 00:13:00.110 keep up, brought in a team of professional hunters 00:13:00.110 --> 00:13:02.509 from Wilmington armed with quote -unquote cat 00:13:02.509 --> 00:13:05.990 dogs, which are not half -cat, half -dog homunculi 00:13:05.990 --> 00:13:07.889 as portrayed in the 90s Nickelodeon cartoon, 00:13:08.110 --> 00:13:11.049 but they're actually hounds trained to track 00:13:11.049 --> 00:13:13.549 bobcats and cougars. Well, this makes me sad 00:13:13.549 --> 00:13:16.590 because I was a real cat dog. That's the best 00:13:16.590 --> 00:13:19.059 cryptid ever. Oh, yeah, for sure. But the locals 00:13:19.059 --> 00:13:20.899 and the people from the neighboring town said, 00:13:21.039 --> 00:13:24.299 fuck that. We do not have time for these professionals 00:13:24.299 --> 00:13:27.039 to do whatever it is they're trying to do. So 00:13:27.039 --> 00:13:29.200 they took matters into their own hands. And by 00:13:29.200 --> 00:13:33.080 the night of January 5th, over 500 armed men 00:13:33.080 --> 00:13:36.519 roamed the woods and swamps. Locals, outsiders 00:13:36.519 --> 00:13:38.940 who had heard about the attacks, good old boys, 00:13:39.159 --> 00:13:43.360 frat boys from UNC Chapel Hill, backwoods rednecks, 00:13:43.460 --> 00:13:45.840 all of them armed to the teeth and ready to be 00:13:45.840 --> 00:13:49.120 the guy who killed the beast. Nothing brings 00:13:49.120 --> 00:13:51.519 a community together like the opportunity to 00:13:51.519 --> 00:13:55.320 roam around with a loaded weapon in the forest. 00:13:55.600 --> 00:14:01.100 Kyle Rettenhaus was there. His mom dropped him 00:14:01.100 --> 00:14:07.759 off. It's okay, I'm a medic. So they all came 00:14:07.759 --> 00:14:10.480 armed with shotguns, high powered rifles, packs 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:13.399 of dogs, and just zero coordination. Like this 00:14:13.399 --> 00:14:15.840 was not a very strategic hunt on their part. 00:14:15.960 --> 00:14:19.240 I picture a lot of rednecks dying by, by friendly. 00:14:19.259 --> 00:14:21.480 Yeah, it was a, it was an arm free for all in 00:14:21.480 --> 00:14:22.960 the middle of the night and no one even knew 00:14:22.960 --> 00:14:24.940 what they were like actually looking for. There 00:14:24.940 --> 00:14:27.639 was no like description of the creature. Like, 00:14:27.639 --> 00:14:30.679 like really, you know what I mean? Uh, I love 00:14:30.679 --> 00:14:33.559 the idea that they all came out at like, sun 00:14:33.559 --> 00:14:35.700 up like it's dawn and they all come out of the 00:14:35.700 --> 00:14:37.100 woods carrying different animals and they're 00:14:37.100 --> 00:14:39.120 like was this it all right throw it in the back 00:14:39.120 --> 00:14:42.480 of the truck one of them holds up kyle rittenhouse 00:14:42.480 --> 00:14:47.940 i think i got it but uh but but even with all 00:14:47.940 --> 00:14:50.360 those people in the woods hunting this thing 00:14:50.360 --> 00:14:53.179 or maybe because of they were in the woods hunting 00:14:53.179 --> 00:14:56.059 this thing that that night shit got really real 00:14:56.059 --> 00:14:59.240 when a woman named mrs c .e kinloss stepped out 00:14:59.240 --> 00:15:01.360 onto her porch after hearing her dogs whining 00:15:01.960 --> 00:15:03.840 Now, she had barely made it through the doorway 00:15:03.840 --> 00:15:06.500 before something lunged at her. She screamed 00:15:06.500 --> 00:15:08.860 and her husband ran outside with a shotgun at 00:15:08.860 --> 00:15:11.100 the ready, but whatever was bolted into the woods 00:15:11.100 --> 00:15:13.539 before he could get a shot off. Now, real quick, 00:15:13.639 --> 00:15:16.759 before we move on, I'm not one to victim blame 00:15:16.759 --> 00:15:19.860 here, but if news is going around that an unknown 00:15:19.860 --> 00:15:22.799 massive demon cat thing is going around decapitating 00:15:22.799 --> 00:15:25.559 dogs, keep your dogs inside. Bring the dog in. 00:15:25.580 --> 00:15:27.980 Yeah. Yeah, bring the dogs in. Also, why are 00:15:27.980 --> 00:15:29.899 they not in your bed to begin with? Exactly. 00:15:30.039 --> 00:15:32.019 Why are they not cuddling next to you in your 00:15:32.019 --> 00:15:35.179 bed, you psychopaths? My dog is always right 00:15:35.179 --> 00:15:37.620 next to me. Exactly. The fact you left them out 00:15:37.620 --> 00:15:40.440 there, heard them whining as if the unknown massive 00:15:40.440 --> 00:15:42.960 demon cat thing is nearby, and then you go outside 00:15:42.960 --> 00:15:46.120 to check on them to make sure there isn't a massive 00:15:46.120 --> 00:15:48.639 demon cat actively decapitating them, and then 00:15:48.639 --> 00:15:51.799 you get attacked by said demon cat, that's on 00:15:51.799 --> 00:15:55.299 you. That's on no one else but you. Again, not 00:15:55.299 --> 00:15:57.620 to victim blame, but also you're a bad pet and 00:15:57.620 --> 00:16:02.340 should be in jail. I agree. 100%. Anyways, she 00:16:02.340 --> 00:16:03.960 later described what attacked her as looking 00:16:03.960 --> 00:16:06.639 like a big mountain lion, but not like one she 00:16:06.639 --> 00:16:10.679 had ever seen before. Then, outside their home, 00:16:10.899 --> 00:16:13.379 Chief Roy found massive paw prints in the dirt, 00:16:13.480 --> 00:16:15.980 but the size and spacing of which didn't match 00:16:15.980 --> 00:16:18.259 any common animal that was found in the region. 00:16:18.799 --> 00:16:21.539 So, yeah, now it's attacking people. Not great, 00:16:21.720 --> 00:16:25.279 but... It is what it is. How are we feeling so 00:16:25.279 --> 00:16:27.799 far, guys? Adal, let's start with you, then I'll 00:16:27.799 --> 00:16:30.159 see how Sarge is feeling. I'm stuck on the cat 00:16:30.159 --> 00:16:33.700 dogs. I'm just really hoping there was something 00:16:33.700 --> 00:16:36.460 going on there. I do have a little aside real 00:16:36.460 --> 00:16:39.080 quick. My really religious grandpa wouldn't let 00:16:39.080 --> 00:16:42.279 us watch CatDog when we were kids because he 00:16:42.279 --> 00:16:49.220 said that crossbreeding wasn't biblical. So I 00:16:49.220 --> 00:16:51.679 don't know if I'm allowed to listen to this story. 00:16:53.649 --> 00:16:56.090 I'm going to risk getting in trouble. I'm pretty 00:16:56.090 --> 00:17:01.350 confident they had mules. No, it's different. 00:17:03.450 --> 00:17:05.569 It's a horse and a donkey. The question is, though, 00:17:05.609 --> 00:17:08.990 if you have a cat dog, which side do you put 00:17:08.990 --> 00:17:12.890 the leash on? I want to know if you need a cat 00:17:12.890 --> 00:17:17.130 box or not. Oh, that's good. Like, where does 00:17:17.130 --> 00:17:20.259 it... Is it like a belly button situation? Where 00:17:20.259 --> 00:17:24.900 is it coming out? I always assumed, I mean, I 00:17:24.900 --> 00:17:29.279 don't know. It comes out dog's mouth. Well, here's 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.400 the thing. Dog poops it out of his mouth. I was 00:17:31.400 --> 00:17:33.420 going to say. And then probably eats it. I'm 00:17:33.420 --> 00:17:36.880 almost certain that when, at one point, cat's 00:17:36.880 --> 00:17:41.720 licking himself, and then dog has the hairball 00:17:41.720 --> 00:17:43.480 come out of his mouth. So it has to be some sort 00:17:43.480 --> 00:17:47.039 of human centipede scenario. different oh it's 00:17:47.039 --> 00:17:50.359 not great it doesn't you know what i regret bringing 00:17:50.359 --> 00:17:52.700 this up i hate this well that's on you bud you 00:17:52.700 --> 00:17:56.279 did this to yourself it is a self -replicating 00:17:56.279 --> 00:17:58.940 human centipede if they go like in a circle and 00:17:58.940 --> 00:18:01.119 just mouth to mouth yeah i can't believe i'm 00:18:01.119 --> 00:18:02.779 saying this but can we get back to the mauled 00:18:02.779 --> 00:18:08.880 dogs because you've ruined i've ruined cat dog 00:18:08.880 --> 00:18:13.299 all right so we'll we'll move on um but yeah 00:18:13.299 --> 00:18:16.369 so it's attacking humans that's not Good, but 00:18:16.369 --> 00:18:17.769 you know what might help? Yeah, it's problematic. 00:18:18.069 --> 00:18:21.490 More people hunting this thing. By January 6th, 00:18:21.490 --> 00:18:24.170 it was reported that 800 people had shown up 00:18:24.170 --> 00:18:27.690 in town. Hunters, gawkers, reporters, you name 00:18:27.690 --> 00:18:30.190 it. The town, which at this time had a population 00:18:30.190 --> 00:18:33.150 of a little over 750 residents, had more than 00:18:33.150 --> 00:18:36.170 doubled in size overnight. Just a... Bunch of 00:18:36.170 --> 00:18:38.410 people traipsing through the swampland with loaded 00:18:38.410 --> 00:18:40.849 weapons and no clue what they were doing. It 00:18:40.849 --> 00:18:44.069 is actually the second largest gathering of armed 00:18:44.069 --> 00:18:53.349 rednecks on a January 6th. I didn't even put 00:18:53.349 --> 00:18:56.890 that together. Fuck, dude, that's good. They 00:18:56.890 --> 00:19:02.349 let us in the woods, all right? That is deeply 00:19:02.349 --> 00:19:07.430 funny. I'm not going to lie. At one point in 00:19:07.430 --> 00:19:09.869 all this, someone, and I'm not sure who, they 00:19:09.869 --> 00:19:15.390 devised a foolproof plan. Tie up a live dog as 00:19:15.390 --> 00:19:22.670 bait and wait for the beast to strike. But that 00:19:22.670 --> 00:19:24.890 plan fell apart pretty quickly because there 00:19:24.890 --> 00:19:27.769 were so many hunters and people that they couldn't... 00:19:27.950 --> 00:19:31.430 they kept wandering into the bait zones so they 00:19:31.430 --> 00:19:34.269 gave up on that pretty quick um it wasn't the 00:19:34.269 --> 00:19:36.789 best plan and not everyone was like super gung 00:19:36.789 --> 00:19:38.769 -ho about it and i don't know how true this part 00:19:38.769 --> 00:19:41.009 is but i read that apparently a humane society 00:19:41.009 --> 00:19:44.190 sent a wire to chief roy and basically said like 00:19:44.190 --> 00:19:48.690 hey dickhead maybe don't do that it's not yeah 00:19:48.690 --> 00:19:54.460 but it is what it is so uh just like uh on the 00:19:54.460 --> 00:19:56.680 actual january 6th by the end of the 6th the 00:19:56.680 --> 00:19:58.839 chief and the mayor realized this can't continue 00:19:58.839 --> 00:20:05.539 uh at this point go home stand down yeah at this 00:20:05.539 --> 00:20:07.380 point you're more than likely to be shot by some 00:20:07.380 --> 00:20:09.619 moonshiner than be attacked by the actual beast 00:20:09.619 --> 00:20:12.200 so for the safety of the public the officials 00:20:12.200 --> 00:20:14.140 called off the hunt like unless there was like 00:20:14.140 --> 00:20:16.380 a fresh kill or like a like an actual verified 00:20:16.380 --> 00:20:21.190 sighting just pack it up Get out. So the hunt 00:20:21.190 --> 00:20:23.230 was called off, and then wouldn't you know it, 00:20:23.289 --> 00:20:26.769 on January 7th, another dog was found mutilated 00:20:26.769 --> 00:20:30.529 by a nearby swamp. A farmer also reported that 00:20:30.529 --> 00:20:32.490 one of his goats had been killed in the same 00:20:32.490 --> 00:20:34.809 manner as the other animals by its skull being 00:20:34.809 --> 00:20:37.130 crushed and all of the blood drained from its 00:20:37.130 --> 00:20:42.329 body. Now, on a... Fucking hell. That's not good. 00:20:42.710 --> 00:20:45.809 Then on July 11th, two cars full of people were 00:20:45.809 --> 00:20:48.589 driving near Big Swamp. I assume that's a swamp. 00:20:48.910 --> 00:20:52.490 in the area. It's about four miles outside of 00:20:52.490 --> 00:20:55.049 Bladdenbury when both cars caught something in 00:20:55.049 --> 00:20:58.130 their headlights. A large, cat -like animal slowly 00:20:58.130 --> 00:21:00.529 crossing the road and giving absolutely zero 00:21:00.529 --> 00:21:03.910 fucks about the cars or the people in them. Six 00:21:03.910 --> 00:21:06.410 eyewitnesses who saw it gave almost consistent 00:21:06.410 --> 00:21:08.970 descriptions of what they saw. A four to five 00:21:08.970 --> 00:21:11.450 foot long animal with a large head, runty ears, 00:21:11.609 --> 00:21:14.750 and brownish fur. One witness, Jeff Evers, said 00:21:14.750 --> 00:21:17.329 it looked, quote -unquote, like a tabby, but 00:21:17.329 --> 00:21:19.890 if a tabby weighed 100 pounds and walked like 00:21:19.890 --> 00:21:23.210 an apex predator. Oh, like a lion then. So it 00:21:23.210 --> 00:21:27.869 was a lion. Pretty much, yeah. Or a tiger, right? 00:21:28.289 --> 00:21:31.670 Stripes? Tabby? Yeah. I mean, either way, it's 00:21:31.670 --> 00:21:34.569 a big cat. Too big for comfort, I feel like. 00:21:34.690 --> 00:21:37.029 Yeah, Dahl was right. I'm an idiot. I said lion 00:21:37.029 --> 00:21:40.029 when I meant to say tiger. It sounded like lion 00:21:40.029 --> 00:21:41.549 to begin with, though, because they mentioned 00:21:41.549 --> 00:21:44.410 a lot of hair. Yeah, big fluffy hair. Like a 00:21:44.410 --> 00:21:47.869 mane or something. So he's a liger. A liger. 00:21:48.789 --> 00:21:50.349 It's pretty much my favorite animal. Well, we 00:21:50.349 --> 00:21:53.630 did learn that crossbreeding goes against God, 00:21:53.730 --> 00:21:58.089 so it can't be a liger. That's what we have already 00:21:58.089 --> 00:22:02.200 established this. God would not allow that. What? 00:22:02.319 --> 00:22:05.460 He did allow fallen angels to reproduce with 00:22:05.460 --> 00:22:07.660 women and create the Nephilim. Well, I mean, 00:22:07.680 --> 00:22:10.000 that's different, though. It's different. It's 00:22:10.000 --> 00:22:14.039 a different thing. Come on, man. You're thinking 00:22:14.039 --> 00:22:15.619 about it too much. Don't think about it. You're 00:22:15.619 --> 00:22:17.279 right. You're right. That's the problem. That's 00:22:17.279 --> 00:22:18.900 the problem with most of these is that you're 00:22:18.900 --> 00:22:22.700 thinking about it. Just let it ride. The Bible 00:22:22.700 --> 00:22:24.500 sounds way more believable if you don't think 00:22:24.500 --> 00:22:27.559 about it at all. Yeah, true. So that sighting 00:22:27.559 --> 00:22:31.569 of the liar. That sighting was the last real 00:22:31.569 --> 00:22:33.750 glimpse of the creature and considered by locals 00:22:33.750 --> 00:22:37.190 as the last major sighting. Because on January 00:22:37.190 --> 00:22:40.490 13th, a local farmer and part -time hunter named 00:22:40.490 --> 00:22:43.049 Luther David found a bobcat snared in one of 00:22:43.049 --> 00:22:46.230 his steel traps. David shot it and brought the 00:22:46.230 --> 00:22:48.930 carcass into town. Now, the bobcat he caught 00:22:48.930 --> 00:22:52.250 wasn't enormous, maybe 25 to 35 pounds, which 00:22:52.250 --> 00:22:57.250 is normal for a bobcat, but nowhere near what 00:22:57.250 --> 00:23:00.339 witnesses had described seeing. the mayor of 00:23:00.339 --> 00:23:03.619 the town, Mayor Fussell, did not care. He was 00:23:03.619 --> 00:23:06.519 over this shit. So he called it, this was the 00:23:06.519 --> 00:23:09.980 beast, end of story. In a burst of dramatic small 00:23:09.980 --> 00:23:13.259 town pageantry, they hoisted the bobcat's corpse 00:23:13.259 --> 00:23:16.700 up a flagpole in downtown Bladdenbury and then 00:23:16.700 --> 00:23:19.019 slapped a handwritten sign underneath it that 00:23:19.019 --> 00:23:22.519 read, this is the beast of Bladdenborough. Pretty 00:23:22.519 --> 00:23:26.599 gnarly. I would have liked that better if it 00:23:26.599 --> 00:23:28.500 was just like a mission accomplished banner. 00:23:29.839 --> 00:23:35.539 Yeah. Just in terms of the accuracy of a bobcat 00:23:35.539 --> 00:23:39.259 crushing a dog's skull, I'm thinking George Bush 00:23:39.259 --> 00:23:40.480 -style mission accomplished. Would you say 30 00:23:40.480 --> 00:23:43.980 pounds? Yeah, 25 to 35 pounds. Not big. Not big 00:23:43.980 --> 00:23:45.759 at all. I don't think that could crush a dog's 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:48.700 skull. Like, my dog is twice that size. Yeah, 00:23:48.700 --> 00:23:53.980 no, it definitely couldn't. But, I mean, photos 00:23:53.980 --> 00:23:56.440 were taken, the press ate it up, the mayor had... 00:23:56.619 --> 00:23:59.500 declared victory but no one really believed it 00:23:59.500 --> 00:24:01.980 like the bobcat again yeah it didn't match any 00:24:01.980 --> 00:24:04.720 eyewitness descriptions it wasn't five feet long 00:24:04.720 --> 00:24:06.619 it definitely didn't have the power to crush 00:24:06.619 --> 00:24:10.140 skulls or just rip off heads entirely it's basically 00:24:10.140 --> 00:24:12.759 just a large house cat yeah and it for sure didn't 00:24:12.759 --> 00:24:16.039 explain like the missing and drained blood uh 00:24:16.039 --> 00:24:19.259 even the mayor himself admitted later that he 00:24:19.609 --> 00:24:21.450 didn't really think the bobcat was the culprit 00:24:21.450 --> 00:24:24.369 like he just wanted this shit to be done the 00:24:24.369 --> 00:24:26.730 mayor it makes sense i would have done the same 00:24:26.730 --> 00:24:29.430 the mayor of this town it reminds me a lot of 00:24:29.430 --> 00:24:33.890 the the one from jaws like okay just like he 00:24:33.890 --> 00:24:36.210 was just he didn't want anyone talking about 00:24:36.210 --> 00:24:38.670 what was going on but for some reason he's the 00:24:38.670 --> 00:24:41.069 one that called in the press for all of that 00:24:41.069 --> 00:24:43.289 like he just wanted he was a weird dude i didn't 00:24:43.289 --> 00:24:44.950 i left a lot of the stuff about the mayor out 00:24:44.950 --> 00:24:47.369 because fuck that guy it's not really important 00:24:47.369 --> 00:24:50.529 to the story but just imagine the mayor from 00:24:50.529 --> 00:24:54.789 jaws and that's that's this guy um got it but 00:24:54.789 --> 00:24:57.990 hey man the killing stopped like people were 00:24:57.990 --> 00:25:00.410 calming down so for the sake of public order 00:25:00.410 --> 00:25:04.910 case closed i guess but if no one truly believed 00:25:04.910 --> 00:25:07.450 it was a bobcat what could it have actually been 00:25:07.450 --> 00:25:10.930 you guys want to hear some theories yeah uh yeah 00:25:11.629 --> 00:25:14.910 Okay. Of course. Are any of them tigers or ligers? 00:25:15.029 --> 00:25:17.569 None of them are tigers or ligers, unfortunately. 00:25:18.049 --> 00:25:21.230 Well, this is kind of Appalachia, right? So are 00:25:21.230 --> 00:25:24.890 Faye on the table? Good call. Faye is not on 00:25:24.890 --> 00:25:27.910 the table. Shapeshifting Faye. Faye are always 00:25:27.910 --> 00:25:30.970 on the table, all right? Always. That is true. 00:25:31.690 --> 00:25:33.650 But that's not one of the theories that I came 00:25:33.650 --> 00:25:38.160 across. But maybe we can create our own. The 00:25:38.160 --> 00:25:39.900 first is that it could have been a wolf or possibly 00:25:39.900 --> 00:25:42.480 a coyote. Both are plausible in terms of behavior 00:25:42.480 --> 00:25:45.359 and bite strength, but neither fit the, quote, 00:25:45.420 --> 00:25:48.019 like, move like a cat and drain the blood angle 00:25:48.019 --> 00:25:50.099 that the story kind of centers around. And coyote 00:25:50.099 --> 00:25:52.660 are way too small. True. Also, coyotes weren't 00:25:52.660 --> 00:25:54.880 known in the region back then, and wolves had 00:25:54.880 --> 00:25:56.980 pretty much vanished from North Carolina by then 00:25:56.980 --> 00:26:01.220 altogether. So it doesn't seem very likely. Another 00:26:01.220 --> 00:26:03.660 theory is what I like to call the big boy theory. 00:26:03.779 --> 00:26:07.400 It is one of my favorites. This theory goes that 00:26:07.400 --> 00:26:09.980 a man from Lumberton, like the next town over, 00:26:10.119 --> 00:26:12.900 had claimed that the beast was actually his former 00:26:12.900 --> 00:26:16.339 dog, a 90 -pound German Shepherd hound mix named 00:26:16.339 --> 00:26:22.319 Big Boy. Former? Did he, like, resign? He had 00:26:22.319 --> 00:26:25.700 given it to a kid who lived near the swamp right 00:26:25.700 --> 00:26:28.759 before all the killing started. The dog was borderline 00:26:28.759 --> 00:26:31.460 feral, I guess. It was big, aggressive, and for 00:26:31.460 --> 00:26:33.910 the... most part largely unaccounted for most 00:26:33.910 --> 00:26:38.250 of the time. But again, that doesn't really match 00:26:38.250 --> 00:26:42.450 the description. And there was never any proof 00:26:42.450 --> 00:26:44.809 that Big Boy was ever involved or that he even 00:26:44.809 --> 00:26:46.549 existed. This could have just been a dude talking 00:26:46.549 --> 00:26:50.029 about his dog. I don't know. Then there's the 00:26:50.029 --> 00:26:52.849 theory that most locals and I myself believe 00:26:52.849 --> 00:26:55.230 is the most likely, and that is that the beast 00:26:55.230 --> 00:26:57.809 was a cougar or mountain lion, a .k .a. a Carolina 00:26:57.809 --> 00:27:00.690 panther. It fits the description almost to a 00:27:00.690 --> 00:27:04.319 T. Long tail, feline face, and even some of the 00:27:04.319 --> 00:27:06.700 sounds coming from the swamp match up. Thing 00:27:06.700 --> 00:27:10.140 is, though, the Carolina panther has been extinct 00:27:10.140 --> 00:27:13.019 with the last confirmed sighting dating back 00:27:13.019 --> 00:27:16.960 to the late 1800s. There have been reported sightings 00:27:16.960 --> 00:27:20.059 in the region for decades now. And in 2007, a 00:27:20.059 --> 00:27:22.039 wildlife camera may have caught one on a film. 00:27:22.200 --> 00:27:25.140 So it is possible that a lone panther was stalking 00:27:25.140 --> 00:27:29.259 the swamps in 1953, 1954. But who really knows? 00:27:29.460 --> 00:27:32.019 Stalking blood, though? Drinking all the blood? 00:27:32.140 --> 00:27:33.960 Well, they might have been, I don't know, lapping 00:27:33.960 --> 00:27:36.500 it up after the kill. Really thirsty. I don't 00:27:36.500 --> 00:27:42.319 know. It's all alone. Ringing it out. Yeah. And 00:27:42.319 --> 00:27:44.480 then you got the fun theory that the beast was 00:27:44.480 --> 00:27:47.079 something we've never classified. Maybe it's 00:27:47.079 --> 00:27:49.680 something vampiric, similar to the chupacabra. 00:27:50.019 --> 00:27:52.279 The bloodless corpses, the violence. It seems 00:27:52.279 --> 00:27:54.539 it could be like the southern cousin of the chupacabra. 00:27:55.140 --> 00:27:57.940 Others have tied it to the massive six -legged 00:27:57.940 --> 00:28:00.900 beast known as the wampus cat. a creature from 00:28:00.900 --> 00:28:03.940 indigenous and appalachian folklore the wampus 00:28:03.940 --> 00:28:06.920 cat is said to be similar in size and build to 00:28:06.920 --> 00:28:10.140 a cougar they're known for the absolute haunting 00:28:10.140 --> 00:28:12.819 sounds that they're known to make howls screams 00:28:12.819 --> 00:28:16.279 they're fucking fast strong said to attack livestock 00:28:16.279 --> 00:28:19.619 some even say they even possess the power to 00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:23.819 cause panic and fear Just cuz. They have extra 00:28:23.819 --> 00:28:25.759 arms too, right? Don't they have an extra set 00:28:25.759 --> 00:28:28.500 of limbs? Yeah, he said six legs. Yeah, six legs. 00:28:28.500 --> 00:28:31.359 And they can walk upright or on all six legs. 00:28:32.299 --> 00:28:37.640 It's not great. But then there's the boring theory 00:28:37.640 --> 00:28:41.720 and that it was just mass hysteria. I mean, probably. 00:28:41.819 --> 00:28:44.160 A few dog deaths, probably all from different 00:28:44.160 --> 00:28:46.599 predators got sensationalized and then the town 00:28:46.599 --> 00:28:50.099 spiraled into chaos. It's lame, but I mean, it 00:28:50.099 --> 00:28:53.329 fits. I mean, I'm a little confused, though, 00:28:53.390 --> 00:28:55.349 because I don't think there's a lot of predators 00:28:55.349 --> 00:28:57.849 that could rip a dog's head off or crush its 00:28:57.849 --> 00:29:00.049 skull. Like, dogs have hard skulls. It's got 00:29:00.049 --> 00:29:03.130 bears. Maybe a horse wandered in and fucking 00:29:03.130 --> 00:29:07.089 kicked it in the skull. You don't know. It's 00:29:07.089 --> 00:29:10.650 a small town. I guess it could have bled out, 00:29:10.750 --> 00:29:14.150 too, and if it's in the dirt or something at 00:29:14.150 --> 00:29:17.289 night and dried up by morning, people, I don't 00:29:17.289 --> 00:29:19.829 know. I could see it being hysteria. But also, 00:29:19.930 --> 00:29:21.720 I mean, I don't know how cold it gets in North 00:29:21.720 --> 00:29:25.460 Carolina. This is end of December, early January. 00:29:25.980 --> 00:29:29.140 I don't know what that does to it. I would say, 00:29:29.299 --> 00:29:31.720 I don't know. It's probably still got a little 00:29:31.720 --> 00:29:35.859 cold. It was probably in the 40s and 50s. I don't 00:29:35.859 --> 00:29:37.920 know why I was thinking it just evaporates. I 00:29:37.920 --> 00:29:41.740 don't know. I'm not very smart. But whatever 00:29:41.740 --> 00:29:43.839 was prowling around Bladenboro that winter left 00:29:43.839 --> 00:29:46.099 more than just dead dogs in its wake. It left 00:29:46.099 --> 00:29:48.730 a legend. Decades later, people still talk about 00:29:48.730 --> 00:29:50.829 the beast. It's now on t -shirts. It's celebrated 00:29:50.829 --> 00:29:53.369 at festivals. And it's still the subject of many 00:29:53.369 --> 00:29:56.130 a campfire stories. Maybe it was a bobcat. Maybe 00:29:56.130 --> 00:29:58.349 it was just mass hysteria. Or maybe it's something 00:29:58.349 --> 00:30:01.470 we still haven't caught. Either way, there you 00:30:01.470 --> 00:30:04.089 have it. That is the legend of the beast of Bladdenboro. 00:30:05.190 --> 00:30:07.930 How we feeling? Dahl, we'll start with you. I 00:30:07.930 --> 00:30:10.119 dig it. I mean, I don't like all the dog death, 00:30:10.319 --> 00:30:12.500 but I do think it's funny that he kind of became 00:30:12.500 --> 00:30:15.299 like the town hero at the end. This thing that 00:30:15.299 --> 00:30:20.119 we tried to kill for a week. And then it's just 00:30:20.119 --> 00:30:23.420 like, nope, he's actually pretty awesome. I do 00:30:23.420 --> 00:30:26.059 feel bad for the bobcat who wound up being a 00:30:26.059 --> 00:30:31.380 flag. Yeah, dude, that's wild, dude. How do you 00:30:31.380 --> 00:30:35.009 even do that? Like tie its paws around? It's 00:30:35.009 --> 00:30:37.589 just a fucked up thing to do to a bobcat. It's 00:30:37.589 --> 00:30:39.529 not even going to wave in the wind. But also 00:30:39.529 --> 00:30:43.789 not to be super offensive or blue, but it's North 00:30:43.789 --> 00:30:48.690 Carolina in the 1950s. I'm sure they know how 00:30:48.690 --> 00:30:51.849 to string things up is all I'm saying. Oh, god 00:30:51.849 --> 00:30:54.849 damn it. Yeah, was this a sundowntown? It sounds 00:30:54.849 --> 00:30:56.869 like a sundowntown. I actually googled if it 00:30:56.869 --> 00:31:01.029 was a sundowntown, and it said... It said... 00:31:01.279 --> 00:31:04.240 it said it wasn't but the county that it was 00:31:04.240 --> 00:31:10.900 in was so technically we're not a sundown town 00:31:10.900 --> 00:31:15.079 but we are part of the uh tri -state region which 00:31:15.079 --> 00:31:19.619 is a sundown area yeah so i i did look it up 00:31:19.619 --> 00:31:21.680 because i was like i because if it is i have 00:31:21.680 --> 00:31:23.660 to mention it it didn't say it was so i didn't 00:31:23.660 --> 00:31:26.940 but again i feel like my point still stands about 00:31:26.940 --> 00:31:29.940 the how they got the bobcat yeah no that makes 00:31:29.940 --> 00:31:33.000 a lot of sense yeah i'm really shocked a place 00:31:33.000 --> 00:31:36.220 below the mason dixon is a sundown area yeah 00:31:36.220 --> 00:31:38.539 and you said they went through mass hysteria 00:31:38.539 --> 00:31:41.059 that doesn't sound like them at all no no no 00:31:41.059 --> 00:31:44.299 that doesn't sound southern in any way well sarge 00:31:44.299 --> 00:31:46.640 i feel like we can't say much we did have a whole 00:31:46.640 --> 00:31:50.000 series of trials that ended in a lot of deaths 00:31:50.000 --> 00:31:53.720 um mostly because we thought people were witches 00:31:53.720 --> 00:31:57.960 so That was before Harvard was founded, okay? 00:31:58.779 --> 00:32:03.160 Okay. All right. That was different. Those were 00:32:03.160 --> 00:32:05.680 actually witches. Yes, exactly. It's a little 00:32:05.680 --> 00:32:08.539 different. They were witches. Sarge, how are 00:32:08.539 --> 00:32:14.259 you feeling about this story? I think that this 00:32:14.259 --> 00:32:17.380 story is a really good message to Kristi Noem. 00:32:17.519 --> 00:32:20.619 You can kill as many dogs as you want, and eventually 00:32:20.619 --> 00:32:25.890 you will get retribution. so nothing happened 00:32:25.890 --> 00:32:28.430 to the mayor there's hope nothing but we don't 00:32:28.430 --> 00:32:31.130 know the beast is still out there yeah but the 00:32:31.130 --> 00:32:33.309 beast became a hero after it killed a bunch of 00:32:33.309 --> 00:32:34.950 dogs and i think that's what christy's shooting 00:32:34.950 --> 00:32:38.569 for literally literally shooting for this is 00:32:38.569 --> 00:32:41.910 it's like the the the redneck version of john 00:32:41.910 --> 00:32:46.289 wick except it's the old town and rather than 00:32:46.289 --> 00:32:48.410 like killing all the people who were involved 00:32:48.410 --> 00:32:53.690 they just shrunk up a fucking The flagpole in 00:32:53.690 --> 00:32:56.130 Colorado today because the mayor declared it. 00:32:56.430 --> 00:33:00.410 Dude, like the mayor declaring victory. I mean, 00:33:00.430 --> 00:33:03.329 I get it, dude. Like you have 800. Your town 00:33:03.329 --> 00:33:05.130 doubled in size overnight. You're like, just 00:33:05.130 --> 00:33:07.730 get these fucking people out of here. Yeah. Look, 00:33:07.849 --> 00:33:10.109 there it is. We did it, guys. Fucking go home. 00:33:10.569 --> 00:33:14.029 Leave me alone now. You could tell he like being 00:33:14.029 --> 00:33:18.230 the mayor of 750 people is probably easy peasy. 00:33:18.529 --> 00:33:21.980 And his job got. way harder in three days than 00:33:21.980 --> 00:33:24.200 it's ever been in the entire time he was mayor 00:33:24.200 --> 00:33:27.740 i gotta say i am actually shocked that that many 00:33:27.740 --> 00:33:31.140 armed idiots went into the woods and not one 00:33:31.140 --> 00:33:34.759 person got shot yeah you would think that there 00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:37.299 would have been more cat i feel like we've covered 00:33:37.299 --> 00:33:39.140 stories before where there was more near misses 00:33:39.140 --> 00:33:42.019 than there were with this one exactly and i'm 00:33:42.019 --> 00:33:44.160 and that's not even like me making fun of the 00:33:44.160 --> 00:33:48.430 region or anything you give to any idiots a bunch 00:33:48.430 --> 00:33:51.349 of guns and put them into the woods, you're probably 00:33:51.349 --> 00:33:53.750 going to get shot. You get an Ashley Babbitt 00:33:53.750 --> 00:33:56.950 at some point. Exactly. Well, no, because nobody's 00:33:56.950 --> 00:33:59.670 going to celebrate the idiot getting shot because 00:33:59.670 --> 00:34:02.809 he wasn't trying to steal America. You can't 00:34:02.809 --> 00:34:06.289 really turn them into a martyr for the Beast 00:34:06.289 --> 00:34:11.309 of Bladenboro. All right, guys. I think that's 00:34:11.309 --> 00:34:14.269 all we got. That's the entire episode. I want 00:34:14.269 --> 00:34:17.130 to thank Da for coming on. Sarge, thank you for 00:34:17.130 --> 00:34:19.989 just being you starting to show off with dick 00:34:19.989 --> 00:34:24.469 jokes um duh before we go i just made the one 00:34:24.469 --> 00:34:26.929 is uh is there anything you want to plug anything 00:34:26.929 --> 00:34:29.050 you want to say anything you got going on yeah 00:34:29.050 --> 00:34:31.550 i thought it might be uh appropriate to plug 00:34:31.550 --> 00:34:34.869 uh since this is cryptic cocktail hour uh the 00:34:34.869 --> 00:34:39.510 mocktail that i'm drinking is uh it's a non -alcoholic 00:34:39.510 --> 00:34:42.030 whiskey and coke flavored soda called cowboy 00:34:42.030 --> 00:34:44.769 cola oh hell yeah this is actually this is actually 00:34:44.769 --> 00:34:46.909 my company me and a buddy started it earlier 00:34:46.909 --> 00:34:49.309 really earlier this year and we recently launched 00:34:49.309 --> 00:34:52.070 yeah we're called no spirit we've got a uh the 00:34:52.070 --> 00:34:54.130 cowboy cola then we have a caribbean cola right 00:34:54.130 --> 00:34:57.269 now which is a non -alcoholic rum and coke uh 00:34:57.269 --> 00:35:00.570 and then we are working on grandma tonic is what 00:35:00.570 --> 00:35:02.690 we're calling it and it's a non -alcoholic gin 00:35:02.690 --> 00:35:05.190 and tonic flavored soda Not gonna lie, I would 00:35:05.190 --> 00:35:07.489 drink the fuck out of a non -alcoholic gin and 00:35:07.489 --> 00:35:10.230 tonic. Yeah, I love gin and tonic. Send me an 00:35:10.230 --> 00:35:12.250 address and I'll send y 'all some samples. Hell 00:35:12.250 --> 00:35:14.909 yeah, man. Yeah, absolutely. I'll plug the fuck 00:35:14.909 --> 00:35:16.750 out of that too. Thank you so much. Oh yeah. 00:35:16.869 --> 00:35:18.690 And if people want to find you, where can they 00:35:18.690 --> 00:35:22.969 find you? I'm on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube 00:35:22.969 --> 00:35:27.909 at at logo lore for DAW. D -A -W. Alright. And 00:35:27.909 --> 00:35:29.510 you mentioned to me something about, I can edit 00:35:29.510 --> 00:35:30.730 this part out, but you mentioned something about 00:35:30.730 --> 00:35:32.409 working on a comic book. Do you want to talk 00:35:32.409 --> 00:35:35.849 about that or no? sure yeah uh me and a buddy 00:35:35.849 --> 00:35:38.869 wrote um we're working on a comic book we wrote 00:35:38.869 --> 00:35:41.510 the first issue about a year ago and it's taken 00:35:41.510 --> 00:35:44.269 me a while to illustrate it but it is uh it's 00:35:44.269 --> 00:35:46.949 called mid strangeness so kind of a take on high 00:35:46.949 --> 00:35:50.929 strangeness uh about a pretty good a wampus cat 00:35:50.929 --> 00:35:56.269 and a uh and a skunk ape in who live in the middle 00:35:56.269 --> 00:35:59.989 of a swamp in florida called strangeness And 00:35:59.989 --> 00:36:02.110 yeah, it's kind of just a love letter to like 00:36:02.110 --> 00:36:06.070 old school rubber hose animation up through like 00:36:06.070 --> 00:36:09.789 old Hanna -Barbera cartoons. A lot of up through 00:36:09.789 --> 00:36:12.090 like even Ren and Stimpy type of stuff kind of 00:36:12.090 --> 00:36:15.489 influenced it being a kid of the 90s. Working 00:36:15.489 --> 00:36:17.150 on that, I don't know when that's going to be 00:36:17.150 --> 00:36:22.409 out. Who knows? It's a work in progress. I love 00:36:22.409 --> 00:36:25.670 Vernon Stimpy. When it gets closer to being released, 00:36:25.869 --> 00:36:27.710 we'll definitely have both of you on to talk 00:36:27.710 --> 00:36:30.650 about it. I think that'd be super fun. That'd 00:36:30.650 --> 00:36:32.889 be awesome. Sarge, you got anything you want 00:36:32.889 --> 00:36:37.150 to plug or say before we sign off? If you don't 00:36:37.150 --> 00:36:40.170 want a mocktail, drink Narragansett. They are 00:36:40.170 --> 00:36:42.469 our sponsor, and we are both drinking Narragansett 00:36:42.469 --> 00:36:46.050 right now. Dave's rocking the Atlantic, and I'm 00:36:46.050 --> 00:36:49.349 doing a red beer with just a traditional Narragansett 00:36:49.349 --> 00:36:52.489 lager and some Clamato. Ooh, that sounds awful. 00:36:53.989 --> 00:36:58.150 It sounds awful, but you get a taste for it, 00:36:58.190 --> 00:36:59.809 and then it becomes really good. It's like a 00:36:59.809 --> 00:37:02.650 redneck Bloody Mary. I was going to say, we used 00:37:02.650 --> 00:37:05.269 to call that redneck Bloody Marys, but that was 00:37:05.269 --> 00:37:09.090 PBR and tomato juice. It's all bad. It's not 00:37:09.090 --> 00:37:11.269 good. Clamato is a little bit better than tomato 00:37:11.269 --> 00:37:13.210 juice. It's a little bit more of an interesting 00:37:13.210 --> 00:37:15.449 flavor. All right. All right. So with that out 00:37:15.449 --> 00:37:18.389 of the way, normally I would have Sarge say goodbye 00:37:18.389 --> 00:37:20.030 and I'd love to do the audience. But, Dawg, do 00:37:20.030 --> 00:37:21.389 you want to do the honors of saying goodbye and 00:37:21.389 --> 00:37:23.030 I'd love to do the audience? Oh, yeah, sure. 00:37:23.389 --> 00:37:25.869 Goodbye, bunch of people I've never met. I love 00:37:25.869 --> 00:37:27.710 you. I love you so much. Yes.