WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:02.859 They say the eyes of Kentucky watch from the 00:00:02.859 --> 00:00:06.919 woods. But what if something darker lives beneath 00:00:06.919 --> 00:00:11.080 them? A creature that walks like a man but hides 00:00:11.080 --> 00:00:15.099 in the stone veins of the earth? What if the 00:00:15.099 --> 00:00:18.260 world's largest cave system ain't just a tourist 00:00:18.260 --> 00:00:24.600 stop, but Bigfoot's front porch? Welcome to Kentucky 00:00:24.600 --> 00:00:29.019 Melody, where the hollers hum with history, and 00:00:29.019 --> 00:00:33.000 the shadows whisper truth. Today, we're taking 00:00:33.000 --> 00:00:37.520 you deep underground, where ancient stone, native 00:00:37.520 --> 00:00:42.979 lore, and modern terror collide. This is the 00:00:42.979 --> 00:00:47.859 hidden world of Kentucky's Bigfoot. Kentucky 00:00:47.859 --> 00:00:51.600 ain't just pretty hills and porch sitting. Nah. 00:00:52.439 --> 00:00:55.079 She's a place stitched together with secrets. 00:00:55.320 --> 00:00:58.420 where the land itself don't tell all it knows. 00:00:59.820 --> 00:01:03.200 Beneath them, gentle slopes and hollers, there's 00:01:03.200 --> 00:01:06.780 a whole world that breathes in the dark, a belly 00:01:06.780 --> 00:01:10.200 full of stone and shadow stretching for miles. 00:01:11.239 --> 00:01:14.719 Mammoth cave, they call it, but that name don't 00:01:14.719 --> 00:01:18.599 do her justice. That thing winds on for over 00:01:18.599 --> 00:01:22.359 420 miles, twisting deeper than we got nerve 00:01:22.359 --> 00:01:26.159 to follow. And reckon this, There's more of it 00:01:26.159 --> 00:01:30.140 we ain't even found yet. It's a black maze, older 00:01:30.140 --> 00:01:33.640 in memory, humming with the kind of silence that 00:01:33.640 --> 00:01:38.480 don't feel empty. Out yonder in Red River Gorge, 00:01:38.900 --> 00:01:41.859 the cliffs rise up like bones from the earth, 00:01:42.459 --> 00:01:44.840 wearing the marks of a million years of wind 00:01:44.840 --> 00:01:48.480 and rain, carved into arches that frame the sky 00:01:48.480 --> 00:01:51.560 like gates to somewhere we ain't meant to go. 00:01:52.459 --> 00:01:56.879 Them canyons ain't just deep. They feel wrong, 00:01:57.420 --> 00:01:59.980 like something's watching from between the rocks. 00:02:00.640 --> 00:02:03.640 And when the sun starts to sink and that fog 00:02:03.640 --> 00:02:06.620 rolls over the Daniel Boone forest like a ghost's 00:02:06.620 --> 00:02:11.500 breath, them woods get real quiet. Too quiet. 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:16.180 Then there's the gap, Cumberland, where the fog 00:02:16.180 --> 00:02:18.900 clings low and the wind carries voices that don't 00:02:18.900 --> 00:02:22.919 belong to no living soul. Old paths cross there, 00:02:23.180 --> 00:02:26.659 worn down by moccasins and boot heels, leading 00:02:26.659 --> 00:02:31.120 nowhere and back again. All this land, it ain't 00:02:31.120 --> 00:02:35.199 just rugged, it's secretive. It was carved not 00:02:35.199 --> 00:02:38.860 for man, but for hiding. Not just from the law, 00:02:39.219 --> 00:02:42.500 not just from plain sight, but from the very 00:02:42.500 --> 00:02:46.219 eyes of science itself. And deep down, where 00:02:46.219 --> 00:02:49.039 the sun don't reach and the ground never warms, 00:02:49.240 --> 00:02:54.020 Something ancient just might be waiting. Long 00:02:54.020 --> 00:02:56.960 before anybody ever called this place Kentucky, 00:02:57.759 --> 00:03:01.060 long before fences or roads or settler feet stirred 00:03:01.060 --> 00:03:04.460 the soil, the land belonged to the ones who listened 00:03:04.460 --> 00:03:09.080 to it. The Shawnee, the Cherokee, the Chickasaw, 00:03:09.460 --> 00:03:13.560 and the Uchi. They knew these ridges like kin, 00:03:14.340 --> 00:03:17.030 hunted these forests with reverence. And they 00:03:17.030 --> 00:03:20.610 told stories passed down like fire from one tongue 00:03:20.610 --> 00:03:23.969 to the next. But these weren't stories to make 00:03:23.969 --> 00:03:28.569 young guns giggle, no sir. These were warnings 00:03:28.569 --> 00:03:32.310 wrapped in whispers and shadows. They spoke of 00:03:32.310 --> 00:03:36.469 something big, something not quite man, not quite 00:03:36.469 --> 00:03:40.469 beast. A great hairy figure that walked upright, 00:03:40.969 --> 00:03:44.150 taller than any warrior, with eyes that glowed 00:03:44.150 --> 00:03:47.400 in the firelight. They said it came in the night, 00:03:47.919 --> 00:03:51.680 taking food right out of cookpots, leaving tracks 00:03:51.680 --> 00:03:54.719 bigger than a bear's, and howling through the 00:03:54.719 --> 00:03:58.919 valleys, a sound so mournful it'd freeze a man's 00:03:58.919 --> 00:04:02.900 blood right in his veins. And when brave souls 00:04:02.900 --> 00:04:06.780 gave chase, hoping to catch or kill it, the thing 00:04:06.780 --> 00:04:10.500 would vanish, slip into the earth itself, swallowed 00:04:10.500 --> 00:04:14.000 by some cave that weren't there before, or so 00:04:14.000 --> 00:04:19.009 they said. The Cherokee called him Tzul Kalu, 00:04:19.850 --> 00:04:22.750 the slope -and -shouldered one, a wild man of 00:04:22.750 --> 00:04:25.529 the deep woods, older than language and stronger 00:04:25.529 --> 00:04:29.449 than ten men. But he weren't just a myth to them. 00:04:29.930 --> 00:04:34.050 He was a force, a creature you gave respect to, 00:04:34.350 --> 00:04:38.230 same as a storm or a sickness. And them stories? 00:04:38.750 --> 00:04:42.670 They weren't for entertainment. They were spoken 00:04:42.670 --> 00:04:46.360 with urgency. told round fires and whispered 00:04:46.360 --> 00:04:50.199 through tears. You didn't go into the woods after 00:04:50.199 --> 00:04:53.379 dark. You didn't follow the sounds of laughing 00:04:53.379 --> 00:04:57.019 children when you knew none was near. And by 00:04:57.019 --> 00:05:01.220 God, you never, ever whistled near a cave, because 00:05:01.220 --> 00:05:06.339 if you did, it might just whistle back. Back 00:05:06.339 --> 00:05:09.759 in the 1800s, before folks had a name for what 00:05:09.759 --> 00:05:13.019 they were seeing, They just called them wild 00:05:13.019 --> 00:05:16.720 men of the hills, big hairy things that didn't 00:05:16.720 --> 00:05:20.420 belong to the world they knew. They'd come down 00:05:20.420 --> 00:05:23.360 off the ridge lines just as the sun dipped low, 00:05:24.160 --> 00:05:29.339 always silent, always watching. And now, over 00:05:29.339 --> 00:05:32.420 a century later, them stories ain't just hanging 00:05:32.420 --> 00:05:35.839 on. They're piling up thicker than fog and a 00:05:35.839 --> 00:05:40.220 holler. Out in Harland County, folks still speak 00:05:40.220 --> 00:05:42.660 in hushed tones about a massive, coal -black 00:05:42.660 --> 00:05:46.019 creature, taller than a barn door, slipping through 00:05:46.019 --> 00:05:50.800 the trees like smoke. No sound, no trail. Just 00:05:50.800 --> 00:05:54.360 there one second and gone the next. Closer to 00:05:54.360 --> 00:05:57.980 Cumberland Falls, hunters have heard deep, guttural 00:05:57.980 --> 00:06:00.579 growls rolling through the trees like thunder 00:06:00.579 --> 00:06:03.699 with teeth, shaking their rifles and rattling 00:06:03.699 --> 00:06:07.930 their nerves. One fella near Pulaski County said 00:06:07.930 --> 00:06:11.310 he was bow hunting at dawn when he got that feeling. 00:06:12.350 --> 00:06:16.329 Like eyes were burning into his back. He turned 00:06:16.329 --> 00:06:19.329 and saw something squatting low between the trees. 00:06:19.850 --> 00:06:23.850 Eyes red as embers, locked on to him and they 00:06:23.850 --> 00:06:28.250 never blinked. Not once. He left them woods with 00:06:28.250 --> 00:06:31.829 his hands shaken and his arrows untouched. Thing 00:06:31.829 --> 00:06:35.139 is... These ain't campfire tales from old men 00:06:35.139 --> 00:06:39.180 with whiskey breath. These are stories from solid 00:06:39.180 --> 00:06:44.199 folks. Loggers, veterans, preachers, even lawmen. 00:06:44.879 --> 00:06:47.740 And there's one thing that ties every single 00:06:47.740 --> 00:06:52.019 one together. They all happen near caves. Every. 00:06:52.720 --> 00:07:00.220 Damn. Time. Now, listen. Bigfoot's real. And 00:07:00.220 --> 00:07:03.110 I ain't saying he ain't. then he'd have to be 00:07:03.110 --> 00:07:06.529 smarter than your average critter. Smart enough 00:07:06.529 --> 00:07:09.709 to stay out of sight all these years. He'd need 00:07:09.709 --> 00:07:14.209 a place to hole up, a place so deep and so tangled 00:07:14.209 --> 00:07:17.529 folks wouldn't dare poke their heads in. He'd 00:07:17.529 --> 00:07:20.029 need shelter from the weather, cover from the 00:07:20.029 --> 00:07:23.649 eyes of man, and space to roam without ever showing 00:07:23.649 --> 00:07:29.129 his face. And Kentucky? Well, this land provides 00:07:29.129 --> 00:07:33.120 all that and more. Them caves, they ain't just 00:07:33.120 --> 00:07:36.220 holes in the ground. They're veins running beneath 00:07:36.220 --> 00:07:39.920 the state, dark and endless, twisting through 00:07:39.920 --> 00:07:43.019 limestone and sandstone like a root system built 00:07:43.019 --> 00:07:46.879 for ghosts. Underground rivers cut through them. 00:07:47.500 --> 00:07:51.060 The air stays cool no matter the season, and 00:07:51.060 --> 00:07:53.699 half the entrances are swallowed up by thickets 00:07:53.699 --> 00:07:57.060 and moss, tucked under ledges where no one's 00:07:57.060 --> 00:07:59.839 looking. You ain't gonna stumble across them 00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:03.319 unless the land wants you to. Some folks say 00:08:03.319 --> 00:08:07.259 these ain't just dens. They're highways carved 00:08:07.259 --> 00:08:11.019 by time and water connecting Mammoth Cave to 00:08:11.019 --> 00:08:14.860 Red River Gorge on through to Carter Caves and 00:08:14.860 --> 00:08:18.120 God knows where else. A creature could travel 00:08:18.120 --> 00:08:21.500 for miles beneath our feet never once stepping 00:08:21.500 --> 00:08:25.040 into the daylight. And here's where it gets real 00:08:25.040 --> 00:08:28.480 unsettling. There's folks who believe Bigfoot 00:08:28.480 --> 00:08:32.320 don't roam all year round. They think he sleeps, 00:08:32.840 --> 00:08:35.940 like a bear curled up for winter, tucked away 00:08:35.940 --> 00:08:39.539 in some damp limestone pocket, breathing slow, 00:08:40.000 --> 00:08:44.019 waiting for the cold to pass. Then, come spring, 00:08:44.500 --> 00:08:48.700 he stirs, steps out under the full moon, and 00:08:48.700 --> 00:08:52.200 the stories start up all over again. Makes you 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:55.110 wonder, don't it? What else is breathing down 00:08:55.110 --> 00:08:59.950 there in the dark? Eyewitnesses, good folks, 00:09:00.190 --> 00:09:03.629 mind you, not drunkards or tall -tail spinners, 00:09:03.889 --> 00:09:06.250 they all paint the same picture, whether it's 00:09:06.250 --> 00:09:08.669 from the mountains of Harlan or the valleys near 00:09:08.669 --> 00:09:12.309 Moorhead. They say it's a thing you ain't likely 00:09:12.309 --> 00:09:16.370 to forget once you lay eyes on it. Stands tall, 00:09:16.669 --> 00:09:21.190 real tall. Seven to ten feet, easy, broad -shouldered 00:09:21.190 --> 00:09:23.409 and thick through the chest like it would carve 00:09:23.409 --> 00:09:26.830 out a raw muscle and gristle, hair hanging down 00:09:26.830 --> 00:09:31.009 in thick mats, black as coal or sometimes a rust 00:09:31.009 --> 00:09:35.389 red like dried blood in moonlight. Its arms, 00:09:36.070 --> 00:09:38.750 long enough to brush the tops of brush with its 00:09:38.750 --> 00:09:42.190 knuckles, swinging low like a man that's lost 00:09:42.190 --> 00:09:46.590 the need to stand proper. And its neck, ain't 00:09:46.590 --> 00:09:51.039 got one. Head just sits there, pressed down between 00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:53.259 them hunched up shoulders like something that 00:09:53.259 --> 00:09:56.600 was meant to stay crouched, but learn to stand. 00:09:57.600 --> 00:10:01.340 They say it don't move like us. It don't stumble 00:10:01.340 --> 00:10:06.220 or stomp. It just glides, smooth and steady, 00:10:06.860 --> 00:10:10.200 like it don't weigh nothing at all. But you feel 00:10:10.200 --> 00:10:13.960 it when it's near. The air gets heavy. Birds 00:10:13.960 --> 00:10:17.929 stop singing. The woods go still. Like the whole 00:10:17.929 --> 00:10:20.389 forest knows something unnatural just stepped 00:10:20.389 --> 00:10:24.129 through the trees. And when it cries out, God 00:10:24.129 --> 00:10:28.049 help you if you hear it, it ain't no bear, and 00:10:28.049 --> 00:10:31.529 it sure ain't no man. It's this gut -twisting 00:10:31.529 --> 00:10:35.090 howl, half like a wolf mourning, half like a 00:10:35.090 --> 00:10:38.269 man screaming with his last breath. Folks say 00:10:38.269 --> 00:10:40.929 it'll rattle your bones, make your blood run 00:10:40.929 --> 00:10:46.070 cold. As for what it eats, ain't picky. Berries, 00:10:46.350 --> 00:10:52.110 roots, river trout, rabbits, even deer. One farmer 00:10:52.110 --> 00:10:54.429 swore up and down something was dragging full 00:10:54.429 --> 00:10:57.629 -grown bucks clean out of his fence line. Bones 00:10:57.629 --> 00:11:00.470 found cracked like kindling, stripped clean, 00:11:00.710 --> 00:11:04.370 but not chewed. And here's the part most folks 00:11:04.370 --> 00:11:07.750 don't want to believe. There might be more than 00:11:07.750 --> 00:11:11.850 one. Whole family units moving together quiet 00:11:11.850 --> 00:11:15.269 as fog, teaching their young how to stay hid, 00:11:15.470 --> 00:11:19.320 how to watch. How to listen. That's why you don't 00:11:19.320 --> 00:11:22.700 catch them on cameras. That's why they vanish 00:11:22.700 --> 00:11:26.480 like smoke. They're smart. Smarter than we give 00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:30.580 them credit for. Territorial too. Ain't just 00:11:30.580 --> 00:11:34.139 wandering around for fun. And no matter how close 00:11:34.139 --> 00:11:38.240 you think you are, they're always one step ahead. 00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:43.340 Just out of sight. Just out of reach. But never 00:11:43.340 --> 00:11:50.110 far. Never too far. Now, some folks will tell 00:11:50.110 --> 00:11:53.429 you the age of monsters is over, that what ain't 00:11:53.429 --> 00:11:56.710 been seen by satellite or spotlight don't exist. 00:11:57.309 --> 00:12:00.169 But out here in Kentucky, the woods don't care 00:12:00.169 --> 00:12:03.370 what science says, and neither do the folks who've 00:12:03.370 --> 00:12:07.090 seen what's hiding in them. Back in the fall 00:12:07.090 --> 00:12:12.090 of 2009 over in Logan County, an old man, pushed 00:12:12.090 --> 00:12:15.629 80 years if he was a day, stepped out into his 00:12:15.629 --> 00:12:19.509 backyard one evening. claimed he felt eyes on 00:12:19.509 --> 00:12:22.850 him, and when he turned, there it stood. Nine 00:12:22.850 --> 00:12:27.289 foot tall, hair the color of ash, eyes like black 00:12:27.289 --> 00:12:30.870 glass burning red. Said it didn't walk through 00:12:30.870 --> 00:12:34.289 the fence, it stepped over it, like it was just 00:12:34.289 --> 00:12:37.350 a twig in the way. He ain't never slept right 00:12:37.350 --> 00:12:41.389 since. A few years later, in the early summer 00:12:41.389 --> 00:12:46.899 of 2019, up near Harlan County, A man riding 00:12:46.899 --> 00:12:51.879 along Highway 119 near Dawn caught sight of something 00:12:51.879 --> 00:12:55.299 dragging a full -grown buck off into the trees, 00:12:56.139 --> 00:12:59.419 not carrying it like meat, neither, like it was 00:12:59.419 --> 00:13:02.600 just cleaning up, said it moved like it didn't 00:13:02.600 --> 00:13:07.360 care who was watching. That same year, near Mammoth 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:11.049 Cave National Park, Two campers got woke up in 00:13:11.049 --> 00:13:13.549 the dead of night by a man shouting about how 00:13:13.549 --> 00:13:17.549 Bigfoot had wrecked his camp. Fellow was shaken, 00:13:18.029 --> 00:13:20.450 said he'd seen something with glowing eyes staring 00:13:20.450 --> 00:13:24.789 down at him. Ended up firing shots into the dark, 00:13:25.210 --> 00:13:28.909 swearing he hit nothing, but something was watching 00:13:28.909 --> 00:13:34.190 him sleep. Come November 2021 in the quiet woods 00:13:34.190 --> 00:13:37.470 of Lawrence County, A hunter spotted something 00:13:37.470 --> 00:13:41.289 standing in broad daylight. Said it weren't a 00:13:41.289 --> 00:13:45.649 man, weren't a bear, but something else. He never 00:13:45.649 --> 00:13:47.950 said what he did with his hunting gear after, 00:13:47.950 --> 00:13:50.669 but I reckon he left it right where he stood. 00:13:51.549 --> 00:13:55.730 Then in February of 2022, out near Cronos in 00:13:55.730 --> 00:13:59.250 Ohio County, a man named L .S. was walking just 00:13:59.250 --> 00:14:03.129 before dusk when he saw it. Tall, lean, and gone 00:14:03.129 --> 00:14:06.679 in five seconds flat. Said it weren't just fast, 00:14:07.200 --> 00:14:12.200 it was quiet. Too quiet. That same year, down 00:14:12.200 --> 00:14:15.100 in the hills near Sandy Hook and Elliott County, 00:14:15.759 --> 00:14:18.240 a fella driving through them back roads caught 00:14:18.240 --> 00:14:21.080 something big squatting in the tall grass by 00:14:21.080 --> 00:14:24.340 the tree line. Looked him square in the face, 00:14:24.620 --> 00:14:28.279 then vanished like mist. He locked his doors, 00:14:28.659 --> 00:14:33.389 floored it, and didn't look back. Now come October 00:14:33.389 --> 00:14:38.090 of 2023, way out west in the woods, something 00:14:38.090 --> 00:14:41.210 strange happened. A whole group out with the 00:14:41.210 --> 00:14:44.309 Kentucky Bigfoot Research Organization spotted 00:14:44.309 --> 00:14:47.710 what they called a vanilla -colored Bigfoot. 00:14:48.230 --> 00:14:52.389 Not once, not twice, but three separate witnesses 00:14:52.389 --> 00:14:56.870 in the same evening. Pale and strange, like it 00:14:56.870 --> 00:15:00.009 had never seen the sun, and it weren't hiding 00:15:00.009 --> 00:15:04.070 neither. It was watching, like it wanted to be 00:15:04.070 --> 00:15:09.269 seen. Not long after, that same year, a retired 00:15:09.269 --> 00:15:13.129 Marine, fella by the name of Joe, came forward. 00:15:13.769 --> 00:15:16.470 He said he was out on his land in eastern Kentucky 00:15:16.470 --> 00:15:19.169 when he felt something watching from the trees. 00:15:19.909 --> 00:15:23.350 Said he could hear it breathing, deep and heavy. 00:15:23.950 --> 00:15:26.690 Said it weren't no bear, and he sure as hell 00:15:26.690 --> 00:15:30.389 knew what a man sounded like. Whatever it was, 00:15:30.639 --> 00:15:35.080 They weren't scared of him. And way back when, 00:15:35.460 --> 00:15:39.600 late in 1970s, two kids playing on the edge of 00:15:39.600 --> 00:15:42.740 a tree line in Anderson County saw something 00:15:42.740 --> 00:15:45.960 they first thought was a twisted old tree, till 00:15:45.960 --> 00:15:49.080 it started walking toward them, covered in gray 00:15:49.080 --> 00:15:53.419 fur. They ran screaming and never went back to 00:15:53.419 --> 00:15:57.200 that patch of woods again. And if that don't 00:15:57.200 --> 00:16:00.259 chill your spine, There's the folks up in Carter 00:16:00.259 --> 00:16:03.620 County. They don't give a date or a name half 00:16:03.620 --> 00:16:06.799 the time, but they speak in hushes about something 00:16:06.799 --> 00:16:10.399 they say lives in them hollers. You won't find 00:16:10.399 --> 00:16:14.500 it in the daylight. But at night, when the coyotes 00:16:14.500 --> 00:16:18.179 go silent and the dogs whimper, you might hear 00:16:18.179 --> 00:16:20.919 the crunch of leaves. And if you're unlucky, 00:16:21.299 --> 00:16:23.580 you might feel breath on the back of your neck 00:16:23.580 --> 00:16:28.169 before you ever hear a step. Truth is, there's 00:16:28.169 --> 00:16:32.129 over 150 documented sightings across this state, 00:16:32.809 --> 00:16:35.289 and that's just the folks brave enough to speak. 00:16:36.269 --> 00:16:40.289 The rest, they carry it like a shadow, something 00:16:40.289 --> 00:16:46.289 they saw once, and pray never to see again. Out 00:16:46.289 --> 00:16:49.970 here in Kentucky, the Hills don't just draw hikers 00:16:49.970 --> 00:16:53.330 and sightseers no more. They draw the curious, 00:16:53.610 --> 00:16:57.009 the believers, and the ones chasing shadows. 00:16:57.690 --> 00:17:01.830 Folks come from all over, Ohio, West Virginia, 00:17:02.210 --> 00:17:06.009 Tennessee, even as far as Texas, just to walk 00:17:06.009 --> 00:17:09.009 the same trails where folks swear they seen something 00:17:09.009 --> 00:17:12.650 moving through the mist. They ain't just looking 00:17:12.650 --> 00:17:16.769 for views, neither. They're hunting for stories. 00:17:17.369 --> 00:17:20.369 They hike through the Red River Gorge, peer into 00:17:20.369 --> 00:17:23.450 dark -mouthed caves in the Daniel Boone Forest, 00:17:23.680 --> 00:17:26.420 and camp just a stone's throw from where the 00:17:26.420 --> 00:17:29.880 howls were heard. Some show up with cameras and 00:17:29.880 --> 00:17:33.400 notebooks, others with thermal scopes and plaster 00:17:33.400 --> 00:17:36.700 kits, hoping to bring home more than a memory. 00:17:37.339 --> 00:17:41.000 They stay in the cabins, eat at the diners, and 00:17:41.000 --> 00:17:44.579 buy every Bigfoot magnet, mug, and t -shirt they 00:17:44.579 --> 00:17:48.380 can find, leaving their dollars behind right 00:17:48.380 --> 00:17:52.670 alongside their footprints. Local guides tell 00:17:52.670 --> 00:17:56.490 stories around campfires. Outfitters rent out 00:17:56.490 --> 00:17:59.609 gear to folks heading deep into the backcountry. 00:18:00.569 --> 00:18:03.309 And every now and again, somebody walks into 00:18:03.309 --> 00:18:07.710 a bait shop and asks, real quiet like, if there's 00:18:07.710 --> 00:18:10.950 been any new sightings. And the old fella behind 00:18:10.950 --> 00:18:14.789 the counter, he'll lean in slow, spit in his 00:18:14.789 --> 00:18:18.690 cup and say, depends how long you plan on staying. 00:18:19.150 --> 00:18:23.690 It ain't just tourism. It's pilgrimage. They 00:18:23.690 --> 00:18:26.769 come to see the beauty, but they leave wondering 00:18:26.769 --> 00:18:30.109 what's still out there. Because in this state, 00:18:30.589 --> 00:18:33.269 Bigfoot ain't just a myth from the Pacific Northwest. 00:18:34.029 --> 00:18:37.730 He belongs here. And whether you're on a guided 00:18:37.730 --> 00:18:41.289 trail or lost off an old forest road, there's 00:18:41.289 --> 00:18:44.289 always the feeling that something's watching 00:18:44.289 --> 00:18:49.450 from the trees. So next time you find yourself 00:18:49.450 --> 00:18:52.470 walking a ridge trail through the Red River Gorge 00:18:52.470 --> 00:18:55.970 and the wind that was blowing just a moment ago 00:18:55.970 --> 00:19:00.410 up and dies without a sound When the leaves stop 00:19:00.410 --> 00:19:04.250 rustling and the birds go quiet all at once when 00:19:04.250 --> 00:19:07.230 the air gets heavy Like the woods is holding 00:19:07.230 --> 00:19:10.630 its breath and you get that crawling feeling 00:19:10.630 --> 00:19:14.309 that itch between the shoulder blades like something's 00:19:14.309 --> 00:19:19.730 watching you Maybe it is, and maybe, just maybe, 00:19:20.210 --> 00:19:23.089 the thing watching ain't in the trees at all. 00:19:23.809 --> 00:19:27.029 Maybe it's beneath your feet, tucked deep in 00:19:27.029 --> 00:19:30.269 the belly of the stone, waiting in the dark, 00:19:30.990 --> 00:19:34.069 listening to your footsteps, and learning your 00:19:34.069 --> 00:19:39.730 path. Now I gotta ask ya, you think Bigfoot's 00:19:39.730 --> 00:19:43.269 real, or just some crafty old bear with a knack 00:19:43.269 --> 00:19:46.940 for disappearing? Ever seen something out in 00:19:46.940 --> 00:19:50.359 them woods you couldn't rightly explain? Drop 00:19:50.359 --> 00:19:53.559 it in the comments. We read every single one. 00:19:54.079 --> 00:19:57.319 And don't worry, we believe folks around here. 00:19:58.259 --> 00:20:01.900 And if the dark don't scare you too bad, go on 00:20:01.900 --> 00:20:05.339 and hit that subscribe button. Follow us down 00:20:05.339 --> 00:20:08.799 these haunted trails, deep into Kentucky's lore, 00:20:09.180 --> 00:20:12.380 legends and secrets, told by the folks who live 00:20:12.380 --> 00:20:17.359 it. This is Kentucky Melody. The woods are full 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:20.480 of secrets and we're just getting started.