From the unexplained to the mundane, come join us on a journey to the fringe.
Hello and welcome to Journey to the Fringe.
You know, the fringe.
Maybe where the Vengebus ended up.
We are your podcast hosts.
Caught in early 2000s, speculations thought, Taylor and Chelsea.
Here today talking about a Chelsea episode, which I'm always just hoping I hit with my
opener, but I don't know, that one's probably off.
I mean we're not talking about the Vengebus, is that so?
You're going for it.
I would really like to know where it is.
Is it still partying?
They were going somewhere.
They were going.
Vengebus is coming.
Somewhere.
There was a destination in mind.
Anyhow, we all know that one of the most well-known journey to the fringe facts is that we have
the most sophisticated listeners.
Am I right?
Yeah, the popes even know it.
The popes, that's all they're ever talking about.
Yeah, they're super impressed with your guys' small talk.
And our sophisticated listeners have probably attended so many dinner parties since our
last heavy-hit encrypted episode that they're running short on new and exciting small talk
topics.
So, I felt it was time to replenish their repertoire with some new dinner party fodder.
With that being said, number one.
This cryptic goes well with breadsticks, toothpicks that may be impaling some sort of fancy appetizers,
olives, cheeses.
Wait, it goes with the toothpick?
It goes with the toothpick.
Or the things on the toothpick.
No, the things with the toothpicks in them.
There must be a toothpick, though.
Must be.
Because this is Stickman.
Okay.
Yeah.
The black Stickman are fairly recent in the land of cryptid sightings.
They're like the new kid on the block.
He.
Interesting.
They're like the new kid on the block.
Kind of.
I guess we'll talk about it.
You'll learn more about it so that you can be also enlightened to speak to others about
it.
However.
I'm just waiting for it to turn out Bill Moore created them.
Because that just seems like half of our episodes these days.
I'm not going to say that there's not a tie in this episode.
Okay.
Because looking back, this probably won't end every episode.
It's strangely enough, as I just said, that they are fairly recent.
Created in the land of cryptid sightings, they are linked to ancient beings depicted
in some cave drawings.
Which some groups believe are signs of ancient aliens or extra dimensional travelers.
Black Stickman are humanoid beings that resemble stick figure drawings.
Have you ever heard of these guys?
Oh, I have.
Yes.
Sorry.
I when he said stick, I just had something different in my mind.
But yes, I have heard of these.
Like a stick bug.
Cryptid.
I didn't know where it was going to go.
I was definitely thinking like pieces of wood, not like stick figure.
Pinocchio.
It always reminds me of there was this little kid in a Halloween costume and it was just
glow sticks made make them look like a stickman.
Yeah.
Yeah, like that.
This is exactly it.
Except the stickman doesn't glow.
Okay.
So in addition, black stickman lack any facial features, whether it be eyes or nose or mouth.
So it's like you just drew a stickman with no smiley face and two dots.
Wait.
I missed that part.
You said it didn't have a face or it does have a face.
No face.
Okay.
Yeah.
And just like most cryptids with man in its name, it cannot be confirmed that the stickman
has a penis that would be fitting up the stickman name.
Just thought that we're all on the same page.
So it is literally like.
Yeah, it is literally like the five year old drawing of a stick person.
Yes.
Yeah.
No penis drawn on.
They always keep over asking those questions though, don't they?
I have not seen any investigators ask about the cryptids penis.
When you read those accounts.
You know what?
You went and.
The investigators said it got really awkward after that.
If we were doing the interviewing, you best know we would be asking about genitalia so
we could nail down for sure whether it's stickman, stickwoman, mothwoman, mothperson.
And the notes are specifically going to be.
I asked the person about the stick person's penis.
They gave me a weird look.
This interview stone has changed.
That's why we'll have so many failed interviews.
I don't know if I said this yet.
These creatures are exactly what they sound like.
They look like stickman figures as non artist draw of people, specifically non artists.
You say that, but I had a thing made of wood in my mind.
Okay.
Yeah.
But now I'm clarifying it for you.
I hope it's not picture meant.
So they're not shadow people.
They're literally two dimensional black stick persons and they allegedly possess no shadow.
And as you would expect from a seven foot tall stick person, they're very lean and lanky.
They're described as pitch black without any facial or body features, no mouth, no anything
that I've already said.
I just have to get this right then because they're black stickman stick persons.
Yeah.
Stick persons.
Anyhow, they have to be seen a day, right?
Stickers.
Like stick citizens.
Not necessarily seen during the day.
I do have a few eyewitness accounts.
Okay.
So we'll see what time of day.
Okay.
I just got an idea.
We should go on Reddit and just start asking people who eyewitness things if they saw a
penis.
It's very important.
It's important for science.
Stickers said to variant height running from normal human height, which, you know, can
vary greatly in itself all the way up to several feet tall.
And their methods of communication are unclear.
That being said, I have seen nothing about attempting to communicate together.
I don't even know if more than one's been seen at the same time.
How could they communicate?
They don't have a mouth unless that whole circles their mouth.
But they don't have hands, they can't do sign language.
Well, maybe someone drew the like little judge out.
Okay.
A lot of things are unclear here.
Okay.
They're also described as buzzing or having an electrical charge to them too.
So kind of like static electricity.
And some people claim that they feel lightheaded and a little dizzy when these black stickmen
are around.
They're described as being kind of out of focus and fuzzy.
Like they aren't quite in our dimension or fully here.
I also saw them described as having an effect on the air around them that looks like you
see when it's hot outside or like off, like wavy off in the distance.
Everything looks like wavy.
Oh, kind of like they're out of focus.
People think they're hopping dimensions.
Yeah.
Kind of.
Or like, almost like they're standing next to a gas leak.
Yeah.
You know, like when the air is wavy, when the gas is going out.
Are they sighted near gas leaks often?
So in addition to that, what some people see is almost like heat waves coming off these
fuzzy black stick, stickison.
Dickerson.
Stick...
Stickison.
This could be some of your dinner party questions.
What do you call a gender neutral stickman?
Why do they call them stickmen if nobody draws the penis?
Exactly.
Either start drawing the penis or call them something else.
I don't know how many people take the more bold option on that one.
Okay, so in terms of what they do or what they want when you encounter them, it's not
clear.
They are either just, I mean, they're wavy.
So does that have something to do with what they're up to?
I would say.
That's like one of the things you see every time.
They're working with gas.
Yeah, they're drink-a-hoots with big gas.
Big gas, yeah, big, yeah.
Just hope it's not big banana.
You think they're at all related to the...
Yes, I come home yet by now.
Yes, it has, yes it has.
I wish that I went on Spotify yesterday.
So could they be related to the wavy inflatable guys that dance?
I think we're thinking of wavy and a very...
The freak kinda wavy?
Okay.
Yes, very different, I think.
Yes.
They're either just walking by or kinda creeping around going about their daily business.
What the hell is their daily business, even, anyway?
They gotta get drawn somewhere else.
They're off to the next kid's paper or something, I don't know.
Yeah, some kids drawing these here.
Maybe this is like something to do with simulated reality and someone's just drawing them into
our reality.
Yeah, if you did have to do a test, that would be the easiest thing to draw.
Oh yeah.
I mean, it's one of the only things I can draw.
Get in the sun in the corner of the page.
Yeah, and it's got sunglasses on.
Oh yeah, some little lines coming out for the rays and sometimes the front-filling fans
will come out next to it.
And Chelsea, yes, those rays coming out to simulate the heat waviness.
Yeah, for the stickman, under him.
I don't know if that's related or not, but...
You were drawing this to recreate the waviness that you see around them when you draw like
stink lines?
I guess you would.
So it just looked like they smelled bad.
Wouldn't you just draw them kind of wavy?
Yeah, and then that just messes with the whole thing because then wouldn't you see them wavy?
Yeah, I don't know.
Okay, this is a deep crypt.
This is a deep crypt.
Unlike other paranormal...
Deep penis slice crypt.
Unlike other paranormal creatures, black stickmen aren't connected to any particular paranormal
event other than gas leaks.
Rather, they manifest themselves without many prompts.
As for where these humanoids, I love that they're called humanoids, came from, there
are multiple theories.
One theory states that because of their two-dimensional physique, many conclude that they were most
likely natives of another dimension.
Other theories infer that the black stickmen are actually demonic entities similar to the
shadow people.
Black stickmen.
That sounded ominous.
Can't we just call them stickmen?
I feel that, I don't know, that it just feels wrong to add that to the beginning in my mind.
There's no other stickmen out there.
So, I mean, if another one showed up, we might have to differentiate at that point, but at
this point I think we can just call them stickmen.
I mean, not even man, because that doesn't even seem to be accurate.
Stikisons, right.
Stikisons.
They are also theorized to be peaceful entities that aren't aware of their effects on humanity
and simply wish to travel.
And just feel like this isn't well researched.
Oh man, this investigator was asking way different questions than we would.
Oh yeah, we have way better questions.
We know about their travel methods and, wow, wow, what is-
What do you think they were, like, what were they doing on their daily business?
And like, where were they going?
Do you think they just wanted wish to travel?
Were they waiting for the bus?
Airplane.
Airport.
Yeah.
Or at the airport, maybe.
Okay, huh.
Well, there's no-
The questions that you have to ask to arrive at that, to be able to write that paragraph
down.
Yeah.
My God, it's just, I inhabit a different world where I haven't, I guess, talked to somebody
who's met a stickison, so.
To Shea, you investigator.
Well, this is also why I'm giving you this to talk about.
Look at how much conversation we just had about this, me and you.
Imagine if you were at a dinner party talking about a stickison.
Think about the limitless options here about-
Well, and especially if it's a-
You draw a stick person penis.
Do you think they wish to travel?
How would you come to that conclusion?
And I think this is actually a really easy segue, small talk conversation if you're
at a fancy dinner party, because if conversation around top hats ever come up, the only way
I've ever drawn a top hat is on top of a stick person.
Well, that is so true.
I've never drawn it in any-
Not even on its own.
No.
That's the only, I think that's the only accessory I've actually ever given a stick person.
And that is, like, it's just such a natural segue from there.
So this is for the fanciest of the dinner parties.
Oh yeah.
It might need to become the symbol of dinner parties with its top hat and penis.
While there are no confirmed attacks on witnesses by Black Stickmen, many reported feelings of
aggression and agitation from their encounter.
Can you imagine having an encounter and just being like, I am so fucking mad, I just saw
that stick man.
Yeah, no, I'm not sure if they're saying that the person who was there and saw the stick
person felt angry and agitated or if the stick person appeared to feel that way.
Well, I'm assuming it's the witness because we never have said that we've interviewed
the stick-stick person.
Oh, it's definitely us feeling agitated.
But they have attempted to communicate.
Yeah, because they know that they're traveling.
Yeah.
Or maybe they had one of those, like, hobo sacks.
Okay, that again, they're just different.
Oh yeah.
You only draw that with a stick person.
It is plausible these creatures emit negative energy from them or may feed on negative energy,
much like astral vampires, which is so weird given the last theory that they're peaceful
and just traveling.
They're just traveling.
They're traveling for the rest of the week.
So they're just either or, like, either they're really good or super bad.
And piss you off.
They will piss you off.
Yeah, I'm just talking about it.
Yeah, like pisses me off.
I know my blood's boiling right now.
So really great for dinner.
See, I picked this one specifically for reasons.
What is difficult about the black stickman?
Why?
Is that there isn't a ton known about these things.
There's a lot of speculation and reported sightings.
Big fan of that, by the way, personally.
I love speculation, especially when it's wild.
I love those two put together.
I feel like 70% of what's been read so far has been wild speculation from people.
But I can't confirm that.
Okay.
I mean, we've run the gambit of different things they could potentially be doing.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
It's good, bad.
Who knows?
We don't know.
They don't know.
I want to punch them.
That's all I know.
Yeah, I want to.
Could you make contact or would it go right through that circle?
If you tried to punch them in the face.
What circle?
Their face circle.
Oh, yeah.
Your stupid face circle.
I think it's hollow.
I don't know.
You got to punch it in the stick.
In the stick.
Imagine if you punched it so hard you broke it and then like a five year old's rendition
of what blood looks like comes spewing out.
Just like crayon red shooting into the sky.
Snaps in half and then shoots out.
Sighting started popping up online in 2009.
I knew I put it in here.
And it's not me calling it Black Stick Man, by the way.
I'm just going to say it here.
I know I didn't just say it, but I'm just going to.
Oh, because it comes up shortly again.
Momentum when the Black Stick Man phenomena were listed on the site list verse, which I've
never heard of.
It was you ever.
Sounds important.
No.
What is this?
They were listed with other friends who even looks at these websites.
I've never even heard of it and I'm always Google encrypted.
They were listed with other phenomena like black eyed kids, doppelgangers and the chupacabra.
It's listverse.com 2009 0424 top 10 bizarre modern paranormal phenomena.
After the Black Stick Man were discussed in this article, it seemed like it inspired a
lot of people to detail their encounters with this entity.
Okay, now it's time for my favorite part, Reddit encounters, which I'm also going to
make a note of to go follow back up on an agenda taillia that they may have witnessed.
This one's from user Lil Miss Funshine and he or she I've seen one down the upstairs
hallway of the Everett Performing Arts Center in Everett Washington State.
It almost looked like it was breaching dimensions or something like it wasn't quite our plane,
but it was there and it was ominous.
Invite presence.
At first I thought it was a shadow person or a hat man.
I don't know why there is confusion.
I mean, I would be like, wow, that's a definite stick man.
That's weird that I'm seeing that right now.
But it was too tall.
Every time I described it to someone, I get this feeling in the back of my mind almost
like I'm being corrected that it's different.
It was tall and spindly.
Its head wasn't round but slightly oblong though.
Almost like it had a top hat or something going on.
This is just a weird encounter.
Hence why I thought it was hat man, but it was totally stick man like just like eight
or nine feet tall.
I do like that it had a top hat though.
It had a slight aura surrounding it, which is why it gave me the impression that it
was breaching dimensions.
That is the most vague encounter of anything I've ever read actually in my life.
It was like I thought it was a shadow person, but it had kind of looked like it had a top
hat on.
So she doesn't actually say anything about it being a stick man.
Just shadow ass.
It was stick man like, but I thought it was hat man.
Maybe we don't interview her.
Probably not.
She doesn't seem to have seen anything.
She doesn't seem to see it below the head level down.
We're going to get no penis info from her.
Oh no.
That's just going to get awkward.
User nightly thunderstorm.
Okay.
I was around seven or eight in quotes.
I'm 15 now, son of a bitch.
And I'm staying at my Nana's house in the mountains of Arizona.
The room I was in has a huge wall with a singular pane of glass with a sliding door.
And at night, the light from the living room reflects off the glass to create a pretty
good reflection.
I was sitting on the couch parallel to the window and to my left is a hallway.
Well, it's around 10 or 11.
Sure if it's a AM or PM and everyone is just about heading to bed.
When I see in the reflection of the glass, a black stick man dart across the hallway.
I remember freaking out and never being able to walk the hallway without shutting my eyes.
Excellent.
I have a lot of detail there.
Probably shouldn't talk to them there.
That just seems like we're going to call from the police on that one.
No, this whole thing sucks.
These are deleted.
I didn't think anything of it at the time, but this post jolted my memory.
I think it was somebody asking for stick men.
So to set the environment, I live in a pretty small and rural town and I feel like user
delete is not going to let me down.
And most of the neighborhoods are somewhat in the woods.
Interesting.
My high school soccer team was having an end of the season party at one of the players'
houses in one of the wooded neighborhoods.
At the end of the night, someone mentioned a house towards the end of the road past a
curve in the road, somewhat cut off by the woods, that a doctor owned but was never there,
leaving it somewhat abandoned.
We all decided to go check this out and see if it was really abandoned.
About nine of us walked over there through the pitch dark and the house and some small
lights on but no one was home.
We go to the backyard where there was just a pool and started looking around.
Behind the backyard is just woods and a little bit of woods on the side.
It's a big house so we split up in pairs of two or three with two groups walking around
the house and one trying to get inside and on the roof.
They weren't that smart.
It couldn't get inside or on the roof so we sat in the backyard just talking about random
stuff and joking around.
I guess while they're breaking and entering.
Then I noticed a sound that was reminiscing of a clacking sound on the roof.
It started sounding like someone was walking back and forth on the roof and I looked up
thinking someone made it up and I see a silhouette of what I thought was one of the kids' faces
but it was pitch black with bright white eyes.
Oh my god this one had eyes.
It makes me think you could punch it in the face.
My immediate thought.
I looked around to see who was missing but everyone was there.
I looked back on the roof and the sound of the thing was gone.
I ignore it thinking it was just a squirrel or something and continue the conversation.
Later a friend of mine and I decided to go talk on one of the sides of the house and
as soon as we crossed the corner of the house we thought we hear a deer walking through the
trees.
We were closer to get a better look and we suddenly heard leaves crunching all around
us.
We start getting a little spooked and turn around to walk back.
When we get closer to the house we hear leaves crunching right behind us and turn around
to see a black stick figure standing not ten feet away.
Motionless between the swaying trees staring at us with those same white eyes I saw on the
roof earlier.
Maybe it was his house.
They were breaking and entering.
Yeah.
It's not a traditional stick figure in that the entire face area is filled in and has
the eyes.
It doesn't seem to be and I'm not sure exactly what he's getting at by just the white eyes.
Like are they all white or like what?
Okay so they both lose their shit and tell everyone that they're heading back to the
other kids house.
Why they're just hanging out at this house beyond me.
The entire time we're walking off the property and down the driveway we feel like somebody's
following us and still hear leaves crunching like somebody was right behind us walking.
As soon as we step foot off the driveway onto the main road we felt something like an instant
relief and didn't hear any leaves crunching behind us.
We didn't turn around one time the entire walk back until we stepped foot into the one
kids yard.
Ever since then I occasionally drive by that house trying to see what I saw that night
and I've only ever seen a pair of white eyes in the window of the house one time.
Doctors never returned and I think I know why.
That I'm seeing a lot of people talk about how the air around it seemed distorted of
sorts but it was pretty dark at night with no lights around and we weren't really trying
to stay too long to examine the thing LOL.
That's the end of it.
That's Stickman.
Stickison.
That's him.
It's.
He's spooked.
He's scared of encountering a stickison.
A tree.
It's of the cryptids we've talked about.
It's probably the one I would most be okay seeing.
I would agree on that one.
And yeah it seems to me.
They seem to be real short sightings.
I feel like of anything I could see that was a cryptid that's the one I would question
the most if I was seeing things correctly.
Yeah.
Ready for another one?
Next one would go well with like some seafood or anything cold like a nice bingsu or something.
I mean I haven't seen bingsu at a party yet.
Got it.
This would be perfect for a first date bingsu and deep sea abominable snowman.
They go well together.
It also goes by A-B-E-S-M.
To catch that that was such a flawless intro.
Deep sea abominable snowman.
Oh yeah A-B-S-M.
So he's a first date with a bingsu.
They inhabit both the highest point on earth and also the lowest point.
Yes.
Okay.
Of my heart as well.
Okay.
Highest and lowest point.
This one I definitely don't want to run into.
I'm guessing mostly because I don't want to be in the deep sea.
I feel like the odds of me ever encountering this are close to zero.
And somebody should also tell the owner of Ocean Gates about this.
Because I hear they're looking for more reasons to start deep sea diving.
They're doing it.
They're going down again on the anniversary.
Good for them.
The orcas and the ocean require their billionaire sacrifice.
So I'm glad they're doing it.
They need their blood.
Oh yeah.
Okay.
So the A-B-S-M for short is a sea serpent ported from the Bahamas and it was sighted.
Okay, you're getting a lot of this.
It was sighted and named by diver Bruce Maunier in 1968 and whose account was first published
in Charles Berlitz's 1977 Without a Trace.
Charles Berlitz has come up for us before and I believe it was with Bill Moore.
Okay.
I'm pretty sure.
I don't remember him but I'm glad we could make that reference and continue it on.
Charles Berlitz.
I'm pretty sure he was a writer with him.
He's come up before.
Oh yeah.
Oh here we go.
The Roswell incident.
That's him.
Oh once again we're tied back to Bill Moore.
Let me have.
We were south of Great...
I...
Oh this is his quote from the book.
Maybe I should say that before I start quoting.
We were south of Great Isaac Light near the drop off.
I was looking at the bottom while I was being trolled along on a line behind a 30 foot boat
built especially for diving and salvage work.
I could see a sandy bottom at 35 to 40 feet.
I was deep enough to see ahead of the boat in some sort of round turtle or big fish about
200 pounds.
It became visible and I went lower to get a good look.
Turned and looked at me at a 20 degree angle.
It had a monkey's face with its head protruding out in front.
A much longer neck than a turtle.
Four or more times the length of a human's neck.
It rotated its neck like a snake as it watched me.
The eyes were like those of a human being but enlarged.
It looked like the face of a monkey with specially adapted eyes for underwater vision.
When it got a good look at me it took off using some form of propulsion that came from
underneath.
I've caught and sold hundreds of turtles.
This is definitely not one.
Why is he doing that?
I think it's some unidentified species.
It may be a newly developed one or a very old one we haven't seen before.
It's the end of that sighting.
That's the...
Huh.
I don't know what to say about that.
I can't even bring the topic to penis because most...
I don't know what any species basically in the water would look like for genitalia.
You know what?
I'm not drawn to the penis on this.
No, neither am I.
It's weird.
It's a stickman.
For some reason, stickman.
I was just curious whether it was what drawn on or not or whether it had those boobs.
No it definitely didn't have boobs.
I would assume at least.
But yeah, monkey...
How?
Yeah.
Huh.
Okay.
I don't know what to say.
Yeah.
Like what we heard it with?
Teeth-a, that's what it would go nice with.
Some bingsu.
I think bingsu would be the best to bring this on.
If you want to go really fancy, you could go with turtle soup.
I don't know how often that's served anymore, but it is fancy French cuisine.
Well, you could.
You could just straight up go with just turtle.
Turtle on the shell.
Apparently delicious.
Oh yeah, apparently.
Yeah.
I'm sure that's what that guy was involved with, but didn't really want to bring it back
too much.
Probably the black turtle market for sure.
He just didn't.
He stopped himself.
See, I don't have this capacity to stop myself when I start saying something I shouldn't.
I always continue with the ending of it.
Okay, so next cryptid would go nice with...
Okay, I really hate myself.
I hate myself for saying this.
I'm gonna say this one would go well with like a steak or like a Greek lamb kebab.
Or for me, I just take a glass of the red wine because I don't eat cute animals.
So this cryptid goes by white thing, but is better known as sheep's squash.
Oh, I think I do know this one.
It's one of the Bigfoot variants in the U.S., isn't it?
Yeah, it is.
This one hails from one of the most famous cryptid states.
To me, at least.
I don't know what other state you would call a famous.
I call Washington famous.
Is it West Virginia?
This.
Nice one.
Yeah, it's the state you would find Mothman, which is West Virginia, not Illinois.
Yeah, but again, Mothperson.
I'm gonna confuse it with Illinois.
Yes.
Yeah, Mothperson, I'm very sorry about that.
Again, no penis saying it's Mothman.
Yeah, it's really just when people gender it.
So you can't say how did you know?
We actually tried Google like Mothperson plus penis.
I've tried genitals.
I've never tried...
I feel like you can bring this to questionable things.
This woolly-haired cryptid has a surprisingly large number of sightings, unlike Dead Sea
Abominable Snowman.
Surprisingly, it is described as being a quadruped about the size of a bear with entirely
white wool-like fur.
It has a long and pointed head, similar to a dog, but with long, saber-like teeth and
a single pint set of horns, not dissimilar to those found on a young goat, a billy goat.
It's four limbs and in paw-like hands.
The hell does four limbs mean?
Elbows?
Yeah, I think that would be like elbows onwards, wouldn't it?
So it's like T-Rex arms.
Can you say it again?
It's four limbs, like forearm, four limbs.
Yeah, but on all four limbs.
Like F-O-R-E.
Oh, okay.
Okay.
I don't know what that word is.
But like on all four though, because they're talking about limbs, not just arms.
Yeah, all of them would end in paw-like hands.
My question here at this point is, do the end at the elbows or the wrists?
That's a weird way to say it.
You could just say, instead of eating in hands, it has paws.
It's a few more words, but then does the story get across?
Oh, just wait, just wait.
Till the next one.
Okay, similar to those of a raccoon, but larger.
Well, its tail is long and hairless, like that of an opossum.
That is creepy.
I hate it with tails.
That is so gross.
And like it's a completely covered in hair, except for the tail.
Yeah, I don't like that.
I don't like that at all.
I'm going to be honest.
Yeah, just have a fluffy butt.
Yeah, you really got it.
When you're eating your steak or like nice, I don't know, sheep's squash steak over dinner,
you got to really emphasize the hair listing.
And for some reason I'm picturing it like either slimy or wet.
Probably moist is the better.
Like it is not.
I'm not picturing it wet at all, but it's still disturbing.
Yeah, also, Chelsea, this is making me realize that our true path in life is probably to
open a cryptid themed restaurant where we can serve up sheep's squash steak.
I really had fun pairing the cryptids actually.
I really felt like I paired it with or hosted a cryptid dinner.
I felt like I did a good job.
It is reputed.
You're going to like this one.
It's reputed to smell like sulfur, which has been attributed through folklore to a beast
being born within the TNT area in Mason County, like one of the mothman theories.
Though this is not likely and instead it may have a musk scent gland similar to those found
in the species in order.
Part of aura such as weasels and skunks.
So it's just, have you ever thought of that with paranormal creatures before?
Maybe they just spell that.
The sulfur smell is the...
And it's mechanism.
Yeah, I've never thought of that.
I've never thought of that either.
But here it has been put forth that it is a gland emitting this off.
It's yeah, a gland in their butt.
Yeah, that's definitely where the gland is.
It could never be any other place.
Actually, no, that's not true.
It could be on that slimy tail.
Yeah, at the bus.
Like just because, like, yeah, near the bus.
Where is the musk meat specified in the bus?
We got a sighting.
We got many sightings because it has so many sightings for some reason.
And just with that incredible description of it, I know you want sightings.
1994.
A former Navy seaman said he's witnessed the beast breaking through the forest.
The white thing breached the brush line and knelt to drink from the creek.
Oh god, I'm just picturing its tail.
And stink lines.
Here it drank for a few minutes before crossing the creek and continuing on toward the nearby
road.
The witness stated that he observed the animal for a while before it moved on into the surrounding
brush.
Didn't do anything terrifying.
Within the same year, two children observed the creature while playing in their yard within
Boone County.
What they reported having observed looked like a large white bear, yet in this case stood
up on its hind lanes, making it over six feet tall.
Presumably it did so in a manner similar to bears trying to observe as opposed to walking
bipedally.
Startled by the children, the beast ran off through the forest, breaking medium sized
limbs off the trees in its path.
Not even dodging them, hey, just running right through the sticks coming off the tree.
Maybe that's why it has no hair on its tail.
Jesus.
1995.
The creature was next spotted a year later, this time involving a car.
A couple driving through Boone County observed a large white beast sitting in a ditch alongside
the roadway.
What a weird thing for it to be doing.
As many, you never see an animal just doing that.
As many curious passerbys might do in such a situation, they stopped their car to get
a better look at it.
I mean, have you ever drove through a national park when people see wild animals?
It's insane, everybody's pulled over to the side of the road, taking pictures, offering
to pet it, kicking it.
Trying to feed it.
They came to describe the creature again as mostly similar to earlier descriptions, yet
they added that the creature had four eyes.
In stark contrast to the last sighting where the sheep's quatch fled the scene, the creature
leaped out of the ditch and started to attack the car.
I'm happy you did that.
When the attack the couple drove off quickly and once they arrived back at their home,
they noticed large scratches on the side of their car where the beast had attacked it.
No photo evidence, of course.
I'm gonna hop ahead here and go to 2015.
There is one other, fuck it, 1999.
I just, can we take one second to say that they're leaving something in this story out
where they goaded the sheep's quatch on to attack their car.
Oh yeah.
Okay, here's what I'm picturing.
They're at a garbage dump and they have chocolate bars and they're throwing them onto their
car.
That's definitely what happened.
They're baiting the sheep's quatch with chocolate bars.
1999.
Can you imagine that scene would have been so much different if it was a sheep's quatch?
Another incident in 1999 involved a couple of campers who were in the forest at night
again in Boone County around a bonfire.
They eventually heard an animal snorting and scuffling around the camp in a manner similar
to an aggravated bear, but did not come into the light of the campfire immediately.
I wouldn't.
Why do people expect wild animals to do that?
All of a sudden the sheep's quatch suddenly charged out of the darkness at the campers.
Reacts and quits.
I love the sheep's quatch now except it's tail.
I can't accept the tail.
It doesn't come up a lot surprisingly.
I thought there would be more description of this tail for how.
Oh, even the smell.
The smell.
Yeah.
It got sprayed, it got sprayed and sulfur reacting quickly.
They jumped up and ran back into their house all the while being pursued by sheep's quatch.
Giving chase is a natural reaction of a predator when a creature flees.
Its initial attack could have simply been a mock charge.
Interesting.
The white thing stopped at the edge of the forest when they crossed it and let out a
terrible scream.
It then turned around and headed back into the woods.
The next morning the campers returned to their campsite and the trail home, hiding it to
be torn up.
They referred to it as like somebody had filled it up for gardening.
It just runs straight regardless of any trees in the way.
Is that how they did the Canadian-American border?
Did they just let the sheep's quatch out and just run straight?
Yeah, I mean it was better than like manual labor.
That is manual labor.
Are you hearing this?
They found it to be torn up like somebody had tilled it up for gardening.
Like what was the sheep's quatch doing?
Is it a truffle hunter?
Do you think you could take a sheep's quatch looking for truffles?
I've never even thought of this.
What I'm picturing of sheep's quatch right now is that just if you let a kid's imagination
run wild or like tell me something terrifying they're like a bear.
They're like tell me something gross.
They're like a fucking mouse tail.
Tell me something else you don't like about animals.
Skunks are gross.
They spray disgusting smells and they're like yeah we just created a Frankenstein.
And this one's got four eyes.
Yeah.
Last sighting 2015 in Falks Run, Virginia the beast was spotted once again in the forest
of Appalachia.
Appalachia.
I knew there was a weird way to say it.
Creature was spotted close to midnight by six campers spending the night in the dense
woods.
They were reportedly eight to nine feet tall with a shoulder length of four to five feet.
What does that even mean?
So shoulders were four feet wide.
Okay.
So it's fairly it's a fairly broad.
Like a chair.
Yeah, that's what I was kind of getting ready for.
I know me too.
Okay.
Sounds fabulous actually.
Yeah.
I mean that takes away from the tail.
One of the campers first saw the beast at the top of a nearby hill in a crouching position
and it stood up and he alerted other campers.
Cheap Squatch or the other camper?
I think the camper informed other campers of the sheep Squatch.
Yeah.
I think that's the most reasonable interpretation there.
I'm starting to think he's like just a stupid guy, this sheep Squatch.
Then it started running down the steep.
He's not watching over branches.
He just answered me.
He's going to run straight.
He doesn't care.
He's just a big wolf.
They looked in horror as it searched for a way to cross and with note, did I tell you
that it was there's a river?
Okay, there's a river.
They looked in horror as it searched for a way to cross.
With no other option began to wade through the river.
I love that he was making this decision whether or not to cross the river.
I just picture him running up, throwing trees left and right straight ahead until he hits
the river.
I wonder if he's ever just taken a street straight out because it was in his way and
he couldn't veer over to the side.
No, I get him wet.
Yeah, it came out of the water and the campers reported that it appeared like a bipedal
dog in the chest with its fur wet from the river crossing in the chest.
Okay.
And a loud gut based screech was heard about two miles off from where they were.
Then the sheep Squatch looked up in shock just high enough so the moonlight was in its
face and the campers looked on in fear as it let out a pathetic whimper.
Then in a sprint ran in the opposite direction of the noise.
The campers quickly packed and left them reported it to the local spearing that if the authorities
were informed, they would be ridiculed.
The identity of the campers is unknown as of March 2016.
Are they trying to imply that the sheep Squatch took these guys out?
I hope so, but I think it's more because they're scared they'll be ridiculed that they saw
the sheep Squatch.
It could be that, but they also like it's a weird time after the event took place where
there haven't been a scene.
That whole encounter is weird.
Most of the encounters with sheep Squatch are rather weird.
And that's it.
So I hope that you enjoyed my pairings for these cryptids and I hope that when you try
them out, report back to us and let us know.
Let us know.
Sorry.
You're never going to find sheep Squatch to report this back to whether he went nice
with like a lamb kebab or just a glass of wine because there was no other vegetarian
options.
So you just had the wine and yeah.
As sheep Squatch himself would do.
Yeah.
Some further fodder for you and make pleasant conversation with at dinner parties.
Yeah.
So please let us know which cryptid you think would be the most delicious because I think
that's just a natural question that now needs to be answered based on the tools we've given
you already know mine.
I probably got a top three pretty easy.
I don't know that I've eaten anything else.
Well, deep deep deep sea abominable snowman.
I'm just going to say deep sea abominable snowman.
I'm pretty sure I could eat.
I would eat them.
I think you could eat a stick man.
I think you can eat a stick man.
Yeah.
I don't feel like that maybe.
Yeah.
You can eat a stick man.
Hey how that's not for us to ponder right now.
Well it is us right now.
Yeah.
Not for you maybe.
You should be pondering at the party.
We should be pondering this.
Yes.
With other people allowed having a good time clearly not killing the vibes of whatever
setting your end just adding flavor to it like the spice that is stick.
Stick as in anyhow I have been Taylor here with Chelsea.
We are journey to the fringe.
Thank you all for listening and we'll see you next week.
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