Ohio Valley Cryptid

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays!
Warm up some cider or spike your favorite egg nog, throw the yule log on the fire, deck the halls and sit back and enjoy our holiday episode!
Also, heads up we touch on some child abuse on this one so if you don't want to hear that, then yeah maybe skip this one. XOXO
We talk about some evil incarnations of Jolly St Nick. Thanks for a great year, and we will see you in 2022!
Sources:
https://www.trafalgar.com/real-word/african-christmas-traditions/
https://www.demandafrica.com/travel/christmas-in-africa-traditions/
https://www.icelandwonder.com/articles/the-13-yule-lads/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Nicholas
https://sonsofvikings.com/blogs/history/viking-origins-of-christmas-yule-traditions
https://holidappy.com/holidays/Different-versions-of-Santa-Claus

Hello folks! Welcome to our first official episode of Ohio Valley Cryptid! In this one, we talk about the Beast of Grafton, or the Grafton Monster, a little cryptid that bothered a small town in West Virginia. Recently, it's been a bit more well-known because of the video game Fallout 76, but even then how accurate is its portrayal?
Reese's mic is a little goofy sounding in this one, but don't worry, later episodes this is fixed!
Here are some sources I used while digging up information on this bad boy:
Visionary Living, Inc.. Monsters of West Virginia (p. 14). Stackpole Books. Kindle Edition.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B00JGZB1DK/ref=atv_dp_season_select_s2
https://mythus.fandom.com/wiki/Grafton_monster#Research_and_Evidence_with_Gray_Barker

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grafton,_West_Virginia
This is the site that seemed to have the original articles:
https://www.wvghosts.com/blog/the-grafton-monster/
AND DONT FORGET, you can contact us with any information, comments, etc at [email protected]

We would LOVE to hear any person al stories, corrections, or anything of the like relating to spooky stuff! It also doesn't have to be local at all.

Woah a 2 parter! Our First! We. Are. Back,
Those pesky men in silver suits or whatever they are were bugging Elmer and Billy Ray and Glennie down in Kentucky. Are the little green men a hoax perpetuated by the 11 inhabitants of a small farmhouse, or did they actually see something that night in August?
Excuse the sniffling. I tried to cut it out but boy is it a lot, and honestly, this is part of the reason we were gone.
AND DONT FORGET, you can contact us with any information, comments, etc at [email protected]

We would LOVE to hear any personal stories, corrections, or anything of the like relating to spooky stuff! It also doesn't have to be local at all.

Sources: Astonishing Legends episodes 79-81, Close Encounter at Kelly (Davis and Bloecher), https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=HeYrAAAAIBAJ&sjid=qmUFAAAAIBAJ&pg=2838,3341366, wiki, history.com

I wish I was a normal kid, but I got a melon as a head instead! Reese walks us through that story about those big head kids sneaking around the woods, stealing cars, and whatever else they do. Pretty weird stuff, and we talk about why this may have started as a legend in the first place.
This one is definitely one of those stories that has some truth behind it, but how much truth? That's for you to decide!
Here's some of the sources we used:
http://www.weirdus.com/states/ohio/fabled_people_and_places/melonheads/index.php
https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/TWISTED-HISTORY-The-Melonheads-12083951.php
https://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/the-melon-heads-of-connecticut/
https://www.damnedct.com/the-melon-heads/
https://www.wkyc.com/article/life/holidays/halloween/3news-investigates-melon-heads-kirtland/95-31c66168-e6b3-4348-a7c6-7a34127b19eb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melon_heads
AND DONT FORGET, you can contact us with any information, comments, etc at [email protected]

We would LOVE to hear any personal stories, corrections, or anything of the like relating to spooky stuff! It also doesn't have to be local at all.

A Dan-centric episode today! We chat about the internet urban legend of Black-Eyed Children, apparently aka BEKs, while also getting very derailed.
Here are some of those sources we used:
https://www.pararational.com/portland-black-eyed-children/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black-eyed_children
https://rare.us/rare-life/black-eyed-children/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3679978/
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2771050/
https://www.historicmysteries.com/brian-bethel-black-eyed-kids/
And here's an article of that guy that we were laughing about:
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/weird-news/chilling-sightings-black-eyed-child-4341931
AND DONT FORGET, you can contact us with any information, comments, etc at [email protected]

We would LOVE to hear any personal stories, corrections, or anything of the like relating to spooky stuff! It also doesn't have to be local at all.

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