Expanded Perspectives
Expanded Perspectives

It Knew My Name

September 14, 2026

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It Knew My Name

In June 2023, a group of four thirteen-year-old boys in northeastern Pennsylvania set out to explore an abandoned quarry a few miles through the woods from a friend's house. They brought knives, phones, and the kind of bravado that comes from watching paranormal YouTube videos. They did not bring any way to explain what happened next. One of them, Evan, later wrote to the podcast with a story he'd kept mostly to himself for years. The creature that chased them through the woods, he said, did something he still cannot reconcile: it spoke his name. And he had never told it what his name was.

The Quarry Expedition

The boys—Evan, Aiden, Clayton, and Marcellus—told Aiden's dad they were going for a walk. He warned them about a reported mountain lion in the area and told them not to go far. They ignored both instructions. Almost as soon as they left the house, Evan felt something wrong. "The air itself felt heavy," he wrote. "I had this primitive feeling that something was wrong. Like I was somewhere I wasn't supposed to be." His friends walked ahead, joking and talking about what they might find at the quarry. Evan kept scanning the trees.

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  • 1 Timestamped Outline
  • 2 (01:13) **Episode Opening & Banter** - Hosts Kim and Cal welcome listeners and discuss recent events
  • 3 (03:50) **First Story: Horse-Headed Humanoid in Ohio** - A group of teenagers repeatedly encounters a tall, horse-headed creature in rural Northeast Ohio
  • 4 (10:51) **Host Analysis: Shapeshifting Theory** - The hosts speculate the creature may be feeding on the teenagers' fear and morphing its appearance to terrorize them
  • 5 (11:20) **Second Story: The Fay in North Georgia** - A group of experienced hikers encounters tiny humanoid beings called "the Fay" who steal their gear and play strange music
  • 6 (21:53) **Host Reaction: Fairy Circle Phenomenon** - The hosts connect the story to folklore about fairy circles and the Fay stealing from campers
  • 7 (26:31) **Third Story: The Horned Creature in Tennessee** - A hunter using night vision sees an 8-foot tall creature with three black horns and empties his rifle into it

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Show Notes

On this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys kick things off by talking about the incredible Texas comeback against Ohio State in college football before diving headfirst into another collection of bizarre and unsettling encounters.

First, a witness reports a disturbing encounter with a mysterious horse-headed humanoid. Then, a group of hikers camping inside what appears to be a fairy circle discovers that some of their expensive equipment has mysteriously vanished—and they begin to wonder if the Fae Folk might have had something to do with it. Near Johnson City, Tennessee, another witness comes face-to-face with a bizarre three-horned creature, while deep in the woods of Minnesota, someone experiences a terrifying encounter with what they believe may have been a Wendigo. Later, a logger camping in the Oregon wilderness spots something near camp that looks disturbingly like a Dogman.

Finally, we travel to the forests of northeastern Pennsylvania for an encounter that Evan has never been able to explain. At thirteen years old, he and three friends set out through the woods toward an abandoned quarry. Along the way, they discover a mutilated deer, a bloodstained piece of cloth, and an old rusty knife. Then Evan notices something watching them from behind a tree—a massive gray hand with long fingers and what appear to be claws.

Things only get worse when the boys hear a strange, mechanical voice coming from the woods. Moments later, they see the creature itself: an enormous humanoid figure with impossibly long arms, huge claws, red eyes, canine-like teeth, and a horrifying metallic roar. The creature gives chase, pursuing the terrified boys through the forest until they finally reach the road.

But that's when the encounter takes its most disturbing turn. The creature stops at the edge of the woods, stares directly at Evan, opens its mouth, and speaks a single word in that strange metallic voice: “Evan.” Somehow, the thing knew his name. Horse-headed humanoids, mischievous Fae Folk, three-horned creatures, Wendigos, Dogmen, and something lurking in the Pennsylvania woods that may have known far more about four young boys than it should have.

All of this and more on this installment of Expanded Perspectives!

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