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5 min readThe creature in the barn had been eight or nine feet tall, with a long snout, curled ears, and claws where its toes should have been. It had smiled at the 14-year-old maid through the window, rubbing its hand in slow circles on the glass before the knocking began. That was the summer of 1899, and the story has been passed down for more than a century, generation after generation, without changing much. That, the host Darkness Prevails suggests, is why these accounts deserve attention: "For a story to be passed down for over 100 years, not changing much at all between tellings, I'd say somebody absolutely saw something that night."
This episode of Unexplained Encounters compiles a series of first-person accounts from listeners, all describing encounters with tall, thin, humanoid creatures that appear at windows, in empty school hallways, and at the edges of rural properties. The throughline is not a single cryptid but a recurring type: something that stands too tall, moves on all fours when it needs to, and seems to take a deliberate, almost playful interest in the people who see it.
The Creature in the Turkish Village
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What you'll learn
- 1 (02:18) **Dogman in Turkey** - A man encounters a towering, wolf-like creature in rural Turkey that later returns to taunt him at his bedroom window.
- 2 (12:24) **The Appalachian Legend: Trudy, Mary, and the Barn Creature** - A multi-generational story from 1899 Appalachia about a young maid, two wealthy children, and a tall, hunched creature that slaughters livestock.
- 3 (24:52) **The School Encounter** - A custodian in Montana and his girlfriend encounter a pale, spider-like creature crawling on all fours in their high school at night.
- 4 (36:28) **The Living Shadow** - A teenager with nictophobia (fear of the dark) realizes a living shadow creature can see him back, and it begins to hunt him for sport.
- 5 (47:17) **It Learned From Us** - An 11-year-old boy on holiday in Cornwall discovers a tall, pale, humanoid creature using a bloody knife to eat raw meat in an abandoned WWII radar station.
- 6 (51:51) **It Knocked on My Wall** - A teenager staying in a remote cabin hears a loud, intentional knock on the wall of his attic bedroom at five in the morning.
- 7 (55:33) **The Hill** - Two cautionary accounts about a cursed hill in Maryland that was once the site of a Catholic seminary, now haunted by a malicious, scaly, reptilian entity.
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Show Notes
A viewer shares a legend past down for generations of an Appalachian family who claims it's very true. A legend about the thing that mutilated cattle and seemed to have no fear of humans. This story and more in today's episode.
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