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⚠️ CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains descriptions of violent animal deaths and may be disturbing to listeners sensitive to stories involving the death of dogs and livestock. Listener discretion is advised. ⚠️
Welcome aboard the Story Ark! Captain Kenny Mears continues our spooky season journey by diving into the world of cryptids and unexplained animal slaughters. For decades, legends of bizarre killings—animals drained entirely of blood or violently ripped apart—have sparked theories ranging from aliens to the Chupacabra.
This week, storyteller Elizabeth Atkinson Gibson shares a haunting booger tale from her native Southern US—the terrifying true-life panic caused by The Beast of Bladen County!
Travel to the farmlands of North Carolina in the winter of 1953/1954, where a mysterious, inky black, feline-like creature as tall ...
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StorytellingStoriesFolk TaleSupernaturalCryptidsMonstersAppalachiaAppalachian MountainsMythologyMythscarycreepyhalloween