I’m From Appalachia. Here’s the Truth About Feral People

I’m From Appalachia. Here’s the Truth About Feral People There are people living back in these mountains who stopped being people a long time ago. At least, that’s what the old-timers say, in a lowered voice, after the light leaves the tree line. I was raised in the hollows of Appalachia, and in this video I separate what’s real about the “feral people” from what’s legend, and from what’s just plain cruel. You’ll hear about the hermit who lived 27 years hidden in the Maine woods without leaving a single footprint, and the cave dwellers these hills still whisper about. You’ll hear where the cannibal-clan myth really came from, and why it never belonged to mountain families. You’ll meet the boy who walked out of a French forest in 1800 and never learned to speak. Then the harder part: how ordinary people get lost, why lost children hide from the searchers calling their names, and why nobody knows how many people these mountains are still holding. And the story of Trenny Lynn Gibson, the 16-year-old who stepped off a trail in the Smokies in 1976 and was never seen again. Finally, the rules the old folks taught us, the ones that keep you walking out of these woods alive. Stay on the trail. Never answer your name from a mouth you can’t see. And if you feel watched, believe it. If you love Appalachian folklore, unsolved disappearances and true stories from the deep woods, subscribe. There’s a lot more back in these hills that has never been explained, and I go looking for it one story at a time. #Appalachia #AppalachianFolklore #FeralPeople #Missing411 #SmokyMountains #TrueStories #UnsolvedMysteries #Folklore #Hiking #ScaryStories