10 Appalachian Creatures You've Never Heard Of... (From An Appalachian Local)

If you want to walk up into this country and come back down alive: www.otisboone.com Everything the old folks knew is in my book, The Appalachian Book of the Living and the Lost. Along one river in western North Carolina, the Cherokee used to find bodies on the bank with the ears and the nose eaten off, and they knew exactly what had done it. You've never heard its name. Almost nobody outside these mountains has. Everybody knows Bigfoot and the Mothman. These are ten Appalachian creatures you've never heard of: a one-eyed winged thing Maryland farmers painted stars on their barns to keep away, a wolf that stood up on two legs and fought a man in his own yard, and a giant bird the Cherokee said was gone for good. In 2024, people across Pennsylvania started seeing something a whole lot like it. Which one had you already heard of, and which was brand new to you? If your own hills are keeping something that never made it into a book, tell it below. #Appalachia #AppalachianFolklore #Cryptids #AppalachianMountains #CherokeeLegends #Folklore #Snallygaster #Thunderbird #MountainLegends #OtisBoone