Central Appalachia has more than it's fair share of cryptids. Some are the result of misidentification, some are the result of overactive imaginations and tales told over the fire over generations, and some may just be unexplained or uncommon animals. We have tales of Bigfoot-like creatures, we have tales of "black panthers", we have tales of a strange critter called a "Sheepsquatch", "alien big cats" like lions have been reported, baboon like "monkeys", giant snakes, and the list goes on and on.
Some of the tales are from pioneer days, some are from even before those days, tales told by Indians and passed on to white people as they filtered into this country. I myself have seen things here I can't explain. That doesn't mean they can't BE explained, it only means I don't have an explanation for them.
I present to you a 45 minute video on one of those cryptids that I have never, until today, even heard of - the "Bearilla". The video concentrates on an area of central Kentucky around Mount Sterling, but if such things are there, I see no reason they should be limited to that area, if they are real and not just campfire tales... which is a distinct possibility.
Daniel Boone is mentioned in the video. It's almost obligatory when discussing Kentucky to give a nod to Daniel Boone, but given the nature of the video, I don't know why they never mentioned his report or tale of having encountered a creature in Kentucky that he called a "Yahoo" or "Yayhoo" on one of his hunting and exploratory trips into that then wilderness. It seems that tale would fit right in with their narrative, so I don't know why they just skipped right over it.
I have to take exception to the advice given at a couple points in the video that "if you see one, RUN!" I think that is very bad advice, as most predatory things are hard-wired to pursue and attack when anything runs away. On the other hand, when you stand your ground and show no fear (it's perfectly normal to feel it, just don't SHOW it!), that gives whatever you are facing pause for thought - if everything in the woods runs from it, what is this creature that isn't running, and what does it have that may prove fatal to it? More often than not, they simply leave, since discretion is the better part of valor, just so long as you stand your ground without crowding them. Crowding them tends to provoke a defensive response, one that requires you to then fight it... which you may not want to do!
One intriguing part of the video is the tree scratches. I have no doubt they are real, but have no explanation for what caused them. A few years ago, my son sent me some photos of similar scratches on trees, about 7 or 8 feet above the ground, and wanted me to identify them for him - but I couldn't. I've seen bears rise against trees and scratch them like that, territorial markers I suppose, but that far off the ground would indicate a really BIG bear, much bigger than what one normally sees here. I couldn't tell him for sure what scratched his trees, just that it was big. He tends to think "Bigfoot", but I've never heard of Bigfoot scratching trees. beating on them with sticks, yes, but not scratching them up like that.
He lives in eastern West Virginia, a long way from Mount Sterling KY. However, there is nearly unbroken wilderness the entire way between the two, with only the occasional road tunneling through the trees and brush. If such a beast does exist in Central Kentucky, there is nothing really to prevent it from traveling that distance undetected for the most part.
What if... ?
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Some of the tales are from pioneer days, some are from even before those days, tales told by Indians and passed on to white people as they filtered into this country. I myself have seen things here I can't explain. That doesn't mean they can't BE explained, it only means I don't have an explanation for them.
I present to you a 45 minute video on one of those cryptids that I have never, until today, even heard of - the "Bearilla". The video concentrates on an area of central Kentucky around Mount Sterling, but if such things are there, I see no reason they should be limited to that area, if they are real and not just campfire tales... which is a distinct possibility.
Daniel Boone is mentioned in the video. It's almost obligatory when discussing Kentucky to give a nod to Daniel Boone, but given the nature of the video, I don't know why they never mentioned his report or tale of having encountered a creature in Kentucky that he called a "Yahoo" or "Yayhoo" on one of his hunting and exploratory trips into that then wilderness. It seems that tale would fit right in with their narrative, so I don't know why they just skipped right over it.
I have to take exception to the advice given at a couple points in the video that "if you see one, RUN!" I think that is very bad advice, as most predatory things are hard-wired to pursue and attack when anything runs away. On the other hand, when you stand your ground and show no fear (it's perfectly normal to feel it, just don't SHOW it!), that gives whatever you are facing pause for thought - if everything in the woods runs from it, what is this creature that isn't running, and what does it have that may prove fatal to it? More often than not, they simply leave, since discretion is the better part of valor, just so long as you stand your ground without crowding them. Crowding them tends to provoke a defensive response, one that requires you to then fight it... which you may not want to do!
One intriguing part of the video is the tree scratches. I have no doubt they are real, but have no explanation for what caused them. A few years ago, my son sent me some photos of similar scratches on trees, about 7 or 8 feet above the ground, and wanted me to identify them for him - but I couldn't. I've seen bears rise against trees and scratch them like that, territorial markers I suppose, but that far off the ground would indicate a really BIG bear, much bigger than what one normally sees here. I couldn't tell him for sure what scratched his trees, just that it was big. He tends to think "Bigfoot", but I've never heard of Bigfoot scratching trees. beating on them with sticks, yes, but not scratching them up like that.
He lives in eastern West Virginia, a long way from Mount Sterling KY. However, there is nearly unbroken wilderness the entire way between the two, with only the occasional road tunneling through the trees and brush. If such a beast does exist in Central Kentucky, there is nothing really to prevent it from traveling that distance undetected for the most part.
What if... ?
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Diogenes was eating bread and lentils for supper. He was seen by the philosopher Aristippus, who lived comfortably by flattering the king.
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
Said Aristippus, ‘If you would learn to be subservient to the king you would not have to live on lentils.’ Said Diogenes, ‘Learn to live on lentils and you will not have to be subservient to the king.’
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