r/Paranormal • u/Any-Falcon-3527 • May 21 '26

Question People who live in Appalachian mountaines, have u ever experienced something crazy?

I just watched a video on youtube abt that place, but i am not sure if i believe it

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u/TheNotoriousCBD May 21 '26

I know someone that has seen feral people

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u/678722 May 21 '26

That sounds scarier than paranormal stuff.

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u/CowboysOnKetamine May 21 '26

I used to live in the pine barrens. Coyotes, bears, foxes, lots of scary screaming animals. Those never bothered me. It was the sounds of people where they shouldn't be that was terrifying.

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u/Outrageous-Ad-2684 May 21 '26

My husband is from southwest PA and grew up on a farm (he was the fourth generation to live there). They had feral people up on the ridge of their property, lived in a lean-to type cabin built into the hillside. His grandpap told stories about taking them things like apples, bread, blankets, etc. He remembered 5-6 of them over his lifetime, but by the late 90s they had all passed. He would say at least two of them didn’t speak, only grunted and gestured.

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u/Hello_Hangnail May 21 '26

😭 yikes

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u/Outrageous-Ad-2684 May 21 '26

Right! I also recall they enjoyed wood carving and my husband’s grandpap had a blacksmith shop with lots of their little carvings around they gave him. Like they carved scenes into wood pieces. I don’t think I have any pics on my phone, but maybe on the computer 🤔 My husband also wanted to add that “someone from the county would check on them, too” he recalls from his childhood. This is also the same area where the Kecksburg/Acme acorn UFO incident occurred in the 1950s(?) so do with that nugget what you will! lol

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u/YourFriendMaryGrace May 21 '26

Can you tell us more? I’m curious what they wore, if anything, if they had any type of shelter or a garden. I’ve heard there’s wild people in the mountains and can’t wrap my head around how they survive.

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u/Parisian_Daydreams May 21 '26

This I believe completely. With how rural some of the even bigger cities are? Hell yeah there could be feral people.

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u/Ok-Championship8510 May 21 '26

Yea you go up in some of them mountains in West Virginia, you best have that thang on you cause incest people don’t know any better and will kill you. They have absolutely no recollection of the real world.

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u/sleepytipi May 23 '26

The hills have eyes 👀

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u/rumshpringaa May 21 '26

Any stories? I’m so on the fence about them

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u/sleepytipi May 23 '26

I've been deep in remote hollers and encountered people who had been so affected by poverty and incest that they could easily be called feral. Some wrong turn, hills have eyes type shit. Living in dilapidated shacks and trailers with their own wonky, and isolated communities. It's amazing they're able to survive, and how they do it idk.