The Truth About Feral People... (From An Appalachian Local)

If you want to walk up into this country and come back down alive: Otisboone.com There are people living back in these mountains who stopped being people a long time ago, and not one of them shows up in any record. Some of them chose the woods. Most of the ones the old folks whisper about never chose anything at all. This is the truth about the feral people, told by somebody these hills raised, and it is stranger and sadder than the campfire version you have heard. You will hear the real cases, the ones the records actually keep. The hermit Christopher Knight, who hid in the Maine woods for 27 years and spoke a single word the whole time. The cave dwellers of West Virginia who simply never came in. The science of how ordinary people get lost in the Appalachian mountains and walk deeper in instead of out. The vanishing of 16-year-old Trenny Gibson on a school field trip in the Great Smoky Mountains, whose scent led up the mountain toward the bare high country and then just stopped. And the old mountain rules the folks up here have kept for generations, the warnings about the voice that calls your name from the tree line, and why you never, ever answer it. There is a lot more back in these hills that was never explained, and I go looking for it one story at a time. Subscribe so you do not miss the next one. #Appalachia #AppalachianFolklore #FeralPeople #Missing411 #Appalachianmountains #SmokyMountains #TrueCrime #Folklore #ScaryStories #Missing #AppalachianHorror #Wilderness