Appalachia Mountain Mysteries of Strange Encounters 

I could just sit and listen to elders stories all day long. I just love to listen and learn from them. Thank you

Thank you for these stories! I am terminally ill and I live to hear these stories, it gives me something to look forward to! I was an only child born to older parents, my Daddy was a WWII Vet, and I loved to hear stories from older folks! Thank you God bless! Patricia Gambino Harrington

I live here in Washington State, and I came face to face with a cougar once, back in the early nineties. I lived on a dead end road off from a side road of a back road out in the small hills around here. I was walking down a remnant of an old logging road, alone, when the cat came into sight about 60 feet in front of me. This was in broad daylight so I could see it as plain as day. It hadn’t seen me yet, was walking across the path in front of me. I froze solid, hoping it wouldn’t see me. Then it turned and started walking right towards me, and that’s when it saw me. It hunched down on all fours and just studied me. I was frozen, not moving an eyelash, hoping it would go away. We stood there for several minutes just staring. I thought maybe if I just didn’t move it might think I was just a tree stump. But I didn’t know what I’d if it stood up and came toward me. I was downwind from it and figured it couldn’t smell me. Finally it stood up, turned, and walked off into the woods and underbrush without making a sound, not even a twig snap or a leaf. I couldn’t see it then, so I didn’t know if it kept on going or was circling around me or just sitting out there. The only thing I could think to do was look as big as I could, which isn’t that big for a 4 foot 11 woman. I picked up the biggest stick I could find near me and started waving it around and making as much noise as I could I was singing and hollering and I don’t even know what I said. I never saw it again, but I used to hear it sometimes at night just outside my home. It sounded like a woman screaming in terror. The first time I heard it I called up my neighbor and said did you hear that woman screaming and she started laughing. She said that was no human being, but a cougar. Fascinated me after that. So that’s my cougar story. I enjoy your stories Donnie. Sometimes they make me almost feel like I wish I’d grown up over there in the Appalachian mountains.

When my Daddy was young in the hills of Kentucky, he said people talked about wampus cats. My daddy said this was in the 1920's. He said they were scared, especially at nights. Your friend's story is very scary. Thank you Donnie fir bringing this to us. There are alot of strange things that are unexplained, and need to be passed down.

What a great story! Glad you are preserving these stories! There was an incident on a dairy farm near us one summer, around 1 a.m. I was reading and I heard the cows restless in the field and then I kind of a roar that literally would freeze your blood. It was nothing that belonged here; it was like something you'd hear on the plains of Africa. Made me think of a lion. You just knew, this is something that shouldn't be here. We found a calf torn apart the next morning. The roar was so loud you could hear it echoing in the valley. Not one dog barked. We never saw it, and I'm glad of that.

I could listen to these videos for days . Thank you for sharing .

Some of the best gifts are stories passed down from the elders in our families. Things they have seen and heard from the hills and hollows. They did not make them up, they lived them. Some of the things were mysterious and scarry. There were things that can't be explained. Thank you Donnie for this great story, you keep Appalachia alive. Absolutely love your channel. ❤

Thank you Donnie for sharing your reunion with Big Foot with us. I enjoyed his story very much. Have a great weekend!😊

Oh Donnie! I’m so glad you saw & spent time and tales of the past. You are absolutely correct about things being in the woods and we will never see or know about. Praying for continuing healing! Give your wonderful wife! Blessings always blessings. ❤️🙏😊

Mercy! This raised the hair up on the back of my neck listening to your friend. I believe every word he said because he lived it! My Dad was from the *knobs* of Gravel Switch Kentucky and there were a lot of townsfolk there that had similar stories. Just strange things you can't explain. I could sit and listen to you and your friend talk about anything, my friend. May God bless and keep you safe always. Be well. And believe!

Good story as always thank you God bless and keep you safe

Thank you for sharing this Mr Donnie ❤God bless you ❤

So glad you got to visit with your friend. Enjoyed his stories. Thank you for sharing with us Mr. Laws. God bless you all.

Thank you,Mr. Laws. These mountain mysteries are so interesting.

I've never witnessed any strange encounters Donnie or mysteries love this kind of stuff exploring and seeing strange things hard to explain thanks for sharing hard to explain some things

Fascinating Stories , Thank You. GOD BLESS YOU

Warned my heart that you were able to meet up with your friend. Wonderful amazing stories. Ty for including us🤗

Morning Donnie, thanks for sharing this great video

This was so good. I always loved your unexplained pictures and the stories you have with them. You really have great ones to show and tell. ❤ Please share more of them 🙏 I really enjoy your videos.

How wonderful to reconnect and review unusual occurences from the past. Lots of unknowns in the Appalachias, and disappearances.

Much respect for y'all and every outdoorsman who has true stories of unexplained experiences. You know what's normal and what isn't. Enjoyed this video very much. Thanks Donnie! God bless!

Another great video! Love these old tales, especially the unexplained ones!!! God Bless!

Good one Donnie! Keep'em coming!

I really enjoy setting around listening to the old timers telling their stories, Thank you Donnie. When I was young we'd hear stories of The white thing or The whistling jack and some more here in Tennessee and they never get old.

Great story Mr. Donnie, thanks for sharing! Have a blessed day!

Thanks Mr Donnie I enjoyed this video.I could listen to these stories all day.

Another GREAT video brother Donnie! We always enjoy to look at them! Please keep them a coming! Praying for you, family and videos. God Bless!

Thank you and your friend for the wonderful stories! I love hearing the old mountain men tell their experiences. ❤

Thanks Donnie great tales about the strange things in the mountains and woodland , God bless you❤️💚🙏🏻🇬🇧

I truly love these stories my grandpa grew up in the mountains of Virginia he would tell stories to my brother and sisters like these miss him very much.

Yes, things that can't be explained definitely do exist, I've seen and heard a few myself too. God bless and thanks for sharing, I always enjoy these stories!

Thanks for the video donnie! Im watching on this beautiful morning before work, good start to the morning!

Loved these true stories Donnie.Thank you❤I really appreciate you sharing this.God bless you and your friend 😊

That was a great video! Love those old stories❤

I love a Mr. Donnie story! Thank you for sharing and god bless!

🇺🇸 GREAT Video Donnie!❤🤍💙🇺🇸

this is david and janette from tasmania love your storys strait from the hart if you look up possums in tasmania they look a bit like a house cat i am sixty and when i lived with my grand perents we ate kanger roo patties and possum and turkey fish and frest garden potatoes you tell people about that they think its deskusting but it depends were you live aborigonals still eat turtle and abalony fish and wichtitty grubs that are in gum trees some people eat seal meat still but nothing like being showed hunting by your kin folk we wach jarod king and you and that all we need becouse you both think of kin folkand you say it how it is god bless stay well and thank you for preserving your history

See you next time Donnie sir you know I enjoy and believe every word you say cause you’ve been there GOD BLESS

Howdy Donnie- yessir, there’s things out there in the woods that you don’t know what is. We’ve had mountain lions in our yard. One night I went out and there was a black one sitting down on its haunches watching me. It went around through the woods and was still watching me. That time l removed a limb off the tree it was under just about two feet over it’s head. He disappeared and I went back to house. Thank you for sharing your friend with us. God bless

Donnie loved hearing these old stories great video there is a lot of scary things in the woods God bless you my friend ❤️ Shelby

Donnie, I really enjoy listening to your videos…I’m from near the Appalachian region myself. Born and raised in upstate South Carolina. I wanted to share this story with you. Spooky yet humorous. My dad is from Alabama. Way back in the early 1960s, my grandaddy and his brother and my dad and a cousin were coming home from somewhere and were riding down a dirt road. It was late in the evening and the car got stuck in the mud. They got out and commenced to try to get it out of the mud. All of a sudden my grandaddy looked up on a hill next to them. He said about that time he saw the biggest “cat” he had ever seen. Said it had big ol long ears and he had never seen anything like it. My grandaddy ran up the hill and took off after it, said it was so big it was crunching corn stalks in the field it was running through. My dad was very young when this happened so didn’t remember a whole lot about it but said when my granddaddy would tell this story to others, it would scare him half to death. My dad was an adult when it finally dawned on him that what my granddaddy had seen was a deer 😆. He had never seen one prior to that. I think they had just re-released deer in to that part of the country at that time or something. God bless!

Straight Creek was where we had to haul the water from to my grandma’s house, right up the road from the dock! Brings back such happy memories for me, thank-you Donnie ❤

Love these old stories, I could sit and listen all day long. Thank you for sharing. My grandpa could tell stories that would make your hair stand straight up. He was raised in VA and part Cherokee. 😊

Fascinating story. Thanks for sharing.

You ever stop and let it sink in that the Appalachian mountains are 1,2 billion years old! Imagine all the different CULTURES, that have called this place home? Imagine what locations they have deemed sacred? Curses, religious ceremonies bet there is alot no one will ever know .thanks again donnie ,love your work

So good to have you back Brother!!! Great video!!

Awesome stories, Donnie. Some things just can’t be explained. You take good care and God bless you and your family.🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

Your videos and your voice are so calming , it's what I need today. Thank you Donnie and God bless you 🙏

Awesome video buddy… I love hearing these old stories… thanks Donnie…

I find your videos soothing because they sound like my mother's family sitting on the porch telling old timey stories about Missouri. They're all passed on now, but the twang is the same. Bless you.

Thanks Donnie...have a wonderful weekend 😊👍

I love sitting and listening to people like that too. Them old people done lived through it. Thank you for sharing his stories for all of us to hear and if you think about Thank him for us all too.

Great video. Thanks for sharing

Thank you Donnie!! There are things out there!!

Enjoyed that video DONNIE

We sure do enjoy listening to these old stories! Thanks so much for sharing! God Bless you and your family!

Love hereing the old stories.thanks for sharing 👍

Thanks Donnie, you're absolutely the best ol' timer on RU-vid. ❤

Thank you for another great video!

Friend thank you for the wonderful stories. I enjoy them. God bless you Donnie. Friend i need you to pray for me and my wife. God knows all about it

Thank you Donnie. I have always enjoyed listening to our older generations stories, and this was no exception. We can learn alot of we just take the time to listen.

My Father in-law used to tell me stories about Wampus Cats. He was born in McDowell county North Carolina. He lived in different areas like Old Fort, North Cove, and Linville Falls areas. I love learning all I can from different areas of the mountains. Praying and Blessed! 🤗🙏🌄

Love these stories, Donnie. I always loved it when me and my grandfather would set on the front porch and he would tell me his stories.

Thankful you are sharing these stories! My daddy mined coal all his life and he tells of the wild cats ( panthers) they saw as children and as I have gotten older I have seen three near our home. Preserve the stories like you are doing !

Awesome stories Mr Laws! Thank you and your friend! Keep them coming!

Good morning and thank you donnie. This was kinda scary but yet exciting. Another great video. 😊

My family has land in Pocahontas County West Virginia just South of Marlinton. It's been in the family since before 1850. I know that it's been said throughout the years that there's mountain lions up there despite the general consensus that they've all been eradicated. I wouldn't be surprised if there happens to be some still in the area since Pocahontas is the least populated county in all of West Virginia! I believe you've mentioned before in a video awhile back & that I would completely agree, that there's probably numerous areas in those mountains that's never had a human traverse. So many hollers, caves & outcroppings for animals to nest down in for anyone to know for certain what's extinct & what's not. Another great video! Hope you're continuing to heal quickly! Stay safe!

Great video....please do more like this one....

Good morning Mr Donnie. Yes these mountains run in my blood. They are and always will be my home and yes you are right. There are so many things over centuries that have happened in the great Appalachians. Stories my grandparents just kept to themselves. Blessings dear brother❤😊❤😊

Wow this video was amazing and awesome and wonderful.thank you so much for this spooky video.

Good morning , thanks for another awesome video God bless you sir 💯

Beautiful photography, scenery & enjoyable content & narration, Donnie. GBY

Great job on the video, very creative and captivating, the music tracks were perfect! right fancy work 😀

Thank you for sharing this. There are so many things that can't be explained.....

Thank You Donnie and your friend for spooky stories. I'm so scared ..I wouldn't go into woods at night.

Thank you for sharing these wonderful stories. Love listening to them ❤

This was another good one Mr Donnie! I love hearing our Elders tell stories. I'd much rather listen to them than watch some movie or TV show...everything now is a bunch of junk anyway. Thanks to both of you for the video 👍

Hey, Donnie! This video is still one of my favorites! I had a black panther living in the woods beyond my back yard that I caught in a video, by accident, filming a friend asleep in my yard. I didn’t know I did until I viewed the video on my phone a day later. I was shocked! He had always mentioned seeing a big black cat run left to right from the woods through the grass over to disappear out of view behind the old barn! Sure enough, it was true! In my video it runs through my neighbors yard, in the background at the top of my video. I’ve had hunters and farmers I know, raised in the area, and they had no doubt in their mind, from the look of the long tale, body size, the long sprints and the muzzle protruding out like a dog’s. than a house catit was a panther

Great stories.Makes you wonder.

There is truly nothing better than these stories! I really appreciate you adding the maps to help show what areas to stay away from 😂 great video!! ❤

Donnie, I always hit like on your videos just as they are starting because I already know it’s going to be good. Keep up the good work.

Nothing in these hills haven't changed much .56 this year & grew up a bot further South than you guys did but still the same critters all over our beautiful mountains.Good story,Donnie.God bless.

Hello from KY love you and your channel ❤️.Donnie i had chills and goose bumps listening to Big Foots story.I know this for sure there is nothing scarier than the woods in the middle of nowhere.I truly believe there are animals and people we have never laid eyes on.Probably will never happen in yours are mine lifetimes.Stay safe and nurse that leg.❤

Keep them coming Donnie. I really enjoy these stories especially when it is coming directly from the person it happened to.

Thanks for this conversion with your friend Bigfoot! I really enjoyed it!

Interesting video, Donnie. Three seasons ago, during our December muzzleloading season, I heard some strange sounds on our farm in northern Kentucky. The best way to describe it was like a roar but high pitched. And, it sounded like it wasn't more than 50 yards away. I've researched and researched online listening to all the sounds a bobcat, bear, or wild hog makes and I haven't found anything to replicate the sound. It was before daylight, so I never saw it. I only had my flintlock rifle with me that morning. I remember looking in my backpack for my pistol and I had forgotten it. I tell you now that is one of the first things I look for and pack when I get ready to go hunting during blackpowder season. I want more than just one shot. That's the only time something unexplained happened to me. So, I believe these old feller's stories.

Hey Donnie….Continued Prayers for you…Hope you are well…. I love this video…. I could watch videos like this for days on end…Thank you for keeping our history and our heritage alive….Take care Donnie…God Bless & Lord willing I will see you next time 🙏🏻💯❤️☦️🇮🇱

Claiborne and Campbell counties are my family territory!!! Awesome video!!!

I LOVE these type of videos!! I also let the ads play Donnie 😊

Love these episodes!!

I dont know what was seen or what was heard, but those tales were scary, for sure, Donnie! Have a great weekend, and God bless you.🙏❤️

Thank you Sir for the story and God Bless you

I love to sit and listen to these kinds of stories from the ppl who live here their whole lives. Especially from the hunters, you know they have got to see things, always being in the woods. So thanks so much for sharing these with us I appreciate you Mr Donnie. God bless you and your family, take care now❤🙏👍✌️🤗

❤the stories Donnie!! Keepem up! Love to listen before i go to my shop! We also had a great time in The Great Smokies! Cant wait to go back!😊

Im going to listen to this video again. Have a wonderful day

So interesting love these stories. A lot of mysteries in those old mountains. Thank you for this story. Got any more? Love hearing them

Great video Donnie. God bless you and all here. ❤ ✝️ ❤

Morning Mr Donnie. Hope you getting along well. I missed your yesterday video. Appreciate it again my friend

THANKS DONNIE AND BIGFOOT GREAT VIDEO.

Hi Donnie, George here. two years in a row, in the first week of february, theres a panther that screams at my cabin at night. his track is wider than my hand. I took pictures of the track right in front of the shed where my washing machine is. I don't go do laundry without the shotgun. folks like to say, its just a bobcat, but I know better, I shown the light on it one night and its eyes were level with the top of the fence. regular farm fence. I recorded it screaming that time. now, the fun thing to do with that recording is when the racoons are on the porch, I can play that recording and they jump over each other getting away, some will jump the the railing and others scatter down the steps. every racoon for himself! hahaha, good fun.