The men were anxious, but confident that whatever it was lurking in the foliage wouldn’t dare to show itself near the campfire… they were wrong. The event began in 1999, after a pair of campers set up shop in the forest not far from their rural Boone County home, no doubt hoping to get the benefits of relaxing in the woods without being too far from the comforts of home.Īs the sun set and darkness began to creep through the trees the outdoorsmen lit up a campfire and sat around the crackling pyre enjoying good conversation, a warm evening breeze and, in all likelihood, a brew or two, but the peace and quiet that permeated their remote campsite would not remain for long.Īs night drew on, the men began to hear what they described as a sort of animalistic “snorting” and “scuffling” sounds emanating from the trees that surrounded the campsite. The driver wasted no time in speeding away from the enraged beast and when the couple arrived home they noted deep scratches in the paint where the fiend had assaulted their car.Īs frightening as the road tripping couples’ account may be, the next known Boone County altercation is even more terrifying. Interestingly, the only detail of the couples’ description of this creature that seems to differ from the bulk of the reports is the almost inexplicable fact that they believed it had no less than “four eyes.” Of course, it’s possible that these witnesses mistook the dark horns on its head for an extra pair of eyes.Īs if this sighting weren’t already frightening enough, the beast - in what is one of the only known accounts of Sheepsquatch violence - lunged out of the ditch and began ravaging the vehicle. The astonished driver slowed to a halt in order to get a better look at this unusual apparition, which he and his partner described as a hulking, ashen animal about the size of a bear. According to the report, a couple driving through the remote area had the scare of a lifetime when they spied a burly beast hunkered in a roadside ditch along that isolated LOVERS LANE. The next Boone Country episode hails from 1995. There can be little doubt that this harrowing brush with the unknown was terrifying to the youngsters, but it was apparently the beast that was startled as it sprinted away from the youths tearing limbs off of trees as it went. The children stated that the creature resembled a “white bear” and that it even reared up on its hind legs, making it (according to the kids’ estimates) over 6-feet tall. While sightings of this beast have been reported in West Virginia’s Mason, Putnam and Kanawha counties, the bulk of the reports seem to hail from Boone County, where there appears to have been a wave of Sheepsquatch run-ins over the past few decades, particularly in the 1990s.ĭuring 1994 - in a bone chilling event similar to one that befell an unfortunate boy who came face to face with the notorious ENFIELD HORROR - two children claimed to have seen a huge, whitish monster while playing in their backyard. Many witnesses also claim that this creature reeks of sulfur. Further removing the thought that this might be some kind of mutated bear - or even HAIRY HOMINID - is the fact that this seemingly HYBRID BEAST is said to have a long, hairless tail like that of an opossum. Multiple observers have testified that this strange fiend does not have the claws of a bear, but raccoon-like hands and, even more bizarrely, it is said to have two big horns sticking out of the top of its skull like those of a juvenile goat. The thing is also said to be covered in a coarse coat of filthy, yellowish-white fur… now this is where it starts to get weird. On the surface it’s difficult to take this outlandishly named animal - which is also known as the “white thing” - seriously, but this beast has allegedly been chronicled in Virginian folklore for decades, although few outside the vast expanse of Appalachian Plateau have ever heard of this as yet UNCLASSIFIED critter.Įyewitnesses describe this quadruped as being a bear-sized mammal with large, razor-sharp teeth and a grizzly shaped cranium although most accounts agree that its eyes are set noticeably lower in its head than that of a typical Ursidae. The region is shrouded in mystery and rich in folklore, but few legends are more unusual and intriguing than that of the creature known to the locals as “Sheepsquatch.” The border between southwest Virginia and West Virginia is a densely forested mountainous region dotted with old coal mines and deep, dark, dangerous forests. This bizarre, multi-horned, wooly, white beast is said to stalk the forested areas of Virginia and West Virginia, and remains one of the most enigmatic, large mammals as yet undiscovered in the wilds of the U.S.
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