welcome back everyone I hope all you Legends are doing well before I get in tonight's encounter I humbly ask if you're not subscribed please consider hitting that button also like and share this video my channel seems to be gaining traction and I couldn't be more grateful you guys are amazing that includes OG subscribers and all of you newcomers welcome I never expected it to take off so quickly thank you each and every one of you now let's get to why you're here the encounter this is probably one of the more strange encounters I've ever received
this story will take us to a small remote town in Eastern Kentucky it took place back in 2016 now get a cold drink lock the doors and the windows Hit the lights and let's get started my name is Ethan I grew up in a small Eastern Kentucky Community with a very small number of people but each one would give their shirt off their very own back to help a stranger Appalachian residents are some of the nicest most humble people on the planet I moved away after high school to Lawrenceburg Indiana and got a decent job
working at the Argy Casino it opened in December of 96 so I was hoping after some years there I would move up the ladder and land a lucrative position which I eventually did but this story isn't about my employment history and past accomplishments 20 years at the casino it's late October 2016 and I received a call from my aunt that I'll never forget she informed me that my mom had been sick for a few years and kept it hidden as not to worry the family my mom was the kindest Soul I've ever known my dad
wasn't around and she raised me on her own I didn't have everything I wanted but I always had what I needed she was tough to say the least she had developed COPD and her lungs were all but done the only option was a lung transplant and we all knew that that was a slim possibility but I had had hope she was sent home with an oxygen machine and she had to do two to three breathing treatments every day needless to say she wasn't able to take care of herself in this state so I agreed to
take off work for a while and moved back home to take care of her after all she took care of me it's the least I could do to repay her she was my mom I felt it was my duty to be there for her I headed back home and a few weeks later in early November fall was in full swing and Kentucky in the fall is breathtaking the oranges and yellows on the trees covering the Appalachian Mountains is one of God's greatest paintings if you've never been to Eastern Kentucky in the fall I'd recommend taking
that trip if possible the town I grew up in was the story book Mayberry everybody knows everybody there are no secrets so everyone knew I was coming back home of course I arrived at my mother's home around 300 p.m. it was about a 5H hour drive for me not surprising to me I was met with my aunt three cousins and a few more people that were lifelong friends with my mom from her local church she had been a member of the same church since I can remember I dealt with the inevitable hugs and Hells and
the so glad your homes after things settled and it was just me and my aunt outside on the porch talking I noticed my mom's dogs were not climbing all over me as usual I asked her where is mac and Jewel my mom's two Labs that she has had for many years she loved those dogs like they were her own children my aunt dropped her head and said we don't know they disappeared apparently something weird has been happening to locals and has been for a year or so I was wondering why I was just now hearing
about this she told me that mom had forbid anyone to tell me as in her eyes I was unnecessarily aggravated with stuff like this that's just how she was like I said people all over town were having problems with losing animals including family pets and livestock as well animals were disappearing Without a Trace never to return I mean we are in the Deep mountains here but this is something rare that just don't happen we have a lot of predators around coyote Bobcats occasionally a black bear on rare occasions but these animals are very Elusive and
usually stay away from popul ated areas and stick to the cover of the mountains I questioned my aunt further are the police looking into this maybe fish and wildlife apparently they have opened multiple investigations all coming up empty with no idea what's doing this my aunt heads home a few hours later and I go inside with Mom she was happy to see me but also almost scolded me for leaving my work and coming home she was insistent on her being able to take care of herself when it come when it was obvious she could not
before we went to bed the first night of me being home I asked her about the weird disappearances that my aunt mentioned earlier she was reluctant at first but began to tell me stories that honestly Disturbed me one of the farmers outside of town had some full grown cattle disappeared a few weeks back all they found was some entrails and a trail of blood leading over the pasture fence and into the woods I'm not an expert but we don't have any animals here that can gut then carry a full grown cow off into the woods
she refused to tell me anymore about this and said she wanted to rest and I should too after traveling all day we ate a quick dinner and went to bed around 11:00 I was awakened around 2: or 3:00 a.m. I wasn't sure what had woke me up but I knew something had because I sleep like the dead most times I got up to go to the back porch to smoke a cigarette the back porch is maybe 20 30 yard from the tree line which was so thick that you couldn't see 5 ft into the woods
there were no lights back there except for a very small dim porch light while out there it's almost like you are this tiny in this tiny light circle in the middle of space that's how dark it is I was never scared of the Woods at all when I was growing up me and all my friends were always playing out there without a care in the world all of a sudden I started thinking of the stories I heard earlier and I immediately became very uneasy I had a strong feeling of something watching me from the woods
I quickly chocked it up to freaking myself out so I put out my cigarette and went back to bed the next morning I made some breakfast and while eating mom was unusually quiet I asked her what was wrong she told me that late last night she heard an animal outside her window which faced the backyard I told her I had been out there pretty late and she probably heard me she looked at me her face very pale and serious and said Ethan it was an animal it wasn't you she continued to tell me what she
had heard and I was shocked she said she had heard something walking around in the leaves out back close to her window she got up and looked out and saw nothing so she closed her blinds and went back to bed something woke her up about an hour later tapping and scratching on her window I was about to get angry and think maybe some local kids may be trying to play a prank until what she told me next she had some pet rabbits out back in an enclosure their enclosure was completely built in a way to
keep them safe from predators well small predators that is she said she heard something growling so low and deep that the glass in the window began to shake then she heard something ripping into the rabbit enclosure and her rabbits being ripped apart she wanted me to go check as she was afraid to even look out the window to check on them I was skeptical but also my mom had never lied to me so after we finished eating I went out back to check on the rabbits as soon soon as I went out the back door
I knew something was really wrong I saw the side of the enclosure it had been completely ripped off there was blood and fur everywhere it would take something big something strong and something very hungry to do this kind of damage I was thinking black bear nothing else in this area could do this it broke my heart but I had to go inside and break NOS to her she was very upset and said it killed my dogs and now it's took my rabbits I said Mom what is it have you saw what's doing this she sat
back down at the table and patted the seat next to her with her hand motioning for me to sit she proceeded to tell me she had saw something a week or so ago but she didn't know what it was she initially thought maybe all the med she was taking that what she saw wasn't real when she described what she had saw I was inclined to believe she was seeing things well I wanted desperately to believe she was mistaken she proceeded to tell me about the night the dogs disappeared or what she said took them it
was late at night and the dogs were at the back door whining and scratching like they needed out to use the bathroom so she let them out and watched out the window to keep an eye on them she then told me something that I at the time just couldn't believe she said the dogs began barking facing the tree line and as I said before it's too dark back there at night to see anything she saw a huge black mass run into the yard so fast it was almost a blur it grabbed both dogs at the
same time and she heard them yelping in pain as it took them into the woods she told me it was running on two legs and had a muzzle like a dog I could not believe what she was saying she opened the back door and yelled for them for a while and she was met with only silence they never returned I didn't know what to say she said don't be out there after dark again and went to her room to lie down I was left at the table with my jaw on the floor surely she was
mistaken it had to be a bear two legs what has she saw I needed to ask around some more as I was deeply concerned now what is stopping this thing whatever it is from snatching people at this point I mean those two dogs were over 80 lb each to take take them both that fast it had to be strong and could easily take a kid very quickly there was an old Farmer in the area that I worked for a few Summers back when I was a teenager I drove out to see if he had any
idea what was going on around here I pulled in and he was walking out of his barn he greeted me with a smile and said he has heard I was back in town and had been hoping I'd stop by he began asking the typical questions how's City life treating you how's your mom just friendly conversation I told him what had happened the previous night with the rabbits and I told him what Mom said she saw the night the dogs disappeared he turned as white as a sheet dropped his head he then told me some of
the problems he has had lately on his farm he had apparently lost dozens of chickens multiple dogs and a few calves at this point I didn't know what to think what my mom told me and now him I grew up knowing this man he was a faithful God-fearing man not to mention old school and nearly bulletproof I asked if he knew what was doing this he said he had saw it multiple times and began to describe the same features that my mom mom had earlier but his were a little more detailed as he had gotten
a better look at this thing he said it was well over 6 ft tall it walked on two legs and sometimes all fours had a giant head of a wolf and huge hands that reminded him of raccoon hands if I wasn't terrified before I was now I've got this old school guy that's tough as nails telling me this story with fear in his eyes he proceeded to tell me it comes around almost every night and kills one of his animals and he doesn't know what to do he's called the cops and local game wardens to
no avail no one knows what's going on nor how to handle it we sat on the front porch for an hour or so drinking coffee and as I stood to leave saying I needed to go check on my mom he stopped me he said he had a plan to trap and shoot this thing but it would take at least two people to do it the blood immediately drained from my face because I knew what he was about to ask me to do he knew I was a crack shot with a rifle as I grew up
shooting guns he wanted us to trap this thing in the barn and try to kill it wanting to help and as terrified as I was after a few minutes of hearing his plan I agreed to help him we were going to try to kill this thing I went back home and I didn't say a word to my mom about what we had talked about but she knows me and she could tell my mind was elsewhere I still never told her no matter how many times she asked I just told her I was worried about her
health that's it me and the farmer agreed that that night after she went to sleep I would come back and we would wait for this creature to come the time came and I headed back to his place he was waiting for me outside on the front porch he had two of his hunting rifles and two handguns he had two 700 wind mags and two 357 I was scared but seeing his face terrified me a lot more his plan was to leave one side of the Barn open me and him hide up in the Loft with
the guns and when this thing comes in we open fire not an intricate plan but with guns of this large of caliber I'd say we could take about anything down we headed out to the barn and climbed up to The Loft we had some headlamps and our weapons that's it I was immediately regretting agreeing to this but he assured me over and over that we would come out of this okay I trusted him so we sat down in the dark and waited a few hours passed and I was worried about my mom and my mind
was racing all of a sudden a couple of horses in the Stalls began to get uneasy they were nighing and kicking the stall doors while doing circles in the Stalls he said get ready son it's here I began to hear something moving outside the barn door then I heard heavy breathing I was shaking so bad at this point that I was unsure I could even hit anything but I stilled my nerves and steadied my rifle what walked through that Barn Door caused my brain to melt inside my skull I would describe what I saw but
the best word I can use is werewolf this was a replica of a Hollywood movie werewolf it was way bigger than 6 ft tall as the thing barely cleared the top of the barn door with its massive head its eyes were glowing with this intense yellow color it wasn't ey shine they were glowing I was stuck in place and my finger wouldn't pull the trigger he didn't shoot either we both stared at this devil dog from hell in absolute awe it made it directly underneath us and suddenly stopped my blood froze and I held my
breath it began to sniff the air very audibly in a split second its head jolted up and it stared directly at us we both began firing at the same time this monster yeled and screamed and took off off out of The Barn at a speed that I thought was impossible I jumped down as fast as I could ran out of the barn and as I turned the corner I flipped my headlamp on I saw this thing limping through the pasture towards the trees I took aim with the rifle and fired another round hitting it in
the lower left portion of its back it yelped and kept going as if it had been stung by a bee before I could get off another shot it disappeared out of the reach of my headlamp and was gone we both vowed right then that very night to never speak of this and if it ever came back we would kill it mom never knew what happened and I never told her sadly she passed away a few months later the old farmer is still alive and kicking we stay in touch and as he tell tells me no
more animals have gone missing since we put some holes in that creature I haven't been back home since mom's funeral it still bothers me every day the questions what was it where did it come from did we kill it or did it just move off to heal and terrorize another town and most Haunting of all will it be out for revenge on my farmer friend he's getting too old now to defend himself I would like to think we killed evil that night but there is no way of knowing for sure all I know is we
sure gave that thing hell we shot a dog man and for all these people that say don't shoot these things yeah that's not my advice I say let these things have it if you get a shot we found blood that night on the ground and if it bleeds you can kill it that's my encounter I haven't experienced anything weird since but to be fair I'm retired now and I stay far away from the woods I stay in the concrete jungle where I have to worry about a different kind of monster the thieves and the criminals
but I'll deal with that before I'll deal with that hell Beast I don't favor anyone's odds with that thing we got lucky and caught it off guard or I know we would have not made it out alive that night if you see one of these things you have to stand your ground use a big caliber gun with lots of stopping power they are tough but they don't do well with bullets that's what happened I'll swear it on a stack of Bibles Believe it or don't that's your decision but know this these things are out there
whether you believe or not be careful and protect yourself I hope this helps someone that may be dealing with one of these Unholy things thanks a lot wishing everyone well Ethan well guys that's it that's Ethan's encounter I don't even really know what to say about this one I've never received any encounters quite like this before I'll be honest Ethan what you two did was Brave but borderline stupid I'm sorry brother I'm all for protecting yourself against these things but don't go hunting them especially trapping yourself in a barn with a dog man in between
you and your only way out I'm glad you guys made it out okay and I thank you for submitting your encounter my condolences for your mother she sounded like like a fine lady I know it's a stretch but I would really like to speak to your farmer friend and get his side of the story he saw the thing more than once I'm curious to what he would have to tell me hey you can't blame me for trying right anyways guys that's it for this one I hope you come back for the next upload I'll upload
encounters as quickly as I receive them as I said before it's getting harder and harder to find credible encounters and since I only do dog man that is even more hard to find if you've had a dog man encounter and would like for it to be featured on this channel email me I will leave my email in the description of this video thank you all for listening and keep yourself safe out there until next time watch over your loved ones Keep Your Head on a swivel and as always good night