The X Letters EP 1 - Sometimes time just gets away from you.

0:17 Hey, everybody, it's standing here. Well where do I start? I guess, uh, an explanation of sorts is in order. Where did the Kentucky X Files go? The best way I can describe that, or the best way I can word that, I should say, is that sometimes time just gets away from us. And we enjoyed doing the show, and we definitely enjoyed, you know, all the topics and from the very serious topics all the way down to you know, the really lighthearted and fun topics, and then sometimes the news just provided enough, you know, for us to just get a you know, get a kick out of you know. But in the end, I think we uh flew too close to the sun. We God, it's been a while since I've actually been on the microphone, so you have to bear with me here. I think we got to a point where nothing was really jumping out at us. So at first we said, well, let's let's hold off and let's let's wait for something worthy, uh and then we'll jump in and we'll do an episode about it. But you know, nothing ever really came

1:49 that was powerful enough to get us back into the saddle, you know what I mean, like back into the routine. We were basically I want to say burnt out. Well, you know, maybe maybe that's the closest I can think of, you know, or just uninspired. I guess. We never we never really felt like we ended the show properly. And uh, I'm actually not here today to end the show for you. Actually, uh, in. The spirit of the campfire, you know, feeling of the show, we're gonna be We're gonna be trudging on, but it's gonna be a little different than you remember. Here's what happened.

2:40 So in this year, and it has been a year. By the time you hear this, it will have been a year since the very last Kentucky X Files episode. And in that year, you all never stopped writing in, and you reached out and you wrote in and you told your stories, and if I'm going to be quite honest with you, for the longest time, the stories kind of went unread. And then bam, a week ago, I'm going through emails and what do I see but a pile of stories from people from you. So this new thing, this first episode, you're going to see first, You're going to see it launched on the Kentucky X Files podcast as a way to kind of help you find it.

3:36 The new show is called The X Letters, and it's all the emails from you to us telling us what's happened. And I thought, you know what, it wouldn't take me long to just jump on here, hit record and read these letters. So yeah, yeah, remember that though the X Letters, that's all you. Have to do. Go find it on all the streaming and go ahead and follow it, and we'll just continue on the campfire from there. And uh, I will not say never say never that the Kentucky X Files will return, because stranger things have happened. But for right now, let's just let's just carry on, you know, with with the emails, and uh, you're more than welcome to email us at encounters at at Kentuckyxfiles dot com and and let me know what you think of the episodes, let me know what you're what you're thinking, or if you hear something on here that sounds familiar to you, go ahead and chime in, let me know, and we'll just keep on keeping on from there. So without further ado, let's let's dive into the first couple of emails, and I guess we'll just we'll just kind of play it by year we'll just go with the flow from there. Again, I'm pretty rusty.

4:52 It's been a year, so bear with me and hopefully you enjoy this. Uh. Some of these stories are pretty wid some of them are kind of kind of scary. But you know the whether whether you know the person sending it saw what they think they saw or not, they're they're going to get their day in court. So here we go. Let's uh, let's dive in here. I'm gonna pull up the first one here. I've got them, got a big old pile of them, so all right, Uh, it looks like this was written. Let's see here. Looks like April of last year is when this email came through. So let's see how it goes. All right, Dear Denny, I know how this is gonna sound. I have written and deleted this email more times than I can count. My wife told me to leave it alone, said the more I think about it, the more I'll convinced myself it was real.

6:00 But it was real or it is I'm not really sure which tends to use, because I think it's still here. I live about six miles outside of a little town called Harlan. Nothing out here but trees there's a creek, and I jokingly say, there's some ghosts of the old coal mines. It's quiet. Well, it was quiet. That's actually why I moved out here. I moved here after retiring from the railroad. Bear with me, folks, the punctuation in some of these is going to be a little wild. I bought a little house on the edge of the woods, and I figured I'd spend the rest of my life fixing it up, doing some fishing, and just not bothering anybody or being bothered for that matter. All that changed about five weeks ago. It started with the birds. Every morning, like clockwork, the woods would be alive with noise. It was cardinals, crows, woodpeckers, you name it. But then one day it all just stopped. Not quiet like it's about the rain. Quiet, I mean dead silence, not even when through the trees, no bugs, no frogs, just this thick, suffocating stillness. Almost felt like a pressure. It was like the whole world out here was just holding its breath.

7:24 That silence had to wait to it and it made your ears ring. Well, I told myself it was nothing, But the next night I woke up around three am to a sound that I can only describe like a baby crying in the woods. The first thing I thought was coyote, But this wasn't no damn coyote, and it sure as hell wasn't no raccoon. It was a soft crying, almost like a toddler. It was like a kid lost out there. So I went to the porch with a flashlight and I called out hello, but I never got nothing. I took a few steps towards the tree line, and the crying immediately stopped, like someone hit mute. Then I heard something snap deep in the woods, not like a twig breaking, but like heavy, like a tree falling deliberate.

8:16 I went back inside. I locked the doors, and I sat in the kitchen with a loaded pistol and a cup of coffee until sunrise. That's become the routine every night, the same crying, the same silence, the same feeling like someone's watching me. I set up a trail cam. Nothing just black frames. It's almost like something was blocking the lens. Well, then came the scratching. It started at the back door. It was like a slow clawing scratching, like fingernails on old wood. When I'd flip the porch light on. There was nothing there, no prints, no marks. It was just that feeling in my chest like something was waiting. Well, my wife came to visit last weekend. I didn't tell her any about this. I didn't want to scare She was only going to stay one night. Well, about two am, she woke up saying, I think there's someone outside the window.

9:14 I grabbed the flashlight and I went to the bedroom. Sure enough, something was standing just past the glass. Not close enough, not close far enough that I could make it out, but tall, taller than me. I'm around six to two, and it just stood there. She swears it looked like me, but I don't think so. The worst part of the whole thing when I stepped outside, there was no one there. It was just nothing. But her side of the bed was soaking wet. It smelled like a river water. Well, it's safe to say the wife doesn't like visiting the cabin anymore, and I don't really blame her. I can't really explain it. But whatever it is, maybe one of those bigfoots or something.

10:07 I don't know. Maybe it's an alien. I don't know. Well, I'm not really writing you for attention, Denny. I'm just writing because I've listened to your show and I know you all take people serious, people who've seen something that doesn't really fit into the world. Well, that's what this is. I'll tell you what. I haven't really slept right up in the cabin ever since. I still go up and go fishing, but I don't think I'm going to stay the night, so I go up during the day, I fish, and I go home. I'm thinking about selling the place. Maybe if you read this on the show, maybe someone else out there might know something too, So please don't use my full name.

10:49 I appreciate you. Thanks, guys. Well, that's an interesting one. I don't know that i've I mean I've heard I've heard of stuff, you know, in stories like Bigfoot sightings, where people were in their cabin and you know, something was banging on the walls or throwing rocks. At them, things like that. I don't know that I've ever heard the scratching thing before. So that's that's an interesting one for me. I don't know if anybody out there has any anything to add to that one. Just send me an email, shoot shoot me something, let me know what you think. Wow. So I don't know I guess. I guess. Let's go, let's do one more see see what we can figure out here. All right, looks like this place, this one, says dear Denny. There's no date on this one.

11:42 Oh no, there is, Sorry, March fourteenth, twenty twenty four. All right, dear Denny. I'm not one for ghost stories. I've been driving long haul for about seventeen years, and I've seen my fair share of weird stuff. Lights in the. Skies, shadows on the sh even guys standing dead still in the middle of the eye of forty. At three am. That's crazy. That would be enough to freak me out. But nothing shook me like I saw last week on Highway seventy two. I was heading westbound, just past the Mississippi line, clear night Moon was out road dry. I just crossed through Cherokee, and I saw movement in the ditch to my right. I thought it was a deer, so I slowed down a touch and kept my high beams on.

12:28 I always thought that if you kept. Your high beams on, they it would stun them and they would stay, they would stand where they're at. But I don't know what I saw came out of the ditch. And onto the shoulder. It was tall and lean, maybe seven feet if it was an inch. Looked like a damn coyote that got hit by a freight train. And it kept walking, mangy fur, long snout, bent legs, arms that swung like a man's. But the hands, guys, this thing had hands clawed, long fingers and they were too long to be normal. I asked it. I wasn't about to stop, but I couldn't stop looking in the mirror. Well that's the thing. This thing kept pace with me. I was doing fifty five, then sixty five, then pushing seventy, and it was right there, running beside my trailer, tongue lolling out, eyes shining like coals. Every few seconds, i'd dropped down to all fours. Oh, every few seconds it would drop down to all fours I misread that, then pop up like a like it was stretching.

13:29 I kept hoping it would veer off or get bored, but it didn't. It stayed with me for twelve miles. Finally, just past the gravel turn off, it feered back into the woods. It was gone like smoke. I pulled up to the next truck stop and set there for a good hour, hands shaking and hearts pounding. I didn't say a word to nobody, and I didn't sleep in my cab that night. Since then, I've talked to. Three maybe three maybe four other drivers that say they've seen something near that same stretch. One guy called it a skin walker. Another guy called it the Alabama wolf. Me. I really don't give a shit what name you give it. All I know is that that was no animal. That thing was smiling at me. I think it was enjoying itself. Well, I changed routes. I don't run that one anymore, and if anyone ever listens to this, I highly suggest they don't run it either, telling them to keep their foots to the pedal, the door's locked, and keep on a going.

14:29 There's something out there that don't mind being seen. Thank you, Balt. Wow, that's that's pretty wild. I guess that definitely. I mean that sounds like very very similar to dog man stuff i've heard, or even skin walker stuff i've heard. Keeping pace at seventy miles an hour. That's knowing. For me, that's crazy, Like, how the hell would you even react to that? That's nuts? And I don't blame him. I don't if you changed routes, I don't blame. I'm a truck driver too, And if I say, if I saw some ship like that, I would definitely be uh, I'd probably be putting in some uh some you know, some applications for other stuff and just get out of that altogether. Yeah, So I'm going to go ahead and take a break here, and uh, I tell you what, guys, thanks for listening to this, and let me know, email me, let me know what you think encounters at ky x files dot com.

15:31 Like I said, again, this is going to be called the X Letters. It's going to be on its own thing. So I wanted the first episode to be here just to kind of give you guys a you know, like a heads up, Hey, here's where the here's where the stuff's happening at. So yeah, we'll. See you over there and definitely give us a follower or whatever, you know what I mean. And I'll keep uploading them. So take care of each other out there.

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