The first time it happened, I was sleeping and woke up because I felt a hand on my leg, and I realized that I couldn't move.

And he'd come across this object on the ground, which was the shape of a flying saucer. So he jumped out of his pickup and went down there, and there was four beings laying on the ground.

When I raised my head back up,

I was turning to my head, and out of my peripheral vision,

I'd seen something hopped to a tree.

And it was tall, about seven, eight foot tall,

and it was black, real hairy, like a gorilla.

Yeah. like a gorilla. The first thing we saw was this winged creature, 14-foot wingspan, at least.

It was huge.

It almost covered half the road.

Welcome to the show. I'm your host, Nick.

The Pine Barrens of Southern New Jersey is a vast wilderness of immense beauty and tremendous

solitude. It is the largest body of open land on the Mid-Atlantic seaboard between Richmond, Virginia,

and Boston, Massachusetts. This location is home to the Pineland's National Reserve, which contains

1.1 million acres of pristine forest, and the Pine Barons share a large portion of this reserve. Early settlers of the

pine barons referred to themselves as pinees, and included Quakers, outlaws, and even smugglers.

The soil of the pine barons was sandy, acidic, and not suitable for farming. It was later discovered,

though,

that a natural reservoir of pure, sterile water was hidden beneath the pines

and was desired by travelers in need of potable water.

In the 1800s, an industrialist by the name of Joseph Wharton

acquired a hundred thousand acres of the Pine Barons, and sought

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