EP: 390 Terror in the Treehouse *members only trailer

Blurry Creatures

Nature, Science, Religion & Spirituality, Christianity

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🗓️ 15 January 2026

⏱️ 21 minutes

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It's 2009 in Fairview, North Carolina. Two teenage cousins are hanging out in a treehouse ten feet off the ground, stereo playing Elton John's "Benny and the Jets" into the cool fall night. Then, right around the third "Benny," time seems to stop. A massive finger, easily twelve inches long and covered in matted gray-brown fur with a thick black talon, slides through the cracks in the floorboards. Not frantically. Methodically. Back and forth. Whatever was attached to that finger was standing on the ground below, which means this thing had to be enormous. The boys froze, paralyzed by a fear Blake describes as primordial. Something deep in his DNA telling him there was no escape, no fight, just freeze and hope.But that's just the beginning. Blake's story opens up into a lifetime of strange encounters across the Carolina mountains: precognitive dreams that run in his Cherokee family line, a UFO sighting that vanished the moment it knew it was being watched, and a bizarre vision of a Native American chief named Timbo that he never went looking for. We dig into what makes North Carolina such a thin place, the connection between curiosity and intelligence in these creatures, and why Blake believes these encounters, terrifying as they are, have only deepened his walk with Christ. This one's got Bigfoot, orbs, little people lore, and a whole lot of Appalachian strangeness. Want to listen to this episode and an entire back catalog of exclusive members-only content? Check out a Blurry Creatures membership at ⁠https://blurrycreatures.com/pages/members Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:52.9	More parents are choosing EE broadband, the UK's fastest growing broadband provider. To verify I see E.e.com. U.K.S. claims. It was about 12 o'clock, 1 o'clock in the morning, and we're hanging out. We are in a tree house outside of my cousin's house. And this tree house, to give you some reference reference the bottom platform where you would be sitting
1:11.8	at you have to climb up to it's about 10 feet off the ground and we're up there hanging out we're
1:16.5	listening to the stereo and uh we're listening i think it was 9x6.5 the mix and being the jets was playing
1:22.9	elton john and about the third bennie it felt like time stopped. There was this massive finger that shot in between the cracks.
1:30.7	It looked like a human's.
1:31.7	I mean, I don't know the actual size, I'd say about 12 inches.
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