My name is Chris Blaylock. I am a registered nurse by trade. I actually run a home health agency. I'm also working on my PhD in hominology and a bachelor's in wildlife biology and conservation.

I belong to a research group, and I've actually started my own research group to try to get some answers to help explain what I saw and what I know millions of other people have

seen themselves.

I just started telling my story last year because, as we all know, you know, for the longest

time, people would think that you're not saying when you tell a story about a cryptid.

But once I told it, it was like a total relief.

And now I'm out there trying to encourage other people to tell their stories, like I said, so we can get some answers to what some of these cryptids are.

I did have a signing. It was a Class A siding. This was in Jefferson Memorial Forest, which is in Fairdale, Kentucky. It's just outside of Louisville. It's kind of a Louisville suburb.

And the thing about Kentucky is it's very hilly, it's very foresty.

Where we went, it's your typical forest is, you know, run by the government.

So the Forest Department has, you know,

Rangers and everything there.

But it was me and my brother.

This was back in 1982.

And it was actually just about this time of year.

It was early September.

We were getting ready to go back to school.

And we decided to go up to the forest because there's a pond there.

You can go fishing and just kind of spend the day and enjoy the last few moments of summer before we went back to school.

Now, a little backstep here is I have always been told about what my grandmother called the

woolly booger because my grandmother was from eastern Kentucky and my mother as well

so we grew up knowing that there was creatures out there were to be leery of them not not to go out at night, never to whistle in the woods, those

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