Members Preview | 830: Appalachian Feral People Use Echolocation
The Confessionals
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🗓️ 22 January 2026
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In this episode, Tony sits down with Brian Jeffery from the Black Mass Paranormal YouTube channel, to discuss disturbing activity emerging from Appalachia, including feral people, unexplained disappearances, and strange encounters deep in the mountains of the Southeast. Brian shares new research into reports of a clicking sound he believes functions as biological sonar, allowing these beings to navigate caves and forests without relying on sight. They explore how cave systems, Native American lore, and missing persons cases may be connected, and why some phenomena appear physical rather than purely supernatural. They also touch on Dogman sightings near military bases, the possibility of engineered entities, and the personal cost of investigating these subjects. This episode challenges conventional explanations and forces a reexamination of what may be living beneath the mountains and moving just out of view.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody. This is a preview of today's members episode. If you want to hear the whole thing, |
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| 0:16.9 | This was all circulating around the base that a giant had to kill, but no one was supposed to talk about it. |
| 0:22.6 | I saw three long, bony fingers, reach up underneath the door, curl up to grab it, and then disappear. |
| 0:33.6 | When he came over to me, dude, he slithered over to me. |
| 0:40.3 | And this giant comes out of the cave and they're all frozen. |
| 0:47.3 | And he starts running and firing at this giant. |
| 0:50.3 | With a giant move, he's got a spear in one hand and he's running really fast and spears, |
| 0:57.0 | Dan holds him up like this. |
| 1:00.0 | Somebody else, shoot him in the face, shoot him in the face, they basically decapitated. |
| 1:04.0 | Got closer, got closer, got closer, got closer, when he got about 15 yards away from me, I raised that 12 days |
| 1:12.8 | and I blow this head off. |
| 1:14.7 | I feel something pulling at my leg, and I look over and there are two small gray entities |
| 1:22.4 | pulling at me, and they're literally, I'm getting pulled off the bed. |
| 1:26.3 | I reached my hand into this bush, |
| 1:28.5 | and I touch air. Couldn't breathe and I couldn't move because I know I'm seeing a monster. |
| 1:35.4 | Today we got Brian here in studio, Brian, from Black Masked Paranormal. How you doing, man? |
| 1:39.2 | Doing good, man. Good. Been on a lot of adventures. Yeah. A lot of stuff and planning stuff. And, you know, we got some good content today. |
| 1:50.5 | You, I forget where I saw this. If it was on social media, I don't think you told me about this. And I don't know if this is where the old man is. |
| 1:59.4 | Were you down in Georgia recently? Yeah. Is that where the old man is. Were you down in Georgia recently? |
| 2:01.5 | Yeah. |
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