Pennsylvania Cryptids

Believing the Bizarre: Paranormal Podcast

Believing the Bizarre | Paranormal Podcast

Science, Comedy, Natural Sciences, Society & Culture

4.7 • 952 Ratings

🗓️ 20 June 2023

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Pennsylvania Cryptids | Paranormal Podcast This episode we packed three Pennsylvania cryptids into one and honestly the squonk alone could carry an entire episode — it's a hairless, warty, perpetually weeping little nightmare creature that knows it's ugly, only comes out at night to avoid its own reflection, and has a Latin name that roughly translates to "tear body dissolve," which tells you everything you need to know. We also dove into the Gilly Wuggle, a witch's familiar from Clinton County that was conjured specifically to terrorize a local farmer and somehow decided that crop trampling and tool vandalism was the move despite having wolf torso, talon hands, and donkey legs — truly the most underachieving monster in cryptid history. Then there's the Waterford Sheep Man, a creature from Erie County that lurked in covered bridges, shredded livestock, and in one terrifying account attacked a couple taking shelter from a rainstorm — which is the kind of story that makes you rethink every covered bridge you've ever driven through. Pennsylvania gave us a lot to work with this week, and if you've never thought about what trolls do when they can't make rent or whether a sad pig could explain an entire cryptid legend, buckle up because we have thoughts. Episode Keywords: Pennsylvania cryptids, Squonk cryptid, Waterford Sheep Man, Gilly Wuggle familiar, witch's familiar, Pennsylvania paranormal, Erie County cryptid, cryptid podcast, hemlock forest Pennsylvania, unknown creatures Pennsylvania, shape shifting creatures, witch folklore Pennsylvania, monster under bridge, paranormal creatures, cryptid legends 🛸 Recommendation: If you like this episode, check out our episode on the Not Deer⁠. 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Patreon⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: Support Believing the Bizarre and get tons of extra content by joining our Patreon. 🛸 ⁠⁠Have a paranormal encounter or story you'd like told on the podcast? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Submit it here.⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 Subscribe to our ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Newsletter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠For updates, news, and extra content, follow Believing the Bizarre on social media: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Facebook⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Twitter⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Discord⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Shop Merch⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠: You can rep Believing the Bizarre and buy some unique merch 🛸 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Want to send BTB something? Ship it here: 3570 Executive Drive, Suite 218, Uniontown, Ohio 44685 #pennsylvaniacryptids Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Have you ever looked into a mirror and cried?
0:03.4	Would you summon a demon to do your bidding?
0:07.5	Do monsters still live under bridges?
0:12.2	Today we test the believability of the sheep man, gilly-woggle, and the Squawk. Welcome to Believing the Bizarre.
0:42.2	We dive into the unknown and the unusual.
0:44.5	And tell you whether or not we find it believable.
0:47.9	I think it's gul, gulgooggle, I'm not sure.
0:52.4	You look it up?
0:53.4	I don't think it exists. It's not a real word.
0:55.5	So we're already going unbelievable 30 seconds in.
0:58.1	Well, I mean, the word is unbelievable for sure.
1:01.0	Listen, I know that we're living in a difficult economy right now.
1:04.2	I like how you led with like, do trolls still live under bridges or do their asses get evicted?
1:09.5	Are trolls making rent these days? And if they're not under bridges, do their asses get evicted? Our trolls make it rent these days. And if they're not
1:12.3	under bridges, where are they? Maybe that's why they went under beds. They're squatting under beds.
1:16.6	There are squatting. Maybe they're squatting in bridges. Squatting under bridges? I don't know.
1:21.5	In bridges. Yeah. You know what squank is? Yeah. It's the really ugly looking thing that gets sad because it's ugly.
1:27.9	Let's not jump ahead of ourselves.
1:29.6	You asked me.
1:30.7	Just wondering if you knew what it was.
1:31.9	It's the only thing I know from what you listed.
1:35.0	Well, these are all Pennsylvania cryptids.
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