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I'll look back at one of Kentucky's lesser-known mysteries.

I'm Lauren Norton, and this is one strange thing, the show where we search the nation's

news archives for stories that can't quite be explained.

The state of Kentucky is famous for a lot of reasons, and good ones if we do say so ourselves.

There's the eponymous derby, of course, and bluegrass music, and bourbon, and a very solid entry into the Southern Barbecue Wars.

And, of course, there's a particularly gruesome cryptid

we've covered on this very show, the Pope Lick Monster. Check out our episode titled The Tressel

if you want more on that one. But there's also plenty of lesser-known monster tales floating

around in Kentucky, and we're bringing you one of those today.

It's from the Coal Town of Spotsville. That's in Henderson County in Western Kentucky.

It's a stones throw from Evansville, Indiana, if you throw that stone across the Ohio River.

Spotsville and Henderson are part of Appalachia, and being from Appalachia means plenty when it comes to folk tales of haints and boogers and things that have a habit of changing shape after dark.

There are plenty of stories from the neighboring Ozarks too. Wisdom that's waiting if you choose to listen.

Some mountain people can tell you a lot, like why you don't whistle in the woods and why you

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