Roadway Trolls

Expanded Perspectives

Society & Culture, Science, History

4.7 • 3.2K Ratings

🗓️ 27 September 2024

⏱️ 71 minutes

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In this episode of Expanded Perspectives, the guys kick things off by discussing the upcoming deer season and their plans to visit the Texas State Fair. Kyle shares his love for donuts and chocolate milk, admitting that he has to avoid donut shops to resist temptation consciously. Then, the show turns into the strange as an upstate New York resident recounts a sighting his partner had, followed by the witness's eerie encounter with an upright goat-human hybrid. Next, an Oklahoma teen has a chilling experience when he wakes up for a drink and spots a red-eyed humanoid outside his window, radiating malevolence. In another disturbing encounter, a young boy faces a strange humanoid figure crouched in the corner of his bedroom, its features unnervingly inhuman.

After the break, Cam delves into bizarre encounters with what can only be described as "Road Trolls." These unsettling creatures, explored in detail by author Jerry D. Coleman in his books Strange Highways and More Strange Highways, are frequently reported by truckers traveling along dark highways in the Southern and Midwestern U.S. Witnesses often describe a prominent, hairy, troll-like figure dressed in tattered clothing, sometimes with a wooden peg leg. What begins as a sighting of a drifter quickly escalates into something far more disturbing as the true nature of these road-dwelling creatures becomes apparent.

All of this and more is on this installment of Expanded Perspectives!

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0:00.0	Oh, oh, oh, oh, Oh Oh, oh, oh, oh, and Well, what is going on out there everybody and thank you again? So very much for joining us here on expanded perspectives with me
0:45.8	Cam hell and I'm not at it alone me amigo big fizzy is in here with me.
0:50.4	That's right folks I'm right here in skeleton studios getting ready for opening day this weekend with me and
0:55.0	here in Skelekin Studios getting ready for opening day this weekend. It's gonna be fun the weather's nice. I am ready.
0:57.0	Me and Cameron going to the State Fair in a couple weeks.
1:00.0	Looking forward to that. There's a good ton, there's all the good. I think not good for you, but good food that they have there. I think I'm gonna fast.
1:09.5	That's a good idea. I need to fast for weeks.
1:12.0	Because look, it's a cheat day out of the year, right?
1:14.8	Like how many funnel cakes do you eat a year?
1:16.5	For me, I'd say once a year and it's probably at the stay fair.
1:19.4	Yeah, once, yeah, once a year.
1:21.2	If I'm lucky once a year, if I can find a place that's got them. Yeah. I'm glad they don't have them around me.
1:26.7	Oh like there's not a store you could go in and just order them on the rig like yeah go and let me have that that sirloin and I think for dessert. Bring me a funnel cake.
1:34.4	That's right. I like to avoid donuts shops because I love donuts. I like them when they're warm.
1:40.7	There's nothing better. Right. When they're warm. I'm saying I'm going to'm I try to I have to that's one place I have to avoid because I can I can throw down when it comes to donuts and also I love milk and I don't I haven't I don't drink milk. I haven't drink milk in years but I had this because it hates me
1:56.0	So that's one of those things I have to avoid donuts so I don't get into the milk right
2:00.3	Get you some of that Volkman's chocolate milk. Now you're talking crazy. Hey, look.
2:06.4	I hope everybody's doing good in North Carolina, Georgia, Florida, the hurricane I know is, I mean, it's killed I think like 64 people so far.
2:14.8	There's a lot of people that are missing so our heart goes out to you out there.
2:18.0	All of you people caught in the storms, people caught in the wildfires, man, it has been a wild time.
2:24.2	And I don't understand because, well, we don't really,
2:27.4	we don't really deal with hurricanes where we live.
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