Unknown Ellijay, Part Two | Guests Brad Kennedy, Luke Pilgrim, and Ellis Treece

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🗓️ 15 July 2025

⏱️ 26 minutes

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There’s something strange stirring in the mountains of North Georgia—and it’s not just folklore. Unknown Ellijay, a chilling new docuseries from award-winning Sozo Bear Films, delves into the shadowy corners of Ellijay, Georgia, where cryptids, spirits, and legends refuse to stay hidden. Hosted, directed, and created by Brad Kennedy and Luke Pilgrim, alongside editor Ellis Treece, this series explores real-life local encounters with the unexplained, from tracking Bigfoot in dense Appalachian woods to haunted homesteads and terrifying tales of the elusive Dogman. These aren’t just campfire stories—this is the paranormal, hiding in plain sight. What’s really lurking in Ellijay? Find out why this small town might be the South’s best-kept supernatural secret.

Today on the Grave Talks, Brad Kennedy, Luke Pilgrim, and Ellis Treece discuss their docuseries “Unknown Ellijay.” This is Part Two of our conversation.

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0:00.0	Today on the Grave Talks, we continue our conversation about unknown Ella J with Brad Kennedy,
0:07.8	Luke Pilgrim, and Ellis Trees.
0:11.3	I asked you about paranormal and where you all stand on that.
0:15.0	After diving in to cryptids, bigfoots, how do you guys feel? I'll start with you again, Brad. How do you guys feel?
0:21.9	I'll start with you again, Brad.
0:23.3	How do you guys feel about that?
0:25.1	Now that you've dove into it, do you feel, especially talking to people?
0:30.2	Because that's different.
0:31.2	When you look somebody in the eyes and you can tell, usually we all have a pretty good
0:36.2	BS meter.
0:37.7	And it's like, this guy really believes what he's saying.
0:41.0	Did it kind of change your opinion on the Bigfoot's?
0:44.6	Yeah, I mean, I think so, especially after talking with Scott and Sheila, you could,
0:50.1	they had such a genuineness.
0:52.8	I mean, not saying like someone like Vic didn't. Vic, I think,
0:57.0	more so fit closer to the people I had thought of who are true Bigfoot believers. But, you know,
1:03.7	like Scott's a retired cop. You know, it's just a different way they got to the same place that
1:10.7	made me go, okay, like, it's just, because we talked, I mean, it was probably the difference of like five, five or six months between interviewing Vic, which that was the first time I had met him and then meeting and filming with Scott and Sheila.
1:28.1	And, you know, Vic told us all these stories.
1:30.9	He took us out in the woods telling us about structures, you know, the way the trees would fall.
1:36.0	And, you know, that's the structure of a big foot, you know.
1:39.2	And at first glance, you're thinking, well, couldn't just, you know, the wind.
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