Have you ever peered into the night sky and wondered what secrets it holds? Kevin, a Clay County farmer with deep family roots in celestial observation, shares his spine-tingling encounter with an unidentified flying object that forever altered his family's connection to the cosmos. In a twist that seems ripped from the pages of a sci-fi novel, we recount how a quiet evening of stargazing spiraled into the abduction of their family dog, Cowboy, by a spinning light amongst the stars. The tale, steeped in mystery and family lore, beckons us to explore the unknown and consider the extraordinary possibilities that lie just beyond our reach.
As we wrap up this cosmic odyssey, the legend of Grandpa Jay's eerie experience and the unfathomable disappearance of Cowboy continue to fuel our fascination with the night sky. We are left with a legacy of vigilance and curiosity, our eyes ever skyward, searching for another glimpse into the enigmatic universe we share. Join us for this captivating episode that weaves together a family's passion for astronomy with the bewitching narrative of an otherworldly encounter. It's a story that will leave you questioning the ordinary and gazing upward, pondering what other secrets the stars may hold.
Have you ever peered into the night sky and wondered what secrets it holds? Kevin, a Clay County farmer with deep family roots in celestial observation, shares his spine-tingling encounter with an unidentified flying object that forever altered his family's connection to the cosmos. In a twist that seems ripped from the pages of a sci-fi novel, we recount how a quiet evening of stargazing spiraled into the abduction of their family dog, Cowboy, by a spinning light amongst the stars. The tale, steeped in mystery and family lore, beckons us to explore the unknown and consider the extraordinary possibilities that lie just beyond our reach.
As we wrap up this cosmic odyssey, the legend of Grandpa Jay's eerie experience and the unfathomable disappearance of Cowboy continue to fuel our fascination with the night sky. We are left with a legacy of vigilance and curiosity, our eyes ever skyward, searching for another glimpse into the enigmatic universe we share. Join us for this captivating episode that weaves together a family's passion for astronomy with the bewitching narrative of an otherworldly encounter. It's a story that will leave you questioning the ordinary and gazing upward, pondering what other secrets the stars may hold.
Well, hello my little creepies. Ha ha, ha ha. Oh yes, it's that time again. Hello my little creepies. Oh yes, it's that time again. We talk about UFOs and Bigfoot, paranormal true crime and conspiracy stories and all things creepy. Yes, this is the Creepy Show. You can find us online at creepyshow and I'm your host, the Master of Creep.
Speaker 2:Welcome back my little creepies. It is I, the Master of Creep. Tonight we have a special story about a UFO kidnapping a dog. My name is Kevin and I live just outside of a small town in Clay County, west Virginia, called Ivydale. My family has owned this land for generations. We farm the soil and produce tobacco. I do have a few animals such as chickens, hogs and cows, a few horses and some donkeys. Our farm is spread out over 2,200 acres, in which we use about 1,600 of those acres for our tobacco crops. We also have an orchard where we grow apples and peaches, but mainly for our own use and maybe a few for our neighbors.
Speaker 2:Our house sits back off the road, about 300 yards. It's a four-bedroom wooden home with modern appliances. Yes, we have satellite TV and internet. Yes, we have satellite TV and internet. We might have an older looking farmhouse, but generally speaking we are very up to date and we are a high tech family. My wife, debbie and I have three kids. They're all boys. Bobby and Davey are 15-year-old twins and Travis is our 17-year-old, who is a senior in high school. And of course, we have a dog, a black lab named Boston. All three of the boys help with the farm. They grew up in tobacco farming and they will someday inherit this place. Our farm generates about $1.5 million a year, but of course that's not all profit. But we do live very comfortably.
Speaker 2:We consider ourselves sky watchers. Our entire family has watched the sky for as long as I can remember Growing up. I remember my father watching the sky. I learned the names of all the constellations and I could point them out to you at different times of the year. Back then we didn't even own a TV. We used the sky for entertainment. We own several telescopes and have invested a small fortune in our largest telescope. It's a Celestron CGXL1400, and that baby cost us more than $8,500. So you can say that we are very serious about sky watching. Our family maintains a calendar that is posted next to the refrigerator that reminds us of when different activities happen in the sky, such as expected meteor showers or eclipses, planet alignments. If it happens in the night sky, you can bet that we're going to know about it. We go outside just about every clear night to watch the sky. On those occasions where the sky is overcast, we usually watch satellite TV and of course it's usually tuned to a program involving ancient astronomers or UFO documentaries. We often have heated debates about the possibility of aliens living on other planets and UFO sightings and abductions. Our entire family does agree on one thing we all believe that UFOs have visited us in the past. The debate usually evolves around where they come from.
Speaker 2:I want to tell you how we all became sky watchers. This started with Grandpa Jay, who was born in 1917. He passed away in 1997 at the age of 80. He owned this land and he was also a tobacco farmer. When Grandpa Jay was in his mid-30s, he owned a dog named Cowboy. Cowboy was a long-haired brown and white collie who looked a lot like the famous TV star dog Lassie. Grandpa Jay used to sit on the front porch each sundown after working the fields all day. When you are a farmer, there is no such thing as a day off. Vacations were only considered after your crop has been harvested and before the fields are turned for the next year.
Speaker 2:One night after sunset, grandpa Jay saw something in the sky. It was a ball of light, like a planet. However, it was moving back and forth. It appeared to be much closer than all of the other lights in the sky because it moved from one side of the sky to the other, plus it was changing colors and getting larger. I remember Grandpa Jay talking about this light. As a kid. He thought that, well, maybe this is Just something in his mind after all, grandpa Jay was known to drink a little moonshine once in a while. But his doubt soon was reversed when his dog Cowboy started barking at the light. Grandpa asked hey, cowboy, what is that? It looks like a Japanese sky lantern or something like that. Now, japanese sky lanterns are something that Grandpa knows about because he's very familiar with the Japanese culture and traditions, having served in World War II. But this was no Japanese sky lantern. This was moving way too fast, fast and it looked too big.
Speaker 2:Grandpa Jay stood up and walked out off the porch into the front yard as the light appeared to move closer. This was a very strange and it was now looking about the size of a full moon. It seemed to be spinning and it was now looking about the size of a full moon. It seemed to be spinning. Grandpa Jay said it was mostly white, but it had red and yellow streaks that you could see. As it rotated, the light came through a layer of clouds which reflected the light. This was the first clue that this light was inside of our own atmosphere and was pretty close to the ground. The light seemed to hover over the farm for a minute or two and then it lowered over a hill. You could see the lights through the tops of some of the nearby trees, as the craft seemed to hover near the ground. It seemed to be about the tops of some of the nearby trees. As the craft seemed to hover near the ground, it seemed to be about the size of a hot air balloon.
Speaker 2:Of course Cowboy was barking uncontrollably and he started running toward the light. Grandpa Jay yelled out at Cowboy Come back here. But the dog was laser focused on the light and was running toward it. Grandpa said that he wasn't scared as much as he was curious. Grandpa Jay started walking toward the light that had descended below the tree line and by then Cowboy had disappeared into the nearby trees, running toward the light. And then he heard a sudden, distinctive yip. It's the kind of sound that you would expect to hear when a bear has grabbed your dog. But this was no bear, it was something else and for the first time Grandpa Jay felt fear. He called out to Cowboy and did not receive any response. It was silent, no more barking, grandpa started running back toward the house, and at which this point was about a hundred yards away.
Speaker 2:Grandpa Jay reached the house and retrieved a shotgun and just as he came back out of the house with his gun, he saw the light again, and this time it appeared to be back up in the sky, several hundred feet away, and then in a flash it streaked across the sky and up into space and it was gone. Grandpa Jay ventured out into the front yard and was calling for Cowboy to come home, but there was no barking and no response and no dog. He was simply gone. At this point, grandpa was confused. Did the light take, cowboy? Maybe a bear got him, or maybe it was a wolf? Grandpa Jay recalls hearing the final yip.
Speaker 2:By this time, the entire family had come out of the house, including my father, who was just a five-year-old boy back then. Grandpa Jay told his family to go back into the house and stay there. He called his next-door neighbor, which lived several thousand yards away, and he told him what happened. Together, the two men walked into the tree line, armed with guns, looking for the dog. Armed with guns looking for the dog. After searching for several hours, they decided to call the search off and go to bed. They would have much better luck in the morning after the sunrise.
Speaker 2:Grandpa Jay met with his neighbor again the next morning and they searched the farm and the nearby trees for Cowboy. Both men were expecting to find the dog dead but there was no sign of him. Grandpa Jay told his neighbor about the light and how Cowboy was barking and running toward the light. The neighbor said something about a UFO and suggested that possibly that the dog might have been abducted. Grandpa Jay's neighbor was pretty open-minded about the whole situation and recalled hearing about some cattle that were mutilated on a nearby farm that were mutilated on a nearby farm.
Speaker 2:Three months come and go and the unsolved mystery of the light and the missing dog is replaced by the mundane daily activity of keeping up with the farm and the tobacco crops. It was getting close to being harvesting time so there was a lot of work to be done. But then the next door neighbor drives over in his pickup truck and the passenger door opens up and out pops Cowboy. Grandpa Jay was stunned. What the hell you found, cowboy? And the neighbor said yeah, it's more like he found me. The neighbor said I was walking my field inspecting this year's crop and Cowboy came running down a row between the tobacco plants. Grandpa Jay said when in the hell have you been, cowboy? And the cowboy was wagging his tail and he seemed very happy to be back home again. This is the strangest thing that has ever happened to me, said Grandpa Jay. He inspected cowboy for injuries but found nothing wrong with the dog. It was like he had never left.
Speaker 2:Except for one thing His personality changed a lot From that day forward. Cowboy rarely barked at anything and he was very timid and quiet most of the time, much different from the cowboy before the flying UFO lights. Also, now Cowboy has a fear of leaving the house, why he used to follow Grandpa Jay everywhere Out on the farm into the fields, but now he will only follow for about 20 yards and then he'll turn around and run back toward the front porch and then lay down again. He was a completely different dog, personality-wise. When the sun starts to go down, grandpa usually goes out and sits on the front porch. Cowboy now wants to go into the house. He seems to be afraid of the night sky. Well, not too surprisingly Now Grandpa Jay jokes about it. I guess the aliens got tired of your barking and brought you back home.
Speaker 2:Cowboy lived to be an old dog but never fully recovered from being abducted. He seemed to be happy but very timid for the rest of his life. His story is talked about every time we have a family reunion. Someone will say remember when Grandpa Jay saw the light and lost Cowboy. Now I'm sure that my grandkids will hear this story long after I am dead and gone. Kids will hear this story long after I am dead and gone. And ever since then our family has been watching the sky, waiting to see the light that Grandpa Jay saw.
Speaker 1:As the casket closes on another creepy episode, we bid you farewell to the shadows that danced upon your fears. Oh, and thank you for joining us on this creepy journey into the unknown, where the darkness whispers secrets and the silence echoes within your soul. Find us online for some extra creepy content at creepyshow and if you happen to make it through the night, don't forget to share this podcast with someone you want to terrorize. Good night, my little creepies. Sleep with one eye open, for the night is long and full of horror. Ha ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha.