Move Over Bigfoot, Here Comes Sheepsquatch [View all]

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The McClintic Wildlife Management Area is over 3,000 acres of woodland, farms, and wetland in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, population 4,350. In the dense forest you’ll find animals, hunters, partying teenagers, and the occasional explosive bunker. Locals call McClintic the “TNT Area” because the grounds were once used for munitions manufacturing in World War II. The explosives were stored in bunkers covered in sod, and their humps still mar the landscape of the TNT Area. Occasionally, they blow up. But it’s not a careless hunter or even an exploding bunker that tops the list of scary things lurking around the TNT. No, it gets a lot stranger than that.

“The TNT Area itself is just chock full of amazing weirdness,” says Kurt McCoy, author of “White Things: West Virginia’s Weird White Monsters.”

White Things are exactly what they sound like. They are indefinable creatures the color of ghosts, crisp tablecloths and pure driven snow. Such stories crop up all over the U.S., but McCoy says they are especially prevalent in West Virginia. Over the years, McCoy has amassed many tales of White Things.

“I ran across everything from something that was described as a huge stingray that was white, to an owl-type thing. The archetypal White Thing is shaped sort of like a badger with a bushy tail and ranges in size from a large dog to slightly larger than a person,” says McCoy. “There was a headless monster in Grafton which was white, but had seal-like skin. And then, of course, there’s the notorious Sheepsquatch.”

Sheepsquatch first reared his oblong head in the 1990s.

Legend has it that a car full of women were making their way home after a family reunion through the TNT Area. There was snow on the ground and they crunched along the treacherous roads at just a few miles an hour. And that’s when it stepped out of the woods.

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