Show Notes
In this episode, two witnesses from the Wexford County area share accounts they kept buried for years. One is a construction worker who came face to face with something on a back road near Mesick after weeks of livestock losses and strange animal behavior. The other is an anonymous woman writing about a childhood encounter on her grandparents’ farm, where the tree line, the state land, and one October evening left a mark that never really went away.
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