By this time people where just calling it a werewolf.Thank you for watching!#dogman #bigfoot #scarystoriesMusic by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0Music byBump in the Night - Kevin MacleodDark Walk - Kevin MacleodThe House of Leaves - Kevin MacleodRedletter - Kevin MacleodDigital Bark- Kevin Macleod In Kentucky there is a nature preserve called, The Land Between the Lakes. Sometimes physical evidence is claimed, such as odd footprints, tufts of hair, and dug out nests that appear to have been slept in by something large, but these have all remained inconclusive at best. Original music and songs, especially from children and teens, are encouraged. The families were forced to leave in 1963. I wont even go into the things I want to say about the age-progression sketches of the original Identi-Sketch. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Hours WAYNE MILLER is the owner and creative director of EVIL CHEEZ PRODUCTIONS (www.evilcheezproductions.blogspot.com, www.facebook.com/evilcheezproductions), specializing in theatrical performances and haunted attractions. One of the most high-profile of all the unsolved murders in the Land Between the Lakes area is the 1980 double murder of sisters Carla Atkins, 14, and Vickie Stout, 16. It has been 35 years since two girls from Dover, Tennessee, were found dead in the Land Between the Lakes. The town is home to the famous Patti's 1880's Settlement. Then, suddenly, before the bodies of the girls were found three weeks after they went missing, information reported initially began to change. The body is identified as being that of Vicky (sic.) I, David R. Ross, have NEVER accused any one person or person of being the murderer or murderers of Carla and Vickie. I dont. If it was true, why is that not being followed up on? For decades I have pursued leads, interviewed sources, talked on the record with cops, media outlets, ghost hunters, investigators, potential witnesses you name it. Thank you for watching! Why is that? LBLs Lost Creek Child Murders are one of, if not the, most high profile unsolved murder case in the State of Tennessee and throughout the Land Between the Lakes region. Visit the Land Between the Lakes planetarium page here to see the current schedule. There is a national recreation area in Western Kentucky (that also runs down to Tennessee) called 'Land Between the Lakes', or LBL for short. Lockert, Jr., District Attorney General, Ashland City, Tenn. The Land Between The Lakes National Recreation Area sits nestled between two artificial lakes, Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley, created by dams placed across the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, respectively. Cigarette Story and other information has Changed Over Time. Land Between the Lakes is a beautiful piece of protected land in Kentucky and Tennessee. These two lakes and their connecting canal create a large peninsula - 170,000 acres to be exact - of wilderness, things to explore, and many, many good times. Someone who has two faces and hides one very well. Autopsy reports say the girls were both shot in the heads with a shotgun and both died instantly. Murder in Land Between the Lakes, when it comes to these unsolved murders, is cloaked in mystery. Their remains were found by two hikers 18 days later at Land Between The Lakes. There are several theories as to who, how and why Carla Atkins and her sister Vickie Stout were murdered. Throngs of teens and young adults especially in the summers would gather in groups in and around parked cars, motorcycles and trucks in The Dip parking lot, watching the show unfold night after night. Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area is a United States 171,280 acres (69,310 ha) national recreation area in Kentucky and Tennessee between Lake Barkley and Kentucky Lake. Is Your Old House Haunted or Does it Just Have a Haunted Personality? None of us on the east side of the Tennessee River/Ky lake knew of a sketch. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.. Before it was a nature preserve it housed around 70 families. High in the trees the flash lights swung, searching for the source of the mysterious bleeding. According to the native Shawnee tribe, this abomination was the spirit of a powerful shapeshifting shaman, and outsiders were frequently warned away from the area. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/amelia-courtney8/message. The creature itself is typically said to look rather like a bipedal wolf, standing around 7 feet tall, and sporting clawed hands, powerful jaws with wicked teeth, glowing red eyes, and cloaked in a fetid, rotting stench. What is the Beast of the Land Between the Lakes? It was not until the aunt came home in her car that the strange creature seemed to give up and flee away into the night. Listen to Amelia & Lainie on "Murder At Land Between The Lakes" as they discuss & interview family members, friends, & potential witnesses, as they start from the beginning and . Both girls had died as the result of shotgun blasts to their heads. An in depth interview with Carla & Vickies mom, Margie Nell. Ferrier said. The natives cherish their heritage and don't look kindly upon those who disrespect it. The public is invited and encouraged to attend. They were reportedly last seen talking with a man in a blue pickup truck alongside U.S. 79 West of Dover as they were walking back toward their home after having purchased items at the nearby Furnace Restaurant/Store. Sometime in the late 70s or early 80s, the Young family was wiped out in an attack by the Beast, a Dogman or werewolf. Mom kept insisting they did not run away, Gordon said. They have shown respect for the victims of the crime and their families as well as they are transparent with the information they have and will correct the information they need to if any of them were incorrect. That is their prerogative. It is a misidentification of some other animal? A person who was shot was taken to Wellstar Kennestone Hospital, police If that is so, then I say to those making the claims: You yourself go and testify directly to the Stewart County, Tennessee Grand Jury and present your evidence and get an indictment. This natural playground not only features vast forests, open lands and streams. Known as the "Gateway to Land Between The Lakes", this vibrant community is located on LBL's northern border, just across from the Lake Barkley canal. If you can, closely compare those newspaper sketches to the one on the right, which is the original released in 2015 to Ferrier. He was said to have a dark complexion or suntan and dark brown hair. I think it was a short time after that when he said he might charge me with obstruction of justice. Now, for a while I have been asking anyone who would listen, Who was the forensic sketch artist who drew the highly-detailed sketch of The Man in the Blue Truck. I was waiting for some type of response. Who knows? Then there are those that are both, hitting just the right balance of the bizarre and the terrifying. Here is the short version on the changing cigarette story At first in 1980 there were no cigarettes bought by the girls. The food and the beaches ar, Some call Florida Man the worlds worst superhero. There are a number of supposed encounters with the the monster of Land between the Lakes that date back to the arrival of European settlers in the area. Bloggers across the internet attribute murders within LBL, animal disappearances and other paranormal activities to the Beast. In the meantime, others have come forward with their own experiences with the fierce, elusive beast, and reports of a feeling of being watched, hearing howls, or coming across the badly mauled carcasses of deer and other wildlife have come in on occasion. A few of them described what they saw at different times when they caught glimpses of the figure by peeking out of the curtains of the windows into the night. Land Between the Lakes is an inland peninsula formed then the Cumberland and Tennessee rivers were impounded, creating Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley; one of the world's largest man-made bodies of water. Three sketches! I think I said aloud. Autopsy reports for both girls are blank on the line where the date and time of death are noted. How long were you going to wait before you told us about those, I thought to myself. I wish I did. On September 17th, 1980, the half sisters disappeared from their hometown of Dover, Tennessee. MondayFriday: Call or email Other newspaper reports from 1980 quote law enforcement as saying the girls were likely murdered very soon after they went missing. The mother was attacked next and officials allegedly said due to the aftermath, the state of her body and just how torn up everything was, she must have put up a huge fight. Joe apparently was an avid rider of dirt bikes, with which he would go tearing about over forest trails in the Land Between the Lakes, and on this day he was out as usual as Jan and her other cousin sat outside. At least one person was shot outside of a Walmart in the Town Center area Wednesday, police officials said. However these two ladies have a sincere desire to help the family with their help healing closure they Deserve and Justice for the Girls. Carla had some medication she had to take daily and she hadnt taken that with her.. Some pellets imbedded in left fronto-temporo-parietal inner table, depressing (inside to outside) the inner table; decomposed, partly skeletonized human female, organo-autolysis; Secondary Series: none. I do think initially the investigation was possibly on the right track. Now I started doing some research as of late on forensic sketches, etc., and in looking for a forensic Etch-a-Sketch I came across the Identi-Kit and low and behold on the front cover of the Identi-Kit Manual: System of Modern Visual Identification, Lesson Two there was The Man in the Blue Truck peering at me with his unmistakable helmet hair and sporting a large mustache, aka., a Magnum PIer. The Autopsy Protocol form of the autopsies from The City of Memphis Hospital lists Dr. J.T. Ferrier, the new district attorney the Twenty-Third Judicial District, which covers Stewart County, TN., Patricia Gordon, the oldest sister of Carla and Vickie and I were at the Stewart County Visitors Center while Ferrier interviewed everyone but me. This podcast is an excellent deep dive into a little known cold case in small town America. Around 3 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 17, 1980, Carla and Vickie walked from their home on U.S. 79 West of Dover to the nearby Furnace Restaurant/Store. The little girl had apparently been carried up the tree and leisurely eaten upon while carefully laid across a large tree branch. A published description said the man in the blue truck was white, 25-30 years old, weighing about 165-170 pounds. The ones at the top seem to be close and the writing in the left-hand corners are similar. According to previously published newspaper reports, a witness reportedly saw a blue pickup truck turn around on the highway and drive toward the girls on the afternoon of Sept. 17, 1980. 04 Explore Settler's Life at the Homeplace 1850s Working Farm Have you ever wondered what life was like on the frontier in the 1800s? This story is admittedly hard to verify as fact, I will be honest about that. No new information! would be Charltons gruff response. At first it was not reported that the two girls had left their home with the purpose of buying cigarettes. There have seemingly been quite a lot of alleged encounters with the Beast of the Land Between the Lakes even up into more modern times. Their remains were found by two hikers 18 days later at Land Between The Lakes. Blood and Blood-Drinking: Paranormal Creatures and (Alleged) Real Vampires, When Ghosts Get Hungry: That's When Things Get Dangerous. Their remains were found by two hikers 18 days later at Land Between The Lakes. Besides its modern designation as a recreation area, encompassing 170,000 acres of forest, over 300 miles of shoreline, and hundreds of miles of hiking trials, the area has also long been plagued by a variety of high strangeness such as roving phantoms, Indian curses, and mysterious lights, but perhaps the most bizarre is the history of strange tales of a bizarre, bipedal creature which prowls the landscape here and has been called the The Beast Between the Rivers as well as the Beast of the Land Between the Lakes.. Only 18 days later their remains were found in Lost Creek, a wooded area in Land Between the Lakes. The witnesses purportedly then ran into their house in a panic, grabbed kitchen knives, and then hid under a bed in terror as they listened to the beast bang around outside of the house and break one of the upstairs windows, the dogs barking viciously the whole time. It is situated between the Kentucky and Barklay Lakes, consisting of more then 300 miles of shoreline, 170,000 acres of forest and over 200 miles of walking trails. I wrote the above comment years ago and I have had time since then to speak with the investigator who was hinting at obstruction of justice. Your email address will not be published. It became the largest manmade lake east of the Mississippi River. No one has ever been charged or arrested. Gov. In some instances, these hunters and trappers were said to venture into the wilderness to never be seen again, and this was blamed on the mysterious, ravenous beast. I asked the investigator how old he was in 1980 when the girls were murdered and did he live in Dover then? There has been eyewitness reports of a large canine creative. The. Law enforcement does not put much stock in the change in the cigarette story. Your email address will not be published. The dams created a peninsula in Kentucky and Tennessee that is surrounded on three sides by the lakes that connect with each other at the . Or has it been followed up on? https://www.tn.gov/tbi/general-information/tbi-tips.html. Phone: Toll-Free: 800-372-3928. His whereabouts is still unknown. I will be taking my time in writing this narrative. The snout was long and the witness was very specific that it was much different in appearance than Bigfoot. The harder you grasp, the more it slips away. He said he was not born until after 1980. ALLEGED MURDER. According to Jan, this report never made it into the news or media, and was covered up by the local government as it was seen as a threat to the tourism industry if word of such a mysteriously gruesome incident got out. The creature is said to stand over seven feet tall, with massive crushing jaws, and glowing eyes. Listen in to all of the contradictory tales from the last known person to see them. The names of the parents arent recorded but they had two children, Bradley and Megan. He was frightened beyond belief, and the bits and pieces of what he was striving with extreme effort to tell us was coming out in loud syllables that filled us both with the same dread. Really shows the kind of character that you two have, yours hearts are in the right place And the more you investigate & put out podcasts will become more easier.Thank you ladies for the time and work that are putting in the podcast, I cant wait to see the ways of Evolve and the case solved. But, one resident made it's way in to the area. They seemed to have been ruthlessly savaged and half eaten by some powerful wild animal, with limbs missing, flesh flayed or torn from bone, organs scattered about on the ground, and deep scratches and bite marks all over them, none of which matched any animal known to inhabit the region. 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