The Spottsville Monster isn’t one of the famous cryptid stories most people know, but maybe it should be. In 1975, the Nunnelly family moved onto a quiet farm outside Spottsville, Kentucky, expecting nothing more than a peaceful life in the Green River bottoms. Instead, they found themselves at the center of nearly a year of strange encounters that would attract police, newspaper reporters, television crews, and curious neighbors.

This week, Deb and I follow the case from the beginning. We talk about disappearing livestock, terrified farm dogs, repeated sightings of a massive upright creature, and how an ordinary family slowly came to believe something was watching them from the woods. We also separate the original reports from the later claims that pushed the story beyond cryptozoology and into the realm of high strangeness.

Was the Spottsville Monster an undiscovered animal? A series of misidentifications that grew over time? Or did the Nunnelly family experience something that still defies explanation? Join us as we explore one of Kentucky’s most intriguing unsolved mysteries and decide for yourself.