817: The White Beast of the Ozark (Members)
Josh’s encounters in the Ozarks begin with a towering black silhouette gliding out of the tree-line when he was fourteen, a creature radiating such hatred he knew instantly it wasn’t just an animal. But the experience that shattered everything came years later, when a massive shaggy white beast, identical to other sightings across the Ozarks, leapt over the hood of his car in a single, impossible step and vanished down a ravine without leaving a track. That moment unlocked every buried memory: the earlier black creature, the second sighting in a shell pit, his father’s UFO pacing their vehicle, and even the demonic presences Josh faced later as a police officer dealing with spiritually influenced criminals. As he compares the white monster to regional legends like the Ozark Howler, and recalls a dogman witness whose torment only ended when he turned to Jesus, a chilling pattern emerges: the Ozarks are alive with entities that aren’t bound by normal physics. And Josh believes he’s crossed paths with the same intelligence, changing shape, aging, and reappearing across decades.
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