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The Murphysboro Mud Monster

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More cryptid goodness! This one is a little less well known, but holy crap did we have fun with it! Could Gary Busey be a cryptid?   Join Mike, Doug, and Jason as they learn about the Murphysboro Mud Monster!

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Transcript

Unknown

Dont look under the internet really? Yeah.

Doug

Seems way louder than normal. Yeah,

Jason

I mean, I can do I mean turn it down a little

Doug

bit assist a hair.

Mike

There's no difference. Oh, a little bit more. They're a little bit more. No. Okay, I guess that's fine. It's still loud. But

Doug

what's it called?

Mike

Oh, it's loud because he's not putting through the fucking filter thingy. Now I'd write it. No, it's

Jason

It's gone. We

Mike

don't. I thought we don't.

Jason

You can't hear that until like post

Doug

what is it called when you have mass hallucinations but with your ears? auditory hallucinations? No, no, no, because this isn't a hallucination. It's something different. We're all hearing things louder than we should be. Why?

Mike

Doug? Is this you? Is that you?

Doug

Yep. Stop that.

Mike

I'm turning it down. For you,

Doug

I guess. Yeah. So

Mike

I'm helping. Anyway. Are you in the midst of a cryptic corner? Everyone? Everybody? Golly gee. willikers. cryptic. Credit corner. vich. is everyone's

Jason

audio level. Okay, fine.

Doug

It's way to allow in natural

Mike

changes. In the natural ways. That is the cryptic corner. Jason has no fucking idea what we're talking about. But me and Doug boy, are we sure do.

Jason

You guys want to hear what I'm going to be doing for pretty much the whole episode? Sure,

Mike

daddy. Oh, yeah, we're drinking those meals still. This is this is being recorded the same time we're recording fucking Jack Torrance. So

Jason

right after Yeah. So Doug made us all mules and oh my god. Good time. He should have been a bartender so

Mike

you're dangerous. Jason. Jason, have you heard of mud?

Doug

I have heard of mud and not the poopy kind

Mike

of mud.

Jason

I don't know what that means. Mud. But mud.

Mike

Chalk is my favorite kind of. I'm talking to mud like, wait, no. The earth can I clarify? Are you talking about but mud? No, I'm talking about mud. No, he's not talking about but I'm not talking about mud mud.

Doug

We'll save that for the bonus puddle of mud.

Mike

Okay, well, the band. She fucking

Jason

hates.

Doug

She fought me.

Jason

All you have to do is turn to all of the vowels, not ours. It's all a

Mike

dud more likely. It's not my joke. That's a Game Grumps joke. I can't even take anyway. So Jason. Yes. What we're talking about today. takes place in the groovy time of the 1970s Reagan amik Am I right? cocaine and pushy everyone know you're thinking of the 80s this is Woodstock. This is weed and pussy everywhere. And like LSD. Yeah, gotcha. Yeah, man. Okay, we're taking away back. Eric foreman. You heard of him? Yes. He's not having his shot in this but he's a 77. Anyway, Jason,

back in Yes. What? 1973

Jason

guess what has not happened

Mike

yet? What has not happened yet? Oh, now we're recording. Wow. Hey,

Jason

Kara is Hey, Doug. This is your your cue point.

Mike

Yeah, very obviously. We're testing. We're testing a video.

Jason

In case you guys were wondering yard incorporating video into our YouTube Episode Episode episodes.

Mike

It's gonna take a walk in the kinks out. Yeah, but you don't

Doug

expect that shit anytime soon. Yeah, that's probably not

Mike

gonna happen until late 2022. If anything, lighting by itself

Jason

took like three months.

Doug

Yeah. So we're still not even sure if it's working or not. We got lights and I can't see. So

Jason

we'll talk to our producers about it.

Mike

So back to the roaring 70s Oh, wait real quick. Yes, Jason.

Doug

Do you know where Murphysboro is? No, I'm getting their stop. I mean, you're about to say

Mike

Indiana Yeah, yeah. Really? Illinois. Yes. Keep going. Don't donkey, so back in not paying

Jason

so I didn't get it right. Fuck off. Brussel sprout I go ahead back

Mike

in 1975.

Jason

Go ahead. Go ahead, Mike. Hey, Mike.

Mike

Back and not teen 73 In the span of a few months. There were satins galore of a creature dubbed the Murphysboro monster, or also called the big mud monster in Murfreesboro, Illinois.

Doug

The Big Muddy monster Big Muddy zone, big turd.

Mike

The butt muddy monster,

Doug

the mud the mud but my buddy buddy.

Mike

This creature has had dozens of sigh admins, and even a whole police force man hooked squad going after it. But before we dive deep into that story, let's start from the beginning. I didn't have to go southern with it because this is just Illinois, but it's Southern Illinois.

Doug

Like mid like Illinois, like Eastern south of

Mike

Chicago have accents in South Illinois.

Jason

Carbondale like Yes.

Mike

fucking weird.

Jason

Anything south of like Yorkville is just how do y'all welcome to

Mike

Illinois. Welcome to your town Illinois. Doug, take us away. What happened on that that 1973 year? Okay, so

Doug

back in. Bird scooter. So, yeah, let's let's, let's dump into this Big Muddy monster. Shall we? Good. Glad we're on the same page now. So back in a dark night in the summer of 1973. A young couple parked their car by a river side to as Mike would put it, get jiggy with it.

Jason

Hey, is this another one of those scenarios where Doug is reading off of Mike Mike's notes surprisingly

Mike

No. A lot of this I did. I mean, allegedly copy pasted from But in my defense, they wouldn't use the same words I would have anyway. So shaky with it was

Doug

I had a I had a

Jason

feeling I'm glad you had something to contribute here. I'm very happy about that. But please continue.

Doug

One thing we've learned about cryptids is the story is the same everywhere. So we're just gonna retell it to you. Anyways, so yeah, back to some young people fucking they had a real Romeo and Juliet thing going on where the the woman's father didn't approve of her boyfriend. And the people in question were Randy need him? Same. And Judy Johnson.

Jason

I'm trying my hardest to keep going. Keep just keep going.

Doug

So yeah, it was Randy need him and Judy Johnson.

Jason

Yeah, go ahead and repeat that. Just to make it more apparent need him. The man needs fucking let's get it.

Doug

What a great way to keep going. Okay, so Johnson claimed that they were listening to the radio engage in a debate about when they should leave and presumably do what couples are wanting to do when they heard a piercing roar. And that thing they want to do as fuck

Mike

sounds like they're trying to fuck they're like, should we? And he's like, yeah, obviously please,

Doug

Judy

Mike

Riverside

Doug

so he probably wasn't saying I need this so my last name is all need ham.

Jason

Alright, what do you think that means?

Doug

We gotta get back on track here. All right, so they heard a piercing roar, which need him compared to an eagle shrieking into a microphone which is oddly specific. That's specific.

Mike

I'm pretty damn sure to need them. But I prefer need him

Jason

so I'm gonna go ahead and veto that because I went to high school with a man that I thought his last name was need him and he goes he literally out loud goes no, no, it's need ham. You have to enunciate the ham.

Doug

i Alright, anyways, where the fuck are you? Microphone? Yes. oddly specific. Right. Okay, so that seemed to emanate.

Jason

We are all doing so do we want to take a fiver?

Mike

No. We put you through.

Doug

Hold on. Doug.

Mike

Would you like me to take over? Nope. Okay, you're gonna just take a sippy sip. The word is emanate by the way. He had no I can read. Are you sure I just can't

Jason

have like some other you know, internet radio icons. Doug can read.

Doug

Okay, so here we go. Take to Yes, it emanated from a thick underbrush for not far from the car. So Randy, turn the radio off. And Mike, if you keep clicking around on this goddamn page, watching what's happening God, you want me to read this or you want me to not read? So we're using.

Jason

Okay, for anyone who has no idea what the fuck is happening. We're using Google Docs and we're all sharing one document. And Mike is trying to play save while Doug is trying to read a follow up and I just see like this green cursor flying all over the screen

Doug

every time he clicks on to where I'm reading. It just blocks the whole center. Here,

Mike

okay, you're not here. Okay. It's out of the way.

Doug

Randy turn the radio off, only to hear on Another shriek from outside

Mike

yep, that's what

Doug

Needham flicked on his headlights and Johnson. Yes, as they both saw a huge fall scented creature lumbering toward them. Needham wasted no time and starting his car and accelerated away from the scene with his frightened girlfriend. Once they got back into town they pondered on whether they should call the police or not.

Johnson knew full well that that once they made the official report, it would reveal their secret romance saucy, but she decided that the trouble she was bound to get into when her father found out about Needham was nothing compared to what that monster they just saw maybe capable of. It was then they decided to tell the cops and the couple arrived at the station and made out what is known as an unknown creature report.

Mike

What it's different from the known Creature Report.

Doug

You see, I guess kind of like a UFO but

Jason

but creature Yeah.

Doug

So describing a beast that looked like an oversized gorilla, which they estimated to be at least eight feet tall with matted and mud streaked white hair. So if you take a Yeti and Big Foot and they booked

Jason

and you wait like 10 years, you get the

Doug

Murfreesboro get the Murfreesboro Dong monster.

Jason

Hey, did we ever say what cryptid we're

Mike

covering? Yes. The Murphysboro mudmaster

Doug

Yeah, we talked about it. Okay.

Unknown

Shut up and listen, Jason. All right. I'll

Jason

drink again I guess.

Doug

All right. So former patrolman now retired Murphysboro Police Chief Ron man war and what a name that's a man Warren land wearing man wearing man wearing man wore man warring. Yeah. Interesting, is still able to recite the facts of the strange incident from memory about three decades later. Manwaring felt that the couple's account was lent credibility due to the fact that they risked exposing their alleged indiscretions which no doubt would bring them public ridicule, and even, you know,

Johnson's father's wrath. So because they were so of course, by what they had seen at the river, there was no advantage for them to come up with this report, while officers who took down the statement were understandably like skeptical, skeptical to the event.

Jason

So what I'm getting here is that reports were made, no one believed believed them, but they still made them even though

Doug

he laughed. All they're saying is they're like, Okay, this is kind of believable, because, like, they're obviously having this weird romance that like, all all that's coming out of this whole thing is the fact that they're together and shouldn't be. So that's a credibility to the fact that like, why would they do this? Yeah,

Jason

gotcha. Gotcha, gotcha.

Doug

Why the talk about the white gorilla, like, I don't know what it is.

Jason

God dammit, I'm yeah, I'm learning. I don't know if it's useful information.

Doug

Very, very much. So not I but it's a part of our crypto zoological findings. Yes. That's very important

Mike

that you the listener, decided to listen to this is information

Doug

that I'm taking into my brain that's pushing out more important information.

Mike

I don't know how to file my taxes anymore. Now.

Jason

Murphysboro Mudbox in 3000 years, humanity will thank us yes, because no one else is doing.

Doug

I'm so glad I learned how to fucking what the Murfreesboro mud monster was and not how to fucking file types.

Mike

I don't know how to raise my kids know about the Murfreesboro mud.

Doug

Anyways, Mike, take it away. Well,

Mike

there's a little bit of info left that you didn't cover but I'll

Doug

finish it. No, no, no, nobody cares. No, no,

Mike

I have to it's pregnant. No.

Jason

Okay, give it give. Think of me. While the officers

Mike

who took down a limb and JAXA statement were understandably skeptical of the event they do to fleet sent out to Patrolmen, Merle Lindsay and Jim Nash to investigate. They'll report fake

Doug

fake names. Fake News.

Mike

Jason Are you ready for this? This is the cops now. What was that squeak and by the way,

Jason

who's the cops know what is happening right now making any what is that squeak?

Mike

This is the police's take now. Are you ready? So let's cut

Jason

it out. So what are you okay, what was the take that I just heard?

Mike

So basically, what you just heard was these two people were trying to have sex at Riverside need right when a monster ran up on him. They drove away.

Jason

Oh, so this is like a this is a Yeah. A non police personnel report.

Mike

Yes. Romeo and Juliet trying to fuck in the way they went back to town filed a police report. The police were like, yeah, why would Juliet like fucking open themselves up and Dogs themselves. This has to be pretty legit. you to go check this out. Okay, fair enough. So now we got two cops go into the

relevant crime. Within minutes of the sightings, the officers arrived at the boat ramp in the Riverside Park area and just say that I'm seeing I'm loving like, I gotta give it a southern we're leaving Cajun, like Oh, dangerously Cajun.

Doug

There's no shrimp here, which that sounds like a great flavor of something

Jason

dangerously Cajun Can I just remind us all the Cajun people are alive and well. This country? I know we forget about them sometimes. But they are here and they are welcome.

Doug

They just no one asked Mike to do an accent. Yeah, no, I

Mike

want to southern with it. But let

Jason

me it's fun. We're we're happy that you are representing a very underrepresented people of America.

Mike

I hope I do them justice by being a white man from

Jason

their cages so no. Yeah, I mean, yes, but you are not doing any of the Justice

Mike

Office in Nash was the first particular tracks approximately 10 to 12 inches long, and approximately three inches wide, deeply impressed in the mud by the riverbank. So he found footprints.

Doug

Do they all talk that slow? I hope so.

Jason

I mean, how else do you tell stories in the South?

Doug

I want to put someone to sleep like

Mike

Nash claimed that as he bent over to inspect the prints from a closer vantage point. He was shocked to hear a horrifyingly shrill screech nib ah. Sorry, my phone went off. I was like, what do you do? Nash took off post haste accidentally dropping his revolver in his panic. Nash and Lindsey quickly went back to the station to report the fun and gather more men for a search party. The officers later estimated that would have had made that sharp cry was no more than 300 feet

away from them. approximately two hours later at 2am. On the 26th of June, offices, Nash and Lindsay returned to the scene, accompanied by officers Bob Scott and Boyd need hand need. The Quartet swiftly discovered another spate of tracks near the river. As Lindsay ran back to the patrol car to retrieve a

camera. The rest of the group interpretively followed the prints along the bank without one and the stillness of the Black Knight was shattered by the same horrible scream that needed him and Nash at her feet feel rapidly usurped curiosity as the tree will men some really some early abandon merrily merrily abandon their church search their church their search and race back to Ghana gonna repeal it you can just redo it for you rapidly you suck curiosity, give

Jason

it a second. But

Doug

you know my cup point Yep.

Mike

Rapidly usurped curiosity is the tree you have min similarily whatever that word is abandoned their search and raced back to the patrol car for safety. After waiting in the car, for the creature to attack them, the team went back out on the hunt until the moon they found nothing into the night of June 26. Yeah, so essentially these people went down Jason, they went down to the river, you understand? Yep. And this man guy, who peepee scared, dropped

his gun. And okay, mistake number one, they ran back and was like, you know, there's no down here we did a whole party. So they got the whole party down there. And then something scared the party and they all ran back to their cars and just waited it out until the thing went away, and then went back out to search more. And they found nothing.

Jason

So they waited for whatever thing they were looking forward to leave before going back to work. Yeah. Is what you're telling me right now. These people are dumb, and that's causing

Mike

the 1970s for Jesus anyway. So like I said, they found nothing until the night of June 26 that Jason at a prime I like because I were telling you the stories FERS for you. I feel like I'm a part of it now and I don't proximately 10:30pm On the evening of June 26 five year old Christian barel was playing in his backyard, which was located relatively close to the Big Muddy River.

Jason

Oh, the Big Muddy River Yes.

Unknown

All right. What is this called this

Mike

Christian was attempting to catch fireflies in the glass jaw his mother had given him the child frolicked about delightedly when he spotted a colossal white shape looming up from behind the fence that separated his yard from the neighbor's property. The array family. The terrified ball rail dropped as John raced inside crying out dad and dad is a big ghost in the back yard. The child's father was understandably dubious of his son store. That was until his neighbors corroborated the tape.

Jason

Ooh,

Mike

like these accents. I'm given the fuck in Illinois.

Doug

Yeah, again, anything

Jason

south of Yorkville. It fucking fits. And also I'm just staring in awe that you can because we all remember my last attempt at a fucking accent and it was the SCP one was questionable at best. Jason give

Mike

him a New York accent. Oh, no. Hi, everyone. I'm not I'm not or I'm

Jason

not good at it. I

Mike

tried. Hello, everyone. I'm from New York and

Doug

I am. Oh, man, that's

Mike

so good. And the neighbor family. I saw this big ol monkey monk, oh, my god, Monk,

Jason

Monk, monk. And they got scared. And so instead of looking for the thing they were trying to look for, they waited for the thing that they were looking for to leave so they could then go look

Mike

for these people weren't looking for it. This is a completely separate incident. This is a little boy playing in his backyard. And he saw the word

Jason

Are they really not looking

Doug

for something? No, this is why I don't condone children.

Mike

Yeah, no, this is a completely different incident from like, Oh, this is Oh guy was completely separate. This was just an incident about a little boy that was playing in his backyard and saw the giant creature by his fence. And then the neighbor's family saw it as well. Gotcha.

Doug

That makes more sense. I mean, Cajun living in

Mike

about speak Creo next.

Doug

So I actually have another incident for you. I would

Jason

love to hear more about this because I still don't really fully understand. Like,

Mike

what are you understanding so far? Jason, tell me. Give us some questions.

Jason

I am understanding that Cajuns are alive and well, in Cascadia. I'm also understanding that these eyewitness accounts are revealing a very very tall, dirty thing that exists very

Doug

white for though,

Jason

almost like a yeti that has maybe

Mike

stumbled across his

Jason

just learned what mud is even like been in mud like just learned what it is and now part of its furs a little dirtier.

Doug

It's like a yeti living in the Midwest because the snow is all dirty. You know, it's all shaved black snow and turn is kind of fucking dirty.

Mike

He pulled the reverse snow bunny instead of going somewhere where it's warm. He went to the cold place

Jason

and found happiness apparently. Yeah, no. So yeah, what I'm gathering is this thing is it's a large doofus that is a bit dirty.

Doug

It's a dirty doofus and his

Jason

tear, either just existing and by the fact of existing terrorizing you do kind of Southern Illinois families, you do kind of

Mike

figure out the end, it's just chillin, and everyone is going fuck wild over it.

Doug

It's like the dude. So sport spoilers, I guess. Hey, everyone.

Jason

Thank you for listening because you don't need to anymore. Yeah.

Doug

So find out at the end, and also right here, but also will tell you now because it's not pertinent. All right, so I actually have another incident. Very similar to what we've been talking about that happened to a young boy named Greg Garrett, who recounted a three legged creature of similar description to the mud monster.

Mike

You only got three legs my guy three,

Doug

he's a tripod. Similar, not the same. Oh. Okay. So Garrett claimed to have been attacked while playing in his backyard by a truly bizarre slimy three legged beasts known as the eye infield horror. Which

Mike

sounds badass

Jason

the eye infield horror. Yeah. Yeah, that sounds like it's straight out of fucking a Lovecraft book.

Doug

Right, right. It really does. Absolutely. So Garrett immediately retreated to relative safety of his parents house. While barrel

Mike

barrel is the barrel is the guy from the last story that I told.

Doug

Okay, right. Why there Okay, anyways, it's trying to contrast as it is so well, while Barrow was sobbing in his father's arms. Teenagers Cheryl Ray now. Cheryl Rath housewife and mother of two was sitting on her darkened back porch next door to with her young suitor. Randy Crieff suitor

Mike

so it's going back to the ray family the neighbors yeah Burrell

Doug

God through me for then the loop Holy shit.

Jason

This is like a follow up almost. But like from the dubs perspective or like whatever, gotcha.

Doug

So the pair claimed that they were talking and looking at the stars when they heard a rustling in the bushes about 15 feet away from the porch. Assuming that the neighborhood kids had come to spy on them and enraged Ray went inside to turn on the porch light ball crease, the son of a state trooper, now a minister at the First Baptist Church church in Sheffield, Iowa, leaped to his feet and open the door, intending to investigate

Jason

I'm sorry, what was his name?

Mike

Randy church. Church isn't free crit sorry,

Jason

his name. His name is crease. Crease. Fuck any crease. Okay, I mean, lending credence to the fucking Asian accents that are over here. But what the fuck Krief? That's way too close to queef. And you know, this kid's gonna be in school at some point in his life.

Mike

Well, this isn't the kid. This is a man.

Jason

What I'm saying though, is the father and mother of this person knew that this child was going to school at some point and they were like your name is very close to the word queef. But a little different. Yeah,

Mike

I mean, it is what it is. Mike's like, shut the fuck up, dude. No, no, I'm just saying at this point, you know, he's already been through the bullying like he's, he's the hardest easiest to

Jason

it. Yeah, who queef I get. Gotcha.

Doug

All right, so moving along with the story here. Ray recounted the scene. So Randy and I were sitting in my parents breezeway. All right, what the fuck is a breezeway? Is it like a I think it's like an outdoor like a hallway that's also a sunroom don't come up the laneway. Alright, so use the breezeway, not the laneway use the breezeway when they heard something in the woods. We both went down, but Randy we both went down, but Randy was walking

a little bit ahead. Then he said, Come here, and there it was. We stood there looking at it. Crit and race did frozen with shock as this filthy white monstrosity seemed to stare back at them. I can't get over

Jason

the name creep. I'm so sorry.

Doug

It's like priests upper air, it's like creed

Jason

and Keith put together and it's almost like the parents just like couldn't decide which is like, crave. Let's like the mom said creed and the dad said Keith at the same time they're like fuck it. Yeah, there it is. Yeah, exactly.

Doug

Goddamnit Shut up. Oh, God, making me cough. Making me crease. You're making me crazy. Alright, so crease who drew a sketch of the creature revealing a distinctly spade shaped Flatwoods Monster like head that is oddly specific. Don't really know what that means. But he recalled the moment vividly. The thing I remember was the bulk of it the shape the human form and the stench of the river slamming that apparently had on it. It it

was close enough out. It was about eight feet tall and at least as stocky as a New York football player. We were within 15 feet of it close enough to see the body the texture of the for long and Harry like an

English Sheepdog. Officers Nash and Manwaring were swiftly dispatched to the scene where they noticed a powder of powder, powerful odor that quickly dissipated they also found a cluster of footprints that were there where the creature had been lurking following the officers discovery, the chief Toby burger

Jason

sorry everyone

Mike

I'm trying so hard on in the story has the worst names you

Jason

can That's what I'm saying. I'm trying to keep myself contained right?

Mike

ties of RJ burger motherfucker

Jason

laugh hysterically at these fucking names Bowlby Berg or was everybody in the fucking legal

Mike

what's funny is we're a different type.

Jason

That's the 70s were full of terrible names apparently terribly

Mike

shy and like hummingbird bring me

Doug

Toby burger.

Jason

And also my Toby barrier.

Doug

But also, yes, the burger that is also filled with Toby. So yeah, Chief Toby burger immediately dispatched the rest of his men to the scene all 14 of them. Well, they sent they sent for an officer and trained dog handler with a nearby Carbondale Police Department. A man named Jerry Nellis. So this is near Carbondale. Yeah, it's all relatively close to us, actually.

Jason

I mean, like six hours away, but yeah, relatively close to us. Right. I forget that Illinois is a long state. Like it's very long.

Doug

Well, we're all used to being like, oh, yeah, we're just gonna go on a quick road trip. And we're like, oh, how long is it and we're like, oh, like eight hours.

Mike

So I don't want to I don't want a third of a day. I don't want to like side rail off too much. But that's the thing. That's a thing and like Florida, if the drive is more than 15 minutes in Florida, they give up what Yeah, because in Florida, all the towns have like, like if you live in a town like for example, we go see our friends in Jupiter. Jupiter has like dozens upon Jupiter, Florida. Yeah. Yeah, what a fucking planet man.

Jason

Just being concise.

Mike

So but in Jupiter, like they have like little communities like all over like hundreds of them. And in those communities is like your whole foods, your Starbucks your restaurants. So you don't have to travel more than 15 minutes. Once you travel 15 minutes you're in the other town that has their own Starbucks their own Whole Foods their own. That's fucking Yeah, that's so every community has like what you need to live. So when we're like, oh, we're gonna go half hour out. They're like, Oh,

that's fucked up. Why would you do that? You know, it's a very different.

Jason

There's a 10 minute radius.

Doug

30 minutes to get vape juice today. Like why drive

Mike

30 minutes to record this podcast every day for them. They're like, Oh, fuck it. I don't want to do the show anymore.

Jason

Yeah, if so, what I'm gathering is that if we lived in Florida, we would have given up after episode three.

Doug

All right, let's get back on track, right. Yes, please. Thank you, Doug. So Jerry, Nellis where we ended, we ended it with him the dog trainer. Yeah. So dog handler Sure. Yeah. So now this was the owner of a tough German shepherd named Reb Reb

Jason

musica boy

Doug

cube we haven't.

Jason

We haven't. It makes me happy every time

Doug

Alright, so Rob, who had assisted the Murfreesboro police in the past as a search and rescue attack dog and most permanently as a man or in this case? Monster tracker. The officers armed with rifles resolvers and flashlights discovered a trail of unidentified black slime that they seem to lead directly from Ray's back porch to the river. Oh,

Mike

so Jason, let me sum this up for you release the the little boy who is catching fireflies yeah their neighbor the raise family also saw the creature and filed a report with the police the same police so corroborated Yes, the same police that were handling the other one from the two Romeo and Juliet couple so these remedies

Jason

like for officers are just like what the fuck

Mike

much happened so they decided we're gonna get a fucking German Shepherd on this motherfucker. And we're just going to corral the entire police force. We're going on a man hunt baby. So they're actively hunting this fucking creature down

Jason

in fucking Murphysboro,

Mike

Illinois.

Jason

I love the I love the Cajun accent. Get ready

Mike

for it because here comes again. Here we go red picked up the scent of his prey and took off. The men then follow the dog down the recently forged path of broken tree limbs and trampled underbrush. Toward the bizarre quarry. A dog managed to track the monster through the dense forest and down a steep embankment toward a small pond. But the brush became too thick for it to continue. The officers began searching the area with flashlights for clues as to where this creature might have

escaped. But in no time read picked up the center game. The determined dog dotted toward an abandoned barn on the Bhullar property, which was located just east of the race house and a little north of the river. But once he got to the decaying dog, that usually courageous canine began trembling and yelping with fear. They usually bold ribs terrified reaction to whatever looked within the bond was enough to convince chief Berger

to call in the troops. He radioed for help from neighboring police departments. And then within hours a dozen patrol cars had responded to his call. Unfortunately, or perhaps very fortunately for those involved in the time that had elapsed between ribs fearful display, the the rival but for to start that

Jason

sentence over in the time the address second

Mike

being the time there had elapsed between reps field full display, display and the arrival of backup, whatever it was that was hardened in that the bond managed to slip out through the back. Not long after the search was called off for the night, and the disappointed officers returned to their home bases. This would not mark the end of the Murphysboro mudmaster saga at sites of this mysterious beast who are reported two more times during the next week and a half.

Jason

So can I just say this room this is it. The story itself is it is creepy. The names turn this whole thing into a fucking cartoon like the whole thing. 100

Mike

Cheeseburger we're hunting a giant gorilla burgers we've got

Doug

ham we got Corey Reese's here like I'm naming my next d&d character Chris. So Jason's Don't make me say that over and over again. Chris your turn to

Mike

elaborate for you what happened here? The officers decided shits fucked and the dogs going fuck wild so let's get some backup here. And then by the time backup came

Jason

you you are I just moved into it by the time

Mike

rack up came there's no monster to be seen

Doug

he's he's veins in his neck. It's like he's like

Jason

he's fighting

Mike

the axe is becoming part of me now not only appreciate that

Doug

his don't appreciate that. I don't do that too much.

Jason

i This is again the story is very so far. You You guys have me absolutely hooked. I just need the names to be different.

Doug

Oh, here's is it gonna get worse before it gets better? Well, okay, so here. It's that's the comforting here's a little here's a bird scooter for you. The next reported encounter with the beast occurred approximately 10 days later, after a traveling carnival setup. in Riverside

Jason

Park horse Of course. Why wouldn't?

Mike

Why would the clowns like us here?

Doug

The Carnival workers apparently unaware of what was lurking nearby chose a pleasant glade near the river between the boat ramp and the sewage treatment plant. Yep, located below the ray house. Of course. That's what it's called. At 2am on July 7, long after the carnival had closed up for the night three carnies. Are you ready for this? I I think I know what's coming but yeah, oldest Norris Yep. Ray and Kherson and Wesley lavender.

Mike

Wesley laminate is a

Jason

good name, but also when it's accompanied by the fucking rest of them. It's

Doug

like so the carnies have the most normal names.

Mike

What?

Doug

Okay, can you Jesus, so we're sitting behind one of the Carnival trucks discussing the day's receipts when they had a series of wines come from the Shetland ponies that were tied to the bramble on the other side of the truck.

Mike

When he's like like a weenie. It was like the the pony Winnie

Jason

gotcha gotcha. Like the Pooh Winnie the Pooh.

Doug

So the men quickly got up to see what the commotion was all about and was shocked to find the men quickly got up to see what the commotion was all about. And were shocked to find the usually docile ponies, which had been trained to give children rides in endless circles like a merry go round. I don't I don't like any of that. But that's fine.

Jason

They didn't need the metaphor. I get what a circle is.

Doug

So we're in a tizzy. With their eyes rolling and terror, furiously, tugging at their ropes and desperate bid to free themselves from their constraints. It wasn't long before the carnies would see what the frenzy was all about. The men maintained that they had spent spider an eight foot 400 pound creature I don't know how people are I in weight on Yeah, that's fine with that guy.

Mike

But anyways, like a 240,

Doug

which much like the Missouri's Momo seem to have no distinguishable facial characteristic beneath its Fergal for

Mike

a moment do we Yes, not tonight, but

Jason

a shameless plug for a future episode.

Doug

So this seemed to be calmly watching the ponies this eight foot 400 pound eyeballed creature. The men decided not to wait around and see what happened next and immediately ran for help, claiming that the monster also ran in the opposite direction. So about an hour later, one of the Carnival workers called in help to deal with the beast. Charles Kimball claimed that he saw the creature once again staring at the ponies with its head cocked to the side and what was described as a

deeply curious pose. While this would prove to be the last time eyewitness reported the creature. It's rain of fear was not quite complete.

Jason

I'm loving that. I know exactly. Who wrote that.

Mike

I'm glad because you can look a PDF for that one.

Jason

Oh,

Mike

that wasn't me. Although I'm at the end here.

Doug

Did you write tizzy? No,

Jason

you don't know. You wrote none of these words. Did you?

Mike

I wrote some. I replaced some with others.

Doug

This man rewrote the Vulcan Windigo episode.

Mike

That's a different like, no, no, no, no.

Doug

We can't fuck it's fine. We can we can Wikipedia this.

Mike

Hey, say that drunker. No, no, no, we can't.

Doug

No, it was it was intentional. Oh, dang.

Mike

Whatever. Anyway,

Jason

he's not as drunk as he's Jason.

Mike

I'm not ready for another night. I'm

Doug

not as thick as you drunk. I am alright.

Jason

i If we there's more information. Just

Mike

a smidge. We're at the homestretch here homeschool Jesus right I'm ready for another home stretch me daddy.

Doug

So decided we would do

Mike

later that same night as the whole carnival fiasco. A woman named Niger green knees need your green Nietzsche needs a green. She has asserted that she heard a screaming sound coming from a shed on her rural farm. She wisely it would seem chose to remain inside her home rather than going out to investigate smart smart yes following the carnival citing yet another crowd of locals most of whom were armed to the teeth gathered in Riverside Park hoping to take a shot at the

furry white friend. The burry white friend is a fiend but I preferred friend no okay,

Jason

I think Phoenix is more fitting well

Mike

he hasn't done anything wrong.

Doug

Honestly he just lurking he's actually kind of like more of like a stalker. Yeah, he's just kind of around didn't hurt anyone. This

Mike

only exacerbated chief burgers concerns for the sound folks safety. So he implored the town fathers to bring in expert help. Sorkin

Jason

finds mold, right? Yeah. Dana Scully.

Mike

Sorkin claim that private groups that offered as much as $2.5 million for the creatures capture. With that in mind, this small explanation came armed with a stun gun and the capacity to take down a 500 pound animal as well as chocolate and bananas, of course, which Sorkin stated circumstances they would use to pacify the beast so just chocolate and potassium

Jason

I just haven't remembering that fucking GIF of the banana super close up with like the pins for eyes and says potassium intensifies.

Mike

They also carry loaded shotguns which they claimed they would only use for their safety. And if they're threatened, Sorkin further claimed that they had local zoos standing by and that the arrangements have been made for a cage to be flown in by helicopter if they are lucky enough to man to imprison the fucking mud monster God showed around. That pretty much sums it up but nothing happened from there. They had no luck finding the mud monster and to this day, it remains a mystery.

Jason

I'll agree with that. Hmm,

Mike

there are dozens of eyewitnesses and the old police report from 1973 Still is open to this day. You can actually look it up and look at it. It's on Murphy's Burroughs website.

Jason

This is like Okay, guys, go visit this help us saw.

Mike

So just remember Jason, if you're ever in Murphysboro, if you're playing in the river, you may not be playing alone.

Jason

That sounds fun because like I'm usually lonely. Yeah, there might be

Mike

a giant gorilla covered in multiplayer button here waiting for you. And that is the cryptic corner and yeah, that's the Murphy burls monster.

Jason

I will say that's not what I was expecting. No. Well,

Mike

I wanted to do just no named fucking

Jason

fucking weird ass off the radar one. Yeah,

Doug

good. Yeah. If we were to walk from Murphysboro, Illinois, it would take 101 hours. Well,

Jason

what are you guys doing for the next week and

Mike

it's only like a week.

Doug

We can knock that out by car. It's about five and a half hours.

Mike

Still not bad. You guys want to go? I would keep hunting

Doug

mud monster week.

Jason

I would love to go spend a weekend just like up in a bucket of hunters purchase

Mike

out of my timeshare in Carbondale.

Jason

I'm pleased tell me your cat I really hope that he's getting please tell me he's not telling me

Doug

the laughing and maybe I would like to

Mike

say thank you to everybody.

Doug

timeshare Carbondale I

Mike

really appreciate you all listening.

Doug

I'm a different state.

Mike

The fact that you take that extra money for this away from

Jason

civilization while

Mike

Do you guys have anything that you want to say to the people?

Jason

Yeah, don't get a timeshare in Carbondale, Illinois. ever in your life

Doug

or No, no, don't get a timeshare.

Jason

You fucking Yeah, you could just fucking stop the sentence there. Do not buy a timeshare, although I have reaped the benefits of my parents,

Doug

the only timeshare that's worth tie is DVC.

Jason

Yes, absolutely. And oh, who this is dark No, in my my parents will has split up the DVC points and memberships to my brother and I and I'm very happy with the outcome. So mom and dad next, like two years or so like don't let's have some fun conversations. But like I want those DVC points. I want to see point Disney vacant Vacation Club. You can use them for like Park passes or hotel stays or whatever. That's about like

Doug

12 to $15,000 and once you pay it off you just every year get vacation time at Disney. Yeah,

Unknown

Jesus. Yeah, so

Jason

it's the Bank of Disney.

Mike

This cryptic corner did you guys

Doug

yeah, we'll go into that more details.

Jason

I'm sure later later.

Mike

Anyway, thank you everybody for listening. I super appreciate it.

Doug

Can you guys give us some money? Some money? No, I was gonna say if you guys have cryptids that you would like us to hear us talk about and just Mr. was shit all over like we do every other cryptid let us know because we also read them off. cryptids we do we really do. But we also, you know like to, I will talk mad shit about the things that we talked about. So

Jason

that's just our Mo Jason. Do

Mike

you think the Murphysboro mud monsters are real?

Jason

Well, I've seen movie starring Gary Busey. So yes,

Doug

I do. Gary's he's the is the murder monster.

Jason

I mean, obviously there's a gift to fucking prove it.

Mike

And if you live near Murfreesboro, if you've had an experience with the mud monster, please let us know

Jason

they'd be oh my god. Leave us a voicemail. I mean, you guys have already heard the voicemail.

Doug

I didn't put that in the last episode. Oh, if you guys can show us your mud monsters. Love

Mike

preferably in the toilet. Also known as the chocolate starfish. Yes. Goodbye, everybody.

Jason

Thank you so much for listening, everybody. I'm sure that all of you were just as clueless as I was. But we learned some things together today.

Doug

Also slap your pain against your own mud monster. And I guess right down there was

Jason

I guess I have to stop recording now because that's how do I follow that? You know?

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