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Engraved field-guide plate depicting a hunched, broad-shouldered humanoid cryptid with knotted features standing near dens...
Documented
Case File #KNO-014

Knobby

Carpenter's Knob Wildman of Cleveland County

Hominidae carolinensis knobbii

LocationCarpenter's Knob, Cleveland County, North Carolina
First Doc.1979
RegionAppalachia

Case Sections

In Review

Witnesses describe Knobby as a tall, apelike figure roughly 6 to 8 feet in height, covered in dark brown to black hair and weighing an estimated 250 pounds or more. The creature is seen both walking upright and dropping to all fours, with long arms, a bulky torso, and a head that lacks a clear neck, more like a blocky silhouette than a tidy profile. At night, it appears as a large, moving mass against the tree line, sometimes briefly illuminated in car headlights before slipping back into cover.

Declassified Briefings

Form No. ACD-47B
Rev. 08/1972
Internal
File Copy
Appalachian Cryptid Division
Department of Unexplained Phenomena
Internal Memorandum
To:Field Research Division
From:Regional Director
Date:[CLASSIFIED]
Re:Knobby - Case KNO-014
Cleveland County doesn't call him Bigfoot; they call him Knobby, and that about sums up the relationship: he's theirs. Standing orders for agents out that way: be polite, don't poke the neighbor's wildman, and if you see him at the treeline, let the county keep its mascot.
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