NC Cryptid File #011<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Not every booger lives under your bed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some live in the mountains.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Long before “booger” became something children laughed about, the word had another meaning across Appalachia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A booger was whatever you hoped you never met walking home after dark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Rich Mountain Booger was said to roam the forests around Rich Mountain near the North Carolina-Tennessee line. Witnesses described a large, shaggy creature moving through the trees with surprising speed, appearing just long enough to remind people they weren’t alone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Unlike Bigfoot, the Rich Mountain Booger wasn’t famous.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It didn’t need to be.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Its job was to stay in local stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Parents used it to convince children not to wander too far into the woods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Hunters blamed strange noises on it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Travelers kept an eye on the trail after sunset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As years passed, the legend settled comfortably into Appalachian folklore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe it was a black bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe it was an unusually large person glimpsed from a distance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Maybe it was simply the mountains giving a name to the feeling that somebody was watching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Some stories don’t need proof.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
They only need another generation willing to tell them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Field Notes<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Classification:<\/strong> Mountain Cryptid<\/p>\n\n\n\n Location:<\/strong> Rich Mountain, North Carolina<\/p>\n\n\n\n Habitat:<\/strong> Appalachian forests<\/p>\n\n\n\n First Recorded:<\/strong> 1800s<\/p>\n\n\n\n Historic Sightings:<\/strong> 19th & 20th centuries<\/p>\n\n\n\n Estimated Height:<\/strong> Unknown<\/p>\n\n\n\n Folklore Fame:<\/strong> Local Legend<\/p>\n\n\n\n Current Status:<\/strong> Unexplained<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NC Cryptid File #011 Not every booger lives under your bed. Some live in the mountains. Long before “booger” became something children laughed about, the word…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":89,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cryptid-sightings","category-mountains"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/northcarolinacryptids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/northcarolinacryptids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/northcarolinacryptids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northcarolinacryptids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northcarolinacryptids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/northcarolinacryptids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87,"href":"https:\/\/northcarolinacryptids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86\/revisions\/87"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northcarolinacryptids.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/89"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/northcarolinacryptids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northcarolinacryptids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/northcarolinacryptids.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}