“Cherokee Devil”

[APPALACHIA OBSERVATION & CONTAINMENT INITIATIVE] Incident Report #: #1292-C | Anomaly Class: Sigma Location: ██████ — █████, North Carolina Date of Incident: April 29, 2025 Reporting Officer: Agent ████ At 23:02 EST, A.O.C.I. teams were dispatched to █████ area following a pattern of disappearances involving transient and drug afflicted individuals. Local rumors mentioned a “hairy wild man” stalking the tree lines. Operatives located an abandoned red shack marked with faded tribal symbols and claw marks. Inside, they discovered one of the missing persons — ███ █████ (33) — in a dissociative state, dehydrated and covered in small lacerations. The subject claimed a “giant man covered in silver hair” had taken them through the forest, but was “driven off” by an “Old Indian woman made of light,” who then brought her to the shack.