Appalachian Mystery: The Woodbooger of Norton Virginia
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- čas přidán 31. 05. 2024
- Stories and sightings of the mysterious Woodbooger in the Appalachian Mountains have been reported for well over a 100 years, and they still continue to this day! Most can't be explained, so the lore and legend keep growing! Join me as I explore Norton Virginia, and it's legendary Woodbooger!
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Love hearing from y'all in the comments! Where should we put on our list of places to explore next?
Washington county va
The channels
Chilhowie Virginia
Flanagan lake in dickenson county va!
Love this! My mom’s from Norton and she used to be ashamed of where she came from. I finally convinced her she shouldn’t be ashamed and sent her this - she loved it. ❤
Randomly seeing a video in my recommended about a place I’ve been to almost the entirety of my life is very strange.
I was born on Dayton, Oh back my dad was born Coeburn and mom was born in Wise. My dad is buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery in Norton. I appreciate your videos.
I really enjoyed this especially since I was born in Dorchester in 1943 and Norton was our town. We moved to Ohio in 1953 because the coal mines had went on strike. I still have family there and until my health took a down turn, I use to go back to visit every year. Norton at that time was a booming town! I think there may be a couple of houses and the camp store still existing. You were so right about the coke ovens....I remember them well. I truly enjoyed being taken back in my memories. Thank you for that. And yes, we knew the legend of The Booger...hahahah
Love your videos! Watching from England God bless America 😊
Thanks so much, glad you're enjoying them!!
I live not even 20 minutes away from Norton so it was really cool to see you talk about it and see on the over look I drive by frequently. Great video!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I grew up in a very rural setting near Welch WV. Dad was a coal miner but we had livestock and lived in a deep, dark holler. I had night terrors as a child and still once in awhile today. I wonder sometimes if it didn't stem from things like " You better get in here out of the dark boy, before the BOOGER gets you!" lol If I had a dollar for every time I heard that my retirement would be a lot more comfortable! And I still ain't skeered of the dark! Thanks for a good one Josh.
You bet, thanks for watching!
Brad I grew up near Welch also.
@@sherryceltic9856 I'm 64, recently disabled from severe Covid, after working 44 years. I've stayed in the Welch area because of my work. In the early 70s, there were dozens of my relatives in our local phone book. I'm the last because of death and relocation. I graduated from Welch High School in 1977. What a great place to grow up and live back then! Really good to hear from people like you!
Thanks M.R.❤️
The Woodbooger grill is awesome, I used to go camping out west of Norton every fall and we'd always stop and get a Woodbooger burger afterwards.
They also have a really good philly cheesesteak 👍
@@MountainRoots Did you go to Asia Cafe?
My next destination! Thanks for posting!
You're welcome!
Awesome story! Goes to show you people are people no matter the color of your skin!
Absolutely!!
Thanks mountain roots I’m a Virginian but a northern one so some say that doesn’t count. But I’m a Virginian.☘️👋👍
Excellent video as I've worked in Norton and live in Roanoke.
Thank you!!
Your depiction of these towns in your stories is perfect. Having Never been to Norton I now feel like I know what it looks like there. I especially like your use of camera perspective through the windshield of your truck..The soft light you had while filming this episode showed off the beautiful town and surrounding landscape..made me want to visit that area..
I particularly enjoyed the Woodbooger story. We here in Idaho have plenty of those critters hanging out in the woods too...In fact I even have a dog named "Yeti" ...." Long Live the Yeti" ..
It’s a great place to visit, but if you work for a living a visit is all I recommend. It’s probably just a way to make money. I’m from the area and never heard of the Woodbooger.
I grew up in the 60's in southern Ohio, northern Kentucky. I remember family and friends of my parents living in houses with dirt floors. At that time , it all seemed normal to live like that. Your channel takes me to time I long to remember and you do a very good job of sharing that way of life I wish I could see again. Thank You. I was born in Ironton Ohio. I had family that lived there and In Boyd County Kentucky, Ashland, which was just right across the Ohio River. I remember the road my Grandmother lived of of, it was called Bear Creek Rd, south of Ashland. To me, it was in the middle of nowhere.
Thanks so much for sharing that, I love hearing the memories these episodes bring to mind!
What breathtaking scenery! I really enjoy the aerial shots and displays of the region's landscapes. Thank you!
You're welcome! I have more to share from this locale- quite epic aerials- in a future production 😉
#Kinfolk
I was in norton in the early 90s. It looks so different now. Still a beautiful place.
Time has a way of doing that. Thanks for watching!
I really loved this one!! Your camera work keeps getting better and better😃 The visuals you captured and the way you tell the history is so beautiful. Loved hearing all of the history about this town, especially about the baseball team. How cool!! 🤎
Thanks so much! I really enjoy that story about them being the first integrated little league teams!!
Please do one on Hurley, Va in Buchanan County. I've seen Grundy and a couple other Buchanan County places in some of your videos but never Hurley. It's an extremely small town even much smaller than Grundy
Great and kinda creepy at the same time. Had no idea Virginia had a Bigfoot. Learning something every video. Keep them coming! A little cash for gas. Be safe. God bless you and your family 🙏.
Wild huh!?...and the name- 'Woodbooger' 😆 ... appreciate all your support of the work I'm doing!
I’m from the area and I can honestly say I’ve never heard of the Woodbooger. Since I moved away for work I can understand. It’s a good way to get a few bucks.
I live in Big Stone Gap Virginia 10 miles south of Norton. We had a Wood Booger here in 2015. I couldn't believe it when I saw it run from me. I set up a trail cam and got some pics of it. It is gray and around 10 ft. Tall . I've seen it servel times. I don't think there is any harm in them unless you trap one. He seems to like watching the horses in the pasture. I think it prays on coyotes or and our pet dogs.
America needs to see the truth of our country n how others just trying to live the American way. Thanks
Go to the Ramapo Mountains in New Jersey. You will crush it as it’s still an unknown.
Great vid. Hope you went on up the mountain to the real overlook. One of the best I have ever seen.
Sure did...and that is going to be in the television show/episode I'm producing 😉
I'm in Norton I live here at the Appalachian plateu
Very happy I stumbled across this channel! Awesome content!
I'm glad you did too! Thanks for being here & watching!!
My family has lived in this area of Southwest VA for generations and never once heard of a bigfoot referred to as a Woodbooger prior to the Finding Bigfoot show. 🤣Good mini doc, I always take the beauty of the area for granted, then watch in awe when I see drone footage...
Another great video. You have been and are doing a great job in telling the history and stories of great people in these mountains and uncovering stories that people are hearing for the first time or have forgotten over time. Who would have thought that the Booger would be found here? I love how the town plays off the name for their area. Another beautiful town and scenery. The way you bring these videos to us surely makes for anticipation for the next. Can't wait. Keep tbem coming.
You're welcome, glad you like them & thanks for watching!
Drone footage of flag rock is epic
So glad you liked it!!
Ha what a neat area!! LOVED the footage of the flag too! Who knew there was a Woodbooger sanctuary… I didn’t even know what a woodbooger was until this video. And the ending was touching… They didn’t see color, just teammates ♥️
awesome as usual
Really appreciate that!
Thanks!
Thank you so so much for the support!!
woodbooger sanctuary. haha that is funny
Nice video☝
Thanks so much, glad you liked it!!
When I was a kid my grandfather and mom would always threaten us kids about the boogers getting us if we wandered off.. Gramps had a bunch of stories about them from West Virginia. Growing up in Seattle we supposedly have sasquatch here. Know 3 people who claimed to have seen it.
I thought I seen a WoodBooger up here in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan! 😯
Reflections in the mirror don't count lol 😉
@@MountainRoots 😂
I'm new to you. And I love these mountain roots series.
have you done Northern Georgia North Caralina?
Thank you! Not yet, but in the near future I'll be heading into western NC, and down to the Foxfire museum area in north GA.
Just found your channel a few days ago, it is awesome!! Love hearing the stories and seeing the sights. Great job and looking forward to many more!!
Glad you found it! Welcome to the journey!!
Great video again, thank u.keep em coming.
You're welcome, thx for watching!
Come down to Bristol and do a video one day.
That's a lot to bite off, but planning on it!
Thank you again for posting this. You did an excellent job on the photography and the vocals. There is so much history in all of those small towns and it's nice to see someone recognize that. I check this out on a regular basis to take my "trip back home". You're doing a great job of telling their stories!!! Keep it up please!!!
We saw the same creature in new Mexico back in the 70's. while in a hippie commune 4 of use went out to see how a girl was doing who had just broken up with her boy friend. it was night and she was in her tent. we could hear her sobbing as we got near. and that's when Ron said look. there under a tree branch stood this huge thing on 2 legs and as we watched it started to walk away. thats when one of the girls screamed. well that brought everyone out. The next day we walked over to where it had been standing under that branch and from the branch we figured that thing had to be 8' tall. I split for the west coast and heard quite a few others left after the incident too scared to stay.
Sure it wasn't a hippie who hadn't shaved in a while? 😜
@@MountainRoots Not a hippie, they were generally too stoned to walk away. That event took place outside Taos NM
@@babyrazor6887 🙃🤦
Hmm, I've been in a lot of places in those ole mountains and I'm just now hearing about a wood booger!!! Well I reckon a feller don't get too old to learn something new !! I watch Mr. Donnie Law's channel quite a bit as well, enjoy your channel my friend, you makin this ole hillbilly a little homesick !!
Come on home!
@Mountain Roots, I'll be home at Thanksgiving for a week...I always dread that drive back to middle Tennessee, because I'm usually misty eyed for about 200 miles !!!!
Please do Floyd Va!
Planning to!
I was told growing up in Arkansas that the booger man would get me. Never knew what he looked like.
There is a highway I have been trying to place off I81 in VA. It must be between Roanoke and Staunton. The highway went to the east off I81. Soon after getting off the interstate, there was a long pull going up the Blue Ridge. There was an historical marker there that I stopped at and read, but can't remember about it now. There was plenty of room to pull over there, as I was driving a big semi. Seems like it may have been about an early settler? Do you know where that possibly was? If not, keep and eye out for it in your travels.
As far as place I would like to see, there is Seven Mile Ford. Would like to see the New Market Battlefied. I went by it many times.
At Mt. Jackson, if you are at the exit where the truckstops are, go east to Rt 11, and there will be a grocery store and a dollar type store. Visible close to the South of the shopping center and on the same side of Rt 11 was (hopefully still is) a big old house. I always wondered about the history of that house.
Booger…boogy man? I think them things can sometimes get stuck in your nose as well!
But has anybody photographed one or some? It would be something.
Whats that song at 5:28
This makes me miss my home, Virginia
Did you do blueridge parkway??
Not yet for this series. Thanks for reaching out!
Maybe it's a ghost. I always heard about a booger man in the woods but I have never seen anything when we I went hiking.
I'am a German and I like your Videos and I love the appalachian.
Greats from Cologne
My ancestors are from Germany and settled in southwest Virginia nearly 300 years ago!
@@MountainRoots What a coincidence, how small the world is. Definitely keep up the videos! Top!!!!. Will definitely be road tripping through the Appalachians next year.
the wife's maiden name is Norton, maybe that's one of her RELATIVES !!
🤗 👍 😎
Top of that mountain where the lake is just horrible fishing. Can't get the mosquitoes to bite.
The Wilderness Road did not go through Norton! Or Big Stone Gap! Came close to Big Stone Gap but not through it!
Who wins in a fight.... The Woodbooger Or The Mothman?????
Probably the haint hiding in the bushes behind them 😉
We really appreciate you doing it too, and you do this so well you'd swear you from an actual TV station. I just can't understand why yourself and others like Donnie Laws ,Scott's Oddyseey and Running into History ect don't have 100s of thousands of subscribers as good as these channels are, its disgusting that we have millions of citizens here in Appalachia and great content about our area but people would rather subscribe to titty shows.
Thank you kindly, there's an old saying in marketing that skin sells...that and short attention spans make eye candy enticing to viewers. But like you said, I wish the content we create could gain broader distribution. I'll keep pushing!
Music artist info??
At 4:03 into the video the Woodbooger Grill can be seen on the left. I did the Woodbooger challenge recently in 19 minutes. I've got a video I could link up here if anyone's interested in seeing that huge burger challenge. I only had 20 minutes to do it in. To the right at that same intersection if you turn and take the next left it will take you to a Y in the road. If you go left at that Y you're gonna be in front of an old Hospital on the right of the street. The Hospital was an asylum as late as the 60's I think it was. One of those where they did all sorts of horrible stuff to "cure" folks. Now Norton was a huge Coal town rivaling Pikeville as late as the early 80's before automation and eventually regulations by government as recent as the Obama administration closed shop for much of the area. Miss that Western Sizzler but the last version of it there in Norton was a good place to get food poison.
NOT FAKE NEWS!!!!
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Hain't no Wood Booger, it's a SAMSQUANCH. You welcome.
🤣😂
Looks like you have a new wood booger, and hopfully for the free world he will be voted out of office.
Lived in Wise County for decades and nobody I have met ever heard of a Woodbooger until the town council started suddenly making noise about it in the early 2000's. I think it's a modern, made up hoax to attract tourists.
Would that be so bad for our small town? Tourist bring money to the pockets our local shops and economy.
I guess lying to strangers for money seems somehow dishonest to me. And pathetic.
@@Jakethehitman73It's because you never lived In Norton then... Also anything like that is made up silly 🙂. Ghosts and monsters aren't real.
Thanks!
You're the best! Your support is GREATLY appreciated!!