Field Notes From The Unknown: Hello, I'm Casey. And I'm Mackenzie. And this is Field Notes from the Unknown, a podcast about your favorite local cryptid.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Hello, you beautiful cryptid woman.
Casey: Hello!
Mackenzie Hrubey: Should I make my hellos to you less intense or do you like the intensity of my love for you?
Casey: No, I love the intensity for your love for me because when you ignore my face times, it makes me feel better.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I am notorious for ignoring phone calls and FaceTimes. I'm notorious. You know I'm a bad texter. I'm bad at technology, I hate it. I I would love your story. Excuse me, by the way, I need to formally apologize to you. Cause you know what I have failed to do? I have failed to tell you how fantastic your hair is. Could you for a moment, for the listeners, take your hair down so we can see the full thing?
Casey: You're I don't think you're gonna be able to really see any much of anything.
Mackenzie Hrubey: my god, it's so cute though!
Casey: Yeah, she did like a little raccoon tail on this side and then everywhere else it's like solid. It looks really really cute. Yeah.
Mackenzie Hrubey: It's so cute. It reminds me of like fall calico. It's super cute!
Casey: And then I wanted my bangs back because it's cold now and my h he forehead won't sweat as much.
Mackenzie Hrubey: You look gorgeous.
Casey: Thanks.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Like the cryptid monster of my dreams.
Casey: Yeah, I really like it. I love it.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. But now, beautiful person, would you please honour us with a story?
Casey: Of course. So today we're gonna be traveling to Georgia to meet
Mackenzie Hrubey: Land of Peaches?
Casey: and I'm again gonna butcher this name. To meet the Alatahamaha.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Alatahamahaha?
Casey: Alatamahama.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Fusa! Remember that thing?
Casey: To mama ha ha.
Mackenzie Hrubey: the hoo hoo blah blah?
Casey: Yeah. Also known as Alti. Altai. Altai? I don't know.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Wha Walty? Cute. Like where's Waldo, but where's Walty?
Casey: Yeah. Or also known as George's Loch Nest Monster.
Mackenzie Hrubey: cool. Where's it at? Is it in the coast or is it in the inlands?
Casey: So there's actually a river called Alatamaha. River. Altamahal. I think that's right.
Mackenzie Hrubey: We sh can meet go? I wanna meet it.
Casey: I I don't know.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I wanna pet it. Can is it petible? Is it
Casey: I don't I don't think. I don't nah you know, I don't know. But I don't think you need to touch every cryptid. I don't
Mackenzie Hrubey: We do absolutely have to. It's for science. It's for science. If I don't pet them, who will, Casey?
Casey: You know, maybe people out there have petted them and they just never came back to tell their story.
Mackenzie Hrubey: And if that is my destiny, so be it. Who am I to stand to stand against destiny?
Casey: Maybe just don't.
Mackenzie Hrubey: You know what we should consider?
Casey: Do you see that cat shadow in my background?
Mackenzie Hrubey: I do. It's cute. It's very cute. We should get rabies vaccines.
Casey: Easter front. Hold on. Why would we get rabies vaccines if we don't have rabies?
Mackenzie Hrubey: For preventative measures.
Casey: I'm not gonna get bit by anything.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I am.
Casey: my god. Can you wait? Can you
Mackenzie Hrubey: And then I spend enough time with you I'm gonna bite you by accident.
Casey: even go to like the doctor and be like, I need my rabies vaccine? Is that one that you can request?
Mackenzie Hrubey: So actually, again, I'm a medical professional. You could go if you ever got bitten by a wild animal that you think has rabies, go to the ER. They're gonna give you rabies shots.
Casey: Okay, see that's the thing. If you if you think you've gotten bitten, but you just can't go and be like, I want my rabies shot and they're like, Why? For bunsies?
Mackenzie Hrubey: You can sometimes in special scenarios. You have to like qualify it. Like you have to be s somebody like if you if your person that like works in like wildlife veterinarians can do that. Like they can go to their doctor y you can order them. They're orderable. Or somebody might send you an order and you go to the ER to get it at an ER, but it depends who
Casey: So
Mackenzie Hrubey: stocks it, but All medicines come from warehouses and anybody that can order from the warehouse could order a baby's vaccination.
Casey: Yeah, yeah, I I hear that, but the thing is, you're not a vet and you haven't been bitten, so there's no way you pre qualify for this medicine.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I mean I feel like I should still get it.
Casey: Have fun talking to your doctor about that.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I'm gonna send my doctor a my chart message. excuse me, could you please put it in order for a rabies vaccination series because I keep trying to pet wild animals. Thank you, Mackenzie.
Casey: And then one of the poor nurses is gonna have to call you tomorrow and
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yes.
Casey: talk further about that message.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yes, and say, Are you okay? Should we be sending you to psychiatric help? Probably. Tell me about the Almahuha.
Casey: Probably. So the The Alamahaha is described as twenty to thirty feet long with a seal-like head, a long neck,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay.
Casey: a pale whitish-yellowish belly, and a horizontal tail with gray, olive green, or even brownish long, smooth scales. allowing it to bend and slither in the murky water.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I have a question. Is it an alligator?
Casey: No.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Is it a big ass alligator? Is it an eel? Is it a really big ass eel. Okay. Alright, alright, alright.
Casey: No. Maybe. Possible. We're not sure yet. Let me continue. The Alum the Alamahaha also even though the head's like a seal-shaped head,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah.
Casey: it also has a long snout with sharp teeth.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Does it bite people
Casey: And
Mackenzie Hrubey: with the sharp teeth?
Casey: We'll find out. And some people that encounter this have also mentioned that it has the head of an alligator. So I don't know if maybe the females just have the seal or the females have the alligator head. It could be something like that. I don't know.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I also thought that alligators lived as far north as Georgia. Am I wrong?
Casey: I have no idea. To be honest, with how weird and wild the exotic animal trade is right now, I think they're everywhere. Everything is everywhere. No. No.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Honestly, yeah. I will not go to Everglades. Won't do it. Heckin nah.
Casey: The creature might seem terrifying, but it actually won't attack you. It's really shy and exclusive like inc inclusive creature. It doesn't want to attack humans. It
Mackenzie Hrubey: I just wanna cuddle it!
Casey: It only wants to attack boats. Doesn't like boats.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Well, what's our little f is it a hippo?
Casey: I don't think it's kinda like the lizard man. He didn't like cars. This one doesn't like boats. Doesn't fuck with him.
Mackenzie Hrubey: No. Yeah. They're part of they're part of Greenpeace.
Casey: Yeah. The legend of the Allah Allah Allah
Mackenzie Hrubey: Alamo.
Casey: I think I've said it like thirteen different times now.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I think so too, and I I l I'm loving this.
Casey: has been around since as early as the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Long before European settl settlers have even arrived. The mm The Musa Nope, we're on a different one.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Alamahuha? no, you're gonna say Native American driver's?
Casey: Yep. I am.
Mackenzie Hrubey: But spell it out for me.
Casey: U S C O G E E.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Musky.
Casey: Muskie nation spoke of a great water serpent that lived and protected the sacred waterways along the rice fields. See? It's a product.
Mackenzie Hrubey: They grow rice in Georgia?
Casey: See, I thought that was weird too, but it said it I do they grow rice in Georg Georgia? I it I
Mackenzie Hrubey: I had no idea. Truly no idea.
Casey: Alexa, do they have rice fields in Georgia? Yep, Georgia's got rice fields, just not the endless swamps you picture. They were a staple in the low
Mackenzie Hrubey: What's the robot woman saying? We can't hear her.
Casey: Alexa stop, thank you. Yes, they do actually have rice fields. Right? And
Mackenzie Hrubey: How
Casey: you can
Mackenzie Hrubey: Is that is it basmani? Is it wild rice? Is it sushi rice? Can I grow sushi rice in my backyard?
Casey: Mm, I don't I mean
Mackenzie Hrubey: Casey, I want a rice patty. I don't I wanna wear the rice patty hats. I feel like we're devolving.
Casey: I know. anyway, I don't know if you can grow rice here. you know what? Just give it a shot. You're gonna put in raised beds. So the thing
Mackenzie Hrubey: I'll I'll update the listener.
Casey: the thing is, you're gonna have what, raised beds? Just get the soil and water it and things how you need it.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I think you're supposed to float rice and like water or something.
Casey: Well I guess it would make sense if it had the water beds.
Mackenzie Hrubey: So the Alamahuha
Casey: I don't Yeah.
Mackenzie Hrubey: eats rice.
Casey: Eats rice?
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah.
Casey: I think she just protects it.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay, all right.
Casey: I don't or just the waterways, I'm not sure. Anyway,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay.
Casey: one of the earliest encounters of this creature was in eighteen thirty on April eighteenth in Savannah, Georgia. Ship Captain Deleno and his crew reported encountering a massive creature near St. Simpson Island. According to the report, the animal measured around seventy feet long.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Wow.
Casey: And the head and the features of that resembled the head of an alligator.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Huh. That sounds like the Gloucester Sea Serpent and all the ones we've seen up and down like the coast.
Casey: Yes, it really does. In nineteen twenty, during Jur and I also I thought this part was weird too while doing this. I'm like, what is going on with Georgia? During Georgia's timber boom, there was a group of loggers working on the banks of the Alatamaha River where where they were floating logs downstream. The loggers reported seeing a 25-foot creature emerging from the water with green-gray skin, three humps, streaming upstream in a dolphin-like motion. The creature was also hissing loudly, causing the loggers to grab their ax, but the creature got away before they could hurt it. So Georgia has
Mackenzie Hrubey: Crazy.
Casey: rice and logging.
Mackenzie Hrubey: It's always loggers. It's always lumberjacks. It's either cannibalism or lumberjacks.
Casey: It always comes down to that. Or cannibalistic lumberjacks.
Mackenzie Hrubey: That's true.
Casey: That is true. In nineteen forty, a Boy Scout troop camping along the Alat Alatmaha River reported seeing a large
Mackenzie Hrubey: Alamohuha.
Casey: Alamaha reported seeing a large shape breaking the surf the surface fifty yards away. The scout n the scoutmaster noticed the whitish belly of this creature. And verified the Boy Scouts encounters and said they weren't making the sighting up. Which is surprising for an adult to back a bunch of Boy Scouts unless he was, you know,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah, that's crazy.
Casey: abusing the boys during this trip and said, I'll do this if you don't tell anybody that
Mackenzie Hrubey: yeah sad pony.
Casey: Let's hope not.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Sad Alamahaha.
Casey: Right. All right. We're going to the fifties now. Two
Mackenzie Hrubey: All right, all right, we're gonna go in our in our time machine and go beep bop beep bop boop vroom fifties.
Casey: In the nineteen fifties, two prison officials from Reidsville State Prison were out on a recreational boat trip when something abruptly broke through the surface of the water, be and they it was about fifteen to twenty feet long,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay.
Casey: with long, rough dark skin and a bony back. The men reached for their rifles, but it hissed and went back down under the water.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay, that sounds like the beast of Busco. Like a really big ass alligator stopping turtle.
Casey: Yeah, I see that's the thing. Did it was the first sighting actually humps or was it just like this bony thing? But the Beast of Busco, this one is long and like a serpent. Not like a Yeah, not round shaped.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. Weird. So it's not round shaped. Yeah.
Casey: Fishermen and river boat captains have been report has have been reporting sightings since the nineteen eighties. One of the most notable accounts, however, comes from two fishermen in the 1980s. When they neared the mouth of the river, they claimed to see a massive snake-like creature with ridges along its back disappearing beneath the water before they could take a picture. Other reports describe seeing a long snake-like creature splashing through the water. When do you think we had our last sighting?
Mackenzie Hrubey: I bet it's modern. I'm gonna say in early two thousands.
Casey: Close. In in twenty eighteen a str
Mackenzie Hrubey: What?
Casey: a strange carcass washed ashore on Wolf's Island and a lot of people said it was the Ha Alamahaha.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Not the Alamahoochie Not our Hoochie Mama
Casey: However, however, this was actually a hoax. And a good one
Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay, thank God.
Casey: at that, I'm not gonna lie.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Other pictures?
Casey: There was one, it wasn't good. But yes. Skeptics say that these encounters are just manatees, large fish, or even floating logs. And that this creature does not exist at all. However, that's a
Mackenzie Hrubey: Are there manatees up in Georgia? That feels wrong.
Casey: that's another thing. Like what is going on? I don't think there are manatees in Georgia, right?
Mackenzie Hrubey: I don't think so. Also, I found that picture and it it looks so sad.
Casey: I know.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Poor little baby.
Casey: I know. Even if these skeptics don't believe, cryptozoologists have noted over fifty documented cases since eighteen thirty. With peaks right. I know
Mackenzie Hrubey: That's a lot. That's that's i again, it reminds me a lot of like the other Caesar buttons we've we've talked about.
Casey: with peak sightings in nineteen twenty, nineteen forty, nineteen fifty, nineteen sixty, nineteen eighty, and even the early two thousands.
Mackenzie Hrubey: So that would point to having a consistent population of reproducing
Casey: Right?
Mackenzie Hrubey: creatures, you know?
Casey: Exactly.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah.
Casey: So What are your thoughts on the Alamahaha?
Mackenzie Hrubey: I love the Alama Hoochie. I think she's marvelous. And I love that she eats rice and I want to go ride her beautiful scaly humpbacks.
Casey: I don't know if she would like that. I don't
Mackenzie Hrubey: Only if she consents.
Casey: When I was writing this, I was thinking about the Anaconda movie the whole time.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. Well did you hear about that one guy? He's like adventuring into like the Congo to go like try to find the Congo River monsters.
Casey: Just leave them alone. Just leave them alone.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Just fucking leave them alone. We'll probably go there one of these days, but I feel like we're going through all the American US cryptids, which takes a a long time. So we'll see when we get out to some of the They have some wild crap out there. also like Indonesia full of crazy shit. Yeah. But
Casey: yeah, Australia has some wild things that I would like to Yeah. Yeah. So
Mackenzie Hrubey: I loved the Alamahochi.
Casey: If you would like to venture down there, there is a festival and local exhibits that keep the story alive.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Cool.
Casey: And the Alamahaha has also made media appearances in Monsters and Mysteries of America. In America. Right? Yes.
Mackenzie Hrubey: that's awesome. I have a question. Does the Alta Mahuchi have a song?
Casey: Not that I've found.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Should we write her one?
Casey: Are you gonna sing? Are you gonna start singing again? You
Mackenzie Hrubey: I was thinking about it. I was thinking about it. Should I?
Casey: you haven't s sung on the podcast lately. you have a beautiful voice. You can sing if you would like.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Thank you. down in Yon Georgia, floating down that black water, the Altamahacha, our beautiful mistress of the moonlight, sea serpent, river monster girl.
Casey: That's actually really good. I think that should
Mackenzie Hrubey: You liked it? Thank you.
Casey: be our intro song now.
Mackenzie Hrubey: You you you do what you feel.
Casey: I like that. shit, I might. I might
Mackenzie Hrubey: Maybe the thing we should do as like our first like our thing that we make is like a mixtape of cryptid songs. That would be great.
Casey: I think that would be great. I love that. Who wouldn't want that?
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. Listeners write in for your cryptid song requests.
Casey: Yeah, what do you want us to hear? What do you want Mackenzie to sing about? Because I'm not singing. I can't sing.
Mackenzie Hrubey: She can sing, she can hum. I hear she picks a mean banjo.
Casey: I'll yeah, I'll make breakfast. Yeah, I bet. all right, listeners. It's another short one this week. But you know what? Everyone deserves their time. Yes? Mackenzie.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Excuse me, Casey, we have not done oblivability scale.
Casey: my gosh. What is your believability scale? Mackenzie?
Mackenzie Hrubey: You know what? She's a four. Cause you know, I freaking believe all these goddamn cryptids that are swimming up in these rivers and damn dare like seaside things, there's something to it. And either it's an alligator, like a massive thirty foot alligator, or it's one of these big ass like eel things living around and floating up in things. So I think she's totally real. Yeah.
Casey: There's something down there. I give her a four two. And I you know what? And obviously she's a timid one. She doesn't want to be bothered. She just wants your boat off her water
Mackenzie Hrubey: She wants some space.
Casey: ways.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah, we're all entitled to having some space sometimes. That's
Casey: Exactly.
Mackenzie Hrubey: okay. Let nature be.
Casey: For real. That's why, Mackenzie,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah.
Casey: you shouldn't go pet wild animals.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Unless she consents.
Casey: Biting is not a c form of consent, just so you know.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Listeners, please tell us your believability scale,
Casey: Yeah.
Mackenzie Hrubey: and also tune back in next week to see if I have or have not gotten a rabieshot.
Casey: Yeah, yeah. Let us know what you think. Will Mackenzie actually have rabies on the next episode? It's a possibility.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Water.
Casey: But all right, guys. That is it for us. We will see you back next week with another cryptid. Alright.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Fun fantastic cryptid.
Casey: yeah, and you know where to find us. Facebook, Instagram,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah.
Casey: all the things at Field Notes from the Unknown. And yeah. Alright, guys. Bye.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Thank you, bye.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Hello, you beautiful cryptid woman.
Casey: Hello!
Mackenzie Hrubey: Should I make my hellos to you less intense or do you like the intensity of my love for you?
Casey: No, I love the intensity for your love for me because when you ignore my face times, it makes me feel better.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I am notorious for ignoring phone calls and FaceTimes. I'm notorious. You know I'm a bad texter. I'm bad at technology, I hate it. I I would love your story. Excuse me, by the way, I need to formally apologize to you. Cause you know what I have failed to do? I have failed to tell you how fantastic your hair is. Could you for a moment, for the listeners, take your hair down so we can see the full thing?
Casey: You're I don't think you're gonna be able to really see any much of anything.
Mackenzie Hrubey: my god, it's so cute though!
Casey: Yeah, she did like a little raccoon tail on this side and then everywhere else it's like solid. It looks really really cute. Yeah.
Mackenzie Hrubey: It's so cute. It reminds me of like fall calico. It's super cute!
Casey: And then I wanted my bangs back because it's cold now and my h he forehead won't sweat as much.
Mackenzie Hrubey: You look gorgeous.
Casey: Thanks.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Like the cryptid monster of my dreams.
Casey: Yeah, I really like it. I love it.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. But now, beautiful person, would you please honour us with a story?
Casey: Of course. So today we're gonna be traveling to Georgia to meet
Mackenzie Hrubey: Land of Peaches?
Casey: and I'm again gonna butcher this name. To meet the Alatahamaha.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Alatahamahaha?
Casey: Alatamahama.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Fusa! Remember that thing?
Casey: To mama ha ha.
Mackenzie Hrubey: the hoo hoo blah blah?
Casey: Yeah. Also known as Alti. Altai. Altai? I don't know.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Wha Walty? Cute. Like where's Waldo, but where's Walty?
Casey: Yeah. Or also known as George's Loch Nest Monster.
Mackenzie Hrubey: cool. Where's it at? Is it in the coast or is it in the inlands?
Casey: So there's actually a river called Alatamaha. River. Altamahal. I think that's right.
Mackenzie Hrubey: We sh can meet go? I wanna meet it.
Casey: I I don't know.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I wanna pet it. Can is it petible? Is it
Casey: I don't I don't think. I don't nah you know, I don't know. But I don't think you need to touch every cryptid. I don't
Mackenzie Hrubey: We do absolutely have to. It's for science. It's for science. If I don't pet them, who will, Casey?
Casey: You know, maybe people out there have petted them and they just never came back to tell their story.
Mackenzie Hrubey: And if that is my destiny, so be it. Who am I to stand to stand against destiny?
Casey: Maybe just don't.
Mackenzie Hrubey: You know what we should consider?
Casey: Do you see that cat shadow in my background?
Mackenzie Hrubey: I do. It's cute. It's very cute. We should get rabies vaccines.
Casey: Easter front. Hold on. Why would we get rabies vaccines if we don't have rabies?
Mackenzie Hrubey: For preventative measures.
Casey: I'm not gonna get bit by anything.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I am.
Casey: my god. Can you wait? Can you
Mackenzie Hrubey: And then I spend enough time with you I'm gonna bite you by accident.
Casey: even go to like the doctor and be like, I need my rabies vaccine? Is that one that you can request?
Mackenzie Hrubey: So actually, again, I'm a medical professional. You could go if you ever got bitten by a wild animal that you think has rabies, go to the ER. They're gonna give you rabies shots.
Casey: Okay, see that's the thing. If you if you think you've gotten bitten, but you just can't go and be like, I want my rabies shot and they're like, Why? For bunsies?
Mackenzie Hrubey: You can sometimes in special scenarios. You have to like qualify it. Like you have to be s somebody like if you if your person that like works in like wildlife veterinarians can do that. Like they can go to their doctor y you can order them. They're orderable. Or somebody might send you an order and you go to the ER to get it at an ER, but it depends who
Casey: So
Mackenzie Hrubey: stocks it, but All medicines come from warehouses and anybody that can order from the warehouse could order a baby's vaccination.
Casey: Yeah, yeah, I I hear that, but the thing is, you're not a vet and you haven't been bitten, so there's no way you pre qualify for this medicine.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I mean I feel like I should still get it.
Casey: Have fun talking to your doctor about that.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I'm gonna send my doctor a my chart message. excuse me, could you please put it in order for a rabies vaccination series because I keep trying to pet wild animals. Thank you, Mackenzie.
Casey: And then one of the poor nurses is gonna have to call you tomorrow and
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yes.
Casey: talk further about that message.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yes, and say, Are you okay? Should we be sending you to psychiatric help? Probably. Tell me about the Almahuha.
Casey: Probably. So the The Alamahaha is described as twenty to thirty feet long with a seal-like head, a long neck,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay.
Casey: a pale whitish-yellowish belly, and a horizontal tail with gray, olive green, or even brownish long, smooth scales. allowing it to bend and slither in the murky water.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I have a question. Is it an alligator?
Casey: No.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Is it a big ass alligator? Is it an eel? Is it a really big ass eel. Okay. Alright, alright, alright.
Casey: No. Maybe. Possible. We're not sure yet. Let me continue. The Alum the Alamahaha also even though the head's like a seal-shaped head,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah.
Casey: it also has a long snout with sharp teeth.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Does it bite people
Casey: And
Mackenzie Hrubey: with the sharp teeth?
Casey: We'll find out. And some people that encounter this have also mentioned that it has the head of an alligator. So I don't know if maybe the females just have the seal or the females have the alligator head. It could be something like that. I don't know.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I also thought that alligators lived as far north as Georgia. Am I wrong?
Casey: I have no idea. To be honest, with how weird and wild the exotic animal trade is right now, I think they're everywhere. Everything is everywhere. No. No.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Honestly, yeah. I will not go to Everglades. Won't do it. Heckin nah.
Casey: The creature might seem terrifying, but it actually won't attack you. It's really shy and exclusive like inc inclusive creature. It doesn't want to attack humans. It
Mackenzie Hrubey: I just wanna cuddle it!
Casey: It only wants to attack boats. Doesn't like boats.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Well, what's our little f is it a hippo?
Casey: I don't think it's kinda like the lizard man. He didn't like cars. This one doesn't like boats. Doesn't fuck with him.
Mackenzie Hrubey: No. Yeah. They're part of they're part of Greenpeace.
Casey: Yeah. The legend of the Allah Allah Allah
Mackenzie Hrubey: Alamo.
Casey: I think I've said it like thirteen different times now.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I think so too, and I I l I'm loving this.
Casey: has been around since as early as the eighteenth and nineteenth century. Long before European settl settlers have even arrived. The mm The Musa Nope, we're on a different one.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Alamahuha? no, you're gonna say Native American driver's?
Casey: Yep. I am.
Mackenzie Hrubey: But spell it out for me.
Casey: U S C O G E E.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Musky.
Casey: Muskie nation spoke of a great water serpent that lived and protected the sacred waterways along the rice fields. See? It's a product.
Mackenzie Hrubey: They grow rice in Georgia?
Casey: See, I thought that was weird too, but it said it I do they grow rice in Georg Georgia? I it I
Mackenzie Hrubey: I had no idea. Truly no idea.
Casey: Alexa, do they have rice fields in Georgia? Yep, Georgia's got rice fields, just not the endless swamps you picture. They were a staple in the low
Mackenzie Hrubey: What's the robot woman saying? We can't hear her.
Casey: Alexa stop, thank you. Yes, they do actually have rice fields. Right? And
Mackenzie Hrubey: How
Casey: you can
Mackenzie Hrubey: Is that is it basmani? Is it wild rice? Is it sushi rice? Can I grow sushi rice in my backyard?
Casey: Mm, I don't I mean
Mackenzie Hrubey: Casey, I want a rice patty. I don't I wanna wear the rice patty hats. I feel like we're devolving.
Casey: I know. anyway, I don't know if you can grow rice here. you know what? Just give it a shot. You're gonna put in raised beds. So the thing
Mackenzie Hrubey: I'll I'll update the listener.
Casey: the thing is, you're gonna have what, raised beds? Just get the soil and water it and things how you need it.
Mackenzie Hrubey: I think you're supposed to float rice and like water or something.
Casey: Well I guess it would make sense if it had the water beds.
Mackenzie Hrubey: So the Alamahuha
Casey: I don't Yeah.
Mackenzie Hrubey: eats rice.
Casey: Eats rice?
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah.
Casey: I think she just protects it.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay, all right.
Casey: I don't or just the waterways, I'm not sure. Anyway,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay.
Casey: one of the earliest encounters of this creature was in eighteen thirty on April eighteenth in Savannah, Georgia. Ship Captain Deleno and his crew reported encountering a massive creature near St. Simpson Island. According to the report, the animal measured around seventy feet long.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Wow.
Casey: And the head and the features of that resembled the head of an alligator.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Huh. That sounds like the Gloucester Sea Serpent and all the ones we've seen up and down like the coast.
Casey: Yes, it really does. In nineteen twenty, during Jur and I also I thought this part was weird too while doing this. I'm like, what is going on with Georgia? During Georgia's timber boom, there was a group of loggers working on the banks of the Alatamaha River where where they were floating logs downstream. The loggers reported seeing a 25-foot creature emerging from the water with green-gray skin, three humps, streaming upstream in a dolphin-like motion. The creature was also hissing loudly, causing the loggers to grab their ax, but the creature got away before they could hurt it. So Georgia has
Mackenzie Hrubey: Crazy.
Casey: rice and logging.
Mackenzie Hrubey: It's always loggers. It's always lumberjacks. It's either cannibalism or lumberjacks.
Casey: It always comes down to that. Or cannibalistic lumberjacks.
Mackenzie Hrubey: That's true.
Casey: That is true. In nineteen forty, a Boy Scout troop camping along the Alat Alatmaha River reported seeing a large
Mackenzie Hrubey: Alamohuha.
Casey: Alamaha reported seeing a large shape breaking the surf the surface fifty yards away. The scout n the scoutmaster noticed the whitish belly of this creature. And verified the Boy Scouts encounters and said they weren't making the sighting up. Which is surprising for an adult to back a bunch of Boy Scouts unless he was, you know,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah, that's crazy.
Casey: abusing the boys during this trip and said, I'll do this if you don't tell anybody that
Mackenzie Hrubey: yeah sad pony.
Casey: Let's hope not.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Sad Alamahaha.
Casey: Right. All right. We're going to the fifties now. Two
Mackenzie Hrubey: All right, all right, we're gonna go in our in our time machine and go beep bop beep bop boop vroom fifties.
Casey: In the nineteen fifties, two prison officials from Reidsville State Prison were out on a recreational boat trip when something abruptly broke through the surface of the water, be and they it was about fifteen to twenty feet long,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay.
Casey: with long, rough dark skin and a bony back. The men reached for their rifles, but it hissed and went back down under the water.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay, that sounds like the beast of Busco. Like a really big ass alligator stopping turtle.
Casey: Yeah, I see that's the thing. Did it was the first sighting actually humps or was it just like this bony thing? But the Beast of Busco, this one is long and like a serpent. Not like a Yeah, not round shaped.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. Weird. So it's not round shaped. Yeah.
Casey: Fishermen and river boat captains have been report has have been reporting sightings since the nineteen eighties. One of the most notable accounts, however, comes from two fishermen in the 1980s. When they neared the mouth of the river, they claimed to see a massive snake-like creature with ridges along its back disappearing beneath the water before they could take a picture. Other reports describe seeing a long snake-like creature splashing through the water. When do you think we had our last sighting?
Mackenzie Hrubey: I bet it's modern. I'm gonna say in early two thousands.
Casey: Close. In in twenty eighteen a str
Mackenzie Hrubey: What?
Casey: a strange carcass washed ashore on Wolf's Island and a lot of people said it was the Ha Alamahaha.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Not the Alamahoochie Not our Hoochie Mama
Casey: However, however, this was actually a hoax. And a good one
Mackenzie Hrubey: Okay, thank God.
Casey: at that, I'm not gonna lie.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Other pictures?
Casey: There was one, it wasn't good. But yes. Skeptics say that these encounters are just manatees, large fish, or even floating logs. And that this creature does not exist at all. However, that's a
Mackenzie Hrubey: Are there manatees up in Georgia? That feels wrong.
Casey: that's another thing. Like what is going on? I don't think there are manatees in Georgia, right?
Mackenzie Hrubey: I don't think so. Also, I found that picture and it it looks so sad.
Casey: I know.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Poor little baby.
Casey: I know. Even if these skeptics don't believe, cryptozoologists have noted over fifty documented cases since eighteen thirty. With peaks right. I know
Mackenzie Hrubey: That's a lot. That's that's i again, it reminds me a lot of like the other Caesar buttons we've we've talked about.
Casey: with peak sightings in nineteen twenty, nineteen forty, nineteen fifty, nineteen sixty, nineteen eighty, and even the early two thousands.
Mackenzie Hrubey: So that would point to having a consistent population of reproducing
Casey: Right?
Mackenzie Hrubey: creatures, you know?
Casey: Exactly.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah.
Casey: So What are your thoughts on the Alamahaha?
Mackenzie Hrubey: I love the Alama Hoochie. I think she's marvelous. And I love that she eats rice and I want to go ride her beautiful scaly humpbacks.
Casey: I don't know if she would like that. I don't
Mackenzie Hrubey: Only if she consents.
Casey: When I was writing this, I was thinking about the Anaconda movie the whole time.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. Well did you hear about that one guy? He's like adventuring into like the Congo to go like try to find the Congo River monsters.
Casey: Just leave them alone. Just leave them alone.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Just fucking leave them alone. We'll probably go there one of these days, but I feel like we're going through all the American US cryptids, which takes a a long time. So we'll see when we get out to some of the They have some wild crap out there. also like Indonesia full of crazy shit. Yeah. But
Casey: yeah, Australia has some wild things that I would like to Yeah. Yeah. So
Mackenzie Hrubey: I loved the Alamahochi.
Casey: If you would like to venture down there, there is a festival and local exhibits that keep the story alive.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Cool.
Casey: And the Alamahaha has also made media appearances in Monsters and Mysteries of America. In America. Right? Yes.
Mackenzie Hrubey: that's awesome. I have a question. Does the Alta Mahuchi have a song?
Casey: Not that I've found.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Should we write her one?
Casey: Are you gonna sing? Are you gonna start singing again? You
Mackenzie Hrubey: I was thinking about it. I was thinking about it. Should I?
Casey: you haven't s sung on the podcast lately. you have a beautiful voice. You can sing if you would like.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Thank you. down in Yon Georgia, floating down that black water, the Altamahacha, our beautiful mistress of the moonlight, sea serpent, river monster girl.
Casey: That's actually really good. I think that should
Mackenzie Hrubey: You liked it? Thank you.
Casey: be our intro song now.
Mackenzie Hrubey: You you you do what you feel.
Casey: I like that. shit, I might. I might
Mackenzie Hrubey: Maybe the thing we should do as like our first like our thing that we make is like a mixtape of cryptid songs. That would be great.
Casey: I think that would be great. I love that. Who wouldn't want that?
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah. Listeners write in for your cryptid song requests.
Casey: Yeah, what do you want us to hear? What do you want Mackenzie to sing about? Because I'm not singing. I can't sing.
Mackenzie Hrubey: She can sing, she can hum. I hear she picks a mean banjo.
Casey: I'll yeah, I'll make breakfast. Yeah, I bet. all right, listeners. It's another short one this week. But you know what? Everyone deserves their time. Yes? Mackenzie.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Excuse me, Casey, we have not done oblivability scale.
Casey: my gosh. What is your believability scale? Mackenzie?
Mackenzie Hrubey: You know what? She's a four. Cause you know, I freaking believe all these goddamn cryptids that are swimming up in these rivers and damn dare like seaside things, there's something to it. And either it's an alligator, like a massive thirty foot alligator, or it's one of these big ass like eel things living around and floating up in things. So I think she's totally real. Yeah.
Casey: There's something down there. I give her a four two. And I you know what? And obviously she's a timid one. She doesn't want to be bothered. She just wants your boat off her water
Mackenzie Hrubey: She wants some space.
Casey: ways.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah, we're all entitled to having some space sometimes. That's
Casey: Exactly.
Mackenzie Hrubey: okay. Let nature be.
Casey: For real. That's why, Mackenzie,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah.
Casey: you shouldn't go pet wild animals.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Unless she consents.
Casey: Biting is not a c form of consent, just so you know.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Listeners, please tell us your believability scale,
Casey: Yeah.
Mackenzie Hrubey: and also tune back in next week to see if I have or have not gotten a rabieshot.
Casey: Yeah, yeah. Let us know what you think. Will Mackenzie actually have rabies on the next episode? It's a possibility.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Water.
Casey: But all right, guys. That is it for us. We will see you back next week with another cryptid. Alright.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Fun fantastic cryptid.
Casey: yeah, and you know where to find us. Facebook, Instagram,
Mackenzie Hrubey: Yeah.
Casey: all the things at Field Notes from the Unknown. And yeah. Alright, guys. Bye.
Mackenzie Hrubey: Thank you, bye.
