What The Cryptid? — Witness File WITNESS INTERVIEW — FILE #0514 INTERNAL — NOT FOR RELEASE Location: Intersection of Marker Road and Old Silt Creek Trail, Harlan’s Creek, WV Witness: Trevor Gillespie, 55 — Handyman Interviewer: Rico Valez DCA Case Reference: DCA-HC-2026-0514 INTERVIEWER: Okay, we are — I am recording, notebook is open, this is Rico Valez, frontline field correspondent, What The Cryptid network, DCA contracted case file DCA-HC-2026-0514, interview date July seventeenth, 2026. Subject is Trevor Gillespie, fifty-five, handyman, Harlan’s Creek, thirteen prior cases on file — WITNESS: Twelve. Thirteen counting this one. INTERVIEWER: Twelve prior cases, this being the thirteenth. Trevor, I need you to walk me through what you saw at Marker Road this morning. Start from the beginning, take your time, don’t skip anything. WITNESS: So I’m coming down Old Silt Creek Trail around quarter to six — early job, Pattersons needed their gutters done before the heat — and I pull over because there’s something in the water. In the creek. Big. Longer than my truck. INTERVIEWER: What part of the creek? How far off the road? WITNESS: Maybe forty feet? It was low tide. [DCA NOTE: Old Silt Creek is a freshwater tributary. It does not have tides. Maximum recorded depth: 4.2 feet.] INTERVIEWER: And what did the creature look like? WITNESS: Long neck. I mean real long. Coming up out of the water maybe — I don’t know — six, seven feet? Small head. Dark, kind of greenish. Humps in the water behind it. INTERVIEWER: How many humps? WITNESS: Three. Maybe four. It...