What The Cryptid? — Witness File WITNESS INTERVIEW — FILE #0515 INTERNAL — NOT FOR RELEASE Location: Hutchins Residence, 14 Copperhead Lane, Harlan’s Creek, WV Witness: Barry Hutchins, 62 — Retired Interviewer: Penny Hart DCA Case Reference: DCA-HC-2026-0515 [Interview conducted on-site at witness’s kitchen table. Recorder placed near fruit bowl. Witness has prepared a hand-drawn diagram in advance, laminated.] INTERVIEWER: Okay! So, Barry — forty-seven filed reports, and here we are at number forty-eight. I just want to say, on behalf of WTC, that kind of commitment to documentation is genuinely something. Okay. Walk me through it. WITNESS: Thursday morning. Early. Before the light got going. I was out back checking my tomatoes — I’ve got eleven plants this year, heritage varieties — and I noticed the bird feeders had gone quiet. INTERVIEWER: The bird feeders went quiet. And that struck you as significant. WITNESS: Every single time, Penny. That is always how it starts. [DCA NOTE: Witness is on a first-name basis with this interviewer. Previous transcripts reflect the same familiarity with three prior WTC correspondents.] WITNESS: So I looked up, and there it was. Standing at the edge of my property, right where the yard meets the old fence line. Six feet tall, at least. Maybe seven. INTERVIEWER: Can you describe it? WITNESS: Brown. Very brown. Covered in what I can only describe as fur, except for the face, which was — and I want to be precise here — like a possum, but longer. Dignified, almost. INTERVIEWER: Dignified. WITNESS: It had a bearing to it. You could...