What The Cryptid? — Witness File WITNESS INTERVIEW — FILE #0542 INTERNAL — NOT FOR RELEASE Location: Hillside Hardware loading dock, rear access, Harlan’s Creek, WVWitness: Casey Pruitt, 19 — Part-time shelf stocker, Hillside Hardware; enrolled remotely, environmental science (Year 1)Interviewer: Rico ValezDCA Case Reference: DCA-HC-2024-0542 INTERVIEWER: Okay. Okay, we are recording. This is Rico Valez, WTC Frontline Field, conducting a witness interview at the rear loading dock of Hillside Hardware, Harlan’s Creek, West Virginia. Time is — hold on — eleven forty-two a.m. Witness is Casey Pruitt, nineteen, part-time employee. Casey, for the record: do you consent to this interview being recorded for the purposes of DCA documentation? WITNESS: Sure. You want to move out of the way of the door though, because we’re getting a pallet of grout in around noon. INTERVIEWER: I will move if the pallet arrives. Casey — you called the WTC tip line at approximately seven fifty-eight a.m. this morning. Can you walk me through the incident in your own words. WITNESS: Yeah. So I was doing the outdoor inventory before open — we do a count of the bagged mulch and the concrete mix, stuff that lives on the dock — and there was something sitting on the third pallet from the left. INTERVIEWER: Something. Can you describe it. WITNESS: It looked like a bird. Mostly. It was about the size of a golden retriever, so not a normal bird, and it didn’t have a beak exactly — more like a face that was trying to decide if it wanted to be a...