Heather Thomas
speaker
1,616 appearances
7 recordings
2 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 31 Aug
Heather Thomas’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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These were soft, rolling mountains covered in trees and foliage.
Streams drained into the Hudson from various springs and ponds.
We ran into people casually walking on the trails.
I was certain this was going to be another chase, with nothing to show for it.
The first night we camped at a lean-to, and we were not far out into the wilderness.
I would assume any cryptid would not be far off the path, but Carl usually had some kind of plan, whether it was knocking sticks together hoping to summon a Bigfoot, or using a Ouija board to talk to spirits.
I asked him about the story of these so-called gnomes, and he explained that Henry Hudson, on his expedition to find the Northwest Passage, came through the Hudson River.
During that time, he encountered these small, bearded, pig-eyed creatures who had forges and magical ale.
These gnomes were part of the myth of the disappearance of Henry Hudson and his crew after a mutiny.
He believed that these weren't European gnomes out here, but what some natives called Pukwudgie, a goblin-like creature that lurked in deep forest regions and caused problems before disappearing.
The Aphotic Archive called them a forgotten race.
Of course, he wanted to capture one on film and documented our entire journey.
And I had to be the face of this.
So he pointed the camera at me and gave me his little script.
Hello everyone, I said facing his camera.
Today is the first foray into the Catskills, looking for the mysterious Catskill gnomes, or what we believe to be possible Pukwudgie.
We are deep in the wilderness and so far have had no sightings, but we won't relent until we have captured one of these creatures on film.
I thought it was kind of cheesy, but his followers seemed to like it.
He wanted to give a lo-fi, authentic feeling to his adventures and wanted to ensure his audience that there was no faking, no AI, or any other nonsense.
We go to sleep, listening to the sounds of the woods and peepers in the distance.
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