Appalachian Humor

Appalachian Hunting & Wildlife Humor

Trail-camera rivalries, suspicious animal sightings and hunters with elaborate plans. Read original West Virginia hunting humor and wildlife satire inspired by life in the woods and the stories told afterward.

A fictional West Virginia resident zombie hunting license from The Holler Herald.
Outdoors · Satire

West Virginia DNR Announces First Official Zombie Hunting Season

Hunters must purchase a special undead stamp, wear blaze orange and stop claiming every movement in the brush was “definitely a zombie.”

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Local Hunter Checks Trail Camera, Discovers Deer Have More Consistent Schedule Than He Does
Outdoors · Satire

Local Hunter Checks Trail Camera, Discovers Deer Have More Consistent Schedule Than He Does

Buck arrives at 6:12 every morning; hunter arrives whenever he finds his gloves.

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Local Zombie Gives Up After Failing to Find Brains in Facebook Comments
Local · Satire

Local Zombie Gives Up After Failing to Find Brains in Facebook Comments

Patient Zero spends afternoon hungry, somehow joins argument about a black panther.

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Local Hunter Declares Woods “Completely Dead” After Alerting Everything Within Two Miles of His Arrival
Outdoors · Satire

Local Hunter Declares Woods “Completely Dead” After Alerting Everything Within Two Miles of His Arrival

“I got in there real quiet,” says man whose thermos is still rolling downhill.

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The Holler Herald Bigfoot cryptid identification card No. 001, featuring identification tips and a warning not to lend him your side-by-side.
Outdoors · Satire

Bigfoot Identification Advisory Issued After Cooler Disappearances

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West Virginia Hunter Photographs Bigfoot, Still Sees No Deer
Outdoors · Satire

West Virginia Hunter Photographs Bigfoot, Still Sees No Deer

“Apparently everything in these woods can walk past my blind except an eight-point.”

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Bigfoot Sightings Drop 94% After Local Man’s Facebook Account Gets Suspended
Outdoors · Satire

Bigfoot Sightings Drop 94% After Local Man’s Facebook Account Gets Suspended

Investigators discover the creature’s migration pattern closely followed one man’s days off.

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A frustrated hunter checks his phone beside a nighttime trail-camera image of an eight-point buck beneath an empty stand.
Outdoors · Satire

Local Hunter Checks Trail Camera 86 Times, Concludes Deer Need to Spend Less Time on His Property at Night

“They know when I’m at work,” says man who has provided deer with his complete schedule.

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Local Man Fills First Tag of Season Without Ever Leaving Truck
Outdoors · Satire

Local Man Fills First Tag of Season Without Ever Leaving Truck

Hunter credits years of preparation, careful scouting and one extremely unfortunate stretch of highway.

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A hunter arranging lucky equipment at a West Virginia deer camp
Outdoors · Satire

West Virginia Hunting Superstitions Nobody Admits They Believe

The lucky hat cannot be washed, the seat cannot be changed and mentioning the big buck before daylight is forbidden.

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An unmarked semi-trailer unloads coyotes on a foggy West Virginia mountain road at night beside crates labeled Definitely Not Coyotes.
Outdoors · Satire

DNR Admits Insurance Companies Paid to Have Coyotes Trucked Into West Virginia Under Cover of Darkness

Officials confirm the animals arrived in an unmarked tractor-trailer carrying 600 coyotes, two folding chairs and a handwritten invoice marked ‘deer control.’

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A large blurry moth close to an infrared trail-camera lens creates the illusion of a mysterious animal in a West Virginia forest
Outdoors · Satire

Dale’s Trail-Camera Evidence of the Week: Mysterious Animal Identified as 600-Pound Elk

Wildlife officials say the creature was actually a moth standing approximately six inches from the camera.

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Mysterious Appalachian animals in a Holler Herald wildlife graphic
Outdoors · Satire

A Complete Guide to Animals West Virginians Swear They Saw

From black panthers to coyotes the size of refrigerators, Dale reviews the wildlife that disappears whenever a camera focuses.

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A West Virginia hunter in a tree stand receives a breakfast delivery beside a muddy car in the autumn woods
Outdoors · Satire

West Virginia Hunter Runs Out of Snacks by 9 A.M., Has Tudor’s Delivered Directly to Tree Stand

Delivery driver reportedly followed tire tracks two miles into the woods before texting, ‘I’m beside a muddy four-wheeler and three identical oak trees.’

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An over-equipped hunter watches a relaxed whitetail buck eating beside a rural discount-store drainage ditch.
Outdoors · Satire

Hunter Spends $8,000 to Outsmart Deer That Regularly Crosses Road in Front of Dollar General

Dale investigates the increasingly advanced equipment required to pursue an animal routinely seen eating beside a drainage ditch.

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A whitetail buck seeks privacy from a hunter repeatedly checking a trail camera
Outdoors · Satire

Local Deer Files Restraining Order Against Man Who Has Checked Same Trail Camera 14 Times Today

Court documents allege the hunter also maintains 37,000 photographs of the deer and has already named him “Big Eight.”

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Trail-camera style Holler Herald report about Midnight, a black house cat mistaken for a panther
Outdoors · Satire

BREAKING: Black Panther Sighting Sends Rural West Virginia Community Into Full-Blown Panic

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