Wild States · behind the channel
It started with two eyes in the dark.
A few years back I strapped a cheap trail camera to a tree behind the house. Nothing serious, just curious what crossed the yard at night. The first card I pulled had a photo I couldn't explain: two bright eyes low to the ground, barely thirty feet from where my kids play, staring straight down the lens. I sat with that picture for a long time.
After that, I couldn't stop looking. More cameras, more nights, more animals that, by every range map I could find, weren't supposed to be there. I started posting the footage, mostly to see if anyone else was seeing the same thing. Turns out a lot of people were, and every clip filled up with the same comment: “wait, that's near me.”
I'm not a biologist. I'm just someone who got obsessed with what's really out there, and spent years reading, asking the people who study it, and comparing notes with folks who live closer to it than I do. These guides are everything I wish I'd known the night I pulled that first card, written plain, so you can be ready instead of caught off guard.
Wild States