SPEARFINGER

**SPEARFINGER** is the 43rd codeword on the CROSSFIRE GAMBIT codeword list and corresponds to the 4 of Clubs, the location is the utlunta sculpture in Cashiers, NC. The Cherokee have two names for the Spearfinger, **ᎤᏢᎾ Ꮤ** (U'tlun'ta or utlvna ta) and **ᏴᎩ ᎤᏩᏑᎧᎵ** (yvgi uwasukahli.)

The codeword SPEARFINGER is written in the So Joana Book on Page 582 along with the codewords NOLAND and NOWARE.

The Noland Creek Trail starts at the Tunnel to Nowhere in Bryson City, North Carolia. A video by YouTuber yankeeinthesouth from November 1, 2018 claims the trail and tunnel are haunted by the Spearfinger and can be heard there in the fall. A second video was uploaded almost a year later by yankeeinthesouth where they revisit the tunnel to nowhere and trails at night, leaving one of the hikers visibly distraught by stories of the Spearfinger. Ricky Macchristen left the comment "CROSSFIRE GAMBIT WHITEALICE" on the video.

The Spearfinger is a figure in Cherokee mythology. Ricky Macchristen used a drawing of the Spearfinger as their channel icon on youtube. The original drawing can be found on deviantart user unclescooter. A mask of the Spearfinger, located at the Cherokee Museum in Cherokee, North Carolina can be seen at the end of the ARTICHOKE film.

a series of stories complied by robert jarrett gives a version of spearfingers story. in it, it mentions that she attmpted to build a bridge between hiawassee (GRAYBEAT) and whiteside mountain (very close to cashiers, where the spearfinger coord is). This is also referenced in wendys twitter post for GRAYBEAT.

The Spearfinger can be found in popular culture in many forms, though almost all mentions of Spearfinger in media seem to have come out after the So Joana Book was published. Stories tying the Spearfinger to the Tunnel to Nowhere seem to be contemporary.

Season 6 of Mountain Monsters premiered August 21, 2019 and the season-long story arc is "The Quest for Spearfinger" This season has many strange parallels to the So Joana Book beyond the focus on Spearfinger. It involves a mysterious book found in the Smoky Mountains, a cloaked figure who shows the cryptid hunting team a series of videos in a red barn. The team continually runs in to Cherokee graffiti. The show is about cryptids and focuses on Spearfinger as a possible cryptid. (remove- irrelevant info)

Season 3 of Wrestling with Ghosts filmed the first episode of the season at Noland Creek Trail, North Carolina and the Tunnel to Nowhere in 2019. The episode focused on Spearfinger as a malevolent spirit and premiered in February of 2020. (remove- irrelevant info)

   The experience convinced the production team, known as Big N Funky Productions to film their first Feature Length motion picture called *The Hike,* which follows a couple of hikers on the Noland Creek Trail, where they encounter the Spearfinger. The movie premiered in 2022. The production company is working on a six part *Smoky Mountain Chronicles* with The Hike being the first installment of the series.

There are some curious parallels to The So Joana Book in the series, with the most obvious being *The Hike*.

The second movie in the series called *WJHC AM* was released on May 3, 2022 and focuses on a radio station in Tennessee during Y2K. Radio antennas are a central theme of the So Joana Book.

The third movie in the series is called Camp Smokey and focuses on a summer camp in the Smoky Mountains. One of the codewords seen in the So Joana Book is CHOSATONGA and is associated with the summer camp of the same name.

The fourth movie in the series is called C.G.M. and is about a robot built at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The coordinates for the radio tower at Oak Ridge, Tennessee are seen on the 10 of Clubs and is associated with the codeword WORMWOOD.

Two other movies are planned, *Rabbitman* and *Webb Creek*.

Two stories on /r/NoSleep are about the Spearfinger in relation to Noland Creek Trail and the Tunnel to Nowhere, they were released within two weeks of each other by two different authors.

The story *The Road to Nowhere* was posted on /r/nosleep on December 29, 2016 by /u/hell-vira. The story is written from the perspective of a Bryson City native of Cherokee descent. This is the oldest story we could find specifically ties the story of the Spearfinger to the Tunnel to Nowhere as opposed to the Noland Creek Trail.

The story *Legends Can't Die as Long as There are People Here to keep it Alive* and makes mention of the Noland Creek Trail, but not the Tunnel to Nowhere.

Most mentions of the Spearfinger in relation to Noland Creek Trail start in 2016 online. There are many other mentions of the story since 2013, but the name of the trail is misidentified as "Norton Creek Trail."