The group here started some field trips in the area in March 2005. We have recorded alot of sounds from whistles to knocking. Here is a link to a sighting report filed recently.

<http://www.texasbigfoot.com/Alabama1.html>

I am working on setting up a web page to post more of the local recordings. Here is a cut from two different nights of what sounds to me like Bigfoot saying something like he-toe and the other cut ..as it was knocking on what I believe was a metal fence post..you hear something that sounds like he-ta he-ta ho ho.


<http://members.isp.com/bigfoot@isp.com/SOUTHALABAMATALK.mp3>


Are there others here in South Alabama?
Would like to hear from you and your sightings/recordings.

Mike

...COOL!!!...

(with apologies to Mr. Green...)"Please keep us posted..."

hi researchers that some great new alabama sasquatch info. please keep us here updated. bill green

NICE!

Thanks for the info, seems to be a lot of reports and encounters coming form South AL and GA lately.

Here's the first report I worked when I got on board with the BFRO.

http://bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=4743

The area has a long history of bigfoot sightings and it was also the area that was featured on OLN's Mysterious Encounters, Alabama episode.

I didn't know that was your first report to investigate Fish. That one always gives me the shivering willies when I read it. The way the kid describes the sounds and the breathing, and then seeing it on all 4's before it stands upright....freaks me totally out!

hehehe...freaked his ass totally out too.

Funny you should mention the Alabama wild-man. I recently talked to a young man who said his friends see them on a regular bases. Funny because hes into that rap culture (hes black) and its very rare for somebody like that to be talking about bigfoot. When I was driving through Alabama I was amazed at how thick and dense the forest were. The whole state is like this and with it being a coastal state with plenty of water its the perfect habitat for these wild-men.

Ya, there are lot of forest, lakes, rivers and mountain land in AL. You can drive on the interstate and not see another car for miles at a time. Next to GA I love AL.

Here is a link to a new site doing research in Alabama.


<http://members.isp.com/bigfoot@isp.com/>

Every time I read that report I get a mental image of that limb swinging back and knocking the second kid down, "and damn near out." That just makes me laugh right out loud even though I'm sure there wasn't anything funny to them about it at the time.

It'd be my luck, I'm the one that would get whacked in the head with the limb, knocked cold and the bigfoot would get me.








Course, as my husband would say, he'd turn me loose at daylight.

This reminds me of an incident in about 82 when I went with a co-worker to visit one of his uncles. I remember going into LA and parking under the Achaphalia bridge (spelling) and waiting for a small bass boat to arrive. When it did we got in it and we paddled that boat for almost two hours into the dencest swampiest forest I had ever seen up to that time. We finaly got to the "house" which was nothing more than a one-room shack on a very small island about 40 by 30 feet and about six feel above the water line. I was sure glad I followed my co-workers advice to bring two gallons of water and plenty of canned soup and a spoon.

But the point of this story is this, we were so far back that you could not hear any sounds of civilization and at night it would be noisy then just as quickly get very silent. Almost like you had went deaf and if you did not hear your own breath and even your own hear beating, you would think you were in fact deaf.

Now these type places are prime for cryptoids to exist. I often wondered since that time what lived in those places. Then traveling through AL in later years, I thought how much unexplored land or just simply un-popupulated and un-developed (Yes, I love undeveloped land) existed from east Texas all the way east to Georgia. That is a lot of land in which most anything or anyone could hide out and live off the land indefinently without any fear of being discovered. I have often though how easy it would be for a man to vanish into such a place and never need for anything. So why could not a cryptoid exist there also?

From Carlton, which is just a spot on the road itself, to the oil fields that are in the lower southern tip of Clarke county, there is only a dirt road about 36 miles long. There are a few hunting camps, but for most part, river swamps, creeks, ponds, lakes and some of the wildest places you can find in the state.
Think about it. If something wants to hide, it would have no problem in those woods.
One oil field worker told me they saw Black Panthers, wild hogs, deer and all other wildlife several times going in and out from down there.
There is really on telling what is in those woods that we don't know about.

Mike

I lived in Alabama near Tuscaloosa for a year when I was young, and you can't underestimate how rural it remains, and how many acres and acres of forest and farmland cover the state. I live closer to northern Alabama now, and every year someone goes missing in the Little River Canyon area in the northern part of the state:

http://www.nps.gov/liri/home/home.htm

When you consider how remote and rural Little River Canyon is, and the fact that north of there more wilderness goes on for hundreds of miles up through the Cumberland Plateau of Tennessee, it isn't that incredible to suppose that even something as large as bigfoot could be hiding out there.

And of course, all the southeastern states have forests that are like jungles during the summer months on into the fall. Anything could be hiding there.

Been a long time since I've been to the Ft Payne area. Beautiful country up there.


Mike

My family and I visit Little River Canyon area all the time. It is a beautiful area with waterfalls and streams to wade in. I was not aware of the people missing from that area, but it would not be difficult to be lost in that part of the woods. Lookout restaurant on the mountain not far from Liver River Canyon has the best-marinated stake ya ever tasted. If you in the area ya got to try one.

This area would certainly be prime bigfoot territory. I’ve looked into places that I just knew should have BF activity and was dissapointed to not find any evidence. I wish we could pin point what attract a BF to an area. It takes more than just food, water and shelter, but what?

NW Alabama native here.... How bout the folks that have gone missing in the area north of Carbon Hill? There were several locally, but fairly well publicized cases in the 80's and 90's: A doctor's wife from Huntsville travelling to visit her sister in Tuscaloosa. A nurse travelling from Jasper (I think) to Tuscaloosa. The businessman that was flying from Tuscaloosa to Nashville (?) whose plane went down and he apparently survived the crash relatively unscathed, but was never found. The female student travelling the backroads from up on Sand Mtn back to the U of A in Tuscaloosa. In all these cases, the vehicles were found, but not the bodies.

I've got a friend in law enforcement that has been involved in some of these investigations that said that they found a hobo jungle out north of Carbon Hill and they suspected that someone there was connected to some of the disappearances, but he said that their investigation found that there had been one or two "regulars" going missing from that camp for several years. He has become a strong believer in BF after being involved in these investigations, but he won't discuss the evidence they have found.

This is the same area where Hawk Spearman and Rick Vereen had a hair raising encounter with a couple of hostile BF. Bankhead National Forest and the Sipsey Wilderness Area are also north of Carbon Hill and are large and exceedingly desolate in most places.

I firmly believe Alabama and Mississippi support a large population of BF, but the huge majority of sightings and encounters go unreported.

hi alabama sasquatch researchers good morning its great to see that alabama sasquatch activity is picking up again. please keep me informed. thanks bill green

Hi All!

I did not get a real warm welcome here when I first posted my recordings of what I said was of a Bigfoot talking. Well..I was told I needed more research and some pictures and all sorts of stuff.
Whoever heard of a Bigfoot in Alabama anyway?
Well..I still say I have a recording of a Bigfoot talking and you can listen to it and take it for whatever you want to. It want cost you a cent. I am not and never will be in this for the money. If I was I would have stopped running after these BF.

I just wanted to let some know that I have the website..up and going and it is growing with those sighting reports some said I needed to add whatever to my claim of having a Bigfoot recording. I did not just make these reports up as you will see by looking at the dates and locations of the reports.


South Alabama Bigfoot Research Site

Mike (watch1)

I listened to both cuts, several times....
Interesting....

After the whoops, there's what sounds to me like "grumbling"-type vocalizations.

Just before the knocks, I think I hear an agitated, excited sort of exclamation.

Unless there were some drunks out there repairing the barn that night, you may have something there !!!

There's something similar in the tone of the "Alabama talker" to something I recorded in Oklahoma last year. While the "words" if you will are different, the vocal sound is quite similar.

Interesting.

One part of one of the recordings reminds me very much of sounds heard on the Sierra Sounds CDs.

I wanted to add that I was referring to the first 2 clips from the 16th.

Saskwatcher, I do not have a sound chip so I can not hear the sounds. but I know that human weightlifters will give out a grunt to build themselfs up mentally as they start lifting the weight. Maybe a B.F. will build himself up with a grunt before letting fly with a thump against some poor defenceless tree.

The north section of AL has always intrigued me. I’ve 4 wheeled, hunted, hiked, rafted and traded cattle in the area. I never saw any BF sighs, but on some of the trips I was not aware of things to look and listen for.

The area around Sand Mountain has a history of strange occurrences. If you remember the cattle mutilations was in the area of Rainsville, AL. I traded cattle at the Kilpatrick Livestock Center where many of the farmers who reported the mutilations traded cattle and talked with some of them. I can’t say for sure what was happening, but the farmers were convinced there was something odd happening and each one had a different theory. I never heard one blame it on BF though.

The area is a vast wilderness, with good habitat for wildlife including our old hairy friend. Lakes, rivers, forest, valleys, mountains, swamps and you name it it’s out there in that section of AL.

PEPPERSFARMS,, I was just in Emelle Al picking up a beagle pup from a friend of mine and I can tell you that the bigguy has plenty of open space too hide his butt down that way!!!!!!!!

Crew Chief

PS This hound stuffs got me and the wife on the run but I've not run into a single person yet who's had an encounter day or night yet.

I never thought about the sounds that I have recorded that sound like grunts/gruffs (by themselve). Someone else asked me if I had heard that gruffing noise.
Maybe I should put all those in 1 file and post it on the website. I hate to have to listen to about 20 hours of whippoorwills and crickets to find them again, but, maybe someday when it's raining..give me something to do.

Mike(watch1)

Coonbo I lived in Carbon Hill for 7 years. I grew up not eight miles south of there in Saragossa. True their is alot of missing people out of Walker County but I have never heard of any hobo jungle anywhere nearby. Now in the Bankhead Forest which is where I live now there has reports of things for years. The great thing about Bankhead as far as a research situation is concerned is that they have extensive trails that you can cover most of the forest via horseback. The trailhead is about three miles from me. One local report fom years ago is below

The Downey Booger

In the later part of the 1800s, Winston County, Alabama was known for its rugged men, still-brewed whiskey, hard shell preachers, and Saturday night dances. It was also known for the Downey Booger.

John and Joe Downey were cousins. They were together constantly, like two peas in a pod. They were returning home from one of these dances when they first saw the booger.

There were only two houses on this long stretch of road they traveled. One was the Hub Baughn place with the lightening rods. The other was a rambling log house belonging to Oscar Tittle where the dances had been held. The remainder of the road was enveloped by a dense pine forest.

John and Joe were jostling along on their thoroughbreds gaily recounting the events of the evening, when suddenly a strange looking creature, bearing both the resemblance of a human and an animal, leaped out in front of them. Their horses must have spotted it at the same instant the boys did for they stood on their hind feet, snorting madly almost throwing them from their saddles, then whirled around and took off on a wild stampede in the opposite direction using every ounce of strength they could muster. They managed to bring them to a halt. They turned around and again started toward home.

As they approached the sand bed where this weird creature had appeared, the horses came to an abrupt stop. They gouged them in the side, beat them with the bridles but they would not budge an inch. Finally they turned around and rode back to the Tittle house remembering a longer route they could take. They would pass through Lynn, a small town seven miles from their homes. This was known as the Byler Road.

The sun had risen when the boys arrived. Their parents doubted their odd story as much as they had been able to trust them before. No one else had run into the booger.

One night about three months later, a family was returning from a three day church service. When they came to the sand bed it darted out from behind a clump of bushes. It stood for a few seconds and as quickly as a wink ran from sight. The children were panic stricken so much so that for months their mother had to make a pallet for them all to sleep together.

On a moonlit night in early fall, Jim Jackson loaded his two horse wagon with his barrels of home made moonshine and headed for the Commissary in Galloway, a mining town a few miles from his home. The manager of the Commissary would sell it secretly to the miners for a huge profit. He was jogging along hearing nothing but the melancholy whine of the wind in the pine branches, probably thinking of the loot he would receive from the liquor, when he sensed he was being followed. Glancing over his right shoulder his eyes fell upon a peculiar looking creature waltzing on two feet behind his wagon. He froze; his first impulse was to try to outrun it. He decides against that because his mules, Pet and Hathe (or Hattie) were not accustomed to running except downhill. This was level ground. He remembered his gun on the wagon seat beside him. He took the revolver, aimed, and fired twice. It screamed like a woman in distress and went limping away on three feet.

The news spread quickly. Jim Jackson had shot the Downey Booger. A posse was formed. They combed the forest, only finding traces of blood leading from the sand bed to a distant cliff.

Until this day, this incident is repeated among the residents of Winston County. What the Downey Booger was will forever be a mystery.

There many more out there. There was a few neswpaper stories back in the 60's about something up near Bear Creek. Also about 63-64 there was seceral reported sightings of strange bipedal animals around the Walker Winston Cullman county areas around the then new Lewis Smith Lake. The dam was completed in 1963 and it flooded a lake that reaches into several counties. It seems logical that in the deep ravines of the Sipsey River where caves and huge rock shelters were in the thousands that anything occupying them would be moving out as the water quickly rose. In a section of the lake where my camp is the lake goes from a inch deep to over 250 ft deep in the distance of around thirty yards. So it was very rugged territory.

Could you elaborate on the experince of Hawk and Karen you mentioned above? I sent them contact info for several folks mostly in the 60's and up that had sightings etc and then there was some kind of blowup with them and they dropped off the map and I havnt heard from them since. Know any details on what happened to Karen and Hawk?

Quote Bigdave


Shoot I know where there is places in AL still like that today!!!! :surrender:

Thanks Bigdave for the info on the Downey Booger an Interesting story!