http://paranormal.about.com/od/bigfootsasq.../a/aa050707.htm

enjoy ......part 2 is below the story

Cool story, I am no hunter but all they had for guns were a couple of .22's for deer hunting? Seems kinda small. I could imagine the fear they felt running for the house not knowing if that thing was in hot pursuit!

I thought all mountain folk had shotguns. Another myth smashed to bits.

The ones I know carry pocket knives. It's a Southern thing.

Hmm that is interesting. I live in the western north carolina mountains myself, also in a town so small it's not on maps. I have been here 7 years, but have yet to see anything What area would this be in? I heard that we have had similar sightings in a town next to me here. I would love to capture soemthing here on cam....any other info on this or similar situations here will be great.
~Lynn~

My great grandmother used to tell the story of the ape that "must have escaped from a circus" that was seen by several folks around the town of Black Mountain in some apple orchards in early morning. This was around the turn of the century when there were few houses around. She is dead now but lived to the age of 111.
John Parris, a local writer for the Asheville Citizens Times wrote a story of a local legend in Haywood Co. called the Plott Balsams creature also known as the Boojum. It was suppose to be a giant of a creature that roamed the balsams in search of his mate, Hootin' Annie. She was called this due to the hooting noise she made. That is all the stories I know. BFRO does have 6 or 7 reports from Buncombe, Henderson and Haywood counties combined.
BFRO also did come to Madison Co. last fall which adjoins these counties on a field expedition. This area would almost seem to be a hot spot for BF.

I'll be working with someone this weekend who grew up with stories in Swain county. I'll ask her what they were.

The BFRO went to private property somewhere near Hot Springs last year.

There was a possible sighting near Big Cove about 9 years ago. A couple of posters on the board may have seen something near Hendersonville and Shining Rock, respectively. The western Piedmont seems to have some credible sightings, too.

Did they go back there recently?

I know Big Cove. That is some steep rough country.

Driving through that area is like being in an outdoor cathedral, and after a rain, primeval.

Big Cove is part of the Cherokee Reservation/Qualla Boundary. There are many stories that come out of that area of the rez. Never heard of any bigfoot there, but then again, I never asked.

Careful on the rez. Most areas are privately owned, and the Tsalagi don't like the yonegs (nonindians) tramping through their territory. You could say that they are protective.

I live in the northern piedmont and I belive a few people in our area (myself included) have had encounters with a BF. This is my first post here so I'll save my "report" for later..honestly there isn't much to tell so I wouldn't get very excited about it.

If any of you guys are doing research in our state please let me know and post here often! I'm very interested in hearing from you guys..

I've also heard the old stories about the "moutain apes" in the western portion of the state but I always thought they where just made up...these days I'm not so sure.

O yea...most of us own shotguns and pocket knives but that doesn't mean we carry them with us everywhere we go.

A couple of us have been checking an area around the Tennessee border. I'd very much like to know what you've seen and heard. Please PM me as soon as you're allowed to.

LAL; That directed at me? I'd be happy to tell the tail but like I said there isn't much.

Basically I was staying at a friends house one night (about a mile down the road from my home). Around 2am I decided to make my leave and started the walk towards my car.

At this point I need to explain one of my old bad habits; I used to walk around staring at the ground most of the time...this event has changed that.

Anyway I'm nearly to my car when I hear something in the side yard. I look up to see the outline of something...huge. It was twice as wide as any man I've seen and much taller than me (I'm 5 feet 6 inches). As I said I only saw the "outline" of whatever it was, the only light source near by was a street light at a gas station across the street from my friends house.

Whatever this thing was I startled it... It took off towards the tree line and entered the woods...running. I mention this only because I think it's important..I know that I could not make my way through the woods that fast at night simply because I wouldn't be able to see well enough. In other words..this thing was dodging trees like it was the middle of the day.

It scared me and much of the above is stuff I thought about after the fact. I took off towards the safety of my friends house and begged my buddy to come outside in the hopes that he would see it as well. He didn't (I knew it wouldn't as it took off before I got to the door anyway...I was mostly covering for running back scared. I didn't want to admit I was afraid).

When I tell this story people often ask how drunk I was... I was not drunk and what I saw was real!

My buddies girlfriend says she saw it a couple of days later (she lives at the house...well used to). She's a known liar though so I don't know if I can trust her. A few other locals have told me they've seen similar things but again I don't know them well enough to belive it...

I see you're in NC as well! I'll be searching your posts...hopefully you've got some information I have not read yet.

I heard about a sighting and track event today near Faith, NC, back in the 60's.

Just when and where was your encounter?

If you are familar with a small town called Old Ft. there was an old indian artifact museum there that was operated by an older gentleman. He had a large rock there that was found by a hunter in the Curtis Creek gamelands way up in the mountains in a rhododendron thicket. It was about the size of a basketball but was oblong shaped. It was smooth and black in color but dull. The odd thing was it looked like some of the sasquatch sketches that have been posted here. It had thin lips, flat nose, sloped forehead and small ears and the base was where the neck would have started. He kept it out of the public sight but I got to see it when a friend of mine coaxed him into showing it to me. I meant to go back and photograph it but the museum closed. This was around 20 years ago. I imagine it was carved by the native indians in the area.
Old Fort is located between Black Mountain and Marion, NC. right off interstate 40.

Here is my encounter with a large, unidentified mammal:

http://bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=12362

WNC folklore:

http://www.smokiesproperty.com/boojum.html

Big Cove Community looks like any suburban town (although I did see a teepee in someone's yard - the Cherokee didn't use them). Cherokee is done in Plains style, mostly, for the tourists.

It is not considered good form to point out of your car window and yell, "Look at the Indian!". As one resident said, remember where you are.

One of the "chiefs" has added a sighting to his repetoir. I'm afraid that's thanks to me.

Here in the Northwest a .22 and a spotlight are the standard equipment for deer poachers. The sound of the .22 does not carry far. They drive around on back country roads and bag deer seen from the road at night. They can nail a deer, and have it in the pickup without the nearest farmer even be awaken from his sleep.

They do that here in Fla. too at night with spotlights and .22s. They shoot em in the head or neck. Of course, most Fla. deer down here are only about 100 lbs.

They don't call it poaching, they call it huntin' "Cracker Style". Just a bunch of unethical rednecks if you ask me.

Hi again

It was about two years ago in early spring I think. I'm not to sure about the exact date...wish I could remember! ><

As for the location it happened about 5 miles west of this city (well the city limits); http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eden%2C_North_Carolina I don't know if you're familar with the area, it's mostly pine forrest broken up by small farms and housing developments. Lots of creeks and rivers in the local area as well.



We just call it "spotlighting" where I'm from. No, I've never took part in the pratice although I do hunt deer from time to time.

I just got back from Florida but I didn't see any deer while I was down that way...then again I was in Jacksonville...

I found this interesting. Here are two BFRO reports just months apart in the year 1991. As the crow flies these sightings were only 15 miles apart although in different counties. No other sightings were reported in this area before or after.

http://bfro.net/GDB/show_county_reports.as...unty=Rutherford

http://bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=15108

"The shape of the head was that of a man with a mullet hair cut, so you couldn't make out the contour of the back of the head, it sort of went straight down." http://bfro.net/GDB/show_report.asp?id=15108

MULLETFOOT!!!!

Seriously, both of those areas are interesting, as they are being developed (seems like every yuppie has to put a huge house/gated community on top of a mountain) over the last decade or so. Such endeavors are driving bears out of their original ranges and into the suburbs around Asheville.

Perhaps such disruption will increase the amount of credible sightings and some hard evidence.

Here is some more info on WNC bigfoot sightings:

http://www.ashevilleparanormalsociety.com/bigfootmenu.html

While the paranormal BS is laughable, there is some info on Black Mountain encounters.

Happy reading.

sounds like nc is getting alot of sitings more and more, i live right above winston-salem in a country area, i have been wanting to go out and see if i can find any thing maybe some time soon some of us can get together and check some spots out and see what we can find.

Here's my frustration with bigfoot in WNC: with all of the bear hunting with dogs in the autumn, how come there haven't been any reports?

Hunters cover remote areas with dogs specifically bred to hunt bear: Plott hounds. These dogs are ruthless around game. Hunting bear is done with religious fervor amongst some of these mountain folks and their friends. The radio tracking collars are often worth as much as the dogs that wear them. Surely hunters would encounter a sas being harassed/fleeing from these dogs, and the telemetry technology would lead them to the sas in a tree or as it ran across a road.

Now reports say that aggressive dogs and sasquatches don't mix, so why aren't there stories of dogs running away from large game during hunting season in the mountains? However, I have to admit that locals tell stories of dogs returning from the woods torn up and severely injured, but again, how did they sustain such trauma? Too many unknown variables to be sure.

I know that it's not as simple as it seems, but if these creatures are out there, someone in the mountains should have seen them during hunting season. Perhaps these folks are quiet, distrustful of outsiders or afraid of ridicule. To them, it may be none of anyone else's business, as they are protecting their hunting areas from other folks with guns, looking to bag a squatch.

When's hunting season?

http://www.ncwildlife.org/pg02_Regs/2007_0..._Season_Map.pdf

The PDF map has sections color coded for bear hunt dates.

Here is some info on the Plott Hound as well: http://www.thebreedsofdogs.com/PLOTT_HOUND.htm

I don't know many locals that bear hunt...most people just hunt deer, turkey, and sometimes wild boar.

Something to keep in mind; Over the years I've noticed that the deer seem to know when hunting season is coming.... You'll see more deer than you could ever hope to shoot before the season starts...once hunting season is in full swing you don't see as many deer as often..

My point? These animals aren't as stupid as some people would like to belive and it may be harder to spot a bigfoot (or any other animal) durring the hunting seasons.

I have nothing to back this up with of course...just wanted to throw a random thought of mine out there.

Many of us agree with you wholeheartedly.

There are many accounts of hunters in tree stands encountering sasquatches .

Hounds equipped with radio collars would certainly blunder onto our favorite hairy biped eventually, is all methinks!

I knew a bear hunter in Skamania County, Washington. He was too fat to get far from his truck and the dogs did most of the work. He did manage to blunder into jail for poaching.

Deer there were reported to head for the State Park when the guns started going off for grouse season.

There was a sighting near Mooresville last fall, but I'm thinking it was in September.

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I know that it's not as simple as it seems, but if these creatures are out there, someone in the mountains should have seen them during hunting season. Perhaps these folks are quiet, distrustful of outsiders or afraid of ridicule. To them, it may be none of anyone else's business, as they are protecting their hunting areas from other folks with guns, looking to bag a squatch.
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I have seen wild turkeys, black bears, and lots of deer. Even though there are hundreds of new people moving there, there is still plenty of squatchy land.

I think you hit the nail squarely on the head. I have been all over those mountains, on trails, off trails, all along the parkway clear up into Virginia, Asheville, Hendersonville, Bat Cave, Black Mountain, Linville, Blowing Rock, and Spruce Pine, and I have always noticed how close-mouthed the locals are to any outsiders.

I grew up in the Smokies. Mostly between Hendersonville and Brevard (Pisgah Nat. Forest) and as an Eagle scout spent many a day wondering these areas. My family is from this area as well, most from North Ga. and N.E.Tn. Never met a bear hunter there, but lots of deer and turkey hunters. There are plenty of areas that could sustain a few BF's . Dozens of experienced hikers have trouble getting lost if unfamiliar with the area. Plenty of rivers, creeks and falls in the area, mostly dense, uncut ,old growth forests when I was there. It's been a while though, now I am in NE Miss. I heard lots of stories as a child in that area, but my sighting was is between Gatlinburg and Cherokee. Unfortunately I didn't really get into the whole searching for BF til I was older and moved away. Really wish I was there now, out looking.

Tell us about your sighting, please. We need some new stories.

We were hiking early in the morning, keep in mind I was a teen, around 15 or 16 yrs. old, so early then was like 7 am, it was still very foggy , but a few clear places here and there. Something caught my eye off to my left side. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up before my mind processed it. There was a bunch of downed trees stacked up in a pile by the trail, looked like dead falls , if I remember correctly. Peering at us from between the logs was what I think was Bigfoot. I said think, because all I know then was it really freaked me out. It seemed to just disapear but I think it ducked down out of sight. I kept quiet and told a friend a few moments later and he yelled it out to everyone , a group of teens... You can guess what I felt like. Later the Scout master told me not to feel bad as he had heard of a few sightings in the area from the rangers and other campers over the years of bringing scouts to the area.

As for a description, I saw a lot of hair, a medium brown color kinda long and shaggy. Could make out a face, but no real details, I don't think it looked very apelike. But that is just from my memory, it's been about 23 or 24 yrs . I could really only see the head and shoulders.
I did go back to the area that afternoon. The opening between the logs was around 7 feet tall, I was almost 6 ft at the time.

I have spent many nights in the Smoky Mtns. heard some wierd sounds, stuff like that, but never another sighting.

I wish a group around here so I could go BF Hunting with someone who shares the enthusiasm I do. Anyone know of a group or club in N.E. Miss. ?

Thanks, I hope the story wasn't too boring for ya, that really is all the detail I can muster up, but I know I will never forget it. Later, Steve

Hey bladefrenzy. Welcome to the BFF!

Cool story. Where approximately did this occur?

I'm heading up into the NC mountains tomorrow for a few days. I have a pretty remote place in the front range of the Blue Ridge near the Danil Boone trace on the Parkway.

It was somewhere around the Tn./N.C. line. I think the place was called Buck Tom's , like a blm area or something. Sorry I can't remember the location. Maybe one of my parents can recall. I'll have to check it out. Later, Steve

There's a Camp Buck Toms.

http://www.campbucktoms.org/index.shtml

I was told a story by a man in his 80’s that his grandfather had told a story of where he and some others had treed a monkey in the Smoky Mountains when coon hunting. From what I could gather was in the late 1800’s.

There was a guy who worked for my dad who grew up in the Smoky Mountains and advised that he had heard stories of a man/beast that roamed the Smokies. He advised That there was a story told of a sighting during a barn dance close to Gatlinburg, TN This must have been in the 30’s or early 40’s.

Apparently a couple sneaked off for a little romance and was confronted by the beast. A number of the men took off to hunt the beast, but found nothing was found.

I believe thats it, LAL. Wasn't near as developed 20 odd years ago. Peppersfarms, I have heard those stories from old locals when I was a kid.

Hi all,
I am glad to see somany people from NC here. I live in Fayetteville and there seems to be zero interest in BF around here. The NC mountains do seem to be rugged enough for something to live out there. The closest thing we have around here is Uwharrie National Forest. According to BFRO there are a couple of sightings reported around there. I know there is a lot of other lore in the area about Uwharrie being haunted. I am not sure what it is all about though. I have been there many times and the area seems to be too crowded for anything to hide for long. It would be interesting to find out if there is any BF folk lore around the area though.

Anyone from Pender county area. That's where I had my one and only sighting back in the seventies.

I had never heard of bigfoot sightings in this area(well, I guess I wasn't really looking). It is interesting reading all the accounts of sightings in WNC. I am in Knoxville and in the suburbs so the likelihood of ME sighting one is nil. A close friend of mine lives up in Walland(near Townsend, TN) and had a sighting last night. Scared her daughter to death. Her husband shot at it and she only saw the tracks.


Here is the email that she sent me last night:


Okay, most of you all know I live in the boonies at the end of a dead end
road. Here is the story....

About 8 p.m. tonight the dogs were out in the dog yard raising holy hell.
Barking like I have never heard them bark in their lives. Daughter went to
let them in and when she was on her way back from the kennel building, she
let out the most spine chilling scream I have ever heard. She finally
managed to get in the house and was HYSTERICAL. Totally, completely
inconsolably hysterical. We couldn't understand a word she was saying.
Finally she managed to get "somebody screaming" out of her mouth. Husband goes out with a flashlight and in about 2 minutes he dashes inside and up the stairs to get his pistol. He stands on our porch and shoots a round into the woods THEN unloads the magazine. He then comes back in and gets his shotgun. I'm still trying to get daughter settled down enough to find out
what she saw and/or heard. Husband comes in and gets me to show me something. In our gravel drive-way were 4 prints (the gravel is wet b/c of the snow) of something pawing at the ground.

Daughter finally settles down enough to tell me that she heard a weird
sound, thought it was brother and then shined the light down my driveway
toward the garbage cans. She saw something about 6 foot tall
Tahoe so maybe taller>, on 2 legs , swaying/or bobbing back and forth and
had 2 close set eyes that glowed in the flashlight. husband saw something
probably taller than 6 feet , *kicking* its feet like a bull would do in
the bull fighting arena, move from the driveway to over the short end
(about 2 ft) of the retaining wall and WALK into the woods. The first shot
he fired was a random shot to scare whatever away. The rest of the shots
were at "it" as it walked up the woods and over the hill.

Saturday night, I heard what I thought was coyotes but now I'm not so sure.
The sound that daughter describes is what I heard and the sound that husband heard was the same thing.

We have every outside light on, all the motion detector lights on. It's
going to be a long night for us.

3-4 years ago, we kept hearing something at night. It was in the spring, we had the windows open and would hear this sound that would make the hair on the back of your neck stand up. One morning about 6 a.m. I went out to the kennel to let the dogs out and heard what I can only describe as a cross between a howler monkey and an elk/moose combination.

we have a motion camera we are setting out tomorrow.

Sounds like...something.

I don't think her family knows what to make of it, and I surely don't. I know the family well and they are very down to earth people. It isn't like the area she lives is way up in the mountains, but, it is in the mountains. She said she has heard screams in the woods before that has made the hair on her neck stand up, but, figured it was just coyotes or some other wildlife. Her daughter said that was what the screaming sounded like

If I'm not mistaken Townsend is very near Cades Cove which is prime deer habitat. I wonder how many miles from the crow flies this part of the GSMN park would be
ballpark without divulging too many details of actual location? Please?

Here is the rough area of where it was sighted

Google map of the area

thank you, Walland is a little further away, but I noted the foothills parkway, where previous sightings have occurred, can't remember exact circumstances but I believe its in the bfro database for TN

Julie, please PM me jrp1965. Got someone to help

Rodney

I am not allowed to PM, but, you can email me at llpoolej@knology.net

There was a Class B from Cades Cove and scream report from a camper in the Smokies. I'm thinking the camper was a wildlife biologist, or something like that - someone with expertise. The Smokies are prime habitat, no question. They support a healthy population of black bear, some 1500.

I work in Cherokee, so I'm really interested in this one.

You're partially right. The deer don't actually know that deer season is coming, but rather that deer seasons are closely related to their breeding season. Archery season is just BEFORE they begin their "rut" or "breeding season". The "full rut" normally happens sometime between the end of Oct. and the end of Nov. with late does that didn't get tagged coming into heat again the end of Dec.-beginning of January. During this time, their whole mentally changes....they become elusive because they know they must be even more stealthy during the time they have their attention drawn by the women . I have seen seasons come when the rut hit late and the deer didn't augment their schedules until later....resulting in a larger harvest for the area. I've hunted my entire life and have been raised in the sticks. My brother started to become a wildlife biologist, but made more money running a hunting lodge...go figure...lol. I'm sure there are more scientific terms for it, but ya'll know how ya'll change behavior when you have a pretty lady winkin' at you...right? LOL

As for the hunters that had .22 earlier...they were probably poachers and needed the @#%#@$#$ scared out of them. I do believe the smallest center fire rifle allowed for deer hunting is a .223 and that would do a good shot if placed in a crucial area. I'm not much for small caliber weapons though. I want to have a quick and humane death....and the ability to recover the carcass and put the meat away in a timely fashion...so I hunt with 7 mm or a 757 mauser rendition. I'd say most common calibers in this area are 7mm and 30.06 and 30/30's. Just my insight...hopefully it helps a bit.

I've been to Boomer, NC transporting young criminals...lol. That place is in the middle of NOWHERE. Even the locals didn't know how to give directions. There are lots of places between my area in TN and over there in NC where one could hide if you ask me.