Tennessee Bigfoot Encounter: They Ran Us Out of the Smoky Mountains (Part 1) | Archives

0:00 You're listening to BIGFA Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. Aripick for Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Carrie today. Saw some posts that she had put on Facebook, and she's got some very interesting things that have been happening over the years. But Carrie, it's a pleasure to have you here. Let's start out first.

0:46 You had been mentioning in the pre interview about how there's a relation to Harley Harley's episode that you had heard on my podcast earlier. Oh yes, definitely, Jeremy, And by the way, thank you for letting me share my experiences. It took me about two years to finally come forward and want to share anything because I had put a post when I first had my first encounter. I put a post on my local Facebook group and the same area that Harley is in, and I got bullied and attacked so much within probably less than five minutes. I had to take my post down.

1:29 And it was just people were so hateful and they just and they didn't want to hear it. And maybe it's just a conspiracy theory, but I don't think all of those people are just normal people. I think some of those people might be like government people that are out there just to attack the real people that have had encounters, so we won't come forward and share our experiences because it was pretty brutal. But I had encounters when mine started in the same area that Early is from. Yeah, and I do want to address something real quick, so that happens to me all the time as well. It is not fun. But if I found if you keep that post up for about two to three weeks, the people then that have seen things will start to send you DMS. It happens every time I get made fun of groups. But then two to three weeks later, the people will start to come out with yes, okay, I did have things going on. I need to talk to you about it.

2:29 So just aside crazy. Yeah for listeners. But Carrie, let's start at the beginning. Where did this all start to happen? If you could share the county, the state, and what was what were the first things that you noticed. This happened when we first originally from Virginia where I grew up, the border of West Virginia and Virginia. It was very very mountainous, very hilly, very woodsy. So I grew up playing in the woods, hunting, fishing, so I was pretty much very familiar with the woods. And we moved mainly husband moved to Middle Tennessee. Newport was the county was in the foothills of the Smokies, probably twenty five thirty minutes from Gatlinburg, very small town by the river.

3:19 There's a couple of rivers in the area, and we lived. It's called at the end of our road. Was called Rncoln r an ki N Hill Wildlife Management Refuge. Why it's that long name, I have no idea, But nobody ever went there really and in the wintertime, summertime it's filled up with water. They had a lot of bass fishing tournaments there. It would fill into Douglas damn Lake area overflow and in the winter they suck up all the water and use it for energy at the dam. But in the fall and winter or even in the summer, where you could there's a lot of trails through there.

4:03 You could walk, and we had kayaks, so we would literally just walk across the street from our house, a little one road in and out and you jump right on the railroad tracks and we walk right to the wildlife refuge and just look around because it was like a scooped out bull right in the middle of like the smoky mountain footholes foothills, and it was beautiful and there was nobody there, so it was a good little spot to walk. We didn't really do any fishing, but that was where That's not where I had a first encounter, but that is where I first started noticing things. When we first moved into that area, we were moving boxes in and as we were moving boxes in, Okay, when we had a long gravel driveway and when you pull up to our house, you're facing the house, but you park on the side of the house. So behind our house was about oh god, I don't know three five acres and about three of it was flat clear, no trees, no brush, no nothing, and a very small, two foot deep, about four foot wide creek. When water was running through it would go through the middle of it down from the overrun fell off of the mountains and so the wood So you parked on the side of the house in the woods were one hundred and fifty feet from where you park in the house, and we had a back deck and as we were moving boxes in, I

5:34 heard these very weird whistles, and I remember making a comment to my husband and we were laughing. I'm like, wow, I didn't know we were moving into the Amazon jungle because it was so loud and the whistles were so strange. It sounded like some kind of bird you'd hear in the Amazon. And then there was a whistle all the way across the field, like three acres away, and it would answer about us the other whistle back, and it was so loud you could hear it. Most birds you can't hear super loud three acres away, answering back and forth, and it was just like nothing I had ever heard before. And he stopped for a second. He was like, yeah, that is weird, isn't it, and that that's where it started.

6:19 And I was not a big Foot believer. I of course I saw the Patty film. Everybody did. I never listened to any shows, watched any film, didn't know anything about it except seeing that one little Patty clip on TV. I just did not believe in the Lord, and I just I don't know. I didn't believe, and I think I was very close minded. I didn't think that I was what I was. It's nice and comfortable thinking that nothing else exists out there except what we're told, you're told growing up, that other creatures and monsters and beans aren't besides demons, angels, having hell people, things you can see and that sort of stuff, and nothing else. And that's comfortable thinking that. It's scary thinking and knowing now that other things are definitely one hundred percent out there, and it's terrifying. I think that's why a lot of people bully others, because it's scary. It is scary. My first encounter was only about three weeks after moving in.

7:32 We noticed that metal, shiny pieces of my husband's car. I know, it sounds crazy. We're starting to be pulled off where we lived. There wasn't any houses really around. It was farmers, farmhouses spread far apart. There wasn't people like right next door. I think I'd said once before, there wasn't. You don't. There wasn't enough people where you turn your light on for trick or treaters. There just wasn't anybody. Was very remote. And I've also said the more remote you live, the more remote other things live too. Is what I have found out. I woke up about three o'clock in three thirty in the morning, and I was dead asleep. I woke up with this overwhelming feeling of just dread and anxiety. And I did not know why.

8:23 We always came in and out the front door, because we had a small little deck and we had a little spot where we would wipe our feet and take our shoes off. And I jumped up and my husband had this giant handheld spotlight looked like an old radar detector. And I don't even know why I went to the back door, but it was like I knew to go to the back door, and we didn't even use the back door unless we were sitting on the back deck. Went right to the back door, opened the back door, a little bit about halfway and I shined the light across the field and I'm like, oh my gosh, what am I doing. There's just I was thinking there. First of all, there was always deer out there. We had a family of fox deer. I had a pet skunk that would come out of the woods. I would feed cheese popcorn too. Yes, and no, that's crazy. He would come out and I'd feed him cheese popcorn and he'd just go back in the woods when he had his fill.

9:18 So there was a ton of wildlife and that's why we liked living there. And I shined the light across the field and I was going real slow, and I was seeing nothing, and I'm like, thinking, that's weird. There definitely should be some deer out here. It was, oh gosh, I want to say, the end of January. So I knew it was cold, but it didn't matter. There was always deer and I kept seeing nothing. So I get pan over to the creek and all of a sudden, I see this bear and I'm like, wow, there's a bear at the creek. We've been here a little while and I already asked the neighbors and they all of the neighbors and we walked the dogs. We would say, neighbors out. We would ask them hey, and they're like, no, bears never come out the smoke down at the National Park.

10:02 They don't need to because the tourists leave enough food for them to eat. There's no they don't need to cook. They never come as far, never seeing any been here twenty years. Everybody had the same story. So I see this bear and I'm like, oh my gosh, there's a bear. Wow. And then all of a sudden it stands up and I'm like what what? And then the light hits its body. And the best way I can describe it is when it hit its body, it's all the light sucked into it. It was like if you ever have a flashlight and you can twist the end of the flashlight and you can make the big the circle on the that's shooting out the light bigger or tinier by twisting the end of the flashlight. That's what happened when I hit it with the flashlight, Except it happened pretty fast, and then all the light was gone into this thing, and I'm like what, But but it's body illuminated because it had absorbed all the light. I don't even know how that makes sense, but that's what happened. And I saw that it had hands, and I'm like, wow, what the heck?

11:09 Like my mind was totally trying to figure out a box to put this in because I didn't know what it was. I knew it wasn't I knew it wasn't a human, and its hands were like Ashley Gray, hung down, tasked its knees. It did have a little bit of a belly. I don't know if it was a female or male because it was turned sideways so I couldn't I didn't get a front view, and I'm grateful that I did not see its face full on because I still have that night that burned into my mind like a record, like I can't stop overplaying that. And before I had a chance to do anything else or even figure out what am I gonna do? What is this?

11:53 This all happened so quick, But they say sometimes when traumatic things happened, it feels like time stop. That's it feels like that times had stopped and it was just going like soup or slow motion, and it leaned its head back and it let out a scream. I have never heard anything that I don't even know how I still have ear drums. I've never heard anything that loud and that long in my entire life. It literally sounded like the worst horror flick. You could watch a woman being murdered and her guts coming out like very guttural, screechy, just scream and it didn't take a breath. Was a crazy part. It was at least twenty to twenty five seconds long when I've replayed it in my head. And when that happened, I hadn't. I was behind the metal aluminum door and it had little like nine ten nine panes of windows in it. It was a modular home, so a regular modular home back door, and I was halfway in, halfway out of it. And when that scream happened, I clumbled over in a little ball, but in the standing up position, and this wave went hit me in the head and it was like whoom woom woo, went all the way through my body, through my toes, and I felt all of my organs vibrate. If you pull

13:23 up to somebody and to stop light and they're based on their stereo was too loud, and you can feel like you're inside stumping a little bit, that's what happened. And I couldn't. I was unable to move. And it wasn't because of fear. I've been in the woods that I've been, oh gosh, deep in the woods twelve miles hunting by myself alone the way before I knew this was out there, and I've seen bear and stuff, and I haven't a mountain lion. In West Virginia, I actually got chased by a bear. Wasn't really afraid because I was in the house. I could have shut the door, but I was frozen. I was I was not able to move. And after about twenty seconds, when it stopped for the last I want to say the last three seconds, it seemed of its scream, it seemed like I started to like unfreeze and I started being able to move.

14:21 It's so weird. It's if you're frozen and all of a sudden, you're something's dethawing and you're you're starting to come on thawed. You can move. And I was able to move, and I jump behind the door and I was like, oh, dear God, what just happened. Like this, This isn't happening. This can't stuff, This does not can't exist. And had hair, not fur, and I could somewhat see skin through the hair. It was about ninety feet from me, and it was a clear vision. The woods were in the background, so there was no trees, no bushes, nothing obstructing my view. I know one hundred percent I saw, and I have said time and time again I would take a light detector test any day for anything. I said that, it is one hundred percent of the truth.

15:08 And I'm mad that people get bullied or the government doesn't tell people about this, because these things are out there and they know they're out there, and a lot some of them are bad and some of them, some of them are good. After that happened and I saw this, I said, Oh dear God, what is this? And I'm like, okay, that's a big foot. Well, I mean, there's what else could it be. That's the only thing I knew closely related to what it looked like before I'd seen the Patti film. So I'm like, as much as I don't want to do this, i have to do it again because I cannot go around telling my husband and my kids and everybody else, guess what, guys, I saw Bigfoot.

15:50 They're gonna be like oh, yeah, I'm sure you did. So I'm like, gotta do it again. So I sure did it. I shine the light on it again, and I did not want to do it, but I had to be one hundred percent shore. This time. It had moved up into the forest a little bit, but it was winter, so there wasn't any leaves on the trees or just a bunch of brown sticks. So I could see it, and it was like a mahogany ish. It was mahogany ish, real dark black. I wouldn't say black, but woody mahogany brown, very dark. And it did not have like a comb shaped head. It just had a head on top of big shoulders. We measured later on how tall it was. It was at least eight feet tall.

16:35 If I had to guess, I would say six hundred pounds. It did seem to have rest in his stomach, like a five or six month pregnant woman. I could see that the side view of the chest and the stomach. The hair was a lot thinner in that area, and it did have I could see a little bit of the calves, but I couldn't see the feet because it was standing in the creek. It was bent over sideways drinking from the creek. I don't know if it was scooping up with his hand or it's actually had its mouth in the creek. But so I had a really good side. You had very broad shoulders, and I hit it with the light again, and I was ready for the screen. This time, the exact same scenario happened again, but since I was expecting it, I wasn't frozen. I didn't get frozen, and I definitely did not go outside.

17:28 I would just kept the door cracked just enough to wear knocked at that door. That door wouldn't have done. That thing was so big it could have come right through the wall if it wanted to. That door wouldn't have done anything. So I hit it with the light again, same thing, same screen, same length at time, and I my and then my insides they rippled again, the whole thing that And then I was like yep, and it stopped screaming, and I took my finger off the trigger of the light. You had to push. You had to put your hand on the trigger to get the light going. And as soon as I let my hand off the trigger, it stopped, and I'm like, yep, I just saw a freaking big foot. Actually not, I'm here. I am. I didn't laugh at anybody in public or make fun of them or bully them, but I was kind of laughing to myself, Oh my gosh, these people are nuts. There's not so ridiculous. These things don't. Yes, yes they do.

18:27 And I laid there. I shut the door and locked the door. I laid there all night. I couldn't go back to sleep. I didn't want to wake my husband up, so I laid there all night thinking like, what the heck am I going to tell him? Like he's somewhat believed, and he had brought it to my attention before a couple of times some shows, and now here I am like. So when we woke up, I told him, and he was like, oh my gosh, let's go down and look. And we went down and looked, and there were tracks there. We measured eighteen inches long. We didn't know anything about casting or what even casking was footprints anything like that. And we measured from where I saw the back tree.

19:07 Like when I saw it standing there, I could see a tree in the background, So I estimated the height that we measured from where I could see the top of the head with the tree in the background, and it was about it eight feet or a little bit over. And that was the very first experience with them and it has not stopped since then. Carrie, that is absolutely incredible. First off, thank you for sharing that. So to clarify, you do not live at this property anymore, right, No, we do not. After this started to happen. Did at any point they start to come closer to the house.

19:49 Oh, stucky so much. That is why we moved Yep, big time. And there was more than one. And it was nightly and at the time my husband was a truck driver and he was just starting out and truck driving, so there was a lot of times he had to be gone at night. Oh let me let me say this too. I had I didn't have any guns anymore, as I gave up hunting after we moved into the Smokies. I had a I don't know, I said, a whole different view of wildlife. Like I said, a pet skunk that would come out of the woods, I'd feed cheese popcorn. There was a bunch of baby deer that the mom had abandoned that I adopted my name. There was Lvernon Shirley loosing etholic like they all I had names, and they lived under the deck and I would bottle feed him and stuff. And then when they got big enough, they would just take off. So I got rid of all my guns. But when I saw this, oh, I got the biggest gun I could get. I got a fifty caliber gun with the scope. And there's a reason why I'm telling you that. Because night when my husband had to do an overnight trip, and it wasn't too long after this, I heard our front deck was about ten by ten wooden and it was and I usually did not stay up to slate. It was about ten o'clock at night and I was gone to bed. I have a service dog. He is my best, bestest friend in the world. He's a large Rottweiler. And this dog

21:23 is stuck to me like loo. I take a shower and he sits there like guards the shower like so no, I guess cereal murderers will get me in the shower. I don't know, it's what he thinks. So we were getting ready to go to bed and he's not a bed right next to mine and his name is kaz So. But walking to go by the bedroom, you have to go by the front door to get into the master bedroom, which is in the front. So I hear the stumping. It reminds all I could see in my head was like a little kid doing the high step, marching round in circles. My girls did it, and they're grown now, but that's what I could hear. And I'm like thinking, Okay, you just imagine not happening. Anytime anything happens, I try to debunk it in any way I can. I'm not the first. Oh my gosh, that's a ghost. Oh my god, that's a big I try to debunk in any way I can. And then when I can't, it just is what it is. I can't. And I kept trying, Okay, what's this? Shit's that? And he kept getting louder, And this went on for four minutes. So I'm standing about six feet from the front door, and my dog he starts growling. First he was looking at the door and his head was going from side to side when you knowing dogs do that and they're trying to figure something out, Like he's going, Okay, it's not Mom, she's right here. Okay, it's not Dad, Okay, it's not this. Okay, it's not that he's going back and forth, and all of a sudden, after he goes to the whole scenario people he knows in his head, he starts backing up, and he starts growling this meenest growl I've never heard come out of him,

22:56 and his whole body puffed up, like all his hair starts standing up, not just to stripe down his back but everywhere. And I was like, okay, I'm abstutly scared. So then I was praying to God it wasn't gonna happen, but it did. I saw my doorknob turning, and I heard this after the fact, that they like to imitate what people do. After I saw the first one, I was so paranoid about. Like I said, this modular home ours wasn't made very good. It could have come right through the wall. It could have literally put its skin right to the wall if it wanted to. They were paper thin, and the doorknob started turning me back up.

23:38 Before that, I kept always checking the windows and the door locks like fifty times a night, and every time I would say you checked the door, Yes, I checked it. I've checked it fifteen times, Carrie. I've already checked it and I would just check it every night, and when I would do it, I would turn the doorknob and it would go click and make its clicking sound. So the front doorknob started turning back and forth just like I did when I checked to see if they were locked, and it was doing that clicking sound, and I was like, oh my god, I'm so scared. And I was standing right there. I was like, my feet felt like they had cement shoes on them, like they didn't on the top of my body was trying to go in the bedroom, but my legs wouldn't move. I was like, okay, I was so scared, and then I'm like and then I felt my heart like and I started hyperventilating because here I'm alone and I'm in this. I've seen this thing outside and now I knew what was out front. I knew it wasn't a person. I just knew that it was them. They have an energy that they put off and whenever they're around. I don't know, I just I can feel them. It's they, I don't know, just an energy I can feel when they're around, and I knew it was them, And all of a sudden, I said in my head very I said, Okay, Kerrie, calm down.

24:58 And I only said this in my head. Okay, Carrie, calm down, this is really happening. Go get your gun, and I had it loaded and it was right under my side of the bed. So second, the very second I got done saying that, I had an answer back in my head, which I still can't believe that they can do this, but they can. It said, and I've heard where people say it sounds like computer generated, and I'm like, no, it doesn't. But then I thought about why would they say that, And I understand because they said it very slow and very precise, like they wanted you to hear every word they were saying. And it said it just like this, do not bother. It won't do any good against us, So I can see why they would say it would be sounded like a computer saying that. So as soon as that happened, I was like what I started like literally shaking my head back, like like looking around and of course I'm the only one there. And then my dog he's still growling and barking.

26:06 He wasn't barking, but he was growling, mean growl, and he was like he was ready to jump me. He was ready not to run away, and I was like, what do I do? Instead of saying, I start laughing. I'm like a crazy person because I'm thinking my and my thoughts went through my head so fast. Okay, what am I gonna do? Blow a holes at the front door? Of course not because now my husband's gonna come home. How am I gonna explain that? What if I'm wrong? What if it's a person? I don't wanna kill anybody. Am I gonna kill somebody? Am I gonna open the door? Absolutely not. I'm not gonna open to What am I gonna do? I can't do anything. There's nothing I can do. So I start laughing. What if they're right? And then what if it's more than one? Then I shoot one?

26:50 Then I'm really in trouble. What if I'm miss he's only one shot in there? It's like, what am I gonna do? So I go I start laughing like nut yep I did. Jeremia started laughing like an So then I got to sit down on the bed and I had to draw. It was every thing I could do. I had to grab my dog by his neck because he's not on the leash or collar and dragging to the room, and it was really hard. He did not well to His feet were like cemented to the floor too. And I get him in the room and he's sitting there right by me. He's still growling, and I just start praying as loud as I could. I said, in the name of Jesus, you have to leave here. In the name of Jesus, this is holy ground, this is my house. You are not welcome here. You need to leave.

27:36 As soon as I start praying that, it was like deafening quiet. It was just it was already quiet, but it went It's so hard to I wish there was different words to explaining it went quieter. It almost hurts your ears, and went so quiet. And after that was nothing, and there was no way that I was going to sleep. I just laid there all night and I'm like, how can they It was like a thought it was not my own, that came deep from within the middle of my head, like white, and the sefuge drilled right down to the middle of my head. That's where that thought voice came from. And if you asked me to describe the voice, like if it was a male female, I can't because it didn't have a male or female tone.

28:23 It was a thought that was put into my head that said that. And they have talked to me three or four times now, very short, but they have. They've talked to me. That next day, of course, my husband came home and I told him, and then I told him what happened. He's glad we still have a door in the house. Let's talk. What's it good and saying? And I said, this whole bigfoot thing has really got to me. I said, let's do a test. Let's if they're really real. We had just he brought back a giant watermelon he got from South Carolina. This thing was so big it lost have weighed fifty pounds, the biggest thing I've ever seen in my life. We cut it in half. It was just the two of us. We couldn't even eat half. And I said, you know what, it's cut in half, Let's take it back to the edge of the woodline behind the house. I'm gonna set it in this dirt spot. There was nothing there and it's like March now, excuse me. And it was getting a little bit warm. So I said, I'm gonna set this watermelon on this dirt spot, and we waited to the edge of dark light five minutes before it got dark, and I said, as soon as it gets light, we'll get up in the morning, like the second it's daylight and go and see what's happened with this watermelon. So sorry.

29:41 So I carry this watermelon out there, and it took two arms wrapped around this thing, and it was really juicy, but if unless you tipped it sideways, there really wasn't any juice running out. So I set it on the spot the edge of the woodline where I had seen this bigfoot. So the next morning and we watched and we waited till it got dark, set it there, and then it got dark and we went to bed. And the next morning, the second we get up sometimes it is always gets up before daylight. And he gets me up and we wait till it turns daylight and we look and I'm like, I don't think it's there, and I and he's and I'm like, please don't leave me, just stay on the back deck. He's on the back deck watching and I walk over there. The watermelon's gone.

30:32 There is no there's no rhymes, there's no seeds, there's no nothing. Now, if it was a deer or any other animal. It could have chewed it up right there. The ground would have been a wet mess there, wooded. The ground was so dry you could have picked it up and it had been like sand. There wasn't one seed, one, no trace of that watermelon anywhere. And not only that, okay, say some animal drug it off. They had hands and they just drug it off, or they ate the whole thing right there. But there was two, not one, but two snake skins put in its place, and they were stretched out and they were laid side by side, and they were one was about four feet long and the other one was about six feet long, and they were laying right there in the same spot of the watermelon.

31:26 And I'm like I was just standing there frozen, and the husband starts yelling, carry you, okay, you okay because I wasn't moving, and he's hey, hey, and I was just like, yeah, I'm thinking, yes, they this is really there. This is if the other experiences didn't already confirm it, yeah, this confirmed it. I carried them in and he was like, what is that? And I told him. He was like, oh my gosh. So I just I didn't know what to do. So I put the snake skins back out back out there, and I just said, thank you whatever I'm seeing or talking to the woods. And this is not the first time I said that. I'm like, I'm talking to the woods. What is my life become. I'm there talking to the woods. I said, I know you guys are around, I can feel you. Thank you for the snake skins, but I'm going to leave them out here in nature. And I walked back in the house. So the next day I go into town and it's eight o'clock in the morning. I wanted to get to the grocery store for it got too crowded. And I get to the end of my road, and if you go left, there's a bridge right there that goes over the Noah Chucky River and that goes down to the Wildlife Refuge the other way the other end of my road. So the river's right there, and it'll take you into Morris Morristown m R R. I S T O W N.

32:55 Where I've heard a one podcast there was a sighting at Panther Creek State Park. Somebody said, so that's not too far from that area. You make a right, it takes you into town about five miles away. So of course I got my service dog, and he's looking at the trees and he's growling, and I'm like, and I look, and I'm like, what, buddy, what do you see? A squirrel? What is it? He hates squirrels. So I said, there's nothing there. I don't see anything, and he is locked onto something and he stared at it. I'm like, I don't see anything, there's nothing there. Cast up and then all of a sudden, I looked down out the passage seat. This was on the ground on the passenger side. So I leaned. I don't even know how some of these things that I don't even know how I knew, but I just did. I put the car and park and I almost got out, thank god I didn't. And I leaned over to the passenger side looked on the ground and I think I sent you pictures. If I didn't, I will, I've got them. I saw deer legs. And the crazy thing about deer legs. Any hunters will know this, you do not nobody. There's no need to do that.

34:02 It's not how you skin a deer, and that they were snapped off at the knees, not up where the shoulder is but snapped off. And the reason I say snapped off and twisted off is because you can literally see one piece of bone sticking up about two inches higher than the other, and it looks like a serrated edge knife on the bone, and the skin is twisted round and round like if you ring out a towel, and I'm like, what the heck. And then a little ways away I saw a spine, just the spine, and there was nothing on it, like not. It wasn't like a dried up old spine, like there just wasn't any neat on it. And I'm like, what the heck. So I'm like, okay, somebody hit a deer. So I'm looking around.

34:53 I don't see any blood, and I'm like, okay, maybe the coyotes drug it down the big giant there's giant boulders on the left where the river is that are, oh gosh, the size of the of a hood of your truck boulders. And I'm like, okay, maybe they drug it over the side. And I'm looking and I don't see any blood, anybody, nothing. And then I get ready to get out and a rock hits my truck, not a big rock, maybe the size of all like a golf vault. And it was a put a big dent, like a golf ball sized dent in the door, the same door that my rottweiler is at the window at growling.

35:35 Thank god I didn't break the window. And I heard that, and then and he's still growling, and I and then I look at the deer legs again as I'm taking pictures, and I see one tiny little drop of blood come out of one of the end of the legs, and I'm like, oh crap, this just happened. Because it's mostly all boning skin from the knees down. There's no meat, there's nothing, so for any for a drop of blood, well, a little drop to come out. This just happened. And this was early in the morning, so like before a little bit before eight o'clock or seven o'clock. And I'm like, oh, yeah, time to go. So I got the heck out of Yeah, I got the heck out of Dodge. I was not and I almost got out of the truck. I'm so glad I didn't because I don't want to end up one of these missing people. So I'm driving down this road.

36:26 Oh gosh, a quarter a mile from there, and you have to drive in between those two the rock giant rock wall but just sheared off because it's part of the Smoky Mountains and just like solid rock wall. And you drive down this clunel of a country road of two rock walls and trees, and one of the rock walls starts to gradually decline and that goes to the river. The other one just stays a sheer rock wall, goes about twenty feet in the air, and all of a sudden, I hear and I'm going real slope because I'm scanning, like looking everywhere. I'm like, there's gotta be a deer. There's gotta be a deer body, there's something. It's just this can't just can't be. And my dog's still growling.

37:09 He's still growling. And all of a sudden, I hear in my head look up and I'm like what, And I'm like, who the heck. I'm looking around, like who said that? I don't have my radio on the bluechoth. I don't the Bluetooth and I don't have it does but I don't know how to use it. The Bluetooth thing that you connected your vehicle, I don't know how to do all that. And look, there's nobody around, there's nobody behind me. There's a soul in sight. So I stop in the road and I look up and I see a bigfoot standing on the cliff. Now the sun is coming up, so the sun is that it's back, and it's standing in kind of I don't know if you've seen somebody getting ready to fight, or a box or a military and their arms are sticking out to the side, just a little bit away from their body, and they're like in a very alert position, a stance.

37:58 And I could see the sun I'm like shining through its hair that was hanging off of its arms as it had its arms out to the side. And it looked it did not look like the same one. This one was more orangey color, not as orange as a as an a ringing tang, but more orange, not as dark. And this one looked a lot more holped out, beefed up. Oh. It's hard to tell how tall it was because it was on a twenty foot cliff, but it was a big son of a gullain. It was big. Oh, I'd say eight hundred pounds easily four and a half feet wide, had big arms, jaunt looked like it looked like an old picture of Lueforigno, or like when they're all muscled out.

38:46 And I said, and I knew that because I knew they talked to me in my head before I knew this was my chance. So I said in my head to it, for one a couple of reasons. One, I wanted to test to make sure that I wasn't one hundred percent crazy and to see if it really was talking to me in my head, and if it was, is it can answer me. So I said in my head to it, what are you? Are you a nephlum? Because like I said, I believe in the Lord in the Bible, and I read over my Bible and that's the only thing I could come up with where that even would I've mentioned anything that could remotely, in my mind, in my opinion, be like them. And I said, are you an fhlum? Are you an fhlum? And it would not answer me. It made me so mad, It's said, but it didn't answer that question. But it did answer me.

39:32 And it said in the same exact thought in my head, very slow, in the same way, and it said it just I'll never forget this is burned in my brain. I don't care if I live to be a thousand years old, so I hope I don't, but I'll never forget it. It said there are many of us, some good, some bad, just like people. And I'm like, okay, as she as I I heard that. I'm thinking, good, your phone, quick take picture. I looked down for a fraction of a second to get my phone, looked up it was gone, and I'm like, dang, ye, I missed it. Yeah, I missed the picture, but it did answer me back. But it did not would nick purposely would not answer that question? Yes?

40:18 And then the next night after that, I have something called occipit on euralgia, which is like burning in the back of your head. Until my doctor got me on the right nerve medicine for that, I had to sleep sitting up in the chair. And it's not like Xadax or any kind of psychiatric medicines or anything like that. I've never heard voices before in my head. I don't take antidepressants. I don't take any kind of medicines that would have made me heard any voices or where I've ever heard voices in my head ever, besides me talking to myself, which I do a lot. But the next night we were sleeping in the living room and it was about seems to always be the same time between two thirty, mainly three thirty, but between two thirty and four thirty fourish, and I heard this owl, except it wasn't an owl. It sounded like an owl with its mouth up to the megaphone. It was so ungodly loud.

41:20 And the back of our house at the time had a little l shape in it, and it was back up beside the deck, and it was right beside the window where I was sleeping. It was so loud. I almost jumped out of my chair when I heard that, Jeremiah, it was just crazy loud. And then it did it two more times, and finally I woke my husband, like get out, let's look, and there it was gone, except and we did find this time, we found sixteen inch footprints in that same spot, but we only saw one footprint they had after that. The one of the next very weird situations we had, which all of this just kept happening, like they kept coming closer and closer to the house. The next day we had ceiling fans on the back deck and every time, okay, every time I went to put my two dogs out on the back deck just they're inside dogs, but just to get some stimulation, fresh air. Within five or ten minutes of being out there, I would hear think and I was like, what the heck is that? And they would get louder and harder, louder and harder, and then my dogs would start growling, and then they would start barking. Within twenty minutes, I'd have to bring them in, and the whole back deck had rocks all over it. They would throw rocks at the back deck because somehow my dogs can see them when I cannot see them, and they do not like the dogs at all out there. I went to take my dog out the next day. There was about two

42:53 thirty in the afternoon, and there was not a soul around, and I walked back towards the creek, which is in the middle of the field. It's not like I'm deep and remote in the woods like Harley is very brave to be doing that. I'm telling you, I wouldn't do that. Nope, Nope, sure wouldn't. So all of a sudden, this and I'll send you a picture. It's just a tree, but I'll send you a picture of it if I haven't. It's like this forty foot tall tree, and it's not a pine tree. There's no wind, there's no storm. It's a perfectly sunny day. There's not even a breeze. And then it as hot as hades outside, and all of a sudden, Jeremiah, I hear this whoo, and then I hear something answer back. And it happened so quick. I didn't even have time to I didn't even have any I didn't even have a pocket knifehone, he had not They're done, you did.

43:39 I had nothing, not even my cell phone. And I'm like, and my dog and me just froze. And he's on the leash, thank god. Oh yeah. Ever since then I didn't need to take him on a leash outside one there's nobody around and there's no traffic. But after that, I did, after the first sighting, and all of a sudden, this tree starts shaking so hard in front of us. Oh, I'm like fifteen feet from this tree, and this thing is jerking, jerking back and forth like tug award, jerking so violently, and all of a sudden you can hear crick cracks, all these noises with a tree is being pushed over and broken in half from just a few feet off the ground, and not no, not one other tree is moving, and all of a sudden, all these crows start squawking and screaming, and they all come flying all the woods, and the next thing you know, this tree starts coming down right at me and my dog, like lan, I ran and which I got a bad knee.

44:43 You got a knee replacement, and it's bad, and so my knee doesn't bend all the way and I can't run. So I'm trying to run without falling and pulling him because he's growling and barking and he doesn't want to move. And I'm trying to pull this one hundred and thirty pound dog and trying get get the heck out of there, back in the house. And before I barely made it out of the way, this whole tree comes down right in the middle, right in the middle of the field. I'm looking around, anybody see this, anybody Hello, Hello, And there's nobody. I'm like, of course, there's nobody. I took a couple pictures. I took a couple of pictures of that, but they started throwing rocks at the house all night long.

45:25 They would I have two inside cats, and they've done that at every place I live. Their famous thing to do is they do and they do the cats. And I do have to stop myself and say, nine years ago I was the one saying, listen to these people, how crazy they sound saying this stuff. Now I sound like the crazy one. I'm saying this stuff because it's real, it's really happening. They like to tap on the window at nighttime and the cats, when everybody's sleeping, we'll go tearing right across the house and they're ripping up the mini blind to get on the miniblinds, clinking and banging, and you're trying to sleep to get on the other side of the miniblind to see, and they're tapping on the screen of the window for the cats. And then when the cats get on the other side of the miniblind to see, then the bigfoots will go on the opposite side of the house and start tap pep. And I know this because when my cats started doing this, I'm like, what the heck, why are they running back and forth? I first I thought they were chasing each other.

46:28 And then I thought it were bugs, and then I thought it was a moth, and then I thought there was something inside the house, and I went through everything and nope. I laid there awake one night and I heard it tapping, like with the fingernail tappened. It was like think, think, and then the cats will go tearing, but across to the other side of the house. And then when they get to the curtain and they look, then the bigfoots will go on the end of that and they'll do this all freaking night long, to where you cannot even get any sleep. You can't even sleep because they do this all night long. And they were doing that every single night. We walked down the railroad tracks like the following week, which literally low Country Road in front of our house in Newport where we lived, and you walk and you jump on the railroad tracks and you walk right to the wildlife Refuge, which is not a little mile if that walk really nice all and closed in woods on both sides. The farther you walk down, the further it steers you away from the houses.

47:29 So we got to this one section and I called it the boneyard because there's a one area that's very there's a big high embankment, probably I don't know, fifteen feet high, maybe higher than that, maybe twenty feet. You can't see anything, and the houses are way. You're like three acres away with the houses and they can't see anybody. It's the back of the houses. And then on the right side you're going towards the wildlife refugees. The water and the trees and swampy stuff. You can't see. There's nothing. There's nobody over there, and there's no houses over that way for miles, many miles the walk. We hear the I see it where I see this boneyard pile. We saw a raccoon, two or three dogs, because the collars were still laying. The collars that the dogs were wearing were laying with their names on them. A cat. It looked like some kind of big bird, like a I don't know if it was. I don't think there's pelicans around here, but like a big stort. Oh. Gray cranes, that's what they were. A couple of cranes were laying there, two or three possum. It looked like a bunch of reptiles, a whole bunch of oh, a whole bunch of turtle shells, probably thirty turtles turtle shells just left and they were all in this one five foot span, and I'm like, that is so weird, Like why are all these animal bones just in this one little spot right on the other side of the water, up against an embankment that you could clearly sit on and eat chow down, going

49:01 man them buffet and nobody's around. That's so weird to me. And we walked down to the reserve and we get down there and look around, and on the way back we heard something that sounded like like a din I don't want to say it, like a dinosaur, like if I just want I can't remember the name of that Jurassic Park, like the dinosaurs running and you can hear the ground like boom boom, like thumping. It was doing like that. You could actually Now we're not close. We're all on the railroad tracks. This is down a little ten foot embankment that it evens out to the trees that go into the reserve. So we're oh, at least thirty forty feet away from where this is happening. And all of a sudden, it sounds like somebody literally drove a freaking dump truck into a tree. You're sash the whole tree, the leaves works floating off. You look up in the sky and there's leaves like flying up into the air, up in the up towards the sky. The tree exploded like it got hit so hard, and the whole tree comes down. And it was windy that day, but seven mile an hour winds, not seventy mile an hour winds. So I said to my husband, oh my gosh, what was that. He's, oh, let's just keep walking, don't worry about I'm like, don't worry about it. What is wrong with you? And he's that's nothing, And he said later on he was just trying not to scare me too.

50:33 Eight for that, buddy, that's way too that's that that's already passed. So we walk a little further and the same thing again. You could literally hear something running all on the ground and the same thing hits a tree, boomed, lean exploding everywhere a tree comes down. It was chasing us on the ground and then like jumping into trees and hitting the trees with such force because this thing was so big and strong. The whole tree was coming down and I only a pine tree, I mean like a small oak tree or maple tree twenty foot high, thirty foot high tree, like a normal size big tree you have in your yard coming down. And we got back to the house and as we're almost back, it was the edge of dark, almost seven o'clock at night, and all of a sudden, we heard something coming and it sounded like a bunch of vehicles. But we couldn't figure out where they were coming from because we had just been down to the wildlife reserve and there was only one way in and one way out our road.

51:39 We would have heard them or seen them, and we kept hearing them coming here like it seemed like it was lasting forever, and all of a sudden and we're on the edge of the road. Now. We got off the railroad tracks, walked across those spot of grass to get to the road, and we're like almost in front of our house. And if you were in front of our shed, go past our house a little ways, there's like a sharp turn and then you can go down My husband's whatever it is, it's getting closer. He has the one dog in a leash, and I have my dog in a leash, and we turn around it before you know it, there was I don't remember either six or seven totally blacked out jeeps. I don't know. He didn't he said. My husband said. They weren't full jeeps.

52:24 They were some kind of off road on road vehicle. They had hardtops and they had the whole entire thing was black black everywhere. The windows were blacked out. You couldn't the windshield, you couldn't even see who was in the You couldn't even see who was in there. They had no tags on him. There was one the front vehicle had a little tiny tag that said g OVT. And the only reason I saw that is because it almost mowed me down. Oh. They were doing like forty something miles an hour and they would have run me right over. They did not care. They were on the way, they were driving. They were all two feet from each other's bumper, all six or seven of them. I don't even know how they drove like that without hitting each other.

53:08 But they were getting it and they were coming out of the Wildlife Reserved, and my husband had said, don't forget to tell him about the shooting, and I'm like, okay. So after they started getting close, I'm on the edge of the road. I'm figured, Okay, they'll just move over just a little bit to go. Nope, nope, they were gonna mow me right down. My husband literally took his arms as hard as they couldn't shoved me into a bush with the dog, and of course the dogs hooked in my arm, so me and the dog were flying into the bush. Had he not done that, they would have bring me right over. And he was like, those were some kind of military vehicles. And I'm like, how do you know he's because I saw the first time? Did you see it? And I'm like, Dad, as I was flying onto the ground, he's carry. If I didn't push you, they weren't moving, they would have run you right over. I'm like, could you see who it was?

53:55 He's no, they were all completely blacked out. And I'm like, how did they get in there? Like, I have no idea because we just walked this road and there's one way in and one way out, and I have no idea. We're getting ready to go in the house after I get out of the bush, and we're getting ready to go to the house, and all of a sudden, we hear automatic gunfire, and then we hear some kind of it sounded like rocks clacking or some I can't do it, but some men that have big hands can slap their hands together real hard of cupped and make us like a clocking sound. And we heard we would hear automatic gunfire, and then we hear it sounded like rocks clocking or there or somebody smacking their hands together, like probably rocks because it was so loud. I don't even know where it was coming from because it was echoing off the woods everywhere. And then we heard three really loud, long drawn out wall like that but way loud. I can't even do it, kind of screechy from the railroad truck side, the wildlife reserve side, and then behind us behind our house that goes into the mountains, which if you follow it, you can follow it all the way up into Gatlinburg to Smoky Mountains. And then another scream comes from back there in the automatic gunfire, and I'm like, it sounded Jeremia.

55:25 It sound like we were in the middle of a freaking war zone. And I'm like, what that, Oh my god, right now, there's no neighbors, Like I said, nobody ever was outside. There was nobody around ever. Everybody who lived around there. They were just like super old and never saw anybody, and if you did, they were taking their little dog out. And we had a chance to see somebody and talk to them and ask them anything. And he was like, I don't know what's going on, but we need to get we need to get in the house like now. It was just it was crazy. It sounded like a war zone going on out there. But the Bigfoots they amped up a lot that following weekend, right after the gun that whole scenario happened. My husband was home and he was super tired. He'd been he'd driven like sixty worked and he's a driver sixty hours that week. So we had to go into town to get something and I'm like, i'll drive. And I was really tired too, and they shouldn't have been driving. But I went to back up in the driveway and he is.

56:25 I have an SUV and he's in a small little Nissan Coop. I looked in my rear view mirror and he was parked in my spot. Big for Society will be right back after these messages. Everybody's got their own spots. That was my spot, his spot whatever, he was parked too. Far over in the gravel. So when I looked in my mirror real quick, I thought that I was clear, But that's because I was already too close. So I backed up on my hair crunch, so I busted his headlight out, and Grant smashed into the front of his car, cracked the fender, and it was still drive the ball. It wasn't total or anything, because you know, it was just slowly back in, but it did put a two foot wide at the depth of the basketball deep at least maybe a basketball and a half deep depth into my truck dent in the back corner, and two basketballs wide in the back corner of my truck. I was so upset because I love this SUV. It's an older one that's been the best vehicle I've ever owned. So I got out and I was like, oh my gosh, he's here. It's okay. So I'm like, you can fix it, right, you can fix it with like hair dryer. I've seen people do it.

57:54 He's notice this is like fiberglass. This is not like cheap plastic. This is like twenty five hundred dollars worth of damage. Say I can't fix this, no, I'm like, oh no, and I kept saying, please, I want this undone. I want to read you. Please, Lord, just make this undone. Lord. No. I was so upset. So every day for a week and I took my dogs out, I walked out there and I had to walk right by, and I'm like, come on, please, I want this undone. I'm so upset. I love my truck. I didn't go anywhere the whole week. It was fall, it was not hot. It was late September, and he had to work on a Saturday, which is rare, and they had a fall festival. So I'm like, I'm gonna go into town the fall festival. Get out of the house. Stop thinking about the stupid dent and a giant dent in my truck. So I walked on the truck and there's no dent, and I'm like what. So I walk over and look at the other side and I'm like, okay, No, it was on the passenger side.

58:54 My running board. I see this pile of white rocks and they I don't know, I guess they're works. And there was this little tiny flower just ahead of a flower, like they're all over the yard, and there was the flower was like purple, just ahead of the flower, sitting on top of this white pile of rocks on the running board, and they were shaped like a little pyramid, maybe three inches wide three inches high, and I kept looking which side was a dad Okay, no, it was that side, and I just couldn't believe it. Some feeling the truck with my hand, and it was smooth as could be, the only way you could even tell there had even been a dent there is the paint was still cracked, a little line in the paint, but there was completely smooth down. And then I'm like hack like.

59:40 So we gets home and I totally forgot about say anything till the next day, Sunday, and it was I think it was COVID time too. We were so we were getting ready to watch church on TV, and I'm like, oh, by the way, thank you for fixing my truck, and he's I didn't know your truck was boken. I'm like, yeah, the bumper, Remember I crashed into your car. He's carrying. I didn't fix your truck. We don't have money for that. But it's an older truck. It's not even worth spending that. I'm like, yeah, just tell me the truth. What credit cards. You put it on, he's I did. He let's go outside. So he goes outside and he stands there and he starts scratching his head and he starts laughing. I didn't do this pretty much, only one way to explain this, he's said, let's get this straight. He didn't drive anywhere all week. Nope. You promise you didn't put it on any credit card. Nope. And it wasn't hot, so the heat couldn't have popped it half. All those were now, so how does a dent like that pop itself out completely smooth? And then that little pile of rocks and flower was on there, and he looked looked up underneath there, and he said he could see where there was a palm print, the edge of a palm print, a big one like he has normal He doesn't have giant hands, he's got normal sized hands. But he said it was like two and a half times bigger than his hands, and just the palm edge of a palm print underneath the lip of that back fender. But the I guess the happenings, as you want to call it, in Newport

1:01:11 happened were happening so much it was becoming to be daily to where I just couldn't take it anymore. I wasn't getting any sleep. If you don't walk around, you don't sleep, you can't think. There was just affecting everything. And I'm like, I'm tired of you. Oh. I was walking. I like to walk down the road every day, walk my dog. And something I heard, somebody calling it pacing you. I heard something pacing me. Ah, about six foot up on the edge of the road, little ridge line where the woods go all the way down the side of the road. One side houses the other side's woods. And every time I took a step, it was falling. And I love to walk, so I would hear crunch. I take a step, I hear crunch, and I'm like so finally, And I knew that it could read my mind because it happened with the door thing.

1:01:59 So I know if I was going to do something, I had to do it quick and try to outsmart it. So I went to act like I was going to take a step down, except I stopped midway and it stepped all the way down and I spun around real quick at the woods. Now I'm like three feet from the woods. I should have been able to see this thing because it was literally right there and I could not see it and I don't know how, and I turned around when it stepped down. I heard the footfall. I felt it land on the ground and I heard it clutch the ground and I turned around and I said, gotcha, and it's it laughed, but it laughed for someone who's deaf, they have a certain way of talking, like a tone to their voice. It kind of laughed. I don't know, very like that. The way it laughed, it was like it was just it was a very strange laugh. And I'm like, Okay, I'm going home. So I turned around the way back home as fast as my latest could go.

1:02:58 So every time even walked, and they started following me when I was walking, and I just got I knew if they wanted to hurt me and grab me, they definitely could have. But I was tired of being I was tired of being scared because I didn't I don't know what these things are. It is scary, and it was very remote. There was nobody around and I was alone. So there's I think one of the biggest last two things that happened in Tennessee. I was doing the dishes and it was sunny summer, and I looked out the back window and I saw the classic shape of exactly what a cutout of a big foot looks like walking. Now, this is really mind blowing. Okay, imagine if you take a piece of glass and you shave it down and you make paper. I've seen this paper sold in stores where kids wrapped their school books with it, and it's almost like a prism color paper. It's got blues and pinks and orange and purple and greens. The way you moved the paper and the way the light hits it.

1:04:04 I saw I'm doing the dishes, and all of a sudden, I just, I don't know, I felt that I needed to look up. So I look up and I see this bigfoot walk out. It's not even looking at me. It comes out of the dark, and the only reason I saw it is going to stepped out of that. It was right inside the edge of the woodline, and there was a fifteen foot spot where there was very sunny. The sun was hitting this area, and then it went back into the dark where it was daytime but dark where the sun wasn't shining because of the leaf cover. So I look up and I see this bigfoot step out of the woodline it crossed over. I always called it the gauntlet because there was a separation in the mountains back there. There was fifteen foot wide, and I used to go back there all the time and sit.

1:05:00 There was a creak and it set back there reading the church was very peaceful until they ran me out of there. I just I felt overwhelming anxiety and fear back there and get out. I felt it so strong where I got to be terrified to even go anywhere near there, so I didn't. But I saw this thing step out in the sunlight. When the sunlight hid it, that's when its whole body looked like it was wrapped in that kind of like paper like glass. But I could see its arms swinging, and I could see the outline of its body because it was against the dark tree line in the background. And I'm like, what in the heck, oh my gosh, I've seen it all now and didn't even look at me. It just how it's how it's from the shoulders, top of the shoulders, hunched over forward, long arms swinging past its knees, just throwing, just rolling on rolling across there. And the way it's knees moved. Blew my mind too, because it's almost like it's almost like I didn't even notice it's it picking up its feet, but it had to be. It's just kind of rolled, very smooth, very fluid, like when people walk, your head kind of goes up and down. I didn't see its head wasn't going up and down. Its body was moving forward, but it was just very smooth, fluid, steady, one level even even motion all the way across, and

1:06:32 then it just stepped back into where the sun wasn't shining, and you just couldn't I just could not believe. I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Oh this, I think this is the last two things for happen that we were in Finnase before just I wanted to leave because I just got to be so frightened where it got to be so bad Jeremiah that I actually bought and put tinted up film window film in the front dining room windows because during the daytime I would have the front windows open and you could see inside the whole house. And I felt, and I knew it and I still know it that they had one of them just like watching me all day long. I felt it. I've never felt that anywhere else I lived, and I got to be so scared that I actually put up film where you could see outside tent dark tint and you could see outside and some sunlight could still get in, but if you were outside, you couldn't see inside. And as soon as I put that up, I felt like whatever was out there was gone, wasn't standing. But I didn't just pop it up in one day. I had been this feeling for months, and I kept saying something to my husband about it, and he said, the woods are so thick over there across the road. This is where the wildlife reserve. It is. If anything was in there, we wouldn't know it. But oh, I'm sorry. Back up.

1:07:59 When we did go down there to the reserve, I felt we found a bunch of little nest where these like a whole bunch of reeds were like crisscrossed, woven in together, and underneath of them were these soft, little strong nest and they were right near the water, except they were like gosh, six feet wide by six feet long, and there was you could see tow tracks, but big tow tracks, footprints and tow tracks, and they would just showed up toes in the water. It was about four feet of water and the water was pretty clear. Little creek part the part of the reserve going into these nests of some of those where I saw either those pictures of these crisscross like nest looking things. And when we were down there at the reserve, I saw found this.

1:08:59 We had a high when we got walked off the trail, off the main path and walked into the woods a little bit because it was fall and it was clear, and really wasn't afraid of snakes at that time, and I found this thing. It looked like a beaver dam. Now, the crazy part is it was twelve feet high by oh, twelve feet wide, No, maybe ten feet wide. I'd say ten feet high by ten feet high, yeah, because that's the size of our small route, our small bedroom. Yeah, And it was huge. And my husband's, oh, that's probably a beaver dam. I'm like, honey, the water's way over there.

1:09:40 Water doesn't even come over here. Beaver is not gonna build a dam that big and not away from water. So there was a tiny little opening in the front and I'm like, I got my little keychain flashlight, I'm gonna look in there, so dumb me. I poked my head in there, and there's something in the back and it started growling a growl that I know was not the human growl, like nothing I've ever heard before. And he heard it and he was like one, I'm like, I can't run. I don't like, don't believe me. He's like, all right, oh, let that he goes on. Let them eat me first, Like thanks, that's true love. We got the heck out of there. But I was as I was trying to run away, I turned around and I snapped.

1:10:26 I think I got half a picture of it. I don't know if I got a whole picture of it, but the way the sticks were woven together, they were not that's no no human. There wasn't even that many sticks. It rail. It was just in the middle of the wood you find like a hut like that, and the hole inside was pitch black and it seemed to be hollow inside. There was very bizarre. And then the next morning I go to let I go to sit on the back deck and give my morning reading, and I opened the back deck and one of my fan blades. I think it was okay you that before we had fans on the back deck and they're like palm leaf fans one of my fan blades, and I told my husband, I said, I'm hearing this fans spinning at night, and he's he's sometimes the mountain winds come like, I don't think that's what it is. I said, I think they're spin like really fast because I can hear it. And those walls were paper thin, so I heard it spinning and I kept hearing them spin for a while and so and he's just the wind. So the next day, after the situation, the park situation is where I found that stuff, I went out there and the fan blade is broken right snapped into Now the crazy part is it's not snapped off where the screw is. When you screw the fan blade, which looks like a palm leaf

1:11:56 into the the base, it's not broken there. It's broken like right in the middle. Something grabbed it and spinning it around to play with it and just was so strong. It just it was snapped completely in two in a place where it shouldn't even have been snapped. And I'm like, thanks a lot, guys, appreciate it. So I went in the house and I brought the fan blade in the house and I came back out. I told my husband, he's like, just put a thing back outside. I hadn't even been in the house five minutes. I come back out and there's this little tiny, like the palm of my hand, woven together read like a wreath that was made with sticks, not soft reeds, but like tiny little bent some kind of bend double sticks. It was all woven into a wreath, and those purple flowers were all stuck in it, a whole bunch of them. And it's sitting right in the chair where I had where I always sat and did my read. And I had just been out there and it wasn't there because I pulled the chair out to do my morning read and it wasn't And that wreath was not sitting there because it was very noticeable. The chair was white, one one thing, and this little wooden wreath is dark brown and purple flowers.

1:13:17 You can't miss it, and it was sitting right there. We when I've heard people say how fast they moved we were when we were eating dinner in Tennessee, we went to we had our cat, We had one of our extra bedrooms. These three bedrooms we turned into like the catroom, their cat toys and cat tree and stuff. So I said, we were sitting there on TV. We were eating dinner on TV trays, and they said, did you shut the cat room mini blind? It's dark? But I don't let them looking in the house. And he knew what I was talking about, and he was like, I don't know why. I said, because we're being looked at right now. I can feel it. And we both turned our heads and at the exact same time. Oh, he said, if he needs that. My husband said, if he needs a sign anything to talk to you, he would be glad to tell you the stuff he's seen and experienced two with me and on his own since we since he's been we've been together. But we both turned our heads at the same time. And as soon as I did, I saw it was standing. Now a normal sized window is what probably four feet wide, and it was a normal size window, probably knee height from the bottom of the window would be where your knee would be, where the bottom of the window would start, and just go up. We both looked and it was standing sideways. If it had been standing straight on, it would have blocked out the whole entire window. That's how wide it was. It was standing sideways and almost blocked

1:14:48 out the whole window. And we could see, yep, that big shoulders, had a round head. No like point on the head or anything like that. No neck. Never seen an on any of them. It's like this giant fat bowling bow heads stuck on these massive shoulders. And it saw us, and it was black. It was dark outside, though we could not see any facial features. We just saw its body and it saw us. And it moved so fast, how fast it moved. I was sat there and I'm like, the only the best way to explain stuff to people, in my mind is to give them something to compare it to. Visually, it moved and this is the and I've seen it move twice as fast as the humming bird. If you've ever seen a humming bird at the feeder before, that's how fast they move.

1:15:42 So when people say they were running ungodly fast, and it was so, that's yeah, that's how fast they can move. So if one runs by you or is moving in your in like your periphial vision, you blink, oh, yeah, you could miss it easily if they were around you easily miss it if you weren't aware weren't aware of that. And I keep saying this, but this is the last thing that I can remember that happened in Tennessee. Right the week the week before night before we are moving. We were laying in bed. Like I said, these walls were paper thin. If my husband I was outside walking up to the front of the house, and if my husband was snoring, I would be able to hear him snoring outside the window. That's how thin these walls were.

1:16:28 So our headboard of our bed was right up against the wall where we would park, and there's a little gravel there was just like a little pea gravel lined by loan timbers. And then it goes to the back field where I saw the big foot in the mountains. They would cross over from the river the wildlife reserve and then go into the mountains behind our house, which goes all into deep woods into the smokies. Would cross back and forth. When it was about three thirty in the morning, and again I'm laying there and all of a sudden, I hear talking, and I'm like, who the heck's standing outside our house. Three. First of all, none of my family lived in the state where we were the only family that lived in the state. All my family lived in different states, including my kids. Nobody knew where we lived except our neighbors, which we only talked to two of them when we saw them when they came out, so nobody knew where we lived. Nobody had been to our house, so there was nobody that should have been outside. And I'm like, who's talking some way in there? And my husband's asleep because all it happened so fast. Sometimes you don't have time to wake up somebody or do something. So I hear talking and it reminded me of two little two grumlins because they were like I checked the check back and then I hear another one talking back to it. And I'm like, oh my god, I can't believe you. I can't believe in me hearing this. It was just so and the voice, oh,

1:18:03 it had a voice like a like a voice like we could talk, but it wasn't the same. It was using the language, and Waula was answering it, talking back to it. And it was directly behind the wall. And sometimes they would even tap on the wall. That's another reason too, so that we left it because I could never sleep. Sometimes they would tap on the wall right directly behind where my head was, and I'm like telling my husband, I'm like, there's like literally probably four inches between my head and where the sting could literally just literally push its hand right to the wall and grab me. That's terrifying. And they would just tap on the wall as they would cross back and forth nightly to get to go over to the river. I'm assuming to hunt deer and to get water because that's where the water source and fish were, and they would just tap, hey, we're moving by, and then taping and hey, we're coming back to and of course it's gonna wake you up.

1:19:01 The day we went to leave. The next day after that, we had my truck was mine as she was loaded up and I was pulling the trailer and he was driving a large twenty six foot Penske truck pulling his car, and we both we pulled out of the driveway. We stopped in the front of the house the middle of the road, and we were like, bye house, bye, and we told our neighbor came to tell us by. We asked her about this before and she said, yeah, but I'm not going to go in any show and I'm not talking to anybody everybody around here knows that they're here. We just don't talk. She called them wood boogers. She's everybody knows about them, all the wood boogers, and we just we don't mess with them, and they don't mess with us. They've been around forever. That's just the way it is around here. We don't we just don't talk about them. And I'm like, and she wouldn't. She just she wouldn't talk to me about it. She just and we got to be really good friends, but she just would not talk to me about it. And we went to leave and she said goodbye, and she went back home.

1:19:58 And we're in the middle of the road making sure we're both of our gps is are locked on to the same location in case we get separated on the highway. So it was a six hour drive to Indiana where we were going, and all of a sudden, our phones start flipping screens and they instead of going to our location in Indiana, it kept saying our It kept just repeating our address kept flashing across the street screen in Newport, Tennessee, our house address there, and our phone screens just kept flipping. One of our phones doing that is one thing First of all, we're not on we don't have the same phone plan. We're not on a phone plan at all.

1:20:41 We got prepaid phones, and we don't even have the same carrier either, So both of our phones could be doing the exact same thing. Because I'm like, I don't know, my phone's acting crazy right now. He's what you'rs doing? I told him, he's a look at my phone. So we both he walked over and we both held our phone side by, saw it and they were doing the exact same thing, like super fast, and he is, hey, I got an idea, So he's put your phone down for a minute. I'm like, okay. So he's bye, guys, I love y'all. He's what we gotta go. We gotta go take care of our family. We're going somewhere where Carrie can get better medical care. You guys, take care. Everything will be okay. And then as soon as he said that, boom, both of our phones at the exact same time start working again. I don't even think there's no way that could be a coincidence.

1:21:32 He's like, Okay, I guess we're on the road now. I guess we are. And that's when we left for Indiana Special. Thank you to Carrie for coming on the show. This is part one of her interview. If you want to hear the second part, it's coming out in a few days. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, Or if you're a National park ranger, a forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, or if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're with the FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about. And if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue responder who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense.

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