What Really Lurks in Tennessee’s Mountains?

0:01 You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron Tonight's story isn't from a hiker or a hunter. It's from a man who grew up in the deep woods of Tennessee, where the mountains whisper, secrets, and sometimes scream. While repelling down a ninety foot cliff, he came face to face with something enormous, amber eyes, black fur, and a second set of eyes, smaller watching And it wasn't just one, and it wasn't happy to see him. This isn't a campfire tale. It's a first hand encounter with a creature that didn't want to be seen. This is a story of project broken man and what he saw clinging to his rope in the mountains of Teleco Plains, Tennessee. So stay with us. Hey, hey, everyone, let me know if you can hear me in the in the comments down there.

0:53 We're just going to hang out see if anyone's got any bigfoot stories to share. Guys, did you see the video over on the how to Hunt YouTube channel of the family of Sasquatch along the river out there in Idaho. It is a wild video. You guys should check that out. Let me know in the comments if you've seen this video, if you have any thoughts as to what it is. I don't know. It looks pretty legit. Some dude sent it into him, and I see in the comments over there that other people have had access to this video as well, they just haven't been able to share it yet. It looks pretty legit. I mean, you can see long, long arms, You can see the little ones running way quicker than anything else should. It doesn't look like an AI video. I do a ton with AI. It does not look like an AI video to me. So I don't know. We will see. Hey Bear, thanks for coming out.

1:53 Do you mind if I potentially use this audio for my podcast? Yeah? Sure, okay, the audio is a little bit a little bit faint as well. I don't know if you're able to get a little closer to your phone. Yeah, did you hear me now? Now? Can you hear me now? Oh? That's great? Yeah, you got it man? Perfect? Okay. So yeah, so my partner and I we we uh we worked for agriculture and we were at three am out in Lake Wells just doing our thing and he stopped and turned off his lights and it was it was kind of crazy where uh. He said, hey, look at this, and he shined the lights on and we saw a big, old figure, a brown figure, take off like human like and this thing flew, I mean it flew and I was like, no, that can't be that can't be right. So we ended up looking up online and there has been several sightings in Lake Wells about bigfoot around that area.

2:53 Oh man, can you do you remember any uh any details about what you were able to see that morning? Yeah? Actually it was. It was really big, I mean very big, but it stood up. It must have been at least over six foot, very big and bulky, brownish like brown, kind of blackish. A very distinct odor, like a bad skunk smell that was going off. It was like, you know, we're like, man, we never smelt like that before. But it ran off into the woods and we're like okay. So about about two hours later we came back out to the field when it was daylight. I ended up going to the pond and looking around and saw a couple of tree branches that were freshly broken the way where he that that thing was going, and and a piece of log that was being dragged out of the pond, and ever since then. We kind of joke around, but like we're gonna go out there and visit Bigfoot, and we still go to that to that field. So we just looked it up online and there was a lot of people in Lake Wells that had sightings, even on the highway out there or a highway twenty seven and the latest one, I think was, I believe was two thousand and nine. I believe that's the last time we saw something like that.

4:10 Was it overly muscular or skinny? It was it was muscular. It was very big, very big, but it ran so fast on two legs. It just I mean, it was fast like it was We never seen anything run that fast before. Ever. When you saw it running, was it doing anything with its arms or moving its legs in a certain way. It was kind of running like a like an eight ke in the beginning and. Either oh, you know what I mean.

4:54 So it was kind of getting abo off the pond like it was sitting at the pond, got up, and then next time it just took off. Got it. We actually cut out for a little bit. Would you be able to say about how his uh you said, he started moving like an ape and then it turned into something else. Yeah, it got up like an ape like kind of figured like your arms are like it's kind of like a silverback does when he gets up from squatting. His arms are dangling like, you know, just dangling on the side of them. And once he once he spotted us, he started taking off. And then when he was running, it was just a little motion on his arms, not like a human, like a little bending of his elbows, but his legs were not completely straightened. It was kind of like bent, kind of like like he was running in a squatted position, but he was just whatever it was, it was moving so fast that we lost it that quick.

5:49 It was like a minute we saw and it just disappeared in the woods. Wow, that's that is while were you able to see any details of its face at all? No, not at all. It was so dark up there, I mean, at three o'clock in the morning, there's no lights and out in the prairie, you know, there's no lights. It just our truck lights, and we we just got a glimpse of it the backside and then the side of it, and that was it and never looked toward us or anything like that. And ever since then we're kind of like we're kind of like spoofed out a little bit, if you want to say, going out there, and we always looking, We're always looking for any kind of signs are out there. And I overheard you saying, you know, like like the deers, you know, a lot of animals out there in the forest. Nothing. We saw a couple of cow skeletons out there, and we asked the rancher, and the rancher doesn't know how this cow died at all, so, you know, so we you know, we didn't know what to do. We thought we were just kind of tripping, but you know, I just ran into your TikTok and I was like, wow, I got to tell my story here that you know, everybody might think, oh, you crazy, but I'm not crazy.

6:55 I know what I saw absolutely bear. Thank you for coming up to share. You guys were looking at what you saw that night. If you ever have anything else happen out there, feel free to reach out. It's that Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. But I appreciate you coming up. Man, Yeah, I appreciate it. Thank you, And trust me, we're trying to get pictures. We're going to see it again. I guarantee it. Yes, sir, Thank you, Oh good good stuff. What an interesting encounter from the Lake Wales area. Thank your sinister, A sinister, how's it going good?

7:36 How are you today? Good? Do you mind if I potentially use this audio for a podcast episode? Absolutely awesome? So what do you have to share today, sir? Well, you know my in the interest of full disclosure, my interest is not necessarily with Bigfoot. I am very deeply involved with a different interest, which actually caused me to move to where I live now to pursue it more. But when I was a teenager, my father was very good friends with a man who had recently retired from the CIA, and he was over at our house one night for dinner. And this is the type of man that would have no reason to tell a liar anything, and me being the curious person I was, because in an experience.

8:52 That I had had. When I was young, I asked him, I said, hey, you know, tell me some stuff. And he. Did tell me that anything that he knew as a CIA agent, that he was bound to secrecy for obvious reasons. One thing he did say was that if the general public knew the truth about what is out there, he estimated that ten percent of the public would jump off a building because they wouldn't build the hand troup. Now, so he proceeded to tell me something. He says, Now, this is not CIA related. So he was able to tell me this story, and I've never forgotten it. He was flying in a helicopter in Missouri and they started tracking a what he guessed was an eight foot tall bipedal you know, you said it looked like a bigfoot, and it was running and they clocked it at about forty five miles an hour, and they kept a spotlight

10:22 a light on it as it ran. And uh, you know. So this was not involved with his work with the government, but a personal experience. Bring up, Timmy here, how's it going? Hey, how's it going? Coming up to share something about bigfoot? You've yes? Awesome. Do you mind if I potentially use this audio for my podcast? Not a problem addle, all right? Feel free to go ahead there. So I used to be a long haul trucker and I was picking up a load of pay to take down to be made into cardboard in Washington, and there was like a three hour wait for our load to be ready. So we stopped at a place called GC's truck stop. It's about like twenty six miles north of the Washington Oregon border on Interstate five, and the truck stops whole theme is Bigfoot.

11:20 But they have a. Huge dirt parking lot. So we kind of parked out of the way from everybody, me and my teammate. And my teammate was inside getting some food. I was running around the truck, doing what's called a pre trip to make sure the truck was in good running order. And so I stopped and I pulled out my cigarettes and I was smoking. And so the way the truck stop is set up, the parking lot is kind of south of the truck stop and then there's the big buildings, and behind the buildings is it's like a little pond with a little gated area that has like ducks, geese and stuff. And so I'm looking over there. I could see the geese and ducks flapping around, playing around, and behind that it's all four and so I see some movement in the forest. I don't think anything of it.

12:04 I'm thinking I'm dear or whatever. So I continue going about my way and then I kind of looked back and I'm like, you know what, was that, and it was big, and it was brown, and I was probably about one hundred and fifty yards away from it, so I couldn't see too clearly because of the distance. But this thing was massive, and it walked out from the trees down to this pond area. And now mind you, this is middle of the day, like two three o'clock. It's not cloudy, it's not rainy or anything. It walks out and it walks up to the pond, reaches over the fence, and it grabs a goose. Now, the geese and the ducks were not freaking out, so I do think personally there might be a possibility it was a hoax.

12:48 Maybe somebody was dressed in, you know, dressed up trying to draw attention, because like I said, the trucks offs holl theme was bigfoot, but it was big, like this thing leaned over a four foot fence and reached into the pond that was probably a good two feet away from the edge of the fence, and grab a goose and it walked just casually walked back off into the forest. So I'm like, again, I was about one hundred and fifty yards away, so distance and sizing, I can't give you an accurate but I would guess the thing was at least eight feet tall.

13:30 Timmy, have you have you called in before? I don't know, maybe I have. I hop into random lives all the time. Okay, I can't remember your voice, but I do remember someone actually sharing about this exact truck stop and that they saw one with a goose, So I don't you You may have come in before. It very well might have been me. Yes, okay, okay, I was just checking because when you have two things like that happen at the same place and you really need to pay attention to it, that's that's incredible. And the interesting thing is that they weren't really responding. They're just hanging out like the birds. Yeah, they like when I went up to the gated area afterwards, like they kind of they didn't like freak out anything, but they swam away from the edge of the water away from me, which is why I kind of think maybe potentially it might have been somebody. Because geese are very territorial. They will attack if you get too close to them, so it's absolutely that's the only reason why I'm like, maybe it wasn't real, But like I don't know how they could fake the size of it, like, because this, like I said, it had to have been at least eight foot tall, because the fence was like four foot high. I'm six foot five and the gate came up to about mid gut for me, and this thing leaned over at the hips and grabbed the goots and then turn around and it just casually walked back in or like you know, just taking a stroll through

15:01 the woods. It wasn't running. It wasn't, you know, like trying to hide itself. Bigs. A society will be right back after these messages. That's the only reason that's got my skeptic mind saying maybe it wasn't real. It's in the perfect spot though. I mean, it's just north of like Longview and Castle Rock, and I mean, you hear so much from that area at least I get a ton of stuff in my emails about that.

15:43 But have you heard any of your other trucker buddies that shared things that they've experienced out there as well? Or Yeah, as a matter of fact, so a good friend of mine that's also a trucker, he used to do what's called a deadhead from sun Nor, Washington, straight down the Eye five into northern California to pick uploads and go back and forth like that was his run, and he would stop up there to fuel and get food and stuff. He said several times that you could hear like loud like hollering and tree knocks, I guess is what he calls it. And then yeah, he said that there you could see in the forests, like he said, you can see stuff moving around. He's like, I never actually saw anything come out of the woods, but he said I saw several Like he said, if they're there, there's multiple of them. It's not just like a single thing.

16:33 He's like, I couldn't tell if it was moose. He goes, I don't know if they have moose in the area. But he goes, this thing, the things that I saw were big, But he goes, I hear these weird like loud like like hoop noises, like something's like trying to scare something off. And if you watch, like you know, like the Bigfoot TV stuff, you know what they it's. He said, it sounds very similar to that. He goes, it could very well be a you know, an regular animal to the area. But he goes, I don't know after what you saw, He goes, I think there is something up there, and then like there's there's a lot of whispers from the people up there that they see stuff all the time. And that's the whole reason why the truck stop themed their stuff after the big Foot, because there's been several major sightings in the area.

17:17 Interesting, you know what, I'm gonna I'm going to give that truck stop a call, you know what, since I don't think it was a coincidence that you came in here twice over the years, and uh yeah, I'm gonna give a call. And just ask him. Let's see what happens. So thank you for coming up, Timmy. Yeah, no problem that it's called g like gee and then ceees truck stop GC's truck Stop. Yep, absolutely all right, thank you man, not a problem. You have a good one you too, All right, such a good story from over there GC's Truck Stop in Toledo, Washington. Riff Warden says, I have a story in Oklahoma. All right, let's bring you up. Riff. Hey, rif this is Jeremiah, thanks for coming up. Do you mind if I potentially use this audio for my podcast? Yeaes Sir awesome. We yeah, feel free to go ahead and share what you've experienced there.

18:11 Sure. Yeah. So this was at least fifteen or so years ago. I'm in my mid thirties, so this was when I was probably sixteen or seventeen, Me and about four of my friends. This was located in Oklahoma City, northwest Oklahoma City, on the outskirts of the city limits where it starts to turn into kind of the rural areas. There's spots and patches of dense forestry and rivers kind of between all of the fields and it kind of interconnects everything. We went out to a big field and we had three trucks. We all piled in, three different trucks. We went out there to basically start a bonfire, hangout, and you know, drink and just have a good time. We ended up staying up pretty late. It was probably two or three in the morning. We start to just kind of trekking out and just exploring, just you know, being kids, going underneath the road passes and all through the woods and stuff. Didn't really see anything. Everything felt pretty normal, didn't hear anything, you know, everything was fine. One guy stayed behind because he was tired, so he wanted to go sleep in his truck. When we came back to where we had parked all of our trucks in the fire, all of us were tired. We all climbed in the trucks.

19:28 That's where we slept, and there was like an sub two pickup trucks that had, you know, enough room for all of us to kind of sprawl out, So we all ended up going to bed in the middle of the night. We kept hearing thuds and like loud sounds outside and it was pretty cold, so all the windows had kind of fogged up and we couldn't see anything outside. And I don't know who all was awake in. The other trucks. I just know that two of us were awaken the one that I was in. We didn't really think anything of it. Thought maybe it was the other guy's getting out going to the bathroom something like that getting out of the trucks, fell asleep, woke up early in the morning. Where there's just a dew on everything. There's a dew on the windshield or on the windshield and like the windows on the sides, and there had been like wiped away marks or you can see like big handprints, and it like something basically was going around the trucks. Something or someone was basically going around the trucks and looking inside and trying to see who all was in there and what was going on. And the weirdest thing about it, I would have thought it would have just been like a normal person, But the handprints were huge, and then there were huge footprints all outside the trucks that were like two times ours as far as like the like how big they were, and so I'm were like a size eleven, so it's a pretty significant footprint. I didn't see anything, didn't hear anything, but it spooked all of us because something had been kind of walking around the

20:58 trucks peering in the window that was way bigger than us. So it's either a prank and nobody there swore it was them. Like everybody was like completely freaked out. So either somebody in our group pranked us and they just did a really good job of lying or something somebody or something else was there. Oh man, rip, that's wild. Was there any residue left on the windows after it had wiped the windows? Yeah, you could see what. You know, how if you put a handprint on something, you can kind of see the ridges from your hand. There was quite a few of those, like on the fingers and then around the palm area at the bottom, so you could definitely tell it wasn't a situation because I thought someone had put their hand up there and swiped it. But it was just like a straight like handprint straight on it and like a white So it's super interesting.

21:46 How hard was it for that owner to clean those windows? We did? I don't know. I mean we all took off that next morning and didn't think anything of it until kind of like afterwards, and so it's just kind of one of those like weird memories that just stick with you over time. Absolutely. Well, man, thanks for coming up and for sharing it. That's a really interesting anecdote from that area. I don't get a lot from that area, so. Thank you, No no problem, I appreciate it all. Right, A Candice, how's it going? Hey? How are you doing? Doing good? Do you mind if I potentially use this audio for my podcast? I've already been on your podcast twice. Oh my god, it sounds so familiar. Yeah, wow, up too, So it's okay, It's okay if I hold on to this audio then.

22:36 Yeah, yeah, well I came to town because I had to move from where I was at because it was so active, and uh, you know, I'd had I had pictures and stuff, but I had a whole lot more that got taken somehow, some ways I had shared them, and next thing on, all myself's gone and anyway, well, I've been in town, so there's not been you know, it's been good. That's been since like December tenth. But I'm moving Sunday and I'm moving to Washington County. But it's still out in the country and the house kind of sits back off the road kind of like it's just all forests and stuff.

23:26 So I'm going to see how it goes. Anything happens or I have experiences or anything like that, I will let you know. Thank you. I appreciate that. I hope you I hope you're doing well. Oh I'm doing good. I'm doing good. You know. I listen to a lot of the programs and stuff like that, and I like to read comments and I like to hear other people's opinions. But for the ones out there that say it's somebody in a cost tomb or anything like that, I beg to differ. Uh, and I have seen more than just Bigfoot. There's other things out there that people do not realize. And the veil is thinny, so more things, well.

24:17 More things are coming forward. And you know, like the Bible says, men's hearts will fail them for the fear of the things that come upon the earth. They're already here. Not everybody has has the experience to know and to see that it's gonna start coming forward more and more and more. I do believe that with all my heart. I know the real and nobody's gonna tell me any different. There is an episode coming out soon, Candae about southern Indiana. Who's your National Forest? I don't think it's out yet, but it is crazy. You're gonna love it, so keep an eye out for it. Oh good, I will, I will well.

24:59 Where I'm at right now, I don't live far from like the Clark Forestry, so uh and where I was, I was ten miles further out, but I lived pretty far back up in the woods and stuff. But uh, something's coming to my window every night and snipping, snipping the air. All of my all of my batteries, even brand new, I can put them in one hour before I set up anything. Uh, motion sensor lights all that stuff. We go dead, like all all of the batteries were drained.

25:41 So I don't, you know, it's just there's it's like so much because you're living this and things start happen. When they happen, it's kind of subtle and it makes you question yourself like did I see that or did. I hear that? You know, or what was that? And then so you listen again, and you know, you have to watch who you tell stuff to you because then everybody cause you crazy. But it's like I have so much evidence, okay.

26:21 And another encounter that we had, we had went about maybe three or four miles back into the property where I was and was camping in a tent and stuff back there, and uh, we had to call nine one one and the. Police went in. There was like four or five cop cars, but not one of them come back there. They had to send my cousin back there to get us. Yeah, because we couldn't until somebody come back there because our tent got pushed down on. It was just crazy.

27:02 Wow, they wouldn't even touch the area. That's wild, Oh my goodness. And then when we got out there, they kept questioning. They said, well, why wouldn't you answer dispatch when. Something was said? And I told him, I said, we couldn't. I said, something kept taking turning our phone off, you know because I had my phone and my cousin had her phone, and uh, we just got really quiet and kind of dimmed the lights, but they were pushing down on the tents and everything. And then the one. Police officer, I said, why didn't you all come back there? At least y'all have weapons and you have your flashlights and stuff. And they was like, nah, we're fine, but we need to know what you've seen and how tall was it? And uh uh, you know, basically there wasn't a whole lot they could do.

27:54 Yeah, they just need to. They're just keeping eyes on the right areas and didn't telling the people, well they know they're back there. Well, I want to tell you what I want to tell you right now, because I know that we've kept the topic come in foot and everything, but I'll tell you what we see back there, and uh, we see it more than two or three times. And you know, uh, I mean, I know there's wolves, serfs of coats. I've been raising the country my whole life, fishing hunting growing up doing that, so I know my animals. This was a werewolf, dog man, tight bean and uh it was solid black. It had a big mane around its neck, and its face was wolf that the snout wasn't as long, and uh it was massive. Okay, as I can say, it was massive. And that is another reason and that I moved away from there too, because I felt like this was not just bigfoot. This was not just bigfoot coming up to my bedroom window snipping. I felt like it was this dog man being And every time I would go outside, I could feel that feeling of don't

29:29 go past the barn, you know, or turn around and get back in lock the door, you know. And when you're raising the country your whole life and you're a countrywoman, you know, you just grew up running through the woods and all that stuff too. But I had experience at the age of ten, then at twelve, you know. Yes, yes, I know we have. We've had some wild conversations over the years. I mean, Cannice, I'm just glad you're able to come back on and give give an update. And I appreciate you you chatting for a little bit big for society. Who will be right back after these messages.

30:31 Oh, no problem anytime. But like I said, I'm getting ready to move to another county. It's still out in. The country and everything, but I'm hoping that you know, it's not it's out in the country, but it's not too isolated. So yes, ma'am, you know, like there's still other firms around and stuff. Absolutely, we'll definitely reach out if you need to if you have something that happens later on. But Candace, I am gonna I've got another individual I want to check in with. But thank you so much for coming on you, ma'am. All right, thanks, all right.

31:13 Good to hear from Candas again. We've talked to her a few times on the podcast. We've got Project Broken Man says yes, and it goes way deeper. I'm new to social media. Encounter to a baby and an adult while rock climbing and repelling from deep in the mountains of Tennessee. Let's see if this individual I'm going to try to reach out here, see if they want to come out to share. Oh, here we go a Project Broken man. How's it going pretty good? How are you doing? Doing great? Do you mind if I potentially use this audio for my podcast. Sure cool. So I saw your comments down there, and you've been having some interesting things happen while rock climbing in Tennessee. Is that right?

31:59 That's GREGT. Would you be able to share about what you've been experiencing down there? Uh? Yes, So, Uh, my cousin Timmy and Jesse we had bought a bunch of repelling line and you know, trying to get into the whole rock climbing hiking uh kind of stuff. You know, we were we were really poor back then and uh, you know, cutting firewood, log and all that good stuff, you know, as we were raised up in the mountains of Tennessee. And Uh, anyway, I was a real young man and my cousin Timmy and uh and my cousin Jesse couldn't make it the day that we were going to go and do this rock this Uh it's kind of like a rock climb and repel.

32:52 Uh We've got to kind of climb up the easier side of the mountain and then come back down that you know, repel back down that side. And we were really new at it, and I decided, you know, they wasn't going to go. So I said, you know, I'm. Going to go ahead and go. I think Timmy had to work and Jesse had other things going on, And so I drove up the mountain this particular area it had an it almost looked like a cave entrance about thirty feet off the ground, and we always camp below it, and we always heard like it sounded like a woman or you know, they say mountain lions and stuff like that would literally just rip and roar. But I had never seen a mountain lion as long as I'd been up there, you know. But you know, so we was always kind of nervous about going up on the very top of that ridge and mess around much without a without a gun. And well that day I was feeling my you know, how do you say it. I'm a little nervous here talking about it, but I was kind of filling oats. And so I drove up and uh parked my truck, got out, grabbed my rope and all my gear climbing gear, got most of it put on, started carrying my rope up the mountain and everything was just a normal day. Birds were singing,

34:23 everything was going on. They got to the top of the ridge where we were going to repel down over top of this cave entrance, you know, that coming down the side of that rock bluff. And we had already searched it out and looked at it weeks before, and I'd left a note with my cousin Timmy because he was he was working that day, and he said, you know, I'm not going to be able to make it. And I said, well, if you do, you know, you know, come find me. You know where I'm going to be at. So he's like, okay, and so I left him another note, and I might be at another little place there around that area, you know, so check there first. If I'm not there, then I'm here, you know. So I get to the top of this area here, and I tie off, get set up, and I start down the side of that rock and it's about ninety feet down to the bottom, ninety feet down to the bottom, and there's a bunch of trees growing up the side of these rocks. From the ground, they're just kind of real close to it.

35:30 And there's a like I said, from what you couldn't see the cave from the top. You know, we just knew it was right about that area. It had a very slim rock path that there was no way to get to it. Literally, I mean unless it was like a mountain goat or something like that maybe might have could have got down the path or you know, it just was not something that a human being could get to. Uh. I mean, I guess if you climb the trees, you could have probably got to that, you know, that that cliff area that we're that I'm talking about. Anyway, I uh I eased off the side of that thing nice and slow, taking my time because I was a little nervous.

36:17 I was by myself, and I didn't want to you know, slip or you know fall or anything. And uh so I'm easing down that thing instead of just kind of jumping and going at it. I'm just walking slow off the side of that rock and you know, laying on down. And I get right there close to where the rock kind of peeks over, and I know I'm getting close to the top of that that little cave entrance. Well as I get about where that is, all of a sudden, the rope gets just super tight, Like how can I explain this? It felt like a car somebody was trying to pull a car motor up from that rope that I that was hanging down off that rock. And my first thoughts was Timmy and them lied to me. They're there and they're playing a joke on me. And here I am hanging off this rock, you know, and they're pulling.

37:23 You know, when you're do you know much about repelling and stuff? Very little? I know the basics of it. Yeah, okay, Well, if you have a man sometimes when you're learning, you'll have a man on the bottom to break just in case you slip or anything. They can pull the rope and it holds you tight, won't let you move one way or the other. And you know, sometimes you know, you get little jokes like that plate on you when you're doing that kind of stuff. And I thought it was my cousin Timmy or Jesse or probably both of them, down at the foot of this embankment or this cliff, pulling that rope tight. So I yelled out, you know, dag on it. Stop messing with my rope. You know, it's not funny. Well the rope went limp again. So as soon as it went limp, I thought, well, they're down there, they're just messing with me.

38:19 Now it's not long before getting dark. I'd worked out all day that day, and I'd had just enough time to get up there and try to play around a little bit. So I start easing down that rock a little more. And as I come down that rock where I can actually see over to that you know where, I'm going to have to make a big jump over that cave entrance or I'd end up swinging in it. And I could actually see what's going on. My rope went tight again, and I thought what was going on? And I looked down right as I was about to yell at my cousin, Timmy, and then which I thought was down there, I seen this black creature, young looking thing about four foot tall, swinging off of it, and I thought, well, what was this? I thought it was like a bear. I'm like, it's not a bear. You know what is going on? And so I froze, like, you know, literally went to just scared, and no longer than that thing swung back in, something bigger stepped out and looked up at me. And when it did, you could see its eyes just open up. I mean, he had this These eyes were not white like ours. He had facial features just like us, I mean, other than he was black, but they were like an amber eyes

39:53 like a orangeish looking tent to them. And I mean, I'm about six feet away from him, that's how far. Literally I was at the top of that right at the edge of that cave entrance, and it let out a shrilling yell like I don't know, I mean it. I mean, just thinking about it shakes me to my core. But it bounced and twisted around two or three times, grabbed that little one, threw him up on this big old oak tree that was going up or it might have been a and that little one, I mean like it, that little one knew what was going on. It hit that tree and went right down the side of that sheer rock cliff where that tree was growing, just slid down it like it was nothing. And that thing jumped up and grabbed that tree and spun around, yelled at me again, and it slid down that tree and I just froze. I just held on for dear life. I closed my eyes. I just knew I was dead. I didn't know what to think, what to do. Like when I tell you, everything in me was saying, climb this rope, try to figure out a way to get rind. I couldn't do anything. When I say it was I mean, looking back on it. I mean I was raised up

41:25 in the hills, Tennessee. I've been horseback riding. I've went into the back way, the entrance, the back way, all the way from Teleco, all the way into Cave's Cove horseback riding. I mean, I was raised up in the Appalachia Mountains. I've seen everything. So anyway, I could hear him hit the ground and he went to beating on something down there. It sounded like he had a limb or something hitting the ground, and I could see stuff moving around, like leaves and pieces of like branch and stuff, and he was hollering and hollering, and there was only one other area that I could see him. When you walk down this ridge during the summertime in early spring, before the leaves get back on it, you can't even see this rock bluff I'm talking about from the road in the wintertime when all the leaves are gone, and you know, in the spring, right before the leaves start growing, you can see this whole rock bluff and you can we could always see that little cave entrance, but you couldn't see back into it just looked too dark. It looked like it was a cave. I sit there, holding

42:55 onto that rope. It seemed like forever, but it wasn't more than twenty twenty five minutes before I knew I had to make a decision. I had to either follow them on down as I couldn't go back up, or stay there. That was only two options I had. And I seen just bits and pieces of them seconds after they hit the ground, that little one walking right behind it, and I just caught a glimpse of them, and they're on both They're both of them standing straight up and down, just like a regular human being, and they're walking. They were walking just like me and you. But I'm telling you, this one creature, he was ever bit of nine feet.

43:55 It was the biggest thing I've ever seen in my life, and broad I don't think anybody understands unless they've seen one up close, just how magnificent these guys are. These things are huge. I don't think this thing wanted to hurt me, I really don't. But when he yelled out at me, it went completely through me. I mean. He hit the side of that tree when he jumped on that tree and went down that tree, down between that rock, and when I tell you these trees grow right up beside. Some of them's up against the rock.

44:41 This one was about three or four feet away from it. But that whole tree, this thing had to be the base of it had to be two and a half three feet around, And goodness, he went down that thing just like a fireman wood on a you know, one of those fireman poles back in the old days. You know how they had slide down them. Oh yeah, absolutely. But I could tell. I could tell by the way it looked up at me. I had scared that he was not expecting me to be there, m like. But at the same time, I really believe if I would have been a little closer he had a reaction, he probably would have hurt me.

45:33 You know. Anyway, you know, when the sun's going down, something like that's happened to you, and you're trying to make sense of what just happened. You don't know what's going to happen when you go down. Big for society. Who will be right back after these messages, if he's. There waiting on you or not, if there's anything else in that hole that's gonna pop outside of that rock bluff. I was just scared to death.

46:17 Thank goodness. Wow, this is this is incredible. Is this eastern Tennessee? It is? Okay, Wow, you know where Telecoat Plains is. Uh, I'm gonna look it up real quick because it sounds familiar, but I just want to make sure I'm looking at the Okay, telecoa planes that's like right on the edge of the park. Mm hmm yep. Before the park was anything. I mean it was it's always been a park ever since. I've you know, you got ball River Falls. You got state line up there where people used to go full welling up between the North Carolina and the Tennessee line. So I ended up sliding on down that line and I hit the ground running down the side of this embankment.

47:09 It was almost straight down this embankment is. You got to kind of climb it on all fours to get up to the bottom of the rocks down to where the old gravel road was. And my truck was down there. It was just in sight. I left the line there everything, And again, like I said, we were raised in poverty. I think that line costed. We all split it, and I didn't have as much as my cousins. They were old enough to be my uncle, but I think it was like one hundred eighty bucks. I left that line and ended up going back a couple weeks later, but I wouldn't go up there, and I wasn't allowed to tell them what I'd seen or what had me scared because of the talk I had with my father.

47:55 Sorry, what year was this again? This was in? Uh? This was in nineteen and eighty seven. Okay, thank you, thank you. So there's no one listening right now, correct, Oh. No, there is, Yeah, there's so. This is so when you're on TikTok, there's something called a TikTok live and right now you can see up in the corner there's about forty one people in here. Okay, well, then we'll figure out a way to talk privately. Then if you want to hear the rest of it, I mean, I'll tell you the rest of what happened. I ended up getting in the truck and I left. Okay, But.

48:35 My father and I found out later. My father and my uncle and No Boy which was one of my daddy's good friends, and a few other men that were pretty much they were raised there. You know, of course I was too, but you know, I was raised on three on vacre farm, but uh, they protected him up there. One in particular. Yeah, whoa, my dad had done a surgery and it's kind of a cool story. But uh, you know again, like I said, I can't get into all of the details. But my dad, I told you that we lived on a farm. So my dad had everything from antibiotics to you know, anything to put a cow down to you know, to be able to do any kind of work to it. He knew all the veterinarians and everything around there. But yeah, that he ended up.

49:43 He found one when I was I was I wasn't even born yet. I turned one when actually they started having like a friendship thing, not like you know, hey, how are you doing, but picking daddy's apples, the south apple trees we had in the backyard, leaving part of them from my dad stacked up actually, But anyway, long story short, my dad took something out of the leg of one of those. But he tried to he was trying to put him down when using apples. He found him when he was plowing one of his fields. And he didn't know what that was, he said, And that's just what my daddy told me. Anyway, it was down laying there and wasn't hardly moving, and when Daddy come up on it, it was literally trying to trying to get up and move but couldn't. Dad said his whole leg was swollen almost of the waist sides of the waist of my dad at the time. He said, my dad was a pretty good sized guy. One of his legs had something wrong with it and it was festered up.

51:05 My dad taught me how to cut hogs everything you name it. Anyway, long story short there they've become friends, but my dad ended up putting him down long enough to cut him. He actually gave him trying to think of the name of that stuff. It's been years since I've been around it. Anyways, to put bulls down, and he thought he might have killed it, but he did it because he wouldn't take the apples. He was trying to throw him across the little creek to where the where it would climb up under the bushes and little maple tree there, but he ended up taking the pressure off that leg by opening him up and pass him up.

51:53 Just feel dressed him or what have you. And that thing become like the family for like six years, meaning you know, not like living with him or anything like that. But let's just say he had a new he had a new little security system. No way, Oh man, dude, we got it. Yeah, okay, So this is my email. It's Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. Let me grab something here, Like I said, I'm that's smart. I oh, you're going. To help me do it, Go ahead and give it to me. So it's it's Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. I can spell that out if you need.

52:39 No, my wife can do that for me. So Bigfoot Society b f s. Yeah, Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. That's that little round circle with an A in it. Yes, sir, yes, sir, Bigfoot Society at. What more Gmail, gmail dot com. Yep, yep. Dot com. So if you check out my little thing there, my wife set up and she always is filmed with me. But I'm building a rig right now to go overlanding. But it's it's made to get off of the old logging trails, and it's gonna have everything set up in it, and you know, we're gonna go look at the stars and and and just go see what we can find.

53:33 She knows how to run them cameras and stuff. And nice. Yeah, I'll definitely check it out. Yeah. Yeah, So I'll get in contact with you and give you my information. It most likely be my wife sending this stuff to you. Yeah, and she'll give you my cell phone number. Perfect. Yeah. Yeah. My dad's passed away now, but I think there's two guys still alive that had also taken that vow, you know, to protect these guys. Oh wow, really, Oh yeah, we definitely, Well, we'll talk later for sure. That's that's intense.

54:14 Yeah. I've got a lot of stuff too that might help you, guys. I've been watching some of these little videos here on YouTube that you can really if you've ever had an encounter, we're actually seeing one. You can really see, you know, it cuts through the bull you know what some people put out there. And you know one thing I will tell you. I hear these guys talking about an odor. I never, I never. I never really smelled anything bad.

54:54 Oh wow, like I never had. Of course, I'm above it, and I don't. I don't remember the wind blowing real hard or anything like that. It was just a nice, calm day. But uh, I can tell you everything about its legs, what it looked like, because I remember just these things when they move. You know, if we had if we had those integrated into our and I don't mean like mating with our with us or whatever, but that's something I don't think then you couldn't put something like that in a zoo. That's not something that's I would never help someone do something like. They're not right there.

55:42 I think they're too family or they're too far along in the evolutionary train. Uh you know, you know they're not something that they're smarter than us. I think so too. You hear these hunters, if it was real, i'd have it because I'm a I'm a so and so hunter. Well, I've hunted all my life, my family and his family. You know what I'm saying. I probably one of the best hunters out there, but I can tell and I never had even seen one. You know, these guys can. They are a master of their environment, you know. And I think that day, I think the reason I got as close as I did is because you know, I was a quarter mile south of them, and I walked up and over top of the ridge, you know, way up high, and then you walk back down the ridge to the bluff to where you do your you know to where you can repel. And I think me coming off of there, they I don't even think you heard me. Then, I think when I yelled out, thinking it was my cousin Timmy or either him and him or both the Jesse, I I think that's what learned it. I think it was probably napping. I really think they're nocturnal.

57:18 There's definitely more activity at night from what I've heard or sure in most areas. But it's been it's been been a pleasure of chatting with you, sir. I hope that you are able to reach out a later time so we can, you know, continue our conversation. Most definitely, I'll have, like I said, as soon as my wife gets back. She went grocery shopping, so when she gets back, i'll uh, I'll have her talk to you. I mean, I'll have her send you an email with all my my info information and and we'll talk more about what the what my dad talked about with me.

57:59 Yes, sir, Yes, sir, I'll look forward to it. Thank you so much. All right, you too, now have a good day. God bless you you too, sir. Oh my goodness, that's why you do TikTok Lives to get to talk to individuals like that. That was amazing. I'm going to keep on going here. We've got a few people requesting and come on up. Hey Tom, this is Jeremiah. How's it going good? How are you me? Okay, yes, sir, you sound great. Do you mind if I potentially use this audio for my podcast? Nope? Go right ahead? All right, Well yeah, feel free to uh to share what you've experienced here.

58:44 Okay, we've talked a little bit, you know, back and forth, just you know, typing. But okay, I'm from Massachusetts. I was a railroad engineer and I was on a train one night and I had an accounted with one. Of the tracks right in front of me. My goodness, what part of mass. Are you familiar with Massachusetts at all? Yeah? I grew up in western mass and Northfield. Well that's where this happened. It was between Dalton and Middlefield. No way, Oh, my goodness. What is it? That's like the southwest corner of Mount Greylock. Correct. Uh, I'm going to refresh my memory. Yeah, so this is down the Berkshires.

59:27 Well absolutely, yeah, that's exactly where it was, right along the trail we were. I was from it so you said Dalton and where else again? Middlefield? Middlefield? Okay, gotcha, that's going towards at the top of the mountain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My grandparents were in a great Barrington, so. I'm very yeah. Yeah, where you were at? Yeah, I just talked to a guy from don Egremont about his his situation. But wow, so you were you were engineered on a train and you saw one right in front of you. Yeah. This happened a long time ago. It was probably around two thousand and five or so. Okay.

1:00:08 I had an extremely heavy train and I was only doing probably four or five miles an hour pulling the mountain, and it was it was doc. I mean it was one two o'clock in the morning, so I only seen it briefly, you know, through the whatever the headlight cover is, you know what I mean. And it walked in front of me, across the tracks and never touched the tracks. It went from one side of the track to the other one wout even touching. And the track is almost four feet wide, so I mean, his stride is pretty big. My goodness. He wasn't running or anything, but he was. He was briskly walking and he did he looked, he looked at the train. I mean he.

1:00:50 Couldn't see anything but a stupid headlight anyway, But right, I mean he looked at and looked back and just kept going. And then he was out of site. And I had I had a flashlight with me and I tried to illuminate the field if we were going by. But whatever it was, he was just gone. I never saw him again. What was the main thing you noticed that made you think, Okay, I'm not this isn't a bear, this is something else? Well he was. I mean it was walking on two feet for sure. I mean this thing was probably eight feet tall, and it was just it was a doc brown and color. I mean, I know it wasn't a beer. I know, I've been beyond hundreds of times. I mean, I just I just you just know the difference when you see it.

1:01:36 You know. Wow. What was the first thing you did after it walked off into the woods. I went to the bathroom. Yeah, I would probably do the same. That's amazing. I just wasn't expecting it. I mean, I'm thinking, I'm tired. What am I seeing here? I mean, it didn't register it first, you know. Oh my goodness, had any of your other buddies had similar things happen on in that area. I don't know. I've never talked about it really. So really this is your first time talking about it. Yeah. I was afraid they'd fire me. He thought I was crazy or something.

1:02:18 Oh my goodness. Wow, you've never So this is like twenty twenty some odd years ago and you've never talked about it. Nope, not to anyone. Wow. I appreciate you sharing on this platform. I mean, I'm not saying the conductor in the train I was with didn't even see it. He was doing paperwork or something at a desk, and I just never said anything. I just. He never saw it. How did that? How did that affect you? Going like twenty years without ever sharing about it. Well, I got to tell you. For the first couple of days, I didn't sleep too good. It was freaking me out a little. And then after I was praying, like I never had to walk the tracks in the middle of the night. If I had a problem with the train in that area, I probably would have just stayed in the train and called somebody inside I can't get out or something.

1:03:13 Did you get a feel for it? Was it more of a skinnier creature or more muscular. No, he looked pretty muscular. I mean it was. It wasn't small by any means. I mean he was pretty bulky, so but I mean I don't know how much of that was actually, you know, flesh, bulk or hair. So I mean, like I said, I only saw it for a matter of maybe ten to fifteen seconds or so. It wasn't like fifteen seconds. Wow, that's a long time, manh. I wasn't, like I said, I wasn't even sure what I was looking at it first.

1:03:55 Yeah, kind of startled me. Nothing, nothing is walking around out there in the middle of the night that I've ever seen. And I rode. I rode trains over that mountain for over twenty five years, so that was the first and only a counter I've ever saw. Were you able to see any of its face at all? Or was it just pretty much the side? No, I mean when he looked at me, but the face was I know, I didn't know. I didn't get any records. He was probably one hundred feet from. Me also, Okay, kind of had to see I mean his faith size comparison to where I was. You know, I don't remember seeing it didn't dawn on me that it was face was white or black or it just was you know, probably the same color as the fur.

1:04:46 Was this, uh trying to look at the map here does the does the train go through like that any of the wildlife management areas or the state forest or around it or I. Would imagine it probably all of it is. I mean. Of that hill is a rock cut and there's only a couple of places where it opens up, you know, where anything can pass through, gotcha. But like I said, a rock it's just a rock cut in the track. The tracks were laid in between you know, two.

1:05:26 I don't know, it's like it was all cut out and granted you know. Yeah, absolutely, I'm just going to cull you, Tom, Tom, thank you so much for you know, finally getting to the point where you can share what you experienced on the train that day. That's that's pretty awesome, dude. Well thanks for having me. I appreciate it. I mean, I've never told anybody so home the. First absolutely absolutely, if you ever need to reach out again, it sounds like you know how to contact me, so you feel free to do that, sir. But thank you so much for coming up. All right, thank you. I have a good day you too. Just wanted to take a minute to say thank you truly for listening to this episode of the Big Fort Society podcast Project. Broken Man's encounter is one of the most intense we've ever shared, not just because of what he saw clinging to his repel rope, but because of how close it came to being something far more dangerous.

1:06:22 So huge thanks to him and to everyone else who came forward with their stories from Lake Wales, Oklahoma City, Washington, and the Berkshires. These stories remind us that no matter where you are in the country, something might be watching. If you enjoyed this conversation, please subscribe to us over on YouTube, hit the bell icons so you never miss an episode, and share this one with a friend who's in a Sasquatch, Tennessee legends, or just a good mystery. And if you're on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, give us a follow and if you'd be willing to leave a review. It helps more folks discover these stories. And if you've had a bigfoot encounter, especially in Tennessee, Washington, or around Massachusetts, I'd love to hear from you. So thanks again for being part of the Bigfoot Society, and until next time, keep your eyes open, trust your gut, and never stop asking what else might be out there? And see you in the woods.