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Late summer , early fall 1990....

Four witnesses see upright ape-like animal standing on the side of the road on hwy.95 between Lenoir City and Oak Ridge  . Traveliing from Lenoir City around midnight toward  Oak Ridge near Bethel Valley Road . All four witnesses notice bipedal animal standing approx 4ft. tall . Slender build with long arms to the knees , covered with brownish hair from head to toe . Sighting was made on the Oak Ridge Wildlife Reservation . This area is swampy with many pine trees and thickets . Lots of Govt. access roads and lots of restricted areas . {Sighting 001.}

June 2005

Eyewitness report from Roane County . Teenage boy up late at night shovelling sand out of his dads truck in the back yard of his home . At approx. 230 am while shovelling sand eyewitness notices large biped watching him from less than 30 ft. away . He first thinks it is someone trying to scare him or maybe a thief and begins to chase the person with the shovel . As he gives chase , the biped turns and runs away . witness notices in the security light the animal is covered in long black hair and is very muscular . The creature lopes side to side as it runs and breathes heavily . No visible neck is noticed  . Arms sway heavily and hands reach to below its knees . Creature stands approx. 6.5 to 7 ft. tall . Teen chases creature for several hundred ft. till it crosses the road and enters the woodline . Creature then begins a series of whistles and then disappears . Witness distinctly counted four heavy footfalls as it crossed the road .  Investigation findings show 4 footfalls within forty five feet  . suggesting an 8 to 10 ft. gait  . {Sighting 002}

Creature was standing beside the bird feeder with red roof. Feeder is approx. 5ft. 8in. tall . Witness believes hight of creature was 6.5 to 7 ft. tall . Creatures shoulders were above top of feeder

Creature proceeded down this hill travelling between red car and power pole  then moved into driveway this side of street .

Creature ran with a wobbly action between fence and clothesline and decended down the hill

June 2005

Eyewitness reports large bipedal animal all in black outside her bedroom  window around 10 pm . Very tall and menacing . Breathing was loud and gutteral . Yellowish hue reflecting in animals eyes  . Estimated height was 7 ft. tall . Animal was swaying back and forh in the darkness . This report less than 2 miles from sighting 002 in Roane county . {Sighting 003}

June 2005

Eyewitness reports early morning sighting of gorilla looking animal on two legs in the woods in front of her home . Noticed creature as she stepped onto her deck while enjoying morning coffee . Animal was slumped over digging in ther dirt then noticed her . Creature then stood up and walked farther back into the woods out of sight . This sighting occurred at the same location as sighting 003 . This witness is the mother of witness in sighting 003. {Sighting 004}

November 2005

Eyewitness reports 130 am sighting just outside Oliver Springs in Anderson County at Donovan bridge on hwy. 330 . Witness was heading home from work on a warm night . She had her windows down and noticed a foul odor from the right side of the road before she got to the bridge . As she got to the bridge she noticed something just out of her headlights crossing the road . Thinking it was a deer , she turned on her bright lights to be sure . But as she slowed to turn left onto hwy. 330 north , she saw a large black biped running up  the steep embankment on the right . She estimated the creature to be around 8 ft. tall . Noticed it ran up the embankment with great agility and speed . The biped ran up into the woods approx.20 ft. then hid behind a tree , turned around and stopped , then stared back at her . She saw the glow of her headlights reflecting in its eyes . She also noticed the lengths of its arms as being much longer than human . At this point she hit the gas and  went home . Witness was rattled by her experience. Investigation found no footprints or hair . Estimating the height of the embankment where the animal climbed up as around 12 ft .Witness remembers animal taking 2 to 3 steps up this embankment with little effort . Embankment is estimated to be 70 degree grade .This sighting location is less then 5 miles from the previous 3 sightings in the database. These 4 sightings in all running east by northeast from west to east respectively.  {Sighting 005 }

The photo above and the one to the right show the location where the animal ran up into the treeline . The distance is estimated to be 15 ft . which the Bigfoot climbed in 3 steps . The creature was very agile and muscular .

2003 2004 no specifics given

This is a second hand report given to Matt on 4-17-06 by two individuals working for a plumbing service . It was stated that a close relative of the men saw bigfoot cross the road in front of him near dusk . He was driving near Paint Rock...... a community in lower Roane County Tn. The witness has since passed away and no other details were available other than witness stated to these men it crossed the two lane hwy. in four liesurely steps and looked right at him when it crossed . { sighting 006 }

April 22 2006

Spoke to a friend who lives on Waldens Ridge....she stated that two weeks ago her and her husband were awakened to the sound of what she described as monkeys whooping at eachother. They have heard coyotes many times and even seen them but never heard these sounds before . They have also reported chickens and eggs missing , steel traps ripped out of the ground , fences ripped from the sides of their barn  , and a turkey that went missing then two days later was found at the fork of where two driveways merge sitting upright with its gullet and chest ripped out , dead of course . No coyote would do this . Neither would any other natural predator.........{ 007}

Johnson County encounter June 1995......nearest town , Butler TN .  Email copied as received by Matt S

I have posted this to another bigfoot website . But since this site is dedicated to East Tn .and there seems to be no central repository of BF sightings , I thought I might post it here too .       It was a nightmare encounter in 1995 , June if I remember correctly . It was around midnight  , with no moon and a ground fog . I was reading in my bedroom with the windows up as it was hot  , no AC . As I lay on the bed reading  , I noticed the insects quit buzzing and then I heard the sound of footfalls just outside the house  , maybe a foot from the wall .I turned out the light and grabbed my rifle which I kept loaded { problems with coyotes and other pests in the past is why we kept a loaded rifle handy . }  I was unnerved , but I did not panic .I lay there in the dark stockstill controlling my breath and analyzing the sounds . I realized this animal had come from upwind as most animals do . I heard the biped walk to just outside my fathers window and sniffed the air that waft outside from that room . Dad was'nt there that night , I was alone . Then I heard quite clearly the sound of this great biped beast walk up to my window and begin to smell the air coming out of my window  , about seven feet off the ground . I was only about 4 feet away and could hear quite well the breathing , very pronounced sniffing and the grunting it made before it turned and left . It never did place its face directly in the window . To have done so would have meant staring right into the muzzle of my rifle . I think it smelled the gun and did'nt like the smell . It stood sniffing the air just off to one side of the window , but not exposing itself . The next morning I found some tracks on the grass outside the window  , very large but indescriminate . Elongated like a mans but bigger . The grass impressions were not the best for leaving a well defined track . Tracks were about 4 feet apart . There was no mistaking then .       At first I thought it might have been a bear  , as they are common in our remote area . But this animal walked on two legs and stood outside the window on two legs for 5 to 10 minutes , then walked away on two legs . I find this unusual for a bear .    I am quite an expert hunter , having been hunting since the 1970's . I learned early on how to use all my senses to gather information in the wilds , especially sounds and how to interpret them . I know what I heard and it was as described . I don't mind saying the hair on the back of my neck was standing up . I could sense its presence . Yet at no time did this animal display any aggresion whatsoever . It was curious , but not particularly aggressive .     I never really thought much about it , but after talking to others in the area , I come to realize that my encounter was not too isolated .  I learned of things I did not put together until I started talking about my encounter . Seems like others in this area have had similar encounters as well . Other people had sightings and sound eventssuch as mine. There have been little things taken from the remote farms....broke tools , an old ragged scsrescrow , etc......things nobody would care about  , no human would be dumb enough to steal . Some dogs have been mutilated , and some pretty strange howls and hoots sometimes at night , corn being stolen off the stalk at night , ear twisted off like a man would do etc. We never really thought about any of this being Bigfoot related  , but looking back on my encounter , maybe it bears a little investigation .    I never did ascribe any supernatural powers to this animal , nor was it any kind of missing link . The animal I encountered was just that , a large biped animal about 7 feet tall . It walked  ,  crept and stood on its two legs outside my window for about 10 minutes and walked away on two feet . I think the Bigfoot question needs to be addresses in a scientific manner , with humane treatment of the animals in the bargain . My family has lived on this land for two centuries , never any aggression or attacks from an animal matching this description . Some of the oldtimers reported rocksbeing thrown at them from the brush , but none of the rock incidents were followed up with aggressive attacks . I'm not overly scared of meeting one of these ....just curious . {008}

Monroe County near TN NC border on Citico Creek....2004

I was at Citico Creek past Tellico Plains near the Tn  and NC  border I think in Monroe  County . About 2 years ago I was camping alone on trail 105 { I think thats the trail number } when I heard something coming down the hill opposite of my campsite . It was about eleven or twelve so it was dark as hell . I got out of my hammock , I usually go really lightweight when I camp no tent or sleeping bag . I got the fire going again , when I got up and about whatever  it was stopped . After about two or three minutes it moved parallel probably about thirty or fifty yds. { estimated from the sound of the noise } and I heard it cross over to my side of the trail and move up toward my camp . It stayed out of flashlight range , which was short because of the growth . Then it moved back across the trail again and walked up the hill and went parallel with the trail again and crossed up ahead of me .I'm getting nervous about this now because all I have for protection is a seven inch fixed blade knife that I always carry . Well whatever it was moved down toward me for a bit then it moved back and crossed the trail went up the trail and I could hear it shuffle around till about 4 or 5 in the morning. . I had a pretty good fire going and had broken some lightsticks and threw them around my camp and across the trail to try and keep whatever it was at bay . When the sun came up I hiked out and went home. It took almost 2 yrs . to get my nerve up to go back there.I have only told about  ten people about what happenned because I never got into crap like that . I've been on other websites but never told this story . I feel like this is different cause you guys are kind of local I guess . I'm not one to get spooked in the woods . I've been camping 25 yrs .so I know sounds and what makes them . If it was a boar pig it wound'nt have hung around all night and it wound'nt have got that close . Well anyway if you want more information or to go out thereI'll be more than happy to help ......Take care , ________{009}

I spoke to this witness by phone and he seemed honest and sincere about what had happened to him . I then contacted our field researcher for that area and he met with the witness and visited the site of the occurence . Even though the incident was 2 yrs old it was decided to at least have a look around . Below is the investigators report.....Matt

Trailhead marker at Citico Creek .

Witness escorted me to the site where the encounter occurred  . The camp was located two miles from the main road  leading into The Indian Boundrry Campground off hwy. 165 in Monroe County TN . The trail follows the Citico Creek all the way back and is  densely forested with a variety of hardwoods and pine thickets . Witness informed me he had heard tree knocking in this area on previous trips and a friend of his has heard whistling in this same area and said it matched the whistles on the {Legend Meets Science } DVD . Witness also told me he had bumped into an elderly man on the trail a month ago and when the old man found out that he was gonna camp back there asked ,  "Are'nt you afraid of the Bald Mountain Monster ?" Bald Mountain is approx . 5 miles from this location....makes me wonder how many sightings may have gone unreported in this area all these yrs  , if the locals have a name for it . The campsite was right on the creek and close to several game trails leading off the mountain . Whatever he heard had to be large for it to be heard over the noise of the creek . He said it started about 11 pm and continued till around 4 am .It never ventured into the lights of the camp or the lightsticks that he had thrown out around the camp .It came down one of the game trails and stopped when he turned on the light he had on his helmet......Then it turned and followed the ridge over to the other side of his camp and crossed the trail and then came back and forth around him making several passes like a soon to be father in the waiting room . .He could distinctly hear heavy bipedal footsteps and kinda sounded like it was dragging its feet . We found what might be a territorial marker in a grassy site north of his campsite . We found a spot where something large had crossed the trail and went up the embankment and had broken limbs on a tree....limb breaks were about 7 ft. off the ground...looked out of place because no other limbs in the area were broken which may rule out the weather.We found what looked to be a smear in the mud like something had slid while trying to climb the embankment . I would like to add that where this was found the creek is not really accesible so I don't see why a human would have gone down  to the creek there . Report gathered and submiited by field researcher  B. Horton .

Example of foliage denseness in the area .

Possible tree  limb break at 7ft . high

Johnson County Tennessee            Aug.  2006

Our researcher in Johnson county Tn . was contacted by a man claiming to have possible BF pics on his game camera .It was stated the man was using game cameras on his large property for deer scouting for the upcoming season . This property is reported to adjoin govermnent property......most likely the Great Smoky Mtns National Park , but that was not made clear to me .  The gentleman went to check his cameras and found one on the ground in pieces next to the tree from which it hung....with teeth marks all over the body of the camera . Being a digital camera....the images were intact . The camera had been 5 or so ft. off the ground . Two images were supposedly recovered from the camera . One was said to be a shot of the teeth and inside of the mouth of something . I do not have a copy of this photo . The other was said to be a facial shot of the creature as it reached for the camera . So....up for scrutiny now is the first BLOBSQUATCH photo we at East Tennessee Bigfoot have received . We make no claims to its authenticity  nor claim that what you see in the pic......if anything , is Bigfoot .  { no. 10 }

Original copy I received....

Something I see...

Copy after using Irfanview filtering only...

Another Possibility...

I will completely understand the idea that I see here only what I wish to see in this photo . I make no elaborate claims here......Matt

Anderson County 1973 approx.

Witness reports during the summer of 1973 or 1974 around evening  he and a friend were outside in his friends yard passing football when a scream was heard from the treeline near the home . The scream was described as very powerful and unlike anything the witness had ever heard . They both looked toward the treeline approx. 40 yards away and saw what he believes to have been a bigfoot running away from them  . He stated he could see the creature from the waist up and noticed it had brownish fur . He estimated the animal to have been close to eight feet in height . The sighting lasted only a few seconds  . He noticed as the creature continued to flee that the trees and brush were parting  . He stated the animal was of very large build but not fat , moved very fluidly and was "lanky" . At the time the area was not well populated . Witness stated the weather was fair and warm and it was around 8 or 9 pm....near dark . The area was on Airport road near Oliver Springs . As the crow flies the location is 1/4 to 1/2 mile from Donovan Bridge .Witness is still shaken by this event ...even after many years . He does not ever enter the woods without a firearm in his possesion .  { NO. 11}

Anderson County.....Windrock area late spring 1978 or 79

Spoke to witness by phone in April 2007  . She and her nephew both in their mid teens were returning from a friends house in the Windrock community in Anderson county near Oliver Springs . At the time the area was much less populated and houses were many yards apart . They were on foot walking from their friends house to their uncles house . As they left the friends house they began down a path toward the road . As they walked the path something growled at them . They were startled and ran for the road and this something began chasing them . She thought it may have been a mad dog or large cat . Once they got to the road they noticed the footfalls of a 2 legged creature chasing them . They could hear the feet hit the crushed rock blacktop  . As she ran she turned around once to look and saw a large bipedal animal covered in black hair following not too far behind . It was dark and she could not make out any details but claimed the creature was at least 6 and 1/2 ft. tall . It had very long arms and she was sure it could grab her if it tried . There was a street light in front of the uncles home and the animal stopped before it got into the light . Both teens ran into the house screaming and the uncle fired shots out the door and into the air with his .22 calibur firearm . They all heard the animal run from the road into the woods and  disappear . She also told of strange grunts and howls.......missing farm animals and spooked horses at different times during her childhood at this location . { NO. 12 }

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