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Cryptid: bigfoot

State: NC

Season: n/a

Cryptid: unknown

State: NC

Season: n/a

 

I have some friends who in the last 5 years moved to Union Mills, NC…in western NC, about 50 miles east of Asheville, in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains. This is their dream retirement home on acreage. A big part of their dream was to have room for their horses to roam and graze their own pastureland. Their place is beautiful! I’m closest with the wife, who knew I had an interest in Sasquatch, that I’d had an experience long ago as a kid. I can’t remember exactly how this revealing conversation between the two of us came up, …if I asked her directly, or if she volunteered the info, I think I asked her if they’d had any Sasquatch activity as their woods looked so dense in photos she’d shared….but one day she told me she knew they “have them on their property and on their neighbor’s”. Their acreage backs up to a huge multi-hundred-acre property privately owned. That owner is not at his property full time, but leases it out to hunters…so my friends do hear hunting activity. Her husband is often away for weeks at a time for business and she is home alone, takes care of their animals. Their driveway is a long one leading from the main street up to their house, about a 1/4 mile. She usually walks the driveway for exercise to go retrieve mail at the street-side mailbox. She told me that one late afternoon she had gone for the mail and was walking back to the house when she heard something paralleling her in the thick woods that border the driveway. When she stopped, it stopped. When she continued walking, so did it. Looking into the trees she saw two glowing red eyes. Then a large dark figure jumped across the road in front of her, it was too dark to see it well. It screamed a horrific scream like nothing she’d ever heard before. She quickly walked home, afraid to run. She told her husband who had had a similar encounter while also walking to get the mail, when they first bought the house and he moved there first to get the house ready for her. His encounter frightened him so badly, he’d heard a similar scream, that he called her and told her to stay on the line with him till he got back to the house, in case he didn’t return. They both now never go out at late afternoon into night. They never venture into their own woods. And they now board their horses at a facility in-town, away from forest for the horses’ safety. They still live there, have put up electric fencing. They don’t like to talk about it….

Cryptid: bigfoot

State: NC

Season: n/a

 

1982 in Brasstown,the population was under 1,000, Back then we had no neighbors for miles but just woods, a dirt road, and quiet country living. I was 11 years old, and what I saw that day changed my life forever. It changed my grandparents’ lives too. Our whole understanding of the world flipped upside down. Until someone actually sees something like that for themselves, they can’t truly grasp the reality of it.

It started when I was walking through the woods behind my grandparents’ place. I heard something, either it jumped from a tree and hit the ground, or it stomped the ground hard on purpose. Whatever it was, that sound froze me in my tracks. I looked around, trying to figure out where it came from. Then I saw it.

Not the whole thing just an elbow. But that alone was enough. It had hair hanging off it, about four inches long. It was like it didn’t realize I could see its arm from behind the tree. The second I tried to move to get a better look, it took off crashing through the brush like a bulldozer. The power behind it was unreal. Before I could even process what was happening, it was up a small hill and gone. I never saw the full body but just that arm, and the destruction it left behind.

I ran straight back to my grandparents’ house, out of breath and terrified. My grandpa told me it must’ve been a bear. But I knew better. I convinced him to come look anyway. When we got back to the spot, we saw broken trees eight inches around snapped like twigs. My grandpa just stood there staring, then quietly said again that it was a bear. But when we got home and my grandma asked what I saw, I pressed my ear to the wall and listened. I heard him tell her, in a low voice, that whatever was out there wasn’t a bear.

That was the day it all started for me way back in the woods of Brasstown. Someone mentioned they were from Murphy, and that brought it all back. Murphy was the town we’d go to because Brasstown was just that small. If you lived out there back then, you know how wild and untouched those mountains were… and still are in places.