This happened in the mid-1970s. A friend and I were out driving late one night and ended up on the Blue Ridge Parkway. We were heading north toward Virginia and had gone about nine miles when I noticed something large sitting in the middle of the road, about a quarter of a mile ahead.

As we got closer, we slowed down until we finally stopped about ten feet away. That’s when it stood up.

I’ve been hunting all my life and have spent more hours than I can count in the woods of North Carolina. I know what bears, deer, and every other animal around here look like. I had always believed I’d seen all the wildlife this state had to offer, but I had never seen anything like what was standing in front of us that night. It scared me more than anything I’ve ever experienced. There wasn’t any doubt in my mind, and this was not a bear.

The creature stood somewhere between seven and eight feet tall and looked like it weighed between 400 and 500 pounds. It was covered in black hair from head to toe, with broad shoulders and incredibly long arms that reached almost to its knees. It stood there for a few seconds, then turned and walked off the road into the woods. It leaned slightly forward as it walked, and in only four long strides it vanished into the darkness. I figured it covered around 25 yards in those four steps.

Our car had exceptionally bright headlights, but the whole time it kept its head turned away from the beams. Because of that, I never got a good look at its face. I remember feeling relieved when it walked away because I honestly thought it might charge the car or jump onto the hood. I was scared in a way I’d never been before.

Even after all these years, I can still picture that night as clearly as if it happened yesterday. I’ve spent a lifetime in the woods, and I’ve never seen anything before or since that compares to what my friend and I witnessed on the Blue Ridge Parkway.

An older black man I worked with for years told me what happened to him and his son while fishing in eastern NC. They were night fishing and he said they saw two dinosaurs in the water. He told me they were huge, and had long necks and seemed to be playing, wrapping their necks around each other. He was also a Reverend, and I never ever heard him lie. He said they were so frightened that they left their fishing gear and went back the next day to get them. They never returned to that area.

My grandmother has been telling her story of seeing a mermaid at Nutbush bridge near Henderson for about 50 yrs now.

It took me a long time to process what happened, and I still can’t explain what my son and I heard in June 2023.

I was 35, and my son was 12. We were fishing the New River near the North Carolina–Virginia border in Alleghany County, just outside Sparta, North Carolina. It was nearly dark, and we were wading back toward the boat ramp from the downstream side of the bridge off Farmers Fish Camp Road when the strangest sound I’ve ever heard echoed through the entire river valley.

Everything went silent.

The only way I can describe it is that it sounded like “20 people dying combined with the most guttural sounds I’ve ever heard.” I froze in the middle of casting and looked at my son. About ten yards away, he had frozen too. We both knew we were hearing the same thing.

I’ve hunted and fished these woods my entire life and have never heard anything remotely like it. The sound seemed to come from beyond the river bend, about 300 to 400 yards from us near the edge of the woods.

It lasted for about a minute, then stopped as suddenly as it had begun. Afterward, there was nothing but the sound of the river—no birds, no insects, no other sounds.

I stayed calm, and we quietly made our way back to the truck. When we got home, we searched online for anything that sounded similar but found nothing. I’ve heard bobcats scream before, but this was nothing like that.

I’m a two-time Iraq War veteran, and this remains one of the most unsettling experiences I’ve ever had. For a moment I thought I was imagining it, but the look on my son’s face confirmed he had heard it too.

I went camping with 3 friends in the deep woods of nc in Uwharrie national forrest, and around 3am or so something i can only describe as snarling zombie sounds from like the walking dead was just outside of the fires glow and the craziest part is it moved ridiculously fast through the woods without snaping sticks nor rustling leaves! Needless to say i grabbed my shotgun left my gf behind and ran to my truck and locked myself in it until the sun came up. Wont go in the woods at night ever again after that experience

I’m from the UK and worked at a summer camp in North Carolina up in the Blue Ridge Mountains back in 2019. Once per session every cabin does their own overnight campout where we hike out higher into the woods for over an hour to our camp spot which is basically just a couple of long logs to sit on and a wooden structure to give shelter where everyone (2-4 counselors and 2 cabins of kids) would sleep under in their sleeping bag. After all the kids were in their sleeping bags ready for bed, me and my co counselor plus one other counselor stayed up and turned the campfire into a large bonfire and chilled for another few hours. One of the kids from my cabin couldn’t sleep because he felt petrified but couldn’t tell us why, he was hardly speaking, shaking etc, wanting to go back to camp, so we let him stay out with us by the fire as long as he didn’t get too close. Once it started to die down we put it out and went to bed. I could barely sleep since it was a bit chilly and not so comfy.. I’m not sure what time it started but I’d guess around 4am I started hearing a loud noise way off in the distance that slowly got louder and louder. I initially thought it was a siren when I first heard it then realized there are literally no roads for miles. Once i realized this I just lay completely still from fear and started listening intently as it grew louder and closer, it still sounded like an old siren of some sort but there were clear differences each time, longer and shorter gaps between etc, and howl like…. I’m pretty sure from when it first started it went on for at least 30-45 minutes with some gaps of silence before it would start again except closer and closer. It was super loud, then at its loudest it just stopped altogether. had no idea what it could be at the time, and didn’t even consider sasquatch since although I’d heard of bigfoot, its not really something people talk about in the uk. I also remember there were other even weirder sounds that night but I can’t remember what they were, only that i remember thinking how freaky it was.). Wondering if the kid from my cabin was so afraid that night from past summer camp outs, or stories from other campers, or maybe he could sense some bad energies. I’m sure someone else must have been awake to hear them, but nobody made a sound, and i definitely wasn’t gonna wake anyone up and cause a panic. I’m thinking about messaging my old co counselor who grew up as a camper at the camp and ask out of curiosity if he’s heard anything/heard anything that night. I’d forgotten about this until I watched the Big Lez show with sassy the sasquatch lol and ended up watching some bigfoot vids… then saw a comment that described the same noise I heard that night..

My wife’s grandmother was born in Wilkes County, North Carolina, around the year 1900. She had many interesting stories, but one I remember was of a time when she was very young and was playing outside with some other children. What she called a wild man emerged from the woods and was looking at the children. They were terrified and ran back inside. That’s all she said about it, but I have to wonder if they had a sasquatch encounter.

My brother first noticed a shadowy figure outside the window of our home. We live near Highway 178, in Liberty. We went outside to investigate, and I brought a night-vision scope with me. The porch light was on, and at the edge of the woods stood a tan-colored creature approximately 6.5 to 7 feet tall.
Its back was facing us, but it slightly turned its head in our direction. I could see that its eyes appeared to glow. My brother described them as red, though I couldn’t determine the color because everything appeared green through the night-vision scope. The creature had long, curly hair on its head that was the same tan color as the rest of its body. Its nose and mouth were both broad and flat.
After a brief moment, it ran back into the woods, making very little noise as it disappeared.

I’m in the foothills of western N.C they are strange things around here . I see things on my property that I can’t explain . My daughter and her husband saw a dog man late one night crossing the road , it still terrifies them when they talk about it.

I was in Kershaw County and was doing some off-roading in the Liberty Hill wildlife management area which boarders Lake Wateree. I’ve never been a believer in Bigfoot, and I’m not sure I am now. But what I experienced out there was something that freaked me out enough to turn around and leave. The area is very remote and miles from the nearest paved road or any houses. Most trails out there are single lane abandoned forest service roads. Very hilly and dense forest. Often times when riding a new trail, I will stop and walk a few hundred yards ahead to make sure none of the trail is washed out or too rough for my Subaru to handle. That day wasn’t any different. I had parked and walked a couple hundred yards ahead, scouting out the trail when I started hearing what sounded like gibberish from 2 or three different voices. Couldn’t make out any words. Just gibberish sounds. It caught me off guard because I hadn’t seen any other signs of people that day. It was around 2 pm. It sounded to be just beyond the tree line. I stopped and the gibberish stopped. I figured it was turkeys or some other type of bird. I kept walking and it started again. I stopped again and the noise stopped. After a few seconds, what appeared to be a piece of board hitting against a tree could be heard. This went on for a while. It was at the moment that I knew it was time to go. I have no idea what it was. The area is in a community called Liberty Hill off hwy 97 between Camden and Great Falls.