Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode, we're talking about a North Carolina Bigfoot
roundup. That's correct, a North Carolina
Bigfoot roundup. Strangely enough, this first
case comes to us from coast to coast AM I found it on Twitter
and I was cruising around over there the other day.
I'll put the link at Kofi and you can check it out there along
with the BFRO link. It's got a picture of what they
think could be a Bigfoot or possibly a dog man sighting.
Now, it's weird. I mean, he kind of had this
hunched, hunched over, very portly, hairy creature.
And I don't see a head on this saying, I don't know, maybe
we'll get somewhere in that. The back legs are hinged like a
dog. It's really weird.
This article is by Tim Bennell. You can watch a little video
that goes along with it. It says a fantastic game camera
photo from North Carolina shows a remarkably Clearview of what
appears to be a mysterious bipedal creature that some
believe could be Bigfoot. The eyebrow raising image
reportedly emerged earlier this week by way of a Reddit post
from an individual who claimed to have stumbled upon the
picture online. Beyond the assertion that the
photo was taken by a game camera in North Carolina, the
circumstances surrounding the picture are shrouded in mystery.
Be that as it may, the image sparked considerable discussion
online as to whether or not it was genuine, and if so, what the
weird creature might be. To that end, some have suggested
that the odd animal in the photo is the legendary Bigfoot,
possibly looking downwards in a fashion that obscures his head
due to the creature's unusual legs.
Others have posited that it could be the infamous dogma
encrypted. Meanwhile, more skeptical
observers point to the dubious origin of the image and argue
that it is either an AI generated or simply the product
of some other kind of digital manipulation, wherein the animal
in the picture is probably a bear made to look mysterious.
With that in mind, what do you make of the tantalizing image?
Yeah, I don't know. It doesn't really look like a
bear with those feet the way they are.
That's the problem with the stuff.
If you don't have a chain of custody, you really don't have
anything other than to say, well, that's interesting.
And the AI has gotten so good this day and age that it's going
to get to the point where evidence isn't going to be
really considered evidence unless you have someone that
brings it to you and says this is how we got it and this is the
chain of custody. Kind of the same thing you got
going on with the whole Tic Tac thing.
I mean, you have these videos you merge out of nowhere.
We don't know where they came from.
Somebody makes a lot of money off of them and may never
really, all these years later, still don't have a clear chain
of custody. That's not good evidence.
It's something to look at. It's fun to speculate about, but
that's kind of where we have to leave it at now.
If we go over to BFRO, I find their chain of custody as far as
evidence goes to be much better. I found this here.
First one that we're looking at is from 2013, October 18th and
that's happened in North Carolina as well that says
Alexander County location details.
I'm not familiar with the area but I know it was on Friendship
Church Road in Taylorsville about three to four miles from
Hwy. 16 which I was heading toward.
Gives us the nearest town is Taylorsville and the nearest Rd.
is Friendship Church Road. Hwy. 16.
Observed on October 15th, 2012 I left Wilson Mills, North
Carolina to visit my fiance and her family in at Taylorsville,
Hickory, NC On October 18th, 2013 around 5:45 PMI left to
meet her and her nephews to take them to a haunted trail for
Halloween. After she got off work, I left
their mobile home and turned right on Friendship Church Road
in Taylorsville heading toward Hwy. 16.
It is about 5 miles from their home on Friendship Road to Hwy.
16. About 30 seconds after pulling
out of the driveway, I looked into an open field on the left
where they sell muscadine grapes.
There is a dirt Rd. that leads into the vineyard area and about
30 to four yards off the road. About 15 yards off the dirt Rd.
path I saw what I initially thought was a bear sitting on
its butt. I observed it for about four
seconds as I passed by. I continued down the road about
1/8 of a mile and turned around in a local church parking lot.
When I returned, another vehicle was turned on to the dirt path.
I slowed down, rolled down my window and the lady in the
vehicle asked me, do you see that thing?
I no longer saw it, but she pointed and I looked to see it
walking on two legs into the tree line.
We spoke for a few minutes before I left.
I told her I had turned around to get another look.
I realized then that it wasn't a bear.
After sitting at walk on two legs like a human.
I learned about the BFRO on the Finding Bigfoot show on Animal
Planet last night and wanted to share my story.
Wow, that was just amazing isn't it?
Going there to the vineyard to pick up some grapes and you see
Bigfoot just sitting there. I wonder if he wasn't there to
eat grapes himself. It says also noticed.
I believed it was sitting or squatting, possibly picking
grapes from the ground. I'm not sure that would make
sense. There was another lady, likely
in her 50s, who had also stopped and observed.
Her name was unknown. The road is not very busy.
It says she doesn't have any other stories from the area.
But the conditions that night. It was early evening.
I believed it had rained earlier that day, but it was clear at
the time. Visibility was good.
Morning rain high of 69°, low of 48°.
Environment, hills and forests in the foothills of North
Carolina. And then we had the follow up
investigation here by Larry Sidwell from BFRO, who says I
spoke with the witness by phone and his recollection of the
events that afternoon was excellent.
He had left his girlfriend's parents home and was on
Friendship Rd. in Alexander County, North Carolina heading
east toward Hwy. 16. He looked to the left into a
field where they grow and sell muscadine muscadine grapes and
saw what he thought was a bear sitting in the field.
Intrigued, he drove 1/8 mile and turned around in a church
parking lot to go back and get another look.
Upon returning, he noticed that another person had pulled onto a
dirt Rd. at the site and was watching the animal in the
field. The other witness was driving a
grey Toyota Camry. He pulled it and parked.
That asked the other witness if she saw the bear.
She responded that's no bear. Then he pointed and he saw it
again. It was walking on two legs and
he briefly saw it as it entered the tree line.
He was very convinced they had witnessed a Sasquatch.
The two conversed for a few minutes and both were certain
they had seen a Sasquatch, not a bear.
It was very tall, walked lightly, and was either very
dark brown or black in collar. He did not see any facial
features but described it as tall and broad.
The area is a mix of farm lands and forests located in the
foothills of the Appalachian Mountains.
It features agriculture, chicken farms, and fruit orchards.
Wildlife includes whitetail deer, wild turkeys, numerous
small mammals, and waterfowl. The area is within the Catawba
River basin, which has numerous Sasquatch reports.
The animal was likely eating dried muscadine grapes in the
field and it was initially unaware of the attention it was
attracting. Man, that is really something.
It almost makes it seem like these things are
interdimensional to me. I mean, they're just there.
They're doing their own thing. It's almost like they don't even
know we exist. Let's go ahead and take a look
at this next one. Now here's another sighting from
the same general area down there in Alexander County, North
Carolina. It's since it happened on June
12th back in 2013. The location details says it was
in Alexander County on Damascus Church Road near the Erudale
County line. Nearest town Taylorsville,
Nearest Rd. Damascus Church Rd.
Observed while driving my family on Damascus Church Road in
Alexander County, I saw what appeared to be a Sasquatch.
I glanced over while driving at the top of a fenced in cow
pasture and saw it. It appeared to be over 7 feet
tall with long arms and was walking upright.
It had long hair all over its body which must have been more
than 6 inches long. It walked down a power line
clearing and then veered off into the woods.
I was in disbelief and told my family what I thought I saw.
I turned around but it had already disappeared into the
woods. I am 38 years old and this is
the first time I've seen anything like it.
I saw this about two weeks ago and I've only told my family
under. Also notice it says I grew up on
a farm and have been a hunter but this was a once in a
lifetime sighting. No one else saw it, but others
were with me. No, they don't have any of the
stories. The time and conditions.
It was around 4:00 to 5:00 PM. The weather was cloudy but with
no rain. High of 90, low 63, overcast
with humidity, light winds, waxing, Crescent moon, 14%
illumination. The environment says the
sighting was on the Foothill top of a mountain.
The creature was walking down from a power line clearing and
into the woods above the cattle fence line under the follow up.
This was done by Larry, Sidwell says.
I spoke with the witness by phone a few weeks after he
spotted this animal. He was very observant during the
short time he had visual contact with the Sasquatch and was able
to recall many details. The witness was travelling with
his family in the late afternoon.
Around 4:30 PM, he was driving E on Sharp Mill Rd. in Alexander
County, North Carolina, near the Erudale County line.
Sharp Mill Rd. turns into Damascus Church Road after
crossing the Erudale County. The area is a mix of woods and
farmland situated in the eastern foothills of the Appalachian
Mountains. The witness looked to the north
and spotted a large, hairy biped crossing a power line cut.
It was approximately 150 to 200 yards away at the top of a
Ridge. He estimated its height to be
between 7:00 and 9:00 feet tall. He described it as thin and
lanky. The creature was moving quickly
between two patches of woods bisected by the power lines.
It wasn't running, but it seemed to glide as it walked.
The witness noticed that it had long 6 inch reddish brown hair
all over its body. He couldn't make out any facial
features or head shape. It was looking down and hunched
over the entire time he observed it.
He also noticed that it had extremely long arms, almost
reaching its knees and was walking with its palms forward
and with long arm swings. The entire encounter lasted
about 8 to 10 seconds. The witness told his family.
I think I just saw a Bigfoot. He then turned the car around to
go back and look, but by the time he returned it had gone
into the woods. The witness was absolutely
certain about what he saw. He had a great recollection of
the sighting and was very credible.
No one else in the car saw the Sasquatch.
He has not told anyone but me and his family about the
sighting. That area of Alexander County is
very rural with woods and farms. There is a lot of agriculture
including apple orchards, cattle and chicken farms.
Wildlife is abundant with a large population of deer, wild
Turkey and other small mammals. Alts Creek is the major waterway
in this area of the county and it is dammed in two spots to
form small lakes. It does sound like kind of a
rural area there. You're talking about mountains.
These things would have plenty of space to get around and, you
know, do their business. But even in a remote area, you
notice how we have these power lines going through these, you
know, big cuts between the stands of timber that we hear so
often about. And it seems like maybe they're
using these areas to move back and forth just like I suppose
people would if we were out there camping or something.
This next one comes to us from July 1st, 2022 at Orange County,
North Carolina. Location details.
We have 26 acres on the Inu River.
Now the situation here is you've got a father and daughter.
The daughter spots this Bigfoot 1st and then the dad sees it.
Now they've got the GPS coordinates here.
I won't bother to read this off. It says the father spotted it a
few days later during the day. It was about 30 feet into the
woods a bit further down the asphalt driveway.
It popped up behind the large uprooted tree ball of a tree
that has fallen over sideways, but it's still alive.
Nearest town Hillsborough, Nearest Rd.
Valley Wood Rd. observed. My 17 year old daughter was home
alone with our five dogs on June 24th, 2022 at dusk.
She saw something very large standing on two feet at the edge
of our woods. The dogs never barked when she
looked at it, it spun around and walked off quickly.
I thought she was imagining things until the day July 1st,
2022. I began to walk up the driveway
and heard a stick snap in the woods.
I looked to my right and saw about 30 feet away a very large
being walking away from me down a path in our woods.
I stepped up and got one more glance of it.
I immediately texted my 17 year old and asked her where she saw,
what she saw and what it was. She came home and showed me.
She said it was behind the basketball net and almost as
tall as the bottom of the net. She saw it for a few seconds
from behind as it quickly walked back into the woods and out of
her view. Right after that she heard what
she thinks was the sound of it running away deeper into the
woods. She described it as a darkened
color and on two legs. I drew what I saw and she said
yes, that is what I saw too. To be honest, I didn't believe
they existed until the day I archery hunt in our woods all
the time and have never seen anything like this.
It says I looked for tracks and found none.
I searched for Scott and found none.
No other stories. Time and conditions, dusk and
midday. We have a Creek in the inner
river on our property. I spoke with both the father,
this is the investigator, Matthew Moneymaker.
I spoke with both the father's and daughter.
They're credible and certain about what they saw.
Neither knew much about the Bigfoot subject before these
incidents. They never heard of the term
Patterson footage before, but both recognized the image when
they looked it up. Both noted the height of the
figure they observed, which immediately convinced them it
was not a human. Both said it had very dark fur.
The daughter briefly saw the whole body next to a basketball
court. The father saw only the
shoulders and head as it walked away quickly, but he observed it
from two different angles as it walked downhill toward the Eno
River. The father mentioned a tree near
the driveway that has fallen over but is still alive with
some roots apparently intact. The rest of the root ball is
sticking up in the air. When he spotted the figure, it
seemed to pop up from behind that root ball before walking
quickly down the hill toward the river.
The family is very intrigued by the odd behavior of their dogs.
Only one of the dogs is allowed to roam freely around the entire
property. That dog doesn't leave the
property, unlike the other dogs who will if allowed to roam
freely. It typically chases any small
animals it sees or hears near the home, or at least barks at
deer. For some reason, that dog, like
the others, is very reserved when this creature is around.
It neither barks at nor chases it.
The wife surmises that the Bigfoot has made friends with
that dog because the dog is free to eat one of the property all
the way to the river, so it has likely encountered the creature
before. The only time it does not bark
and chase things approaching the house is when there are people
approaching with whom the dog has already made friends.
So that must have happened with this creature already, by her
reckoning. Well, maybe the dog just has its
survival instincts kicking in, I don't know.
And on aerial images the property looks flat, but it is
actually hilly terrain. They have 26 acres abutting the
nearby Eno River. The father hunts the land with
for archery, but sparingly. The property sits next to
conservation land where hunting is not allowed, but the public
is allowed to walk the trails during the day.
There is also no public hunting on neighboring properties, so
the surrounding area is effectively a deer sanctuary.
He mentioned that deer will sometimes be present and
invisible in the area on his property for long stretches,
like right now. At other times, it seems there
are no deer in the area. I have urged him to set up a few
concealed security cameras on the side of the garage aimed at
the woods near the basketball court.
He will also look for a way to conceal a trail camera facing
the RIP ball where the figure was spotted.
He says that spot has an excellent view of a field that
deer move through. Very cool sighting that is for
sure. We'll take a look at a couple
more here then we'll wrap this up.
This sighting here happened back in 1988 in March.
It says mid March happened in Yancey County, North Carolina.
Location details Yancey County, North Carolina near the summit
of Mount Mitchell In early spring of 1988 some friends and
I were traveling up the road to the top of Mount Mitchell in a
four wheel drive vehicle. Mount Mitchell is the highest
peak east of the Mississippi at 6684 feet, and as a result the
mountain gets heavy snowfalls well into March and sometimes
April. There had been some heavy
snowfall in the weeks preceding our drive, and there were deep
snow drifts piled up alongside the road, although the road
itself had only a dusting of light snow on its surface.
Almost no one goes up on the mountain in the winter time, and
as I remember it, we had to skirt around a barricade just to
get on the road to the summit. Yeah, when you're having to
drive around barricades, that might not be a good start to
your trip. We reached the top of the
mountain, then turned around to drive back down.
About a half a mile below the summit we went around a sharp
left hand turn and our headlights illuminated the steep
bank beside the road. In the snow on the bank we saw
several deep impressions leading up the bank into the woods.
We got out and examined the marks, but it was dark and we
couldn't tell much about them. The next day we drove back up to
look at the marks in daylight. The tracks as we assumed them to
be, were in deep snow. We could see mud at the bottom
of them, and we measured the snow depth at 18 inches.
In the two tracks closest to the road, there were faint outlines
that could have been toe marks, but there were no claw marks
visible. As with bear tracks, the prints
appeared to have been made by a bipedal animal leading up to the
steep bank and disappearing over the top about 75 yards up the
slope. The bank beside the road was
extremely steep and it took my friend, who was 6 foot 2 inches
in athletic 8 long strides to climb it.
But whatever left the prints needed only two steps.
At one point, the animal had stepped over a fuller branch
approximately 3 feet off the ground without breaking stride.
I knew that sometimes big cats can leave footprints, but that
appeared to be bipedal. And there are still some
Panthers, mountain lions left in the mountains of North Carolina.
But if a cat made these marks, it would have to have been the
biggest Panther in the world. The prints were about 14 inches
long and seven inches wide. We consider the possibility that
the marks could have been made by clumps of snow falling from
trees, but there were marks where there were no overhanging
branches. We split up that day and two
different groups walked along the road about a mile in each
direction from the Prince, but we never found where the animal
had crossed the road, which suggests it was using the road
for traveling instead of trudging through the deep snow.
When we split up and walked along the road, we found dozens
of deer tracks in several spots beside the road where deer had
bedded down. That isn't unusual for this
area, but it didn't indicate that there was some wildlife in
the area. Under other witnesses, it says
we were 4 Wheeling in a Jeep. No one in the vehicle had a drop
to drink that evening. We did not notice the tracks on
the way up, only when our lights hit them as we were coming down.
And this under the environment, it says Mount Mitchell is the
highest peak in the United States and temperatures are very
cold in the winter. There always seem to be a strong
wind blowing up there. Much of the timber has lost
foliage due to acid rain. The timber is predominantly
evergreens, but there are some hardwoods left.
There is a also a lot of rhododendron.
Interesting, very cool siding there.
We'll take a look at one more here and then we'll wrap this
up. This last sighting that we're
looking at happened back in November of 1983, N Carolina,
Warren County. The area has some residential
development and some logging had been reported clear cutting.
At the time of my experience, it was an old forest with a mix of
hardwoods and Pines. Nearest town Lewisburg,
Warrenton, Centerville observed I was hunting at a Creek bottom
called Little Shock Oak Creek. The Creek bottom is heavily
forested in a dense crop of bamboo like reeds grow along the
bottom. I was leaving the woods slowly
stalking along a logging Rd. As I started up a hill, a doe
that had been bedded down just above the Reed cane on the side
of the hill jumped up and headed for the thick cover of the
reeds. The deer was angling to my right
and down into the reeds. I quickly moved to higher ground
above the reeds, hoping to see the deer as she slipped through
them. As I watched her whitetail
waving through the thick green and round cover, something to my
extreme right moved on the other side of the Creek.
I couldn't quite understand what I was seeing.
I saw a tall figure moving away from me, appearing dark and
molted in taller compared to the reeds, which grow at least four
to six feet tall. The molting wasn't in highly
contrasting colors, but rather darker and slightly lighter
shades of brown. Perhaps it was the effect of the
sun filtering through the leaves.
It was early in the deer season and the leaves hadn't entirely
fallen. I estimated the distance to be
about 50 yards. Being above the reeds was the
only way I could have seen this. As I watched it move through the
woods, it appeared to have what I would call a hump on its back,
which I only noticed when it turned and looked in my
direction as it pushed through the vegetation.
I had the impression that it went through some very heavy
limbs as I saw them snap back. Once it passed through.
It didn't seem to be running, but moving quickly with no need
to duck or dodge the vegetation, it just passed through it.
To be honest, I was unbelievably unsure of what I had seen.
I was scared at the time, as is still the case now.
Black bears were not known to inhabit that part of our state
and black bears do not walk very far in an upright manner.
This was upright. I did not go back into that
bottom again that afternoon. I haunted a very large clear cut
area where I could see for several 100 yards in each
direction. Despite being armed with a heavy
caliber hunting rifle and a 44 magnum revolver, I would not
venture back into these woods. I have seen no tracks in the
Creek bottoms or around muddy spots that we could identify.
As far as I know, area residents, including my
immediate family, have not reported anything similar.
I have several cousins who practically live in those woods
during hunting season and they've heard nothing, no rumors
or otherwise. Hunting with hound dogs is still
popular in that region, but no one has reported anything
unusual being brought to Bay or treed, including bears.
Also notice it says. Initially I was convinced I had
seen another hunter, but after leaving and driving up and down
the road I saw no other vehicles.
The woods were very deep and the idea that someone had hiked in
that far is was not likely. It was a weekday and I had taken
off work. Most hunters hunt during the
weekend. I was only about 300 yards from
my vehicle. Then it says other witnesses.
None. See the story above.
See the above details. See the above story follow up
investigation. Wow, now that's weird.
They talk about this thing running through the woods and
acting like and acting like it wasn't even having to worry
about being snapped in the face by brushes or branches.
That reminds me these cases that David Pillai talks about these
missing people where they they find them sometimes and they're
all cut up like they've been carried through the through the
woods at a high rate of speed with these sticks and brushes
and stuff slapping in the back of the face.
I could just see one of these things carrying some poor soul,
you know, running through the timber with it.
It goes on here. It says follow up investigation
report. This sighting occurred near the
border between Warren and Franklin counties.
The forests consist of mixed hardwoods including oaks, gums
and poplars. The trains hilly with numerous
creeks branching off of of Shaco Creek.
The witness remarked that the area provides ideal cover for
eastern whitetail deer. The witness was hunting during
the week with a friend but was alone for the first part of the
morning while the hunting partner handled some personal
business in town. The camp was set up on one side
of a fairly heavily traveled Rd. At approximately 9:00 AM the
witness was getting ready to leave camp and go into the
woods. The weather was clear and warm
for mid November. Most of the leaves that had
already fallen from the trees. The witness noticed a large
number of deer on the other side of the road heading in his
direction. He crossed the road wondering if
he might have an early opportunity or if the deer would
run away from him. The deer changed direction and
ran parallel to the road. The witness then went into the
woods, descending on a logging path down a hill to a Creek that
feeds into Shaco Creek. He planned to hunt in the
morning and head back for lunch. The locking path crossed the
Creek with large patches of tall reeds at the bottom, otherwise
known as River Cane. As a witness As a witness Across
the Creek, a bedded deer hidden in the reeds jumped up from its
hiding place and ran away. The witness could not see the
deer, so he ran to higher ground to get a better view.
When the witness was above the reeds, he could see the deer
intermittently as it quickly moved off across the Creek.
He saw something large that appeared to be a man dressed in
brown clothes wearing a backpack.
The observed subject then turned its head and looked over its
right shoulder at the witness. The witness was stunned when he
realized he was not looking at another hunter.
The animal then swung its head forward and moved through the
forest to put distance between us.
It was swift and determined. The witness then returned to
camp to see if his friend had returned or if any other hunters
had parked in the immediate area.
He saw no other vehicles. The witness remarked that any
other hunters parked on another Rd. would have had to hike two
or three miles through dense hardwood forest to reach the
Creek. Having no way to contact his
hunting partner and not wishing to stay at the camp, the witness
decided to leave and go to a clear cut area to increase his
field of view. He returned to camp once he knew
his hunting partner would have returned.
The witness saw the creature at a distance of approximately 50
yards for 6 to 8 seconds. He could see the head,
shoulders, and part of the chest.
The creature appeared to be standing upright and about 8
feet tall. The witness estimated the
creature weighed between 600 and 800 lbs.
The gender could not be determined.
The hair looked brownish with patches of drab olive green.
The animal appeared to have a hump on its back.
It had a perplexed or uncomfortable expression when it
looked at the witness. In hindsight, the witness
wondered if the animal could have been stalking the deer.
There are black bears in northern Warren County, but
there was no resident population in the county at the time of the
sighting. The southern part of Warren is
considered an occupied range by the North Carolina Wildlife
Resource Commission and there are no verified sightings of
black bear in this part of the county from 1971 through 2001.
I asked the witness if this could have been a bear.
He said that bears did not stand in their hind legs for long
periods. He also commented that he saw no
snout or or ears. The creature's face was flat.
Other friends and family have handed at saying unexplained
animals in the area were prompted, but they would never
elaborate. I found the witness to be
credible. Wow, what a crazy story.
I mean, what a really neat story this guy saw out there.
Hunting comes across as Bigfoot just cruising through the cane
right into the forest. It's almost like these things
just move with such intent and purpose.
It's kind of like we're just, it's kind of like we're just
invading their reality. Sometimes I just don't know
what's going on with them, if these things are biological or
interdimensional or what they are.
But they're certainly strange and it's certainly fun to hear
the stories about them. Until next time, this is UFO
warning over and out.