Hello and welcome to the program UFO Warning.
In this episode we're talking about a Tennessee Bigfoot
Roundup. That's correct, a Tennessee
Bigfoot roundup. This first encounter happened on
December 14th, 2004. County Tennessee location
details South of Maryville, TN about 20 miles from the North
Carolina line. Nearest town Tallahassee,
nearest Rd. Highway 129.
The observer tells us it was unusually warm for mid-december
on this day and my buddy and I were hunting in an area known as
Chilliwee. About an hour before sunset we
climbed out of our deer stands and met in a small hauler about
100 yards from both of our tree stands.
We were walking back to the four Wheeler when we heard a very low
rumble in the hauler where we had just met.
We were now about 35 yards from the hauler, almost in a field,
so we decided to be still and sit on the edge of the field for
a minute to see if we could hear anything else.
At this time we thought it was just a grunt or a blow from a
deer we had scared. We waited approximately 10
minutes hearing a loud splash in a small drinking hole.
My buddy and I looked at each other and wondered what it was.
We waited another 10 minutes hoping a deer would come out,
but then we heard a second splash.
At this point we realized it wasn't a deer.
We walked probably 20 yards and saw what we believe is a
Bigfoot. It was approximately 7 to 8 feet
tall and I would guess it weighed 300 to £350.
My friend and I were almost in shock at what we had seen.
The Bigfoot saw us and didn't seem to care that we were
watching it. It lingered around the area for
another minute before walking over small Ridge where we lost
sight of it. To be honest, we were too scared
to go look for it, so we went back to the house and told
everybody there. They said we were crazy and that
it was just a bear. I've been hunting bears for
years and am familiar with their movements.
This was no bear. I know this because it never
dropped down on all fours the entire time we watched it.
We probably saw it walk a total of only 30 to 40 yards, but I am
100% sure it was no bear. It was some sort of human ape
creature. I am positive it was a Sasquatch
and so is my buddy. We heard a very low rumble slash
moan that came from the holler below us.
A small Creek runoff trickles down the holler from the other
mountains and forms a little drinking hole which is where we
heard a loud splash. This is unusual because there is
no clear explanation for the noise and then it says
otherwise. It says yes, my hunting buddy,
we were both deer hunting. Other stories, no time and
conditions. It was about 4:30.
The lighting was dim but still enough to see lots of mountains.
Chilliwee Lake is very close. Man, isn't that something you
just imagine being out there in the middle of the timber like
that? See this thing?
If we go down here, we see the follow up investigation says.
I spoke with both witnesses. This is Stan Courtney, an
investigator. They both stated that the animal
was grayish brown in collar and always upright, walking on two
feet. The arms were noted to be very
long and the animal was built heavily.
It seemed to walk as if it were a massive bulk.
Both men are avid outdoorsmen and are acquainted with bears
and other wildlife in the area. Yeah, they saw something and it
does not sound like a bear to me at all.
That's down there from Tennessee.
We'll go ahead and look at this next one.
This reports from October 23rd at 2003 Tennessee Campbell
County. Looks like this one must have
hit the news because it says location details not available
at this time. Check newspaper updates nearest
town. La Follette, UT vet primate not
killing cats As WVLT Volunteer TV news first reported last
week, there is some monkey business going on in Campbell
County. Some people said they have seen
a primate terrorizing residents and pets.
Campbell County's 911 Center has been receiving calls about the
creature for weeks. They're saying it's a
chimpanzee, a large chimpanzee, said 911 dispatcher Camille
Barnes. It's killing their cats.
Barnes lives in the College Hill community, which is where the
creature has been sighted. She believes it came into her
house. My basement door was left open
and something came in and scattered all the clothes and
stuff stored in the basement, she said.
Utah Veterinary School primate expert Doctor Edward Ramsey said
the creature that is making its presence known at Kimball County
is likely not a chimpanzee like those found in the Knoxville
Zoo. Chimps are rarely are really
rare as private pets, so chances that this is a chimp are pretty
remote, he said. He did say it may very well be
some type of monkey. There are unfortunately still a
fair number of monkeys in private hands, he said.
We've had one or two instances where an animal escaped from a
private zoo and Pigeon Forge. Ramsay said that whatever kind
of primate it might be, he does not believe it's responsible for
the recent pet deaths in the area.
Odds are, if it killed anything, it wouldn't kill many and it
wouldn't kill repeatedly. Virtually every primate is
herbivorous. Now, I'm not sure about that.
I have seen documentaries where chimpanzees were eating meat, so
I don't know if that's actually true.
But anyway, he said that if a monkey is on the loose, it's a
perfect example of why most exotic animals don't make good
pets. We don't think it's appropriate
for people to keep specifically macaws as pets because their
ability to carry fatal diseases, He said.
They're not trainable. They're not trainable in the
traditional animal sense of the term.
La Fiat Animal Control is investigating situation.
Knoxville Zoo officials said if the animals caught, the zoo
likely would not be able to take it and it may have to be
euthanized. Well, it seems strange that
somebody would be missing a monkey and not reported to me.
This is just kind of another case of normalcy bias.
This next report is from October 20th, 2003.
It says animal control offices, officers in Campbell County are
searching for a primate perhaps weighing 400 lbs.
That's on the loose and nearly 100 pets are missing.
That doesn't sound like a chimpanzee to me, sounds more
like a gorilla. I didn't really get a good look
at his face because he didn't hang around all that long, Donna
Keeley said about when she saw an ape like creature last week
in La Follette. But he's big and he's got a
really bad stinkful order to him, a fat animal control
officer, George Moses said. I believe that the people
believe that. They see it.
I don't have any reason to doubt them, that they're mistaken.
Moses said he hasn't seen the animal, but he's certainly heard
of it. He started getting calls about
it three weeks ago. All the alleged sightings
centered on the College Hill community just outside of the
Lafleet city limits. Coinciding with the sightings
are numerous reports of missing cats and kittens.
All told, over 100 are missing, Moses said, according to Keely,
when she startled the animal. This kitten, he threw it at me.
No one knows where it came from. One college young man, who
declined to be identified, claims the primate is an
orangutan. He said he saw it Tuesday
morning, leaving stool samples on his property.
Why? I wish you would have got those.
Many College Hill residents believe the animal escaped a
circus that performed at the nearby National Guard Armory a
few months back. But the law Police Department
and the Campbell County Sheriff's Department didn't take
any reports of a missing animal. Donna Keatley said her neighbors
are ready to shoot the animal. If I had a gun, I would have
shot it. Several people told 6 News
Monday that they want the animal caught or killed before
Halloween so it can't attack a child or pet.
Campbell County officers warn anyone who sees as an animal not
to attempt capturing it. It's considered dangerous.
Instead, any sighting should be reported immediately to
Lafayette Animal Control. Boy, a lot of good that's done.
Then they have another article here dated October 22nd, 2023.
It says a new theory emerged Wednesday as a cryptozoologist
weighed in on sightings of a possible primate in Campbell
County. A cryptozoologist, Someone who
studies uncatalogued animals such as skunk apes, compared A6
News accompanied A6 News crew in Campbell County Wednesday.
Mayac skunk apes have been spotted in southeastern United
States since the 1940s. Sounds like a Bigfoot to me.
Local cryptozoologist Chris Dodson contacted 6 News after
seeing the stories on Campbell County primate sightings.
The animal people reported saying is not a pet.
Dodson took these skunk ape photographs Wednesday to people
who've claimed to have seen the primate in the Lafayette area.
Dodson's convinced that what people are seeing is a skunk
ape. We need to capture this thing
the best we can. Dodson said.
People need to stay away from it.
Allow experts to come in who have some knowledge of large
primates like this and trap this animal.
Good luck with that. Monkey owner Jerome Love
answered a summons at the Campbell County Sheriff's
Department with his makai monkey, Mugway.
Love wanted to prove it's not his animal that's loose.
If it's a monkey that's killing these cats, it's not this one
and I'm tired of it. 6 News is hearing more accounts from
Campbell County residents who say they've seen the creature.
Some date back 35 years. However, many people are
hesitant to talk for fear of being labeled as crazy.
And then all six cats and one dog have been killed in the last
three days and there have been a number of sightings within the
last 48 hours. The warning still stands,
though, for people not to try to approach the animal, but to
report it to local authorities. Cryptozoologists believe there
could be hundreds of skunk apes across the Southeast.
Oh my goodness. Follow up investigation.
A recent cluster of possible Bigfoot related incidents in
Tennessee's Campbell County has been mentioned by several TV
news stations and newspapers across the region.
The BFRO has been asked to help investigate.
We're requesting the additional assistance of anyone in the area
who has trail cameras. Please send an e-mail to
assistbfo.net if you can provide this type of equipment and if
you live in that general area. Wow, that seems like quite a
quite a lot of sighting. That's been 20 years ago.
It's just a cluster of these sightings.
It's amazing. We'll take a look at one more
here. This last sighting is from June
12th, 2021, State of Tennessee. Lawrence County says
intersection of Glen Springs Road and Ridge Lane goes on and
says the nearest town is Lawrenceburg, TN Nearest Rd.
Glen Springs Rd. My husband and I believe we saw
a Sasquatch on the night of June 12th, 2021.
We were driving home with our daughter at approximately 9:30
PM when we turned onto our street.
We live in the deep countryside of Lawrenceburg, TN.
As my husband turned the wheel slightly to turn onto our
street, there was an animal with fingers touching something on
the ground picking at it. When the animal saw our
headlights, it intentionally inverted them and ducked
underneath. At one point, it was only about
5 feet from the front of our vehicle and fully in the
headlights. The animal bounded across to our
neighbor's yard. It did not run on two feet like
a human. We initially thought it was a
gorilla because of its movements, but it looked
extremely human like. It bounded with its front legs
in the same way a gorilla does, except its arms were very long
and it moved unbelievably fast. Of course, we consider that it
could have been a person dressed in a hairy costume, but it moved
way too fast to be a person. It was definitely not a bear.
It was more like a gorilla or a person covered in hair.
It was covered in dark brown or black hair.
The animal cleared our neighbors 250 to 300 foot long in about 6
seconds and then disappeared from view.
Our four year old daughter did not see the animal as she was
playing on her iPad when we pulled up to her house a minute
later. I was absolutely terrified to
get out of the vehicle because we had no idea what we had seen
and it was so fast that it could have turned around and reached
her house in about 10 seconds. I gathered the courage to run
into our house door, unlock it, and we all ran inside.
We were terrified. We both saw the animal, however,
my husband saw that it had fingers and was observing
something on the ground. I did not see that part.
I only saw it start to run and clear our neighbor's lawn.
We consider that it might have been a bear, but it was too ape
like, too fast and too slim. It did not run on all fours
exactly like a bear would. This happened at 9:30 PM.
It says street and the countryside.
Now if we go and look at the investigators notes, it says
follow up investigation report by BFR investigator Matthew
Moneymaker. I spoke with the wife by phone.
She is credible. This is a solid report and both
witnesses are able to speak with local journalists.
And then it goes on and says it talks a little bit about money
makers background. So definitely as far as he's
concerned, this thing is, is absolutely real.
We got a little time here. I'll do one last one.
This is 2008. It says spring May 31st.
Tennessee. Lawrence County location
details. From Hwy. 43 turn onto Rabbit
Trail Rd. Continue about 30 miles to
Blooming Grove Rd. Turn and continue to the Ravilo
Rd. Stay left until you reach Mount
Zion Rd. Turn right and continue until
you cross the low water bridge and you arrive at the Mount Zion
Church nearest town. Appleton, Tennessee Nearest Rd.
Mount Zion Rd. observed while on a day trip to a very remote
local cemetery in the Pine Barrens near Appleton,
Tennessee. My family and friends observed a
freshly fallen tree across Sugar Creek about 150 yards South of
the Mount Zion entryway. Visitors have to cross a low
water bridge on Sugar Creek at this point.
It was a very pleasant day in May the 31st with blue skies and
a light breeze. After about half an hour we
heard what we could, only to be described as the most unholy
sound any of us have ever heard coming from the area past the
fallen tree on Sugar Creek Creek on Sugar Creek about 1000 yards
away from us. It was no cow, donkey, horse,
etcetera. My wife and best friend heard
this sound and in fact captured it on our camcorder.
It is nowhere as loud as it was in person, but I do have it
recorded. Then it says.
Didn't think much of it at the time, but there was an unusual
odor on the breeze. Hard to describe but dark musty,
wet doggy smell. But this wasn't close to us.
It seemed like it was coming downwind and now that I began to
piece things together, it seemed to be coming from the vicinity
of the yell or sound, but a good distance away at least.
Other witnesses says three adults that heard the sound and
three children 15-9 and eight years old ask about other
stories. No other instance that I've
heard of in Lawrence County. But some locals have said there
are strange things that happen at this old cemetery.
But I think they were referring more to inspectors and spirits
than Bigfoot. However, after looking through
your site, I do see that there have been reports of these
creatures in several counties surrounding us.
And we were very near the county line with Gallus County where
there have been reports. And then it says time and
condition, Clear skies, breezy, beautiful Mayday at about noon.
Wow. Follow up investigators says I
spoke with the husband on November 2nd, 2008 and found him
to be credible. He and his wife and daughters,
as well as another female friend of the family were on a research
adding to Old Mount Zion Cemetery in Lawrence County,
Tennessee when this event occurred.
The wife and her friends are actually in the process of
writing a book about paranormal activities of the ghostly type
throughout the South. The husband is a photographer,
researcher, and published writer.
I don't have much to add since he did an excellent job of
recording the events of the day in his report.
He had posted his recording on YouTube and I'm including a link
and then it's got a link here to this YouTube link.
I'll go ahead and put that at the Kofi site.
Very cool sightings. Hope you enjoy the stuff.
Until next time, this is UFO warning over now.