What you don't know.
What you haven't heard.
Not even I know everything that has gone on over the years that hasn't been reported.
Many of these Bigfoot reports have stayed in the families that experienced the encounters.
Here are a few that may give you pause to reflect:
The first example was reported and even made the local papers.
It involved a businessman in Wilson county, Tennessee.
I related this story because I personally spoke to the man and saw the evidence.
While compelling, the facts still did not generate the reaction in the public one would expect.
This occurred some 30 or 40 years ago:
Driving home one night on a dirt road.
The man came suddenly upon two large animals in the road.
. Trying avoid a collision while braking and sliding in the gravels struck and killed one of the creatures.
Unlike other Bigfoot reports these animals were slightly under 5ft. tall.
Appeared to be a pair.
That is a male and female.
Mostly hair covered.
Human looking face with animal features.
The one killed was a male.
The other ran into the brush, was assumed to be a female.
Local papers reported and the businessman requested that a local college examine the carcass.
The results were inconclusive, in that there was not a match as to the type of animal.
In other words they could only say what it wasn't, not what is was.
The supposed head was preserved and on display in the store window of an antique store.
And there the matter ended.
( USA bigfoot sightings up to 2009 )
The next case is in Sumner county.
1965-66 in what is now Hendersonville, Tennessee.
At that time the town was not the busy community it is today.
Just a wide place in the road between Gallatin and Nashville.
Growth of the area was just beginning.
So it was with some alarm that when the owner of a new home in a freshly carved out subdivision, found a huge hair covered man digging in his trash can at the end of the driveway.
A gun was acquired and a search begun, but because of the dense woods and darkness because of the area being so remote, nothing was found.
Next case is from 1979:
A few miles north near White House ,Tennessee at a place called Capps Gap.
Dogs and some pigs were reported killed.
While lightning was considered to be the reason, there was not any evidence to support this claim.
Also, considered was bears may have escaped from some tourist attractions.
These bears were kept in large cages which dotted the roadsides at firecracker stands.
None were ever reported escaped, seen or captured.
As the bears were accustomed to people, these bears would not have run away from humans.
None were ever found.
Now we go next door to Robertson county Tennessee.
Again, in 1979 near Springfield, Tennessee.
Close to New Cut Road.
Late autumn or early winter.
Two kids playing in a stream.
Building a swimmin' hole by damming up a place with some rocks.
When they get an odd feeling they were being watched.
As they are leaving the area they see a huge black hairy thing "crouched" behind an old tree.
They ran all the way home and told the family, who laughed it off.
But, later an aunt told them of several similar stories that she knew of from over the years.
If you are going to read just one book on the subject.
This book by Peter Byrne would be my suggestion.
I own and have read this book it is very well researched.
All of these stories I have related have a few things in common.
Remote and isolated areas.
The people making the reports were familiar with the area and wildlife.
These were not seekers of fame or fortune.
Now, all of the areas are much more developed.
No more reports come from these areas.
Bigfoot has also been connected to the UFO subject.
Just as in The UFO field no real evidence exists publicly.
I say it in this way because we do not know what exists privately.
As for my story, it is this:
I came to Sumner county Tennessee as a young child in the early 60's.
My people hunted, trapped and fished all over the area.
I was dragged through the woods and taught about the plants and wildlife.
What would kill you and what would save you.
I have been trapping in the dead of winter and coon' hunting at midnight.
Walking late at night in the early 70's down a gravel road along side a deep hollow that I knew very well.
I had played, walked, hunted and knew every foot of land in that place.
I heard a "scream" or better a "yell" that I had never known before or now.
Coming from down in that hollow in the pitch black of the night.
It caused me great concern at the time because I have heard bears, peacocks, wild cats, etc.
This call matched none of those.
Over my life I have been to many zoos.
I have studied audiology, anthropology and other linguistics's programs.
This was as far as I know not native to my area.
It had an ape/human quality to it.
But it was neither.
Just another of life's mysteries.
And there it will remain.
Until someone finds the answer.
"I Watch The Skies Because They Exist"
