A listeners writes “I’ve been wrestling with an experience I had five years ago while working as a first responder in East Tennessee. Let me tell you my story, and I’ll let you speculate on what it is that I saw.
I don’t remember the exact date, but I know it was between the hours of 2-3 AM between Thanksgiving and Christmas in Sullivan County, Tennessee, near the Hawkins County border in 2020. A more exact location would be the adjacent field/treeline at the intersection of Morelock Road/Beech Creek Road (TN Hwy 347). As I said before, I was covering a shift on a rescue truck for the volunteer fire department I was a member of. In that role, I responded to emergency medical, fire, and rescue calls in my area and rendered care until an ambulance arrived. My vehicle was a modified F250 pickup truck complete with lights and sirens. I responded to a call at the brick home near the intersection I mentioned before. After the call was over, the patient transported by the ambulance, I returned to my vehicle and put my medical bag in the truck.
The truck was parked in the gravel pull-off beside of the brick house in front of an old, unoccupied building to leave room for the ambulance in the driveway of the house where the patient was. The rear of the truck was facing Beech Creek Rd and the front was facing the old building. My red and white emergency lights were still flashing. As I put my bag in the back seat of the truck, I got this overwhelming feeling of dread, like something was watching me.
It was one of those feelings that gives you goosebumps, for lack of a better word. I looked to my right, toward Beech Creek Road, and saw a pair of red eyes staring at me in the wood line approximately thirty or forty yards off the roadway. The eyes were only illuminated when the emergency lights on my truck flashed. I couldn’t see any body features or any kind of silhouette. All I saw was the eyes. They were stationary and were staring constantly at me. I couldn’t help but keep looking at them but I kept getting increasingly more nervous and nervous to the point that I felt I needed to get out of there.
I honestly felt terrified as I left because I had to back my truck up toward the eyes onto Beech Creek Road to begin my return trip to my station. I did so very quickly and, unfortunately, was too cowardly to turn on my scene lights in the direction of the eyes to see what was there. I just got out of Dodge as quick as I could. I’ve been in many tense situations in my tenure as an EMT, but that one takes the cake and I don’t know why. I’m no longer with that department due to healthcare problems, but I did run calls in that area afterward and never had any other encounters.
Interestingly enough, my friend (and fellow first responder), had an experience with a creature on the same stretch of roadway where it chased him in his vehicle.
Perhaps what’s more disturbing is the fact that a small child, Summer Wells, disappeared from her home without a trace the following June (2021) and still hasn’t been found. Local, state, and federal entities have combed the area substantially and not a trace was found. Search dogs tracked her scent to a point near Beech Creek Road but then refused to track anywhere else. That leaves two options, either she was taken in a vehicle or the dogs were afraid to track further. What’s also wild was the number of federal entities that saturated the area. FBI and even homeland security was spotted in the area along with Black hawk helicopters and countless unmarked vehicles with government tags. It really makes you wonder.
That’s it in a nutshell. I am very interested in the Bigfoot/Sasquatch subject and would love to learn more, particularly of sightings in my area.”