I get a lot of emails and messages from people regarding their encounters. I found this situation interesting and I have tried to contact the witness. I removed the person’s name from the message as I do not have permission yet to share it but the message is as follows:
“My family and I have been terrorized in our home for a few years, thinking it was a person trespassing on a regular basis. We experienced everything from beating on windows, hard thumping on the walls, messing with our doors and even coming up to our windows growling at us. We even dealt with our daughter coming to us in the middle of the night frantic, telling us that shadow people were coming to her window trying to talk to her. We wrote all of this off thinking it was nothing but a bad dream from something that she might have seen on TV that she shouldn’t have BC she was very bad about sneaking and watching TV when we was busy.
I have hunted since I was ten and have seen everything that resides in these mountains in Kentucky or so I thought. I live on the border or Daniel bone national forest and hunt private land that connects to it. I set out to bow hunt this land one evening in the fall. I got settled in my stand and let the woods calm down.
As I was getting everything settled I noticed banging/ knocking noise and wrote it off as someone building a something and wrote it off at that. Shortly after I done some rattling and followed with some grunts and a snort wheeze call. In just a few minutes I herd movement heading straight towards me. I got exited and got positioned thinking it was a buck coming to check it out, because this was in the peek of the rut. As it made its way close i was concerned about the amount of noise it was making but again wrote it off as a buck preparing to fight. As it got close I was ready to draw when it appeared out of this small creek bottom. It made its way up the hill and emerged from an old logging road and stopped starring straight at me like it knew where to look. I sat puzzled as I was trying to figure out what this animal was. It was black and had came off the logging road on all fours but as I Iocked eyes with it, it raised up-erect some what. I thought this is a bear but I seen no ears.
Then I started to think it was a huge black coyote until I notice prominent shoulders and still no ears. We stared at each other for about 5 to 7 seconds until I said ” what the f***” . then it darted back the way it came like lightning, on all fours from what I could tell until it got closer to the creek. Then this thing broke off its path and circled behind me into a very dense thicket. This is what really got me nervous. I know animals and have come across every thing around here at least once and that’s something they don’t do is double back and get closer. I listened to this thing make its way trough the ticket until I thought it was going to step out but stop just where I couldn’t see it.
I sat anxiously for about twenty to twenty five minutes with my bow poison at the thicket ready to draw and make a shot just in case it made a charge for me. During this stare down it would take a few steps and reposition its self slill keeping out of sight. It was getting dark and it had not move in a few minutes but a knew I had to get out of these woods pertaining to a had no flash light n I wanted to be able to have a little light to be able to see this creature just in case it made a move. So I shoved my things in my back pack n stood up. As soon as I stood this thing made a god awful noise that’s really hard to explain. It was a mixture of like a deep deep sigh or exhale mixed with like a guttural rumble, n as soon as this noise ended it sounded like someone let loose a bull in this thicket.
When it stopped I climbed down and started walking backwards up the trail n as I got about 30yards it let out another screa and I walked as fast as I could out. As I got back to the road I herd another vocal closer to me that the previous position n ran back to the house.. After this encounter I looked at EVERYTHING different. We never thought there was creatures out there like this and looking back that was not the first time these creatures have been in our presence but we were to ignorant to realize what we were dealing with.
Before that encounter my wife seen what she thought was a person 3 different times n I witnessed the third time myself n chased it through the woods with my pistol, BC “it” was messing around my garage n had enough, n when I realized this thing was leaving me in its dust I rang out half my clip in its general direction n gave it a piece of my mind. Things stopped for a while, n then I had my encounter a few months later. We both look back n these were not people. Things started happening again not long after my encounter it got sketchy. But we knew what we were up against n took more precautions. We still own that house but we are currently staying somewhere else. We have 3 kids n the last run in with them really made me rethink my children’s safety.. I don’t know if you still run your show.
I wouldn’t mind sharing our experiences as long as we are not ridiculed. We have no one to express our emotions or feelings to, people seem to think you are a but jobs n make fun of us in some ways. These things are serious and not to be taken in a joking way. You guys are awesome at what you do n I love your show.”