A listener writes “What I saw was about 25 years ago in Bristol TN. This creature was running in a field next to this little trailer park I once lived in.
It was in the middle of the day in the wide open in a somewhat populated area (weird). It stopped and looked directly at me and my neighbor. He had seen it before I came out to see what he was starring at in the field.
It was medium long haired black with some white around its nose, mouth and eyes…..fangs, GLOWING red eyes features of a big foot I guess in the face and body. It’s face did not protrude like a snout, it’s face was flat like a human but with hair covering the whole face and body. It ran on all fours and stood on its hind and walked on hinds to.
My neighbor said it jumped around like a deer. I didn’t see it do that. I guess that was before I got out there. The arms were held up like a rabbit does when standing up with BIG talons for paws or hands hanging down. Saw them when it stood. My contact info is below if you want to talk.”
hickory67
Glowing red eyes in the middle of the day? Pretty scary stuff. I grew up near Bristol…spent a LOT of time in the woods of East TN as a kid and doing surveyor work. Never seen me anything with day-glow eyes.
DrAaron
It is a beautiful area. I lived in Johnson City and went to milligan college. We used to go camping up a wautauga and boone. I loved the Cherokee National Forest. I knew nothing about the sasquatch population that is obviously living in the Smokies. I bet the surveying work gave you a lot of experience with such elevation change in the region.
hickory67
I lived in Kingsport, Church Hill (Hawkins Co) and Blountville, and went to NE State Tech Community College. Spent alot of time at Poor Richard’s in JC when I wasn’t busting brush in the hills lol. Yeah, it’s beautiful – and I hope to return once I retire. I was only a helper, but surveying was the perfect job for me – I loved it out there in the bush.
Then a Marine recruiter told me how much fun I could have in the woods all over the world….and I found myself in the desert again and again, with a short “R&R” in the hills of the Balkans. At least there were trees…lol.
Stacey H
My family comes from the small town of Petros, Tennessee, which is not too far from Bristol, yet much more remote. We also had family in New River. My great grandfather always stayed with us while we kids were outside playing. He always said it was because of a bunch of “wild men” that lived in the woods could be around. My great grandmother said he had nearly killed him when he was a young man while digging ginseng.
My great grandfather was a very religious man. He was a coal miner, but was injured as a younger man, so he got a job as a guard at the state penitentiary.. I never heard him swear not once. He led the construction of the local church, and attended until he was unable to walk at age 92. I have no reason to believe he was lying.
hickory67
I’m sure he wasn’t. At that time I was aware of BF, but like so many assumed it was a Pacific Northwest phenomenon. I never saw anything outright, but heard all manner of sounds in the woods – I just didn’t have the contextual knowledge to piece it together then. Oddly enough, my best friend saw a Sasquatch in every shadow, to have heard him tell it, and would avoid the deep woods at all costs.