Sasquatch Chronicles Blog

A listener writes “In 1984 or 1985 my mother and her 3rd husband moved us from west TN to east TN on the outside of Cookville. My younger brother and I we lived about 5 miles from where we went to school.. There was absolutely no one to play with other than ourselves.

We lived in a super old farm house, the landlord lived on the same property about 50 yards from us. Other than that there wasn’t any more house around. We would play in the field behind their house there was a stonewall we use to play army around.. We were not allowed to go off into the wood to play the landlord thought we would come upon a moonshine still and yes that was a real big problem then. We was out playing by the stonewall one evening when I saw what I thought was a mountain man /moonshiner watching me. I yelled out we are not going anywhere near the woods leave us alone. The landlord yelled run boys run so we took off running the house. I told the landlord we was not going anywhere near the woods so why did we get in trouble.. he told us that we better watch out for them boogers. That we should just take our butts in the house.

I had no idea what he was talking about, thought he was just making fun of me bc i kept snotty and sinus infection when I was little because my stepdad smoked in the house…. I remember when my mom and step dad came home that night I had told her about the landlord yelling at us telling us to go home, so she said she was going to talk with him to find out what was going on. She came back minutes later and got my stepdad and they both went back to the landlord house. Then about minutes later they returned back to the house. You would have thought we really done something wrong. We were not allowed to go out and play anymore after school, until my mother or stepdad was there to watch us.

I remember thinking that sucked because they wouldn’t arrived at home until 630/7 pm and we would get off the bus 330. After about a week of us not being able to go outside. The weekend finally got there and we had a bonfire in the backyard roasted hotdogs and marshmallows.. when we got done we came in and took our baths while in the bath something hit the side of house power went out and my stepdad went to landlord and ran back to the house I remember him coming back into the house pale as ghost. He told us all to get in the living room while he is shutting the blinds and making sure the doors are locked tight. him and my mom had a long talk and then later on that week my stepdad went to take the trash out. I heard him scream and he was running back in the door that was on a Thursday night and that following Sunday my dad and grand dad showed up and we packed up the car and truck back to west Tennessee we came. Step dad tried playing it off and saying it was a bear.. It was wasn’t until years later I found out what a booger was. Ever since then I have been fascinated with the whole subject.

Finding bigfoot came out and I have watched every episode 5 or 6 times. Fast forward 30 years later, My ex-wife and I bought a pontoon boat and a camper. We started going to Kentucky lake part of the LBL system 2010-2012 we would go to LBL every weekend and camp and go out on the boat. We were out first Saturday and decided to anchor and grill out. We were about 30 yards past the welcome to Kentucky sign in the TN river…. We heard something come running down the hill.. Sounded like 2 elephants being chased down the hill. My son and i were on the bow of the boat trying to look into the woods to see what made that noise. Never saw anything, later that afternoon we were headed back towards Paris landing and I could tell by the look on my dogs face he had to go number 2.

So we found a spot were there was small rocks that i was not worried about hurting the pontoon, so we pulled in there most of the shore line up there is big rocks.. The dogs got off and done their thing and we got off was walking around to make sure there wasn’t any snakes. My son grabbed a large stick and threw it trying to get the dogs to play with him. The stick went into the water so he grabbed another hit it on the tree to break in in half and almost instantly got a return knock. That’s when I realized there was a bigfoot in the area, I turned and looked at my ex-wife told her that was a bigfoot, she looked at me laughed wanted to know if I was high or been drinking of course not that was her opportunity to be a smart butt of course the answer was no. She accused me and my son of having bigfoot on the brain, so we loaded up the dogs and went on our way…. 1 year later we back at buchanan’s camp ground, we left the harbor and if you turned left it you go towards Kentucky and if you turned right you go towards Budweiser beach.

We went towards Budweiser beach got about 2 and half miles down river almost parallel with girlscout camp then she looo we found a cove to anchor out at so we could swim, grill, and do some fishing. The cove we found was awesome, it was like a cove tucked inside of another cove. It had pea gravel beaches and everything else was large rocks. That was our go to spot for the rest of the summer. We made friends and decided to have a boat so we all went to our spot, everyone anchored up grilled out swam and had a good time. Me, my son and ex-wife were on the beach playing with the dogs, we could hear something walking towards us thru the woods, it seemed to have its footsteps pattern with the waves. She turned and asked did i hear that, I said hear what then a few minutes later I heard it. By the time I figured out what was going on both of my dobbermans were on high alert.. I turned looked at my son and told him to get everything on the boat. No sooner than I said that a wave of absolute fear for our lives ran across all 3 of us.

My son starts crying, and my male dobberman starts going nuts barking showing his teeth which is way out of character for this dog, My male turned and looked at my female growled and barked at her she instantly started herding my son towards the boat.. My exwife was helping my son get onto the boat, my male kept looking back and fourth towards my son and ex-wife and then the woods… My son stood up and started screaming daddy what the hell is that which I did not allow my 11year old to cuss but my reply was I have no freaking idea as soon as my ex was on the boat my trusty companion left me to fin for myself, I reached and untied the boat from the tree, shoved us off . I ran to the back of the boat to crank it and the flooded the motor.

I remember trying to get the motor to start and the waves was pushing us back into bank we could hear something breathing real hard me no my wife see anything but my son started hollering daddy there it is a bigfoot. took the paddle and started paddling backwards into open water.. I remember yelling at my ex how deep are we and when she finally told me that we was in 20 ft of water I dropped the anchor again. Turned and looked back and realized we was only about 15 ft from the bank. they were both panicking I made the comment we are in 20ft of water isn’t nothing going to get us.. I had this feeling I was being laughed at, it could get me if it wanted me.. A few moments later the boat motor finally cranked and we rolled up out of there.

My ex was a believer about bigfoot until that day. I asked my son when we got back to the camp a couple later what did he see.. He said he saw a mans face covered in hair peeking around a tree and 10-12 ft into the woods. When I was looking into the woods I was looking my eye level, he was 10 ft behind me on the boat standing in the seat looking into the woods. I guess that’s how he saw over the brush… needless to say we never went back there. to shorting this up to help my wife’s little fingers from typing.

I would say my son and I had 2 more encounters similar to this while hunting.. The last one stopped me from hunting up until this last year, I convinced myself that I had buck fever and everywhere I looked was ma buck…. I made my self go hunting again this last spring. On April 14th 2024 @7:57 am I had my next encounter. It was my first time going hunting in 10/12 years… It was the second day of turkey season couldn’t make myself go in before daylight didn’t have guts. Finally made myself go in at about 20 minutes after daylight. hit my calls a couple times, couple hens came out in front of me got my cellphone out and started recording, let the hens do the work for me, after about 30 minutes letting the hens do the work for me, I heard him one if the biggest loudest toms I had ever heard he was close, I pointed my cell phone in the direction I heard him reached and grabbed my gun got ready after about 10 minutes, I put the gun down grabbed my phone.. Started messing with my phone looked up and saw 3 jakes, started recording them then realized they saw me and my hunt was over… so I set my phone down and shot the closest one. Once I shot I heard a loud noise. Just took for granted it was the flock of turkeys, picked up my bird took a couple pics, grabbed decoys and left…. it wasn’t until later that afternoon when I went to show the video that when I saw bigfoot in the background.. It was about 45 yards away.”