DATE:February 3 and February 8, 2002

TIME:    12:00 P.M. to after dark, CST

LOCATION:Tennessee, Overton County
 

TERRAIN:  Mountains/ heavily wooded/mountain streams
 

OBSERVED:Mary Green invited me to visit and go into an active  bigfoot area. I arrived at her home on February 2, 2002.  In preparation for our outing the next day, she & I popped popcorn and packaged it into large white kitchen garbage bags for nearly 3 hours. We also packaged some fresh apples in knee-hi stockings. The popcorn and apples were to be hung from tree limbs at a height of 9 to 14 feet. The next day, February 3, 2002, Mary, her daughter Susan a fellow GCBRO member,  her son John and I traveled to the mountainous area that Mary has been investigating for several years. The weather that day was very cold, and there was a light rain falling.

As we arrived at the intended destination, parked the vehicles and were exiting them, we immediately heard several series of tree knocks. I mentioned to Mary that the bigfoot already knew we were there.  The four of us unloaded our gear along with several bags of the popcorn and apples and proceeded up the mountainside looking for tracks along the way. We did find one track that was not castable.  Susan and John found suitable tree limbs and started hanging the "goodies"  in several places.  When they finished they headed up higher on the mountainside while Mary and I stayed in the original area. I hung my bag of popcorn (after several failed attempts) on a tree limb that Mary suggested (she had her reason).  As Mary & I were looking over the immediate area we both caught glimpses of a dark figure that was coming down the mountain towards the two of us.  There were also some "trilling" sounds that I could not identify. Please note there were no birds singing at all, the area was eerily silent of all animal sounds.

As Susan and John continued their upward climb we noticed the tree knocking that had started from the time we arrived was being repeated more rapidly, almost in earnest.  At that time, Susan and John radioed in that the knocking was very loud and getting closer to them and they were hearing noises above them.  Mary suggested they hang their last bag of popcorn up and come on back to where we were.  This they did and the knocking was still continuing so we kept a close watch on the woods above us.  Once I got my popcorn hung up and we arrived back at the vehicles, the knocking sounds were not as frequent or as loud.  Obviously the creatures were not going to show themselves on this day.  We eventually loaded up and left to go to another location in this area.

We arrived at the second location about an hour before dark and John and Susan set out to hang the remaining bags of popcorn. While they were gone I looked over the area but did not stray too far from the vehicle, as this particular area gave me the creeps.  Within minutes, Susan and John were seen heading back to our vehicles and I knew from the way Susan kept looking over her shoulder as they walked, something was wrong.  Upon reaching us, Susan related that she had to relieve herself and stepped  away from where John was attempting to hang a bag of popcorn. To her total suprise, she spotted a bigfoot not more than 30 ft. from her so she came back to John and they retreated.  We sat in the vehicles and listened with the bionic ears and you could hear something moving very stealthily in an arch from the area they had just left to where our vehicles were parked.  It was becoming dark, we were wet and cold, so after listening to the sounds of the creatures moving above us in the dark, we soon tired and decided to leave the area for home.  We'd been out for hours and had much more to do in the following week.

Mary, Susan, and I returned on February 8th to these same areas to check and see if the popcorn had been taken but it hadn't.  Mary , Susan and another researcher went back the following week and all had been eaten. This will be written in a following report. Mary then drove to an area where she had found her first bigfoot hair sample .  We began our search and found and collected several different colored  hair samples which have been sent off for analysis.

ACTIVITIES OF WITNESSES:   Hiking, placing food bags, checking for bigfoot activity.

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OTHER NOTES:

OTHER SIGHTINGS IN THIS AREA:   Yes
 
 

It was very good to have Fay join me in February as that is the month our family team of researchers are the busiest in our research areas.  Deer hunting has stopped in this area by then for the most part and the woods are again quiet.  Most of my sightings have been in the fall and winter months but there has also been other people who have reported seeing these creatures during the hot months too.  I was glad that the Bigfoot displayed their displeasure with us being in this certain area, (or maybe it wasn't that after all) by all of the incessant wood knocking sounds so Fay could hear how they sounded when they do this.  There were no other people around, no hikers, no campers, no homes for miles around, no one else nearby to be hitting trees just to make sounds.  Possibly the Bigfoot were hoping for the popcorn and letting the others know I was there but I seriously doubt this.  The first time, several years back, that I had hung popcorn in such a fashion for them, it took them nearly three weeks to claim it.  I do seal it inside the white kitchen trash bags so bad weather cannot get to it.  It's light and hangs easily and keeps well.  The apples freeze at night, I'm certain, but this doesn't seem to keep the creatures away from them.  All apples and popcorn to date are usually taken and also cantelope and other assorted fruits and vegetables are taken with some exceptions.  I've never had any luck with oranges and I don't know why this should be as I've heard other researchers claim success with this fruit being taken in other states.  The same goes for grapes which is also very unusual and bananas are found mashed on the ground or still there, not touched at all.  Still, the creatures will not touch any of the food for several days for some odd reason but when they do they usually get almost all of it at one time.

I have also learned that old discarded knee high panty hose make an excellent see through sack for apples.  I put two or three apples inside (washed ones of course!) and string them up about 10 to 14 foot high, free swinging on branches, and the hose, apples and all are gone never to be seen again.  Also, some of the time, the strings are taken too.  After you swing the popcorn and apples and fruit on a limb you have to tie off the end of the string somewhere handy.  It's most unusual that a lot of times the string is untied and the food taken and you cannot find the string either.  For the first time this year they have either taken the bags down and used sticks to poke holes and get the food out and the bag and sticks are left near the tree it was taken from or they have taken the bag, contents, string and all off to other areas.  For a few years before this they would simply break the bag from the string and sit down nearby and enjoy the popcorn leaving a very empty bag on the ground for us to pick up and dispose of properly.

Therefore I was glad for Fay's help and my children's help on getting a little bit of food out to them during February.  I do not make this a habit as its enough to go back for several weeks to check on the results.  I do confess to putting out a lot of cantelopes or melons in the summer time for them also though.  I rarely check back on that but if I happen to be in the same area I put them out in, I do check to see if they are received well also.  Sometimes they are and sometimes they are not.

For some reason I was not expecting the bigfoot to be where Susan had seen this one's eyes while she and John were putting out more popcorn and apple bags.  The many times, day and night, I had been there I never found tracks in this specific place but always the food was taken.  As in the report above that Fay has submitted, Susan  had sought a place deeper into the woods to relieve herself.  She heard the noises and then had the feeling she was being watched.  She turned to look and the bigfoot was right on her and peering through the trees and underbrush at her.  It gave her quite a start for sure.  So therefore the two of them had not been gone over five to ten minutes when they came striding back to our vehicles.  Susan has been very traumatized many years ago by these creatures anyway and it's a miracle she even joined the GCBRO and goes out with me now.   We were very close to the area where her first experience with these creatures had occurred way back then anyway.  Here's the URL to read what happened to her and some of her friends. http://gcbro.com/Tn009.htm

Here's what Susan told of the incident in her own words:

I felt like something was staring at me as I was down taking care of business.  I turned and it looked like it was leaning down maybe about 5 foot and it went down more then and looked like about 3 foot off the ground. It looked like maybe if it stood straight up it might have been 6 to 7 foot tall. My eyes caught its eyes and we looked at each other for a few minutes as I thought,  "Wow a gray eyed one and how pretty its eyes were".  Then I thought I shouldn't be staring straight in its eyes and I turned and slowly pulled my pants up and got up and walked away slowly and looked back a few times to see if it was still behind me.  I never felt really threatened by it but I didn't want to take any chances either because of what I had read about what that one did to that one girl.  It shook me up pretty bad and I went and got John and told him and we went back to the vehicles where Mom and Fay were.

It was getting pretty dark at the time that John and Susan had left to hang the rest of the food up.  As I watched them return within minutes, I also knew that Susan was not acting normally and that they had not had enough time to put out the food sacks they had taken.  You had to cross a deep gully where the road is constantly washed out and we were tired of searching that day and wanted to head home soon anyway.  It was wet and cold.  John and Susan still had the food bags they had taken with them in their hands.  Once they had crossed the gully and walked about an 1/8 mile into the woods, they told Fay and I that they were hearing noises above them on the mountainside.  This area is very secluded and although you can hear cars on a road a few miles off in the distance, it's always been very quiet back there.  I had a feeding station there back in 1997 for a long time and had success with the food being taken at that time but had not attempted to put out more food there until this year.

We stayed as long as we could and listened and after feeling like the creature was not going to come out of hiding, as usually is always the case, I had John lay two bags with apples in them up on the bank where the pacing noises were coming from.  Upon returning in a few days these were gone and no tracks were found and we have no idea for certain what took them.  If you lay food on the ground as we did for this experiment, knowing that a bigfoot or maybe more than one were up above us approximately 50 feet or so in very dense brush and trees, you can expect deer or any other animals to get into it.  It would seem that if a deer or squirrels, coons, wild turkeys, etc. were after these apples, as there were several apples left, they would have ripped small holes to access it and leave the container (knee high panty hose).  We could not find anything at all left, no disturbance to the ground whatsoever where it was laid.  Too bad a researcher cannot live in the woods and observe, but money and time are at a premium in this type of endeavor.

After checking back on the popcorn and apples for a few days, none was taken until the following weekend when our North Carolina Bigfoot Researcher, Bobby Byrd, joined me and Susan on another outing.  Here's some photographs of the field trip.