RECEIVED: From the Field Research Notes Of Mary Green
DATE: Happened around 1958-60
TIME: Over a period of several days
LOCATION: Overton County, Tennessee, Near Livingston
TERRAIN: Mountainous, thick woods surrounding the farm
OBSERVED:A
wild screaming call was heard several nights in the foothills behind their
(grandparents) house ( south of XXXXXX) on the XXXXXXXXXX Road Area
of Livingston,Tennessee. My siblings were curious and the days
following decided to take it upon themselves to enter the forested foothills
and investigate. My Grandmother like to had a heart attack when she saw
them walking up the mountain path. She went up to get them
and upon bringing them down she noticed her big bushes were mashed and
scattered around her kitchen window. Someone had been leaning
into the window and this had smashed her big bush ( the windows were oddly
built high off the ground and none of us kids could have done that).
She often thought she had caught glimpses of something or had times in
the past felt being watched.
I
would like to correct myself, Mary, and state this as my earliest
memory of a mountain creature:: I was real young and can't remember a lot
of details ( but my sister will be here Thanksgiving and will tell me the
whole story. She is a Christian and would not lie about the
Bear Man). My grandfather, who often walked all over his mountain
acres discovered the dead remains of a unknown creature. He didnt
know what quite to make of it.
He
called my father (his son) who was a teacher @ the local high school,
to come quick. I remember all of us kids running to the car and driving
up there with dad.
XXXXX
(grandmother) wouldnt let us get near it and I still dont know what ever
happened to the remains. I think I did get up near it. In the back of a
4 or 5 year olds mind...I still recollect looking at a Bear Man with no
clothes and lots of hair. I remember the smell was so bad, you could smell
it all the way to the farm house. The creature was found in a field
up near a tree line about 1/4 mile from the grandparents house. I remember
my father shaking his head and talking to my pa aweful seriously. Thats
about all I remember and I never heard my dad speak about it. As I got
out of high school , I never lived around my parents as I went into service
and off to college BUT my father had died when I was in service and my
grandfather and grandmother died just about 3 or 4 years after the
Bear Man's remains were found.
WHAT
EVER HAPPENED , I have no idea, but I'm hoping my sister will have a little
more information. My dad had a sister ( who is still alive ) and still
lives VERY CLOSE to the old home place. I'll try to gather her thoughts
as soon as I can. I really dont think my pa and dad told anyone about this.
What leads me to believe this is : nothing else was ever said. I CAN remember
my grandmother telling my pa and dad to be quiet around the children. There
was another incident Mary, but I cant remember , at the moment .
I
hope this wasn't too boring, I just state what I remember and I assure
you, Mary, that every word of this is true.
If
the remains had been of a human, I know My grandparents and my dad would
have called the sherriff. Thats the kind of people they were. If it was
something from the "UNKNOWNS" my dad would have kept it a secret.
When
my dad died, he had achieved his doctorate in education and was a very
intelligent man BUT he did believe in the supernatural and the unknowns
of nature. I know this of his interest of books he read as I was growing
up. Although he never mentioned the Bear Man after that long ago
event, Im sure he was a believer.
Activities of Witness(es): My grandfather was walking over his mountain acres as he usually did.
Description of Creature: Had face and body like a man, hair like a bear.
Other Notes: This report will be updated later if the sister remembers anymore details. Thank you, Mary Green
Other
Sightings in this Area: Yes, many.
Most of them are in the sighting database of the GCBRO for this county.
UPDATED December 2, 2000
Since
I received the update by e-mail, I am copying and pasting its comments
here,
except people's name's are withheld to protect their identity at this time.
My
sister did indeed visit during Thanksgiving. She came with a daughter and
a son in law. The daughter and son-in-law , were sick and they left early.
I did spend some time with my sister at a dinner in Kentucky thanksgiving
eve.
She
filled me in on the details of the CREATURE.
I
will also supply you her E-MAIL address where you can write her for any
details I may have left out. She is a school teacher in the XXXXXXXXXX
area of XX Tennessee @ XXXXXXX or XXXXXXXXX.
(Personal writing left off right here)
MARY..............MY
SIS ( XXXXX XXXXXXX ) told me I was a little off on my recollections
as I could have only been a year or so OLD when this happened. She thinks
Ive heard it so much that I thought I was right in the middle of it..lol..
The
TRUE story goes like this.. My Grandfather calls my dad to come quick.
A neighbor has killed a creature that was devouring his chickens. When
my father and my sister got up there , The neighbor had killed the creature
and had threw it on the back of the log truck bed. He was driving house
to house with the dead creature on the back of the truck , asking neighbors
to help him identify the man-creature he had shot. No one knew what it
was. They called my dad, a young teacher right out of college and they
thought he would know what it was, he didnt. My sister says dad was very
sad to see the creature dead and had no idea what it was. It was covered
in hair BUT was only about 5 feet 8" or so , wasnt real tall. My
sister says she can still see those feet hanging off the bed of the truck.
No one ever Identified it as best she could remember and Im sure it was
buried in the neighborhood and the most chilly thing of all was ,
for the next 3 or 4 nights ...a cry or shriel could be heard in the
woods at night ...my sister said Dad said it was its mate looking for it.
My sister was around 6 years old and I was about 1 1/2 years old...Mary
...you are welcome to e-mail my sister XXXXX @ XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
I may have left off something but I always thought My grandfather found
it dead in a nearby field but it seems a neighbor killed it and drove it
around trying to find out what in the world it was. I know My Grandpa died
a year or two later and my dad never spoke of it again but may have spoke
to my sister about it a little. There is no way to know what happened to
the remains. This was at least 45 years ago...All concerned are all deceased
and even most of the old farm houses are gone now. Any cousins around would
have been to young to remember as my sis was the eldest grandchild in the
area.
It
a real sad situation that we may never get anymore details than you have
been told here but one thing is for sure MARY....It DID happen...A man
Creature was Killed..Its body was trucked around the countryside to find
anyone who could Identify it. I will try to do some research IF I
can find ANYONE still around to talk to...Its almost like a hurricane has
come thru this area and killed everyone and blew all the houses away BECAUSE
thats how much the community has changed. Everyone s gone or died and sub-divisions
have popped up and its not the same area anymore. I hope I didn't get your
hopes up to much MARY..All I truly know is that it did happen and a Man
Creature Did die in my community 45 years ago...
UPDATE ON JANUARY 11, 2001
This
was related to Mary Green by e-mail from the above witnesses' Sister.
All
personal information that might reveal these persons' identities has
been
removed. They have requested that they be kept confidential in this
for right now while the GCBRO investigates this case further.
Hello
Mary,
I meant to e-mail you back, but I really wanted to
think
about what I could remember so long ago. I
didn't
think that I could give you an accurate account
of
what I saw for your book. Even though I wanted to
tell
you. Also about six weeks later, I fell and
sprained
my foot. I was off a week from work, but
completely
forgot about sending you info.
I can't really remember how old I was when the
neighbor
came by with the animal, that he had killed.
It
seems that I might have been maybe 10-12 years old.
I
thought I was a few years younger, but if xxxxxx(my brother)
(who
is 6 years younger than me, I was born in
'47)remembers
some of this I had to be around that
age,
I guess. My Pa and Dad were out in the front
yard
of my grandparents house. The neighbor man, I
didn't
know his name(But I believe he was a next door
neighbor
of xxxxx xxxxxxx(our cousin), and they lived
just
around the curve from my grandparents' house. I
was
nosy, and wanted to know what was going on.
My
mom
wanted
me to stay in the house, I don't know if she
knew
what was going on or not. I just knew something
was
going on, but I don't know what I had heard to
make
me so curious. My two other brothers who were
two
and three years younger than me ,respectively, did
not
come out of the house, for some reason they might
have
been playing in another part of the house.
I
went to the edge of the yard. My dad seemed displeased
to
see me but didn't make me go into the house. The
neighbor
man wanted to know if my Pa or my Dad could
recognize
what kind of animal this was. At night, he
could
hear his chickens very disturbed and excited. I
think
a few nights went by with some missing chickens
each
night, I think. He thought it was a fox or some
other
local animal.
One
day, he went looking for
tracks
finding these strange ones. He waited one night
with
a shotgun, and when he had shot out in the dark,
he
came upon this strange animal which he had never
seen
before. He said the next night, he heard strange
howling
like someone crying . He figured it was the
mate
or companion of this animal. He was kind of
scared,
but didn't go out looking for it of course,
and
it didn't bother his chickens.
The
animal he had
killed
was probably dead for a couple of days, I
guess.
The next night after killing the animal, he
heard
the strange howling. Seems like it was like this
for
a few nights, and then nothing else was heard.
Neither
my Pa or my Dad(who was a XX XXXX graduate, a
teacher)
had no idea what it was. I only stared at the
legs
that stuck out from the truck. I couldn't really
see
the face. It seems to be really huge to me. I had
always
thought it might have been a kangaroo(something
about
it-maybe the stubby legs and big swollen
belly(maybe
because it had been dead for a few days?
Quite
a few years later, while talking to my Dad about
it,
he said it wasn't a kangaroo, and that it was very
short,
(about four feet tall?) and not tall like I
thought
it was. To me it did seem to have a big belly
and
stomach. I thought it was gray, but my Dad said it
was
brown. I can't really remember the toes, but they
must
not have been five toes like us, or I might have
remembered
it. I have always regretted not having a
picture
of it and/or not looking at its face(I was so
afraid).
All
these years is a puzzlement that my dad
didn't
know what it was , and I guess I thought he
should
have had some idea, but he had no idea. Seems
like
the legs might have been much bigger than ours
and
I'm sorry I can't remember if they were hairy or
not.
It didn't have a tail, and I don't think they
could
tell if it was a male or female or if it was
full
grown or not. This was certainly not a local
animal
to this region or possibly of this country.
They
commented that the strange animals must have
been
intelligent for its mate or companion to have
mourned
the next few nights for the dead one. Seems
like
the neighbor had found tracks up in the mountains
behind
his house and it looked like only one set.
Those
mountains go back up into xxxxx, Tn a small
community
near xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. My
grandmother
might have made us stay away from the
base
of the mountains behind the house. I can't really
positively
remember right now at this time. I just
remembered
them thinking out loud, was it an animal
that
comes out only at night? (a nocturnal animal)
I
think the neighbor was going to bury it on his
property.
It would be something if we could find where
he
buried it. If I remember anything else no matter
how
small, I'll let you know. One thought- the weather
was
pretty. Maybe in early summer or late summer. I
didn't
need a sweater or coat. However, I don't
remember
my grandmothers flowers that were always
there
on the bank spring and early summer. It might
have
been late summer or early fall, but I almost know
that
it wasn't winter time.
I
hope this helps in some
small
way, Mary. It certainly is a mystery. Again, I
can't
remember if there were mashed flowers or not.
Maybe
some memory might come back to me later. Feel
free
to e-mail me anytime. I know that there seems to
be
mysteries in this world that God has made, and
maybe
they have been hid from man and may be revealed
at
some time. I know that much prophecy( mysteries
until
now) has been fulfilled from the Bible, and that
Jesus
is coming soon. It is an exciting time to live
in
this world. And finding mysteries revealed to us in
the
end-times. I pray that you know Jesus as savior
and
are awaiting his return! In Christian love, XXXXX.
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