Reports
for Adair
County, KY
Your first name: Dave (last name on file)
Estimated date? September 28, 2008
Estimated time? 7:30 AM
Nearest city? Knifley / Columbia
Nearest Road(s): State Highway 551
Length of time the encounter lasted: Less than maybe 8 minutes total elapsed time from first sounds to leaving the area in a hurry.
How many witnesses? Myself (It’s also likely that possibly two/three other persons who were fishing from a nearby boat may have heard part of the encounter.)
Please
describe your encounter:
After several years of odd stories/sounds and the discovery of an unusual print
on a farm we own near the sighting area, I began to seriously look into BF reports
in the region. While checking this website in August of 2008, I came across
the report from Adair County, near the concrete bridge that spans part of Green
River Lake on 551 and lies within 10 miles of our property. I was familiar with
that spot and decided to visit it for the first time around the first weekend
of September. The area she reported the BF entering on the right side of the
road corresponded to a graveled pull-off that had been there for decades and
was used to access the lakeshore by people fishing. It had also become something
of an unsightly and smelly dump for trash, brush and tree limbs/deadfall all
along its length and into the wooded bluff that leads down to the shore. When
I stepped out of the car the first time I also realized I was walking on what
was more or less a “bone bed”. There was quite a bit of small animal
bone spread around the area, mixed with larger remains of deer that (mostly)
looked like either roadkill, partial hunt kills or taxidermy remnants (stripped
deer skeletons without heads) that had been tossed over the edge of the bluff.
With all of these remains lying around, and with a very direct path to the lakefront
there as well, I pretty quickly understood why an animal might eagerly enter
the dump, probably on a regular basis, to get easy meals and then make its way
back across the road to the heavily-forested area that bounds Green River Lake.
On Saturday, September 27th, I returned to the area with family (We were scheduled
to attend not one but TWO family reunions the following day) and left my wife
and young daughter with my parents at the farm in the late afternoon so I could
drive over to the bridge and check the area again. I took an inexpensive trail
camera that I had purchased earlier in the summer to get wildlife photos on
our property with me, and after spending an uneventful period around the lakeshore,
decided that it would probably be safe to strap the camera to a tree about halfway
down the path to capture anything that might move by in the night. I had seen
no fishing going on that afternoon and thought there would be little chance
of any person making off with the cam if I waited till near sundown to place
it and then returned very early on Sunday to collect it before anyone might
head down the trail to the lake. I set it and returned to the farm.
I arrived back at the sighting area at about 730 AM the next day after waking
up to what seemed to be the foggiest morning in Adair County history. The lake
itself was socked in and not visible at all from the bluff and trail and there
was heavy fog and condensation all through the area. My intention was to just
head down the path and quickly collect the cam from the tree and return to the
farm to join the rest of my family for the day’s activities, so I left
the car unlocked and ready to depart. I retrieved the cam and noted it had been
tripped three or four times and was anxious to get a look at any pics so I headed
straight back up the bluff and heard something pacing me in a large gully about
40 feet to the left. I wasn’t concerned as I’d encountered nothing
there at any previous visits, and I also began to dimly hear a nearby conversation
between at least 2 men who I believe were on a boat on the lake, possibly making
their way under the bridge. I stopped about halfway up the trail and the noises
of movement briefly did so as well, then seemed to move off further towards
the left in the direction of the voices I heard. I got to the top of the turn-around
and didn’t hear any more movement, so I began to put the camera away in
the back of the car, a Honda Element with a rear hatch. When I stepped back
to shut the hatch, I noted a strong smell that reminded me of a wet dog, but
when I stepped back towards the car, just a foot or so, it was hardly detectable.
There was a breeze coming from my right at his point and when I stepped back
again and shut the rear gate I turned to the right and saw a figure immediately
stand straight up about 80 feet away in the treeline by the bridge.
At first it seemed like a wide-shouldered, hulking figure without a head, but
then I noticed a darker area between the shoulders and realized it was a face,
either being held low in some kind of peering/aggressive stance. (In retrospect,
I now believe it heard the rear hatch slam and possibly thought it was the car
door and that I might have been ready to pull away and leave.) It just stood
stock still for a few moments, but then it began to sway from side to side a
bit and seemed to be lowering up and down, still very intently peering at me.
I got the impression I was looking at an old individual, because of the way
it was acting, the odd posture and the coloration I was beginning to make out.
It was grey in the chest, almost running to white at centerline up to the neck.
Kind of honey-brown/reddish along the arms and body, with very wide shoulders
and massive arms that hung low. I heard another bit of conversation drift up
from the lake and some laughter and then this creature cut loose with a VERY
loud bellow that I can only compare to an angry bull and started to move in
my direction. I then detected a much stronger odor that smelled like rotting
meat, and that really ramped up my anxiety level, so I decided to get in the
car. When I turned to walk around to the driver’s side a burst of very
low-bass “language” of sorts came from the thing that sounded very
much like “scolding”-- and that’s exactly how I felt—like
I was trespassing and in big trouble. The combination of the yelling and odor
and adrenaline was disorienting for a few moments and I felt the strong and
nonsensical urge to just sit or lie down on the ground on the driver’s
side of the car. (The way a prey animal might react.) I didn’t obey that
impulse and instead climbed into the car and looked back towards the thing and
saw that it hadn’t changed position since I had gone out of its field
of view behind the car.
It still seemed to be peering intently and I started the car. I normally carry
a pistol in the field (the coyote and now black bear are moving into that region
big time) but didn't have it belted on that morning. It was on the passenger
car seat, so I unholstered it and watched out the passenger window, which was
halfway down. The creature made another loud grunt and then began coming towards
the car and the edge of the guardrail that runs across the bridge. I admit I
was in a state of panic, so I pointed the gun—a Taurus concealed-carry
.357— out the window and towards the ground and fired two shots. The irrational
part of me just wanted what was now clearly visible as a large, bipedal hairy
creature to stop coming towards me, and the rational part thought that if I
fired shots and it behaved like an animal it would bolt, and if it were somehow
a human being I was seeing it would either yell something like “Don’t
shoot!” or take off as well.
Its reaction to the shots was neither. It just stopped in its tracks, now about
30 feet away, and stared. I did the only sensible thing I can recall that morning
by fixing it in my view, then noting where it was in relation to the guardrail
and below the top of my side window (about 2 inches) and then I decided to get
out of there. Unfortunately, it didn’t even register to me that I was
still holding the pistol and when I went to shift down into drive, I inadvertently
squeezed off another round right into the center console of the car. That’s
a VERY loud event inside a Honda Element, which is basically a big metal box.
I left the scene at high speed and nearly deaf. It was apparent that the car
was damaged, since I couldn’t get the windows to respond and when I arrived
back at the farm I pulled the damaged console aside and the wiring harness just
fell apart. I spent the rest of that morning arranging for a car hauler to pick
up the vehicle and trying to relate what had happened to my family. They attended
the reunions and I returned to Louisville with the car. There have been subsequent
events at this location (which has now been cleaned up, fenced and posted heavily
with NO DUMPING signs) but no direct sightings. Investigation continues.
Describe
the creature with detail:
Approximately 7 1/2 feet in height, with massive shoulders – maybe 3 ½
feet across-- and arms, but a trim-looking abdomen. The size was determined
by visiting the location a couple of weeks later with others and using an extending
paint-pole to measure from where I was parked to the place I fixed its position.
The hair on the chest area was grey, running to an almost-white coloration at
the centerline and neck. Grey hair around a black “gorilla”-color
face. No distinct features were clearly visible except for a larger, flattened
almost human-type nose. There seemed to be a crease running down the center,
but it was definitely not an “ape” nose. I saw no teeth, but a darker
mouth area that moved and sometimes made an “O” shape when it vocalized.
Dark eyes, no color that I could note. The head was rounded and not conical,
and it seemed like the hair was possibly thinner on top like it was slightly
balding-- I could see a slight reflection on top, maybe from dark scalp showing
through— and no ears were visible. Coloration on the shoulders, arms and
outer body was a honey/brown with reddish tinge. Hands were dark looking like
the face. I couldn’t see down past the knee level due to high grass and
low fog in the gully. Hair length seemed a pretty uniform 2 to 4 inches overall,
but longer on the arms. My overall impression was of an older male individual,
but still very fit/powerful. I could see his abdomen muscles tense up when he
bellowed. He may even have been hard of hearing, since he seemed to react only
to louder sounds and did a LOT of staring.
Dave's
computer generated sketch took many attempts to get it perfect. There have been
so many sightings of this creature in Adair County, the locals nicknamed it
"The Varmint."
Follow Up: 12-6-11
I've met Dave many times since he first contacted me through facebook almost
two years ago. We even met at the sighting location and he demonstrated to us
the specific events which transpired that frightening morning. Dave has also
gone squatching with me on a few occasions. Every time he tells me his story,
or I hear him tell it to someone else, it’s always 100% consistent and
it never ceases to give me chills. Dave is a very intelligent, logical, sincere,
honest man with an interest in bigfoot. Having such a remarkable encounter like
Dave’s would change anyone’s life, thus he now spends countless
hours researching bigfoot. Dave has had a few other fascinating events, however
in order to protect his current research area and his family's privacy, he is
not at liberty to discuss those at this time.
Here are
pictures taken of an odd tree formation
from our 4-9-11 investigation. It was discovered across the street, a few hundred
yards in the woods.
-Charlie Raymond, Lead Investigator
Summer
1963
Boy sees a bigfoot looking in his window.
Read full report here.
Source: oregonbigfoot.com
Your first name: Sharon (last
name on file)
Which county? Adair
Estimated date? Last week in May
Estimated time? Around 5p.m. central
What city, or nearest city? Columbia AND Knifley
Length of time the encounter lasted: 3 mintues
How many witnesses? Just myself and my dogs
Please describe your encounter:
Let me say first I am a beliver in in Bigfoot. I am a 63 year old housewife
and care giver to 30 abused animals. My husband and I have been taking care
of abused animals out of our own money for 33 years. This year has been a very
bad one for going to the vet. I am not over estimating I have already paid $4000
and still owe $8000. So on one of many trips back and forth to the Adair County
Animal Hospital on route 55 in Columbia, I was headed back home to Knifley on
504. I was on the hill going down to cross the bridge over the Green River.
I was at the top of this hill and I saw this big hairy creature cross on the
other side of the bridge about half way up the hill. It looked like a big man,
but was covered in hair. It came out of the left side of the very heavy wooded
area, crossed over the paved road to the right side of the road, but then it
went back to the middle of the road and just sort of stared at me I believe
and then went back to the right side and disappeared into the woods. I was really
stunned and I said to myself, I think you have just seen a Bigfoot. It's arms
seemed much longer than any person's would be and the creature just swayed them
back and forth. Well, I wasn't sure if I should tell anybody. I did tell my
husband. Then I was talking to my very best friend here in Kentucky as we are
8 year transplants from Chicago and I told her what I had seen. What she told
me next really shook me up. She claimed that she had or has an uncle who lives
very close to this same area where I had the sighting and he often told her
he had seen what he thought to be a bigfoot in the area. This really made me
feel better and I am very sure at what I had seen. People do a lot of fishing
down by Green River, but it was much higher up into such a dense woods. When
it walked back to the middle of the road and just stood looking my way, why
would a person want to look at a truck. Well, that is my story, every word is
true.
Jan
1, 1858
According to the Adair Co. News an old indian burial mound located on the farm
of Harrison Robinson was excavated in that year and found to contain giant human
skeletal remains.
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