Carter County

Reports for Carter County, KY

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Website submission on 2-25-11
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Your first name: Amanda

Which county? Carter County

Estimated date? 2/24/2011

Estimated time? 10:45 pm

Nearest city? Grayson

Nearest Road(s): on Everman's Creek Road

Length of time the encounter lasted: about 8 seconds

How many witnesses? 2

Please describe your encounter:

My husband picked me up from work around 10:25. The rain was so bad we were driving slow. When we pulled onto our road, we continued to drive slow. We topped Crawfords Hill and just below the hill after you pass Miss Crawford's old hame, we saw something that scared us to death. My husband was driving a extended cab truck and from where I was sitting the "what ever it was", was standing 8ft tall with long arms stretching out grabbing trees to pull its self up. It was on the right side of the road. We were too scared to stop at that moment. I wanted to go back and take pictures. I have always been told of a story of a creature here on this road. A lot of people have seen it.

Describe the creature with detail:

8ft tall very long arms, head was down, it was a dark brown color, very big body mass

FOLLOW UP 1-25-11

I spoke to Amanda at great length over the phone. I could hear the excitement in her voice as she relived her encounter from last night. During the interview she would verify some of the details with her husband who was present in the room, as he was also a witness. It was pouring rain, as Kentucky was being hit with a huge thunderstorm. As they drove over a hill and around a curve they saw a brown sasquatch on the right side of the road reach up and grab a tree to pull itself up an embankment. It looked absolutely "massive!" It had wet, matted-down hair from the rain. It's arms "looked like an orangutan's" as you could see the hair drape down off them and they were "huge". It's back was to them and it's head was hunched down as if trying to hide it's face. It was approximately 30' from their truck. She said the tree bent down as it pulled itself up the embankment. It was an off-brown color, kind of dark. No other details were noted as they kept driving. She said it shocked them, but at the same time were very excited and scared.

She also noted that she had witnessed a bright white sasquatch along that same stretch of road when she was 11 years old. She was with her husband (just an older friend at the time) who was driving. It was late at night and they were driving at a high rate of speed. It was just standing there motionless on the left side of the road looking at them. Because they passed it quickly no further details were noted. She stressed how bright white it was --almost a "pretty white". Amanda also recalled an encounter which happened to her husband's friend who came face to face with one when he was a young boy in that same area.

Later, I spoke to the husband. He said it was about 400lbs, 7-8 ft tall, dark brown and wet from the rain. As it reached for the tree it "curled it's arm" around the tree and buried its head down, away from view. The wet hair hung down about six inches from it's arm as it reached for the tree. Visibility was rather poor due to the darkness and heavy rain. He did not stop the vehicle. He mentioned also about how his brother and some friends saw a white squatch at that same location some 30yrs ago. Hopefully his brother will share his story with us.

After speaking with both witneses at great length, I feel they are very credible and sincere.

- Charlie Raymond, Lead Investigator

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Email submission on 2-25-11
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Because the witness still has ties to the area, he wishes to remain anonymous.

"During my time I spent living in Carter county Kentucky, I would experience four encounters with a human like creature, which strongly fits the description of a Bigfoot or Sasquatch, though at the time of the first two encounters I did not even know what a Bigfoot or sasquatch was.

My first encounter took place in 1979 when I was about nine years old. My younger sister and I were in the woods behind our house playing, we had been swinging on a vine going form one side of a draw to the other. My sister slipped on the vine causing sever rope burns to her hands and she fell down into the draw and started crying. I helped her climb up the side of the draw and we sat down on the edge of the draw and tried to clean the bark out of my sister palms, which only intensified her crying. When suddenly we both heard what we thought was some one run down into the draw next to the one we were in. Though we both looked in the same direction at the same time neither one of us saw anything. After sometime I was able to get her to calm down a bit and we started to walk back to our house. We were moving slowly and had walked only a few minutes when we heard someone walking a short distance behind us and though we kept turning around and looking we never saw anyone. Being kids this made us pick up our pace which was matched by who ever was following us. As we approached the edge of the woods I told my sister to run which we both did, however at the edge of the woods was a small rock face about twice as tall as we were that we had to climb down. I climbed down first but my sister couldn't climb down so I climbed back up to help her and we were kind of stuck for a few minutes. Finally my sister calmed down and started to slowly climb down the rock and I snuck back into the woods a short distance to see if I could see anyone since we had not heard anything for a while. I peeked over a small rise and came face to face with small hairy individual (about the same size as me, which was less than 5 foot at the time) who was down on its hands and knees. We made eye contact at the same time and it had a look of surprise on its face ( its head jerked up and eyes widened). We looked at each other for probably only a second or two when it raised its arm up and grabbed a hold of a sapling as to pull its self up and I can't get the image of its black fingers wrapping around that sapling out of my mind. This movement caused me to turn around in horror and run to the rock face where I jumped off without stopping, knocking my sister to the ground. When we got back to our house we told our parents , who thought we had seen a bear which had been attracted by my sisters crying, which to be honest we had a couple of encounters with black bears the previous year. It was from these bears encounters however that I was able to determine that what I saw was no bear. The closest animal I could relate it to now would be a sloth (long arms, pug face, dark brown in color), though at that age I did not know what a sloth was or for that fact a bigfoot. The second encounter (about four years later) was more vocal than visual. My neighbor had thought that I had been in the woods behind his house climbing trees and shaking branches ( this was witnessed by him and his mother). When he asked me about it I told him it wasn't me and I asked him to show me where it was. We got to the location and did not see anything and continued our trek further up the hill and deeper into the woods, we were just about to crest the ridge of the hill when from the top of the ridge came a very loud growl/howl followed by deep loud grunts. This was followed by the shaking of two trees which were about fours inches in diameter(much bigger than saplings but not big enough to cut for firewood either). Though these trees were not big, you could tell it would take a lot of force to make them move like that. As this was happening I looked at my friend who was frozen in what could only be described as sheer terror, which meant to me that this was no joke and something very real and very big was up there. I decided to make a run for it and was quickly joined by my neighbor, once we started running though the noise and shaking stopped. My neighbor would never talk about the event after that and it would be years before i could get him to go into the woods, but he would never go past where he able see his house. Again when I told my dad he thought it was a bear, and when I showed him the location he could see a lot of disturbance on the ground but no tracks. The next notable incident happened over a span of the fall and spring seasons of my freshman year. Due to certain circumstances I would be let off the bus at the beginning of the road I lived on and would then walk the rest of the way home. After a couple of weeks of this I thought I was hearing someone walking parallel to me up on the hill in the woods. Occasionally I would have other individuals walking home with me they would also hear it but they thought I was trying to scare them. What troubled me the most about these incidents was the fact that the following would start at the same location and end at the same location every time, and I don't recall it ever missing a day. After several attempts trying to see this individual, I would only catch flashes of a light brown color fur or the movement of brushes and limbs. When I told my dad about this, he again looked for signs of someone messing around but found nothing. My dad made inquires with a couple of local "back woods farmers" in our area and they assured him they had not been in that area and that they too have been noticing signs of someone messing around. The following spring I had to opportunity to miss school for a week, so I took the chance to see if I could get a better look at this individual. I sat on a set of rail roads tracks that ran parallel with our road though a couple of hundred yards off, and watched a couple of my neighbors walk home from the bus let off up the road to their house. I had taken a small variable spotting scope with me and though the foliage was very light and I could see through most of the underbrush, I did not see anything following them. After they had passed the point where the following stopped I started to work my way down the tracks toward the trail that led to my house, upon looking back at the point where I thought the following stopped I caught movement about three quarters of the way up the hill, I could tell with the naked eye that it was a human type individual(it was moving limbs out of the way with its hands) traveling up the hill. By the time I found it in the scope it had crested the ridge and I could only see the back of it from the waist up. It did not appear massive like the typical bigfoot. I thought that it was about the same height I was(6 foot at the time) though it was broad in the shoulders and had very long arms which I was unable to see its hands. The hair color and length was that of what you would expect to see on a brown bear, almost a dark blonde and not real long. I was only able to watch it for a short time before it disappeared over the ridge. When I told my dad about the incident he assured me it was someone messing with me and to not try to confront them and to start riding the bus all the way home. The last incident I had was the next fall I believe it was about 1986, I had just started deer hunting and this was the first year I was allowed to go into the woods alone carrying a gun. I had set up well before daylight on top the same ridge as mentioned earlier. It was still quite dark and I was sitting on a milk crate at the base of a big tree. I heard something walking towards me from the other end of the ridge. It was very cold out and the leaves were very crisp, as it grew closer I could tell there was two of them and that the walking sounded like two small kids walking and tromping through the woods(I could tell they were not deer). They stopped just short of me being able to make them out(as if they spotted me), and I did not hear any movement from them, until something else came down the ridge towards us a few seconds later. I could tell this thing was walking on two legs and sounded much larger than the other two. It reached the area the other two were at and also stopped, they remained silent for what felt like several minutes, until the two smaller ones started walking back in the same direction they came form only this time they did not zigzag they kept in a straight line. The larger one stayed motionless until the other two were almost out of hearing range. The larger one then started walking back the same way the other two did, it walked away at the same pace it had approached with. They did not seem startled or scared but I believe they knew I was there and was intentionally avoiding me. Though I had many weird incidents in the woods behind my house these four incidents that I discussed are the only ones that I would classify as being actual encounters."

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Website submission on 1-21-06
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Closest year, month, time of day? 2003, 5pm

Which county? carter

What city, or nearest city? ashland

Length of time the encounter lasted: 1 min

How many witnesses? 2

Please describe your encounter: tall browm upright thing walked across the road on AA highway

Describe the creature with detail: tall, brown around 6 or 7 feet tall

Carter County, KY - Investigated by Eastern Kentucky Researcher, AKA "Eastkyresearcher"

I have had at least 12 encounters at Carter Caves State Resort Park. One is of a white bigfoot I was trailing in the woods and as he sat down between two rocks I caught the side of his face.

I was in the woods in an early fall setting around 2pm. This weather was mild and the leaves had began to fall. I had my camera and binoculars and some bread that I usually bring with me and leave at certain areas where I know they can have easy access to it without being seen. I placed the bread on the rocks and sat about 100 yards from it. I heard heavy breathing on the ridge above me and I thought it was Big John, the creature in the first picture. But as I looked it was a solid white bigfoot and I assume he is the Alpha male or leader of the pack if you will. He tried sneaking around me but not much gets by these ole Cherokee Indian ears :)

He came down the hill 50 yards in front of me and I stood up and he seen me and began walking. I was running. He was at least 9 1/2 feet tall with a stride of over 6ft or better. He was tall and muscular but not real massive like the Patterson Gimlin Creature.

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