Today’s Asheville Citizen-Times reports on the recent Bigfoot sightings in Madison County. Apparently, Sasquatch himself has appeared around the mountain town of Hot Springs. This is exciting news indeed, but I was most impressed to learn that this is not Bigfoot’s first visit to our state. The Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization has an excellent website documenting all known sightings, which are arranged by state. The North Carolina page lists 42 Bigfoot sightings in the Tar Heel state. Predictably, he has shown up most often in the mountain regions of North Carolina, but has popped up a few times in other parts of the state, including Mocksville in Davie County and at Camp Lejeune in Onslow County.
I’m betting that Bigfoot was merely passing through Madison County heading for a winter home in Avery, Mitchell, or Yancey. We don’t know exactly where he’ll settle in for the cold months. But surely it will be in that tri-county area, where the Toe, North Toe, and South Toe rivers will provide him convenient good water sources.
Trust me, Bigfoot is real. As we were returning from Glynco, Ga, me and my buddy brian almost hit him on on i-26. We just had hit the NC line and at 75 mph we nearly slammed him head on. I know in my heart this creature exiists. Both me and my buddy agree a furry creature walking upright and very fast is not an everyday occurrence on the interstate.
Big V
My cryptozoological resource of choice:
http://www.cryptomundo.com/
As a small chaild I remember a tall hairy creature looking in through a old door that my family was caming in at High Rock Lake in NC. A few years later a friend and I was riding 4 wheelers on the lake bed and seen several foot prints in the road. The prints were a third larger than my size 10 fox riding boots. Also, this was in the middle of the winter. The ground was froze.
I am from West Virginia. It is known in my family, that my great- great grand- daddy was born to a big foot family. I can still see the resemblence in my aunt thelma. She is a mighty bush woman.
While camping out at Mountian Island at the French Broad River in Madison Co. I had an iteresting night. At the time I new nothing of bigfoot, I got intreaged about the subject after visiting a website an playing the recordings. What got my attention was the tree knocking. I have heard this on numerous occations while on that section of river and vagely wondered who was up on the side of the mountain banging on a tree. I thought maybe someone was setting up a deerstand or something. Anyway just after sunset I hear loud splashes in the river, thought it might be big beavers or something ,the splashes were huge! Later on something kept walking around my campsite never did see anything and wasnt to worried as Iwas heavly armed. This island is very remote and surrounded by whitewater on both sides. About 3am a ground shaking thud woke me up, I got out of the tent and looked around but it was pitch black out there. I got spooked then. I thought maybe a rock fell of the small cliff back where Iwas camped out. Just befor daylight I heard what sounded like a tree being twisted apart, I got out of the tent and emptied a thirty round clip in the air,never heard anything else or saw any body except for other boaters the rest of the weekend
have heard many family stories about creature.most occured in moore and randolph counties during thr 40′s and 50′s.many strange occurencies have happened since then. my brother and some friends were hunting early one morning.when they heard a large cracking noise.they described it as the sound of trees bieng broken. upon investigateing further they found a branch about 10 inches around had been tore off an oak tree approximately 10 feet off the ground.
Has anyone ever wondered how Bigfoot can live so long? Does he have an infinite life? Or could there be lady bigfeet out there too (hopefully more attractive than the descriptions posted here) with whom our Bigfoot mates and fathers offspring?? Hmmm.
I want to check out some good bigfoot sights this summer from mid May to mid August here in NC or southern VA. Anyone have any suggestions where to go for a possible sighting?
While driving up hot springs mountain on a snowy night in Madison County North Carolina I seen bigfoot! I know everyone thinks I’m crazy, but I seen a huge figure crouched down on the other side of the gaurd rail, when I got right beside it it twisted its back toward me and jumped off the bank really fast! I was so shocked and scared that I didnt even stop to investigate. I know that bigfoot is real, and one way or the other everyone will know he is too one day!
The latest bigfoot sighting, this time in Cleveland County: http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/7788320/
Bigfoot really? With today’s modern technology and satellite tracking capabilities don’t you think one could be pin pointed? I do stay out of the moonshine.
if u don’t think he’s real, stay off this website chris. and dennis c. there’s more than one dummy.
I was camping at Rocky Bluff campground near Hot Springs around 1989-90. In the middle of the night, heard two loud calls coming from the river, unlike coyote, bobcat, cougar, bear, deer, elk, anthing I have knowledge of. Made the hair on back of my neck stand up, and always wondered what it could have been. I now do think it was a bigfoot.
I swear and I am a sceptic… I hear what sounded like what I hear a bigfoot sounds like screaming! The farmers dogs were going off and I heard 3 distinctive screams like a animal/human??? It freaked me out enough to come in the house from my front porch. It is 10:50 pm on JUNE 27 2012 here in Mocksville, NC on Madison RD.
Am I crazy?
Heidi,
Screams could be a number of things. Have you ever heard a dear be taken down by a mtn. lion? A deer’s screams sound just like a woman screaming when you hear it from a little ways away.
And regardless of what the NC Wildlife dept would have you believe, there are most definitely Mtn Lions in NC.
I was at a buddy’s house out at lake james a year and a half ago round Aug 2011 we were up late sitting outside. Heard coyote going crazy! Then a lowd howell from the left side of the woods! Then the right, then the left again the cyotes went quiet. Then 3 tree knocks from right side of woods then three from left! I had no idea what was going on! Then a huge howl from the right side… Next was weird what sounded like a gun shot from a 22.. then the woods was silent! Don’t know what we heard but it was crazy!
my parents 2 brothers an my 2 kids was in the yard last night riding the dirt bike it was about 7:30 8:00 pm when all the sudden we all heard these loud screams unlike any animal we have ever heard. My whole family is very much so into hunting an nobody their hs ever heard anything like it. Well it started in the left side of the woods screaming an within seconds in was in the middle. Screaming an then just a few seconds later it had traveled to the far right side. This went on for about 45 seconds. Later on about 4:30 am I was in the bathroom an heard it again. This was absolutley the strangest creature I have ever heard in my life. My dad has a explanation for everything but this time he had no kind of explanation that’s what scares me.
hey stephanie where was this? what county?
Hey Folks. Are any of these sightings near swamps?
I suggest you look for Bigfoot in Green Swamp in Brunswick County or in the Long Leaf Pine forest in Bolivia, NC specifically out on By-Pass Way near the Hunting Lodge.
Let me remind everyone that thinks we’re just crazy…Gorillas were once just legends too. So were elephants. People were afraid to eat tomatoes because most people believed they were poisonous. Bigfoot stories were first told by the Indians in this country and there are tales of bigfoots all over the world, in every culture with different names. Just like the story of Noah’s Ark. In the Bible the story is told and so was told by Gilgamesh. THERE APPARENTLY WAS QUITE A FLOOD! So it may be if you are the one who hasn’t seen a bigfoot, then you are unlucky or in denial. I think Bigfoot corpses have been found but no one knew what to make of them. Now there is DNA and how are they going to break it to us that you are a monkey’s uncle? It kind of goes against the grain. Think about it. It could be the greatest conspiracy ever. And just because it is a conspiracy doesn’t mean it isn’t real. Study the case of the Zodiac Killer. He has never been found. The smartest people in the world are still trying to break the ciphers. The suspects and victims are all intertwined in coincidences. The more you study the less you’ll know. Okay, the JFK assassination. Unless you really believe Oswald acted alone you could spend the rest of your life trying to figure it out. The more you’ll read the more you’ll be convinced it is a huge web of deciet. It would be harder to just accept Oswald acted alone. Sometimes there just aren’t answers that can be pulled out of a hat. If you’re lucky from time to time you get some encouragement. People see ghosts and of course they couldn’t be real. But how come several people who don’t know each other or have any link to each other can all see the same thing? We try to think of answers but the more we come up with the more they confuse us. There are things in black and white but there are some grey areas where you just are left wondering.
Friends and I were camping out one night in rural Alamance County. We saw eye shine (red) and had rocks thrown in our area. This happened in late 2004 in the fall near Alamance battleground. It was strange and the only thing I could attribute the noises or Grunts we heard were that of a moose. However, we don’t have Moose in NC and I have never heard one either.