Shaken By Bigfoot!

            No places are quite as “squatchy” as our national forests. And according to Bobby Lee, a bigfoot researcher from Uwharrie, North Carolina, Uwharrie National Forest is no different.

            Bobby and his 16-year-old son search for the big guys as often as they can at their regular camping area there, but one night last fall proved to be a little scarier than most.

            Bobby claims the two were sitting in their truck at their campsite at about 2:30 in the morning. He had heard somewhere that if you were in an active area, if you cover your vehicle windows, it would make the creatures curious. So they covered the truck windows and waited in the dark. It was pitch black outside and his son had fallen asleep next to him. Bobby sat and listened with his sound-assist equipment when he says he heard footsteps rustling around in the woods. 

            “As it got close, I could hear it grunt, make a growl sound..also could hear it breathing really heavy. I shook my son and told him,  “Wake up! I think there is something right outside of the truck walking around.” Just as soon as I did, the entire truck rocked back and forth just for a second. Then I heard it (the creature) grunt really loud, then run off. We both jumped out of the truck with flashlights and looked all around, couldn't see anything. But we could hear it moving around in the woods,” Bobby said.

            The next morning, they found two tracks about 18 inches long in the grass approximately 20 feet from the truck.

            When asked about his overall impression of the experience, Bobby, an experienced hunter and tracker, said, “It was not a bear. It took off to fast too be a bear. Also the tracks I found the next morning were not bear tracks. I know for a fact that there is something out there, it wasn't a bear, and it wasn't a man. So that leaves me to believe that what shook my truck that night was Sasquatch.” He described the sound of it to be heavy-sounding, much like the weight of a horse.

            And as for the cover-the-windows trick making the creatures curious enough to come and investigate: the jury’s still out on that one. *******DF