First-hand
Bigfoot Society EP 353
Sasquatch sighting near Van Buren County (2016)
8 June 2016
Van Buren County, Tennessee
1 witness
Account
While pushing through dense mountain laurel, the witness mistook a dark shape in a root ball for a coyote den hole. It moved and revealed a small black-haired, dark-skinned child-like figure cowering as if hiding. Deeply affected, he drove home, told his wife, cried, and stayed away for eight days.
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What was reported
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Sightings
Described appearance
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- Hair colour src
- black
- Age / size src
- child
- Other features src
- dark skinned, looked like a kid not an ape
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
8 June 2016
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|---|---|
| Place |
Van Buren County, Tennessee
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| Map point |
35.6992, -85.4584 (± 15 km)
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Van Buren County (GEOID 47175); the report gives only the county
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
1
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
pushing through thick mountain laurel
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| Witness's word for it |
a child
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| Creature |
Sasquatch / Bigfoot
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Source timeline
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