First-hand Bigfoot Society EP 549

Sasquatch sighting near Van Buren County (2016)

8 June 2016 Van Buren County, Tennessee 1 witness

Account

Pushing through dense laurel about twenty feet from a root ball, the guest first mistook a dark hole for a coyote den. It moved and revealed a small dark-skinned black-haired child-like figure cowering. Deeply shaken as a parent, he left, cried at home, stayed away eight days and changed his approach.

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Sightings

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Hair colour src: black
Age / size src: child
Other features src: dark skinned, looked like kid not ape

Facts & provenance

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Date	8 June 2016 Stated Bigfoot Society EP 549 · transcript:00:29:32-00:31:35
Place	Van Buren County, Tennessee Stated Bigfoot Society EP 549 · transcript:00:29:32-00:31:35 · read with 70% confidence
Map point	35.6992, -85.4584 (± 15 km) Geocoded Bigfoot Society EP 549 · gazetteer:county · read with 30% confidence Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Van Buren County (GEOID 47175); the report gives only the county
Account type	First-hand Stated Bigfoot Society EP 549 · transcript:00:29:32-00:31:35
Witnesses	1 Derived Bigfoot Society EP 549 · transcript:00:29:32-00:31:35 · read with 85% confidence
Figures reported	1 Stated Bigfoot Society EP 549 · transcript:00:31:35-00:33:37 · read with 85% confidence
Witness was	trekking through thick mountain laurel Stated Bigfoot Society EP 549 · transcript:00:29:32-00:31:35 · read with 85% confidence
Witness's word for it	child Stated Bigfoot Society EP 549 · transcript:00:31:35-00:33:37 · read with 85% confidence
Creature	Sasquatch / Bigfoot Derived Bigfoot Society EP 549 · transcript:00:29:32-00:35:28 · read with 85% confidence

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