DATE: 1995

TIME:   unknown

LOCATION:    Morgan County, Tennessee

TERRAIN:    Mountains

OBSERVED:   Recently at a family reunion I asked my cousin, who lives in a secluded spot in Morgan County, Tennessee, if she had ever seen evidence of Bigfoot. She replied, "No, but I think I heard him once."  I asked her to write down her recollections; the following is her report:

    "This was sometime in 1995. I don't remember whether it was summer or winter, just that it was in the daytime. I was on the back porch, which faces several square miles of woods. I heard a sound which seemed to come from over the next hill, about 1/4 mile away. It began with three or four calls that gave me a mental picture of some huge, prehistoric bird. It was like no bird call I had ever heard, and there are certainly no birds around here large enough to make such a sound. But the strangest part was the end of the call. The call died away with a long, airy trumpeting sound that I can describe only as the sound an elephant makes through its trunk. I stood frozen to the spot, trying to figure out what it could have been, when it came again. After the second call I decided to go into the house and get my husband so he could hear it too. But while I was hesitating, afraid I would miss another call, the sound came once more. I waited another minute or two before I went inside but I didn't hear it again and never have since."
 
 

Description of Creature: n/a

Activities of Witness: Out on the back porch

Other Notes:      Within the same general time frame, a relative was frightened by what he thought was a bear while staying at a cabin near this site.

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