Bigfoot Society - Something Is Living Behind the Subdivision | Upstate South Carolina Encounters

Episode Date: February 16, 2026

In this episode, we explore the extraordinary experiences of Amy from upstate South Carolina, who shares a series of unsettling encounters that have unfolded over several years near her suburban home. Living in a growing neighborhood bordered by woods, a creek, and an abandoned farm, Amy recounts strange animal activity, unexplained sounds, powerful odors, and intense nighttime experiences that began quietly and gradually escalated. She describes encounters on neighborhood trails, disturbances around her home, and moments witnessed by family members and close friends. Amy also reflects on the emotional and psychological impact of these events, including moments of heightened awareness and communication that defy simple explanation. Her story offers a compelling look at Bigfoot activity occurring in populated areas and invites listeners to reconsider where these beings may exist and how they interact with the people around them.🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to [e-mail] – your story might be featured on the show!🎥 Watch & Subscribe on YouTube🔴 Subscribe here → Bigfoot Society YouTube💬 Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts!📞 Leave a voicemail with your story → Speakpipe (Use multiple voicemails if needed)👥 Share this episode → Watch & Share🎧 More episodes → Podcast Playlist🌲 Recommended: New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters💥 Support the Show & Get Perks✅ Join the community on Supercast – Become a Member✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here📱 Let’s ConnectInstagram: @bigfootsocietyTwitter: @bigfoot_societyTikTok: @bigfoot.society🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links)These help support the show at no extra cost to you:Beam (Better Sleep): Try BeamWildgrain (Better Bread): Join HereSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn MoreLMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNTOrganic and non-GMO groceries delivered for lesshttp://thrv.me/uarEhS🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072

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In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible from backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet, farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. So settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. All right, Bigfoot Society. Welcome back to another episode. I have the privilege of talking to Amy today. Amy is a listener. We got connected. She's from upstate, South Carolina,

and wanting to share some things that she has been experiencing over the years. So welcome to the show, Amy. How are you doing today? Hi, Jeremiah. I'm doing really good. Awesome. Amy, is there anything else that the listeners would need to know about yourself for context before we get going? Yeah, so I'm upstate South Carolina, born and raised.

I've lived here for the majority of my life. I've also lived in Vermont and New Hampshire for a little while. I'm a mom of two. And yeah, I'm in the beauty industry. I am not your typical person, I feel like, that would have experiences. Kind of didn't ask for it or think it was ever going to happen to me, but it did. And I'm here to talk about it. Absolutely.

So, Amy, let's start with, are you able to take us back to when you first notice that some things, were happening or you had an experience that was out of the ordinary? So I kind of have had experiences throughout my life. I wasn't going to get into my childhood experiences and stuff today. But I am from a very small town in South Carolina. And I was raised on like 60 acres of woods, always playing in the woods. You know, I was one of those kids, like have siblings that we would play cops and robbers. and ride our mountain bikes and ATVs, dirt bikes, all that stuff.

So, yeah, so when I was a kid, I did have a few things happen. But today, I wanted to kind of talk more about where I'm living now and what I'm experiencing now. And it's kind of interesting because I never thought that I would have the experiences that I have in the place where I live now because... It is a more populated area. Like much of the South is kind of getting really populated. Everyone is moving here.

Upstate South Carolina, everyone's moving here. So I have lived in my subdivision for like six or seven years. And there's still woods around it. There's an abandoned farm behind us. There is a lake that is near us. And when we first moved here, some things that started happening were I had dead animals showing up on my back porch. And at first I thought that it was maybe just a cat.

And they would just be showing up on my back porch, heads ripped off, things like that. So that was a little peculiar. And, of course, being from like the country, like, I, it was. familiar with things that can happen. You know, cats can bring you things. But it was just strange. It was like a repetitive thing. Like bunnies with their heads ripped off. You know, rats with their heads ripped off. Just things that you wouldn't think like a cat would bring to you. And I didn't really see any feral cats. So I kind of just like thought, okay, well, it might be an animal, whatever. And I remember the first time, I remember the first time that I came to,

to our house. It was right after we purchased it and I just came to do like cleaning and such. And I was here at night because I'd worked a long day. So I just, I came at night and I was cleaning. I was, I opened the windows and stuff. And I just remember feeling very like watched. And that kind of stuck out in my mind because I noticed that, you know, as soon as I walked in, I felt comfortable. And then, like, after I started opening windows and everything, I just felt very watched. And both my neighbors on both sides, they're elderly. So they're not up past, like, eight years. So, yeah, so I felt really watched.

And when we moved in, there was, and I thought this was strange, and this could be nothing. So the back door, like the day that we moved in, was wide open. And there was, like, a hornet's nest that had been thrown into our house. I thought that was very weird. Like the whole nest was maybe not a hornet, like a, I don't know, just like a hornet or bee nest was thrown into our house. So I thought that was very strange. Stuff I ignored. You know, we had lived here for like a year or two.

And I started to hear things on the roof, not a raccoon, not like a critter. I'm familiar with what that would sound like. I would hear footsteps on the roof. I would hear weird gurgling and like talking noises on our camera from the backyard. It would really freak me out and just things that sounded audibly like a human, but gurgly and weird. So I attributed it to, well, it's just matrixing. Like it's just, you know, a car off in the distance or someone talking off in the distance, something like that. But anyways, one night I was hearing something on the roof and my husband works third shift

at this time. And he's on 12-hour swing shift. So I am like alone a good bit at night sometimes depending on a schedule. And so I heard like all this stuff on the roof and it really scared me because I was like, this is crazy. Like it doesn't sound like there's something in my attic. Like, it sounds like something is like, stop, stop, stop on my roof. And I also heard that night right outside my window this really weird owl call.

And immediately in my mind, what I thought was, this is a teenager messing with me. I did not. I was like, I was like someone has their, their kid running around or something messing with me. But I was like, in the middle of the night, that doesn't make sense. for that to happen in the middle of the night. So anyways, that was strange. And it was just, it was a janky owl call. It was not like your typical. I mean, I've heard that before. And I remember I even sent it to my brother, because I caught it on my camera. I sent it to my brother. And he's like, oh, it's just a bard owl. And I was like, no, I know it sounds like a bard owl.

But if you heard this in the close proximity it was to my window, you would understand that it just didn't seem like a bard owl. But, you know, I kind of just attributed it to, okay, it's an owl, whatever. So there was like little things that were happening. And we also, we also get outdoors a lot. So we do walks. We have like a nature trail in the neighborhood. And it's really pretty. So we'll walk around with the kids and everything. And so the time that it actually really changed for me, the time where I kind of couldn't keep saying, this is nothing. Everything else before this point, I was just, you know, it's nothing, whatever. Well, so in 2023, it was the, it was like, let's see, March, I think it was mid-March.

And the weather was starting to get nice out. And that day, I had been out walking on the trail with the kids. And my daughter at the time, I think she was like two. and so we were walking and everything seemed fine. I didn't get any weird feelings, nothing. That was in the daytime. So that night, my husband got home from work and I was like, hey, I'm going to take our dog out. And we do have like a pit bull.

He's like 75 pounds. I was like, I'm going to take him out because I kind of want to just have some alone time decompress. You know, I do like going on like night walks with him. So we, it was. It was dark. It was probably like between 8 and 9 o'clock. Probably not the smartest, you know, going for a walk at night, but I had my pepper spray. I had like my knife. Like I was fine. I felt fine. I feel safe in my neighborhood. I don't feel unsafe. So we start out on the trail and I, there's a footbridge. Before we got to the footbridge, and mind you, I live like two houses down from

the trail. Behind my house is woods. The trails mostly woods and there's like houses around, but, you know. So I smelled the smell. And I noticed it and I clocked it right away that I had not smelled it earlier in the day. And I had just been out there like a few hours earlier. It smelled like someone that hadn't taken a bath in months. mixed with like a rotting carcass. It was really bad. And it struck me because I was kind of like, huh, that smells terrible.

I didn't smell that earlier. That's just, I don't think I've ever, like, smelled anything like that. And so we started walking on the footbridge, and I guess I thought I was psyching myself out. And I was like, okay, well, what if there's a person who is experiencing homelessness and they're back here? That was my thought.

So I kind of made a mental note of it and Max wasn't alerting to anything. That's my dog, Max. He wasn't, you know, freaked out at all. So we got off the footbridge and I smelled it again, but then I heard like rustling in footsteps. And I was like, okay, well, that. probably is someone who's homeless back there. And I just kind of like started walking faster. And Max still, you know, if it's a human, like he's going to do something. And, you know, he's going to like, you know, be curious, wag his tail, something. There's nothing like that. So we start

walking down the trail. And we get about almost halfway down. And it's a very dark night. Like, I have to say that, too. Like, the moon was a half moon, and there was not a lot of light coming from it, but the clouds were very low and very, like, foggy. So it was almost as if, you know, you couldn't see that well. So we're walking, and I started to hear footsteps and gravel kicking up. And so then I kind of knew, like, okay, something is actually back there. but I was thinking maybe a dog, you know, still not, not too worried. And I turn my little flashlight on and, okay, we get halfway down the trail.

And this is the darkest part of like the wooded area. There's a lot of old trees and brush and just they hadn't cleaned it up in a while back there. And my dog like just freezes. and this is, and I'm kind of like shaking, talking about it because this is like the moment where I realized, this is a moment that changed me and this is the experience where I have had like an existential crisis about it and it's been kind of difficult. Okay, so he freezes and my dog is going to respond to things. the response from him was a low growl and the hairs on the back of his his back, like straight up.

And that's peculiar for him. So he wouldn't move. And at the same time that he wouldn't move. Something 10, 15 feet up in this big tree jumps down. stealthily jumps down. And I could almost feel the air thicken. Like there was just this tension there. And when it jumped down,

it also took out like some big limbs. And when it hit the ground, it just hit the ground so smoothly. And I could hear the two feet hit the dirt because it was not far from me. It made a really big calamity. And I remember thinking, what is that? That is, that's like as big as a bear.

But I live in upstate South Carolina. I don't live somewhere where there's just like, there are people, but it's, you know, there's not bears running around here. It was huge and it was very smooth, like the way that it moved. And it hit the ground. And my dog is a little. locked in on whatever this is, almost like he's just entranced by it. And I'm standing there.

And immediately, I just had this thought of, this is what was either watching us. I mean, it even seems like, it even seems like was there two? Because we heard something behind us. So how did the one, how does something behind us that we heard walking? getting this tree. I don't know. But so I'm standing there with him and every fear. It was just overwhelming.

And this is a little segue. And I'm not going to like go into it too much. But when I was 20, I was stalked and followed. And I was. Someone attempted to assault me. And I fought the person off. And I remember that moment of the moment I realized that, and it was in my car, the moment I realized that someone, a man had followed me and he was standing next to my vehicle and I saw him. And I remember the moment that I realized I was being watched and I had been followed.

And that is the exact feeling that I felt in the woods with my dog in 2023 when this happened, that exact feeling. So I knew what it was and I recognized it immediately. And as soon as I had that like recognition and I could almost see it was like something there in the brush, but there was, I shined my flashlight. There was just leaves and stuff and like briars. And if you're ever showing your flashlight, like, at night, and there's briars and there's brush in the way, you can't see what's behind it.

It's blocking you. So it just, like, reflects back at you. So that moment just felt like it lasted forever. It felt like it lasted an hour. It was just seconds. And so my dog is locked in on this thing. And I could just almost see it back there. It's like this big black shadow mass.

Like, you can tell that there. there's something there. It's different than like the texture of everything else around it, but I couldn't see it. And I had this overwhelming fear rushed through me. And then, and I know people talk about like mind speak or telepathy, and this is something I've never experienced. And it was very different from my own voice. That's the thing I want to push. It was very different from my own voice. This is not like yourself talking to yourself. it doesn't even come through like your filter. Like this is something outside of you that somehow like penetrated that barrier where you can hear it.

And I heard something say if I wanted to unalive you, I could. And it was like pondering it. Like if I wanted to rip you to shreds, I could. And then I kind of got this feeling of, I'm not going to, but I could. It was almost like it was toying with me. Like, it's almost as if it was a warning, but a threat, definitely a threat. And the thing about like mind speak slash telepathy that I'm learning from watching like you,

and other hearing when you talk to guests and hearing other podcasts is that it seems like when you hear that, you process it differently because you're experiencing it in your mind. So you're experiencing it. And so as soon as you just, you react instantaneously to it because you can't control when something's in your mind talking to you. Um, you can, if you hear someone say something to you, you can take it in through your filter and process it. But when you're in a moment of fear and you hear something infiltrate your brain and you hear, you've never experiencing, you've never experienced that before, which I never have. It's like everything is just firing off.

and I just had this overwhelming feeling of get your dog get out of here and I'm like pulling on his leash and he's got that low growl going and he's just locked in and he won't move and I am internally freaking out and I just I just picked him up he was so heavy and I still don't know how I did this I don't know how because I'm 5-1 and I am not a huge person and I picked my almost 80 pound dog up and ran as fast as I could down past the trail to our soccer field. And still, like, and the soccer field is like this big open area. There's a lake and there's a playground and stuff. And I thought I would feel safer once I got out there.

And I was doing the whole, like, adrenaline rush, you know, looking over my shirt. shoulder, like, terrified that something was behind me. So I get out to the soccer field, and I thought, okay, well, I'll feel safe once I get out to where there's, like, maybe a street light. And there's a church light that, like, shines through the woods right before you get to the soccer field. And I was like, well, maybe if I just get to that light, I'll feel better. But I didn't. I still felt very, very scared. It was almost as if, like, Like I knew that whatever this was, well, I did know. It could get me if it wanted to.

And there was no stopping it. A lot of times if like a human being is following you and you're somewhere where there's lights or there's people around or a big open area, you think like, well, maybe I'll, you know, you feel safer. It would feel safer at that point. but it did not. So I ran, put my dog down because I couldn't carry him anymore, and I ran off the trail, and I got down to where the lake is,

where the bottom of the lake is. And there were some teenagers that were fishing, and I must have looked crazy running like I was, full speed, like panting and just totally freaking out. And I got down there, and there was a bench, and I just, like, collapsed on the bench with my dog, and he's just like staring at me and I was staring at him and you know when you when you have a dog that like they're in your house with you like you take care of them like they're almost like your

child like you have a bond that's how I am with Max like we have a little bond and he was just looking at me and I could just like I could just see it in him like what was that like he didn't know what it was. And yeah. My goodness. I cannot imagine going through what you went through. I have a question for you real quick. Is it possible to describe anything about what the voice sounded like that you heard in your head?

So this is something that I've thought about. That's a really good question. This is something that I've thought about. If I had to put an age to it, okay, so I think it was male. If I had to put an age to it, I would say adult, but not middle-aged. Behavior, like, just the feeling and the tone, the tone was very knowing. that actually, I think, put me off more because it was, I'm trying to describe this. I feel so crazy when I'm trying to describe this.

I immediately got the feeling that whatever this was was smarter than me. I was nothing to it. it did not see me as equal. I was nothing to it. This is the feeling I got. Not, there's no emotion involved in this either. From that voice, the feeling I got, there was no, humans have empathy. Like, humans have emotions, humans empathize with each other.

this was cold and it was not evil it wasn't evil it wasn't evil it was ominous like feelingless um that like like dominant I could do this just letting you know that's that's extremely interesting the way that you're explaining the way that you heard the voice is kind of similar to the way that some witnesses describe it when they see it walk which kind of you know in charge with purpose uh things like that so i think that's that's extremely interesting um how long did you stay at that bench area for maybe five minutes And then I kind of realized, and I kind of had an adrenaline dump at that time and just my body was depleted. I remember like drinking all the water in my water bottle and gave some to my dog. And I remember sitting there and going like, I have no energy, but I have to go home. So I've got to walk back. And I've got to take the main road.

because there is no way I was going back near those woods. And I was even nervous, Jeremiah. I have to walk past a portion of the woods and where I smell that smell on the main road to get back to my house. And there's not really streetlights there. And when I got to the trail opening, I was like shaking.

I was so nervous. And then I saw my house and I kind of like, okay, like reality came back to me a little bit. So, you know, I rushed through my door and my husband was sitting on the couch. And he just looked at me. And he was like, what is wrong with you? I didn't have to say anything. Like, he just knew. He was like, what is wrong with you?

And I was like something tried, something, I think something wanted to attack me on the trail. And he was like, what do you mean? And that's whenever I had this whole like crisis of how do I explain this to another human being, that it wasn't a massed criminal that fits. in the box of how we would explain that, right? What I kind of knew it was was some kind of beast, which is what I think it is still with a supernatural twist. I was like something tried to attack me and Max, and it was really, really dark. And it was something I've never, experienced before and I was like I think it was I think it was that thing that I've heard on the roof and that like put the dead animals on our back porch and maybe was making those

crazy like growling and gurgling sounds and some of those sounds I had heard on the camera sounded like a wild boar you know so I was just telling my husband I was like, it couldn't be this, it couldn't be that. I was telling him, like, process of elimination, like, what it couldn't be. And he was like, well, that's really scary. His reaction was not, like, the protective male stance that he would have if he thought it was really, he believed me right away. And, yeah, his, his reaction was not, I'm going to go down to that trail and I'm going to, you know, no, that was

not, he did say, do you want to call the police? And I remember just looking at him and saying, call the police on what? What am I going to call the police on? What human being can be 10 to 15 feet up in a tree? And this thing sounded like it was 400 pounds, can jump down that stealthily. the way it landed, I already knew, even if we don't put in the mind speak component here, I already knew that it was a creature. It was not human. I did email my property manager about it, though. But I told her that I thought it was a person, obviously.

I didn't want to look crazy saying, hey, like, I think this creature jumped down from a tree and tried to, and I heard it tell me stuff. No. I just said, I was followed on our trail. The person was wearing all black. I think they had, like, a bad intention. You know, if we could just kind of alert other people in the community that there could be, danger on the on the trail at night because i'm not the only one that walks out there and um she said she would have law enforcement look into it um yeah so man that it's that's an extreme and

traumatic experience um and you can definitely tell how it is still affecting you to this day which it would be affecting me as well um did did other things start happening after that or was that kind of a one-off experience a few years ago? No, there's been more since then, unfortunately. So, okay, so in 2024, in 2024, it was July. And I think I sent you some photos of what could be something on my trampoline. I, so, okay, it was 2024 in July. And what I, just to put you, like, where I was at the time, I had, I was spending a lot of time outdoors. I had a really nice guard. that I, you know, um, was out there like every day. I had my little one who would come out there

and play in our backyard with me and, um, jump on the trampoline. And that was like her favorite place. And she's also, um, she's on the autism spectrum. So like it, it definitely helps her. And it's like a sensory thing for her to jump on the trampoline. So we, it was our every day, just going outside playing and, um, me and my garden. So that was. was like my everyday activities. I also have a 12-year-old son, and he would come out there with us sometimes. So I had a friend over, one of my friends over, that I've known since high school. My husband was, again, on night shift. It's interesting how things happen when he's not there or happen when he's not with me.

So we're sitting on the back porch. It's a lovely night. I think it was like the 2nd of July. And it was just really nice out. And we're talking. Me and my son and my friend. We're all talking and just having a good time. And it's probably like around 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock,

because I think it was dark and it gets darker later in the summertime. time. So we're talking and my dog is out there with us and we hear something really large, jump. Now I have a six foot fence. Jump the fence into my yard. We're talking loudly. We're hanging out. It was so loud. And what really did it for me where I knew it was probably the same. creature was when I heard the, like when it hit the ground and I heard the two feet really heavy hit the dirt. And if you know the sound I'm talking about, it's unmistakable. It's like if you're standing on a hill and you're, you know, if you're standing on dirt and you're stomping your feet, so the person that's near you can feel it. We were on my porch and this is the bottom of my

yard and we could feel it and we could hear it. So my dog starts going crazy and we could hear it moving around and like shuffling. But because my porch, because we had the lights on and it's dark in the yard, we could not see what it was. We were kind of blinded by the light. So my immediate reaction was I don't want to know what that is. I just want to get in the house. Uh, my dog's going crazy. My dog ran down in the yard after it. Um, my friend was really curious. My dog ran in the yard after it, but his reaction was not like, like he was wagging his tail, but he was also growling. I thought that was strange because he does not do that. Um, that reaction was weird for him. And he's like barking at it, you know, and he just, he's not good, he doesn't bark at everything. So.

whatever it was, just moving around in the yard. And I was just, like, kind of frantic because I'm like, my son ran in right away. I was frantic because I was like, I've got to get my dog. Like, I can't leave him out here. So I'm calling him, I'm calling him. And finally, you know, whatever this was, he didn't want to leave it alone. But if it was a critter, raccoon, possum, squirrel, if it could have been any of those things, coyote, then he would have attacked it.

He was really curious. So he finally comes running back up and I run inside with my dog. My friend is like mesmerized by whatever is going on and she really wants to know what it is. And I was like, get in this house because it's probably going to attack you if you don't,

whatever it is. Or I mean, if it's just an animal, that's fine. But just get in the house. So you could still hear moving around. I mean, it sounded like a bear had jumped into my yard and was like, it was weird. So she comes inside and we slammed the door. And I was just everything that happened on the trail that night, I was like we're playing it in my mind. And I was trying not to go there.

We heard a howl. So something started howling. But it was like an ear piercing the worst hell you could ever imagine. I couldn't believe it was happening. And I was just like not in my body. I did not want to be there. I did not want to know what was happening. I did not feel safe in my own house.

My dog was running back and forth, back and forth, totally freaking out. Again, not normal behavior for him. and I'm trying not to hear this how. I'm like, oh, it's a siren. It's a, it's a, it's a, a car. It's something. And she's just looking at me with wide eyes. And my friend's like, that's not a siren.

That is not a car. It is howling. So we're both like filled with fear. And like I say, like we did not feel safe. I also had the thought crossed my mind. don't have a camera that points at my yard. I have a camera on my porch that points at my porch does not get anything in my yard. Now, that is another thing. I never tried to, like, catch anything like what this was. I've never put cameras out. Like, this is a creature. This is

a cryptid. I'm going to catch it. I've never done that until this point in 2024. Because even though I thought there was something there, I didn't want to know. I wanted to stay in my own little ignorant bliss and just be fine. And my life is very busy. I did not want to interrupt my normal flow of things for something that is otherworldly or whatever. I just sometimes it's better just to like ignore things if you can't make sense of them. but then it gets to a point where you can't ignore it anymore. And it's right in front of your face.

So in 2023, that was the beginning of it, where it really hit home for me. In 2024, this experience. Okay, so take you back to, we heard the how we're standing in my house. We started to hear something on like my siding in my living room. It was like it knew where we were in my house. And something is brushing up against my sighting. You could hear it on the side of the house.

But whatever it was was in the backyard. So I'm like, well, if it jumped a six foot fence, it could just jump back over it. I mean, and my dog is freaking out, whining, crying, running from the back door to the front door just constantly. And it dawns on me at this moment that my garage door is open. And my door to my garage is open. And so I'm thinking, okay, so if it knows where we are, what if it, what if, I mean, what if, because if it, if it can mind speak telepathically to me, can it read my mind that I'm thinking, oh, I don't know. My, my door, I got to secure my, I don't know that my door's open. Could it know that? It might. So my friend's like, don't go out there, don't go out there. And I said, no, I got to. I got to go lock everything down because whatever this is is not shy. So I ran out to my garage and I locked the outside door.

And just as I was doing that, I could hear something in the bushes out there like right outside. Run back in, lock the other door. My dog is at my front door absolutely freaking out. I look at my ring camera and standing there looking at my ring camera faces like my garage where you could see like the bushes. And there is something with one really big eye. And you can kind of see the eye like squinting and then opening back up like crouched and hiding behind a bush. and a car drives by, you can see it illuminate. And then it's, you can't see what's behind the bush,

but you can see this big eye shine. And then it's gone. This was right at the time that I was like running out my door, running out of my house to go into my garage and lock my garage door. So none of this felt real. But it happened. And that is like one thing that I have to keep saying, like, it doesn't feel real. It doesn't feel like my life. I can't believe it when I even tell it. I'm like, what are you talking about, Amy? But this actually happened. Okay. So the next day was July 3rd. And obviously, I've told my husband about this. I was kind of worried he wouldn't believe me. Like, oh, maybe your friend's just, you know, hyping you up about this. But he believed me. and I think that's like always a fear that you have like will my husband or my wife believe me. I hear that sometimes on podcasts that I, you know, have listened to your channel a good bit

and I kind of hear people say like, I didn't know if they would believe me. I had that fear. I didn't think he would, but he did. And he even suggested like, why don't you try? Why don't you buy another camera and point it at a different spot in the yard? Still keep the one where you have it now, but just point this one somewhere different. So the next day, my son was very, my son was very on edge about all this. And my son, he's on the autism spectrum too.

He's very empathic. He's very sensitive. He's super brilliant. and he uh sorry hold on so you have two autistic children is that correct okay yes i do all right go ahead thank you yeah so um one of his little hobbies that he likes to do is airsoft and um he had just gotten an airsoft gun um so he and i didn't know this the next day, because he knew all this was happening. I try to like, when you have kids, you want to protect them from things that are scary.

But my son's had his own experiences that he has come to me and talk to me about, which I'm not, I'm going to listen to him. I'm never going to tell my child, like, you didn't see that. That didn't happen because that's what my parents would do to me. So I just listened to him. The next day, he ran out with his airsoft gun. And I was like, where are you going, buddy? And he's like, oh, I'm just going out in the yard. And, you know, it's like, okay.

So he comes back in and he was like, guess what I just did? And I was like, what did you just do? And he was like, well, I went down to the woods and I told whatever's down there, don't ever come back in my yard again. or you'll like fill my wrath or something, a very like, a very like 11, 12 year old boy thing to say, right? Like, hey, don't mess with my mom or you're going to get this pellet gun. Like, it was, anyways, I was like, okay, can you not threaten whatever was like terrorizing us last night? That would be great.

But anyways. So I don't know if that provoked it. And also, my son, he's a pretty tall kid, and he's a big kid. So he looks like he's like 14 or 15, truly. So I was thinking, okay, so if there's like this crazy cryptic creature, whatever it is, beast thing that's out there, you just, went down there and effectively threatened it and, uh, you know, I was concerned about him. Um, but anyways. So I put up some cameras that faced different directions that day. And, um, also, also that day, my littlest was on the trampoline and I was working in my garden.

She gets on the outside of the trampoline. And I don't know how she did this because I was right there. watching her. She gets on the outside of the trampoline and she like walks around, the outside of the trampoline. And there's a break in our fence that comes down about a foot. So where that break in the fences, my littlest, who at this time was pretty nonverbal, is like, she has her hands outreached and she's like telling something to pick her up. And as a mom, every instinct in body, I was like, I was absolutely freaked out. If there was any doubt in me that still at that point that this was happening and also the guilt because I'm like, okay, so this is not just me experiencing this now, this is my children. And now this thing is messing with my children.

And now we have a problem, you know? So I got her. You know, I mean, she was fine, everything. I got her right down and told her, you know, you cannot walk on the outside of the trampoline. Like, it's not safe, all that good stuff. So, anyways, that's one thing that happened. I have to mention. And if you're a mom or dad and you're, like, you're having experiences, I really have to say this. It's not just acute to, like, you.

Like, I listened to a guy the other day who told such an amazing story. And it was really scary. And he mentioned his kids a few times. And I was just thinking, I want to hear from the kids' perspective. And I know in the podcast community, like, that's not a safe thing to do. No one does that. And I agree. It shouldn't be done.

You know, kids are minors. They need to be protected. But I was just thinking because if any parent is experiencing this, like you and your kids live with you in your house where you're having these creatures. And then there's like this sense of being a mama bear or a papa bear, like you have to protect your family. But how do you protect your family from something that you don't know what it is? It's not like a classified animal. It's not, you know, it's probably supernatural. Anyways.

So I put those cameras up and it was the morning of 4th of July. I could not sleep that night. I was just laying in bed. It was almost like I just felt like something was going to happen, and I was just waiting for it. Maybe that's intuition. So I'm laying there, and it's like three in the morning, four in the morning. And I see my neighbor, I'm like watching these cameras.

And I see my neighbor next door to me who's in his 70s, don't know why he was up, old military guy, turn on his big light on the back of his house, like his spotlight, which I thought was strange because they never do that. And then he turned it off. So after that happened, I'm like, okay, well, did he see something? So I'm watching the camera. I'm really tired. And I see this little box pop up around something.

So that screenshot that I sent, sorry, that screenshot that I sent you, I can't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure that that was actual, like, I screenshotted that live. Because when I go back and I look at, there's one picture I know I screenshoted live, because the background's different than the other ones. And I remember doing that because, I almost couldn't believe what I was seeing, but I was, like, ready. I knew that something was probably going to happen. I could just feel it.

And it was a creature that was crouched down, almost like a human would be, but like a, like, just crouched in like a frog position, like Indian style, but on its toes, kind of. on my trampoline. And I mean, I saw it. Like, I saw it pop up. And I knew exactly that that was it. But I didn't expect it to look like that. And I didn't believe it.

I still don't believe it. And I have talked about this with people. I mean, I've talked about this with my family, my clients. and every time I talk about it, I still can't believe it. So, yeah, I think I caught it or something on pictures, on video. And the weird thing is, is that it, like, disintegrates. But also, these are not, like, great cameras. These are like just your run of the mill, like ring cameras, wise cameras that you buy at like Home Depot.

Like I was, I surely did not really think I was going to catch anything. I kind of, you know, I didn't believe it that I did. And the size of it on the trampoline, I had my husband, he's six, three and like 200 something pounds. The next day I had him like, I was like, can you get on there and see if you can like crouch in the position this thing was. we can see kind of like size comparison, this was bigger than him. If he's 6'3 and like 220, 30 pounds, this thing was bigger than him. In the video, it's like there for a split second, and then it like cloaks or like disintegrates or like vanishes or something. And that's crazy to think about, that's crazy to say, but I don't know how this like, and I mean, I've

played with the photo. I've like taken the brightness down. I've like, you know, not the ones I sent you, but I've messed with it myself. And like the thing that I can't get out of my mind, because I keep trying to talk myself out of it and like, oh, it's not real. The thing I can't get out of my mind is that if you make it really dark, you can actually see where the shoulders and the knees or the legs block out the light where the poles are on my trampoline.

So there is something there. I'm not saying what it is. I don't know what it is. That's kind of my way that I've proved it to myself. Like, yeah, you're not losing your mind. So, yeah.

Is it okay to, if we share the videos and the photos that you sent me in this interview. All right, cool. I'm going to try to put those up. Yeah. They are really, really interesting. Remember you sending those to me.

So that was July 4th of, was it 24 or 25? 24. 24. Wow. Is anything happening with your neighbors at this time? Okay. So my neighbor, yeah, my neighbor, okay, I have two elderly neighbors that live on either side of me. Wonderful people. I know them. They know my kids. One of my neighbors actually just moved away.

And she had built that house and lived in that house for 30 years. And I'm not sure why she moved Jeremiah, but so I had, I had something happen. This was in August. On my back porch, there is, in the summertime, there's a ton of orb weave or orb weaver spiders. And I'm kind of obsessed with them. I think they're really pretty. And there's this invasive spider called a gyro spider and they kind of like pop up and they actually the females are really aggressive and they'll kill the orb weavers. So one night I had like I had a couple juros on my back porch and then I had like a couple orb weavers and I was just checking to see if like the joros weren't because you will find like dead spiders in their web like they are, it's creepy.

So I was shining a flashlight and the only way you can really see the webs and like where they are and not walk into them is to shine a flashlight. So I live like on a hill and it overlooks my neighbor's yard. I was shining my flashlight and there's a big cedar tree, really big cedar tree right next to my fence in her yard. There was a web that I was looking at. on my porch. Here's a big cedar tree. Here's her house. I turned my flashlight off. I don't know why I did that, but I turned my flashlight off for a second. And there was, I can't remember if I saw it and turned my flashlight off. I don't know why that's the first instinct. It's like obviously if you're trying to flashlight around the thing, already saw you, so you gave away that you're there. Okay, there was a very

large black mass with red eyes next to the cedar tree that was i mean it was like 10 plus feet tall i mean it was like 13 feet tall it was very tall because my my fence is like six feet it way over the fence black mass, it had these red eyes and it was right in her yard. I mean, here's the creek. There's a creek behind my fence. At the same time that I saw this big black mass with red eyes, neon red eyes, mind you, like almond shape. In the creek, behind the creek behind. my house, there was two rock clacks that happened. Loud rock clacks. Very, it was something a human would do.

Very human. Not a raccoon. There's beavers back there sometimes. Not a beaver. I don't think they'll slap their tail at you for sure. but they're not going to take like two rocks and go clack clack clack clack that's what it did something in the creek bottom when i saw this and when the clacks happened the thing disappeared it vanished and then a couple weeks later she puts her house that she's lived in for 30 years

on the market and moved out And now I have new neighbors. Yeah. Wow. That kind of thing really makes you wonder what else was going on over there, especially, like, why would you put up your house of 30 years that you built yourself like that? That's, that's, have you experienced telepathy any other time beside the time that you've shared so far? Okay. So I was just talking with my sister last night about.

this. When you have a child who is nonverbal and you are their caretaker, you build a bond with them that no one else has, you can almost pick up on their needs. I mean, sometimes I'll be at work and I'll have a 12-hour day and my husband's at home with our daughter. And I just know that like, okay, she's hungry. I know, okay, she wants to go outside. There's been times where I've, I've texted him. And like, there was one time that she can elope. So like, our front door is like Fort Knox because she can't elope. She's just in that stage. Sometimes they do it forever. Sometimes they don't. But she can. And she ran out in the backyard one time when I was at work. And my husband, he was doing he was like doing dishes or washing his hands or something. And I texted him three minutes before

it happened because I caught it on my camera that she ran out on the back porch. I caught it three minutes before it happened. And I texted him and I said, is she okay? Like, I knew that it was, something could happen. So I don't know. When you have kids that rely on you, I feel like you can build that relationship unknowingly. I don't know, especially if they are nonverbal. My son is very verbal. My daughter is getting more verbal as time progresses. But you can build that, that bond with them and I've wondered if it could be a component, like maybe because of my children and my bond with them, I've unknowingly, like, become more empathic in general. And I also work with people all the time in my industry. I work with people. So I kind of

I feel like a therapist, even though I am not a therapist, but I feel like one. So maybe I have those skills in some facet, and I don't know. But like mind speak or telepathy, like on the trail that night, never. I've never like heard this voice come over me and tell me something like that, never. Yeah, that's extremely interesting because another pattern that you will you know see if you talk to enough people is there's definitely a connection between uh i guess not just autistic children but autistic individuals and uh bigfoot in a way uh there seems to be sometimes more activity when they are are present i i've had more than a few interviews where that

comes up um you don't feel like you need to answer this It can be cut out, but do you know if you are autistic or on the spectrum yourself? I don't know. Right. Yeah. I am very neurodivergent. I have ADHD. And actually, all my siblings have ADHD too.

My mom has ADHD or ADD. I think she said ADD. But are children in my family on my side? have ADHD or autism or both. So could I be autistic? I could be. I don't know. You know, like millennials, like my generation, especially like elder millennials, we didn't

really get tested. We didn't get tested or diagnosed. I'm right there with you. I'm an elder millennial. So just the fact that I said another pattern is probably is a big indicator for some people. But, yeah, no, the elder millennial really did not get diagnosed at all. My husband has told me that he thinks that he has autism.

Gotcha, got you. Which that might line up, but I don't know. I'm not going to tell him what I think he has. Yeah, absolutely. So that was, we were talking about August of 24. Was that right? Okay. Yes.

Has this been occurring in the last year as well? With the creature that the large black mass with red eyes, that was in August of 2025. Gotcha. But it was in the summertime. I think that they might like to be out more in the summertime. And I think that to me, the black mass. did look ape-like. Why these things would be hanging out in a creek behind a subdivision, I have no idea why.

There is an old abandoned farm behind my neighborhood. It's just dilapidated. And, I mean, there's woods. You know, they could conceal. I don't know why. I mean, I thought maybe food, people watching. Um, but the one with red eyes, that was a different experience. Anytime I've had these experiences, I've been really scared.

When I saw him, and I'm saying him, I don't know that it was him. It, when I saw it, I wasn't afraid of it. And it kind of felt like it was trying to scare me, but I just felt nothing. And I thought that was very weird. I felt nothing. And it squinted at me and then disappeared when the rock clacks happened. But it squinted at me like it was checking me out. I got the vibe.

It was checking me out. Like, who are you? But it like knew me. I don't know. This is weird. I got the feeling that it knew me. And for some reason it was showing itself to me. I feel like.

these things have to be able to cloak because I just don't know how it can disappear like that. And you would think that this would happen in an area where there's like acres and acres of woods around. It's really remote. It's very out in the middle of nowhere. But this has changed my mindset on that because where I'm from is like acres of land in the middle of nowhere. and I've had more experiences here where there is high density living and population than I have had somewhere like that. Man, it's an incredible story and it feels like there almost should be some thing in the past that kick things off and that God, everything can. connected, but I'm not sure if I have it yet, and that's okay. But you know what I mean?

Like, they definitely know you're there and you guys are just like a lighthouse beacon bringing them in. And it's, yeah, I mean, it's one of those things where you have some sort of experience and then it just opens you up to all this other stuff and you just really start experiencing stuff out of nowhere. When you are doing your place of work and you're able to talk to people and hear their story, and you're telling yours, it sounds like you tell it quite a bit. Has anyone else been like, oh, yeah, totally, that area is super weird or I've had other things happen in that area.

Anyone brought up stuff like that? Well, my clients will share, you know, so when you're in the beauty industry, you have like a couple hours with people sometimes. And usually you get to know people really well, their families, et cetera. And I've swapped stories with some people about the area. The upstate is very old. Well, South Carolina is very old. Um, but like when I was when I was little, like if I would go play in the woods, like my dad, you know, if he was with me, we would collect arrowheads. I mean, stuff like that. So it's not abnormal. Like people know this area is old. Um, but it's, I've had people explain to me that they've had paranormal experiences. Um, haunted houses, you know, seeing ghosts, things like that. Some clients that I have. Um, um, Yeah, I had a lady in my neighborhood who is a lovely sweet person tell me that something she would put out in this and you know, I guess the spring is when they're out, she would put out hummingbird, like fill her hummingbird feeders.

And something would come and take apart the hummingbird feeders and suck all of the juice out. And she said it was happening like every night. And she thought that that was weird. And she lives on the other side of my subdivision. And behind her is the old dilapidated farm. Wow. Okay. So a lot going on for sure.

I guess, you know, when I think of South Carolina, I'm thinking of old. old, even a lot of Civil War type related paranormal things. Revolutionary. Yeah, sure. Yeah. Would you say the August event was the last big event that happened on your property then? We're at about, well, February of 2026 now.

There was something, I mean, things kind of happen. Okay, things kind of happen all the time. but I don't like to be that person that's like, oh, this happened. Then this happened. You know what I mean? I'm not looking for it. And there's stuff with animals. Like, you know, one night there was like a hawk back here killing something.

It was like screaming. We know what it was. But, you know, you can tell. Okay. So, and this one actually happened with my husband. So now he knows. I took Max out one night. Sometimes if I don't go out, and it's a fenced-in yard,

but sometimes if I don't go out with Max at night, he gets into trouble. He likes to attack possums, and it's just nasty. So I took him out with a flashlight, and we were walking around the yard, and I just kept hearing something, like jumping from tree to tree to tree. But it was really big. It was knocking branches down.

I'm like, okay, well, where have I heard that before? You know, it was knocking branches, big branches down. I could, like, see the branches falling. But when I shine my flashlight up in the tree, I couldn't see what it was. Like, there was nothing there, but I could see, like, the trees moving, branches falling. At the same time, across the woods from us, like back in the woods, up on another hill, there's a retention point behind that.

There is an apartment complex. In the wintertime, you can hear them very well. You can see the apartment's way back there, but you can hear them. And it's usually very quiet. But on this particular night, there was like a guy walking around the retention pond. It's all gated off. Like, you can't get from over there to where I am. But there was a guy walking around the retention pond screaming really loudly on his phone.

At the same time, this thing is jumping from tree to tree to tree, knocking stuff down very loudly. and I surmised that he was watching this guy. The guy was obviously very distracted. So I went inside. I was like, you know, I told my husband, I was like, can you come out here? Can you just like walk around the edge of the fence back there? I feel like I just want to see if you can like see what this is.

You know, he being that he is kind of. skeptical. He was like, yeah, okay, sure, fine. So he got his flashlight and he, like, walks around the outside of the fence. There's the creek and, um, the woods. And whatever it was that was jumping around as soon as my husband got back there, it got really quiet. So I'm standing on the other side of the fence with my dog. My dog is just silent through all of this. My husband's over on the other side and he's like Amy, it looks like something has been bedding down back here. And he does yard work and he throws stuff back there all the time. He's very familiar with it. And I was like, what do you mean? And he was like, it looks like something has made like a little nest or something

back here. And if that was not off-putting, I was like, okay. And if my husband says it, he is a skeptic, he is, and he's also an atheist. So like, I'm the spiritual, that like can't stop talking. He's the one that's like he has to see it to believe it. That's just how he is. So when he said that, alarm bells went off because I know how he is. Then whatever was up in the trees jumping around and being very loud and messy jumps down. So my husband's behind our fence. Here's the creek. And then there's woods in those woods, whatever it was, jumped down. and I heard it hit the ground. And I was like,

whatever that was has now jumped down and he heard it too. And I could tell he was getting freaked out because he was like, quiet. I was like, it's jumped down and I just heard it land on the other side of the creek. So it's back there with you. So now he's got to walk by the creek

and come back around the fence. So he's got to effectively walk by whatever has just landed on this hill. across the creek. And he just immediately like booked it back across there. As fast as you can for it being like, I mean, it's thick brush. Even in the winter it's thick, like no one is back there.

There's briars and it's messy and it's gross. So he didn't see anything. But something was definitely back there. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh my goodness. Amy, you have, really it's not just you, as your whole family has really an incredible story.

I know it was hard to share. I could tell you were right back there in it. And I just want to say thank you for sharing what you guys have been through so far. And I hope that this helps some listeners that are maybe going through some things like this in their own lives. and that it's okay to talk about things like this.

But, Amy, thank you so much for coming on. Please keep us in the loop. If you do continue to experience things like this around your property, I would love to hear about it. But thank you again. Yeah, thank you so much, Jeremiah. Thanks for having me on. Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oak Ridge, Oregon?

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