Bigfoot Society - Witness Confronts Massive Bigfoot in East Tennessee and Faces Pure Terror!

Episode Date: December 17, 2025

In this gripping episode, East Tennessee witness Robbie Ferrell shares a lifetime of terrifying Bigfoot encounters stretching from the Smoky Mountain region to the secluded ridges, lake coves, and dense valleys surrounding his home. What begins as a normal day in the woods turns into a life-altering moment when Robbie hears impossible bipedal footsteps and a chilling mind-speak command telling him to leave.Over the years, Robbie experiences multiple close visual sightings, massive footprints near his bedroom window, mysterious gifting behavior, and even a night when a towering figure stands just feet from his workshop. His most shocking encounter occurs while exploring a remote Tennessee valley with researcher Harley Owens, where the two men are surrounded, growled at, and charged by multiple forest beings in an aggressive display that changed Robbie’s view of the world forever.If you’re fascinated by Sasquatch sightings, mind-speak experiences, Appalachian cryptids, Smoky Mountain mysteries, or real eyewitness accounts, this episode delivers one of the most compelling and emotionally raw Bigfoot testimonies recorded. Robbie opens up about fear, trauma, spiritual questions, and the deep desire for answers that keeps him searching despite the danger.Keywords: Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Forest People, East Tennessee Bigfoot, Smoky Mountains Bigfoot, Tennessee sightings, mind-speak, cryptid encounters, Appalachian mysteries, eyewitness Bigfoot story, Harley Owens, Bigfoot chase, Bigfoot aggression, Tennessee ridge sightings.Resources:Contact Robbie: https://www.facebook.com/robbie.ferrell.1Contact Harley: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61580318825726🗣️ 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 show. We've got witness Robbie Farrell with us today. And Robbie and I know each other because we were both introduced by a mutual friend, Mr. Harley Owens, from down there in the Smoky Mountain area of Tennessee.

And, Robbie, you're from the same area roundabout. Is that right? Yeah, I'm about 30 minutes from where Harley lives. Fantastic. You've had a lot of really interesting experiences over the years, and most recently you had something pretty intense happen when you were out in the field with Harley. We'll get to that probably later on in the show. Feel free to take us back to when this first started happening for you, Robbie, and we'll be right there with you. Okay. I'm an East Tennessee guy.

I've always lived in East Tennessee. I'm in my 50s now. I started hunting when I was a 13-year-old. I'd go out with a recurred bow, little pocket knife, self-taught hunter. Not very good, but, you know, I did enjoy being out in the woods all the time. That's kind of always been my peaceful place. And I never had anything weird happen for a long time. Spent 30-something years out there.

And as long as I had a bow or a gun with me, I kind of felt like I was a king out there. there, you know, I'm the meanest thing in these woods. And then I found out I wasn't. In 2017, I was just going out squirrel hunting in an area of the woods that I've hunted my whole lot. I wasn't that far off the road, and I was probably 100 feet. I could still see my truck. This is a little back road. It has some traffic on it, but it's, you know, it's a little ways off the main road. I had been there maybe three, four minutes tops. Like I said, I hadn't walked that far. And I thought I saw a squirrel.

And I had a little 22 semi-automatic 10 shot, a little small scope on it. And I stopped because I thought I saw a squirrel. And I propped up against a tree. And it's a pretty good size tree. And I'm scoping. And I'm thinking, you know, if this is a squirrel, this is too far of a shot. but I'm still scoping it out just to see what I can do

and from behind me I hear the loudest footsteps I have ever heard my life I mean I've been around bulls and cattle and things of that nature and I've heard a 15, 16, 100 pound animal run that's what it sounded like coming from behind me but it was bipedal

I spun around you know it's a 22 but it's what you have. And I'm prepared to try to defend myself in my mind, knowing that this isn't enough. You know, you just know it's not enough. And then I spin around, there's nothing there. And my mind is just spinning.

Like, I'm freaking out. Like, how did I just hear the loudest footsteps I've ever heard of my life running at me, but there's nothing there? So I'm standing there for a good five minutes. And I'm just looking all around. I'm absorbing everything around me at the moment. I'm really just trying to figure out what's going on. My heart's pumping like crazy.

Someone once said it's like your heart's pumping peanut butter. Yeah, that was the feeling I had. And I'm just really trying to find anything to make sense at this point, and nothing's making sense. and then in the back of my head I hear a clear, deep voice that says you need to leave and now I'm really freaking out. I'm like, I mean, I get shaky just thinking about it.

I don't know if you can see. I got cold chills. It's hard for me to tell this story. It really is. I don't want anybody to think I'm crazy. But facts are facts. This is what happened. and I'm looking around and I'm just really trying to put all this together and it's just not making any sense.

And I'm thinking to myself, am I losing my mind? Because this just doesn't make sense. And so I said something had to have rolled down this hill, maybe a big rock, a tree limb. Maybe I'm just putting this in my own mind. You know, I've got to figure this out. So I make a semi-circle out about 75, 80 feet, and I'm looking, I'm searching for anything that's disturbed. Something's got to make sense here. And as I'm looking around in the back of my head, I hear this clear voice again, leave now.

And I'm talking every hair on my body is just wire. I clearly heard this. This wasn't in my imagination. And I was like, I've got to get out. out of here. And I went straight to the truck and I left. And I carried this around with me for a long time before I told anybody. Everybody was always like, oh, you don't go hunting as much as you used to. I made excuses. It's hard to admit when you're, you know, I'm a self-professed redneck. I have no problem saying that.

When you're a supposedly an able-bodied, healthy redneck male who's hunted his whole life, and all of a sudden you stop showing interest in it, there's a reason. And I still went hunting a few more times after that, but not much. And I was always a deer hunter. And I didn't go very often after that. But the very next time I did go, I went to a different area not too far away. And I get in there early in the morning. It's starting to miss the rain.

I put my rain jacket on. And I just kind of, I'm sitting against this huge tree, just kind of taking it all in, being quiet, trying to listen. And I rested my head against the back of my gun barrel 30-30. And then everything just goes completely quiet. I hear nothing, not one sound. And it was like a slap. It was so shocking to go from crickets and leaves wrestling and just dead zone, complete dead zone.

And it caught my attention immediately. And I looked around and the longer I sat there, I was like, I don't need to be here. I don't need to be here right now. I got to go. And I gathered my stuff and I got out of there and I tried to stay. straight to the path as I came in right back out.

So after that, I started talking to a few people about it, not much. I found an online community and my online community became my lifeline.

That's where I ended up meeting Harley Owens. And I've met so many good people online. They've really been a great help to me. me. But my first visual siding was in 2021. The same road that I had my Minespeak experience, that road goes to my parents' house. So I travel this road a lot. I've traveled my whole lot.

I get up, it's Christmas morning, 2021, and I'm going to go visit my parents. And my wife goes, oh, down there in the ridge, I saw one of the biggest bucks I've ever seen my life, probably the biggest. But I'm like, wow, really? Like, how big are we talking? She said, it was at least a 12, maybe

even a 14 point. She said, I'm talking like a massive rack on this deer. I'm like, wow. Like, you know, I'm not really hunting much anymore, but if I could possibly, you know, get an easy siding of this deer, I might

would consider going back. So, as I get to the ridge, this is the exact same spot where I had the mindspeak. I'm looking, I slow down. I'm just doing like 20 mile an hour. I look to my left, and there is a big foot. I call them forest people these days because I don't feel like they're an ape. Everybody has their own opinions. But after hearing the stories and some Native Americans,

and I'm beginning to feel more like there are people. But I see a force person, huge, but not like some of the biggest ones that I've heard people talk about. I always said it was built like Shaquille O'Neal, but with reddish-brown hair about that long, maybe three to four inches. And it's walking parallel to me. It's going the same direction I'm going and travel.

but it's 60 to 70 feet off the road. Had it not moved, there's a good chance I would have never saw it because there were some pretty good size trees in that area and if it had just stayed behind one of those trees, I would have never saw it. There's a good chance I wouldn't have. But this thing's walking and it's taken five to six foot steps with every step.

It's not running. It's not evading. It's just like I was. there. It completely ignored me, which is so counterintuitive to what we know about them. But it was clearly walking. As it would step, as it would take a backwards, the leg would come up. I could see the hair lifting up off the leg and sway. So, you know, I've heard people try to tell me it was a gilly suit. there's no eight-foot guys walking around in a gilly suit.

Right. In this part of the country, in gun season, you know, it's getting toward the end of gun season. If you hadn't got a buck by now, people get that itchy finger. So for someone to try to hoax in this area, first of all, they've got to be eight feet. And I'm telling you, these people right here, nobody's got a Hollywood-quality big foot. a costume. Okay, that theory doesn't make sense either. But it just, it's walking. I see it for about five seconds. And I have to watch the road too. I look back at the road because there's a little

hump in the road and people tend to come across that hump in the middle of the road. So I look back. It's still there. And then it goes into a dip and there's a whole bunch of laurels and bramble there. And that's when I lost sight. it dropped into that area. I'm freaking out. I'm literally just like, you know, back when I heard the minds speak, I'm shaking. I'm like, I knew they were real. I've always felt like they were real.

The Patty film seemed real to me. But I always thought that was a, you know, that's a up north, west coast thing. I didn't know they were here. People around here don't talk about it much. They're talking about it more now than ever. You know, I see Bigfoot stickers on the back of people's windows. You know, and it makes me smile every time now because I'm like, hey, that's a believer. You know, but I get to the end of the road down there and I stop and I'm like,

maybe I should go back. You know, maybe it may I should go back and try to see. see some more. But I always told myself, if I ever actually laid eyes on one, that was exactly how I wanted it to happen. I was in my truck. I felt safe. There was no aggression.

I got a good look at it. I only saw it from the backside. I never saw a face. That might be for the best. I don't know because I've heard so many people say that once they got an aggressive mean face. they're traumatized by it. Right.

So I kind of felt like I got what I'd always wanted. My phone was laying there. At the time, I had one in a double-fold case. Even if I'd wanted to try to get a picture, I would have to flip it up and turned it on, clicked it on the camera, try to turn it up, try to focus, try to drive at the same time. I mean, it wouldn't happen.

it was over in five seconds anyway. It's about time I'd I pick my phone up and try to, there was no getting pictures, evidence, but that never came to my mind until it was basically over. So, you know, I've had a few people say, well, you saw one, but you didn't get a picture. No, no, I absolutely didn't, and I understand why most people don't.

And I understand why most videos, if they do get one, it's shaky, because we're not professional photographers. We're not professional videographers. And when you see something like this, it's shocking. You know, it's scary. It's shocking. These things are huge, you know.

People think that they've seen big things, but I've been around a lot of wrestlers. I go to wrestling. I've met some pretty big guys. Kane, you know, he's now the county mayor of Knoxville. You know, I've been around Kane. Really? Yeah. Yeah, he's now the mayor of Knox County, Tennessee.

Oh, man. Yeah. And that, you know, that's its whole thing, you know, people, some people love it, some people hate it, you know. But, you know, we won't get into political stuff, but. Right. But, yeah, I've met him. He's 6-8. I've met Derek Mears.

He's 6-10. I've been around some big guys. Nothing. They look like I would look next to these guys compared to it. I mean, you know, you got that upscale. It'd be like putting Kat Williams next to skill on him. Right. You know.

but that that one really changed my life. The mind speak made me question things. The visual confirmed things for me. At that point, I knew Bigport was 100% real, or the forest people, but now

I can't drive past any woods that I don't look at those woods hard. you know, I'm rural, but I'm not in the middle of nowhere. I have neighbors. So that's what makes the foot impressions that I've been finding near my home even more odd. Around 2022, I believe, early 22, late 22. It was after my siding. And I found five to six footprints that come.

right around the end of my home and stopped three feet from my bedroom window. I measured that track. It was 17 inches long and six to seven inches at the hill. That, I'd always had motion lights up, but after that, that's when I decided I've got to have cameras. I've got to know what's going on around my house because I'd already found a couple of questionable footprints, prints, but this trackway, I'm pretty much the only person that goes around there. I've got a little building around there. I work out of it. I make knives and things like that.

And pretty much I'm the only one that goes around this corner. So if there's all I'd put prints, I noticed them immediately. And when I came around that corner of that morning, the leaves were disturbed. It was obvious to put prints. And when I came around the corner and I see that last. print and it is so obvious. And I look at my bedroom window and I'm like, that's scary. You know, why was it standing near my bedroom window?

And it shook me. It really shook me. And this is so weird that I've heard some people say that once you've encountered one, you can get tagged or something along that lines. I don't know. I'm not here to force that idea on anybody. I'm not here to debate that idea with anybody.

It's just a theory. But after my siding, I start finding footprints here. I didn't find those before the siding. Now, the area of the siding is only a mile from my house. But before the siding, they weren't coming here. So take that, you know, for what it is.

but I you know I've kind of after that I can't say I didn't try to encourage some some interaction

because I started kind of looking for them and then there's another area about a mile from here all this is around a lake there's coves and ridges and there's a lake

and there's different cobs that you can go into two. And this whole area is basically for three or four mile area is kind of like a bowl with different inlets. And I'm pretty sure they're coming from the lake, often one of the back areas. And I go to another area about a mile from here in a different direction, and I used to mow a cemetery there. It's an older cemetery, and it's at the edge of a subdivision. I keep getting a feeling that I'm being watched

while I'm at this cemetery. Now, I've mowed cemetery is my whole while. I'm not afraid of cemeteries. But I just kept getting this feeling. And so someone had suggested, so walk out to the edge of the woods and just address them.

Just talk to them. I'm not going to lie. I felt a little silly doing it. But I said, okay, if something's watching me, I'm just going to go address it. And I walked away from the cemetery, and I walked into the older part of the cemetery that was near the woods. I was like, hey, you know, if you're here, I'm not here to harm you. Now, I do wear a protection on my side, but this is not for you.

This is for bad people. Because there are, you know, there's insane people out there. And I said, so if you're worried about this, don't be because this isn't for you. But I don't want to have any bad feelings with any of you. So I'm, you know, I'm thinking, like, you know, this is a waste of my time. I walk back and 30 seconds later, there's a definite limb snap. And like, it snapped so loud that I'm not, I jumped. I literally jumped.

It caught me so off guard. I'm not expecting anything, you know. And I kind of felt like that was them acknowledging my statement. Now, called a coincidence, whatever. It's a pretty close coincidence that it happened 30 seconds after I say of this, you know? Absolutely. And I started leaving apples, donuts, things like that. When I would go to mow, I would leave things in the woods.

and I tried to leave them up high and like I would tie the apples up in balls of yarn and dangling from trees as high as I could reach to try to keep any small critters from getting to them and the apples would be gone wow the donuts would be gone

but I tried a few other things like peanut butter sandwich that was never touched I left one in a bag never touched a couple of different things and then I I had left some shiny rocks, a crystal. I tried different things.

A couple of things got gone. Some things got knocked off. And then somebody said, leave tobacco. And I had a peach cigar. So I left this peach cigar. And I always left it in the crest of one tree, always the same spot. I'll come back the next week. The cigar is crumpled.

And there's a set of tracks in the grass leading from the tree line. directly to the tree and directly away, and the grass is mashed down that part. Could that still have been a person? Sure. I'm not going to, you know, I don't, I can't sit there and say absolutely that's what happened. It's just when you have circumstance after circumstance after circumstance, you kind of have to start feeling it's a certain one. I've heard screams. I've heard, though, how, how.

when you add this and you add that and you add this and you add that, then you have to at some point start to go, this is starting to fit together like a poet. I don't think everything is a forest person. I don't think every sound is a forest person. I try to be logical. There's other animals out there. But I've never heard a coyote make a two-tone,

20-second long sound like what I heard. and I heard it four times that morning. I'm getting ready to get in the truck to go to work. I leave out early in the morning to go to work. I'm the only one out there in the dark, and I hear, and it's coming from the same direction as my interactions have came from. So, yeah, I feel like that was, you know, definitely them. I don't know what that means, you know.

and I'm not going to call back to them. I'm not going, I don't, I don't loop, I don't beat on trees. If that's their communication and you don't understand what you're saying, then why, you know, I don't want to tell anybody how to do what they do. You know what I mean? That's, you do your thing the way you feel you need to do it. But that would be like me trying to speak Spanish to someone, and I don't know how to speak Spanish.

So if I made a sound that sounded like something, I wouldn't even know what it meant. So that's my opinion. That's my view. And like I say, I don't want to offend anybody for what they do. Everybody do your thing. But that started over a year period. I started getting turkey feathers left in place of the gifts I was leaping. So that led me to definitely feel like that was them because when I would go out on my walks on the lake,

I would scabbage things to make decorative items out of. And this feathers right here are some of the feathers that I've collected. This is one of the feathers. Turkey feather was left for me at the cemetery. And I keep it with me. I made it a part of my hat. I wear that hat on special occasions at conventions and shows and things of that nature. So I had the whole gifting thing going on for a little bit.

And then a couple of people had told me and said, you probably shouldn't gift. And I was like, why? They was like, well, let's say something happens and you stop gifting. They may not understand why you stop gifting and it may be upsetting. and it may be upsetting to them. Or it could be insulting to them. Or definitely food. It was like if you're leaving food and they get used to the food being there.

And then for some reason you can't. Well, the next person just happens to come by that cemetery to visit a grave could get a bad interaction because they may associate people with food at that point. And you could be setting someone else up for a bad day. Right. I don't know. You know, this is all, it's a guessing game. And we try things and we try to, we're trying to communicate.

And we don't always know if the way we see it is the way they see it. So I try to keep all this in mind, you know. But I've changed my position on this many times. because I first started out, well, you know, this is a West Coast thing. Well, this is a relic hominid or an undiscovered grade 8. And then after, I've watched probably a thousand hours or better of podcasts and documentaries and people's opinions. And some things just don't make sense. I mean, there's intelligent interaction.

going on. And some things just seem too too intelligent to me to be an ape or an ape behavior. There's you know, I want to think that I'm an intelligent person.

And I feel like I would be remiss if I didn't listen to everyone's experiences and try to gather you know a full a full understanding of what's going on. You know, I know you did a couple episodes with Carrie from over near Harley.

Oh, yeah. And she had a lot going on there. Absolutely. And so some of this behavior just doesn't seem natural or in the way that we think natural is. So I'm trying to I guess I'm trying to burn the candle at both ends here I'm trying to take in everyone's experiences and everyone's thoughts and then

you know not everybody has good experiences you know I was talking to Greg House from Woodwalkers and you know and he got chased out of the woods and he felt like if he didn't have that raffle with him that day he wouldn't have a way he wouldn't have went home you know so um yeah lord i just there's so much there's so much and i try to i try to be fair with everyone and listen to their experiences and i know some people are going to hear what i've said today and think this guy's crazy this guy doesn't know what he's talking about you know he's

hearing voices in his head he's crazy i don't know what to tell you other than fact that I'll put my hand on a Bible. I'll take a lie detector test. You know what I mean? I've heard what I heard. Absolutely. I've seen what I've seen, you know. And then, you know, all this has kind of led up to here recently.

In the last two months, I've had three visuals. Wow. I know some people see one, one, entire lot. And if I'd only saw that one, I'd have been, trust me, I'd have been satisfied with that. Coming back through

the area woods, I was coming back from my parents' house again. This was two months ago. The way this road is it's kind of like a little roller coaster. It's kind of like humps in it. You have to be paying attention to the road. And typically, I'll meet two or three vehicles

coming through there, so I don't get to look off the road very much. I always, you know, try to a good driver. This night, I met no one. So I'm able to kind of scan the side of the road a little bit better. And as I come through a dip, I look over and there's got to be at least 10 foot, big foot, forest person. He's reaching from tree to tree and he's stretched out. His whole body is stretched out. I see the entire form. I see the left leg, the left arm, the neck. I can see hair under the armpit as it's reaching for that next tree. And once again, this behavior makes no sense because they see me coming.

I got lights on. I'm in a truck. It's not quiet. Why not just stand still? You know, why move? It doesn't make sense. So, you know, I see this and I'm like, holy crap, that one's got to be two foot bigger than the first one I saw.

And the first one I saw was brown. Of course, this is, you know, dust. It looked, this one looked black. It did not look like the same one. And I don't believe it was the same one. This one was way wider. It was at least two foot taller. And it just looked huge.

Like the first one looked a little more, I don't want to say athletic, but it definitely was not massive. So it possibly could have been a juvenile. or a female. This one looked like a big male. He looked huge. So again, you know, I'm like, holy crap. And as soon as I get home, I message Harley. And I'm like, you're not going to believe this.

Just saw one. You know, he's like, where? And I'm like, almost like within 500 yards before I saw the first one. He's like, holy crap, we're going to have to get out there and take some measurements, you know. And I'm like, I don't know if I'm cool with that, you know. Right. For somebody that wants to see them, I don't want to see them. For somebody that wants to have a little bit of an interaction, I'm also scared.

I don't know. I was talking to Harley about this yesterday. It's like, I don't always know how I feel because at times, I'm like, I need to keep my butt home. I need to play this safe. I don't need to try to encourage anything to happen. And then other times, I'm like, how are we going to ever further this if we don't get some answers? You know, how are we ever going to convince people that they're real if we don't get the good evidence? And for my own sake, I just want to know.

I want answers. If I leave this world without them, okay, cool. I'm going to a better place anyways. I still want to know. You know, there's a piece in me that's just got to know. And so I was like, okay, you know, I told Harley, we'll go back out. We've got a trip planned out to his research area coming in December. So that happened.

Then Labor Day weekend, I'm outside. I've been working in my building. I don't like to be out there after dark anymore. That's part of my whole scared thing. With the motion lights, with the cameras, I still sometimes get a bad feeling when I'm out there in the building. I just get a bad feeling like, you don't need to be out here right now. You need to go in. And I'm out there in the building, where can I'm trying to top myself up?

I'm like, you know, you've got to get over this. you need to get past this. So I push past what I normally do. I stayed out there well past dart. I'm working on a knife. I walk up. I walk around the corner and I've got a little fire pit there. I take my wood scraps and I burn them in the fire pit.

I start busting up some of the little wood pieces even smaller for kindling. And I see the motion lot in the backyard come on. So I'm just, you know, sometimes raccoons and stuff come through. It's not that big a deal to see the motion light come on. So I just kind of look over. But as I look behind my building, which is the only blind spot in my entire yard, I see a figure right against the building. And I thought, well, you need to find out what this is.

So I walk over and I sent you a picture. of my little building there and I've got a little bench in front of it and the backside of that building is where it was standing. Yeah, right there, right behind that ladder that's where it was at. And like I said, the cameras can't see back there.

There's a camera on that corner facing the house and then there's a camera on the back of the house facing toward the building. But in that little area right there, behind that ladder is the only dark spot where I don't have coverage. That thing was standing right up against the building in that little area right there. And its head was almost up to under that edge. And I thought, well, that's like seven feet.

And I was like, holy crap. You know, at this point, I'm 30 feet away. And the only thing between me and it's that little old table sitting there. and I had this machete still in my hand from where I was busting up that wood and I look and at this point you know I can

I can't see its space but I can see its entire form and it's black it's big and I just look at it and I go hey I see you over there I'm going to go back over here to my fire pit and I just turned around and backed away

and I went back to my fire pit and I stood there and I watched in that direction and it just drifted over into those trees and drifted back into the tree line and disappeared. So that's my closest encounter. And even though it was the closest, it's still in the dark and I didn't get like the best look at it. I still didn't get like a facial feature. But I didn't have a bad feeling. Like in the past, any time I'd had any kind of anything, I always felt a little negative about it. Like it just gave me a bad rub.

This one, like, it didn't terrify me. It didn't scare me. And I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I don't know if I'm getting used to it or like there's a vibe there that I felt like it wasn't going to hurt me. but if it was standing there when I was still inside my building literally I was feet from it with just that little wall between us and I had no bad feeling so that was an out for me because

I hadn't been finding any tracks since I put the cameras up and I didn't feel like they were possibly coming around but now I know they still come around Yeah, they're just getting smart enough to not be around the cameras, which that's really interesting. Yeah, and like I said, I've got motion lights right on the inside of this bench here, there's a motion light. And then up on the corner of that building there above those metal signs, there's a camera facing toward the house that way. So that's the only dead zone out there is right behind that building. and you can follow that tree line from property to property all the way back to the lake.

So that's like, I know some animals are good at hiding. I'm not doubting that. But that shows real intelligence right there. That it found the only blind spot in my security network and it drifted into it quietly and was just watching. Absolutely. And that was, you said, two months ago. Yeah. Yeah, that was, it was on a Friday night.

I was home alone, and I'd just been out there working. And like I said, trying to be a brave little soldier and get my nerve up. Because, like I said, my wife makes fun of me saying I'm afraid of the dark. And I'm like, no, I'm not afraid of the dark. I'm afraid of what's in the dark. Because I know they're out there. That's, you know, once you know they're there, you just can't look at things the same. anymore.

And there's plenty of people out there way braver than I am. I mean, yeah, do I sometimes go out looking and looking for evidence? I do. I don't do night investigations. I don't try to put myself out there and really, really far away from my vehicle or far away from the road. I'm not an armchair, but I'm definitely not a full-fledged researcher. I'm a witness, I'm a believer, I'm a knower, and like I went out with Harley and I'm going to go out with Harley again and I'm like I'm trying to put myself out there a little bit.

And yeah, I mean, I'll be a little braver when I got somebody with me. I definitely do. Yeah, absolutely, Robbie. But a lot of it is, I mean, you don't really have to go out. It's like they're come at least once they've come to your place, you know. Well, you know, with that trackway, that's, that's more than once. Yeah, yeah, absolutely. But I've kind of noticed it almost seems like a pattern. Like it's been four to five years, like 2017 was when I had to mind speak. 2,021 is when I had the siding.

And now it's 2025 and it's back. I'm, it's almost, I'm beginning to think there's a pattern of about four years, four to five years that they're coming around. So that might be a coincidence, but I just got to think my initial MISP happened in around September of 2017. Okay. And then, that's interesting. My first sighting was December of 2021. And then my two sidings recently were around October, September. So, which led up to this last siding.

And this is the one that really, really shook me. This is the one where I'm pretty sure, just to jump in for a second. I think this is the one where Harley called me up afterwards, like either that night or the next day. And he was shook up. I'm pretty sure this is the same one, but continue. Yeah, yeah. This is definitely the Harley Owens experience. I kind of feel like me and him both for some reason, we have a lot of activity.

We have a lot of evidence more so than some people that have been looking for 20 years. And I don't know if it's meant to be or like I've heard some people say like your high vibration person. Like they can maybe they pick up on you. they pick up on your vibe, they pick up on your intention. I'm not saying that's true. I'm saying that's things I've heard. So Harley wanted me to go with him out to his research area. And I was like, sure, I've been wanting to go out with you.

You know, I want to support you. I want to go out and get out in a different area. I've never been in that area. Like I said, I live 30 minutes from there, about 40 minutes from the actual research. search area, but I've never been off a main road over there. So we'll get in there. That area is so much different than here because it's near the national park. It's, the laurels are so thick.

Once we got down in that valley, you couldn't see 15 feet on either side of you. And we start finding tracks. We found 14-inch tracks. We found 17-inch tracks. We found 19-inch tracks. And we found 22-inch tracks. So we know there's four different individuals in here because there's four different size tracks. So we're going through this valley, and Harley's been in here multiple times.

So he knows that we start getting things tossed at us. Okay, this is new for me. I've, like, I've seen them. I've heard them. I've never had them interact with me. So Harley's like, hey, Robbie's a friend now. Don't act like that. You know, just make a conversation with them.

And I'm like, is there really a good idea to say that to him Harley? I mean, you know, I don't think we should tell them how to, you know, how to act with me. And he's like, oh, come on. They've never, you know, got rude with me or anything. I'm like, okay. So we make her way down. then we find there's a little spring in there, and all of a sudden the ground's just all tore up.

And we're inspecting it, and it looks like possibly something got took down in this area. There's a big smudge, and Harley walks around the other side of it, and there's clearly a handprint in the mud. Oh, my goodness. And we got pictures and videos of it, and Harley's posted the pictures. where we got to look and leading up to that site, the grounds all tore up. And we're trying to figure out if it was a boar, a bear, a deer, what got took out at this point. And we couldn't really make out any distinguishable tracks, but there was clearly a torn up area.

And I recorded all this with my phone, but the phone won't let me send them because I recorded for 8 to 15 minutes at a time, and I'm having trouble sending them. but I don't know if I'm going to have to download them on to a file and then send the file or how I'm going to have to do that. Probably, yes. Yeah. I'm not a tech person at all. Right. But so we go on down. There's some other things hardly wanted to show me.

So this whole time, I've had this little inkling in my head like, we need to leave. But I kind of felt like we'd stayed are welcome, you know, we need to get out. but you know Harley's trying to show me everything and I'm like you know okay yeah we start back up through we follow our same tracks we get back up just past the takedown site and Harley's you know making a few whoops and you know yeah he clouted a few times and some more things started getting tossed and we can hear them on both sides of the Laurel we know they're there there's no if hands or butts, we're being

walked out. And we had heard something on the way in, so we kind of felt like they were there then, but on the way out, we definitely know they're there. And like said, they're just 15 feet on each shot of us. So at this point, I'm a little nervous. So we get closer to being out, and then all of a sudden,

we hear tree knocks. And I'm like, man, we're getting the whole gambit here, you know? Yeah. I heard one tree knock in my lap, and it was on the other side of the lake. I was fishing, and I heard one tree knock. This is three raps in a row. Bap, bat, bat, bat. And then we hear again, bat, bat, bat,

in a different area. And then it sounds like rock clacks. And I'm like, man, this is why. Like, I've got tracks. I've got clearly being walked out. I've got rock throws. Like, this is just the whole thing of what people get. And then it got aggressive.

Then there were three growls. And at this point, I'm losing my skin, you know. Like, I thought I'd been scared in the past. Now I'm scared because I know we're surrounded. and it's starting to get tense. So at this point, I had actually moved ahead of Harley. And I had my phone on video. I'm videoing.

Behind us, all of a sudden, you hear the laurels go and start snapping. And Harley's like, go! And I take two or three steps, and I look over my shoulder, and he's like, go. It's right behind me. And he pretty much gave me a little push in the back, and I'm, you know, I'm not in the best shape, guys. You know, I'm trying my best to get up this wet valley. And then I look over my shoulder and I see it behind Harvey.

No way. I had a just very good visual. I can see the neck and the head. You know, I'm 5'7, Harley's 6'6, and we're on a bank. I look over Harley's shoulder and it's coming. and it's more of an ape face. The grillish-looking ape face, it's got a rounded head.

There's not like the big gradual best, you know, crest. It's more rounded. Eyes are real far apart, black eyes, and it looks angry. And I'm thinking, holy crap, I'm going to die here. So, Harley's like, go, go, go, go. So we get up the bank and it pops out into an opening. And at this point, I remember I'm armed because I don't go anywhere unarmed. And I put my hand on it.

I don't draw it. I put my hand on it. And then we stop and we look back and I see a dark figure about 80 yards away. And I apologized. I was like, I'm sorry. We got the message. we're leaving. And I don't know if that's the one that was behind us

and it averted up the bank or if that was one of the other ones. But there was definitely a dark figure up that bank. So we started out. And I asked Harley, I said, are you armed? And he goes, no. You're not armed? He goes, I got my axe and my machete. So I had two.

I hand him one. And we still have to walk a mile out of here. Oh, man. After this interaction. Oh, I forgot. And we also got the smell. I've never had the smell before. But right before the growl started, I got the dingy, like almost an acidic smell.

So, like I said, I got the whole gambit on this. I got throws. I got growls. I got stalked. I got smell. And then chased. And it was terrifying. I mean, it was absolutely terrifying.

I haven't covered a mile of ground that fast since high school. You know, that was 100 pounds lighter. Right. And honestly, by the time we got out of there, my hand was cramped. I had my hand on that pistol so tight that my hand hurt me the rest of the night. I literally had a death grip on this thing. And it was a Glock 20, 10-millimeter. meter with barry rounds.

I don't know if that would stop one. I don't want to find out. I feel a little better having it, but I don't ever want to try to find out. I don't want to have bad interactions. I don't want to drag one in. I don't want to kill one. I don't know that if you did,

you'd ever actually get it to the public. Yeah, exactly. Because I've heard many people say that if you try that, you'll probably get stopped before you ever get it to that point. And you'll be labeled as a poacher or something along that lines. You know, I'm not going to get into all that. That's neither here nor there. Right.

But I honestly, even with that, I was petrified. I was petrified. I had 16 rounds of 230 green hard cast bare rounds. And I still felt like it wouldn't enough. And especially knowing that there was probably four of them. Right. And there's two of us. So we're outnumbered.

We're in the middle of nowhere. And they got rude with us. You know, so, yeah, that walk out of there was intense. It was really intense. And I didn't have nightmares about it, but I think about it a lot. I don't blame you. I would be thinking about that constantly, and that would affect everything from there on out. I can see how people don't believe because they've never had these interactions like we have.

But like I said, I'll put my hand on a stack of Bibles and take a lie detector test. I am the truth. And if you don't believe me, I'm sorry, you know, I can't do anything else to prove it to you. stuff like get out there and go look for yourself. You know. Yeah. I don't think everybody that looks has interactions. Absolutely not.

A hundred percent not. I agree with you on that. Location, timing. If they didn't want us to know they were there that day, they would have just been quiet. They would just let us walk in, walked out. And, you know, I would have been. like, yeah, we found tracks.

I know they're here. But that's all I would have had was tracks. But they put that little, that little sting on the end of it there. It's like, get out. And I don't, you know, like I said, if they won us that day, it wouldn't have been a question.

Because they already had us surrounded. They could have overpowered us in seconds. They just warned us out. So I have a few questions about that. And some of these I might have to ask Harley afterwards. So do you think there's video of that interaction where something rushes at you guys, at least the audio of it on the video? Well, that's the thing that always happens. And it seems to have heard people say it and say it.

I get in the truck. Harley's like, you got that, right? And I'm like, yeah, I got that. I click on my phone. I look. There's video up to the point that we start hearing the tree knocks and the growl. And then my phone shut off. No way.

Oh, well, of course it would. I mean, yeah, that perfectly lines up with the whole everything electronic just, you know. And I know critics are going to be like, oh, of course. Yeah, of course you didn't get it. Trust me. When I got in that truck and I looked, And I didn't have that. I became nauseous.

I physically became nauseous. Because I'm like, how did I not get that? How did, now, I can't swear to you that while I wasn't running from my life, I didn't accidentally hit the button. Because trust me, at that point, I stopped trying to get video and was trying to get out. Right. Could I have accidentally hit the button? Sure. But the timing just is so.

I had 40-something minutes of us in there, and then when the magic happens, I don't get it. Now, I've took wedding photography. I took racetrack photography. And like the most pivotal thing I never needed to catch in my life, I missed it. You know, phone in my hand had been videoing minutes, you know, seconds before.

it and then I don't have it. It was upsetting. Yeah, I would be extremely frustrated. I'm going to ask Harley, I wonder if he was wearing his setup where he's taking the video on facing the back. You know what I mean? He wasn't. That whole setup. He wasn't.

Oh, man. Oh, man. He didn't have his back set up on. I mean, it was the biggest interaction of either one of us is life. Yeah. We just missed it. And it's heartbreaking. It really is.

It is. Yeah. It is. I mean, like, I was nauseous for an hour after that because I was so disappointed in myself. Yeah. But I know it's happened to multiple people. So, I mean, I'm not the first one that dropped the ball. But like I said, did they do it?

Did I do it? I don't know. I can't. I'm not going to sit here and say they turned my phone off. I don't. but you know it's like my wife went out one night to release a raccoon in the same area where I've had my experiences her and her sister she told her sister because there's really not a lot of places to go off the side of the road she said you just dropped me off go down the road and turn around and I'll I'll release the raccoon and you come back and get me as soon as my sister-in-law got out of sight the flashlight went dead that flashlight has worked worked a thousand times. And she's in the area where I had my experience by herself standing there and just

her in that raccoon in the flashlight does. But she's a skeptic, so she said, oh, the battery just died on it. Right. Did it work when you got home? You turned it on? She said, well, yeah, it turned back on. I'm like, come on. Mm.

I got it. Yeah, I totally get it. Wow. So after that, would you, how, so that situation you were in with Harley, how has that affected you? Will you go out after that? Or are you way more cautious after experiencing that? I have agreed to go back with him. Well, sure.

Yeah, December. He had said that. I told him my one, at least one or two more people to go with this. I don't want to just be me and him. Mm-hmm. I don't feel like most people feel like they have less aggressive interactions when there's a group versus one or two people. Right. So I was like, yeah, I'll go back and trust me, that's not an easy decision for me.

I had a long talk with my daughter recently, and she's like, why do you feel the need to go out there? You know they're real. You've had experiences. Why put yourself in that situation? And I'm like, I don't know. I, there's just things I can't describe how I feel inside knowing I know they're real. I know the real. That's not even a question.

But a piece of me wants that interaction. A piece of me wants to have an interaction with them. And another piece of me is like, you're a freaking idiot. Keep your butt at the house. Yeah. So I don't know. I mean, I've had some pretty weird experiences. I had another experience not too far from the house.

There's a spot that I go fish at across the highway, and I pull in, and there's one car in the parking lot. Didn't see anybody in the car. I get out. I have my 9mm with me. I put my 9 millimeter on my side. I go armed. As I shut the truck door,

I hear that voice in my head go, if he gets out of that car, you need to leave. And I look around, I'm like, what guy? And I look back at that car, I don't see anybody. And I'm like, man, that is so weird. But when you go down this bank, it kind of curves and then opens up at the lake. And if you go out about 75 yards, there's a little goat path that just goes straight up. and people hardly ever use that one because it's just straight up.

So I get to the bottom of the hill and I'm, okay, I'm going to try to figure out what's going on here. I hear a car door shut. And I'm like, holy crap, there was somebody in that car. And then I see him coming. There's some big boulders there. They're gapped about three feet apart to keep people from, you know, getting down in there. I see this guy going between boulder to boulder headed toward the walking path. So I'm like, okay, so I go out the bottom, I hit the goat path.

As he goes down the trail over here, I go up the trail over here. I get to my truck and I got a lock, unlock button, right? I do the typical white girl in the horror movie thing. Right. I'm looking that way. I hit the lock button, which makes the horn blow. Holy crap. But I've got a gun this whole time.

I don't know why I'm so afraid. And I get in the truck, I cranked the truck. As I'm pulling out to leave, he's standing between the rocks where my truck was. And he's staring at me. Oh, boy. And I can't say that there was something wrong with this guy, but he did not look natural. And, you know, was I warned that this guy was a serial killer or a demon or possessed or, you know, a weirdo? I don't know.

But, you know, like I said, I can't explain it. I'm not going to say, hear him say it was divine intervention, you know, or what. But I've only had that happen twice in my life now that I've heard this voice tell me something. In both times, I needed to leave. So, and I've had people say, well, do you feel like it was God talking to you? It doesn't feel like God. I'm a Christian. I've been saved.

You know, God spoke to me before I've heard God speak to me. This did not feel divine. It was not the Holy Spirit. No. Right. So you know what that is. Yeah. Yeah.

So, you know, I don't know. But, you know, it's been a wild ride. It's really been a wild ride. I went to the Tennessee Wildman Convention this year. Oh, sure. meet so many good people, you know, and they just, they took me in, you know. I say, when I'm, I'm walking around my cowboy hat and my patch best on, some people think I'm a biker or something. All my patchers are like movies and stuff like that.

I'm, you know, I'm not a biker person. But everybody just like, well, who are you? I was like, oh, I'm Harley Sprint. I'm nobody. You know, they're like, no, you're somebody. Come here. Who are you? Right.

That's awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Darryl Denton. You know, I'm friends with Darrell now. Okay. You know, I met M.K. Davis. Good dude.

I made a list. I literally made a list here I met so many good people. But Flat Rock. Flat Rock talked to me for a long time. Me and him compared photos. And in the past, I've met Cliff Brackman. I've met Dave Pilates. I've met Bob Gimlin.

Helpent Holler. I've met Joe and Jesse. and Lord, you know, so half the people from Woodwalkers. And Lord, I don't know, Seth Breedlove from Small Town Monsters and that through Eli Watson. I made Eli a knife. And I just, for as much as this whole subject freaks me out, I've also got a whole second, I don't want to say, life, but a whole second set of friends and discussions and some people that are way smarter

than me, you know. Coombo, I've watched his stuff online, and I got to meet Coombo at the convention and just such nice people, you know, they're so nice. And they just accepted me and they're like, no, come on, you're hanging out with us today, you know, and they didn't know me from nobody. And I'm that weird tattoo guy with the patch best on. And they just accepted me and brought me into their group. And I've branded a bunch of them on Facebook.

And, you know, I just feel differently about that whole aspect of it. That's great. Yeah, you're definitely, you're in the right group of people with this. There is definitely, yeah, you're in the right group. I'll say that much. But, Robbie, thank you so much for coming on for sharing what you've experienced. I know that your story is definitely not done. I mean, there's going to be other stuff that you guys experienced.

I can guarantee that. But when you signed up for this, you said you are open if people want to reach out to you. They can find you on Facebook. Is that right? Facebook, they can message me on Messenger. You know, I've set it on Harley's page. Not everybody has somebody to talk to. Right.

You know, and not everybody's comfortable with a public forum. And I'm fine with that. If I can help one person, that's one of the reasons. You know, Harley's like, just tell the truth, Robin. You know, it's your truth. And maybe somebody else out there needs to hear your truth because they've had an experience, and then they don't know what to do with it.

100%. You know, I had a lady from California message me and she had had a Minespeak experience. You know, so I know I seem chatty and I'm a talkative person, but speaking about the Minespeak thing is very difficult for me because I know I'm going to be judged for it. You know, I have told some people in the past, And before I was even out of earshot, I heard them start laughing at me. Oh, I totally get what you're saying.

Yeah. I got totally. You know what I mean? I got tough skin. I'm still a human. It's still hurt a little bit, you know. But since I came out with my stories and since I've been sharing my experiences, I've had so many people come up to me that would have never told anybody.

I've had several preachers come up to me and tell me about stuff. that's happened to them. And they don't feel comfortable with telling anybody else because they don't want people thinking poorly or weird of them. Wow. I had a guy recently told me. He watched a big foot hurdle, a five-foot fence from his front porch. He said, I strung that fence. That was a five-strand bobware fence.

And he said it went over it like it was nothing. He was fishing out of a pond and one came out of the woods and was pushing small trees. over and making a racket and scared the living life out of them, they dropped their fishing gear and ran for their lives. There's story after story. I could stand here for another hour just telling you stories that people have told me, or stories that, you know, people have shared on other podcasts from this area, you know, multiple stories within a five-mile area of my house.

I would recommend to start writing all that down, the stuff that is being told to you specifically, because that's going to become very important in the future. And it's, yeah, that's awesome that you're becoming one of the guys that people are talking to. But definitely make sure it's documented outside of just up in your head. Yeah. Robbie, it has been awesome to talk to you. I feel like we could probably have another great conversation one day. And I hope we do.

Hopefully our paths crossed somehow. But thank you so much for coming on for chatting about what you've experienced and your experience out there with Harley wild stuff. But man, yeah, we're going to keep in touch. And I appreciate you hanging out today, Robbie. Oh, I appreciate you. We need more people like you in the community. that you can feel safe talking to, you know, no ridicule, no downplaying what's happened to people. You know, it's important to have people like you in our community.

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