Retired Officer Shares Multiple Bigfoot Encounters in Tennessee

A retired law enforcement officer shares multiple Bigfoot encounters from his life in Tennessee, beginning with a childhood sighting at age 8 while flying a kite at his grandmother's farm. His great-grandmother, a full-blooded Cherokee, told him he was seeing "hairy men" and shared tribal stories about violent encounters with them. He describes another encounter at age 12 while fishing on the Cumberland River, where he observed three creatures and even offered a bluegill to a juvenile, which it accepted. The most dramatic story involves a nighttime investigation in Buffalo Valley, Tennessee, where he and a park ranger used a game caller to investigate reports of a "bear and cub" crossing the road in front of a school bus. When a massive creature charged them from the woods, they were unable to pull the trigger on their rifles, claiming the creature emitted a scream that locked their muscles.