Field Researchers Chased by 10-Foot Sasquatch Near North Carolina Border

There's something about a good bluff charge story that just gets the heart pumping, and this one absolutely delivers. I recently came across an interview on The Boom Boom Room channel featuring Robbie Ferrell, and let me tell you, this guy has stories that will stick with you long after you finish watching. Robbie, who also goes by Robbie Pharaoh, sat down to share some of his most intense experiences in the field, particularly one that happened back in September on his daughter's birthday of all days. He and his research partner Harley Owens — a name many in the Sasquatch community will recognize — were heading into Harley's regular research area near the North Carolina line. This is thick, heavy laurel country where visibility drops to just 20 or 30 feet on either side, the kind of terrain that makes your imagination work overtime. They'd been in there for hours and had already collected a ton of evidence. We're talking 14 to 15 tracks ranging from 14 to 19 inches, a handprint, and all the classic auditory activity — rock clacks, wood knocks, and what Robbie described as rocks and walnut shells being tossed at them in a playful manner. You know how it goes when you're in there and things start escalating. But then things took a turn. While making their way back out, Robbie caught something on his phone camera about 55 feet away. At the time, he didn't realize what he was looking at, but later reviewing the footage, he and Harley believed it was a dogman — with a head that resembled a dog but coloring similar to a collie. For those unfamiliar, dogman sightings have been reported across the country for years, often in the same regions where Sasquatch activity is documented. Some researchers believe the two phenomena may even be connected. The real terror, though, came when they were heading up out of the holler. Robbie describes hearing something, turning around, and seeing a large Sasquatch — what he believes was the dominant male, likely the one leaving those 19-inch tracks — come busting through the laurels like the Kool-Aid Man crashing through a wall. Leaves blowing up into the air as this thing charged. Now, Robbie is 5'7" and Harley is 6'6", so when Robbie looked over Harley's shoulder and still saw the shoulders and head of this creature about 35 feet behind them, you can imagine the size we're talking about. Robbie estimated it was easily 8 to 10 feet tall. The details he gave about the face are haunting — dark ashy skin, more black than gray, eyes about 9 inches apart that looked like shark eyes with no visible whites, a head roughly the size of a five-gallon bucket, and an Amish-style beard running down the sides of the face. The kind of description that lines up with countless other witness reports across the country. Harley, who Robbie says he'd never heard shaken before, was literally knife-handing him in the lower back telling him to go. They ran about 50 to 75 feet uphill through saturated ground before reaching a clearing. Robbie turned around, saw one about 80 yards up on the bank, and started apologizing out loud. "Hey, we got the message. We're leaving." What makes this story hit different is Robbie's honesty about the fear. He's been in car wrecks, been shot at, had guns pointed in his face — and he says this was still the scariest moment of his life. He genuinely thought they were going to become a statistic, either two hikers who vanished or a vague "wild animal attack" story that would never tell the full truth. He also mentioned being armed with a Smith & Wesson 9mm and a Glock 20, but made it clear he never wanted to use them. Last resort only. And he joked that they'd probably just take the gun and shove it somewhere unpleasant anyway, but the fighter in him wouldn't go down without swinging. Robbie also briefly mentioned going out more recently with Jeremiah Byron into Harley's area, finding some interesting evidence though not quite as intense as that September encounter. That footage is apparently going to be on an upcoming episode Jeremiah is putting out. If you want to hear Robbie tell this story in his own words — and trust me, the way he describes it adds a layer that text just can't capture — definitely check out the full interview on The Boom Boom Room channel. It's one of those encounters that reminds you these aren't just campfire stories. These are real people coming back from the woods shaken to their core, trying to make sense of what they saw.