Location: Jackson County, TN

Date of occurrence:   Summer, 1979 or 1989

Date report filed:   unknown

Weather conditions:   good

Lighting conditions:   good

Narrative of report:  

    My friend and I liked to go down to the creek in the hot summer time so we could play and goof around. We had to go off over the hill, then way, way down to the creek. So we were playing there, goofing around and my two dogs were with us. We were at the bottom of the hill near the creek when we heard some rustling sounds coming down from the other side of the creek. The dogs took off after whatever it was. They weren't gone long until they came back down with their tails between their legs. Something shook some bushes not too far away from us on the other side then and the dogs went to the house without us!

    We began to hear some deep grumbling then. It was so thick and dense and grown up down there we could not see what was making the sounds. We did not have bear in this area as far as everyone knew. Then all at once, whatever it was, was BIG, and it started shaking everything and then charged at us like a raging bull. We caught glimpses of gray or dark colors of whatever it was. We had took off running as fast as we could go up the hill towards the house and it was following us and grumbling and growling, making deep grunts as we ran. We finally made it to the top of the hill and cleared the tree line. It stopped there at the tree line then and didn't come out into the open. We were terrified because whatever it was, it was very big and tall, and seemed very angry at us.

Follow up:  

Confidential database information: Not available

Tennessee Report #19