Two Southern Men Share Detailed Bigfoot Encounter Stories

Three separate encounters from the deep American South, all shared in one video that's been making the rounds. The stories come from Alabama, Georgia, and Mississippi, and they all have that same spine-tingling quality that makes you check the locks on your doors before bed. Buckeye Bigfoot put together this collection, and honestly, it's the kind of content that reminds you just how much territory these creatures seem to cover. The first account comes from a guy named Rick, who had been fishing the Tennessee River for over 30 years. In October 2017, he pulled up to a public boat ramp in northern Alabama around 4:30 a.m., the only vehicle in the lot. He caught a glimpse of a dark shape near the water but didn't think much of it. People bank fish at night, right? Well, when his headlights swept across the shoreline as he was backing down the ramp, he saw something standing knee-deep in the water. At first, he figured it was just someone in heavy waders. Then it reached down and pulled up something that flashed silver in his headlights. A fish. That's when Rick realized he wasn't looking at a person. What he saw was roughly seven and a half feet tall, covered in dark hair, with an extremely wide upper body and long arms. It walked out of the water on two legs, crossed behind his truck, and even brushed against the vehicle as it moved. Rick sat frozen with a .357 in his hand, watching through his mirrors. The creature stopped about 30 feet away and gave him a full look. The face wasn't thickly covered in hair like the rest of the body. He could see skin around the nose and eyes, a heavy brow, a wide nose, and a head that sat low, almost on the chest. Nothing about it resembled a bear. When it walked across on two legs, that confirmed it for him. The thing that really gets you about Rick's story is what the creature was doing. Standing knee-deep in the Tennessee River in the middle of the night, apparently fishing, completely comfortable with a human nearby. As Rick put it, he was the one who wandered into its routine. The second story takes us to North Georgia, November 2009. A hunter named Daniel had killed a decent eight-point that afternoon and hung it from a gambrel behind his workshop, high enough that dogs and coyotes couldn't reach it. Sometime after 2 a.m., he woke up to the sound of metal banging and the pulley rope creaking. He grabbed his flashlight and a .30-30 and went out the back door. What he found standing beside that deer was something around eight feet tall, covered in dark brown, maybe reddish hair, with wide muscular shoulders and thick heavy arms. The buck was hanging about six feet off the ground, and this thing's head was above it. Daniel, who has actively hunted bear and knows what black bears look like, was adamant this was not a bear. It was standing naturally on two legs, perfectly straight up and down, with a hand that had fingers and a thumb pressed against the deer's side. When Daniel yelled at it, thinking he could scare it off like a bear, its posture changed. Its face changed. And it started walking toward him. Daniel brought the rifle up to his shoulder and told it that was far enough. It stopped about ten yards away. They stood there for several seconds, neither moving. Daniel has said many times since that he didn't want to shoot it. There was nothing about it that felt like shooting an animal. He couldn't quite call it human either. It existed somewhere outside both categories. If it had kept coming, he would have fired, but it didn't. These kinds of firsthand accounts are gold for anyone trying to understand the scope of what's being reported across the country. The South doesn't always get the attention that the Pacific Northwest does, but stories like these show that sightings span every kind of terrain, from riverbanks to rural homesteads. The detail in both accounts, the physical descriptions, the behavioral observations, the emotional responses, all of it lines up with patterns researchers have been documenting for decades. If these stories hit the way they hit me, do yourself a favor and go watch the full video. There's something about hearing these accounts in the original telling that just hits different.