David Shares 1998 Bigfoot Sighting on North Carolina Highway

# Bigfoot Crossed the Road in Front of Multiple Cars in 1998 — And Nobody Could Forget It So I was scrolling through YouTube the other night, the way one does when you should probably be sleeping, and I stumbled across an interview that genuinely gave me chills. A guy named David sat down with the host of a paranormal podcast and started talking about growing up in the mountains of western North Carolina — and the stories he told are the kind that stick with you. David grew up in Alleghany County after moving there from the coalfields of West Virginia as a kid. He spent years commuting between Sparta and Mount Airy, working in the printing industry (fun fact: the company he worked for made more Monopoly boards than you could shake a stick at), and going to school at Surry Community College. He knows that area like the back of his hand. And in 1998, something happened right at the top of Highway 89 — the road that takes you from Surry County up into Alleghany and on toward Sparta — that he still thinks about to this day. His best friend, who he's known since the ninth grade, was driving home from work one night. When he reached the top of the mountain, he came up on two or three cars just stopped dead in the road. People were out of their vehicles, clearly shaken. When he asked what was going on, someone told him a Bigfoot had just run across the highway right in front of them. Now here's the part that got me. This wasn't just any random backroad. Highway 89 sits right along the Eastern Continental Divide, the same ridge that the Blue Ridge Parkway follows into Virginia. That stretch of mountain is loaded with granite deposits — Mount Airy is literally nicknamed "Granite City" because of all the quarrying done there. And if you've spent any time reading about Sasquatch research, you know that granite outcroppings, boulder fields, and ridgelines along continental divides are exactly the kind of terrain where reports tend to cluster. David even brought up David Paulides and the Missing 411 connection to boulder fields and water sources, and how granite seems to be "conductive" to weird phenomena. That tracks with a lot of what researchers have been saying for years. David also mentioned that around the same time, his dad had newspapers from the Alleghany News that referenced Bigfoot tracks being found in the county — possibly even a sighting. He's tried to dig those old articles up in online archives but hasn't been able to find them, which honestly isn't surprising. A lot of those small-town newspaper reports from the late '90s never made it onto the internet. The conversation didn't stop at Bigfoot, either. David talked about attending Boy Scout camp at Raven Knob, which sits right off Highway 89 near the top of the mountain. He brought up the bald mountains in the area — Raven Knob, Pilot Mountain — and how he's noticed bald eagles returning to the region over the past year. That got the hosts talking about the Thunderbird phenomenon, and whether a large raptor could realistically snatch a small child. Honestly, when you see some of the bald eagles and golden eagles that have been spotted in the Appalachians lately, it's not as far-fetched as it sounds. They also got into Dogman sightings, the recent direwolf revelations coming out of Skinwalker Ranch, and how people seem more willing to come forward with cryptid encounters now than they used to be. David mentioned that even though he's never personally seen a Dogman, the historical accounts of hairy humanoid creatures go back centuries, so why wouldn't people still be running into them? What really stood out to me about this interview was how grounded David was. He wasn't trying to sell anything. He was just sharing what he remembered — his friend's account, the newspaper clippings, the geography of the area — and letting the listener piece it together. The combination of multiple witnesses, the right terrain (continental divide, granite, heavy forest), and the historical newspaper reports from the same county makes this one of those stories that deserves a closer look. If you're into Appalachian cryptid reports, granite-related high strangeness, or just love hearing firsthand accounts from people who grew up in Sasquatch country, this interview is worth your time. David comes across as genuinely thoughtful, and the host does a good job letting the stories breathe without sensationalizing them. Check it out for yourself — the video is on YouTube and it's a long one, so settle in.