VIDEO:
Date: March 27th, 2011
Location: Public Land Recreation Area on a large TVA lake in East Tennessee.
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| Location of the encounter |
I am standing on the shore of the lake using my mono-pod mounted video camera to
search the small island approximately sixty feet off the main land. The foliage
on both sides of the trail is extremely heavy. I actually have over hanging
limbs touching the top of my head. I am in deep concentration slowly filming
the adjacent shoreline looking for a possible Bigfoot.
Unknown to
me, the Dogman that was observing me at the feeding station, has followed me to
the water’s edge. The creature has risen up only four feet behind me in the
midst of a small Cedar tree. The Dogman is on the right side of the trail and
my back trail camera is mounted on my left shoulder. I do not capture any
footage of the creature while I am facing forward. When I decide I am done filming
the island I start to turn to my left. I turn about forty-five degrees then
stop for approximately six seconds. During these six seconds the Dogman is
being captured on my back trail camera.
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| "Back Trail" Camera |
The Dogman “nervously”
rocks back and forth attempting to anticipate my movement. After the six second
pause I turn my shoulders further to my left and the Dogman ducks down into the
heavy foliage but does not retreat. I pause again for approximately nine
seconds then complete my turn. During the second nine second pause the Dogman’s
dark form is visible through the heavy foliage.
Once I
complete my turn I get the strange feeling I am being watched. I pause
momentarily and look in the exact area where the Dogman has just ducked down. I
take my mono-pod mounted camera and film this area for approximately ten
seconds. I do not see anything and after the short pause I began walking away
from the area. When I review the mono-pod camera footage, a faint dark shape is
still visible in the dense foliage. I think I was fortunate not to see the
Dogman that day!
I then
loaded the footage into my video editor. I cropped around the subject and
enlarged it two hundred percent. Then I adjusted the contrast and the
brightness and when I played the enhanced footage back in slow motion I was
horrified! I actually felt physically ill. I remember gasping and groaning out
loud as I watched this “other worldly” creature moving behind me and thinking, “This
thing could have killed me! It was only four of five feet behind me!”
I called to
my wife to come look at the footage. When she entered the room she immediately
asked me what was wrong. She said I looked extremely upset. I was almost speechless and told her “just
watch, just watch this and tell me what you see.” I watched as the color left
her face and she gasped openly, “What in God’s name is that thing?” she asked,
“Where is this, where did this come from?” I told her I took the video at the
public research location the day before. She then remarked, “Never go there
alone and always take your gun that is a monster! No maybe a Werewolf or
something evil!” I definitely agreed with her concerning taking on a research
partner and carrying a firearm.
It took me
several weeks to process what I had captured on video. I was genuinely afraid to go back into the
woods. The more I researched this creature the more I realized how fortunate I
was to have come home from the woods that day. I spent the next month
investigating the Dogman. I reached out to Linda Godfrey who is the modern
expert on the Dogman creature. She was very helpful and was intrigued by the
video.
She assured
me she had no knowledge of anyone being harmed by a Dogman. I wish I could say this
was reassuring but having the footage and being the one that was so close to
the creature that statement gave me little comfort.
