Bigfoot reports in Tennessee
183 cases, best-documented first. Page 2 of 2.
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
Bigfoot · Tennessee Kentucky Industrial Park, Tennessee
Witness reports having some good contacts with Bigfoot until they were crossed or their territory was trespassed.
Bigfoot · Sunbright, Tennessee · 2009
Witness reports seeing a large brown/black animal standing 7-7.5 feet tall in the woods that sneaked up on them before walking out of sight.
Bigfoot · Dyersburg, Tennessee · 1990
Witness reports seeing a small creature resembling a baby bigfoot run across the road in headlights while driving near the Obion River.
Bigfoot · Lewisburg, Tennessee · 1985
Witness reports seeing a milk chocolate colored figure walking on two legs in an open field.
Bigfoot · Calhoun, Tennessee · 1987
Witness reports seeing a large, hairy, tan or dark blond humanoid figure at their porch that whistled and emitted a smell like dead meat before disappearing into the woods.
Bigfoot · Cleveland, Tennessee · 2007
Witness reports hearing loud, call-and-answer screams from creatures in the woods near their home on a clear night.
Bigfoot · Memphis, Tennessee · 1985
Witness reports seeing a large, black, furry bipedal creature run across the road in front of their car at night.
Bigfoot · Atoka, Tennessee · 2007
Witness reports smelling a musky odor and observing a twisted tree limb in their yard, accompanied by dogs barking across the road.
Bigfoot · Tellico Plains, Tennessee · 2024
Witness reports seeing a large dark figure with a face, eyes, and brow in the distance during a hike near Tellico Plains.
Bigfoot · Sevier County, Tennessee · 2021
Witness reports hearing loud monkey whooping noises and samurai chatter from a creature they identify as Sasquatch while in their cabin on English Mountain.
Bigfoot · Hohenwald, Tennessee · 1985
Witness reports seeing a large, dark brown or black hairy creature walking near corn stalks before it disappeared into trees by a creek.
Bigfoot · Oneida, Tennessee · 1986
Witness reports seeing a tall, matted-hair creature that threw gravel at their car near Oneida TN in 1986.
Bigfoot · Harriman, Tennessee · 2012
Witness reports a large black hairy upright person identified as Bigfoot crossing the road in front of them.
Bigfoot · Tracy City, Tennessee · 2000
Witness reports hearing loud screaming and whooping noises from multiple sources in the woods while hiking.
Bigfoot · Dellrose, Tennessee · 2023
Witness reports hearing a deep growl and cow-like sound outside their window at night before seeing large luminescent yellow-green eyes staring back at them.
Bigfoot · Cherokee National Forest, Tennessee
Witness reports finding large footprints in the snow on a mountain road while working in Cherokee, North Carolina.
Bigfoot · Tennessee
Witness and her husband heard a deep bellowing scream from the woods which she later connected to the creature she saw previously.
Bigfoot · Tennessee
Witness and ranger [name] observed a large creature circling a clearing near a fire tower before it retreated into the woods.
Bigfoot · Tennessee
Witness reports seeing a Sasquatch walking up a trail during a daytime hike.
Bigfoot · Tennessee · 2016
Witness reports having a Sasquatch experience in Tennessee in 2016 that changed her life.
Bigfoot · Tennessee
Witness reports seeing three large apes in a field at age eight, later identified by his great-grandmother as hairy men.
Bigfoot · Tennessee · 1992
The speaker reports a terrifying encounter in Tennessee where a creature hit them and their brother with infrasound and almost hit the speaker with a stick.
Bigfoot · Tennessee · 2022
Witness reports seeing a huge black hairy thing walking on two legs across the yard with their children.
Bigfoot · East Tennessee, Tennessee · 2017
Witness reports hearing loud footsteps and a voice telling him to leave while hunting in the woods, feeling a presence but seeing nothing.
Bigfoot · Tennessee · 2002
The narrator and a friend heard a creature come down a dry run and then loudly go back up, accompanied by large footprint tracks.
Bigfoot · Middle Tennessee, Tennessee · 2016
The narrator and two companions encountered a female Sasquatch crawling on all fours in the woods at night, which stood up and was described as having dark chocolate-colored fur.
Bigfoot · East Tennessee, Tennessee · 2021
Witness reports seeing an eight-foot-tall cinnamon brown Bigfoot walking parallel to his truck on a ridge in daylight.
Bigfoot · East Tennessee, Tennessee · 2024
The narrator and their wife observed 'Bigfoot activity' at their off-grid cabin in East Tennessee, noting that one of two apples left as a gift on a slanted rock ledge was taken while the other…
Bigfoot · Rutherford County, Tennessee · 1987
Witnesses report seeing a sasquatch walking across a clearing in the woods near Percy Priest Lake.
Bigfoot · Hawkins County, Tennessee · 2009
Witness reports a tall, dark-haired bipedal creature running across Highway 70 in front of his car at dusk.
Bigfoot · Cleveland, Tennessee
Witness reports reading that truck drivers saw a massive creature like Bigfoot eating a dead deer on the interstate near Cleveland.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
Residents believe the animal escaped a circus and many want it caught or killed before Halloween.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
Monkey owner [name] proves his macaque is not the animal killing cats.
Bigfoot · Elizabethton, Tennessee · 2002
Witness reports his wife saw a tall, dark creature with reddish eyes cross a road and leap onto a bank near Stoney Creek in late July 2002.
Bigfoot · La Follette, Tennessee · 2003
Crypto-zoologist [name] takes photographs to people who claimed to have seen the primate in the LaFollette area.
Bigfoot · Pulaski, Tennessee · 2004
Witness reports that his brother saw a large, hairy, man-like creature squatting in the woods at night, which then ran away yelling.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
A 911 dispatcher and animal control officer confirm that people believe they see a creature in the College Hill community.
Bigfoot · Blount County, Tennessee
Witness reports an older man in his late 70s saw Bigfoot and wolves at Burning Town Gap and locked his window shutters every night.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
Campbell County officers warn anyone who sees the animal not to attempt capturing it because it is considered dangerous.
Bigfoot · Trousdale County, Tennessee
Witness reports that neighbors would come to tell stories about 'Paddy' being at their house or in the woods behind their house and giving him food.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
Crypto-zoologist [name] says the animal people reported seeing is not a pet.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
An unidentified man claims to have seen a primate leaving stool samples on his property.
Bigfoot · Carter County, Tennessee · 2002
Witness reports his wife saw a tall, dark creature with reddish eyes standing by the road in the same area shortly after the first sighting.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
[name] reports that the animal threw a kitten at her when she startled it.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee · 2003
Witnesses report a large primate terrorizing residents and pets in the College Hill community.
Bigfoot · Cannon County, Tennessee · 1992
Witness reports two hunters saw a large, hairy, 7-foot-tall creature walking across an old logging trail before it tore through the forest.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee · 2003
Several people told 6 News they want the animal caught or killed before Halloween.
Bigfoot · Tipton County, Tennessee · 2000
Witness reports her husband saw a dark, bulky humanoid standing behind brush in the channel before it darted away into the woods.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
Crypto-zoologist [name] is convinced that what people are seeing is a skunk ape.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
Crypto-zoologist [name] says people need to stay away from the animal and allow experts to trap it.
Bigfoot · Warren County, Tennessee
A gentleman building a foundation over Basement Cave claimed that something prevented him from completing his project by repeatedly placing trees across the trail.
Bigfoot · Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Witness reports a friend describing a childhood sighting of a Bigfoot walking under a tree he had climbed in, which was followed by a bear.
Bigfoot · Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
Witness reports that his father encountered a creature leaving a footprint with more than five toes on the deck of a cabin in the Smoky Mountains.
Bigfoot · Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee
[name] reports that he and [name] were bluff charged by a Bigfoot while exploring the Smoky Mountains.
Bigfoot · Lebanon, Tennessee · 2010
Witness reports that his son and a friend encountered a large, muscular, blackish-brown creature on a logging road in Wilson County.
Bigfoot · Woodbury, Tennessee · 1997
A dispatcher reports a bigfoot sighting to the author, noting the witness's incredible speed upon seeing the creature.
Bigfoot · Blount County, Tennessee
Witness reports a large creature charging their truck and forcing them to flee at high speed after it made a guttural sound.
Bigfoot · White County, Tennessee
A retired engineer tenant saw a tall creature in the field behind his rental house and left immediately.
Bigfoot · Knox County, Tennessee
A neighbor reports hearing two creatures running through the woods fast when he was going to his car after dark.
Bigfoot · Columbia, Tennessee · 1979
Witness reports a friend and himself encountered a large creature on TVA land in Columbia, TN, which growled and fled, leaving behind broken tree branches.
Bigfoot · Blount County, Tennessee
A witness reports that a man who owns property on Buck Mountain saw a large, hairy creature in an X-ray-like photo taken from his truck window.
Bigfoot · Fayetteville, Tennessee · 2016
Witness reports a young man heard loud howls and clapping sounds while at a deer blind in 2016.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
Crypto-zoologist [name] contacted 6 News after seeing stories on Campbell County primate sightings.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
6 News is hearing more accounts from Campbell County residents who say they've seen the creature.
Bigfoot · Lawrenceburg, Tennessee · 1955
Witness recounts her aunt throwing dishwater on 'Patty' at her back door and then giving him potatoes because he was hungry.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
Crypto-zoologists believe there could be hundreds of skunk apes across the Southeast.
Bigfoot · Kelso, Tennessee · 2003
Witness reports a niece and others observed a huge, white, furry bipedal creature near their home in Kelso, which was shot at and fled into the woods.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
A 911 dispatcher reports that a creature entered her basement and scattered clothes after she left the door open.
Bigfoot · Overton County, Tennessee
A farm owner shot a chicken-stealing bigfoot and drove the body around town.
Bigfoot · Tennessee Kentucky Industrial Park, Tennessee · 1836
Witness reports that [name] encountered a red-haired hairy beast in 1836 which claimed to be of biblical descent.
Bigfoot · Dickson, Tennessee · 1987
Witness reports that his daughter was followed and attacked by a bigfoot at Ruskin Cave Park, which then stood outside their window staring in.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
A new theory emerged as a crypto-zoologist weighed in on sightings of a possible primate in Campbell County.
Bigfoot · Campbell County, Tennessee
Animal control officers are searching for a large primate on the loose in Campbell County coinciding with missing pets.
Bigfoot · Drummonds, Tennessee · 1981
Witness reports a friend and he heard a loud vocalization from an unseen creature while calling coyotes in a field at night.
Bigfoot · McNairy County, Tennessee · 1871
Witness reports a seven-foot tall, hairy humanoid with fiery red eyes observed for several weeks in McNairy County who screams at women and leaps fences.
Bigfoot · Monroe County, Tennessee · 2010
Witness's daughter reports seeing something big and hairy in the woods by railroad tracks.
Bigfoot · Tennessee · 1871
The Jackson (Tenn.) Whig reports a seven-foot hairy being with fiery red eyes observed for several weeks in McWairy county.
Bigfoot · Tennessee
Witness reports hearing a snap crack near [name]'s cabin and seeing a man-like thing walking towards the woods.
Bigfoot · Tennessee
A witness reports seeing a tall white figure move out of the corner of their eye near the cabin.
Bigfoot · Tennessee
A creature with green eyes 7 to 8 feet off the ground smashed through a fence after being approached by landowners.
Bigfoot · Tennessee · 2002
A rock of substantial weight covered with moss was moved to the front of a cave entrance on the property.
Bigfoot · Tennessee · 1976
[name] reports communicating telepathically with a Bigfoot in Tennessee that was tall, hairy, and had an injured foot.
Bigfoot · Tennessee
Witnesses report seeing a tall, white, tree-like figure that moved silently behind a bush near their cabin.