A lifetime resident of rural southwest Virginia believes that the 'hairy man' in his woods carried him to his home after he tripped in the woods and severely hurt his knee. What do you think?
I received this interesting narrative:
"Hello, Sir. My name is Fred. I've got a story that may be hard to believe, but I avow to you that it is completely true.
I have lived on the same property in Smyth County, Virginia all my 68 years and I have seen a lot of strange things, though I believe all were natural. But there is one thing in my woods that I have never been able to explain.
The first time I saw it, I was 16 or so and squirrel hunting in the late afternoon. I was sitting on a large rock watching a den hole in a large hickory tree, when I noticed a hairy man running in the hollow below me. It was covered top to bottom with short reddish-brown hair. The hair on its head and face was very long. I think it was around 7 feet tall. It made a hell of a racket moving through brush, crashing branches, and grunting up a storm. It then turned around and did the same thing on its way back. I stood up and quickly made my way home. I never said anything to my folks about what I saw.
That's the last I had seen of this thing until this past October 2023.
I was dragging old tree branches down into the woods when I stumbled on a tree root. I twisted my knee badly and couldn't stand on it. I lay on the ground in pain, trying to figure out what I was going to do. Then all of a sudden, I wake up on the porch bench. It's totally dark. I reach over and turn on the porch light. How did I get here? Then I noticed mud on my clothes and mud on the porch floor. There was also a pile of hand-sized creek pebbles on the porch table. I had seen these piles of pebbles throughout the woods for as long as I could remember. That's when I realized that the hairy man in the woods must have brought me home. I wondered if it was the same hairy man I saw when I was a boy.
That's the only explanation I can come up with. I don't have any neighbors since I'm living on the ridge. May I see it again one day?" Fred
NOTE: I emailed Fred and he agreed to me posting his story. Smyth County is located in southwest Virginia. I asked him if he thought this was a Bigfoot. He said, 'Maybe...but never heard of one around here.' I can attest that southwest Virginia has many reports of Bigfoot and other cryptids. Lon
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