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Published in Cookeville Tennessee by Mary Green Publishing
Cover Design by Paul Smith
Sketch of Fox by Janice Hanson
Photographs by Gene McCauley, Mary Green,
Janice Carter Coy
Cover Design by Paul Smith
Sketch of Fox by Janice Hanson
Photographs by Gene McCauley, Mary Green,
Janice Carter Coy
Mary Green Janice Carter Lila Carter
Mary Green included the pictures Janice and Lila talked about during the interviews, they are in black and white however and somewhat hard to determine what is in the photos. The following are scanned copies from her book.
Sheba is seen holding the pink quilt up to her face in this photograph.
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Close up Black and White copy of color photograph showing where Sheba is hiding and holding the pink quilt to her face.
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Track cast on the left is of the young female, Nicky, Fox's daughter.
Track cast on the right is a portion of Bo's heel, a large young male, who is probably Nicky's mate. Nicky is believed to be pregnant at this time. Janice found Bo's heel print after he crossed the yard and went up an embankment. These are her first attempts to cast any of their tracks. She had two other casts that were most excellent in nature, but they were stolen from the shed, and it is not known who took them, possibly the bigfoot themselves? One of the stolen casts was Fox's track and he watched Janice pour it while he hid nearby. She stood guard over it for several hours because she knew he would destroy it if she didn't. We will never be certain if the bigfoot stole the tracks or someone else did.
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Aerial View of Carter Farm in Years Past
1. Large oak tree growing out of a deep ditch line where the bigfoot were fed for 20 years.
2. The farm house. 3. The tree from which Janice watched the bigfoot. 4. The bigfoot would often come out into the open here. Sheba especially broke cover in this area. She would come out of the woods with her young who often played all around her. 5. Another area where Janice would climb a pine tree in this one patch of woods to watch the bigfoot. This was directly across from the Carter home and the area where the girl's first noticed the monkey face in the trees. 6. The mobile home where Janice, Lila, and their mother, Melvina lived. |
View of the carport (left)
This is where Lila hid from Fox by crawling underneath one of the cars parked there.
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Ditch line directly behind the house (hidden by trees). The bigfoot hide and watch the family from here
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Robert I. Carter, Sr.
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Janice and Lila growing up
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Janice and Lila on their horses in front of the oak tree growing out of the ditch line where the bigfoot were fed by Robert Sr. on a daily basis.
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Lila Carter's Cellar
The bigfoot broke open most all the jars of food she had canned one year. We were allowed to enter and photograph the mess they made.
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Where Fox was lying on top of a truck seat padding that he brought into the cellar in April 2002.
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Barn at dawn where the bigfoot sleep and where all the fresh scat is found.
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Scat in the barn loft. Fresh scat is also in abundance around the barn.
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Examples of how the bigfoot twist the tops of tree on the Carter farm.
Tree limbs stacked in teepee formation. This type of structure is commonly found in areas of bigfoot sightings. Janice refers to this one as a shelter.
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Food Joseph left for Fox.
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Pathway the bigfoot use to cross between the Carter property and neighboring woodlands. The fence is in constant need of repair here.
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Photograph of a stack of slate rock commonly found in Tennessee along spring fed creeks. Janice told of watching the bigfoot at the creek take dinner plate size slabs of this type of rock and stack it until the tower fell over. This example resembles a pyramid structure. It seemed to hold some type of fascination for them. Young and old alike would spend a good deal of time on this type of activity during the hot summer months, sometimes building them as tall as three feet high, using up to 2 - 3 base rocks to start with, but always stacking in this type of formation. There were built at the creek and they never carried the rocks off to other areas to stack them.
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Also commonly found on the Carter property are skins of various animals draped over tree limbs. The reason for this is not presently understood.
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Janice pointing in the direction in which the young girl was abducted into the woods by a male bigfoot, believed to be Blackie.
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A fox's remains lodged in a tree in the Cater's woods. The skull of the fox was lying on the ground. The Carters have found the remains of different animals hanging in trees. Janice reports that Robert Sr. had to dislodge and bury larger animals wedged into trees or stuck under their roots and in other odd places. Sometimes dead farm animals were found in the mud near the spring. Janice helped her grandfather remove the carcasses as she grew older, and believes that the bigfoot were trying to conceal their kills.
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Janice in Overton County Tennessee, where she, my daughter Susan Bilbrey and I set up a successful experiment in my research area. Her calls resulted in possibly four individuals returning vocalizations to her during a 30 minute period.
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