North Carolina, 1987

​After hearing about reports coming from North Carolina I decided I’d share the most frightening experience I’ve had in my life. It occurred in July ’87 when I went to visit Granny who lived in rural southeastern N Carolina. We both turned in around 11:40 pm. She did not have AC, therefore several windows were open. Both Granny’s and my room were in the back of the house, the only rooms with windows low enough to easily climb through from outside. My room had two windows side by side on one wall. It was a small room so part of the bed came under one window.

At some point during the night I awoke. Wide awake and frozen with the worst fear I’ve ever known. I believed I was being watched. I was sure of it. Not from within my room, but from the yard. I immediately broke out in a cold sweat. My stomach felt like it was shrinking it hurt so bad from the panic I was feeling. I thought I would vomit as I became aware of a putrid odor. My mind raced. “Was a skunk in the yard?” Still I dared not move. My breath was shallow. “I’m being watched, someone is outside looking in!” I was sure of it! The area was rural and it would not be out of the question for someone to break-in. “Was someone scoping out the house?” I thought.

I was aware I had soaked the sheets with perspiration. “Oh God, let him leave” I thought. My head was less than two feet from the window. I heard the crisp snapping a tree branch (there was a 50+ foot pine tree in the back yard) then heavy footsteps running away from the house. It wasn’t until I could no longer hear the footsteps that I dared move. I sat up and closed and locked the window over my head. That morning I went out and checked the window screens to see if they had been tampered with. I didn’t see any signs of tampering. I began looking for the tree branch. Thinking it was on the ground and that he stepped on it, that is where I looked. I didn’t find any branches. Just as I was about to walk over to my car to check on it, I saw a three inch branch hanging from the pine tree. It scared me a little because it would take someone with strength to break it but it never occurred to me that a sasquatch could have been in the yard until a couple years later a few of Granny’s friends were talking about the rumors of a Bigfoot over in Lumberton.


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