Sept. 2019  Kentucky

Well, 2 weeks before my son in law and i ever decided to go bigfooting an incident happened and documemted on the news at mammoth cave park north of bowling green, kentucky. At the campgrounds located their a man sjot off a round scaring campers who left and reported to law enforcement whaay they saw and heard. Man hollering there's bigfoot then shooting. Well, I decided to follow up within 2 weeks with my son in law and do our own first time try. Listening. To ypur site and following other accounts we thpught we came prepared. No so much.
We went down many trails but by far the trail cedar sink was the best. Now's where it starts. We parked, got our headlamps on and carrying high-powered flashlights we start down the trail.
Immmediately upon entering the trail we smell the most god-awful stench. A foul rotten heavy sewage/rotting flesh smell.
The smell coaxed us to walk off trail a bit to find what all was dead. It had to be appt of death. With lights glaring all around nothing. No dead animal, no piles of excrement. No nothing. Awent back on trail shaking heads in disbelief. Never thinking of looking up. We knew we should have just didnt. We followed the trail another 15 feet and the heavy stench filled air was immmediately and completely clear of the smell. Just as if nothing was ever there. Just the heavy humid smell of fresh pine. Couldnt believe our noses. We continued to walk down the trail and discovered what appeared to be a very large cant print. So, wisdom overcame valour and we decided to watch our 6 and return to our car.
As we got nearer the entry where we first experienced the stench and firmly expected to smell it once again. NOTHING NOTHING at all. No lingering smell. We expected that if some dead animal wa drug off that we missed on our walk around the smell would still be there in some fashion. Just because it was drug off the ground would leave a dead smell.no,NOTHING. The same fresh smell as we smelled shortly after the initial burst of sickening putrid smell.
I told my son in law as we came to the car to check everything on the vehicle to just in case we did have something going on. Sure enough, we checked all the windows and low and behold on the drivers window was a large smear. I placed my face over from it on the window and even though I'm 5'10 and 195 lbs. The mark I made looked small in comparison. We have the picture of it and if you are interested I can forward it if you give me the directions to send it to you. Its an interesting smear. Cant tell for sure what it is but it's large. We went back two weeks late and had another experience that we frightening if you'd like me to report it too I will. Thank you for your time and thank you for the site that I enjoy considerably. Thank you again, James (Jim) Schultz.