Winter 1986 North Carolina



This incident took place in the winter of 86. I was 16 years old at the time. I was on a hunting trip with my uncle in the Goshen swamp in Duplin county NC. The nearest town was kenansville nc. The Goshen swamp is a vast expanse of swamp surrounding this town. It was late in the evening around five or so. I had sat down on a peninsula that protruded out into the swamp. It was almost dusk when I heard something moving through water towards my position. The strip of land that I was on is surrounded by water on all three sides. Trees lined both sides of this peninsula. I heard something moving from my right coming through the swamp. I made ready to take a monster buck. What I observed still haunts me today! What I saw was a massive leg step out onto the path.It was covered with long hair that was reddish brown in color.The I rest of the body appeared in one swift smooth movement. This was a huge beast but the only thing in my mind I could think was this was a massive human with a gillie suit on. I quickly realized that what I was seeing was not a man but something I have never seen before!! It was massive and had no neck that I could see! The head was coned shaped with the eyes sunk deep in the head under a protruding brow.Its arms hung below the “knees”.Its upper body was very broad like it had shoulder pads on like a football player..It never seemed to be anything but curious and it stared right at me. I lwas completely camouflaged but it appeared to see me despite that fact.l never felt threatened even though I had a 30-06 with me. I’m sure I could have dropped it with one or two well placed shots. The thought never crossed my mine though. I felt this thing had been here before because of the sweet potatoes growing in this field.I watched it as it looked at me. I took my gun off of safety just in case it came at me and I forgot. After all it was massive!! When I did this and the gun made a “ click” it’s head cocked to one side as if it was trying to figure out that sound! This seemed like a human response and not one of an animal!. After a minute that seemed like an hour it turned it’s head back forward and made two steps back Into the swamp! Realize that this path was 8-10 ft wide! It’s big enough to pull a tractor down.I waited about 10 minutes and all of a sudden my uncle was standing over me shouting my name. He said I looked pale and wanted to know if I was alright. I told him I saw something in the swamp and I could not tell him what it was! We went down to where I saw this thing come out of the swamp. There was a trail of muddy water where this thing had come out of the swamp. When I saw the thing (Bigfoot) it had duck weed around the nipple line of its chest. We took a stick and placed it down into the water.When we took the stick out we measured 6 ft. The duck weed was around his nipple line which means that it was over 7-8 ft tall.We decided to leave after that. I keep silent about this only telling a couple of close friends that actually believed me. When I read of a game warden in Duplin county reporting seeing something similar almost 12-15 years later, and a guy that saw something in his deer corn pile that is not far away that I decided to tell my story. I would welcome anyone to contact me about this incident. If you respond I will give you my contact information. Thank you for letting me share my story