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Website Submission on 11-06-06
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Your first name: Mena

Which county? Powell

Estimated date? Sunday Nov 5th 06

Estimated time? 12-4am

What city, or nearest city? Red River Gorge

Length of time the encounter lasted: Couple hours

How many witnesses? 2

Please describe your encounter: Me and my fiance believe we encounterd something like a big foot, it started with feeling like we were being watched and then that night when we went to sleep we thought we heard raccoons playing with the foil we left out, when we peaked our head out nothing was there and the foil was all intact, so we went back to sleep, I couldnt sleep so I stayed awake, a few minutes later I heard a mans foot steps or what I thought was a mans foot steps messinga round in the leaves at that time my fiance woke up cause he heard it to, he again peaked outside and nothing was there, so couple hours later we wake up and start cooking breakfast (still very dark like 3am) when my fiance was stirring up the fire he saw 2 eyes pear out of the brush, they were red when he went to look at it again they were gone he also smelled a rancid ferret like smell, we figured we had enouph moon light to start packing and we were both really freaked out so we packed up in the moonlight and started down the path and we both felt like we were being followed, we got half way to the parking area and we heard someone walking below us except it was a really good drop and no paths below and it was 4am and we were the only ones camping, so we figured (oh good people) we were relieved till we started getting to the parking area, and all of a sudden I heard something jump behind me and running I walked faster and then right next to me above the bushes something was charging or trying to scare us, so at that time we pretty much ran and it chased us the whole way, it seemed like it was trying to run up the hill to cut us off we got to the parking lot and it stopped, we never saw an animal or what the thing was.

Describe the creature with detail: Smells like ferret/Red eyes/medium size/ heard it running on 2 feet and then 4

Additional Info: Area, Sounds, Etc. : A strange growl sound, the area was on one of the main hiking paths, about a mile or so in..there was a rock and you climb up it and then you see a huge flat cliff rock and you walk back into it more and you'll see the camping spot.

Follow-Up Report (witness #1):

Can you approximate how high the red eyes were off the ground, so we can
estimate its height? 'The eyes were chest lvl, but they were spaced far apart, it looked as if it was crouching down'

Did you have a flashlight and did you shine it at the creature? 'Tryed to, but we couldnt see it'

Was there a full moon, or any moonlight? 'Full moon, but was cloud cover'

Would you and your fiancé be willing to go back there to show one of our researchers the exact area, so we may look for evidence like tracks, hair samples, etc.? '... we were still pretty shaken up after we went through all of this, but if we can still help in
anyway we would be glad to, ty for responding.'

Follow-Up Report (witness #2, the boyfriend):

"Hello,

Mena submitted a report on our website regarding your recent bigfoot encounter. I’d love to add any details you can submit also. Having 2 eye-witness reports really validates the credibility, reliability and accuracy of the report.

Please describe the encounter with as much detail as possible:

Mena said you saw red eyes. Can you approximate how high the red eyes were off the ground, so we can estimate its height? Yes, they seemed to be about 4 feet off the ground, which isnt that high for a bigfoot. However the spacing of the eyes between pupils was that of a humans or longer. I kinda got feeling that it was crouching because there was bushes there where I was them.I actually felt when I seen them that it was a werewolf, which is even more suspicious than a big foot.

Did you have a flashlight and did you shine it at the creature? Yes we did, however other than seeing the eyes we actually did not get a glimpse of the animal. I think shining the lights around looking for whatever was stocking us kept it at bay. Alittle scary for a animal to have light fling around in the middle of the night.

Did smell or hear and any sounds from the creature? Smell. At one point, mena went to sleep and I was rounding up for the evening when I smelt something very odd. I grew up around the woods, and I know what various animals and the woods is suppose to smell like. This was not one of them.It did smell similar to a ferat, but for me to be able to smell a ferat it would have to be really close to smell as strong as I did.I immediately jumped up as soon as I smelled it, and there was nothing there. If it was a another animal, the amount of smellsmell that I smelt, the animal would have to be very close, and I seen nothing. Making me feel like it was a large animal.Sounds. When we did go to bed we left our tin foil we had cooked in, in the fire pit. Once we had quieted down in bed we heardfoot steps leading up to the camp.and then messing around with the tin foil. Then the foot steps were walking around the tent and even heard something brush up against the tent. We were to terrified to look. After whatever it was had left, I looked out and of course nothing was there. We also footsteps on the way out out, but not voices. I thought to myself great, there are humans out here too. So I remember that making me feel better. The footsteps seen to be about 200 feet up the path from us. We could hear so well because it was absolutely silent, really weird for 5 oclock in the the morning. Usually birds are up at this time. We got to the place where we heard the steps from and something came up from the gorge running past mena, scaring the shit out of her.We both ran. When we got back to the car we realized that the footsteps we heard, we did not see anyone at all, and any campersthat would be out there would be in the sack, not out in the middle of the woods by themselves.

Would you be willing to return to the location to show me where this took place? I’d like to look for tracks, hair samples or other evidence. I did write most of the letter that you received from mena, however we both experienced the same thing. Its probally to late to go out there, but I did write the location in which the situation happened. Thanks for your interest. Dean

Thank you,
Charlie Raymond
Bigfoot Investigator for www.KentuckyBigfoot.com

ANCIENT EVIDENCE

The following picture was taken in Powell County at the Ledford Hollow Petroglyph Site. The images were pecked into the rock centuries ago by Native American artists.Do the footprints look familiar? They should due to their very strong resemblance to plaster casts of 4 toed Bigfoot taken from around the country. Like the 'Ky Beast Man' petroglyph, these images seemingly represent the fact that the ancient indigenous peoples who once populated Kentucky were accutely aware that they were not alone in the vast wildernesses of the Bluegrass state. The area was also home to various types of non human bipeds as well. The Ledford Hollow site is a huge rockshelter, 75 and one half ft. wide, 66 ft. high and 56 ft. deep. Other petroglyphic sites exist throughout the state which contain images which depict similar 4, 5 and even 6 toed non human looking footprints.

Bart Nunnelly
Source: Rock Art of Kentucky
Univ. Press of Ky, 1997

Powell County - April, 2004

2:30 am. sighting as witness was walking home along the banks of the Red River near Stanton, Ky. Witness first smells awful smell, then hears a loud splash in the water and turns to see a large, manlike shape as it stands on two legs in river. Described as having broad shoulders, a long-almost conical shaped head and long, shaggy hair like an Irish Setter.

Powell County - August, 1978 - Daniel Boone Nat'l Forest
KY 11 near Slade, Ky at National Bridge State Park

10 year old vacationer smells stong, disagreeable smell as he walks down dirt road to get ice for family.he sees a huge(around 20"), five toed footprint in the middle of the road .Looking along the path he sees what he had first mistaken for a small tree walk quickly away. He described it as very tall and covered with dark greasy looking, shiny hair. It had very long arms which swung as it walked away on two legs like a man. The boy ran back to camp and led his father and his uncle to the location where they observed the giant track as well. Later that night the entire family were awakened in their tents by a loud noise which sounded like a large boulder was rolling down the hill and plunging into the lake. The next morning more large footprints were found about camp as well as an overturned picnic table. Talk at the nearby lodge centered around an RV which had allegedly been overturned the previous night with the sleeping owners still inside.

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