The North Carolina Bigfoot Sighting That Made A Believer Out Of A Skeptic
North Carolina’s Uwharrie National Forest has become a hotbed for Bigfoot sightings and Sasquatch hunters alike. Enthusiasts regularly meet at the local Eldorado Outpost before venturing out to find the beast. For former U.S. Army tank commander and fraud investigator Michael Greene, this was never a personal passion.
But that all changed after a few harrowing experiences in the mid-2000s left Greene wondering whether there really was something out there.
Greene was camped out in the 50,000-acre landscape by himself one night when something approached his tent. After a few moments of hearing the unmistakable sound of leaves rustling nearby, the thing came for him.
“Two seconds later, it was right over my tent,” he said, mimicking a deafening roar. “And that wasn’t nearly as loud as it. Scared the devil out of me, as you can imagine.”
Two nights later, while camped out in the same forest with his friends, Greene caught a harrowing glimpse of the creature responsible: a lumbering bipedal ape-like beast in the distance. As a former military man, Greene used his surroundings to calculate its size.
“I guessed from the measurements comparing it with trees, it was seven and a half or eight feet tall and striding with that ponderous arm swing,” he said. “Biggest mistake of my life, really [not to start recording].”
Determined to capture the creature on film, Greene returned to the same woods week after week. He fitted his camper with cameras, ranging from night vision to thermal equipment, and waited patiently. It was in 2009 that his patience paid off — and a creature stealing one of his baited candy bars was captured by his thermal imaging cameras.
“I don’t care,” said Greene of skeptics. “I know what I saw. I don’t care if anyone thinks I’m crazy. But, by God, I’m gonna prove it one way or another. And, well, I just hope I can prove I’m right before I die.”
Many have argued against the validity of these Bigfoot encounters by claiming no one’s ever seen a Bigfoot skeleton, suggesting the creatures don’t exist at all. To that, Greene argued, “How many skeletons of a mountain lion have you found? Nature takes care of things very quickly.”
