YEAR: 1985

SEASON: Winter

MONTH: February

DATE: 1

STATE: Tennessee

COUNTY: Marshall County

LOCATION DETAILS: 35.43445° N, 86.86899° W

NEAREST TOWN: Lewisburg

NEAREST ROAD: Globe Road

OBSERVED: I saw a milk chocolate colored figure step out into a field walking on two legs. It was under a limb that we measure later at approximately 8 ft off the ground. That would put this animal at 7 to 7 1/2 foot tall.

It was one solid color. It was looking up the hill to the left and it turned to look at me . It twisted at the waist and slight turned its head as well. It did not spook like a normal wild animal. It was approximately 170 yards from me in the open green field with no obstruction in between. I watched it walk up the hill and out of sight. The whole encounter only lasted about 30 seconds or so.

The walk was very interesting . If I had to guestimate weight by knowing what hogs and cows weigh, I would estimate between 7-900 pounds. It is hard to guess because of the weight distribution. Chest, shoulders, neck, buttocks and thighs where huge. It wasn’t as barrel shaped as Patty.

ALSO NOTICED: Screams after for a couple of years. A company started strip mining for phosphate and I heard and felt screams that I had never heard before .

OTHER WITNESSES: No

OTHER STORIES: Yes. I’ll speak with investigator about them

TIME AND CONDITIONS: It was about mid morning. Maybe 10:00 am or so. Weather was cool and over cast. Not cold. Maybe mid 40’s

ENVIRONMENT: Hard woods and rolling hills and fields .

Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Ontario Richardson:

In February of 1985, Roger’s parents were at work and little sister at home with him. He was 14 at the time and restless, so he decided to walk outside to pass the time. He looked northeast toward the corner of their property and saw the right-side profile of a milk-chocolate colored Sasquatch walk out of the woods at approximately 318 yards. The sasquatch turned at its waist, looked at Roger, then turned back and continued walking through the tall grass and honeysuckle. It passed a large tree limb, which would be important later for size estimation.

He noticed how wide it was at the shoulders and narrow at the waist, but what stood out was it just not looking “right.” The direction it was heading was towards a large alfalfa field and additional timber. He had an idea of what it was, having seen the non-stabilized version of the Patterson-Gimlin film, but noted the sasquatch was built differently than Patty.

He stopped going into the woods at night after this. Roger’s family had a large vegetable garden on their property. They would throw rotted vegetables and food scraps along the wood line. There was also plentiful deer, raccoon, opossum for prey animals, as well as acorn and hickory trees. It is likely the creature was in the area to capitalize on easy food and plentiful prey.

After his sighting Roger went back inside and did not tell his sister, because he did not want to scare her. After dinner that evening he asked his dad to talk and told him about his sighting. His dad laughed, which had hurt, and said it was the elderly gentlemen who lived nearby.

Roger remembered how easily this creature stepped over the high intertwined Johnson Grass and hay regrowth. He knew that it was not the elderly neighbor.

A couple of years later, his dad had heard something large break brush at night and jump down with a large thud across a ravine. After that had happened his dad wanted to know more about what his son had seen.

They walked up to where Roger had his sighting to compare heights from the large tree limb it passed. They estimated it to be 7’ tall.

As time passed, a mining company began to strip the timber for phosphate mining. Roger remembers hearing several loud “screams” periodically as this happened.

In 2020, Roger heard that same scream from years past, on a video his son was playing from Finding Bigfoot.

Several years later he met a State Trooper who received a 911 call about a "bear running on two legs" crossing Mooresville Highway, only a mile from this sighting.

About BFRO Investigator Ontario Richardson:

- Native of Eastern Iowa

- BFA from Iowa State University (2015)

- National Account Manager for one of the largest contract security companies in the world

- Prior employment law as 911 Emergency Dispatcher

- Early years included family fishing trips in remote parts of Canada

- Several solo bigfoot investigations in Eastern and Southern Iowa, as well as Wisconsin and Minnesota

- Equipped for audio recording and casting tracks

- Attended 2023 Iowa BFRO expediton ; 2023 Minnesota BFRO expedition ; several private expeditions

- Recommended as BFRO investigator by expedition organzier Bob Barhite