North Carolina’s Bigfoot: More than just a myth?

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North Carolina’s Bigfoot: More than just a myth?Early one morning about two years ago, after 18 years of fruitless camping trips, Michael Greene says he saw Bigfoot.
Greene was camping about an hour outside of Salisbury, where he was visiting his son-in-law. As he scanned the woods around his campsite with a pair of thermal imagers—binoculars that register heat—he saw something that he is sure wasn’t a human or some kind of animal. It was a Sasquatch.

“I am six foot five, and I would guess it was seven and a half feet tall and absolutely, unbelievably muscular,” Greene says. “It was a thank-you from God finally rewarding me a little bit.”

Greene, who now lives in Salisbury, is one of the many who claim to have seen the mysterious creature that goes by the names Sasquatch, Bigfoot or Yeti, a mythical ape-like creature that roams the wilderness of North America.

But unlike the two hunters who gained notoriety several years ago by orchestrating a gigantic Bigfoot hoax, Greene doesn’t want publicity, and he is far more credentialed than many who claim to have seen the elusive beast.

Greene now volunteers with the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, which was founded in 1995 and claims it’s the only scientific organization exploring the Bigfoot/Sasquatch mystery. In early April, he led a group of Bigfoot hunters on a camping trip through Central North Carolina, but they didn’t find anything.

Greene’s interest was first piqued by the writings of famed psychiatrist Carl Jung, which he read while researching a graduate studies thesis paper on mass hysteria. Jung’s thesis was that people’s minds trick them into seeing flying saucers because they represent a higher power.

Greene said that Bigfoot was listed as an example, but he didn’t think it made sense.

“It doesn’t seem that this is the kind of vision the collective unconscious would vomit on us as a representation of a higher power,” he says.

Since then, he’s been consumed with Bigfoot research. Now retired, Greene spent most of his professional life as the chief of the Criminal Fraud Bureau for the state of New Jersey. He was an expert in court testimony and forgery.

“I come qualified with a master’s degree in psychology and a healthy skepticism of everyone and everything and their motives,” he says.

Greene encourages anyone interested in Bigfoot research or exploration to contact the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization.

“Most people won’t get anything but ridicule, but from us they’ll get understanding,” he says. “I don’t blame (skeptics) one bit, but when you’ve read and seen and heard as much as I have…you realize it’s not nonsense.”

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8 Responses »

  1. Logan Taylor on May 31st, 2009 at 2:09 pm :

    I sure as _____ believe you on this, I’m a aspiring cryptozooligist at NC state university and I’ve heard the stories of the Bigfoot in NC I will find it my ____ self if I have to I promise you.

  2. david pernell on June 3rd, 2009 at 11:25 am :

    in a book named footprints in northampton county thereis an article about railway workers near the town of weldon unearthing a cave inthe banks of the roanoke river and finding skelton remains of humans that may have been 9 feettall and teeth as big as horses this is in the mid 1800 i cant find anymore info anywhere about this i have a copy of the article

  3. Winslow Thomas on July 22nd, 2009 at 7:19 pm :

    I had an encounter with a Sasquatch near my home in Decatur, GA. , circa 1975. The reports filed at that time are
    not to be found in police records today– “misplaced”, I guess. I’d be interested in any reports of a serious nature from the Southeast, when they can be found. Please advise.

  4. Everette Young on July 23rd, 2009 at 9:18 pm :

    He is not the only one.And he’s right to tell us about bfro.net.They are the best group in America that deals with the bigfoot phenomena.There are other things that exist in NC that arent supposed to be there,but they are.Mountain Lions(cougar,puma,catamount–all the same species,different names for them) are seen across the state,several times a year. I KNOW they live in the mountains,I’ve sen them.And these are known animals and science wont acknowledge their existence in the state,much less a sasquatch.A woman who I talked to who claimed to see one one night asked me how they(mainsteam science) can “miss something this big.” She said the shoulders on this thing were “very wide,I mean WIDE.” She said she thought at first that it was a “pile of leaves that all the sudden stood up…and up and up,and walked away” She was very shaken up.This is in and around the piedmont are. I live in Rockwell and I would love to talk to Mr.Greene. If he wishes,he may e-mail me.As well as Mr. Logan Taylor.

  5. jason clary on July 29th, 2009 at 5:18 pm :

    There’s a lecture i found on google video by a researcher named Lloyd Pye that explains this phenomenon in great detail and gives it much credibility. I suggest anyone check it out if this subject interests them. It’s called “Everything You Know is Wrong” and he gives a good insight to evolution theory as well.
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1285345463618889531

    Here’s his website as well.
    http://www.lloydpye.com/

  6. Marie Rouse on August 7th, 2009 at 11:31 pm :

    Many people are non-believers of Bigfoot, until they come across one and are scared s_____less! The best way to run across a Bigfoot is to not go hunting for him (one). He will come to you. But you must be in an area where sightings and sounds have been widely reported. The best time to experience a Bigfoot sighting/sounds is at night, in a desolate/remote area. I have had two incidents which I believe were related to Bigfoot in the same general area of central Utah. My ex-husband actually saw something and then we heard something at a different time but in the same area. Believe me, it’s scary!

  7. James, Burlington on December 19th, 2009 at 4:20 pm :

    I have experienced the ole “throwing rock treatment here in Alamance County. I, amongf riends were in a remote wooded area, inside a trailer on the outskirts of a farm where livestock, fish and water may have been easily accessed by such a creature. I whole heartedley believe that they are alive and well. I also have reviewed the Lloyd Pye expo and I would like to say it is a must see for anyone who has such interest in Sasuatch, bigfoot/yeti.

  8. Robert, NC on January 26th, 2010 at 7:28 pm :

    James, where in Alamance County was your sighting? I’m right on the border of alamance and orange. I’d be interested to check the area out sometime.

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