Incident #991848
Monteagle, Grundy Cty, Tennessee
1968
Account
Brenda Ann Adkins drove up Monteagle Mountain and walked along a cliff edge looking for a place to take pictures. She heard a noise in the woods behind and smelled a strange odour like something dead, turned and saw a creature come out of the brush, at least 7 feet, enormous chest, huge arms and legs, covered with blackish-red hair. Face a mixture of ape and human. With the creature between her and her car and the cliff behind her she stood as it walked up to about six feet, appearing angry and growling, but then cocked its head in a quizzical way, stared at her a few moments, seemed to smile, made a little blubbering noise and walked back into the brush.
When
- Year
- 1968
- Season
- spring
- Time of Day
- day
- Duration
- considerable
Where
- State / province
- Tennessee
- County
- Grundy Cty
- Nearest Town
- Monteagle
- Latitude
- 3574
- Longitude
- 8550
What was seen
- Individuals
- one large, sex unknown
- Total Individuals
- 1
- Population Status
- wild
- First Seen
- in
- Terrain Object
- trees
- Near or/at
- cliff
Witnesses
- No. of Witnesses
- 1
- Witness(es) Sex
- Female
Setting
- Terrain
- alpine
Weather and light
- Lighting
- daylight
Source
- Source
- Saga magazine, June,1969, quoting Brenda Ann Adkins, 19.
Creature description
- Hair Covered
- yes
- Height
- 7-8 ft
- Build
- very heavy
- Posture
- erect
- Hair Colour
- red black
- Shoulders
- wide
- Face Appeared
- apelike
- Expression
- angry
- Torso Front
- wide
- Movement
- walking
- Later Movement
- approachedýwatched observerýmade a noise
- Movement re observer
- towards observer
- Sound
- growlýother
- Odour
- strong
- Human Contact
- bluff
- Reaction
- approached
- Additional Movement
- turned aroundýwalked awayýentered woods
- Position when first seen
- erect
Witness
- Witness Saw with
- naked eye
- Observer Was
- outside on foot
- Closest horizontal distance
- 10 feet
- Action on sighting
- stayed still