Bigfoot Hit By A Church Van

About this episode

This episode recounts a dramatic encounter with Bigfoot witnessed by a youth pastor and teenagers after a summer retreat.

This is the fourth episode in the five-part series The Corridor, following five independent encounter accounts across five decades along the same north-south ridgeline running from the Cohutta Wilderness in northern Georgia into the mountains of eastern Tennessee.Part Four marks a sharp departure from the first three episodes. Where Herschel, Karen, and Marcus each experienced gradual encounters that unfolded over days or weeks in remote backcountry settings, this story happens in a matter of seconds on a public road with a van full of witnesses.In the summer of twenty-eleven, a youth pastor named David was driving a fifteen-passenger church van loaded with teenagers home from a summer retreat on a two-lane highway that cuts through the valley at the heart of the corridor. It was late and most of the kids were asleep. Something stepped out of the tree line and into the road directly in the path of the van. It was not a deer and it was not a bear. The van's headlights struck it at mid-torso, meaning whatever walked onto that road was tall enough that a beam mounted two and a half feet off the ground was hitting it at the chest. The van made impact hard enough to spin the vehicle…

Topics covered

• Bigfoot encounters
• supernatural events
• witness accounts
• road incidents
• youth pastor stories

Keywords

• Bigfoot
• church van
• witnesses
• Cohutta Wilderness
• road encounter
• supernatural
• youth pastor

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Cohutta Wilderness, eastern Tennessee

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