Report #2 – Truck Driver Has Daytime Bigfoot Sighting on Hwy 56 in Wilton, NC
Incident Description:
I was driving a tractor-trailer truck on my work route about midday on Highway 56 between Wilton and Franklinton. While driving this mostly wooded road from Wilton to Franklinton, I noticed to my left was a newly cleared area of dirt with a wide dirt road leading off the road to the north. When I looked at the dirt road, trying to figure out what was being constructed, I saw a large, black Bigfoot walking across the dirt road several yards off the highway. I could not believe what I had just seen. As I kept driving, my helper obviously could see by the look on my face that something was wrong, because she asked me, “What’s wrong, did we miss our turn?” I didn’t answer her at first trying to absorb what I had just seen. She kept asking what was wrong. At the next road, I slowed down and turned my tractor-trailer around to head back to the area I saw the Bigfoot. I told my helper I just saw a Bigfoot, and she encouraged me to go back to it. We drove back to the place I saw the Bigfoot but it was already out of sight. There are thick woods on each side of the dirt road where I saw it walking. We assumed it went into the woods by the time we returned to that area. The creature was very large, bulky and had brownish/black hair or fur. It reminded me very much of Patty from the Patterson-Gimlin footage the way it walked and seemed a bit hunched over. It was too far away to make out any facial features. Shortly after seeing this creature, I felt sick….sick to my stomach and nervous. I felt dreadful and sad. That very week, I had a bad nightmare in which I saw my own death.
Date of Incident:
Summer, 2024
Location of Incident:
Hwy 56 between Wilton and Franklinton, NC; Granville County.
Location Environment:
Rural heavy wooded road.
Other Witnesses:
My helper was with me but did not see the creature as she was looking down working on her phone.
Additional Information:
Feelings of dread, sadness and sickness.
Similar Incidents:
Have heard about Bigfoot sightings being reported about 45 minutes to the northeast.
Follow-Up Investigation:
Spoke to the witness a few days after the sighting. He was driving his company tractor-trailer truck on a delivery route when he saw the creature to the left on a dirt road in a newly constructed area. Both sides of the dirt road are lined with thick woods. The witness was very shaken, almost traumatized by the incident. Not so much by seeing the creature, but how he felt afterwards. He said he was overwhelmed with a dreadful feeling, almost immense sadness. He said he also felt sick to his stomach. These symptoms lasted about a week. During that week he had a horrible nightmare where he saw his own death. The witness said the nightmare felt so real and entailed him having a deadly heart attack while on his delivery job. The witness was very credible and was still emotionally trying to deal with what he had experienced a few days earlier.
Investigator(s):
Mechelle Johnson
The Veil Project – Southeastern Cryptid & Anomaly Survey