(upbeat music)
- I really wasn't interested with looking for the Dogman.
It was one of those situations where it showed up
and it found me, I didn't find it.
My name is Scott Carpenter
and I'm from Maryville, Tennessee.
I'm a systems administrator for a small software company.
And I also am an amateur Sasquatch researcher
when I have the time.
I had just left what people
into research call a feeding station.
And that is a location
where you leave food for the Sasquatch and
you attempt to get DNA, a hair sample,
or you attempt to get them on trail camera.
And so it was just a regular day for me.
I didn't feel anything, normally with a Sasquatch,
if one's in the area,
the hairs on the back of your neck stand up,
you can feel that they're around.
And there's some tension in the air, some pressure.
I had what's called a back trail camera
on my shoulder filming behind me and it filmed all the time.
And then when I returned home from the research,
I would review it.
And I was sitting in front of the TV with
a laptop in my lap,
just kind of scrolling through the footage.
When I get to this point and I go by
and I see some movement,
I see a dark shape and some movement.
And I thought that's strange.
So I back it up and start watching it more slowly,
when I slowed it down and started going frame by frame,
that's when I actually saw what was back there
and you could see the head movement,
it was back and it came forward and it kind of pushed
itself through the foliage a little bit.
And that's when it hit me.
Oh my gosh, you know, what is this?
At first I was hopeful it was a Sasquatch,
but then when I slowed it down and blew it up,
it was obviously not a Sasquatch.
You could see a visible snout,
a Sasquatch is a human hybrid type being
that has a flat face just like we do.
When this creature kind of leveled off
and poked its snout through some foliage,
you could visibly see the nostrils opening and closing.
I finally actually bought a real program to do video
analysis that would actually allow me to clear it up
and de-noise it and run some other filters through it.
So I blew it up.
Then I was able to stabilize and put it in slow motion.
There are always going to be critics.
They say that it's just bogus and it's a stump or it's
paranoia or some other visual effect, matrix scene,
you know, the motion of the camera, et cetera.
But there's something there and it's moving.
You can actually see the nostril open and close through
a cycle of breaths.
That was the part to me that was the most convincing.
This was an actual living being and it was breathing.
And then the fear and the realization kicked in that
what I was seeing and how close it was,
because I'd never seen a Dogman.
The first Dogman,
technically, I saw was the one I did in the video.
There was pictures of course,
and people had fuzzy, grainy videos,
but it gave me pause because
it made me realize I'm vulnerable.
I was all alone.
This thing could have gotten me literally
and done whatever with me.
And no one would have found me for days
and wouldn't know what happened to me.
It's the first time it's sunk in
when I was doing research, this is the real deal.
There are these things out here and you're in harm's way.
If it wanted to,
it could have done me some serious harm
and I would have never known it was there.
(animal growling)
I did not know this creature was behind me
until after I got home.
And that's what was really the scariest part is actually
reviewing the video and seeing this thing and knowing
it was only four or five feet behind you and, you know,
not having a clue it was there.
That was, that was pretty terrifying.
It took me a couple of weeks to recover from that
to kind of get my courage up to go back into the woods.
And after that,
I always carried a gun because even though nothing happened,
it's just the fact that this thing was so close.
I've had several experiences with the Sasquatch
during my research.
Before this encounter I had never
before encountered a creature like this, a Dogman.