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     This past May, I made my way to Townsend, Tennessee, right on the edge of the Great Smoky Mountains, for the Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Festival. Now, if you’ve never been — imagine a place where believers, skeptics, researchers, and curiosity-seekers all gather under one Appalachian sky. There were food trucks, live music, Bigfoot merch as far as the eye could see… and yes, people dressed as Bigfoot doing the moonwalk. But beyond the festivities, beyond the laughter and the smell of barbecue in the air… there was something else. Something deeper.

  There was a presence.

  The Smoky Mountains have always held secrets — ancient ones. Stories passed down through generations, whispers in the woods, eyes watching from just beyond the treeline. And the people who walk these lands? They’ve seen things. And this time, they were ready to talk.

  I didn’t just go to the festival to hang out and grab a funnel cake — although I definitely did that too. I brought my gear, set up a small booth, and invited festivalgoers to step up and share their true paranormal experiences — raw, unfiltered, and in their own words.

  And let me tell you... the floodgates opened.

  I collected firsthand accounts of Bigfoot sightings deep in the woods, encounters that left seasoned hunters and lifelong outdoorsmen shaken to their core. But it didn’t stop there.

People opened up to me about haunted hotel rooms, UFO encounters, and yes, even Bigfoot sightings. I talked to a girl who said a ghost moved her plushy in the haunted Brookstown Inn… and another person who claimed his cousin came to visit him AFTER the cousin had died!

  Then came the UFOs — lights in the sky that moved with impossible speed and precision. One woman — a babysitter — told me point blank: “I couldn’t sleep for months” after seeing an eerie bright light hovering above the treetops outside her bedroom window in 1984. She was visibly upset when she said it. Whatever she saw that night outside her bedroom window shook her to her soul.

  And just when I thought I’d heard it all, a soft-spoken man stepped up to the mic and whispered, “Do you want to hear about the skinwalkers?” His story… well, you’ll hear it for yourself later in the episode. But fair warning — once you hear it, you won’t forget it.

These aren’t polished tales. These aren’t campfire stories passed through a dozen people. These are raw, authentic voices — from real people who looked me in the eye and said, “This happened to me.”

  And tonight, I’m sharing them with you.

  So what you’re about to hear isn’t a typical podcast. It’s a patchwork of experience, stitched together by fear, awe, wonder — and maybe even a little bit of truth. It’s a chorus of voices from the heart of Appalachia, speaking into the void… hoping someone, anyone, is listening.

Well guess what?

  We are.

  So wherever you are right now — driving through the backroads, walking under a starlit sky, or huddled under a blanket in your room — I invite you to listen carefully. Some of these stories will make you think. Some will make your skin crawl. And some... might just hit a little too close to home.

  Tonight on ParaReality, we open the mic to the witnesses. The experiencers. The believers.

These are their stories — recorded live, on location, at the Smoky Mountain Bigfoot Festival.

  Let the voices of the strange speak.

  Let the truth echo through the mountains.

  To learn more, you’ll have to Turn On, Tune In, & Find Out!