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David Mann Report on Carter Case

On Friday, December 13, 2002, I met David Mann in Overton County Tennessee at an open meeting for bigfoot researchers hosted by myself, Susan and Raymond Bilbrey, Kisal, Joseph Bell, Stan Sosnowski, Paul and Janice Coy, Gene and Michelle McCauley, Mike Ogletree, Jeff Teagle, Rodney and Sherry Malin, Sherry Ferrell, and others in Tennessee who regularly conduct bigfoot research. We had attendees from Alabama, Kentucky, Oregon, Georgia, North Carolina, Iowa, and others from Tennessee. Jerry O., a bigfoot researcher from Iowa and his son Kevin, who is also into serious bigfoot research, were among other honored guests who attended.

I knew that David Mann had to be very serious about bigfoot research or he would not have came all the way from Oregon to join us. David is knowledgeable in many fields, such as thermal imaging, wildlife and wilderness interests, and bigfoot research, and a myriad of other interest and talents he holds. He was helpful and nice enough to demonstrate to everyone at our Tennessee gathering his thermal imaging equipment and how it worked and ways in which it could be used, not just for bigfoot research alone. It helped us all to understand the intricacies of such extremely expensive equipment while he demonstrated the units capabilities.

At one point during the outing, David expressed an earnest desire to join with our team of bigfoot researchers that were investigating Janice Carter Coy's case in East Tennessee. David and others had picked up their copies of "50 Years with Bigfoot: Tennessee Chronicles of Co-Existence" that weekend as it had just been released. Will Duncan, Janice Coy, Joseph Bell, Stan Sosnowski, and myself talked at length with David at various times during the weekend and we all felt like he was sincere in his quest to help investigate Janice's case, so therefore it was decided he be allowed to join with us and be an ongoing part of the process of gathering information and evidence about the bigfoot here in Tennessee. David has since made several visits to the Carter farm where he has spent a lot of time with the Carter's doing field research and has witnessed first hand certain evidence of the bigfoot's presense there. We are most grateful to him for all his help and the time he's spent with us in this project at great personal cost to him. David continues to be a part of our Tennessee team, proving himself a valuable source of information and a tremendous asset to our efforts of bigfoot research on this case. I would personally like to thank David for his participation in this project.

Mary Green
January 26, 2003

Here's a brief report that was written by David Mann that was posted to the media in Oregon.

As you may know from recent messages on the Internet, I verified it is true that one family of bigfoots has been getting fed on a certain farm in Tennessee since about 1947. The documentation to prove this to the public is not really adequate. For example, in all those years, it has been impossible to obtain decent clear photos.

I was curious why snapshots had always been so hard to get on these hand-fed bigfoots. I am told that the bigfoots will not tolerate having a camera pulled on them, and they definitely will not pose or stand out in the open. They may be hand-fed but they are not tame. They always remain wary and hidden.

They are suspicious of any technology you might carry, and not easy to trick. Adding to the problem, over time they have become mainly nocturnal, due to clearing of most brush and trees on the farm over the years. They hide in dense woods nearby during the day. They are basically unapproachable.

Thermal video at night may be the only feasible solution, and I was invited to try it last month. So on condition of confidentiality, I made 2 trips in December. I think I am the only outsider ever allowed onto the farm, certainly the only Yankee. They do have bigfoots all over that place. It is the real deal. No, I did not see one or get any video. My timing was bad; also I probably set up too slow on my first trip, just after sunset, and missed my only opportunity to catch action at the feed bucket.

On my second trip, they had completely left the farm and gone off raiding the neighborhood 3 days before I got there. One neighbor was missing milk cows, another could not find some of his goats. Mainly what I saw on the farm were huge tracks in the red mud, scores of old and new twisted cedars, and a hayloft full of grizzly-sized or gorilla-sized scat. They call that the poop barn. It smells like it has long been abandoned to bigfoots. On my first trip, as I was packing up to leave, there was a freshly killed calf lying in the wood lot where I was camped, minus its liver. My stomach could almost feel how its abdomen was ripped open, the guts neatly scooped and set aside, the liver drawn quietly and bloodlessly out and carried away in a huge paw. Must have done it just before dawn, when I was snoring. Considering where they left it, this calf seemed meant for me. Not like a gift, more like a hint. Anyway I cut off the tail to tie extra-lucky steelhead flies. There may be a photo of that calf posted on Mary Green's website, (http://www.bigfootlady.net/) Also photos and passages from her new book that describes how the bigfoots live. Her book was just published last month so you might not have seen it yet.

The bigfoots came back to the farm about a week ago, but no telling for how long.
The young female Nikki (Nicky) was glimpsed pretty clearly in the dark and is huge with her
first child. If she has it on the farm, they might bed down in the hay and take care of their newborn for a spell. They are feeding every night on dog food, store-bought or donated liver
and beef heart, cracked corn, molasses powder, soy cake, and turnips. Besides, the weather is terrible. When the stormy weather breaks, it will be time for me to go back to Tennessee and try again.

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A few of the photographs David Mann took are pictured below.

Close-up of the calf found near David's tent with the
intestines pulled out and the liver missing.

Janice, examining the small calf that the bigfoot left just outside of David Mann's
tent while he was sleeping. He was near the creek and not at the house where the
rest of the family slept at night. David stayed up nights in order to catch the bigfoot
on his thermal imaging equipment and then would go to sleep right after day break.

Here's a photograph that David took of one of the barn lofts
on the Carter's farm. Although no hay is stored in tihs old
loft and there is no easy access to this loft, they regular
find dried grass or hay spread about in this loft. Janice
does not harvest any hay, so it's anybody's guess where
this hay and dried grass comes from.

This photograph is a close up of some of the fecal matter in the loft.
What is most interesting here is that the feces sometimes seems to be
"cleaned out" and it is speculated that maybe the boards are picked up
and this then allows the scat to fall to the barn floor below. The reason for
such speculation is because of the many loose boards found in the areas
where feces was deposited before. One time you can visit this loft and
there are larger than human sized scat in abundance and the next time
researcher's visit there are none to be found. This is a great puzzle to me
because I can't imagine an ape ever cleaning up after himself. Therefore,
this strenghtens the case that the bigfoot on this farm may be more than
an ape, possibly even a relict hominid.

Also, several other researchers have investigated this same barn and have taken photographs of the scat even before David arrived on the scene. Those who have witnessed the same conditions at various times during February, March, April, June, July, August, and the fall months of 2002 and the early months of 2003 are: Joseph Bell, Gene McCauley, Will Duncan, Susan Bilbrey, and David Mann. Presented below are photographs by Gene McCauley taken in the summer of 2002.

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