On October 7, 2017, a road maintenance contractor traveling an isolated logging road in western North Carolina encountered something he initially believed was a black bear. But when the creature crossed directly in front of his truck, walking upright on two legs, he realized he was looking at something he couldn't explain. It would take him two days to report what he'd witnessed.
Welcome to The Slate Branch File, a gripping new five-part investigative series. The story begins in the fall of 2017 on a remote 4,200-acre timber tract near Pisgah National Forest, where a five-person wildlife survey crew was monitoring black bears and deer.
What started as routine fieldwork soon produced a troubling series of unexplained incidents.Trail cameras mysteriously shifted position. Animal activity changed without explanation. Unidentified tracks appeared in remote locations, and strange vocalizations echoed through the surrounding mountains.
At the center of the investigation is a former field technician we're calling Nate Calder, whose detailed notebooks document the increasingly unsettling events leading up to a contractor's extraordinary roadside encounter.
In Part One, Brian examines the earliest warning signs, the handwritten witness statement, and a disturbing geographical connection between the reported sighting and one of the property's most isolated trail cameras.
Something was happening deep in the North Carolina wilderness. The question is, what had the survey crew stumbled into?
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The Slate Branch Bigfoot File: Part One
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