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Janice Carter on the steps of her old farm house... probably one of the most famous people in the "Bigfoot Field"
Janice's website: http://www.bigfootreferenceguide.com/
Most people who own a television set will recognize Janice Carter Coy. Janice and her experiences have been studied for many years by people from all over the world. Most notably by the Russian Hominologist Igor Burtsev. A short paper written by Dr. Burtsev can be found at: http://www.alamas.ru/eng/publicat/Burtsev2.htm (opens in a separate page.. use your browser back button to return to this page).

Janice became a household name after the National Geographic television special introduced her to the American audience. In their special, they depicted Janice talking to a "Bigfoot" who she called "FOX". In the television version, FOX came to Janice's door to ask for garlic. This short episode,
painted a picture of Janice as an eccentric and possibly off balance individual. According to Janice, there were several hours of footage taken, but only the most damaging and misleading footage was aired.

The Searching for Bigfoot team came to Tennessee to meet this woman and see for themselves what she is about. This turned out to be one of our most memorable and educational experiences to date! We are going to share our experience with you as best as we can.

It started out simply enough, we arrived at Janice's home around noon. Janice came out and greeted us.. she introduced us to her "family" including her beautiful daughter Holly, her husband Tom, her room mates and fellow researchers Violet and Violet's husband Steve. She gave us a quick tour of her place and arranged places for us to set up our sleeping quarters. We spent just a short while with "small talk" and then she began giving us, what we referred to as "Bigfoot 101"! She began sharing what she had learned over a lifetime of living with or near a family of "Bigfoot". She told us of things that we never would have expected.

At first we were taken back by her bold and matter of fact approach, but as she talked we began to realize that she is a lucid and intelligent woman who made a lot of sense once we got past the initial shock of what she told us. The first statement she made to us that was a great shock, was that these creatures have a language! Not just any language, but they actually spoke English!

As you can imagine, we were shocked by this bold statement...! However, she then began to explain how to listen to the sounds they made and the inflections in the voices. She used the "Sierra sounds" as examples of sounds that the creatures make. She explained that she chose those sounds because they were collected many years earlier and not by anyone affiliated with her or her organization. This way, no one could say that she faked the sounds we were listening to. We listened to the sounds intently, but we only heard gibberish. Janice began teaching us to slow down the sounds in our heads and listen more closely... We all tried again. To our amazement, we all began hearing words we could understand! It was like starring at those pictures that were popular a few years back, you know, the ones where you would star at them for a moment or two and let your eyes relax. Once your eyes got relaxed you began to see different things in the picture... like dolphins or whales.

I don't know how to explain it, but all of us began to be able to hear English sounding words in the previously un-recognizable gibberish! After only a couple of hours of listening, this woman had captured our interest and complete attention!

You can go to one of Janice's affiliate sites and hear some of these clips yourself. You need to listen very closely and slow down the words in your head, but with a little practice, you may hear the words as well. Try this link, it will open in another window and you will need to use your browser's back button to return to this site; http://www.bigfootreferenceguide.com/showthread.php?t=87

Next, Janice began explaining to us about some of their communication methods, including symbols and drawings. She shared a rock drawing she recently found near a horse trail to illustrate her beliefs.

Janice believes this rock writing shows a horse as well as other information

Our Searching for Bigfoot team was totally enthralled. We had heard and seen some amazing things in only the first couple of hours of meeting Janice! Now came the hard part. We needed to test all that we had heard and seen. We were able to hear the words that Janice pointed out, but only after she pointed them out... We still could not know if we could hear them for ourselves without Janice's tutelage. We could not tell if they were simply the creatures mimicking sounds that they had heard from observing people around them or if they were actually a language? We needed to see more of these rock drawings in their natural surroundings to see if they could be repeated and the drawings on them could be connected in some way to the areas around them. Our work was just beginning. Janice was confident that she could bring us to some creatures and allow us to actually talk to them ourselves. She said she could find many more of the rock drawings for us to examine out in the wild! We were thrilled and excited. We could hardly sleep that night as we planned our trip into the woods the following day to learn even more!

The next morning we headed out to an area where Janice felt we could find and talk to some of her "friends". We also should be able to find and read some more rock drawings. We headed off into the woods and passed through a gated area. This began our five mile hike through the woods.

Janice took us to a place she felt would be productive, even in daylight hours. She also showed us some rock drawings.

A close inspection of the new rock drawings we found could not clearly show us anything definitive enough to answer our questions. We were hard pressed to think that the markings were anything more than scrapes on the surface of the base rock, possibly caused by equipment used to abate the fire hazard in the area. Equipment such as brush hogs or mowers could easily scuff and scratch the surface of the large rocks in the area.

Here we find some new rock drawings off the path way... A closeup of the drawings is un-conclusive.

Unfortunately, we were not able to locate her "friends" in the area either. There was no conversation or contact of any kind this day. However, being seasoned researchers, we understand that not everyday is going to be a productive day and we remained optimistic.

Janice was disappointed and made one last attempt to bring us to an area where we might make contact with the creatures, before calling it a night. We headed off to an area where she believed a more aggressive group lived. It was dark when we arrived and we hiked about in the woods for about an hour or more, with no success, before heading back to Janice's house. Tomorrow is another day and we were still very optimistic. Sleep came easily after our all day hike and morning came around all too soon.

The forest we visited that night...

The following day, we headed off to a place where Janice had brought a large group of people to meet her "friends" in the past. We were once again told we would be able to call them out and that Janice would be able to converse with them as we watched and listened.

This time, we ended up in a large meadow like area, surrounded by deep woods. The area seemed ideal for a large animal to habitat. There was plenty of wild foods available, lots of deep cover, plenty of fresh running water, and hundreds of acres of un-occupied land to roam.

The field we visited and the abundant foods, such as wheat, in the area...

Once again, no luck. Janice shared several stories with us about the many sightings and encounters. One of the stories she shared told of an attempted shooting of one of the creatures. She told us that a police report had been filed on it and the people involved. Of course we wanted to verify all that we were seeing and hearing about, so we decided to drive into the city the next day and see if we could get a copy of the police report. Once there, we had the clerk at the courthouse search the records for the report, but they could find nothing on file. Janice remembered the name of one of the police officers who responded, so we decided to try to look him up and talk to him. We headed for a gas station to get a phone book and try to locate him. Believe it or not, the officer was in the gas station we stopped at. I got a chance to talk to him myself, but unfortunately he was not able to recall anything about the incident. He told me that he might have been called out on it, but back then (6 years earlier), he would have been a rookie and only called out as back up but he did not remember anything about it.

I was a little surprised, I would have thought that a rookie police officer called out to investigate a possible shooting of a "Bigfoot" would have remembered it! My only conclusions were that either there was no incident or that the officer was not willing to discuss it. To make a long story short, we were not able to verify this story at this time.

Still not discouraged, we planned another day in the field to attempt to call in a creature. This was our last chance to verify the information we had learned about. Once again we spent the day in the woods... even visiting Janice's old farm. The place she had first become involved with the family of creatures she knew so well. Once again, we had no luck. We had spent nearly a week with Janice and seen many unusual things in the woods. We had learned of new ways to look at some of the things we had seen and heard in the past. It had broadened our perspective about the entire subject, but it has also raised more questions than it has answered. We come away with an open mind and open eyes, but still not able to fully grasp or test what we have learned.

We find that the people who work closely with Janice seem to follow her teaching with an almost religious fervor and have an entirely different perspective about these creatures than do many of us. We have not been able to clearly verify all that Janice has taught us, but we are now open to learning more about her ideas.

We are all thankful for the opportunity to meet this wonderful lady and to learn about her ideas and experiences. We walk away with our minds and hearts open and feel that we not only have made a friend, but we have developed a new appreciation for another point of view.

Written by JavaBob - posted by JavaBob

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