Bigfoot of Yonah Ridge

While out surveying with his crew on Yonah Ridge in rural Lytle County, Tennessee, Henry Davidson has a sublime encounter with a strange ape-like creature who watches him from the shadows then calmly turns and walks away. Henry contacts a local bigfoot investigator to privately talk about what he saw but things take a terrifying turn when two people are viciously attacked and killed on Yonah Ridge. Strange tracks have been found at the sight of the first attack and eyewitnesses have described seeing a large ape as the attacker.But economically depressed Lytle County does not need any bad publicity to stand in the way of a planned development that promises to bring much needed jobs and tax revenue for the struggling community. Disillusioned by the inaction of local officials, Henry turns to social media to tell the world what has happened and arranges a hunt to go find the creature, ultimately realizing the "monster" they are after is a scared animal, plagued by disease and suffering.In Bigfoot of Yonah Ridge Billy Plant draws on interviews with Bigfoot investigators and published encounters to create a framework for a deeper discussion: that of declining rural communities and the struggle between conservation versus development.