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Welcome. 
The stories I'm about to tell 

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you are of real Bigfoot 
encounters and sightings. 

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They are true and happened to 
people like me and you. 

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They come from my collection of 
stories I call The Bigfoot 

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Project. 
Years ago, during the summer of 

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1974, John lived about two miles
north of Baltimore, OH, off of 

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Route 158 in an old farmhouse. 
You had to go back down an old 

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lane of ways till you came to a 
cinder driveway. 

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You would go past an old 
slaughterhouse, an open field, 

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and a winding Creek that wrapped
itself around the old house. 

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The nearest neighbor was half a 
mile away. 

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As John lay on the couch 
watching TV with his missus and 

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his brother-in-law who was 
living with them, he kept 

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hearing something growling. 
Is that your stomach growling? 

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He asked his wife. 
She said no, I thought it was 

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yours. 
John remembered that his two 

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German Shepherd dogs outside had
been barking quite a bit at 

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something, but he hadn't gotten 
up from the couch to see what it

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was. 
Suddenly the TV programme was 

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all but forgotten as a very loud
thud startled the family as 

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something had hit the back of 
the house. 

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John sprang to his feet and went
straight to the kitchen door and

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peered outside into the night 
with the help of 100 Watt bulb. 

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From the porch light above the 
door, John was able to see one 

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of the dogs, the one that was 
united and was slowly backing 

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away from something that John 
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The dog's hair was standing up 
on its back and its tail was 

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tucked between its back legs. 
John being protective of his 

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animals brought a large Bowie 
knife and instructed his wife to

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lock the door behind him and he 
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to confront whatever was out 
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He heard something large hurry 
away but he couldn't see it. 

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He grabbed his dog and retrieved
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loose to chase whatever was 
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He said about 30 seconds later 
he could hear his neighbors dogs

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and horses carrying on over at 
their place. 

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Every night, night after night 
something would smack on the 

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back of the house, get the dogs 
riled up and disturb their 

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sleep. 
So finally they moved. 

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Some friends laughed at them and
they moved into the house. 

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They moved out only after about 
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The man had full 55 gallon drums
of fuel oil picked up, thrown 

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down and smashed. 
John's brother-in-law saw a 

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creature peeking in the window 
one time when he came home. 

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He and the creature exchanged A 
brief stare down until it turned

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and retreated off into the 
darkness. 

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John continues to hear reports 
from his friends and neighbors 

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in Morgan County and it seems 
that Bigfoot is alive and well 

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in that county. 
Fayette County, Ohio Dwight 

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Beverley left his home 1 spring 
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mushrooms. 
He drove along Miami Trace Rd. 

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in Fayette County, Ohio. 
The weather was dry that day and

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it was around 60°. 
He parked his car by a culvert 

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across from the old Fish and 
Game Place. 

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He headed into the woods alone, 
seeking the delicious morels 

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that he had come to love to hunt
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Dwight was suddenly aware of a 
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He saw on the ground a huge pile
of excrement that was extremely 

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fresh, although it smelled 
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The size of this pile was 
shocking enough, but then Dwight

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saw what looked like a rump 
sticking out from behind a tree 

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some 40 yards away. 
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concealed behind the tree 
couldn't get its rear out of 

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sight along with the rest of its
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Dwight gone in his cell phone 
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the tree and pretended to be 
talking on the phone to someone.

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He could see out of the corner 
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pretended to be in a 
conversation with someone, the 

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owner of their protruding butt 
would peek around the tree and 

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watch him until he turned his 
head toward the tree and then it

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would duck back behind the tree 
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By this time, our mushroom 
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scared. 
He made a brisk walk back to his

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car as the creature, which he 
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stalked him from about 30 to 40 
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finally stopped at the tree line
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It was 7 feet or more in height 
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Dwight returned home and was 
white as paper as he entered the

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house. 
He refused to go back into the 

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woods unless he was armed. 
The memory of that day will 

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always be with him. 
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grew up in Jackson County, Ohio.
A little town called Colton is 

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where he called home. 
He practically lived in the 

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woods behind Greenlawn Cemetery.
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teenage boys would challenge 
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these woods. 
They were planning one of these 

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battles when they had their 
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It was a summer day in the mid 
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The quintet was huddled around 
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pond behind the cemetery. 
Suddenly, their murmured plans 

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were interrupted by a resounding
crack. 5 heads turned toward the

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noise just in time to see a 25 
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Tree fall with a huge. 
Splash into the Clearwater of 

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the pond. 
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had been was a 7 1/2 foot tall 
dark hairy creature that they 

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all instantly recognized as a 
Bigfoot. 

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All five boys stood with their 
mouths gaping more from surprise

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than fear. 
They saw the beast bring its 

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hand back down to its side. 
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pushed the tree over. 
It then clenched its fists and 

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the boy saw its chest expand 
with a deep breath and then it 

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roared a mighty roar at the 
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The five boys stood their ground
and didn't run, but it was their

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numbers that gave them courage. 
But it was the fact that they 

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had their baby guns. 
But it was the Bigfoot that 

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finally walked off and left the 
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Nothing more was seen until 
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The boys were camping back in 
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They had the tent set up and 
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When Mark discovered that they 
had left their food back at his 

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house. 
He and one of the other boys had

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to walk back to retrieve it. 
The boys had to walk down a 

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gravel Rd. in the dark. 
They approached an old farmhouse

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that had another building beside
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from the house was a field. 
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field and the road, and as they 
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they could just make out 
something at the edge of the 

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field, about 10 feet away from 
them and just barely illuminated

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by a security light, they could 
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following their movement past 
it, turning their heads to see 

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what it was revealed. 
A Bigfoot sitting Indian style 

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cross legged with its arms 
crossed as it sat at the edge of

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the field. 
Now this sighting did spook the 

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boys and they ran for all they 
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After reaching the safety of the
highway and cars with 

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headlights, the pair talked 
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decided to go back to camp. 
As they approached the spot 

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where the Bigfoot had been 
sitting, the boys discovered 

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that the creature was gone, so 
they made their way back to the 

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others to tell them what they 
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Nothing else happened that night
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The last run in with Bigfoot 
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Mark and another one of the boys
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As usual. 
As the boys were walking in the 

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moonlit woods, something grunted
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The pair turned and looked back.
About 100 feet away was a huge, 

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muscular figure standing there 
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Mark said that neither he nor 
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It was almost as if it was 
telling us goodbye, Mark said. 

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The giant turned and walked off 
into the shadows, never to be 

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seen by the boys again. 
The weather in Missouri in July 

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is often hot and humid, and that
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as Amy and her family were 
visiting friends of her 

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grandmother's on a secluded 
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The party of five were hiking 
through the woods on a well used

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trail, with Amy way out ahead of
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She recalls being probably 150 
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others. 
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full of twists and turns, and at
that distance she was completely

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out of sight and earshot of the 
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All she remembers is it 
something standing on the same 

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trail she was walking. 
Adding to her shock, she bumped 

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into its immense legs. 
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her head barely came up to its 
fingertips, which hung down from

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its monstrous arms. 
She was absolutely petrified. 

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She didn't even look up at its 
face, but kept her eyes trained 

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on its legs, which were inches 
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After what seemed like forever, 
she found herself running back 

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screaming towards her family, 
who by now were just around the 

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bend in the trail. 
She doesn't even remember the 

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creature walking away or 
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After a while it was just gone. 
She said, undoubtedly in shock. 

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She suddenly snapped out of it 
and ran for the safety of the 

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others. 
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her and assured that she had 
perhaps seen a deer, bear, or 

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some other animal, or that she 
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Doubt from family or friends is 
a common result when witnesses 

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open up about a sighting. 
I hear it quite often from many 

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witnesses that I've spoken with.
Sometimes the witnesses even 

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begin to doubt themselves, but 
then they will replay the 

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incident over in their minds 
again and realize that it did 

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indeed take place. 
Regardless of what family and 

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friends say. 
Amy knows what she saw that day.

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She said that it never made a 
sound, She never smelled 

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anything, nothing. 
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impression on her life. 
She wants to know more. 

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She wants to know what it is. 
What does it think about us? 

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Does it need to be protected 
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Let's all find out. 
Together. 

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We share the same planet with 
them. 

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We have for thousands of years. 
The witnesses are out there. 

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The evidence is there too. 
Let's solve this mystery once 

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and for all. 
Summit County, Ohio headed home 

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from work in May of 2013. 
At around 1:00 in the morning, 

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Joshua saw something across 
Akron Peninsula Rd. in the very 

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populated county of Summit. 
Being just a few miles from the 

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Cuyahoga Falls and less than 10 
miles from Akron does not seem 

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to discourage the Sasquatch as 
there have been a number of 

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sightings in the area. 
The Cuyahoga Valley National 

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Recreation Area provides ample 
acreage for the creatures to 

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hide in when they aren't making 
their forays into more populated

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areas of this part of Ohio. 
As Joshua was just cresting a 

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hill, he saw a very large dark 
figure cross the road about 200 

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feet up ahead of his car. 
What shocked him so much he 

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remembered was the fact that he 
could see a road sign between 

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the striding legs of the giant 
that he estimated to be another 

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100 feet on down the road. 
Three steps from left to right 

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and it was gone. 
It had disappeared into the 

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trees only 10 feet from the 
road. 

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Joshua pulled off the road as 
soon as it crossed to regain his

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composure. 
He was scared of what he had 

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just seen. 
After sitting in the car for 

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about 5 minutes, Josh pulled up 
on the road another 150 feet to 

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the exact spot where the 
creature had crossed and pulled 

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off the road again. 
He stated that he did not see, 

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hear or smell anything at all. 
The creature had disappeared 

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into the trees and headed 
towards the river, but it 

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remains a constant figure in 
Joshua's thoughts and dreams. 

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The witness who was bow hunting 
in Vinton County, Ohio on the 

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6th of November, 2013, near the 
little town of Ray, wishes to 

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remain anonymous. 
Dressed in full camel from a 

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ladder stand, he was watching a 
feeder baited with corn and 

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apples situated in a stand of 
mature Pines. 

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At around 5:45, from a distance 
of what he thought was less than

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50 feet, he heard a vocalization
that he described as a howl 

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scream roar which lasted some 5 
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The doe's that were feeding on 
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immediately ran in the opposite 
direction from which the scream 

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came. 
This cry made the hunter afraid 

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as it related to me that he had 
haunted all over the US and 

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Canada and even South Africa and
he had never heard such a scream

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as this. 
He said that it sounded almost 

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like a scream that a large cat 
would make, with the cry of a 

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baboon added to it. 
He checked online when he 

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returned home and said that he 
discovered a recording of what 

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was supposed to be the Ohio 
Grass Man and it was identical 

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to what he had heard on that 
November evening in southern 

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Ohio. 
He asked that I not mention his 

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name as he wants to continue to 
hunt the property, again without

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the landowner knowing anything 
about his incident. 

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He did tell me, however, that he
was a skeptic before, but now he

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is a believer. 
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of calls and emails during the 
summer of 2014. 

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One such call was from Stephanie
Gifford, who told me of a few 

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incidents that took place at 
their cabin that they used to 

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own there. 
It was settled back in the woods

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just off Route 278, about midway
between Lake Hope State Parks 

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and the little town of Zaliki. 
She and her husband Ed would 

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make their way from their 
Delaware County home with their 

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two dogs to spend some quiet 
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Away from civilization, away 
from people, and away from 

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noise, but right in the home of 
Bigfoot. 

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The first time they heard it, it
was 8 to 10 years ago and all 

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they heard was something bipedal
and very heavy run right past 

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the open window of their cabin. 
Nothing was seen as it was pitch

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black and nothing was found in 
the daylight such as tracks or 

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other evidence. 
Stephanie did say that one of 

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the neighbors had asked her once
if she had ever noticed anything

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strange going on on the 
property. 

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She answered no because at the 
time nothing strange had 

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happened yet. 
The second time was 5 or 6 years

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ago in the fall. 
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watching TV one night, her 
husband heard a scream from 

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outside in the far distance. 
It was followed a second or two 

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later by an extremely loud 
scream that lasted a good 30 

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seconds or more and sounded like
it was coming from right outside

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their window. 
As their two dogs ran to the 

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back bedroom to hide, Ed ran 
outside without even thinking to

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confront whatever it was to find
only pitch darkness. 

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When the screaming stopped, he 
heard no sounds at all from man 

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or beast or even insects. 
Nothing. 

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Just total silence. 
He didn't see or hear anything 

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walking away. 
The Giffords sold the property 

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two years ago and Stephanie told
me that just before they did, 

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she visited the cabin with a new
dog, a Rottweiler, shepherd, 

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collie mix. 
That although nothing was seen 

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or heard, the two days that they
were there was absolutely 

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terrified the entire time they 
visited. 

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It was the summer of 2008 or 
2009 during August and it was 

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very hot and that meant night 
fishing for catfish. 

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Alan and Amelia Scott made the 
trip to Salt Fork from their 

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Belmont County home to try their
luck on some of the whiskered 

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wonders. 
They had driven into the park 

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just before dark and were set up
bank fishing off of Road 23, 

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which is visible as you drive by
the lake on Route 22. 

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It was between 10:00 and 11:00 
PM and Alan said they had about 

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3 or 4 fish on the Stringer when
it started. 

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It was a series of womanlike 
screams that started some 

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distance away but was getting 
closer to the couple. 

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The pair asked each other if 
they had heard the sound and 

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what they thought it could be 
making it when after a few 

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minutes it became obvious that 
whatever it was was getting 

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closer and closer and they 
didn't really want to stick 

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around to see who or what was 
doing it. 

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The next time they heard it, it 
was very loud and closer still, 

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so the pair packed up to leave 
almost in a panic. 

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When Alan slammed the car door 
and started the engine, he could

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see and hear trees breaking in 
the dim light of the moon and 

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stars. 
Whatever it was, it was now less

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than 10 yards from the fleeing 
fisherman. 

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Through the open passenger side 
window they could hear the 

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screams and the heavy stomping 
of feet as trees and brush were 

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broken like uncooked spaghetti. 
Alan mashed the gas and held the

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steering wheel with a death grip
as he and his wife made their 

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escape. 
The creature kept up with the 

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car even though it continued to 
knock down everything in its way

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until the vehicle was doing 35 
to 40 miles an hour. 

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When they finally hit road one, 
they made a left turn and a 

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right turn on Route 22. 
And to validate the whole story,

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they have never been back. 
Annette Nashit and Nikki Adkins 

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aren't likely to forget their 
ride to work. 

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July 16th, 2014. 
The pair were heading up Enon 

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Road at 5:25 AM when they came 
to where Enon crosses over the 

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Mad River. 
A very large, hairy creature 

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appeared in front of Nicky's car
and crossed from left to right 

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in front of the startled women, 
and that said that the creature 

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threw its hand up in front of 
its face to shield its eyes from

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the car's high beams. 
It was well over 6 feet tall in 

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spite of its stooped posture. 
She said that it had to have 

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weighed 4 to 500 lbs. 
It must have come up from the 

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river as the hair on its lower 
body appeared to be wet, she 

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added. 
The creature was a dark brown in

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colour and the hair on its arm 
that it raised up to shield its 

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eyes had four to five inch long 
hair hanging from it. 

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Both women had had previous 
sightings of Bigfoot. 

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Nikki's was elsewhere and 
Annette's, interestingly enough,

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was only a mile or so away. 
In 1985 she saw one on the 

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railroad tracks that got to a 
bipedal position when it got to 

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Old Mill Rd. 
It then walked away on 2 legs 

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and disappeared. 
This was also in early morning, 

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5:00 to 5:30 AM that occurred in
March or April of 85, Allegheny 

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National Forest, PA During the 
second week of June 2010, Dave 

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Groves and a friend travelled to
the Allegheny National Forest to

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ride their ATVs at the 
Marionville Timberline ATV 

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Trail. 
It had been raining earlier that

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day, but then it stopped and the
sun came out at around 3:30 or 

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4:00 in the afternoon. 
Dave was riding out ahead of his

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buddy and he got completely out 
of sight from him, so he stopped

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at a fork in the trail to wait 
for his friend to catch up with 

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him. 
He left his quad idling and 

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dismounted and removed his 
helmet. 

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He was standing next to his 
machine when he first saw a fist

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size rock hit his ATV by the 
tire. 

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Now a rock hitting your ATV tire
is something that happens quite 

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a bit as you race around in the 
woods at a fast clip. 

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It's not supposed to happen when
your machine is stopped and just

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sitting there idling. 
Three or four of these fist 

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sized projectiles hit the quad 
all in precisely the same spot 

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where Dave was able to spot one 
of the missiles as it flew 

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through the air, and then 
suddenly he was also able to 

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spot the culprit who launched 
it. 

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Some 100 feet away, crouched 
down in a brown growth of weeds,

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was a darker black spot that 
suddenly stood up to reveal 

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itself to Dave. 
It was a Bigfoot. 

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Dave instantly knew what it was.
He could see its fingers move on

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its overly large hands and long 
arms. 

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He saw the muscles bulge in its 
huge chest and shoulders. 

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The only problem was, Dave 
didn't believe that Bigfoot was 

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real. 
It was someone's imagination or 

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misidentification. 
In a matter of seconds he 

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changed his mind about them 
being a myth. 

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This was really happening. 
They were real and here was 1 

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standing 30 yards away from him.
He and the seven foot creature 

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stared at each other for 10 or 
15 seconds. 

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He remembers that the thing was 
black. 

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He couldn't see any other colour
anywhere on its body, just black

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all over. 
He saw its face but couldn't say

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if it was covered in black hair 
or black skin. 

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The eyes were dark and he could 
see its nose and lips. 

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He kept saying that the 
shoulders were huge. 

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It was built like a football 
player in shoulder pads. 

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The head sat right on the 
shoulders, no visible neck at 

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all. 
He didn't see any aggression 

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from it as it just stared at 
him, but he wondered if there 

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might be others around. 
He said that although he didn't 

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believe in Bigfoot at the time, 
he was aware that if they were 

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real, they didn't really like to
make their presence known. 

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So why had it been throwing 
rocks at him? 

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He thought that maybe there were
little ones close by and maybe 

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the creature wanted him to 
leave. 

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I think that was a very 
intelligent assessment. 

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Without taking his eyes off 
Dave, the Bigfoot stepped 

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backwards. 123 steps and it 
disappeared into the trees. 

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Dave was more than ready to be 
on his way as well and quickly 

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slid to a seated position on the
quad and took off as fast as he 

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could go. 
As he speed away down the trail,

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he wasn't sure that he was going
to run into the beast again. 

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Any place along the trail where 
the tree line came close to 

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where he was riding. 
He expected the thing to jump 

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out at him and pull him off his 
machine. 

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The adrenaline and reality were 
starting to kick in big time and

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his heart was racing, knees were
shaking, and his mind kept 

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replaying the incident over and 
over again. 

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Finally spotting some other ATV 
Ers along the trail who were 

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having fun driving the machines 
in and out of a very muddy part 

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of the trail, Dave stopped and 
pretended to be interested in 

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what they were doing. 
Actually, he felt safe around 

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the other people, just in case 
the creature had any ideas about

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showing up again. 
Plus, he needed to wait for his 

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buddy who was still somewhere on
the trail behind him. 

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After a short wait, the two 
friends were reunited and 

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finished their ride without any 
other incidents. 

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Dave was very quiet on the ride 
back home and told me that he 

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barely talked to his friend. 
He didn't mention his sighting 

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to him either. 
As a matter of fact, he told me 

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that he didn't even confide in 
this man about what had happened

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that day until the fall of last 
year. 

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Dorchester, MA. 
It all started with a phone call

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one morning in July of 2013. 
It's not unusual for me to get 

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calls at all hours of the day 
and night, but this one started 

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out a little crazy. 
This fellow, David, and I won't 

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use his last name as I no longer
hear from him and I don't think 

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he would want to be identified, 
started asking me questions 

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about Bigfoot. 
Did they do this, did they sound

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like that, would they, could 
they, will they, etcetera. 

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When I found out that he lived 
in Massachusetts, I questioned 

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why he had called me in 
southeastern Ohio. 

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He stated that no one in his 
area would take him seriously 

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and get back in touch with him. 
I asked him to tell me what 

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happened and he replied that he 
lived in a triple Decker, which 

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is a three story apartment. 
He had a balcony that he would 

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sit out in the evenings and 
smoke as he didn't smoke in the 

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apartment. 
While sitting outside at night 

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on the third level, he would 
hear grunts and growls and Bush 

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breaking from a small patch of 
woods beneath his balcony. 

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He couldn't figure out what in 
the world would be making these 

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noises, but it frightened him to
the extent that he didn't feel 

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safe sitting out there at night.
He got up enough courage to 

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venture outside of his fenced in
lot close to the woods one time 

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in the daylight and found a 
human looking track in the dirt 

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that sent chills down his spine.
That was the clue, I guess, that

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he needed to now begin to think 
that this very small patch of 

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woods held a Bigfoot in the PM 
hours under the cover of 

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darkness. 
Nothing was ever heard in the 

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daylight hours coming from this 
small tree and brush covered 

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area just over the fence from 
David's place. 

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But late at night when David sat
and smoked on his balcony, he 

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would continue to hear grunts 
and guttural sounds that scared 

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him back inside to the safety of
his apartment. 

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Afraid to ask the neighbors 
about his suspicions for fear of

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being labeled A kook, David and 
I corresponded back and forth 

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for days as I questioned him 
about the latest events and 

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reassured him that the creature 
wouldn't climb over the fence 

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and up the third level and break
into his home and RIP him to 

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pieces. 
He would tell me that he would 

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go into his bathroom and turn 
off all the lights and watch out

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the window while sitting in the 
darkness. 

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At times he would catch a 
glimpse of red eye shine that 

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moved around in the wooded lot 
and he knew that if he could see

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it over the top of the fence 
that was in front of the area, 

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then the owner of those red 
glowing orbs had to be quite 

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tall to be seen. 
David would send me pictures of 

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the area in question and it was 
heavily wooded for a while, then

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one weekend he went away and 
when he returned the tiny forest

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had been cut down. 
He asked around the neighborhood

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as to why all the trees and 
brush were suddenly removed but 

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nobody seemed to know why it was
done or who did it. 

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David said that there was a 
larger wooded park in town and 

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one night after this little 
wooded lot was removed, the 

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police had the other wooded park
closed off as if they had 

451
00:25:02,400 --> 00:25:04,320
someone or something trapped 
inside. 

452
00:25:04,960 --> 00:25:08,040
He never found out what happened
that night as the authorities 

453
00:25:08,040 --> 00:25:12,440
were very tight lipped about it.
We discussed the possibility of 

454
00:25:12,440 --> 00:25:15,840
a Bigfoot, maybe an older or 
injured one that somehow got 

455
00:25:15,840 --> 00:25:18,400
displaced. 
Not unlike some porpoises or 

456
00:25:18,400 --> 00:25:21,760
whales that occasionally enter a
river from the ocean and swim 

457
00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:25,200
inland until they get lost and 
confused and can't find their 

458
00:25:25,200 --> 00:25:28,960
way back out to the sea again. 
I haven't heard of a Sasquatch 

459
00:25:28,960 --> 00:25:31,920
doing this, but I don't see why 
it couldn't happen in the case 

460
00:25:31,920 --> 00:25:36,400
of sickness, injury, or old age.
If this is what was happening, 

461
00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:39,360
then whoever cut all the brush 
out of there removed the poor 

462
00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:42,840
squatch's hideout. 
David told me once that he heard

463
00:25:42,840 --> 00:25:45,800
something moving around in the 
darkened lot, breaking sticks 

464
00:25:45,800 --> 00:25:48,960
and brush, and then he heard a 
loud thud and the sound of a 

465
00:25:48,960 --> 00:25:53,760
loud exhaling sound, like a loud
sigh, as if a very large, very 

466
00:25:53,760 --> 00:25:57,480
tired person plopped down to 
take a break after a tough day. 

467
00:25:58,320 --> 00:25:59,880
Kind of sad if you think about 
it. 

468
00:26:02,520 --> 00:26:06,040
Bill Taylor, not his real name, 
was always very close to his 

469
00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:08,280
uncle. 
He loved to hang around with him

470
00:26:08,280 --> 00:26:10,600
and listen to his stories about 
hunting and fishing. 

471
00:26:11,160 --> 00:26:14,160
He also loved to hear his Uncle 
Dick talk about Bigfoot. 

472
00:26:15,000 --> 00:26:18,920
The oldest Bigfoot story that 
Dick told him was around 1974 

473
00:26:19,000 --> 00:26:22,400
near the town of Mechanicsburg, 
OH where they both lived. 

474
00:26:23,440 --> 00:26:25,560
Dick had a friend that he liked 
to pal around with. 

475
00:26:26,160 --> 00:26:28,600
One night, after leaving the 
friend's house and heading home,

476
00:26:28,840 --> 00:26:32,840
he was walking past an open dump
that was nearby and became aware

477
00:26:32,840 --> 00:26:36,000
of a very nauseating odor, sort 
of like rotten meat. 

478
00:26:36,520 --> 00:26:39,920
Then he began to hear something 
paralleling his very step as he 

479
00:26:39,920 --> 00:26:43,520
walked in the darkness. 
Whenever he stopped, the unseen 

480
00:26:43,520 --> 00:26:47,360
stalker would do likewise. 
He would start up walking again,

481
00:26:47,360 --> 00:26:50,280
and so would it. 
He was finally able to make out 

482
00:26:50,280 --> 00:26:53,880
the dark figure hunched over a 
hogwire fence reaching for the 

483
00:26:53,880 --> 00:26:55,920
bullwhip that he carried in his 
back pocket. 

484
00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:59,480
Dick cracked his whip and the 
hunched figure stood up and in 

485
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,840
one step it was over the fence 
and Dick ran the rest of the way

486
00:27:02,840 --> 00:27:05,560
home. 
About three years after that, 

487
00:27:05,720 --> 00:27:08,560
Dick was camping alone in the 
woods not far from his home. 

488
00:27:09,080 --> 00:27:11,560
He sat cross legged facing his 
campfire. 

489
00:27:11,800 --> 00:27:14,640
His eyes were shut tight and he 
was concentrating on listening 

490
00:27:14,640 --> 00:27:16,320
to all of the night sounds 
around him. 

491
00:27:17,360 --> 00:27:20,440
The sounds must have stopped 
because Dick opened his eyes to 

492
00:27:20,440 --> 00:27:23,840
see an immense figure on the 
other side of his fire staring 

493
00:27:23,840 --> 00:27:27,920
at him with huge yellow eyes. 
He shut his eyes again and then 

494
00:27:27,920 --> 00:27:30,640
reopened them to see if maybe he
was just imagining it. 

495
00:27:31,240 --> 00:27:34,160
The figure was still standing in
the same spot, staring at him 

496
00:27:34,280 --> 00:27:38,280
with those piercing yellow eyes.
He shut his eyes once more for a

497
00:27:38,280 --> 00:27:41,320
few seconds and this time when 
he looked, the seven foot 

498
00:27:41,320 --> 00:27:45,200
creature was not there. 
As quietly as it appeared, it 

499
00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:48,320
was now gone. 
Bill said that he remembered his

500
00:27:48,320 --> 00:27:51,000
Uncle Dick telling him that it 
never blinked an eye while it 

501
00:27:51,000 --> 00:27:54,400
watched him, and that it had 
huge hairy arms crossed as it 

502
00:27:54,400 --> 00:27:59,000
looked at him. 
In 1979, Bill began to have his 

503
00:27:59,000 --> 00:28:01,200
own personal experiences with 
Bigfoot. 

504
00:28:01,960 --> 00:28:05,480
During the 1979 bow season, Bill
and his brother were deer 

505
00:28:05,480 --> 00:28:09,320
hunting in a wooded area between
Route 4 and Little Darby Creek. 

506
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,680
His brother had to take a 
bathroom break so he left to 

507
00:28:12,680 --> 00:28:16,320
find some secluded brush. 
Meanwhile, Bill heard what he 

508
00:28:16,320 --> 00:28:18,920
believed to be deer coming from 
the very dense thicket. 

509
00:28:19,720 --> 00:28:22,520
He started to enter the thicket 
just as his brother came back. 

510
00:28:22,960 --> 00:28:25,760
He told him to follow and the 
pair crouched down and Duck 

511
00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,640
walked into the thick brush in 
search of the deer. 

512
00:28:29,320 --> 00:28:32,200
As they penetrated the thick 
mass of briars and brambles, 

513
00:28:32,440 --> 00:28:34,640
Bill suddenly froze in front of 
his brother. 

514
00:28:35,240 --> 00:28:40,000
There, no more than 8 feet ahead
was this huge hairy ape like man

515
00:28:40,000 --> 00:28:42,680
down on its knees and its eyes 
were closed. 

516
00:28:43,320 --> 00:28:46,320
He said that it had long hair 
all over its head and body and 

517
00:28:46,320 --> 00:28:49,920
that it also had a great deal of
Moss all over itself, maybe as 

518
00:28:49,920 --> 00:28:53,520
to camouflage itself so it could
grab a deer if one got close. 

519
00:28:54,480 --> 00:28:57,240
Bill pulled up his shotgun but 
put it back down just as 

520
00:28:57,240 --> 00:28:59,600
quickly. 
He turned back to his brother 

521
00:28:59,640 --> 00:29:01,960
who couldn't see the creature 
for the thickness of the brush 

522
00:29:02,280 --> 00:29:04,640
and told him to turn around and 
get back out of there. 

523
00:29:05,360 --> 00:29:08,120
He looked back at the beast and 
it was still kneeling there with

524
00:29:08,120 --> 00:29:10,600
its eyes closed as if it were 
meditating. 

525
00:29:11,320 --> 00:29:14,520
He said it was very muscular and
probably would have been over 7 

526
00:29:14,520 --> 00:29:18,600
feet tall when standing erect. 
Bill turned around like his 

527
00:29:18,600 --> 00:29:21,480
brother did and crawled out of 
there and never went back to 

528
00:29:21,480 --> 00:29:24,880
those woods again. 
His dad checked the area later 

529
00:29:25,000 --> 00:29:27,880
and found some sort of bed where
something had been lying down 

530
00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:31,480
and told the boys not to go back
in those woods and he hasn't 

531
00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:35,200
since that day. 
Bill said for the next several 

532
00:29:35,200 --> 00:29:38,240
weeks and months he was 
tormented by nightmares that 

533
00:29:38,240 --> 00:29:41,160
something was going to get him 
and he told his parents about 

534
00:29:41,160 --> 00:29:43,520
his dreams. 
He thought a lot about the 

535
00:29:43,520 --> 00:29:45,880
Bigfoot he had seen and didn't 
understand it. 

536
00:29:46,080 --> 00:29:48,680
He feared it. 
He didn't like being afraid. 

537
00:29:49,880 --> 00:29:52,560
One night he couldn't sleep and 
he went to his bedroom window 

538
00:29:52,560 --> 00:29:54,440
and looked out into the darkness
of the night. 

539
00:29:55,120 --> 00:29:58,200
Across a parking lot that had a 
single light pole, he could see 

540
00:29:58,200 --> 00:30:00,200
the woods where his sighting had
taken place. 

541
00:30:00,880 --> 00:30:02,640
It was a long way from his 
bedroom. 

542
00:30:03,080 --> 00:30:05,640
He squinted and stared into the 
direction of the woods. 

543
00:30:06,240 --> 00:30:08,560
He said that he could see 
eyeshine looking at him. 

544
00:30:09,080 --> 00:30:11,280
He feels that it was the same 
creature. 

545
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:14,640
He told me that it didn't scare 
him, but just the opposite. 

546
00:30:14,800 --> 00:30:17,960
It had a calming effect on him. 
As if to say the creature once 

547
00:30:17,960 --> 00:30:21,360
had the drop on his Uncle Dick 
while he sat at his campfire and

548
00:30:21,360 --> 00:30:24,080
then a few years later got the 
drop on the creature while it 

549
00:30:24,080 --> 00:30:27,560
was on his knees in the thicket.
One would think that this would 

550
00:30:27,560 --> 00:30:30,960
be enough Bigfoot interactions 
for any one person to have, but 

551
00:30:30,960 --> 00:30:33,560
no. 
Bill had another scare during 

552
00:30:33,560 --> 00:30:39,440
bow season in either 1982 or 83.
He was deer hunting with his two

553
00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:42,280
brothers 2 fields over from 
where the other hunting story 

554
00:30:42,280 --> 00:30:45,040
took place. 
Bill and one brother were there 

555
00:30:45,040 --> 00:30:47,360
up in a tree while another 
brother was hunting from the 

556
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:50,040
ground. 
It was about 5:30 in the 

557
00:30:50,040 --> 00:30:52,120
afternoon. 
He said that they heard a loud 

558
00:30:52,120 --> 00:30:54,760
roar that lasted for about 30 
seconds. 

559
00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:58,520
He said that it almost sounded 
like a motor roaring to life. 

560
00:30:59,160 --> 00:31:01,920
Whatever it was, it was coming 
closer and closer. 

561
00:31:02,360 --> 00:31:04,200
It was tearing up brush and 
trees. 

562
00:31:04,640 --> 00:31:06,200
He heard it but never did see 
it. 

563
00:31:06,520 --> 00:31:09,400
It was close enough to him that 
he could hear it panting and 

564
00:31:09,400 --> 00:31:12,600
sniffing the air. 
That was enough for him and his 

565
00:31:12,600 --> 00:31:15,240
brother in the tree. 
They both jumped to the ground 

566
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,120
and outvoted the ground hunting 
brother who wanted to stay and 

567
00:31:18,120 --> 00:31:21,000
see what was there. 
They all ran for the house. 

568
00:31:21,440 --> 00:31:23,640
To this day they haven't been 
back. 

569
00:31:26,520 --> 00:31:30,960
Crawford County, Ohio This next 
story might be about a Bigfoot, 

570
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:34,480
and then again it might not. 
I'll tell you what I was told 

571
00:31:34,560 --> 00:31:39,000
and you decide for yourself. 
Pat Cooper grew up in the small 

572
00:31:39,000 --> 00:31:41,960
Crawford County, Ohio town of 
Bucyrus. 

573
00:31:42,560 --> 00:31:46,040
His father and grandfather both 
died when Pat was very young, so

574
00:31:46,040 --> 00:31:48,760
he didn't have a male family 
member to learn from like other 

575
00:31:48,760 --> 00:31:51,000
boys. 
He did, however, have some 

576
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:54,000
friends around his age, and he 
and his pals were often hanging 

577
00:31:54,000 --> 00:31:57,880
around the Sandusky River. 
A fishing trip on the river was 

578
00:31:57,880 --> 00:32:01,080
planned but the boys needed bait
so they descended upon the 

579
00:32:01,080 --> 00:32:04,760
Bucyrus Golf Course under the 
cover of darkness to catch night

580
00:32:04,760 --> 00:32:07,400
crawlers. 
It had been very dry that year 

581
00:32:07,400 --> 00:32:09,880
which Pat said was either 59 or 
60. 

582
00:32:10,520 --> 00:32:13,520
The greens were nice and damp 
since the gold course, which at 

583
00:32:13,520 --> 00:32:16,600
that time was only a nine hole 
course, watered the grass at 

584
00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:20,440
night to keep it looking good. 
As the fine lads were searching 

585
00:32:20,440 --> 00:32:23,400
for crawlers on the course in an
area where the river has an S 

586
00:32:23,400 --> 00:32:27,480
curve in it which the locals all
call Cat Heaven, the boys would 

587
00:32:27,480 --> 00:32:29,360
hear someone walking down by the
river. 

588
00:32:29,840 --> 00:32:33,600
They couldn't see who or what it
was due to the darkness, so 

589
00:32:33,760 --> 00:32:37,000
thinking some hobo might be down
by the river, they called out to

590
00:32:37,000 --> 00:32:40,000
whoever was making the noise. 
Hey, who's down there? 

591
00:32:40,840 --> 00:32:44,880
Their question was answered by a
very loud crack as a tree was 

592
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:47,240
broken. 
Since there were five of the 

593
00:32:47,240 --> 00:32:51,120
boys, that gave them some sense 
of security and they stayed put 

594
00:32:51,240 --> 00:32:55,200
and kept listening. 
Crunch, crunch, crunch as it 

595
00:32:55,200 --> 00:32:59,080
started walking again. 
Then a swishing sound like 

596
00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:01,920
someone swirling a belt or rope 
over their head. 

597
00:33:01,920 --> 00:33:05,320
Around and around. 
Pat says the next thing that 

598
00:33:05,320 --> 00:33:09,320
happened really unnerved him. 
He heard in his mind someone 

599
00:33:09,320 --> 00:33:12,760
saying to him, if you don't 
leave right now, you're going to

600
00:33:12,760 --> 00:33:16,120
be surrounded. 
And with that, Pat took off at a

601
00:33:16,120 --> 00:33:18,400
dead run, leaving the other four
behind. 

602
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:21,720
He ran down off the upper 
plateau of the golf course to a 

603
00:33:21,720 --> 00:33:24,520
lower area. 
He finally stopped when he felt 

604
00:33:24,520 --> 00:33:27,680
it was safe and looked back to 
see the other 4 running towards 

605
00:33:27,680 --> 00:33:29,880
him. 
Suddenly they stopped and 

606
00:33:29,880 --> 00:33:32,800
pointed up in the sky to the 
area right above the S curve in 

607
00:33:32,800 --> 00:33:36,720
the river known as Cat Heaven. 
Look, there's a flying saucer. 

608
00:33:36,720 --> 00:33:40,160
One of them shouted. 
All four were frozen to the spot

609
00:33:40,360 --> 00:33:44,680
as they watched a 13 or 14 foot 
long dull grey cigar shaped 

610
00:33:44,680 --> 00:33:48,840
craft hovering above the river. 
Pat was able to see the craft 

611
00:33:48,840 --> 00:33:51,680
from where he stood because of a
large Sycamore tree in full 

612
00:33:51,680 --> 00:33:54,240
bloom. 
The broad leaves prevented any 

613
00:33:54,240 --> 00:33:55,960
chance he had of seeing the 
entity. 

614
00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:59,120
What was walking in the darkness
by the river that night? 

615
00:33:59,720 --> 00:34:02,560
Pat said that it sounded by 
pedal, but they couldn't see 

616
00:34:02,560 --> 00:34:05,160
what it was. 
What broke the tree? 

617
00:34:05,920 --> 00:34:09,159
He claimed that an old timer 
also told him that he saw a UFO 

618
00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:10,560
in the same spot. 
One time. 

619
00:34:13,679 --> 00:34:16,159
At one of our Bigfoot 
presentations at a County 

620
00:34:16,159 --> 00:34:20,520
Library in northeastern Ohio, an
elderly gentleman named Alex 

621
00:34:20,520 --> 00:34:24,320
Morrison from Niles, OH came up 
and spoke to me after the event.

622
00:34:24,320 --> 00:34:27,800
He informed me that he had had a
Bigfoot sighting in his youth. 

623
00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:31,239
As I was scribbling down what he
told me over the phone a few 

624
00:34:31,239 --> 00:34:33,920
weeks later, it soon became 
apparent that his sighting 

625
00:34:33,920 --> 00:34:36,800
didn't occur in Ohio. 
But what the hell, it was a good

626
00:34:36,800 --> 00:34:38,679
story, so I'll include it here. 
Anyway. 

627
00:34:39,719 --> 00:34:44,480
It was 1942 or 43, and Alex was 
12 years old and living in a 

628
00:34:44,480 --> 00:34:48,480
mining camp called Mayflower in 
Lee County, Virginia, very near 

629
00:34:48,480 --> 00:34:52,520
the Kentucky State line. 
One day Alex, bucket in hand, 

630
00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:55,560
left the house and made the long
climb up the mountain to the hog

631
00:34:55,560 --> 00:34:58,920
pan at the very top. 
When he reached the summit, he 

632
00:34:58,920 --> 00:35:01,960
set the bucket down and was 
surprised to see a six foot 

633
00:35:01,960 --> 00:35:05,400
something with reddish brown 
hair standing there staring back

634
00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,680
at him. 
He stated that it looked to him 

635
00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,960
like it was a young adult, maybe
in its 20s, and bore A 

636
00:35:10,960 --> 00:35:14,720
resemblance to Chewbacca. 
He said that he was close enough

637
00:35:14,720 --> 00:35:16,440
that he could have shaken hands 
with it. 

638
00:35:17,280 --> 00:35:20,160
After a moment, the creature 
turned around and simply walked 

639
00:35:20,160 --> 00:35:21,920
away in the direction of 
Kentucky. 

640
00:35:23,000 --> 00:35:25,880
Alex said that it never turned 
and looked back at him, but did 

641
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:29,320
swing its arms just like the 
creature we now know as Patty 

642
00:35:29,480 --> 00:35:33,880
did in the Patterson Gimlin film
from California taken in 1968. 

643
00:35:34,720 --> 00:35:37,560
I asked him if he was afraid and
what did he think it was? 

644
00:35:38,120 --> 00:35:40,960
Well, he didn't know what it was
because he never saw anything 

645
00:35:40,960 --> 00:35:44,280
like that before and it wasn't 
until several years later when 

646
00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,520
he saw the PG film and read 
about other reports of these 

647
00:35:47,520 --> 00:35:51,040
seldom seen creatures that he 
realized that he had seen one, a

648
00:35:51,040 --> 00:35:53,960
real live Bigfoot. 
He stated that when the 

649
00:35:53,960 --> 00:35:57,080
encounter took place, he wasn't 
at all scared of the thing. 

650
00:35:57,520 --> 00:36:00,680
It had turned away from him 
first and walked away from him. 

651
00:36:01,440 --> 00:36:04,040
He even followed after it but 
couldn't keep up with it. 

652
00:36:04,440 --> 00:36:07,280
He said that he kept the 
incident to himself and told no 

653
00:36:07,280 --> 00:36:11,160
one until years later after 
seeing the PG film and then knew

654
00:36:11,160 --> 00:36:15,800
that he too had seen one. 
He also recalled that some two 

655
00:36:15,800 --> 00:36:19,080
years before that incident took 
place, when Alex was around 10 

656
00:36:19,080 --> 00:36:22,160
years old, something else took 
place that may have been Bigfoot

657
00:36:22,160 --> 00:36:25,440
playing the part of a villain. 
One night outside the Morrison 

658
00:36:25,440 --> 00:36:28,920
home, the stillness of the night
was broken by the sounds of what

659
00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:31,280
sounded like a screaming woman 
being murdered. 

660
00:36:31,880 --> 00:36:34,560
It came from up the hill from 
the house toward the hog pen at 

661
00:36:34,560 --> 00:36:37,400
the top. 
The next day when Mr. Morrison 

662
00:36:37,400 --> 00:36:40,560
and some of the boys went up the
hill to investigate, they found 

663
00:36:40,560 --> 00:36:45,040
a 200 LB hog with one of the 
hams missing and the poor animal

664
00:36:45,040 --> 00:36:48,600
was still alive. 
Something had eaten from the pig

665
00:36:48,680 --> 00:36:52,240
as it held it down. 
It didn't appear to be a cat 

666
00:36:52,240 --> 00:36:55,720
that did it as it wasn't 
scratched anywhere, it just had 

667
00:36:55,720 --> 00:36:58,760
one leg chewed off. 
They had to kill and butcher the

668
00:36:58,760 --> 00:37:00,880
hog as it surely wouldn't have 
lived long. 

669
00:37:03,320 --> 00:37:06,960
Brookville, IN resident Sean 
Mackley used to live in 

670
00:37:06,960 --> 00:37:11,280
Cambridge, OH until 1993. 
His home was located on the 

671
00:37:11,280 --> 00:37:15,120
extreme West End of Cambridge on
Westview Road at the junction of

672
00:37:15,120 --> 00:37:20,280
it and McPherson Rd. 
Bigfoot was a part of Sean's 

673
00:37:20,280 --> 00:37:22,680
life as well as his parents and 
siblings too. 

674
00:37:23,200 --> 00:37:25,360
They didn't discuss it with 
others outside of their own 

675
00:37:25,360 --> 00:37:29,160
family for fear of being made 
fun of or called crazy, but they

676
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,960
feel certain that some of their 
neighbors have had to have heard

677
00:37:31,960 --> 00:37:34,320
the screams, howls and wood 
knocks at night. 

678
00:37:35,000 --> 00:37:37,680
Those living nearby might even 
have witnessed the creatures 

679
00:37:37,800 --> 00:37:40,720
like the members of the Meckley 
family did on more than one 

680
00:37:40,720 --> 00:37:43,760
occasion. 
One night, as Sean and his two 

681
00:37:43,760 --> 00:37:46,960
brothers lay in their beds, they
heard stomping noises outside 

682
00:37:46,960 --> 00:37:50,120
their bedroom window at the end 
of their mobile home on Westview

683
00:37:50,120 --> 00:37:52,360
Rd. 
Shuffling noises were heard, 

684
00:37:52,480 --> 00:37:56,120
followed by a loud kaboom. 
The whole end of the trailer 

685
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:59,560
fell as something knocked it off
its concrete block foundation. 

686
00:38:00,440 --> 00:38:04,320
On another occasion one night at
around 10:30 PM, Sean and his 

687
00:38:04,320 --> 00:38:06,480
family were inside their home 
playing cards. 

688
00:38:06,920 --> 00:38:09,520
Sean was sitting with his back 
to the window and for some 

689
00:38:09,520 --> 00:38:11,760
reason he turned round and 
looked outside. 

690
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,960
He got the shock of his life 
when he saw a huge dark hairy 

691
00:38:15,960 --> 00:38:18,600
creature crouched down staring 
back in at him. 

692
00:38:19,560 --> 00:38:22,480
The very next night they heard 
noises outside and opened the 

693
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:26,400
trailer door to see a Sasquatch 
standing next to their home, its

694
00:38:26,400 --> 00:38:30,600
head matching the height of the 
roof. 6 people witnessed this, 

695
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:34,320
but again they were reluctant to
discuss it outside of their own 

696
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,600
family. 
One night the sounds of rocks 

697
00:38:37,600 --> 00:38:40,720
were heard as they bounced off 
the sides and top of their home.

698
00:38:41,160 --> 00:38:43,960
They opened the door and shone a
flashlight into the darkness. 

699
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,720
They discovered on a tree stump 
in their yard a large Bigfoot 

700
00:38:47,720 --> 00:38:49,600
just sitting there watching 
their trailer. 

701
00:38:49,960 --> 00:38:53,040
Its eyes glowed an eerie 
yellowish white reflection as 

702
00:38:53,040 --> 00:38:55,360
the beam of light made contact 
with the beast. 

703
00:38:56,520 --> 00:39:00,240
Another time. 3 of the boys were
walking down Westview Rd. around

704
00:39:00,240 --> 00:39:03,920
6:30 in the late afternoon. 
It was still daylight outside. 

705
00:39:04,120 --> 00:39:06,520
They heard a noise from the 
woods beside the road and 

706
00:39:06,520 --> 00:39:08,240
stopped and stared in that 
direction. 

707
00:39:08,880 --> 00:39:11,760
A moment later, they saw a 
Bigfoot bolt from the area where

708
00:39:11,760 --> 00:39:15,080
they had heard the sound, only 
to be followed by another and 

709
00:39:15,080 --> 00:39:19,600
then another three altogether. 
They ran back home in fright. 

710
00:39:20,360 --> 00:39:23,120
Sean said they used to go back 
into the wooded areas around his

711
00:39:23,120 --> 00:39:26,600
home, and near the junkyard that
was owned by the Rayburn family,

712
00:39:27,120 --> 00:39:30,400
they found twisted, broken trees
and structures he called nests. 

713
00:39:30,760 --> 00:39:34,080
They also found caves. 
Sometimes they would see large 

714
00:39:34,080 --> 00:39:37,080
barefooted tracks along the 
Creek, some bigger than human 

715
00:39:37,080 --> 00:39:39,080
size. 
And then there were the screams 

716
00:39:39,080 --> 00:39:43,600
and howls at night. 
In 1992, a year before Sean 

717
00:39:43,600 --> 00:39:46,400
moved away to Indiana, he says 
that there was a traffic 

718
00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:50,560
accident on US Route 40 between 
Ohio State Patrol barracks and 

719
00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,720
Tunnel Hill that would put it 
about even with the back end of 

720
00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:56,960
Rayburn's junkyard. 
A car had been over on its top, 

721
00:39:57,120 --> 00:39:59,400
and a female was trapped inside 
the vehicle. 

722
00:40:00,960 --> 00:40:04,120
Sean says that he and his family
members all had police scanners 

723
00:40:04,120 --> 00:40:07,280
and CB radios in those days and 
they listen to the chatter on 

724
00:40:07,280 --> 00:40:10,280
them all the time. 
There were reports of a hairy 

725
00:40:10,280 --> 00:40:13,000
creature coming out of the woods
and getting to the car. 

726
00:40:13,720 --> 00:40:16,800
I can only assume that if this 
is true, someone had to have 

727
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:19,240
witnessed it. 
It must have heard the driver 

728
00:40:19,240 --> 00:40:22,280
moaning or screaming, or maybe 
it saw the accident. 

729
00:40:22,520 --> 00:40:25,720
But anyway, it pulled the door 
off the upside down car and 

730
00:40:25,720 --> 00:40:28,720
threw it down, then Lombard back
into the swampy area from where 

731
00:40:28,720 --> 00:40:31,680
it came. 
Sean says that the CB radio and 

732
00:40:31,680 --> 00:40:34,440
police scanner were overwhelmed 
with talk of a Bigfoot being 

733
00:40:34,440 --> 00:40:38,200
seen at the area of the wreck. 
Several different transmissions 

734
00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:40,280
were heard that night in 
reference to what had taken 

735
00:40:40,280 --> 00:40:43,200
place. 
A short while later, after 

736
00:40:43,200 --> 00:40:46,160
things got quieted down, they 
started hearing reports from the

737
00:40:46,160 --> 00:40:49,080
scanner on the sheriff's 
frequency and then the Ohio 

738
00:40:49,080 --> 00:40:52,120
State Patrols channel that the 
whole Bigfoot thing was not 

739
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,800
true. 
Yes, there had really been an 

740
00:40:54,800 --> 00:40:58,720
accident at that location, but 
no Bigfoot was seen that night. 

741
00:40:59,240 --> 00:41:00,880
Really. 
I wonder. 

742
00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,120
This next story was referred to 
me by friend and fellow 

743
00:41:05,120 --> 00:41:08,720
researcher Brian Tull. 
It occurred in Champaign County,

744
00:41:08,720 --> 00:41:12,760
Ohio. 14 year old Landon 
Stapleton was spending the night

745
00:41:12,760 --> 00:41:17,080
with a friend on July of 2017. 
The boys were in the backyard 

746
00:41:17,080 --> 00:41:21,600
around 7:30 PM when Landon saw 
what he described as a black 8 

747
00:41:21,600 --> 00:41:25,480
foot tall creature walking on 2 
legs about 70 yards away. 

748
00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,600
The creature didn't pay any 
attention to the boys and 

749
00:41:28,600 --> 00:41:31,120
appeared to be watching the 
ground as if it was looking for 

750
00:41:31,120 --> 00:41:34,080
something. 
Further inspection of the area 

751
00:41:34,080 --> 00:41:37,760
the next day didn't reveal any 
tracks, but it did show broken 

752
00:41:37,760 --> 00:41:42,600
brush and sticks at the site. 
North America isn't the only 

753
00:41:42,600 --> 00:41:45,000
place where strange Bigfoot 
creatures are seen. 

754
00:41:45,600 --> 00:41:48,960
Let's travel South to Brazil and
read about what Robert Wagner 

755
00:41:48,960 --> 00:41:52,200
saw while serving in the Air 
Force there in 1969. 

756
00:41:53,240 --> 00:41:56,960
Bob was in the US Air Force 600 
and third photo mapping wing. 

757
00:41:57,320 --> 00:42:01,080
He and the helicopter pilot had 
flown N from Campo Grande headed

758
00:42:01,080 --> 00:42:04,720
toward the mighty Amazon River. 
As they were flying over the 

759
00:42:04,720 --> 00:42:08,360
Mato Grosso region about 40 
miles South of the river, they 

760
00:42:08,360 --> 00:42:11,960
were very surprised to see a 
huge upright standing dark 

761
00:42:11,960 --> 00:42:15,600
figure run through the four foot
high grass and make an escape 

762
00:42:15,600 --> 00:42:17,480
into a lone clump of trees 
nearby. 

763
00:42:18,160 --> 00:42:21,040
The pilot, who was a resident of
the country couldn't believe 

764
00:42:21,040 --> 00:42:24,000
what he had just seen and he 
made several low passes around 

765
00:42:24,000 --> 00:42:26,600
the trees trying to see the 
creature again that was 

766
00:42:26,600 --> 00:42:29,400
concealed inside. 
He wasn't successful. 

767
00:42:30,160 --> 00:42:32,440
He said that the largest 
creatures he had ever seen when 

768
00:42:32,440 --> 00:42:36,280
flying over this area were 
tapirs, large hog like animals 

769
00:42:36,400 --> 00:42:39,520
that have a long snout. 
This is not as long as an 

770
00:42:39,520 --> 00:42:41,680
elephant's but more like an 
anteater's. 

771
00:42:42,080 --> 00:42:46,200
But tapirs stand on 4 feet, not 
upright on 2 as this creature 

772
00:42:46,200 --> 00:42:49,200
had done. 
Bob said that the trees it was 

773
00:42:49,200 --> 00:42:52,560
hiding in were 10 to 15 feet 
high and he could see that the 

774
00:42:52,560 --> 00:42:56,000
beast entered into them that it 
was 2 to 4 feet shorter than the

775
00:42:56,000 --> 00:42:59,000
trees were. 
They continued on to the river 

776
00:42:59,000 --> 00:43:01,040
without any more contact with 
the animal. 

777
00:43:01,920 --> 00:43:05,400
This experience made Bob very 
curious as to what exactly he 

778
00:43:05,400 --> 00:43:08,960
and the pilot had seen that day.
He began a quest to find out 

779
00:43:08,960 --> 00:43:12,360
more information from the local 
residents of the area in which 

780
00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:16,520
it all happened. 
He learned that in 1963 there 

781
00:43:16,520 --> 00:43:19,640
was a major drought in the 
region and man and beast both 

782
00:43:19,640 --> 00:43:21,600
suffered terribly from lack of 
water. 

783
00:43:22,400 --> 00:43:25,280
The Rockefeller family owned 
millions of acres of land in 

784
00:43:25,280 --> 00:43:28,360
Brazil and had several thousands
of cattle that they had raised 

785
00:43:28,360 --> 00:43:30,320
there. 
These were herded into a 

786
00:43:30,320 --> 00:43:33,000
different area at night than 
they were during the daytime 

787
00:43:33,160 --> 00:43:36,760
when they would graze and drink.
There were men whose jobs it was

788
00:43:36,760 --> 00:43:39,160
to run the animals from the 
grazing area to the bedding 

789
00:43:39,160 --> 00:43:41,600
areas. 
These men would be nearby the 

790
00:43:41,600 --> 00:43:44,720
animals at night. 
They began hearing a terrible 

791
00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:47,360
bawling and bellowing coming 
from the darkness where the 

792
00:43:47,360 --> 00:43:50,080
cattle were kept. 
The men were too frightened to 

793
00:43:50,080 --> 00:43:52,920
see what was happening during 
the night, but when sunrise 

794
00:43:52,920 --> 00:43:56,040
came, some of the braver ones 
ventured into the area amongst 

795
00:43:56,040 --> 00:43:58,760
the cattle. 
Some of the herd was dead. 

796
00:43:59,200 --> 00:44:01,880
It appeared that their tongues 
had been pulled completely out 

797
00:44:01,880 --> 00:44:04,600
of their heads. 
There was very little blood left

798
00:44:04,600 --> 00:44:07,960
in their bodies. 
I don't know how many nights 

799
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:11,200
this happened, but the locals 
claimed that a beast known as 

800
00:44:11,200 --> 00:44:14,000
Mopping Gwari was responsible 
for the slaughter. 

801
00:44:14,720 --> 00:44:16,280
Is that what had caused the 
carnage? 

802
00:44:16,560 --> 00:44:19,960
I don't know, but I think to be 
able to pull a tongue completely

803
00:44:19,960 --> 00:44:23,280
out of a cow's mouth would 
require a hand complete with an 

804
00:44:23,280 --> 00:44:26,360
opposable thumb plus a heck of a
lot of strength. 

805
00:44:26,720 --> 00:44:30,480
Something a Brazilian Bigfoot or
Mopping Gwari would most likely 

806
00:44:30,480 --> 00:44:36,000
have. 
Knox County, Ohio Once again I 

807
00:44:36,000 --> 00:44:38,120
received information from the 
Norris Claim. 

808
00:44:38,480 --> 00:44:41,640
It's a gold mining section of 
the Caucasong River in Knox 

809
00:44:41,640 --> 00:44:44,400
County, Ohio. 
My second and third books, 

810
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,080
Hidden Encounters and Screams in
the Night, both contain stories 

811
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:51,400
from this area. 
Dan Waldman, whose tale is in my

812
00:44:51,400 --> 00:44:54,480
third book, contacted me about 
an incident that happened to him

813
00:44:54,480 --> 00:44:57,360
one night during the summer of 
2017. 

814
00:44:58,760 --> 00:45:01,840
Dan had been riding his ATV 
between two cornfields on the 

815
00:45:01,840 --> 00:45:04,640
property to access some other 
sections of the river. 

816
00:45:05,160 --> 00:45:08,080
He wanted to search for the gold
that he and others believed was 

817
00:45:08,080 --> 00:45:10,400
in the meandering waters of the 
cocosing. 

818
00:45:11,200 --> 00:45:14,200
He had ridden down the path many
times before, quite often 

819
00:45:14,200 --> 00:45:17,800
spooking bedded deer from the 
resting spots, sometimes even 

820
00:45:17,800 --> 00:45:22,400
late at night. 
Although it was around 11:30 PM,

821
00:45:22,560 --> 00:45:24,480
Dan was not concerned for his 
safety. 

822
00:45:24,680 --> 00:45:27,640
He often did this, and even 
earlier that same day he had 

823
00:45:27,640 --> 00:45:31,120
ridden through the same area. 
This time was different though, 

824
00:45:32,000 --> 00:45:35,120
as he slowly motored along the 
quads, headlight piercing the 

825
00:45:35,120 --> 00:45:38,040
darkness ahead. 
Dan was instantly filled with a 

826
00:45:38,040 --> 00:45:41,600
terrible feeling of dread, a 
feeling that caused him to take 

827
00:45:41,600 --> 00:45:44,400
his thumb off the throttle and 
come to a complete stop. 

828
00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:48,840
He couldn't bring himself to 
proceed any further, the corn on

829
00:45:48,840 --> 00:45:51,840
both sides of the trail was over
his head and it was as if 

830
00:45:51,920 --> 00:45:54,200
something was hidden, telling 
him to leave. 

831
00:45:54,960 --> 00:45:58,880
He said a voice in his head was 
telling him to get out now, turn

832
00:45:58,880 --> 00:46:02,400
around and go back. 
I explained to him about 

833
00:46:02,400 --> 00:46:06,160
infrasound, which are very low 
frequency sound waves that our 

834
00:46:06,160 --> 00:46:09,520
human brains can't hear, but 
that our ears receive signals 

835
00:46:09,520 --> 00:46:12,520
from nonetheless. 
They cause feelings of 

836
00:46:12,520 --> 00:46:16,120
uneasiness, dread, sometimes 
fear or even terror. 

837
00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:19,880
People experiencing this have 
told of feeling sick to their 

838
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:23,600
stomachs, headaches, chest 
pains, sweating and a handful of

839
00:46:23,600 --> 00:46:27,240
other symptoms. 
I myself even had an experience 

840
00:46:27,240 --> 00:46:30,880
once in Coshocton County that I 
won't go into here, but which is

841
00:46:30,880 --> 00:46:33,640
mentioned in my first book, 
Standing in the Shadows. 

842
00:46:34,760 --> 00:46:38,120
When I asked Dan if the voice in
his head was his own telling him

843
00:46:38,120 --> 00:46:41,640
to leave, he said he didn't 
know, but it was very convincing

844
00:46:41,760 --> 00:46:44,600
and he turned the machine around
and rolled back in the direction

845
00:46:44,600 --> 00:46:48,000
from which he came. 
Once he had ridden about 50 

846
00:46:48,000 --> 00:46:51,360
yards, he began to feel a lot 
better and when he returned to 

847
00:46:51,360 --> 00:46:54,840
where he was camped about 200 
yards away, he said all the 

848
00:46:54,840 --> 00:46:58,480
symptoms were gone. 
I explained to him that some 

849
00:46:58,480 --> 00:47:02,120
people believe that Bigfoot has 
the ability to talk to them with

850
00:47:02,120 --> 00:47:05,840
some sort of mental telepathy, 
which they refer to as mind 

851
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,920
speak. 
I'm not saying that I personally

852
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:12,000
believe in it or not, I'm just 
saying that some people do. 

853
00:47:13,080 --> 00:47:15,840
I have had other individuals 
with sightings and encounters 

854
00:47:15,960 --> 00:47:19,040
tell me similar stories, so I'm 
just including it in the 

855
00:47:19,040 --> 00:47:21,400
narrative. 
Because Dan was adamant about 

856
00:47:21,400 --> 00:47:24,760
hearing a voice in his head. 
He can't say whether or not it 

857
00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:28,240
was his own voice, a Bigfoot 
communicating with him, or maybe

858
00:47:28,240 --> 00:47:31,600
even his guardian Angel warning 
him of danger, but he was 

859
00:47:31,600 --> 00:47:36,000
positive he kept hearing it. 
He and I both think it's very 

860
00:47:36,000 --> 00:47:39,360
likely due to the high number of
deer that frequent the area that

861
00:47:39,360 --> 00:47:42,400
possibly one or more of the 
Sasquatch were closing in for 

862
00:47:42,400 --> 00:47:45,280
the kill and they didn't want 
Dan interfering with their 

863
00:47:45,280 --> 00:47:48,640
dinner plans. 
Dan returned to the very place 

864
00:47:48,640 --> 00:47:51,320
the next day and other than him 
feeling like he was being 

865
00:47:51,320 --> 00:47:53,440
watched by someone, everything 
was fine. 

866
00:47:54,040 --> 00:47:57,200
He continues to search for gold 
at the river and keeps his eyes,

867
00:47:57,200 --> 00:48:03,280
ears and gut feelings at the 
ready. 16 year old Steve Ernst 

868
00:48:03,360 --> 00:48:07,040
was very excited to finally get 
an invitation to go Coon hunting

869
00:48:07,040 --> 00:48:10,000
with his friend and the friend's
stepfather along with another 

870
00:48:10,000 --> 00:48:12,480
man. 
They left after sundown from 

871
00:48:12,480 --> 00:48:15,680
their home in Brown County and 
headed east towards the Shawnee 

872
00:48:15,680 --> 00:48:19,600
State Forest on the eastern edge
of Adams and Scioto counties. 

873
00:48:20,640 --> 00:48:23,120
When the hunters arrived, the 
dogs were released from their 

874
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:26,120
boxes in the back of the truck 
and they vanished into the night

875
00:48:26,120 --> 00:48:28,480
in search of coons to tree for 
their masters. 

876
00:48:29,600 --> 00:48:32,480
After going two or three miles 
deep into the rugged terrain of 

877
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:35,680
southern Ohio's hills and 
hollows, it began to snow, 

878
00:48:35,880 --> 00:48:38,360
making the late October night a 
little bit colder. 

879
00:48:39,200 --> 00:48:42,960
Steve was the first one to see 
them, bare human like footprints

880
00:48:43,120 --> 00:48:44,760
that were adjacent to the Creek 
bank. 

881
00:48:44,760 --> 00:48:47,800
He was following some 10 to 15 
of them. 

882
00:48:48,080 --> 00:48:51,440
They looked very genuine in the 
fresh dusting of new snow that 

883
00:48:51,440 --> 00:48:53,080
had just begun to cover the 
ground. 

884
00:48:53,960 --> 00:48:57,240
How the two older guys were able
to pull this off was a mystery 

885
00:48:57,240 --> 00:48:59,200
to him. 
With it being so cold and 

886
00:48:59,200 --> 00:49:02,040
everything, how could they have 
taken off their shoes and socks 

887
00:49:02,160 --> 00:49:04,280
and left barefoot tracks for him
to find? 

888
00:49:04,840 --> 00:49:09,040
Plus they looked huge, 16 inches
long and six or seven inches 

889
00:49:09,040 --> 00:49:12,040
wide. 
At least the tracks had gone up 

890
00:49:12,040 --> 00:49:14,800
high on the bank and out of 
sight of a small light affixed 

891
00:49:14,800 --> 00:49:17,360
to his head. 
Steve circled back and 

892
00:49:17,360 --> 00:49:21,000
approached the 2 elder hunters 
and said something like nice try

893
00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,480
guys trying to scare us with the
big footprints. 

894
00:49:24,280 --> 00:49:27,600
These men had not seen the 
tracks yet and had no clue as to

895
00:49:27,600 --> 00:49:30,720
what Steve was talking about, so
they continued on the way they 

896
00:49:30,720 --> 00:49:33,280
had been headed. 
When the group arrived at the 

897
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:36,520
trackway again, Steve accused 
the older men of having made the

898
00:49:36,520 --> 00:49:40,040
prints to scare the boys. 
He was very soon to dismiss that

899
00:49:40,040 --> 00:49:43,280
thought when the actions of the 
two adults convinced him that 

900
00:49:43,280 --> 00:49:45,200
they weren't responsible for 
this deed. 

901
00:49:45,800 --> 00:49:48,720
No, the two men grew very 
concerned when they examined the

902
00:49:48,720 --> 00:49:50,680
tracks. 
They told the two boys to 

903
00:49:50,680 --> 00:49:53,400
quicken their pace and not get 
out of sight of each other. 

904
00:49:54,440 --> 00:49:57,680
They continued following the far
off barking of the dogs and not 

905
00:49:57,680 --> 00:50:00,480
long after finding the large 
footprints, something else 

906
00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:02,760
happened that gave them all 
quite a scare. 

907
00:50:03,520 --> 00:50:06,800
Off in the distance but still 
visible, appeared what looked 

908
00:50:06,800 --> 00:50:11,240
like a blue ball of flame. 
Not an orb, but an actual flame 

909
00:50:11,320 --> 00:50:13,720
as if from a fire or a propane 
stove. 

910
00:50:14,200 --> 00:50:17,800
It was even flickering around 
the edges as the foursome 

911
00:50:17,800 --> 00:50:20,000
continued, now at a hastened 
pace. 

912
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,400
The blue flame kept up with 
them, some distance away, but 

913
00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:27,720
still visible. 
This continued for over an hour,

914
00:50:27,840 --> 00:50:31,080
and whenever the men would stop,
the blue flame would also stop, 

915
00:50:31,280 --> 00:50:33,560
as if it was watching them, 
waiting for them. 

916
00:50:34,360 --> 00:50:37,160
The two adults tried to act 
brave and protective of the two 

917
00:50:37,160 --> 00:50:40,240
boys, but Steve could tell the 
men were afraid of this flame 

918
00:50:40,240 --> 00:50:43,400
too. 
Finally, the glow disappeared 

919
00:50:43,400 --> 00:50:46,960
and the group felt great relief.
That soon changed when a 

920
00:50:46,960 --> 00:50:50,320
mournful moaning sound came from
the darkness and frightened them

921
00:50:50,320 --> 00:50:53,040
all again. 
It sounded like a woman in pain 

922
00:50:53,040 --> 00:50:57,120
or grieving, then crying. 
Steve felt the hair on the back 

923
00:50:57,120 --> 00:50:59,520
of his neck stand up as one of 
the men cried. 

924
00:50:59,720 --> 00:51:02,720
What in the bleep is that? 
Which was followed by the 

925
00:51:02,720 --> 00:51:04,120
command. 
Let's go. 

926
00:51:05,080 --> 00:51:07,680
In their haste to get out of the
woods and back to the truck, 

927
00:51:07,920 --> 00:51:10,640
there was a time when they lost 
their way and they weren't even 

928
00:51:10,640 --> 00:51:14,160
sure which direction to head. 
All the while, the moaning, 

929
00:51:14,160 --> 00:51:17,120
crying sounds from the woods 
followed them and continued 

930
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:19,040
scaring and tormenting the 
group. 

931
00:51:20,600 --> 00:51:22,960
Next. 
As if that weren't enough, these

932
00:51:22,960 --> 00:51:26,520
noises were replaced with what 
sounded exactly like a baby 

933
00:51:26,520 --> 00:51:30,280
crying, just like an infant that
needs to be fed or changing. 

934
00:51:31,200 --> 00:51:33,720
This went on for about 10 
minutes as the group scrambled 

935
00:51:33,720 --> 00:51:36,520
along, now headed in the right 
direction of the truck. 

936
00:51:37,560 --> 00:51:40,800
Finally, the crying stopped, and
the only sound the hunters heard

937
00:51:40,960 --> 00:51:43,640
besides their own hearts beating
in their chests and their own 

938
00:51:43,640 --> 00:51:46,880
feet running toward the safety 
of the truck was the cracking 

939
00:51:46,880 --> 00:51:50,960
and breaking of sticks and brush
as something unseen, something 

940
00:51:50,960 --> 00:51:54,600
very big, trailed along behind 
them as if escorting them out of

941
00:51:54,600 --> 00:51:57,680
the woods. 
As they neared the truck parked 

942
00:51:57,680 --> 00:52:00,520
by the edge of the woods, the 
noises behind them stopped. 

943
00:52:00,960 --> 00:52:04,200
It seemed like their guide had 
done its job in seeing them back

944
00:52:04,200 --> 00:52:07,520
to their ride. 
They piled into the vehicle and 

945
00:52:07,520 --> 00:52:10,320
while placing some of their gear
in the bed of the truck, they 

946
00:52:10,320 --> 00:52:13,880
were surprised to see all the 
coonhounds already huddled in 

947
00:52:13,880 --> 00:52:17,160
their boxes in the back. 
As if they too had had a 

948
00:52:17,160 --> 00:52:21,400
terrifying ordeal in the Shawnee
State Forest that night, one of 

949
00:52:21,400 --> 00:52:23,600
which none of them will ever 
forget. 

950
00:52:25,480 --> 00:52:29,840
In October of 2014, Sarah Burton
and her husband were travelling 

951
00:52:29,840 --> 00:52:33,840
along State Route 13 about one 
mile north of Somerset, OH. 

952
00:52:34,480 --> 00:52:38,520
At approximately 12:30 AMA large
dark creature came running out 

953
00:52:38,520 --> 00:52:41,480
of the night and collided with 
the side of their vehicle. 

954
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:45,160
Sarah said that they thought for
an instant that it was a dog 

955
00:52:45,320 --> 00:52:48,920
because it was on all fours, but
she said the head of the animal 

956
00:52:48,920 --> 00:52:50,720
was taller than the hood of her 
car. 

957
00:52:51,120 --> 00:52:54,040
It had a snout, upright ears and
long legs. 

958
00:52:54,640 --> 00:52:57,760
It was brownish grey colour and 
she saw yellow eyes. 

959
00:52:58,080 --> 00:53:00,360
She did not notice if it had a 
tail or not. 

960
00:53:01,280 --> 00:53:04,000
They turned the car around and 
went back to see if it was lying

961
00:53:04,000 --> 00:53:07,280
there in the road and even came 
back the next day but they never

962
00:53:07,280 --> 00:53:11,800
did see any trace of it again. 
They drove on to Somerset after 

963
00:53:11,800 --> 00:53:15,160
hitting the animal and inspected
the car in a well lit area. 

964
00:53:15,680 --> 00:53:19,080
The side of the car was dented 
and covered in blood, snot and 

965
00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:23,000
saliva and it stank so bad that 
they had to wash it that night. 

966
00:53:23,840 --> 00:53:28,400
Could they have hit a dog man? 
Sarah also had an experience 

967
00:53:28,400 --> 00:53:31,240
when she was around 11 years old
when she and a friend were 

968
00:53:31,240 --> 00:53:34,360
walking down the railroad tracks
on a Sunday afternoon in 

969
00:53:34,360 --> 00:53:36,840
Glenford. 
She heard something crunching 

970
00:53:36,840 --> 00:53:40,080
the leaves behind them, and both
girls turned around to see what 

971
00:53:40,080 --> 00:53:44,080
they said look like a gorilla 
crouched down watching them 30 

972
00:53:44,080 --> 00:53:48,520
feet away. 
An early morning encounter, 

973
00:53:48,520 --> 00:53:52,400
which continued on into the day,
was enough for Estelle Robinson 

974
00:53:52,520 --> 00:53:55,680
to give up Turkey hunting near 
Kentucky's Cave Ron Lake. 

975
00:53:56,240 --> 00:54:01,440
This happened in April of 1995. 
Mr. Robinson and his wife were 

976
00:54:01,440 --> 00:54:04,680
awakened by something as dawn 
was breaking at their campsite 

977
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:07,640
off Route 519, not far from the 
lake. 

978
00:54:08,560 --> 00:54:11,520
As he dressed in his hunting 
clothes, the couple kept hearing

979
00:54:11,520 --> 00:54:15,080
hollering and trees shaking. 
This occurred very close to 

980
00:54:15,080 --> 00:54:18,160
their tent and they also heard 
stomping noises in the brush. 

981
00:54:18,880 --> 00:54:21,920
Estill was still determined to 
hunt for turkeys as planned 

982
00:54:22,280 --> 00:54:25,800
despite the commotion coming 
from the woods, so he left his 

983
00:54:25,800 --> 00:54:30,040
loaded 44 Magnum revolver with 
his wife at camp and told her 

984
00:54:30,040 --> 00:54:32,840
that if whatever it was came 
across the Creek toward their 

985
00:54:32,840 --> 00:54:37,720
tent to shoot at it. 
He then proceeded to set off 

986
00:54:37,720 --> 00:54:41,560
into the woods in search of a 
Turkey, a still set up about 1/4

987
00:54:41,560 --> 00:54:45,000
mile away from his camp and 
almost immediately began to hear

988
00:54:45,000 --> 00:54:47,480
something big running through 
the woods below him. 

989
00:54:48,200 --> 00:54:51,200
When the maker of the noises 
went across the Creek, he said 

990
00:54:51,200 --> 00:54:54,000
it sounded like an elephant or a
herd of Buffalo. 

991
00:54:54,440 --> 00:54:58,560
Whatever it was, it was big. 
He remembered he kept hearing 

992
00:54:58,560 --> 00:55:01,560
the hollering noises and the 
tree shaking, and at this point 

993
00:55:01,680 --> 00:55:04,680
he also started to hear tree 
knocks coming from the thick 

994
00:55:04,680 --> 00:55:07,720
woods. 
Estill then decided that sitting

995
00:55:07,720 --> 00:55:11,360
there with just a shotgun with 
Turkey loads was not enough to 

996
00:55:11,360 --> 00:55:14,240
protect him from whatever 
prowled just out of view. 

997
00:55:14,920 --> 00:55:18,200
He abandoned his hunt and headed
back towards his camp where his 

998
00:55:18,200 --> 00:55:22,400
wife and his 44 Meg were. 
Along the way, he came to a spot

999
00:55:22,400 --> 00:55:25,880
where something had come up out 
of a Creek, crossed a road and 

1000
00:55:25,880 --> 00:55:29,640
made the road wet as if someone 
had dragged a wet mop across it.

1001
00:55:30,400 --> 00:55:33,320
When Estill rejoined his wife at
camp, they could hear the 

1002
00:55:33,320 --> 00:55:36,360
creature whooping and hollering 
up on top of the Ridge above 

1003
00:55:36,360 --> 00:55:38,960
them. 
Aside from the noises made by 

1004
00:55:38,960 --> 00:55:42,320
the unseen beast, no other 
sounds came from the forest that

1005
00:55:42,320 --> 00:55:44,840
day. 
It was very still in the woods. 

1006
00:55:45,000 --> 00:55:48,160
Estill told me it was the last 
time he haunted there. 

1007
00:55:48,520 --> 00:55:54,760
They never went back. 
One September weekend in 2017 we

1008
00:55:54,760 --> 00:55:58,760
were invited to Mount Perry, OH 
to ride and talk about the Ohio 

1009
00:55:58,760 --> 00:56:02,440
Grassman on the Zanesville and 
Western Scenic Railroad. 

1010
00:56:02,880 --> 00:56:05,320
We met and talked with several 
people on board about their 

1011
00:56:05,320 --> 00:56:07,240
Bigfoot sightings and 
encounters. 

1012
00:56:07,800 --> 00:56:10,240
One of these stories is 
presented to you now. 

1013
00:56:11,360 --> 00:56:14,880
Thomas Wortman was acting as a 
tour guide, driving his wife and

1014
00:56:14,880 --> 00:56:17,920
sister-in-law down into the 
rugged area where he grew up 

1015
00:56:17,920 --> 00:56:20,520
years ago. 
Nestled in the heart of the 

1016
00:56:20,520 --> 00:56:24,320
Wayne National Forest, Tom at 
one time called this area near 

1017
00:56:24,320 --> 00:56:28,520
New Straitsville home. 
Many strange tales of Spooks, 

1018
00:56:28,520 --> 00:56:32,280
monsters and Bigfoot had come 
Tom's way over the years, and he

1019
00:56:32,280 --> 00:56:35,040
enjoyed telling the stories to 
the two women in the car that 

1020
00:56:35,040 --> 00:56:38,000
day. 
As the trio drove down Stone 

1021
00:56:38,000 --> 00:56:42,000
Church Hollow Rd. just off Route
93 between Shawnee and New 

1022
00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:45,360
Straitsville, they came to a 
bridge where the roadway crosses

1023
00:56:45,360 --> 00:56:48,600
Monday Creek. 
Tom thought that this would be a

1024
00:56:48,600 --> 00:56:51,240
good place to stop and get out 
of the car to look around in the

1025
00:56:51,240 --> 00:56:53,640
woods a bit. 
He had always been told that 

1026
00:56:53,640 --> 00:56:56,600
Bigfoot travels the creeks to 
commute from one area to 

1027
00:56:56,600 --> 00:56:59,640
another. 
While the two women stayed up in

1028
00:56:59,640 --> 00:57:02,120
the vehicle, Tom scrambled down 
to the Creek. 

1029
00:57:02,640 --> 00:57:05,960
As luck would have it, he did 
find a footprint in the wet soil

1030
00:57:05,960 --> 00:57:09,080
that showed toes. 
Tom took a picture with his 

1031
00:57:09,080 --> 00:57:12,320
phone and as he was looking for 
more tracks, he was suddenly 

1032
00:57:12,320 --> 00:57:16,040
bombarded with basketball sized 
rocks from somewhere above him. 

1033
00:57:16,520 --> 00:57:20,320
At least four large rocks were 
thrown near him as he quickly 

1034
00:57:20,320 --> 00:57:23,960
exited the area. 
The rocks made such a loud noise

1035
00:57:23,960 --> 00:57:26,880
as they splashed into the Creek 
that the women thought Tom had 

1036
00:57:26,880 --> 00:57:30,000
fallen in. 
Tom also recalled the time when 

1037
00:57:30,000 --> 00:57:33,640
he was about 16 years old, he 
and his friend saw a white 

1038
00:57:33,640 --> 00:57:37,360
creature one moonlit night 
walking along a tree line behind

1039
00:57:37,360 --> 00:57:40,320
the town of Shawnee at what he 
called the strip pits. 

1040
00:57:41,160 --> 00:57:44,280
The creature put its hand on a 
large rock and ducked its head 

1041
00:57:44,280 --> 00:57:46,840
under a tree limb, disappearing 
into the woods. 

1042
00:57:47,560 --> 00:57:50,040
The friends thought it was a 
person until the next day. 

1043
00:57:50,480 --> 00:57:53,200
The two boys were riding their 
motorcycles back to the same 

1044
00:57:53,200 --> 00:57:56,960
area and came to the large rock 
and tree limb that the person 

1045
00:57:56,960 --> 00:57:58,640
had ducked under the night 
before. 

1046
00:57:59,600 --> 00:58:02,680
Both boys were shocked to see 
that the rock that this thing 

1047
00:58:02,680 --> 00:58:06,800
had put its hand on for a second
was about 8 feet high and the 

1048
00:58:06,800 --> 00:58:09,640
tree limb that it had ducked 
under so that it wouldn't hit 

1049
00:58:09,640 --> 00:58:11,720
its head was even taller than 
that. 

1050
00:58:12,680 --> 00:58:15,520
There was a pathway going into 
the woods there with a large 

1051
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:19,000
footprint visible. 
This trail LED down into an area

1052
00:58:19,000 --> 00:58:21,360
what Thomas called Whipper Will 
Bottom. 

1053
00:58:22,360 --> 00:58:25,760
Thomas says that his earliest 
recollection of Bigfoot activity

1054
00:58:25,760 --> 00:58:29,080
occurred when he was about 12 
years old and when his dad took 

1055
00:58:29,080 --> 00:58:31,480
him squirrel hunting out off 
Kyota Rd. 

1056
00:58:32,000 --> 00:58:35,480
His father posted the boy in a 
nice location and told him to 

1057
00:58:35,480 --> 00:58:38,880
sit quietly and listen and watch
for squirrels while he moved 

1058
00:58:38,880 --> 00:58:43,000
further down into the woods. 
After about 10 or 15 minutes 

1059
00:58:43,000 --> 00:58:46,480
went by, his dad returned and he
grabbed Thomas by the arm. 

1060
00:58:46,840 --> 00:58:50,520
In a stern voice, he said, come 
on, we have to get out of here. 

1061
00:58:51,240 --> 00:58:54,880
He offered no explanation, only 
repeating that they had to leave

1062
00:58:54,880 --> 00:58:58,280
immediately. 
On their way out of the woods, 

1063
00:58:58,280 --> 00:59:01,760
they came to a Creek and there, 
pressed into the dirt, were 

1064
00:59:01,760 --> 00:59:05,360
large bare footprints some 16 to
18 inches long. 

1065
00:59:05,800 --> 00:59:08,680
They were so fresh that the 
Creek water was just beginning 

1066
00:59:08,680 --> 00:59:12,240
to fill up the tracks. 
This prompted Tom's dad to 

1067
00:59:12,240 --> 00:59:15,440
hustle him out of the woods and 
back to the car even faster. 

1068
00:59:16,480 --> 00:59:19,080
Tom doesn't know what his father
had seen there that day. 

1069
00:59:19,560 --> 00:59:22,120
He says that he never talked 
about it to anyone. 

1070
00:59:22,800 --> 00:59:26,320
The only thing Tom remembers his
dad saying about it was these 

1071
00:59:26,320 --> 00:59:28,640
things in those woods are not to
be toyed with. 

1072
00:59:29,480 --> 00:59:31,800
He said they never haunted there
after that happened. 

1073
00:59:33,480 --> 00:59:36,480
Another interesting story that I
heard when we rode the train in 

1074
00:59:36,480 --> 00:59:39,160
Perry County was from Brenda 
Hoskinson. 

1075
00:59:39,960 --> 00:59:42,920
Brenda and her cousin were both 
about 12 years old at the time, 

1076
00:59:42,920 --> 00:59:45,440
and we're waiting outside of 
Brenda's home for the school 

1077
00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:47,880
bus. 
Her cousin had spent the night 

1078
00:59:48,040 --> 00:59:50,760
and the girls were standing 
along the road waiting at around

1079
00:59:50,760 --> 00:59:54,440
7:30 AM on a slightly foggy 
morning in the early fall of the

1080
00:59:54,440 --> 00:59:57,720
1980s. 
As they stood talking, they 

1081
00:59:57,720 --> 01:00:00,000
heard a noise. 
They looked up to see something 

1082
01:00:00,000 --> 01:00:02,920
running down the road towards 
them at breakneck speed. 

1083
01:00:03,520 --> 01:00:07,280
Whatever it was, it ran within 4
feet of the girls and continued 

1084
01:00:07,280 --> 01:00:10,320
down the road a short distance, 
then turned and ran down into 

1085
01:00:10,320 --> 01:00:13,560
the woods. 
Brenda described it as being 

1086
01:00:13,560 --> 01:00:15,960
greyish black in colour on four 
legs. 

1087
01:00:16,440 --> 01:00:18,840
When asked how tall the thing 
would have been if it had been 

1088
01:00:18,840 --> 01:00:21,960
on 2 legs instead of four, 
Brenda thought for a moment and 

1089
01:00:21,960 --> 01:00:24,920
then answered 6, maybe 7 feet 
tall. 

1090
01:00:25,600 --> 01:00:28,200
She said that it did not 
resemble a bear at all and was 

1091
01:00:28,200 --> 01:00:31,840
too big to have been a dog. 
She was amazed at how fast it 

1092
01:00:31,840 --> 01:00:34,760
was, another reason she doesn't 
think it was a dog. 

1093
01:00:35,680 --> 01:00:38,200
The two frightened girls ran 
into the house and told Brenda's

1094
01:00:38,200 --> 01:00:40,960
mother, who didn't believe the 
girls had seen a monster. 

1095
01:00:41,560 --> 01:00:43,840
Sure enough, when she came 
outside and took a look for 

1096
01:00:43,840 --> 01:00:48,080
herself, nothing was there. 
I inquired as to where exactly 

1097
01:00:48,080 --> 01:00:51,200
this happened and if any other 
people had ever reported seeing 

1098
01:00:51,200 --> 01:00:53,080
anything similar around the 
area. 

1099
01:00:53,520 --> 01:00:57,040
Brenda told me that her aunt, 
who also lived on Buzzards Glory

1100
01:00:57,040 --> 01:01:00,320
Road near Tunnel Hill Rd. had 
often said that she could see 

1101
01:01:00,320 --> 01:01:02,800
something down in the woods 
watching her house. 

1102
01:01:03,680 --> 01:01:06,400
She was home alone until her 
husband got off work around 

1103
01:01:06,400 --> 01:01:10,440
midnight at Peabody Cole. 
This aunt said that the eyeshine

1104
01:01:10,440 --> 01:01:14,120
she saw at night was from 
something tall and it would make

1105
01:01:14,120 --> 01:01:18,040
horrible noises at night. 
The woods where she saw this eye

1106
01:01:18,040 --> 01:01:20,920
shine is the same as the 
creature the girl saw ran down 

1107
01:01:20,920 --> 01:01:23,840
into. 
Brenda says that there's a train

1108
01:01:23,840 --> 01:01:25,920
tunnel plus caves down in those 
woods. 

1109
01:01:26,520 --> 01:01:28,480
I wonder what else is down in 
those woods. 

1110
01:01:33,520 --> 01:01:37,400
Thanks for listening everyone. 
Before I go tonight, I just want

1111
01:01:37,400 --> 01:01:40,000
to remind you my new book is out
on Amazon. 

1112
01:01:40,160 --> 01:01:42,920
I would be deeply grateful if 
you could grab a copy. 

1113
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:47,040
To show your support. 
Thank you so much and until next

1114
01:01:47,040 --> 01:01:48,200
time, take care.