A Bird’s Nest, Broken Trees, and the Sasquatch That Watched Her

0:00 You're listening to Bigfoot Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. Tonight's story isn't about a hunter or a camper, but a woman named Bobby who set up a tent on her family's land in southwest Pennsylvania to grieve the loss of a close friend. But in the quiet of the forest, something began to respond. A bird's nest left at her tent, religious statues vanishing without a trace, and a mysterious ball of peeled branches left beneath a broken limb. Then came the guttural whoops, the tree crashes, and the feeling that someone or something was watching. This isn't a second hand tale. It's Bobby's first hand account of what happened deep in the Laurel Ridge, just east of the infamous Chestnut Ridge in Pennsylvania. So stay with us, all right, Bigfoot Society.

0:42 I've got the privilege of talking to Bobby today. Bobby's an individual that reached out to me through email about some really interesting things that she's experienced over the years out there in southwest Pennsylvania. So how's it going today, Bobby, Oh, it's going pretty good. Thank you so much, Jerema for letting me come on and share with the listeners things I've experienced. When I wrote to you, I mostly am talking about something that has been happening on our family property. Back in the early nineteen hundreds, my grandparents homesteaded some land here. I've lived in southwestern PA all my life. The property is really beautiful. It's backed by a wooded hill side, and there's a farmer's field beyond that, and some other wooded areas and streams and rivers. The original house and out buildings aren't there anymore, and we don't have any there, but our family has used the land for gatherings and things like that. It's just the pretty place to get away. Now.

2:02 I can't remember the order that these two things happened, but on this property. I had a friend who passed away in twenty seventeen, not on the property. But what I'm trying to say is I set up a tent there at that time because it was a place for me to get away and it was calming, and I just really liked to go there take a few walks in the woods. The one morning when I came to my tent, I just saw something that to me was so unusual. There was a log sitting upright, which had always been there on the property as far as I remember.

2:46 But the thing that was unusual is there was this really beautiful bird's nest sitting right on that log, and it hadn't been windy. I couldn't figure it out. I thought, well, that is so pretty, and why is it just sitting right there at the entrance to my tent. And then it was either a little bit after or a little bit before, I noticed something else my path that I usually took through the woods. I am not like strictly religious, but spiritual. I guess I had some religious statues and I had put them at the bottom of these big old oak trees that my great grandfather had planted, and I just had them sitting there. They just were comforting. Okay, so oh, I would say. Possibly three weeks after I put them there, I was taking a walk and I noticed they were all gone. So I searched the woods and the yard and I to look for broken glass.

4:02 I didn't see anything. The only thing that was going through my mind was that, well, I have my brother passed away, but he would sometimes walk on that property, but he was kind of disassociated with the family. But later we king became close again, and he never mentioned anything about statues or bird's nest, and that's just not his personality anyway. Not a diss on him, but this is not something he would do. But that was the only thing that my mind could go to. So I was talking with my sister, she actually owns the property now technically, and we were I was saying that I had saved that nest and I was showing her and I said, it's so pretty. You remember how I just found it by my tent. That's when, for the first time, we were thinking that there was something involved here, like gift giving and gifts receiving, even if it was unintentional on my part. So a few summers ago, my sister and I noticed broken branches in those woods at the entrances of a couple of the paths. Now, this was very close to where I found the nest, and the branches were green wood, snapped above what a tall human

5:39 arm length would be. And just this past fall we went to the property. I went with her. She wanted to check on an apple tree which had come down and right below one of those snapped branches, like at the entrance of the path, there was a sort of a ball made of intricately entwined branches and they were it was like the bark had been peeled off of them, it was. And they were real white looking, so that's why they caught attention. And none of the trees around it, you know, had the same type of wood, so it really stood out. And my sister she yelled into the woods, I know you're there. I don't want to hear something like that. But we saw and heard nothing. Okay, About three weeks later we were there again and as we were looking at the bowl, which was still there, we heard a loud crack in the woods. It was sort of mirror a place that she had seen some unnatural structures.

7:02 She's really good at picking up on those. It was weird because it didn't quite sound like a branch or a tree fall. It hadn't been rainy or windy, so it was kind of startling. And then a day later I was at that property because my husband's brother happened to live next door, and we heard another crash just like that, and I looked at the two guys and they said, oh, there's just the old tree, you know, must have come down, so this is kind of strange. Now. Interestingly, near where I live, about three miles south of that property, there are several unnatural structures and exes in the woods along the river. And on one of my walks in the fall, I heard a noise that I had never heard before, and it was like ooh, and I just like looked around. I didn't see anything. I was actually filming on my phone, so I went back and listened.

8:20 Then there's a sound, but you can't make it out. But anyway, if those things you had mentioned wanting to hear stories from family properties, and I thought of that right away. And my sister is actually thinking about building a house there, but she's also a little bit worried about it. But I have experienced other things too that I think might be Bigfoot related, And if I have time, I can share a couple of things with you.

9:01 Yeah, that would be great. Okay, Well, i'd say my first series of incidents took place around twenty eleven and it was in SOUTHWESTPA. Here. It was late September in the evening and I was letting my dog in and he's just a little jack Russell. He was never afraid of anything, but I opened the door and he was whimpering and his ears were back, and he just couldn't wait to get in the house. I didn't think a whole lot of it. And then later my son came home, I think from foot Paul practice, and he said, do you hear those weird owls outside?

9:54 And I had thought I heard something, so I went out on the porch and and it was very strange. I was hearing like a whoop sound. I wish I could like demonstrate, but maybe just like a real guttural loud woo. And it was coming from different spots in the woods behind my house, because we live in kind of a little valley and it's a wooded mountain side back there. So I just didn't know what to think. I went in the house. When I came back out just a few minutes later, then I heard a scream across from the front of my house, across the river.

10:47 There's a river real close to the front of the house, so I honestly couldn't figure out what was going on. And I thought, well, I know there are coyote around. I don't know if they make that kind of noise, but to me, it seemed impossible that it could be an owl. Now I know that there's all different types of bowels and they make all different sorts of noises. One of the first things I did was go online and listen to different sounds of different animals, and there is an owl that might have been close to that, But it was a totally wrong time of year, and I don't even think they were in this area. I can't imagine a bird making that deep guttural noise, and to me, it seemed like there were whatever these things were communicating with each other, so I kind of brushed it off. The next day, I was walking to my garden because I was picking tomatoes I was going to make salsa, and I heard it seemed like there were a little pebbles or something hitting my neighbor's little outdoor a building, and it just was weird because I couldn't see anything, and where I live there's not a whole lot of houses, and people tend to not be around.

12:18 They're either working or they're not out at night if it's even a little bit chilly. So I figured, probably I'm the only one who noticed the noises that night, and now I'm hearing these little like pebbles. Also, I thought a weary filling, like I was being watched or something. Within the next few weeks, my daughter was walking home just from the neighbors up the road. It was late at night, and she said she heard what sounded like a huge tree crashed near the river across from our property, the same area where I heard that scream. It's interesting thing that a few miles behind the woods at the back of my property, there's a very large reservoir and in nineteen ninety eight, park rangers reported to see a family of big foot drinking from the reservoir. There also is a camping area around there that I think church groups camped there and there was a report of the either the camp councilors or some of the kids reported seeing or hearing something Bigfoot related. That's all in that same area, and it's really just right very close to

13:50 the woods at the back of my house, and I stayed there just in a They had some rustic cabins. I stayed in one with my sister. One night we made a fire, but she had to go home, so I was by myself staying overnight, and during the night when I woke up, I heard all kinds of like clanging noises that it sounded like metal. I don't know. I looked out the windows and I didn't see anything. And then this might sound kind of crazy, but it was like right in front of my door, and the inside was this marshmallow that like had to bite out of it. And I know that wasn't there, but maybe that can be explained. I don't know. But my sister came back in the morning and right in front of my door also was a little like half a cashoe or not cashoe, I can't think of the word, but a little like nutshell. And neither one of us had noticed it before. Now those are little things, who knows, but to us it really kind of stuck out like this a little bit strange. I had some other things happen, probably around twenty fifteen in the county just north of us,

15:22 and I was caring for a friend who had some cognitive issues from a stroke. But we would ride on his gator, you know, just all through the woods. It was a really big farm and just enjoying nature and we would see the deer. And one afternoon, it was in the late spring, we were stilling in ruts on the gator trail, and we were putting stones and rocks from the creek into the back of the gator because we were going to put them further up the trail.

16:03 That's fill it in. Well, several seconds after throwing one of those rocks in the gator, we heard a sound from maybe two hundred yards away. But it sounded like someone had just like picked up a tree and just slammed it into the ground. And you know, it startled us both and we immediately thought, well, that doesn't sound like an echo, because all those rocks we through and here we didn't hear anything, and then all of a sudden, there's this big noise. So later in the day we drove back to the area where we heard it because we figured there were workers in the woods for gas line or whatever, but there was nothing. We didn't see anything. Now, a few weeks after that, my friend he was taking a rock by himself and a skater and in this same area. He had trouble speaking, but he described that there was something very large behind him. He could kind of I don't know if he said he saw it in peripheral vision, but he said it like growled and screamed, and he said it felt like it wanted to kill him, and that's all he knows, and he's been in the woods all his life and he was very scared by it. Also,

17:37 one time the farmer was having one of their cows butchered, and they gave us the tongue to put out in front of the trail cam that my friend kept, and we went and looked at that footage and you can see the cowl tongue, and then all of a sudden and it disappeared. It's not on there, and it was gone the day that we went to look for it. So that was also really strange. And one time several of us were having a fire in that area in the evening, just enjoying the evening through a pretty area, and all of a sudden we heard the coyotes. Okay, then like everyone feels like a really weird laughing sound.

18:35 But we aren't experts, so I don't know for sure, but we all thought it was very strange and something that I found out recently. Where my friend's farm is, there is another different reservoir than the one I mentioned, but there was a report you can find it online, I believe about well a white werewolf or dog man type looking thing that a fisherman saw. And that's really close to where my friend lives. So it's just a lot of different evidence, you know. And this is something that my brother told me, so of course it's not firsthand knowledge, and I know he doesn't mind me sharing it.

19:30 But he was fishing with one of his buddies and they were both you know, abbot outdoorsman and they heard like a scream and a growl and they felt like it was headed towards them, and their hair stood up on their neck and they just dropped everything and ran. And that's also right around this area. We're in the area of the ridge that's just east of the Chestnut Ridge. There's a lot of stuff goes on the Chestnut Ridge. We're on the Laurel Ridge, which is just east of that. Also, my brother said there was a man who everyone referred to as the Hermit, and back in the seventies he had a little cabin way out in nowhere. But my brother did talk to him once in a while when he was out and he said that he saw glowing eyes in his cabin one night, and then a couple days later, he was carrying wood and he hurt something in the back of him and he turned around and he said it must have been a big foot. So that was a big, hairy creature, he said. I just ignored it and went on with my life. So I guess it was just the one time occurrence, but whenever.

21:06 It was a few years ago, my sister and my daughter and I spent time at a cabin near Saltfork, Ohio, and we had so many noises around us. It seemed like there was a tree knock and every corner of the property at one time or another. And we came back, we went to the store, we came back and when we opened the door, there was this terrible scream. At first, I thought it was the door squeaking, but my sister said, no, that was not the door, and okay, so we couldn't explain that. That night, while we were sleeping, my sister heard outside the window like babbling noises. She said they were like voices, but they were like babbling like maybe a baby or I don't know exactly, but yeah, she really it really scared her, but she just went back to sleep. She said, I don't want to deal with this.

22:13 And then before we left, we were spending our last little moments there, and we heard like a really loud definite, like a one, two three knock. Uh. So that was our experience there. There's other little things. My sister, when she was a teenager, she and my cousin right around in this area would take walks. They would stay at my grandma's and they would take walks in the back roads and even swim at night in the river. But they one evening saw maybe a balloon, a small balloon sized or and it was white, and it was just kind of meandering and following them, and they just didn't know what to do, and they asked each other, do you know what that is? And neither one knew, so they decided just to walk back to grandma's house because they did not want to have to figure out what that was. And she had seen some outside our childhood home too that seemed to be have an intelligence to them, like they were circling around and looking for something. So I can't remember if there was anything else I wanted to mention to you, but I know that you really

23:43 are doing good by letting people tell their stories. And even though I have not seen a bigfoot and I'm not saying I want to. I just really feel like all this evidence is something that I wanted to share because it's just so unusual. Bobby, thank you for sharing all these things that you've experienced. So you mentioned that pretty much we're looking at the Laurel Ridge area in a way, which definitely has a ton of activity. I think Forbes State Forest is over there in that area too.

24:24 Right, Oh, I think you're right, Yeah, yes. Which that is extremely active. There's a gentleman I talked to a few times about that State Forest has a ton of bigfoot activity. Just curious what kind of do you mind sharing? What kind of statue were the statues of a certain saint that you would put out on the oak trees? Yes, yes, they were one with Saint Joseph's and the other was the Blessed Mother and the other was uh it was either Saint Francis of Assisi or Saint trez I can't remember. But like I said, they just kind of gave me comfort. It was like my little walk after my friend died. It helped me. But then they were missing. I just I could not figure out what was going on.

25:27 Yeah, so you had set up the tent on that property after your friend had passed away. That's right, Yes, was it? It was pretty Was it pretty soon after as well? Yeah, it was maybe a week later, maybe not even Yeah, and then I ended up taking it down, but not because I was afraid. It just was time, like I didn't need it anymore, so I took it down. How long would you say it was probably up for. I would say, okay, it was maybe the middle of June to the end of augusts. That sounds about right.

26:16 I think that's about what it was. Okay, how much time do you think you spent out there in the tent? Well, I think I would go almost every day. I wasn't working at the time. I was just helping my older parents, which is a job too, so I would take maybe an hour or two each day, and maybe on the weekends I wasn't there at all. So you know, it was a fairly constant that I would be visiting it, you know, every day or so at least.

27:07 Yeah, that property has a lot of really really interesting things going on it from what you shared, and it is just very I know this is it's a common theme that's come out in Well, there's a lot of stuff. I mean you have. I'm doing a lot of episodes ahead of time because of travel, and recently, something I've just really started to notice is that a lot of these, you know, there seems to be a traumatic event oftentimes involved right, like the loss of a friend or a family member, or a divorce, something that like really really affects the individual emotionally. There's something I'm starting to look into.

27:56 It's it's very very interesting connection. I don't know if there's anything there, but we will see. And I'm also sorry that you lost your friend as well. Oh thank you. Yeah, I think that he was ready to go. But yeah, it's always sad. And it's interesting that you're mentioning that I hadn't even thought of that, like maybe because there was that emotional thing going on with me that had something to do with whatever being attracted or trying to whatever, whatever that is. That's a good point. I wouldn't have made that.

28:41 Connection you mentioned. You haven't. You've never had a sighting before. Would you ever want to have a sighting? Though? Oh boy, that is a good question. I think that if it would be meant to happen, then fine, but it's not something that I would would try to do. I think I don't know how i'd handle it. I think I might be too scared. So I don't purposely try to have anything like that, but I'd probably prefer not to, just because I think it would scare me too much.

29:36 You mentioned that you have heard a whoop sound and something that sounded guttural and also a scream. Correct, Yes, the whoop, the whoop sound. Have you ever heard anything else that sounded similar to that, like at a zoo or online or anything. I thought, No, definitely, not not before or not since, except for the I did hear that, Oh wow, but that was like different, But the whoops, No, I had never heard anything like that before. Okay.

30:20 You also mentioned your son was hearing some weird owl sounds. You remind me, like, what was what was a part of it that made those owl sounds weird? Was it how loud they were, or maybe they sounded a little off at the end, anything like that? Well to me, when I started to listen to them, you know, he had just said owls and weird and then he just you know, stayed in the house. He'd never thought about it again, I don't think. But when I went out then to listen I thought, I have never heard an owl that loud, and it's not exactly a who It was more like a oh okay. I don't know if if that's right, But what made it weird was it didn't quite sound like an owl. Plus it was really loud, and it just seemed like it would be coming from a large animal.

31:25 Interesting. You mentioned you do have a weird sound recorded on your phone. It's just really hard to hear it. Yes, is that something that you would be able to would you be okay? And maybe I'd love to have a listen to. I don't know if you'd be able to share. I might be able to make that sound a little bit louder so you can actually hear it if you could. That would be great because I have no problem and that to you. Yes, yeah, that would be awesome. That would be cool.

32:08 Things still happening on that family property still to this day. We haven't noticed anything since I think I said it was last fall with that little ball that was woven. I know that there are unnatural structures up in there, but I haven't looked at them recently. My sister's very good at picking up on those, but there's nothing since Actually the crash noise that we heard that didn't sound quite like a tree falling, and it didn't quite sound like a branch falling. I think that's the last thing that happened, and I think that was in the fall. Okay, so since then we haven't noticed anything. But we're not there all the time, so I don't know.

33:03 Can you spend a little bit of time sharing what it what you mean by unnatural structures? Just kind of maybe just describe me a little bit how they look. Sure, the first time my sister ever pointed one out to me, we were taking a walk in the very close to my house and there's just like a little road that turns into a dirt road and follows the Stony Creek River, and that's where I heard that ooh wah sound, But not at this time that I'm talking about. I was with my sister and she started looking at like, what do you call it arches in some of the trees, and they were one was like obviously right over the path, and she was looking at it and said, I don't know how that could have naturally grown that way. And I said, oh, well, that is odd. And then as we walked further, we'd see little oh like a exis, and she would show me. You see, she said, see how this part of this little tree trunk was broken off here, and it was green, it was live wood.

34:31 She said, I don't know who could do that. And then there would be another branch crossing it, making an X, and that would be like held up in place by another branch. And there are several of those type of things. And one of them was like a I don't know, it was like a little teepee almost. It was just like this gathering of sticks and it made like a little teepee. And we joked and we said, well, maybe this is the baby bigfoot area, because there were several little structures there. That's about the best I can describe the way she explained it to me. She said, these are things that I don't think would happen by themselves in nature, and most of them were xes or arches.

35:41 Thank you, Thank you for sharing that. You mentioned that there was a story you heard about ark rangers at a reservoir seeing a family of bigfoot drinking from the reservoir. Was that right, Yes, that was in either nineteen ninety or two thousand, I can't remember, but that is online. They Yeah, I don't know if anything ever came of it back that far. People probably just laughed it off, but they reported it. They felt it was important enough to report. And I think it was supposedly two adults and a juvenile and they were drinking out of the reservoir. Yeah.

36:37 Do you remember where you had read that? I have, I've never heard that account. It's very very interesting. Was it like BFRO or. Well, I guess I could tell you the name of the of the reservoir and then you might be able to find it. Okay, it is the Quemahoning of war or damn sis q U E M A h O N I n G. Hopefully you'd be able to find it with that, because I don't remember exactly what fight it was.

37:20 Thank you, gonna yes, Oh okay, yeah, this is okay. This is a new area for me. I'm definitely gonna let's see. I wonder how close this is. I'm looking up something real quick. Oh yeah, it's like half an hour away from Forbes. That's wild. Okay, So yeah, that whole area is just is crazy. Oh that's funny. There's a business there in the middle called Bigfoot Construction. Yeah, I know, Yeah, there are the chances. Right right, And that's the reservoir. That is, if you would like walk up the mountain behind my house, through all the woods and then cross a couple farm lands, then that's where that reservoir is.

38:20 Okay, gotcha. Yeah, And this is it's one of those episodes where I think it's going to lead to a few really interesting things because we've kind of talked about I mean Forbes, but I was not aware that. Yeah, this whole area is pretty wild. If people are listening, and I've heard of other things happening in this area, definitely leave a comment or you can send email to me a Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. But Bobby, it has been it's been a pleasure chatting with you on the show about what you've experienced. I think this this will probably lead to some some cool things coming out of Pennsylvania from this area. But before we end our time today, I want to make sure that you're able to share everything that you want to share today.

39:18 Yeah, I think that's it. I think we covered everything, and thank you so much. It's great to have a platform you know that you can share this stuff and every little. Bit helps, so absolutely and yeah, if you continue to experience things at you know, your place or the family property, you can always you know, send me another email. Feel free to reach out. I'd love to hear from you again. But thank you again Bobby for coming on the show. Thank you. Just wanted to take a minute to say thank you truly for listening to this episode of the big Foot Society podcast. Bobby story is one of those that leaves you unsettled, not because of fear, but because of how real and human it feels. A bird's nest, a tent in the woods, in a presence that might just be watching or even trying to connect. So huge thanks to Bobby for being willing to share such a personal and emotional journey from the forest of Laurel Ridge to the banks of the Quamahoning Reservoir. And if you enjoyed this conversation, please subscribe to us on YouTube hit that bell icon so you don't miss any new episodes, and share this with a friend who's into Bigfoot Appalachia or Mysterious Encounters.

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