Attacked at Bigfoot Ridge – Ohio Camper Speaks Out | Archives

0:00 You're listening to BIGFA Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us, all right, Big Fit Society. We've got the privilege of talking to E today. He is an individual that reached out to me through email from central Ohio about some things that he's experienced in that state.

0:43 So it's a pleasure to talk to you tonight. E. I'm going to go ahead and hand it right over to you. Sarah, thank you for being here tonight. Yeah, thank you for having me. I'd like to stay up on since a while. I guess I've always been abliever now a kind of a knower. Had to type be our class be exciting, pretty pretty, I guess Volger you'll say that happened to me never, never will forget it. So obviously living a while Grassman is the terminology. Didn't even know about the Grassmen until I moved to Ohio about over ten years ago. In so Forth State Park is like the mecca of it all, and told me I always want to go out there and check it out.

1:34 This situation happened to me April twenty ninth of twenty twenty two. I know that because it was OHI bien for ohiped for conference and I'll want to go. I want to meet people. I knew, you know, all the big names in a bigfoot community. We're going to be there and just and it's like, you know, the place to be for Ohio. So the place that my situation happened was a spot called Bigfoot rich It was Campsite number six. I'll never never forget it, still go there to this day. So it was on Friday nights. Got there kind of late, probably about eight o'clock, nine o'clock and it's still kind of like that sunsetting about six.

2:20 So I was putting on my camp got off work setting everything up in the middle of the kind of like darkness. How to use my headlamp to put it up. And then it was going to get cold that day too, so I got my mister heater got everything I needed. So after after I set everything up, I had Chipotle and a chipole and I forgot I left it outside and raccoons were I could hear little footsteps coming in and whoever was at the whibigfoot conference. I even told the story to them Mark who runs it to everybody that year as well too. That fall on Sundays, So if you were there, you know who I am, what I looked like, and everything else. So yeah, fast forward to you know, raccoon's coming in and out of my camp and this is about two o'clock and they kind of just served me de side of the unzip my zipper, kind of scam away and used the bathroom. Also to mention there are people from the BFROL They were campin that night around me. Later found that out they were from New Jersey. They drove allway from New Jersey to a while to experience the Lopiens for conference. So they went out for a night investigation. So it's about two thirty.

3:44 Now I'm going out to relieve myself and they're coming back from a night hike. They had their red lambs and everything, and so I knew I wasn't the only one up during that time, so decided to go. Because they're coming back from the cars and have their head lamps and going into their tents, and I'm going back to my tent as well. So I'm kind of surmounded by people. If you've ever been at both Biffer Rich there's a brush line near the connector by that sign if you're pulling in and be on your right hand side, and campsite number six. Like I said, so I had a red tent, had my mister here. It was going to be in the thirties. And so I hear this raccoon, like I said, they're coming in and out, in and out here go back to the brush line, and they're taking food that I left out chipole. They kind of hear rolling through some other stuff as well, and here nibbling like and you can hear it's like a small creature of raccoon, possums upon that nature. And as the miss is this animals eating whatever it was, small rodents, naturnal animal, I hear it die like like I hear it like like it's fighting for his life, like somebody's attacking him. And I'm like, okay, I'm thinking I'm trying to be logical, like a coyote fox something like that.

5:14 You know that'd be could kill like a preada or some type of predator the only predators we have, or black beer. But we only got like a population of one hundred you know who. It's not like Tennessee was. It's in the thousands. So so yeah, by all woke like this animal die and so forth. Decided to turn on my mister heater to keep me warm. Say, thirty degrees came a little bit colder in the nap from the brush line. I heard, and I was like, did I just hear that? And it was all because I turned on my mister heater and my whole tent lit up from being red. And I heard it the third time and it blew me away. And the third time at first time I turned it on, the missig heat is weirder because it's like connor clockwise to turn it off, like I said, it was the first time, I'm using it two and such. Like I said, I turned it on.

6:21 I didn't believe, but I heard and then it happened again the second time, and I had it on the low setting and it got super loud when I accidentally turned it from low to high and I was trying to turn it off. I mean, the loans on this stage it was like and I'm laying on my back too, like laying on my back, and I'm like, it's not even ground level, and I'm like, this thing is up like if I was a stand up, like you know, six feet plus, like I'm trying to because I'm trying to get distance from a distance and how high up it is and I'm like that that sounds it's like taller than me. And I can't even do justice of with the grunts and so forth. So in my mind, like I'm thinking, did I just disturb a big foot kill?

7:14 And I didn't even hear it come up. And I'm thinking thinking to myself, if this was a black bear like it would it would have it should have went through my camp, which it didn't, should go to other people's camps, but it didn't. You hear it slowly like crunch crunch, crunch away. But for something that big, I should you to come up to the brush line. And yeah, it pretty much ambush whatever that was. It was a raccoon or possum or whatever. But I didn't hear it. I mean, I didn't hear anything until it made to kill, Like I could hear that little animals and then it just like if you ever heard like a like like a calf, not a calf fight, but something fighting for his life. And then he could tell a small like a dog or like a dog fight or whatever. And so yeah, something is I mean, I'm up by then turn on my my mister heater, my tense red. And I heard the grunts and I didn't believe it, and I heard it again, and I'm thinking to myself, is this is this the vocalization that people? Is this what it sounds like? And it clearly is directed towards me because I'm the only one that they had to like

8:44 litup the tents. I mean I when I went out to use the bathroom prior, nobody else had the TN lit up at all. So and that red on red really glowed up the area. And I'm probably like twenty twenty yards five yards pretty close to our brush line. I know that because I played football, so I like, you know, first downs and all that. So yeah, I'm pretty close. It's this thing. I mean, it could have been on me right right then and there, and luckily it didn't. And the third grunt, because I was trying to from load, I actually journey to low to hide, and so hit grunted. So I didn't get a look asleep all night. I know what was gonna happen next, I was gonna come back. I didn't at all, And so as soon as daybreak, as soon as daybreak, I go back. So the Central Islands on one stity, that's really an essential. So so go back to Columbus. My wife, all of us gonna spend the night there, like you know, the morning in the laud come home. And I even come to her and said they're out there. I said, they're out there. She said, I look like I've seen

10:16 a ghost, like I. I yeah, my pain my skins. You know, I'm African American, and I'm just kind of like lost pigmentation. I guess a little bit in my skin, fair skin like African. So so I I guess I look whitish and pale. Scared. Kept me playing that over and over in my head that night, kept listening and listening, didn't hear anything, but I did hear it, like by Peter walk Away. So I just left everything there, you know, I was just gonna come back and get it. And so because I just there's no way I was gonna sleep out there, I needed some sleep. So my son had a sarcer game anyways, so I decided to go later that afternoon. So the April twenty ninth, that Friday night was cacast technically is April thirtieth, two thirty in the morning, So April thirtieth the next one because the week in the Bigfoot Converversus just a weekend thing. So later go to the afternoon and I pull up and the BFM people from New Jersey came to me immediately after I got in my car and asked me, did you hear anything? And I said, yeah, two thirty in the morning. They're like yeah. So that gave me validation that I wasn't the only winner, and it was I don't know what else. In a while, the biggest thing

11:48 we really really got is well white tailed deer and a hundred hunder bear roughly black bear. And I mean the place is notorious for obviously big foot and grass, so yeah, I mean I what validated for me was after we playing it over and over and over my head was the fact how high up those vocals and I can tell if it's ground level or not. You can tell if this is six feet or more. You know, you know from the treat light. So it definitely was.

12:30 And what runs at you and like walks away And there was nobody with flashlights, nothing like that. So if it was, if it was a bear, it should have went through everybody's stuff. It didn't. It was particular. It had a mission, it completed a mission, and I think I deserved part of its mission. That's why I got those vocalations directly towards me. And yeah, yeah, So share with my experience that with helping for conference that Sunday, whereas it's like a town hall meeting that Mark Coles, I can't remember my last name, where he's pretty much runs a sort of let everybody there in front of Nanny Cliff, doctor Meldroom, even a moneymakers World too. Do Ginny was there as well, so John as well. I'll see John quite a bit when I go there. So so I after that happened, I was like, I'm never don't need to go back don't need to. I was scared, Like it took me months. They even built up the courage because like I said, this is COVID, the ending and ending of COVID, And you know, I was always curious about it. And before I was hiking, that was

14:02 my first time spending the night there. And you know there's a map of I guess where all other sightings has happened as well. And I wanted to go to a primitive site and it's a primitive spot throughout the park, the snow running waters, electricity, and yeah, I've done hikes there where I've seen footprints in March which is still like thirty degrees and I wear a size a little boot and the width, the length, the depth, the depth is like incredible that something can leave an impression like that in frozen ground. The heel print like when you step like heel first, toe second, and the heel was somewhat deeper. The heel leaves the bigger impression because that's where all the weight goes, and it's is the earth which as it rolls it up. I got pictures of that Conshocton County went on the high control there. This is probably like a year or so ago ing season.

15:19 It sounds I'm walking there's deer everywhere. I think Constocton County, in Jersey County they got the biggest kills deer deal Caro kills. You're in your al plenty of food and those two kind of kind of touch each other, aboard each other, and so yeah, fall obviously deer season. Walking down this trail fire like, and there's houses on my right hand side, not houses. I was a farm, a farm, but the loudest like Louisville, Celever not ever. And oh, I do a lot of hyping, hope when I get lucky, Like I said, to build some time after this. The situation happened to me in two thousand and two, and this not probably happened last year last fall, So there was some courage to go back out there and heard that's what. I don't know what else I mean, It wasn't It was so early in the morning, it was like seven thirty in the morning, and I'm like, who's building anything? And it wasn't repetitious knocking. There was just one solid like power and that was it. It wasn't a like, it wasn't even a tree falling over because you were with crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, fall over. It wasn't even that so I had a walker stick. I

16:53 tried to knock back nothing, but I saw when I saw the deer on that day, that day, this is like last fall. It felt like a knock, like someone's here. The grunts. I'm going back to the grunts. I'm sorry, I'm all over the place because the grunts felt like someone's saying, hey, hey, knock it off, like that's what That's what it felt like, cut it like, cut it out, knock it off type grunts. And I didn't act fast enough. Of the grunts are probably a second apart, and the third one just got pretty pretty pretty low like it escalated and I couldn't get that mister year shut off fast enough. So I mean, I've I still go out.

17:51 I reached out to Harley Owens let him know that I am. It's pretty close six hours away. Two I heard them. I've seen the impressions they leave on Earth, and I do I do one day I want to have a class. Obviously, I don't want to if I'm going to have a class A, you know, if I have my pickings of something that is I can go home that day. But so, yeah, so far I had those Class B and they were never never forget and yeah, I mean they're definitely here. I mean, I don't know what else, what else could leave that type of type of front in the middle of the night, and yeah, it's yeah, it has to be.

18:43 So that's that's very interesting, that whole situation happening that weekend. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions? Yeah, yeah, So. You leave early in the morning to go back to Columbus, which is under an hour and a half, is right, and then you go back to get your stuff. Now, when you went back to the campsite to get your stuff, you know, did you notice signs of a struggle? How you know you were saying, like that raccoon or whatever it is got taken out or did you see any evidence? So yeah, So one of the guys from how I knew it from Bilfarro because he had a Berfarro aad on, and and I talked to him and they told me they were from New Jersey. And there was this one particular skinny lady, red hair, pink hair that we went back there to look to see like a tussle. This thing.

19:45 It sounded like a gut a hold of and it was like you know how if you pick up a wild cat's trying to get out of your arms, and I think, I think this like snapped his neck, twisted something, and that was the end the bed. So it wasn't much. It wasn't even tusseling. Really, it was like I snatch up. It wasn't like the bushes weren't, you know, rumbling around the leaves, none of none of that. It's like like I said that that animal that was eating my chipotle was occupied, yall, And I don't thinking to my that night, I'm thinking, what a perfect opportunity to ambush animal in the midst of it, you know, being occupied eating this food, you get behind it or and get it. So I'm thinking, what do we have in a while that can do that.

20:39 I'm like, possibly fox, coyote. But they're not going to leave those vocalizations like how I heard, or bared for that matter, because they don't go like they this is a growl and a grunt. And this is definitely a grunt, right, And it was immediate. So you you said you heard, you actually heard like bipuedal footsteps as well afterwards. Yeah, it was odd. It was. It sounded like a sneak sneak up. I mean, I mean when I say it sounds like the fact that I didn't hear it come the fact that I didn't hear it. And it was it was large. It was large. It was and it was And I'm laying on the ground and I can hear it like six feet up. And I'm being conservative when I say that too. When I say six feet up, I'm like a minimum of six street, like a minimum of that. I'm glad I got the validation from the people from the UFR telling me, hey, did you they I couldn't. They came out. I couldn't get out the car fast enough without them coming towards me, right, and and and the lady he heard it, the skinning girl from New Jersey. The guy with the BFR had on.

22:03 He said he fell asleep. I mean when they went in their ten and after I got done doing number one, it happened ten minutes thirteen at the most. And I'm thinking that they like, you know, when you're in the woods and if you're looking for a bigfoot like they were, you're gonna want to stay up a little as long as you can, especially just got into your tenth So for him to say that, yeah, I fell asleep, I was like, man, you fell asleep less than ten minutes fits and I was kind of like, there's no way you tell it. And then here and that. I was like that that didn't that didn't like wake you up at all, Like you're I can understand if you're going slowly to sleep. But so he was kind of bummed out.

22:46 He didn't hear it a little bit if you did. And other people were saying that, yeah, there was a lot of animal activity, which makes sense because there's a dumpster. There was the prime opportunity for them to get into the trash cans after the people leave or you know this camps But yeah, big Foot Big for Ris is obviously a hospital. Whoever's been there knows about it. So yeah, they've been saying throughout the osport. Can you can you share it? Just in case listeners don't know? Do you can you share any information about why that area is called big Foot Bridge.

23:35 The story that I know of is that there was a picnic area before they made it a campsite, and I think John has said this on one of his podcasts on YouTube, or he was telling the store as somebody was is that. I guess this is going back to the eighties maybe early nineties, that some a tool stepped out. Man. I think it was a handicap like picnic area. So and then they converted into a campsite eventually, a primitive campsite. Like I said, it didn't doesn't have any electricity or running water or anything like that. And I guess when they named it, they named it Bigfoot Ridge.

24:19 There's a sign up ford and everything. You can look good up on Google. I guess once like it was being known as the hot spot of Ohio in a sense, they decided to name it biffoot Ridge. Absolutely, a Salt Fork State Park is a huge, huge bigfoot area for people that aren't aware. It's also the site of the Ohio Bigfoot Conference, as you said earlier. But were there any other reports from that night or weekend of other people in other areas having big foot interaction? So the place there's a horse there's a horse camp area.

25:04 Everybody everybody that has courses I likes to go over there as well too. And there's a lot of bridle trails. It's like four or five. While I like, it's a great place if you want to go for long hikes. I do now just to see what I can see. I think the next thing for me is like possibly smelling them. Never I didn't smell anything. I did get asked the question did I felt sick? I remember tell my story at the conference and one one guy came up to me, did you feel sick? And I said, no, I didn't feel nauseous because I heard of ultrasound with the aggression of the vocalization towards me. Because I turned on my mister here and just lit up the place with my red tent, and so I just kind of gave it like a you know, a glow. It lit it up for sure, and that's why I think I didn't hear it. It was certainly trying to be stealthy and me lighting up the tent, you know, like somewhat cover so and so. Yeah, I mean it was definitely towards men. I mean, like I said, it happened a second as soon as they're turning on the mystic here.

26:18 But other people did the There was another lady from New Jersey from the bfrol By. Like I said, the horse camp. There's the orange trail that kind of begins there, so to speak. There's like the white trail, Blue trail, Purple trail, Orange trail. They saw two sets of blowing red eyes, one blow and high. So yeah, there's other people that saw something glowing red eyes. And they were out there when I was setting up tents, Like I said, eight o'clock six six whatever it was, they were heading out, So they were out there for like six hours from about being able to say from eight to to.

27:08 That's very very interesting. Besides, so I guess a few few follow up questions. No strange smells in the campsite. No, no, nothing nothing words like the stuff you hear, right, the stuff that like like the skunk, the wet dog and all that, this stuff that makes you want to throw up like none of that. No, no, thefofo sick. But the like the sound, the best way I can describe is like below the diro frame, like like guttural bulleting your gut. If you can like make sounds from your belly up versus from your lungs up, like That's how I would describe it. It sounded like if if a gorilla could do that. That's I mean, that's I never really heard of gorilla grunt, but but it's not a known animal in Ohio that can, like I said, deer and bear right, And it was like it had intelligence because it didn't do what I wanted to like it clear stop the grandsons. I turned off the mister heater you know after the time a third run. So I had intelligence like to do that.

28:36 And I'm thinking, if this this this thing, we're not no for a bear state at all or just just not West Virginia and Tennessee are right, but we're not no for that. Well, I used to tell people you have a better chance for running to a big foot than a than a black bear here in Ohio. And I mean I think Ohio is the hospital because all our rivers run into Ohio River. So you got the water stream, all the creeks and the small rivers at Sayota Rivers and all that running to its obviously you got the great lakes that that you know, so we were surrounded by water.

29:18 Really no main big predators hunder beer, black bear which was nothing to them. And well mean trophy if you want a trophy book the house. Whereas at for a trophy book be trying to get that to two fifty range of pounds. You can definitely get it here. So and I know winters are not whether lately they've been very very mild, but but yeah, I mean it goes back to the eighteen hundreds when that one particular father and daughter are walking down and she just I don't even think she's said really because a couple of gorillataty exists back in those terms. I forget what she called it and attacked her dad. So so yeah, I mean it's it's And then I also go to Hawking Hills as the stories the National Forests. I haven't had experienced there, but yeah I don't. I don't. I really don't go once in the summertime just because you can't see any foliage.

30:30 I mean, the foliage is so thick. But yeah, the situations that happened to me with the knock vocalizations, they were spring and fall. So yeah, that makes that makes sense. Yeah, that's a that's a good time, especially the fall from what I hear. So you are you're actively going to Hawking Hills or you've been there a few times? Yeah, yeah, I mean living living in Columbus. You know you're about I mean, I live on a I went fifteen that get to South Fork and then like an hour hour and fifteen pen of Hawking Hills, the National Forests, southeast Ohio. Tayor Hall is a good place, Broke, It's a good place. State park. Trying to think of some other ones as well, but yeah, anything over there is obviously in Hawking Hills. That whole general region is a good spot. If you look at it on a BFR map that's mapped out, you can pretty much draw a straight line from Lemon County all the way down to Hawkin Hills, which runs into SOUTHFLK. So it's our highest point of the state. And it's I guess the appellation of foot foothills and plateaus, I guess, And it kind of makes sense why they stay from eastern Ohio southeast to northeast, so kind of a diagonal line, which kind of much through South Fork if you were d on the map. But but yeah, I'll never forget. There's nothing.

32:08 And I've been to the zoo. I've been at San Antonio Zoo. Columbus Zoo is pretty well known. There's there's there's nothing that makes not there's nothing in North America, well at least classified. It makes that noise. Did you say that you had actually seen a track there, Yeah, yep, tell us. I think it end that was in the weekend. Something that was that was like the year priory. That was. I was going out there like two thousand and two I'm sorry, two thousand COVID COVID years because there's not much else to do then go hiking and camping, and I was getting tired of playing golf all the time, so needed another outlet of And I think that's where I picked it up because, like I said, one story short, I was working from home and I'm listening to a bunch of podcasts and so forth, So it kind of expired me to go out, you know, to soft Fork and get on those trails. Like I said, it's a whole bunch of bottle trails that can go eight miles to ten miles, and I guess I'm four mile once as well too. So yeah, I got on the trail and I saw the footprint, Like across the trail there was this one single footprint that stepped on the trail off and you couldn't see the recipe because it was you know, leaf litter everywhere, but the trail didn't have

33:41 any leaves. And you can definitely see a heel for sure. It looked blocky, like a blocky foot it really it didn't. Yeah, just wide and blocky. You can see toes as well in it. But the heel looked like the dirt just rolled upon his heel when it's stepped on it, because it's pretty blank rounded rounded at the heel area as it's pushing off his heel into the toes, so or landing it heel and going onto the toes. But yeah, I was walking down the trail of it and step right over it, step right over it, and it was kind of it looks fairly fresh. But but what caught me was the impression. And I was looking for rocks, but I'm thinking like, and it's a horse trail, so like they're going to clear rocks out the way. They don't want their horses breaking their bessive animal welling and take care of and all that, so they keep it somewhat kind of cleared out for the horses. And I'm looking around for rocks, not firing a rock, but it is clearly going on the us this is on the blue Blue trail. That's all this and the blue trails.

35:06 If you look us all focused on the peninsula, you can say and a lesser crossing the waters is a really one way in and one way out on land without crossing water. So that's the reason why I went on a blue trail, and that's where I noticed it. Did you have any way of did you have like a tape measure or anything with you to try to Yeah? I did, I did. I mean my size a little foot, so I can I can send it to you love it to compare. And it makes my foot like a child's foot, it really does. That was that was that was astonished. I'm like, I got I guess one unquote grown man feet. I mean I'm not six four sixty five.

35:52 But that made my stuff with like my my toddler when I have my kids were toddlers. So were you able to try to do like a cast or a three D scan or anything like that? Besides me? No, I didn't have anything. I didn't have anything on me. I mean the only thing I don't even think. I didn't have my wallet on me. I left it in the car, So I didn't have really not much other than I knew everybody knows what the size of leven foot looks like or a boot. So so I put my foot up against it to say, hey, this is like almost twelve feet right here at the size eleven, So man, it's another three to four yeah. Yeah, it looked like fifteen feet to me. Yeah. And then the whiff, like my it was like the width of my foot plus another half of my foot at least.

36:52 So I got, I put my foot in it, and it was spaced on left and right of it. And I waited to forty. So I'm not I'm not a skinned guy, and I couldn't do nothing in the ground. And the ground was frozen. It was freezing that night and thaws out a little bit, so but we're in March, so it's like forty for a high. It's not throwing out that fast or that that efficient. So it's more frozen throughout the death than it is above freezing. So yeah, and it's to leave their impression into the ground like that was something. How how deep into the ground did it go?

37:34 Again? At least at said inch? At least like inch and a half. That's wild. And I couldn't do nothing I couldn't do nothing. Like I tried stopping on it and everything around it, like not in it, but around it to see what I can do. I couldn't moved it. I mean the grounds like sex seemen almost, So there's nothing I can my two hundred and forty pound body could do to put it impression into the earth like that, and coming out of winter so barely. Scott from Patreon has a question for you, what was it that first got you into a Bigfoot in the first place?

38:17 Manster Quests, Monster Quests definitely did the the Ohio grassmend episode, and I just moved to I guess a while and seven and I think that came in like two thousand and seven, I want to say eight really, and that floored me. And then they had another one about Kentucky, like they're in a while Kentucky. They got to be in West Virginia and found out about the Florida's country, so they intrigued me. I was in colle and that was about going to college and then school and girls and bars and parking and all that gotten away and then COVID hit and it's like, okay, I think everybody had to find an int is because if you're guy was going to the gym and I was going to movies, going out to eat all I came to a hall, So I need something to gravitate take towards keeping my interest throughout the day. And that's what kind of I guess we sprung it or it was there. But I always believe boys believe in evolution topology as well too.

39:25 Its evolution of you can say beings human beings, I guess neanmathos and so for from but yeah, I mean, and then the fact that every Native American has a word for it, and I was like, oh my, and then like from coast to coast, like they're they're definitely not calling each other, writing each other, none of that. And then yeah that and definitely and everybody can be crazy. Everybody is like making this up over and over and over and over and over again. I'm like, you know, and I was like, there's no money to make this stuff up there, like you're not you're not going to get rich off of telling the story.

40:09 Well, it's you know, all these people emailing and giving reports and it's like they're not. My emails is full every day and it's like these people are not getting anything from sending these emails like it's just yeah, I totally get what you're saying. And then like for me, like, but the podcast was that was the harshness of treatments. I guess higher authorities in the governments that people get And I was like, really, like they go that far off threats and stalking and yeah, the harassment, it was like wow, So that that caught my interest on my cred They definitely not making this up absolutely at all.

41:01 Have have there been any other interesting encounters you've heard of from the Salt Fork area? Just curious if you've ever heard anything. Yeah, yeah, I don't want to give out this guy's name. Sure, so I don't know if it's his permission, but he's pretty well known. Yeah, there was a guy if you know, well even Google or the I met him a big foot bridge. This is he knows who he is if he's listening. His name starts Real to Eat as well too. Let's say that. And over by the group camp there's like a swampy area and it's a little road that goes into it and him and his his his prime Yeah, there's only YouTube changes. Well, so he's I don't want to tell too much about him. M hm, but uh, him and his partner go out for a hike and come back. His story is that I think his wife was going to don't have one car, so normally he goes in with his car, comes out of his car, go back in his car, and leaves. This time, like I guess, his wife was dropping him off, and so they dropped them off. They go in and out they where they normally park at. They kept on walking and at soft Fork, like I said, at the campus is little road and it's kind of swampy on both sides,

42:36 he saw one about ten feet tall, all black. Moved trees out the way to see if they left, because normally, like I said, they drive in, drave out, they doors close, opening, flows and all that. And I guess the big foot was like where are they? I didn't hear him get back in their truck, and hear them away, And they were walking towards his bridge near a bridge over this little swamp spot to get I guess closer to his wife that was on her way. She was running a little bit late, and so they did something out of the routine that they normally do. And he saw one and he was shook up for months. He told me, showed me a picture. I guess Mark Seene went as well too. I talked to Mark, I think you know who Marks who wants to be a big for conference.

43:38 He saw a black one as well, So I guess they're pretty common to be black here in Ohio. Not to say there's not brown ones or anything like that or whatever. But two of the people I saw talk to face to face that had an encounter and that class a good class a that they had, they're black. So so yes, I that's the class that I heard of as solt Fork. Yeah, and. That's extremely interesting. I'm sure a lot of people listening to this would be like, Man, I've always wanted to go to soft Fork and look for Bigfoot. Do you have any advice for people that are going to sell Fork for the first time to go camping.

44:28 There's gonna be a lot of knuckleheads out there. Don't go and don't don't don't. Don't go out there in the summertime because every everybody that I know, there's people that don't even bother going to soft Fork anymore because it's it's some people nothing. It's just saying it's getting squashed out. But you get all these people going out there in the summertime, knock on trees, hooping and hollering and doing hoops, and you know they got they got the kids camp where they go out there and they walk up around. It could be pushing them away at certain times of the year. And that's why I talked about a while. If you look on the bfr O, you can plot a straight line so they can go up and down on line in the state so they could, like I said, Hawking Hills is just right below it on that appellation, the appellation of why really that they do get pushed out because there's too many people in the state park. They got someone else to go. So yeah, if you're going to do this, do it when I did it really spring lay fall. I like going because if you're going on these trails, it's so thick in there you can't see ten feet and you're almost wasting your time doing that. If you're going to do it, you want to go when all the leaf leaf flitters down, you know it's November, December, January, February, where you actually

45:58 can see a mile, no half a mile. This pointless doing it during the summertime. He really is, so I don't even waste her. I mean, I'm not saying not go out there, but I have a little expectations. In other words, I would say, if you want them to come up close, you're going to need at least three days. I think I just got lucky that one night of them. It really didn't come up to me. It really had no interest in me. I just disturbed it but turning on my mister Hero lamp glowing up my tent, and it got pissed off of me. So it wasn't there to check me out. It was really there to do its normal routine of getting a dinner, a meal and keep keep it, keep it moving. But if you want these things, I guess I've heard you need at least a week a LA about that four or five days for the don't even feel comfortable approaching you. So it's clearly pissed off of me, and you know probably didn't want me there to begin with. So if you want to have an accounter, I guess them coming into your camp mind didn't come in my camp. I don't count that account is passing my camp by. I just got lucky.

47:21 I'm turning all my mystery here at the time that I did and definitely directed towards me, and the other people heard it too, So yeah, I think it's a solid Yeah, a solid class B vocalization. I really haven't heard too many stories like mine, like kind of like the old man get off on your type of thing, like yelling at me. Never really heard that from anybody else. He Thank you for coming on and sharing. This is a very interesting interaction. It's kind of a unique one. I would say, definitely haven't heard many like it. But I appreciate you coming on to talk about your experience at soul Fork.

48:07 Yeah, appreciate it. Thank you for having me. It was a pleasure. Yeah, I'm surprised we don't have more form a while, be honest with you, I don't know why that is. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Every encounter we share reminds us that the world is bigger and stranger than we think, and that the truth is often hiding just beyond the tree line. If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe to the channel on YouTube, hit the bell so you don't miss the next episode, and share this with a friend who's into mysteries, monsters or the unexplained. And if you're listening to us on Spotify or Apple Podcast, please follow the show there and leave us a five star positive review because all that helps more people discover the show.

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