Bigfoot is All over Gallia County! | Ohio

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0:57 How's it going, Jeff, It's going good. Thanks for having me. Absolutely I've been looking forward to hearing your story. I'd say, let's go ahead and without any further ado, I'm going to go ahead and hand things over to you. You're welcome to take us back to the area where this first started. And the floor is yours. Okay. Well, it was in the early I will say mid eighties, probably around eighty six or eighty seven or so, and we had just moved. It was in an area. It was in Galley County in Lio and we had just moved out to this. We lived in a small town and we had moved out into the country and we just bought a place and everything.

1:45 We had been there probably thirty. Days, maybe not maybe not even that long, and we've just gotten moved in and starting to get settled in. And one night I was asleep and I had to get up and use the restroom and everything. So I got up and there was a window kind of like right by my bed, a couple of feet away, and I walked by it. Didn't think intentionally. I was kind of had to sleep. They use the restroom, come back, and I get in bed, and I kind of feel like, I don't know, you ever get that funny feeling like something's watching here, not right, or you know whatnot, And so I'd kind of roll over and there was this big, huge, solid black thing at my window, and the window was several feet off the ground at the bottom of it, and then I'm going to say the top of the window was just guestimate seven to eight feet or so off the ground if you were standing there. And this thing took up like the almost pretty much the whole window, and its head was at the top shoulders was as wide as a window, and it just completely you could see a little bit, you know, over your shoulders behind it.

3:02 And I just didn't know what to think at first. It really scared me and freaked me out, and something like running through my head, like you know what this is. And I had some family lived across the street, some young cousins and stuff, so at first I thought maybe somebody, you know, messing around, franking me whatever, And so the more I kind of just you know, going through things in my head. And then there was a pole light a lot on a telephone pole out in the yard, probably fifty to sixty yards behind this scene, and you couldn't see through it, so it definitely wasn't like just some shadow casting or anything like that. And so I laid mere staring at it for several minutes, and the longer I stared at it, you couldn't make out no real details like of the body or nothing. It was just really close to the windows, like solid black. And so I stand there or I laid there and looked at it, and it never moved, and of course I was frozen. I never moved either, and we kind of stared at each other for a while. And the longer it stood there, which was several minutes, felt like a long time, you know how that goes, And the thing finally moved. It turned to its side right when I was just thinking, you know, this is nothing, because at the time, I didn't even know what a big foot was.

4:31 I never heard of one, didn't know nothing about it. And so it turned to its side, and it took one step and it was out of the window, like completely gone with one step, and you could almost hear it walking around the side of the house. And the first thing that went through my. Head as a young kid, I was like, all, this thing's gonna go around the back t I come in the back door, or something to that effect. But you know, it just walked off and it never messed with the house no more or whatever. I lived there quiet for a long time after that. I couldn't even go back to sleep. And so this was pretty far out in the country in.

5:17 Gatty County, Ohio, and like kind of. Where Gay County meets Jackson and some other counties out there, there's a wildlife area. It's called Wayne National Forest, and the property butted up against some of the Wayne National Forest property and that's an area of if I'm not mistaken, I looked it up one time. I think total it's like one hundred and forty four thousand square acres of national forests. And so, you know, I didn't know what it was. And like I never really told my grandma about him or nothing, because I lived with my grandmother when I was a small kid. And so fast forward a couple of years and I was we had moved back out of there, and I was going to school and they was a kid that was in my class with me, and there was a lake outside of Ryogrando, Hi called Tycoon Lake, and this kid and his family lived like on the back side of this lake, and he started talking about Bigfoot, and of course I was intrigued.

6:26 I didn't know anything about it, and he showed me told me that his mom had seen Bigfoot in her backyard like a bunch of times, and she would sketch what it looked like. And he had these sketchings he brought to school with him. And that's how I knew then what I seen at my bedroom window when I was, you know, like a year prior to kind of freaked me out, and you know, but it was I kind of knew what, you know, what it was at my window then when I'd seen it. And there's a bunch of men, a bunch of. Sightings in that area and in Galu County, I guess I found out like there was some going all the way back to the eighteen hundreds in that area actually, and I think it talked about one on the show I was watching that I'd commented on actually. So then fast forward, probably twenty some years later, me and some of my friends decided that we were going to go out to Wayne National. There's a big rock out there and we would all go out there and hang out sometimes, and me and like three or four of my friends and my brother was with us as well, and we went out there. Now this is only like probably five miles through the woods to where I had the first encounter out and so we go out there in the evening time and there's we walked. You got to walk

7:56 through the woods like fifteen minutes or so to get to where we were going to this big rock. It's like five stories tall, and you can go around the side of the rock and climb up and get on top of this rock and you're like in the tree canopy. You're like way up off the ground. And we were just up there, you know, having a good time talking and like I had told these people about my encounter at some point in time. They're in our friendship, you know, and they all just kind of brushed it off. And you know, got to giggle out of it or whatever. And so we were out there hanging out and there's a creek that flows I'm not for sure, probably seventy five hundred yards from this rock, maybe not even that much, and it had rained a lot.

8:45 It was like. Late springtime, said, and it had flooded and receded, but there was still a bunch of floodwater backed up backwater in certain areas there. And we were just up on top of this rock, mine and our own business, talking whatever. And I'd heard something, and my buddies heard it too, and it was like when you get into say water that's like a little over knee deep and you've got to wave through it like a person two on two legs makes a certain sound wading through water, and so you like if it's a deer or something like that, it doesn't make the same sound. If any noise at all, usually depend on how deep the water is. And well, when we heard this, I told everybody else to be quiet, and then they heard it too, and they kind of freaked everybody out because everything in the woods got super silent when we heard this, Like you could have heard a pin drop a mile away. There was like no crickets, no birds, no frogs, no nothing, and like it literally scared everybody there.

10:04 But now. You could get a little bit of a glimpse of what it was through the trees because now, mind you, we were way up and this thing was way down on the ground and it was kind of far away too, but you could you could just hear it walking through the water, wading through the water, and it just really freaked everybody out, and nobody would go down off to the top of this rock, like because our car was, you know, fifteen minutes through the woods, parked out on the road, and nobody would wanted to get down and go to the car. And you know, it really freaked all these guys out. And we stayed there until probably an hour after this happened. And really, you know, we just it just walked and it was just going somewhere, like, you know, it didn't even know if it knew we were were there. It was trying to get away or something.

11:03 You know, I don't know if this thing was just passing through and we stooped it or what. But so we finally it started getting dark on us, and I told the guys, you know, like I don't know about you guys, but I don't want to be walking back to the car and pitch black because we didn't have no flash lights nothing. So we finally come down off there and we made it back to the car. And to still to this day, everybody that was there with us, they will not go back out to that area with me, you know what I mean, Like, and they're they're all petrified of it. Won't go back out there. I've tried to get him to go back out there a couple.

11:46 Of times now, my brother. He goes back out there with me, but none of the other guys would and it's. Pretty neat though. I'm glad that I got to experience that with some of these guys, because I think they just didn't take me seriously when I told them what I'd seen. And you know, it was only just a few miles from where I'd seen the first encounter at so it was pretty wild time there the second time. But there's a lot of land out there, so you know, anything could be out there if you think about, you know, all those thousands of acres, it's got plenty of places to be and done with time anybody's out there would be you know, hunting season or whatever maybe. So that's pretty much about my experiences with it in the Galu County area there. I live in West Virginia now, but I grew up there in Ohio Galley County my whole life, like thirty some years so, and I've had some other friends that would say, you know, that they've seen things to or heard something while they were there, because I knew a lot of people that lived around that area that was close to that Wayne National Wildlife also.

13:03 So Jeff, thank you for sharing what you experienced over the years. I do want to also point out something about this county. It is right across the river from Point Pleasant, West Virginia, so that kind of puts a whole, you know, other spin on it. A lot of people probably know about Point Pleasant and that area. Well, this county right across the Ohio River. So yeah, there's a lot of weird stuff even besides Bigfoot that's going on in this area. Yeah, you know, I grew up had the Mothman and and all sorts of all sorts of weird, weird stuff around that area. You know, I grew up out in western Massachusetts. We had a large, large rock out in the woods out where I grew up in Franklin County, and allegedly had a name. It was called wap and supposed to mean big Rock. Now, I don't know if that was just a story my dad came up with or if that was actually true or not.

14:06 But did the locals have a name for this rock area in Wayne National? Yes, I think they do, And I'm trying to remember if my memory serves right, I think they called it Chimney Rock. Possibly. I think I looked it up. One time just happened to google it one day to see if I could, you know, if there was anything linked to that rock where we werea in that name. And there's some old stories with that rock that go all the way back to I don't know, sometime maybe early eighteen hundreds, something about a family that had stayed there and the wife got ill or something, and I'm not sure the story, but if you can look it up, I'm pretty sure they the locals named for its Chimney Rock.

14:54 Interesting. Sounded like it was your your buddy and this was the account that was up by Haycoon Lake, and so you were able to see these drawings that your buddy's mom was making of the Bigfoot in that area. Yeah, he brought them to school, and you know, it was pretty interesting because, like I said, I didn't even know, you. Know, what bigfoot was. When I had had my first encounter, and it just creeked me out because every time I'd go out in the yard, I'd be by myself, and you know, I was always like one of those get up early kids, you know what I mean. I'd be outside sometimes right after the sun comes up or at dawn or whatever, and I.

15:38 Don't know it was always uneasy playing out in the yard. You know, I didn't want to go outside much and stay out there very long, and I don't know, it just kind of creeped me out after that, and I really wasn't into you know, I'd go outside and ride my bike or whatever because we had a big garden. My aunt lived across the street and we had a big garden right inside the house who had corn and everything in it. So sometimes visibility past a certain spot there, you know, something could be in the garden around the corn you'd never even know was there. So I just always had a creepy feeling even after that, like something was watching me or whatever. But I never seen nothing after that, and that time right there was enough. But yeah, the kid had drawings, and he brought him to school and showed them to me, and they looked a lot like you know, a lot of the big Foot drawings you'd see that anybody else.

16:34 Would do, so like the classic pose where it's walking, you know, the same direction as Patty and all that. Yeah, it was a couple of them. It was just standing by like a tree in the back corner of the yard. And I'm pretty sure I think his mom said, or he told me that his mom would like leave apples out and stuff for this, and it would they would come back and the apples would. Be gone or whatever. And I've heard that in other stories too, people leaving stuff out, but they never didn't say anything about that's a bag. Basically, all they said was that his mom and I'm guessing she had several encounters because he had I don't know, ten fifteen drawings that his mama did.

17:23 He brought him to school and was showing us all to you know, all the drawings and everything. Well, that's so fascinating. There must be quite a story behind that. And you know, I would even be curious if people listening are from that area, you know there there could even be things going on in that area to this day. Yeah, you had said something interesting. I think I heard it right when you were talking about when you first saw it by your window and what age were you approximately again at that time. I was I was seven or eight years old. Okay, do you did you refer to it as a she?

18:05 I don't really, you couldn't really tell, you know what I mean. Like now, with like the Patterson film and all that, you can kind of really tell that. I think you know that one's like a female obviously, right, But now this one, I don't know. I was just so freaked out. I don't know. I didn't really pay that much attention when it turned sideways and walked off because it when it moved, it really freaked me out, you know what I mean, Like. Because at first I it never moved for minutes. I mean, it didn't twitch, jerk, shake, nothing, So I really thought it was nothing after laying there staring at it for like I said, now, it could only been two minutes, could have been a minute.

18:49 You know, sometimes it feels like eternity when you're looking at something like that. Sure, when you're looking at it and you can see something through the wind, were you able to see any details of the face or was it more just it was a big solid black mass by that window. Yeah, it was just a big solid black mass. Like I've heard people say stuff about like eyeballs, like the eyes were glowing or reflecting or whatever. There was none of that. But there wasn't any light coming out of my house at all because the lights were off in the bedroom and there was a light out in the yard behind it. So the whole front of it was just solid black.

19:35 You could tail. It looked muscular, like really big and muscular, you know what I mean. It looked like you could definitely tell it. It was really broad shoulder, and you could tell it was huge, you know what I mean. Like its head was all the way up at the top of the window, like it didn't its head didn't go above the window, but its head. The top of its head was it like the top of the window. Were you hearing it make any noises at all? Or would you hear strange noises by your house other times? No, not really. I heard it take a couple of steps when it walked away, and I don't remember really any strange noises or anything after that. But things would get really eerie and really quiet, And I think that's kind of what freaked me out too. When I'd be outside early in the morning, because you know, early in the morning when you live in the country, the birds are chirping, they're going off, you know, everything is kind of coming awake for the day, and I'd be outside and there would it just be sometimes it just be really quiet and eerie, like you.

20:47 Know, And we only lived there for probably I don't know. I'm gonna say we only lived in this location for six to eight months, and then we ended up moving back to in the same town we originally lived in. And I don't really remember why we did that because I was kind of young and it was so long ago. But yeah, it just I don't know, I had an odd feeling to it. When you go outside and I was always by myself. There was no other kids there, you know, so just be me outside with my bike, and I'd get just every now and then to get freaked out, and I don't know, just said it really revide to it.

21:28 Yeah, absolutely did. What did your parents think about this, this whole deal where you'd seen something through your window? Well I didn't say anything my grandma at first about it, but later on I had told my mom about it, and she was saying, oh, maybe it was a bear or something to that fact, you know what I mean. But I mean in that area, there's really, especially back then, there's really not a lot of bears. Now there is a few every now and then that might come across the High River from West Virginia. There hasn't been noted something that's come across into Ohio, but really if you do some research, they really don't. We really didn't have a lot of black bears or anything of that nature, so and don't I'm just a black bear wouldn't have looked like.

22:18 Standing on tind legs at my window, you know. Like its arms was down to its side and it just stood there like I guess. I don't know if it was at the window when I walked by the first time, because I was like half asleep. You know, you just wake up and you you know, you go use the restroom and you come back. And we didn't even have no curtains on the window yet, on the bedroom window, because we just moved in there. You know, slightly before this. And you could see the hole that it just took up the whole window except for you could see over its shoulders, and you know, everything was just blacked out.

23:00 And I don't know really what time it was, but it was it had to have been two, three, four o'clock. In the morning, Okay, sure, it was just really really late, really dark. Ass How long had this house been vacant for before you guys moved into it. It was a brand new it was all branded it. We just put it there Okay. It was. Yeah. It was like a like a double wide mobile home. And my grandma had bought it and had it put there, so there was nothing there. It was just an open field and I had had like it always had some kind of gorden over there. And the rest of it was we just come in and plant this thing in the middle of this field, you.

23:48 Know what I mean, So that the thing was probably like what is this? You know what I mean? No, yeah, I'm totally getting it now because I mean, before you're there, it sounds like it's pretty much just a food you know, there's a garden and all that, and then all of a sudden, you guys show up and it's like, well, what's going on here? And there's these this kid running around and making noise and stuff, and yeah, I could totally see something like this happening. Man, that's wild. Yeah. Like I say, it was like we just I could see it being curious of what is it? You know what I mean, Like it was never here before. So but yeah, the.

24:29 Second encounter was was kind of crazy though, because all you know, because i mean, let's face it, some people you tell about this stuff and a lot of people see things and they don't ever tell nobody h because they're just afraid people is not gonna believe them. They're gonna laugh at them, think they're crazy, you know whatever. And you know, all my buddies got a big laugh kick out of it when I'd ever told them the story over the years. And then after when this happened and we were on top of that rock, you know, after this thing had like vacated the area and we couldn't hear a walk and they more moving through the water or anything. It was almost like we really didn't see exactly what it was, but we all knew what it was, if that makes sense, because like one guy was fifty some years old and he'd never been in the woods where everything shut up like that in his entire life, and it like really freaked this.

25:25 Guy out, and we all like, you know. And he'll tell you to this day he won't go back out there unless he's armed, because we've tried to get him to go back out there before. And so but it was just like I say, a few miles through the woods, if you walked straight through the woods like as the bird would fly, you know you're gonna come out right there in that field where our house was. Now it's gonna be probably several miles, but it's gonna you're gonna come out right there. And that's pretty interesting. But I told them all, I was like, you know, see, I told you, you know, and then they believed me after that, you know, because it really freaked them all out.

26:10 Yeah, absolutely, growing up in that area. Would you hear any other stories about weird things that would happen in that same county as well? Was it just Bigfoot there or were there other things you would have to keep an eye out for. As well well? And I never really heard just a few Bigfoot stories and everything, and growing up there, a lot of the stuff you ever heard was you know, obviously about the stuff in Points. Wasn't like Mothman and you know, and all. That stuff, because we were only twelve miles from it, in the little town that I grew up in. So we were in the woods one time. This is really not related to the big food, but me and my cousin was in the lives one time. And this was probably three years after I've seen that, had my first sighting, and we'd moved into this apartment complex and we were just out in the woods. We were kids and curious, so we went out into the woods and we ran to this guy that was walking through the woods and he had like a wherewith mask on, like a full headed so you pull down over your head, and he had a like a big knife with him and a black trash bag and we didn't. It freaked us out, so we just laid down behind some logs and my cousin was older than me, and she told me to be quiet, and we just laid down and watched this

27:43 guy and he walked up to a tree, set the black trash bag down and walks off and we wait, like, I don't know, fifteen to twenty minutes to let him get gone. And we were just shaken, scared to death, you know, because we're young kids. We was, I don't know younger. I was younger than ten, and she was probably twelve or thirteen probably, I would say at that time. And so we let the guy leave and we go up. She wanted to leave. I wanted to look in the bag, you know what I mean. So I go over there and open up the bag and it was just like animal parts.

28:26 In this bag, you know what I mean. So that was pretty crazy. Too. That's another experience I had in that, you know, in that county, in the woods. So I just want to make sure so as you saw a dude with a. Yeah it was the mask on, yeah, broad daylight. And knife in a bag full of animal parts. Yeah yeah, like yeah, Like, we were just walking through the woods and we seen from a distance, like a good distance coming and it scared us because you obviously, the guy had on like a crazy looking mask. And my cousin made me duck down and we got down behind some down trees that luckily they was something to get behind right there, clothes and the guy just strolled up through the woods had a knife in his hand.

29:23 I don't I was it's been a long time ago. That was thirty some years ago. Now I don't remember if it was a machete or what. But he had a big knife in his hand, and you know, he just walked up to his tree, set his bag down, and kept on walking. And it wasn't even a big wooded area like this was behind like a residential area, like on the edge of town. The apartment complex was on the edge of the town, and then it went into some woods and there was a few houses scattered around around probably, I don't know, it might have been like one hundred acres of woods there, probably, And that was a pretty crazy experience. That was like the only other thing I've had besides you know, obviously did foot stuff.

30:16 But it was pretty evident that it was definitely a mask he was wearing and not like a. Yeah, because he had on right. Yeah, he had on like a you know, like a jacket or some clothes, right, and pants and boots, you know what I mean. What time of year was it? Again? It was probably late summer. I know it wasn't winter, and I know it wasn't like all the way in the fall yet because everything was still kind of green, So it's probably late summer. Man. That's that would freak me out. I mean, I don't know how i'd hand that as a as a little kid, especially it's holding a knife.

31:07 Yeah. I never I never went back into into those, you know, because the woods was like right behind the apartment complex, probably in fifty yards. It went it was like a grassy hill went down, there was a little house behind the apartments, and then it was basically just went into all like probably one hundred couple of hundred acres of woods, was you know, scattered houses way over there somewhere, And yeah, that was pretty weird. Man. It freaked me out. And she was even more scared than me, like he after he left, I wasn't as freaking out as bad and more curious, you know what I mean, like because I mean, why would he be carrying a trash bag in the middle of the woods and why was he doing what he was doing?

31:56 I don't, you know, I don't know. But and this was, like I. Said, was a broad daylight. This is probably three o'clock in the afternoon. That's weird. That's That's one of the weird things I've heard on the show. Would you if you had the you can make the decision whether to see one or experience being around one again, would you would you decide to do so? Or is that something you would not want to be involved with? No, I'm curious. I mean I've been out hunting in the woods a lot since childhood when I've seen that, and since I had the second encounter two, and you know, like it wouldn't I'm not, you know, I would definitely you know, go back out and you know, look for something or you know it doesn't. It doesn't freak me out enough, not those in what I've encounter I've had. It's not scary enough for me to be like, I'm not going back out there, not doing this, you know. But I mean if they was, I would go out and do research or anything like that. It wouldn't scary enough for me to stay out of the woods, you know what I mean.

33:17 Sure, I'm sure that you've thought about these encounters you were involved with more than a few times. And what do you think it is that you know, we're dealing with when we talk about a creature like bigfoot being out. There, Well, I really I don't know. I have thought about it a lot over the years, and it really interests me. I watched podcasts and shows all the time about it. And I have a buddy that lives in California and he thinks he's seen one one one time in his yard when he was younger. He don't talk about it much, though, But I'm not sure I've thought of, you know, like the same things a lot of people thought about, like if it's some kind of primate that we haven't discovered. But it is kind of really odd though, that we don't have we've never found no bodies, you know, things of that nature.

34:17 So I really, I really don't know if it's you know, it's hard to say for sure what exactly it is. But I've heard all kinds of different theories on it myself, like and from anything from aliens to they come from the inner Earth, you know what I mean. Like, I've heard all kinds of stories so and well theories actually on it. But I mean there's too many sightings, too many people've seen stuff. So you know, I definitely think that there's something out there. There's just more to be discovered on it. Hopefully in the future. With technology and everything now, maybe hopefully we can eventually get something figured out about it.

34:59 Absolutely, you know, I personally think it's it's one of the last great mysteries. And you know, as you said, there's just so many, so many reports out there, people constantly coming forward every single day. I think that with so many reports out there, there's just two to too many people coming forward, and I think hopefully maybe even soon, maybe even you know, later this year. There's going to be a lot of things coming out this year we know from other topics, and maybe this is the year for Bigfoot to come out before the end of the year. But you know, we'll see you know, fingers crossed. Just keep talking to people. But Jeff, it has been a pleasure having you on the show. Thank you for coming on and sharing what happened to you over the years down there in Ohio.

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