May 23, 2025

Bigfoot is All over Gallia County! | Ohio

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Season 1

Join us at Bigfoot Society as we delve into two gripping encounters from Gallia County, Ohio with special guest Jeff. Jeff recounts his experiences from the mid-80s, where he first saw a mysterious, hulking black figure outside his bedroom window. Fast forward to 20 years later, he and his friends hear eerie movements while exploring Wayne National Forest's Chimney Rock, leaving them petrified. Alongside the Bigfoot stories, Jeff also shares a spine-tingling childhood encounter with a masked individual in the woods. This episode sheds light on the rich history of cryptid sightings and other bizarre occurrences in Gallia County and Point Pleasant, West Virginia.

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All right, Bigfoot Society. We've got the privilege of talking

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to Jeff today. Jeff is an individual that left some

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interesting comments over on the YouTube channel and I reached

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back out to him and thankfully we're able to be

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connected and I was able to come on the show

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today to share what he has experienced over the years.

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How's it going, Jeff, It's going good.

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Thanks for having me.

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Absolutely I've been looking forward to hearing your story. I'd say,

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let's go ahead and without any further ado, I'm going

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to go ahead and hand things over to you. You're

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welcome to take us back to the area where this

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first started. And the floor is yours.

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Okay.

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Well, it was in the early I will say mid eighties,

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probably around eighty six or eighty seven or so, and

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we had just moved.

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It was in an area.

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It was in Galley County in Lio and we had

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just moved out to this. We lived in a small

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town and we had moved out into the country and

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we just bought a place and everything.

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We had been there probably thirty.

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Days, maybe not maybe not even that long, and we've

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just gotten moved in and starting to get settled in.

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And one night I was asleep and I had to

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get up and use the restroom and everything. So I

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got up and there was a window kind of like

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right by my bed, a couple of feet away, and

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I walked by it. Didn't think intentionally. I was kind

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of had to sleep. They use the restroom, come back,

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and I get in bed, and I kind of feel like,

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I don't know, you ever get that funny feeling like

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something's watching here, not right, or you know whatnot, And

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so I'd kind of roll over and there was this big, huge,

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solid black thing at my window, and the window was

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several feet off the ground at the bottom of it,

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and then I'm going to say the top of the

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window was just guestimate seven to eight feet or so

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off the ground if you were standing there. And this

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thing took up like the almost pretty much the whole window,

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and its head was at the top shoulders was as

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wide as a window, and it just completely you could

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see a little bit, you know, over your shoulders behind it.

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And I just didn't know what to think at first.

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It really scared me and freaked me out, and something

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like running through my head, like you know what this is.

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And I had some family lived across the street, some

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young cousins and stuff, so at first I thought maybe somebody,

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you know, messing around, franking me whatever, And so the

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more I kind of just you know, going through things

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in my head. And then there was a pole light

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a lot on a telephone pole out in the yard,

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probably fifty to sixty yards behind this scene, and you

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couldn't see through it, so it definitely wasn't like just

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some shadow casting or anything like that. And so I

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laid mere staring at it for several minutes, and the

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longer I stared at it, you couldn't make out no

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real details like of the body or nothing. It was

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just really close to the windows, like solid black. And

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so I stand there or I laid there and looked

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at it, and it never moved, and of course I

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was frozen. I never moved either, and we kind of

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stared at each other for a while. And the longer

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it stood there, which was several minutes, felt like a

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long time, you know how that goes, And the thing

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finally moved. It turned to its side right when I

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was just thinking, you know, this is nothing, because at

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the time, I didn't even know what a big foot was.

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I never heard of one, didn't know nothing about it.

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And so it turned to its side, and it took

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one step and it was out of the window, like

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completely gone with one step, and you could almost hear

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it walking around the side of the house.

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And the first thing that went through my.

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Head as a young kid, I was like, all, this

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thing's gonna go around the back t I come in

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the back door, or something to that effect. But you know,

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it just walked off and it never messed with the

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house no more or whatever. I lived there quiet for

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a long time after that. I couldn't even go back

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to sleep. And so this was pretty far out in

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the country in.

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Gatty County, Ohio, and like kind of.

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Where Gay County meets Jackson and some other counties out there,

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there's a wildlife area. It's called Wayne National Forest, and

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the property butted up against some of the Wayne National

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Forest property and that's an area of if I'm not mistaken,

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I looked it up one time. I think total it's

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like one hundred and forty four thousand square acres of

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national forests. And so, you know, I didn't know what

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it was. And like I never really told my grandma

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about him or nothing, because I lived with my grandmother

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when I was a small kid. And so fast forward

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a couple of years and I was we had moved

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back out of there, and I was going to school

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and they was a kid that was in my class

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with me, and there was a lake outside of Ryogrando,

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Hi called Tycoon Lake, and this kid and his family

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lived like on the back side of this lake, and

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he started talking about Bigfoot, and of course I was intrigued.

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I didn't know anything about it, and he showed me

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told me that his mom had seen Bigfoot in her

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backyard like a bunch of times, and she would sketch

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what it looked like. And he had these sketchings he

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brought to school with him. And that's how I knew

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then what I seen at my bedroom window when I was,

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you know, like a year prior to kind of freaked

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me out, and you know, but it was I kind

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of knew what, you know, what it was at my

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window then when I'd seen it.

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And there's a bunch of men, a bunch of.

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Sightings in that area and in Galu County, I guess

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I found out like there was some going all the

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way back to the eighteen hundreds in that area actually,

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and I think it talked about one on the show

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I was watching that I'd commented on actually. So then

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fast forward, probably twenty some years later, me and some

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of my friends decided that we were going to go

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out to Wayne National. There's a big rock out there

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and we would all go out there and hang out sometimes,

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and me and like three or four of my friends

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and my brother was with us as well, and we

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went out there. Now this is only like probably five

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miles through the woods to where I had the first

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encounter out and so we go out there in the

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evening time and there's we walked. You got to walk

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through the woods like fifteen minutes or so to get

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to where we were going to this big rock. It's

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like five stories tall, and you can go around the

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side of the rock and climb up and get on

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top of this rock and you're like in the tree canopy.

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You're like way up off the ground. And we were

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just up there, you know, having a good time talking

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and like I had told these people about my encounter

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at some point in time. They're in our friendship, you know,

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and they all just kind of brushed it off.

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And you know, got to giggle out of it or whatever.

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And so we were out there hanging out and there's

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a creek that flows I'm not for sure, probably seventy

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five hundred yards from this rock, maybe not even that much,

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and it had rained a lot.

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It was like.

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Late springtime, said, and it had flooded and receded, but

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there was still a bunch of floodwater backed up backwater

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in certain areas there. And we were just up on

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top of this rock, mine and our own business, talking whatever.

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And I'd heard something, and my buddies heard it too,

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and it was like when you get into say water

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that's like a little over knee deep and you've got

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to wave through it like a person two on two

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legs makes a certain sound wading through water, and so

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you like if it's a deer or something like that,

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it doesn't make the same sound. If any noise at all,

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usually depend on how deep the water is. And well,

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when we heard this, I told everybody else to be quiet,

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and then they heard it too, and they kind of

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freaked everybody out because everything in the woods got super

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silent when we heard this, Like you could have heard

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a pin drop a mile away. There was like no crickets,

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no birds, no frogs, no nothing, and like it literally

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scared everybody there.

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But now.

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You could get a little bit of a glimpse of

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what it was through the trees because now, mind you,

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we were way up and this thing was way down

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on the ground and it was kind of far away too,

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but you could you could just hear it walking through

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the water, wading through the water, and it just really

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freaked everybody out, and nobody would go down off to

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the top of this rock, like because our car was,

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you know, fifteen minutes through the woods, parked out on

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the road, and nobody would wanted to get down and

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go to the car. And you know, it really freaked

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all these guys out. And we stayed there until probably

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an hour after this happened. And really, you know, we

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just it just walked and it was just going somewhere, like,

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you know, it didn't even know if it knew we

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were were there. It was trying to get away or something.

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You know, I don't know if this thing was just

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passing through and we stooped it or what. But so

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we finally it started getting dark on us, and I

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told the guys, you know, like I don't know about

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you guys, but I don't want to be walking back

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to the car and pitch black because we didn't have

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no flash lights nothing. So we finally come down off

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there and we made it back to the car. And

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to still to this day, everybody that was there with us,

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they will not go back out to that area with me,

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you know what I mean, Like, and they're they're all

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petrified of it. Won't go back out there. I've tried

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to get him to go back out there a couple.

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Of times now, my brother.

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He goes back out there with me, but none of

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the other guys would and it's.

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Pretty neat though.

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I'm glad that I got to experience that with some

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of these guys, because I think they just didn't take

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me seriously when I told them what I'd seen. And

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you know, it was only just a few miles from

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where I'd seen the first encounter at so it was

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pretty wild time there the second time. But there's a

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lot of land out there, so you know, anything could

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be out there if you think about, you know, all

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those thousands of acres, it's got plenty of places to

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be and done with time anybody's out there would be

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you know, hunting season or whatever maybe. So that's pretty

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much about my experiences with it in the Galu County

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area there. I live in West Virginia now, but I

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grew up there in Ohio Galley County my whole life,

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like thirty some years so, and I've had some other

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friends that would say, you know, that they've seen things

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to or heard something while they were there, because I

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knew a lot of people that lived around that area

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that was close to that Wayne National Wildlife also.

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So Jeff, thank you for sharing what you experienced over

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the years. I do want to also point out something

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about this county. It is right across the river from

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Point Pleasant, West Virginia, so that kind of puts a whole,

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you know, other spin on it. A lot of people

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probably know about Point Pleasant and that area. Well, this

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county right across the Ohio River. So yeah, there's a

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lot of weird stuff even besides Bigfoot that's going on

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in this area. Yeah, you know, I grew up had

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the Mothman and and all sorts of all sorts of weird,

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weird stuff around that area. You know, I grew up

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out in western Massachusetts. We had a large, large rock

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out in the woods out where I grew up in

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Franklin County, and allegedly had a name. It was called

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wap and supposed to mean big Rock. Now, I don't

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know if that was just a story my dad came

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up with or if that was actually true or not.

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But did the locals have a name for this rock

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area in Wayne National?

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Yes, I think they do, And I'm trying to remember

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if my memory serves right, I think they called it

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Chimney Rock.

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Possibly. I think I looked it up.

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One time just happened to google it one day to

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see if I could, you know, if there was anything

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linked to that rock where we werea in that name.

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And there's some old stories with that rock that go

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all the way back to I don't know, sometime maybe

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early eighteen hundreds, something about a family that had stayed

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there and the wife got ill or something, and I'm

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not sure the story, but if you can look it up,

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I'm pretty sure they the locals named for its Chimney Rock.

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Interesting. Sounded like it was your your buddy and this

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was the account that was up by Haycoon Lake, and

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so you were able to see these drawings that your

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buddy's mom was making of the Bigfoot in that area.

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Yeah, he brought them to school, and you know, it

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was pretty interesting because, like I said, I didn't even know, you.

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Know, what bigfoot was.

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When I had had my first encounter, and it just

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creeked me out because every time I'd go out in

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the yard, I'd be by myself, and you know, I

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was always like one of those get up early kids,

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you know what I mean. I'd be outside sometimes right

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after the sun comes up or at dawn or whatever,

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and I.

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Don't know it was always uneasy playing out in the yard.

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You know, I didn't want to go outside much and

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stay out there very long, and I don't know, it

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just kind of creeped me out after that, and I

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really wasn't into you know, I'd go outside and ride

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my bike or whatever because we had a big garden.

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My aunt lived across the street and we had a

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big garden right inside the house who had corn and

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everything in it. So sometimes visibility past a certain spot there,

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you know, something could be in the garden around the

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corn you'd never even know was there. So I just

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always had a creepy feeling even after that, like something

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was watching me or whatever. But I never seen nothing

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after that, and that time right there was enough. But yeah,

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the kid had drawings, and he brought him to school

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and showed them to me, and they looked a lot

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like you know, a lot of the big Foot drawings

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you'd see that anybody else.

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Would do, so like the classic pose where it's walking,

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you know, the same direction as Patty and all that.

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Yeah, it was a couple of them. It was just

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standing by like a tree in the back corner of

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the yard. And I'm pretty sure I think his mom said,

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or he told me that his mom would like leave

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apples out and stuff for this, and it would they

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would come back and the apples would.

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Be gone or whatever.

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And I've heard that in other stories too, people leaving

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stuff out, but they never didn't say anything about that's

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a bag. Basically, all they said was that his mom

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and I'm guessing she had several encounters because he had

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I don't know, ten fifteen drawings that his mama did.

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He brought him to school and was showing us all

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to you know, all the drawings and everything.

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Well, that's so fascinating. There must be quite a story

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behind that. And you know, I would even be curious

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if people listening are from that area, you know there

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there could even be things going on in that area

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to this day. Yeah, you had said something interesting. I

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think I heard it right when you were talking about

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when you first saw it by your window and what

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age were you approximately again at that time.

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I was I was seven or eight years old.

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Okay, do you did you refer to it as a she?

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I don't really, you couldn't really tell, you know what

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I mean. Like now, with like the Patterson film and

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all that, you can kind of really tell that. I

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think you know that one's like a female obviously, right,

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But now this one, I don't know.

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I was just so freaked out. I don't know.

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I didn't really pay that much attention when it turned

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sideways and walked off because it when it moved, it

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really freaked me out, you know what I mean, Like.

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Because at first I it never moved for minutes.

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I mean, it didn't twitch, jerk, shake, nothing, So I

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really thought it was nothing after laying there staring at

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it for like I said, now, it could only been

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two minutes, could have been a minute.

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You know, sometimes it feels like eternity when you're looking

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at something like that.

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Sure, when you're looking at it and you can see

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something through the wind, were you able to see any

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details of the face or was it more just it

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was a big solid black mass by that window.

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Yeah, it was just a big solid black mass. Like

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I've heard people say stuff about like eyeballs, like the

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eyes were glowing or reflecting or whatever. There was none

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of that. But there wasn't any light coming out of

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my house at all because the lights were off in

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the bedroom and there was a light out in the

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yard behind it. So the whole front of it was

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just solid black.

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You could tail.

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It looked muscular, like really big and muscular, you know

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what I mean. It looked like you could definitely tell it.

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It was really broad shoulder, and you could tell it

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was huge, you know what I mean. Like its head

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was all the way up at the top of the window,

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like it didn't its head didn't go above the window,

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but its head.

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The top of its head was it like the top

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of the window.

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Were you hearing it make any noises at all? Or

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would you hear strange noises by your house other times?

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No, not really.

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I heard it take a couple of steps when it

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walked away, and I don't remember really any strange noises

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or anything after that. But things would get really eerie

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and really quiet, And I think that's kind of what

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freaked me out too. When I'd be outside early in

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the morning, because you know, early in the morning when

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you live in the country, the birds are chirping, they're

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going off, you know, everything is kind of coming awake

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for the day, and I'd be outside and there would

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it just be sometimes it just be really quiet and eerie,

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like you.

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Know, And we only lived there for probably I don't know.

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I'm gonna say we only lived in this location for

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six to eight months, and then we ended up moving

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back to in the same town we originally lived in.

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And I don't really remember why we did that because

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I was kind of young and it was so long ago.

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But yeah, it just I don't know, I had an

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odd feeling to it. When you go outside and I

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was always by myself. There was no other kids there,

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you know, so just be me outside with my bike,

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and I'd get just every now and then to get

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freaked out, and I don't know, just said it really

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revide to it.

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Yeah, absolutely did. What did your parents think about this,

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this whole deal where you'd seen something through your window?

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Well I didn't say anything my grandma at first about it,

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but later on I had told my mom about it,

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and she was saying, oh, maybe it was a bear

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or something to that fact, you know what I mean.

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But I mean in that area, there's really, especially back then,

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there's really not a lot of bears. Now there is

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a few every now and then that might come across

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the High River from West Virginia. There hasn't been noted

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something that's come across into Ohio, but really if you

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do some research, they really don't. We really didn't have

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a lot of black bears or anything of that nature,

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so and don't I'm just a black bear wouldn't have

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looked like.

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Standing on tind legs at my window, you know.

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Like its arms was down to its side and it

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just stood there like I guess. I don't know if

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it was at the window when I walked by the

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first time, because I was like half asleep. You know,

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you just wake up and you you know, you go

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use the restroom and you come back. And we didn't

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even have no curtains on the window yet, on the

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bedroom window, because we just moved in there.

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You know, slightly before this.

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And you could see the hole that it just took

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up the whole window except for you could see over

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its shoulders, and you know, everything was just blacked out.

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And I don't know really what time it was, but

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it was it had to have been two, three, four o'clock.

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In the morning, Okay, sure, it was just really really late,

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really dark.

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Ass How long had this house been vacant for before

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you guys moved into it.

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It was a brand new it was all branded it.

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We just put it there Okay.

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It was. Yeah. It was like a like a double

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wide mobile home.

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And my grandma had bought it and had it put there,

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so there was nothing there. It was just an open

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field and I had had like it always had some

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kind of gorden over there. And the rest of it

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was we just come in and plant this thing in

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the middle of this field, you.

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Know what I mean, So that the thing was probably

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like what is this? You know what I mean?

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No, yeah, I'm totally getting it now because I mean,

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before you're there, it sounds like it's pretty much just

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a food you know, there's a garden and all that,

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and then all of a sudden, you guys show up

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and it's like, well, what's going on here? And there's

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these this kid running around and making noise and stuff,

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and yeah, I could totally see something like this happening. Man,

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that's wild.

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Yeah.

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Like I say, it was like we just I could

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see it being curious of what is it?

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You know what I mean, Like it was never here before.

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So but yeah, the.

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Second encounter was was kind of crazy though, because all

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you know, because i mean, let's face it, some people

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you tell about this stuff and a lot of people

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see things and they don't ever tell nobody h because

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they're just afraid people is not gonna believe them. They're

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gonna laugh at them, think they're crazy, you know whatever.

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And you know, all my buddies got a big laugh

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kick out of it when I'd ever told them the

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story over the years. And then after when this happened

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and we were on top of that rock, you know,

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after this thing had like vacated the area and we

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couldn't hear a walk and they more moving through the

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water or anything. It was almost like we really didn't

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see exactly what it was, but we all knew what

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it was, if that makes sense, because like one guy

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was fifty some years old and he'd never been in

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the woods where everything shut up like that in his

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entire life, and it like really freaked this.

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Guy out, and we all like, you know.

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And he'll tell you to this day he won't go

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back out there unless he's armed, because we've tried to

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get him to go back out there before. And so

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but it was just like I say, a few miles

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through the woods, if you walked straight through the woods

466
00:25:44.200 --> 00:25:46.799
like as the bird would fly, you know you're gonna

467
00:25:46.839 --> 00:25:50.359
come out right there in that field where our house was.

468
00:25:50.920 --> 00:25:53.960
Now it's gonna be probably several miles, but it's gonna

469
00:25:54.000 --> 00:25:58.720
you're gonna come out right there. And that's pretty interesting.

470
00:25:59.799 --> 00:26:02.559
But I told them all, I was like, you know, see,

471
00:26:02.599 --> 00:26:04.839
I told you, you know, and then they believed me

472
00:26:04.880 --> 00:26:08.559
after that, you know, because it really freaked them all out.

473
00:26:10.960 --> 00:26:17.480
Yeah, absolutely, growing up in that area. Would you hear

474
00:26:17.640 --> 00:26:21.000
any other stories about weird things that would happen in

475
00:26:21.039 --> 00:26:24.200
that same county as well? Was it just Bigfoot there

476
00:26:24.279 --> 00:26:26.960
or were there other things you would have to keep

477
00:26:27.000 --> 00:26:27.720
an eye out for.

478
00:26:27.680 --> 00:26:29.799
As well well?

479
00:26:29.920 --> 00:26:33.400
And I never really heard just a few Bigfoot stories

480
00:26:33.400 --> 00:26:37.160
and everything, and growing up there, a lot of the

481
00:26:37.200 --> 00:26:40.920
stuff you ever heard was you know, obviously about the

482
00:26:40.960 --> 00:26:41.640
stuff in Points.

483
00:26:41.839 --> 00:26:44.920
Wasn't like Mothman and you know, and all.

484
00:26:44.880 --> 00:26:47.200
That stuff, because we were only twelve miles from it,

485
00:26:49.599 --> 00:26:53.559
in the little town that I grew up in. So

486
00:26:53.680 --> 00:26:56.160
we were in the woods one time. This is really

487
00:26:56.200 --> 00:26:59.079
not related to the big food, but me and my

488
00:26:59.160 --> 00:27:01.359
cousin was in the lives one time. And this was

489
00:27:01.480 --> 00:27:05.839
probably three years after I've seen that, had my first sighting,

490
00:27:06.480 --> 00:27:10.640
and we'd moved into this apartment complex and we were

491
00:27:10.680 --> 00:27:13.279
just out in the woods. We were kids and curious,

492
00:27:13.640 --> 00:27:16.720
so we went out into the woods and we ran

493
00:27:17.519 --> 00:27:21.079
to this guy that was walking through the woods and

494
00:27:21.119 --> 00:27:24.400
he had like a wherewith mask on, like a full

495
00:27:24.440 --> 00:27:27.440
headed so you pull down over your head, and he

496
00:27:27.519 --> 00:27:30.079
had a like a big knife with him and a

497
00:27:30.119 --> 00:27:34.440
black trash bag and we didn't. It freaked us out,

498
00:27:34.559 --> 00:27:38.240
so we just laid down behind some logs and my

499
00:27:38.359 --> 00:27:40.839
cousin was older than me, and she told me to

500
00:27:40.880 --> 00:27:43.559
be quiet, and we just laid down and watched this

501
00:27:43.720 --> 00:27:47.839
guy and he walked up to a tree, set the

502
00:27:47.839 --> 00:27:52.839
black trash bag down and walks off and we wait, like,

503
00:27:53.799 --> 00:27:56.119
I don't know, fifteen to twenty minutes to let him

504
00:27:56.119 --> 00:27:59.640
get gone. And we were just shaken, scared to death,

505
00:28:00.079 --> 00:28:01.519
you know, because we're young kids.

506
00:28:01.839 --> 00:28:04.039
We was, I don't know younger.

507
00:28:04.279 --> 00:28:08.279
I was younger than ten, and she was probably twelve

508
00:28:08.359 --> 00:28:11.359
or thirteen probably, I would say at that time.

509
00:28:11.960 --> 00:28:15.319
And so we let the guy leave and we go up.

510
00:28:15.839 --> 00:28:16.759
She wanted to leave.

511
00:28:16.960 --> 00:28:19.599
I wanted to look in the bag, you know what

512
00:28:19.640 --> 00:28:22.640
I mean. So I go over there and open up

513
00:28:22.640 --> 00:28:26.279
the bag and it was just like animal parts.

514
00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:29.440
In this bag, you know what I mean. So that

515
00:28:29.599 --> 00:28:30.720
was pretty crazy. Too.

516
00:28:30.759 --> 00:28:34.599
That's another experience I had in that, you know, in

517
00:28:34.640 --> 00:28:35.799
that county, in the woods.

518
00:28:36.240 --> 00:28:38.920
So I just want to make sure so as you

519
00:28:39.000 --> 00:28:41.119
saw a dude with a.

520
00:28:41.519 --> 00:28:46.480
Yeah it was the mask on, yeah, broad daylight.

521
00:28:47.519 --> 00:28:51.319
And knife in a bag full of animal parts.

522
00:28:52.240 --> 00:28:57.200
Yeah yeah, like yeah, Like, we were just walking through

523
00:28:57.200 --> 00:29:01.559
the woods and we seen from a distance, like a

524
00:29:01.599 --> 00:29:05.759
good distance coming and it scared us because you obviously,

525
00:29:05.839 --> 00:29:09.200
the guy had on like a crazy looking mask. And

526
00:29:09.680 --> 00:29:12.000
my cousin made me duck down and we got down

527
00:29:12.039 --> 00:29:15.079
behind some down trees that luckily they was something to

528
00:29:15.119 --> 00:29:19.799
get behind right there, clothes and the guy just strolled

529
00:29:19.839 --> 00:29:23.000
up through the woods had a knife in his hand.

530
00:29:23.640 --> 00:29:25.720
I don't I was it's been a long time ago.

531
00:29:25.920 --> 00:29:30.200
That was thirty some years ago. Now I don't remember

532
00:29:30.200 --> 00:29:32.000
if it was a machete or what. But he had

533
00:29:32.000 --> 00:29:34.920
a big knife in his hand, and you know, he

534
00:29:35.079 --> 00:29:37.400
just walked up to his tree, set his bag down,

535
00:29:37.440 --> 00:29:42.000
and kept on walking. And it wasn't even a big

536
00:29:42.039 --> 00:29:46.319
wooded area like this was behind like a residential area,

537
00:29:47.240 --> 00:29:50.079
like on the edge of town. The apartment complex was

538
00:29:50.119 --> 00:29:53.160
on the edge of the town, and then it went

539
00:29:53.160 --> 00:29:57.559
into some woods and there was a few houses scattered

540
00:29:57.599 --> 00:30:02.160
around around probably, I don't know, it might have been

541
00:30:02.200 --> 00:30:09.359
like one hundred acres of woods there, probably, And that

542
00:30:09.480 --> 00:30:11.599
was a pretty crazy experience. That was like the only

543
00:30:11.640 --> 00:30:15.279
other thing I've had besides you know, obviously did foot stuff.

544
00:30:16.440 --> 00:30:19.160
But it was pretty evident that it was definitely a

545
00:30:19.200 --> 00:30:23.759
mask he was wearing and not like a.

546
00:30:22.960 --> 00:30:25.039
Yeah, because he had on right.

547
00:30:25.119 --> 00:30:27.680
Yeah, he had on like a you know, like a

548
00:30:27.799 --> 00:30:31.440
jacket or some clothes, right, and pants and boots, you

549
00:30:31.519 --> 00:30:32.160
know what I mean.

550
00:30:34.319 --> 00:30:35.960
What time of year was it? Again?

551
00:30:38.960 --> 00:30:42.480
It was probably late summer.

552
00:30:43.519 --> 00:30:46.039
I know it wasn't winter, and I know it wasn't

553
00:30:46.119 --> 00:30:48.400
like all the way in the fall yet because everything

554
00:30:48.519 --> 00:30:52.000
was still kind of green, So it's probably late summer.

555
00:30:54.599 --> 00:30:54.920
Man.

556
00:30:55.079 --> 00:30:59.240
That's that would freak me out. I mean, I don't

557
00:30:59.279 --> 00:31:03.160
know how i'd hand that as a as a little kid,

558
00:31:03.319 --> 00:31:07.839
especially it's holding a knife.

559
00:31:07.720 --> 00:31:08.400
Yeah.

560
00:31:08.480 --> 00:31:11.839
I never I never went back into into those, you know,

561
00:31:11.880 --> 00:31:15.480
because the woods was like right behind the apartment complex,

562
00:31:15.559 --> 00:31:18.079
probably in fifty yards. It went it was like a

563
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:21.759
grassy hill went down, there was a little house behind

564
00:31:21.799 --> 00:31:24.599
the apartments, and then it was basically just went into

565
00:31:24.680 --> 00:31:28.599
all like probably one hundred couple of hundred acres of woods,

566
00:31:28.720 --> 00:31:34.319
was you know, scattered houses way over there somewhere, And yeah,

567
00:31:34.319 --> 00:31:35.359
that was pretty weird. Man.

568
00:31:36.680 --> 00:31:37.559
It freaked me out.

569
00:31:37.599 --> 00:31:42.359
And she was even more scared than me, like he

570
00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:47.160
after he left, I wasn't as freaking out as bad

571
00:31:47.680 --> 00:31:51.400
and more curious, you know what I mean, like because

572
00:31:51.480 --> 00:31:53.880
I mean, why would he be carrying a trash bag

573
00:31:53.920 --> 00:31:56.000
in the middle of the woods and why was he

574
00:31:56.039 --> 00:31:56.920
doing what he was doing?

575
00:31:56.960 --> 00:31:59.240
I don't, you know, I don't know. But and this was,

576
00:31:59.279 --> 00:31:59.559
like I.

577
00:31:59.480 --> 00:32:04.200
Said, was a broad daylight. This is probably three o'clock

578
00:32:04.240 --> 00:32:04.960
in the afternoon.

579
00:32:06.279 --> 00:32:08.640
That's weird. That's That's one of the weird things I've

580
00:32:08.640 --> 00:32:12.680
heard on the show. Would you if you had the

581
00:32:15.920 --> 00:32:21.480
you can make the decision whether to see one or

582
00:32:21.720 --> 00:32:27.079
experience being around one again, would you would you decide

583
00:32:27.119 --> 00:32:28.920
to do so? Or is that something you would not

584
00:32:29.039 --> 00:32:30.359
want to be involved with?

585
00:32:30.960 --> 00:32:32.000
No, I'm curious.

586
00:32:32.160 --> 00:32:35.359
I mean I've been out hunting in the woods a

587
00:32:35.359 --> 00:32:41.079
lot since childhood when I've seen that, and since I

588
00:32:41.119 --> 00:32:45.920
had the second encounter two, and you know, like it

589
00:32:45.960 --> 00:32:50.240
wouldn't I'm not, you know, I would definitely you know,

590
00:32:50.400 --> 00:32:54.400
go back out and you know, look for something or

591
00:32:54.720 --> 00:32:57.519
you know it doesn't. It doesn't freak me out enough,

592
00:32:58.200 --> 00:33:01.759
not those in what I've encounter I've had. It's not

593
00:33:01.839 --> 00:33:03.920
scary enough for me to be like, I'm not going

594
00:33:04.000 --> 00:33:08.160
back out there, not doing this, you know. But I

595
00:33:08.240 --> 00:33:11.119
mean if they was, I would go out and do

596
00:33:11.240 --> 00:33:14.880
research or anything like that. It wouldn't scary enough for

597
00:33:14.920 --> 00:33:17.160
me to stay out of the woods, you know what

598
00:33:17.240 --> 00:33:17.519
I mean.

599
00:33:17.759 --> 00:33:23.599
Sure, I'm sure that you've thought about these encounters you

600
00:33:23.680 --> 00:33:26.640
were involved with more than a few times. And what

601
00:33:26.759 --> 00:33:29.480
do you think it is that you know, we're dealing

602
00:33:29.720 --> 00:33:33.960
with when we talk about a creature like bigfoot being out.

603
00:33:33.839 --> 00:33:39.759
There, Well, I really I don't know.

604
00:33:40.079 --> 00:33:42.079
I have thought about it a lot over the years,

605
00:33:42.079 --> 00:33:46.400
and it really interests me. I watched podcasts and shows

606
00:33:46.440 --> 00:33:49.079
all the time about it. And I have a buddy

607
00:33:49.119 --> 00:33:52.519
that lives in California and he thinks he's seen one

608
00:33:52.160 --> 00:33:54.880
one one time in his yard when he was younger.

609
00:33:55.359 --> 00:33:59.039
He don't talk about it much, though, But I'm not

610
00:33:59.240 --> 00:34:03.400
sure I've thought of, you know, like the same things

611
00:34:03.440 --> 00:34:05.880
a lot of people thought about, like if it's some

612
00:34:05.960 --> 00:34:09.760
kind of primate that we haven't discovered. But it is

613
00:34:09.840 --> 00:34:13.360
kind of really odd though, that we don't have we've

614
00:34:13.400 --> 00:34:16.280
never found no bodies, you know, things of that nature.

615
00:34:17.440 --> 00:34:23.880
So I really, I really don't know if it's you know,

616
00:34:23.920 --> 00:34:26.400
it's hard to say for sure what exactly it is.

617
00:34:26.800 --> 00:34:29.880
But I've heard all kinds of different theories on it myself,

618
00:34:30.000 --> 00:34:34.480
like and from anything from aliens to they come from

619
00:34:34.480 --> 00:34:37.920
the inner Earth, you know what I mean. Like, I've

620
00:34:37.960 --> 00:34:41.280
heard all kinds of stories so and well theories actually

621
00:34:41.320 --> 00:34:44.400
on it. But I mean there's too many sightings, too

622
00:34:44.440 --> 00:34:48.239
many people've seen stuff. So you know, I definitely think

623
00:34:48.320 --> 00:34:50.519
that there's something out there. There's just more to be

624
00:34:50.599 --> 00:34:54.599
discovered on it. Hopefully in the future. With technology and

625
00:34:54.639 --> 00:34:58.440
everything now, maybe hopefully we can eventually get something figured

626
00:34:58.480 --> 00:34:59.000
out about it.

627
00:34:59.440 --> 00:35:02.960
Absolutely, you know, I personally think it's it's one of

628
00:35:02.960 --> 00:35:06.440
the last great mysteries. And you know, as you said,

629
00:35:06.679 --> 00:35:11.719
there's just so many, so many reports out there, people

630
00:35:12.559 --> 00:35:17.000
constantly coming forward every single day. I think that with

631
00:35:17.119 --> 00:35:20.440
so many reports out there, there's just two to too

632
00:35:20.519 --> 00:35:26.079
many people coming forward, and I think hopefully maybe even soon,

633
00:35:26.199 --> 00:35:29.239
maybe even you know, later this year. There's going to

634
00:35:29.280 --> 00:35:32.039
be a lot of things coming out this year we

635
00:35:32.119 --> 00:35:36.079
know from other topics, and maybe this is the year

636
00:35:36.199 --> 00:35:39.119
for Bigfoot to come out before the end of the year.

637
00:35:39.159 --> 00:35:42.199
But you know, we'll see you know, fingers crossed. Just

638
00:35:42.320 --> 00:35:46.440
keep talking to people. But Jeff, it has been a

639
00:35:46.480 --> 00:35:48.840
pleasure having you on the show. Thank you for coming

640
00:35:48.880 --> 00:35:52.480
on and sharing what happened to you over the years

641
00:35:52.559 --> 00:35:53.800
down there in Ohio.

642
00:35:55.000 --> 00:35:57.960
No, well, thanks for having me and I keep watch

643
00:35:58.000 --> 00:35:59.880
on the show and keep following you and look for

644
00:36:00.639 --> 00:36:01.639
your future content.

645
00:36:03.599 --> 00:36:05.400
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00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:09.480
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661
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Individuals that have had bigfoot try to enter their house

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forcibly while they were living inside. Number nine individuals that

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have actively have a bigfoot living on their property. And lastly,

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