Campsite Terror in Pocahontas County!

0:01 You're listening to Big for Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron Tonight's story isn't from a hiker or a camper. It's from a man who's spent decades hunting and fishing in the wildest corners of West Virginia. But one weekend in Pocahontas County, everything changed. A creature watched from the hill, and another swung from the trees in one the biggest of all stood over him, so close he could see its eyes squinting in the sun. This isn't just one sighting, It's multiple encounters, a night of fear in a rain soaked tent, in the eerie moment he realized he wasn't even in control of his own legs. This is the story of Mountain Man, an Ohio girl, and the night sasquatch came to their camp. So stay with us, all right, pick for the Society. I've got the privilege of talking to a few individuals today from the great state of West Virginia where this incident happened, and we have an Ohio girl and mountain Man with us today. They're involved with a hunting, camping, fishing, all the good stuff outdoors out there in the state West Virginia. So welcome to both of you. How are you guys doing today?

1:05 Doing fu? How about you? So thank you? Doing great. We're starting to get warm out here in Iowa, so it can't complain and maybe we'll be able to get out in the woods before too long. But you know, it sounds like you guys have had a really interesting thing happen when you're out camping, and then maybe some things since then, so I want to make sure you have the time to share what you experienced during those times. So I'm going to go ahead and hand things right over to you, guys, and then we'll have a discussion after that. So go ahead and take it away, guys. I didn't finish those mountains there all my life, and never have I ever seen or heard anything that I couldn't explain. And in twenty eighteen, I took my girl friend camping up in Oklahomas County, just outside of Bourban in the little river walker Do And when we first got there the camping spot that I made, somebody was already in it, so we had to go down the road to another one, and I told her after we got there, I said, well, let's walk down to the creek and see how far we are away from the creek, you know. So when we walked down there, as soon as we got down to the creek, there was something coming off the hill, crashing brush. I mean you could hear it. It's loud, and she likes bears, so I told her, I said, hey, you might get your chance,

2:36 because that ain't no dear. Well, as we were standing there, it stopped and I looked back in the brush where it stopped, and I could see a silhouette. It wouldn't look like a human. It was leaning out off the edge of the path, kind of looking at us. And I made a joke to her, I said, heyney, am I looking at big Foot. So went on up set up camp and everything, and when it started getting dark, we had dinner and everything. Right when I lit the fire, standing in front of my fire pit that was there, about eight feet away from the fire pit, I hear this whistle, I mean, just as plain as day, just like a emon would whistle. And I turned around up there and I said, well, you know what does that don't you? I said yeah, And we kind of just, you know, left it off, even though I was thinking in the back of my head there's nobody out here, you know, but us. And the next day we took a walk in the evening because, like I said, she likes bears, and I told her we'd walk down the road and looked down in the creek bottom and see if there were any bears down around the creek bottom.

4:01 And on our way back to camp, we were about I don't know about eighty yards from camp. I looked up on the hill and I seen something black going through the trees up through there, and I told her, I said, hey, I think I see one. I said, I'll run up to here and see if I can't get ahead of it. You stay here, and if I get ahead of it, I'll run it back down the hill. And you can see it went acrosses the road there. So I went up through the woods there behind it, and I couldn't catch up to it to save my life. Well, when we got up to the top of the hall there, I come out on a log road and just off to my left it had been logged and the biggest trees in there was three to three and a half inches round, you know, just small sap ones that it's done started to come back up, and there was nothing he could hide behind. He was laying on his back up against the bank where they'd cut a dozer roads through there, and he was looking at me, and I was looking at him, and I was like, I can't believe what I'm looking at. You know. It was like so surreal at the moment. I can't explain it. I wasn't afraid of it. I was actually talking to it.

5:22 I told her, I said, well, that's about all you can do, ain't it, big boat? Because he couldn't ade behind anything. And as I was talking to him, I hear a whistle come from my right and I look over it and there's another one and he's hanging off the side of a tree, swinging his arms, you know, trying to get my attention. Well, I thought, okay, he's trying to get my attention so that one can get away, because I had him pretty much pinned down, if I mean, if he had moved, you know. But while I was looking at the one on the right, that one got up, and it blowed my mind. I was talking to the one on the right, and I went to look back at the one on the left, and I leaned down to look around what I thought was a tree to look at him, and then I realized that was fur and not bark. He had done walked right up on me and was standing looking straight down on me. I looked up and for the first time in my life, my knees wanted to get out on me. I mean, I was going down and then all of a sudden.

6:45 It's a weird feeling because it's like I had no control over what my body wanted to do. My body wanted to leave, you know. I just turned and took off walking, and I had no control over that. It was so weird because I was looking back saying, now I want to stay and look, you know, but my legs were not stopping. So when I got down to the bottom of the hollar, back down onto the road, she had already got tired of me because I hadn't come back yet, and she walked on over the camp. Well, I got my fire and we would to get it there that I picked up on the way down the hill and drug it over the camp and I told her, I said, you want to see big pump.

7:29 We're not showing to you. I said, yes, sure, okay. So as we walked over there. I watched because he was standing down at the bottom of the hill. I hadn't come down on the road yet, but he was down against the road, you know, watching me go across there. And I literally watched him in about ten steps cover about forty yards, and he went over and got in between four big wild cherry trees about thirty foot off the road. So I told my girlfriend, I said, you walk down the road and I'll tell you when to stop. I said, get your camera ready, I'm going to step up on the bank and say if I can't get him to move. Well, she got down there, and when I stepped up on that bank, he went to leave out from between the trees.

8:22 And I snapped the picture and said, oh my god, he moves. Yeah, she took off running. Well. That night, right at dark, we were getting in a tent because it started to rain, and all of a sudden, you hear these two footballs right at our head. And then I heard one out in front of the tent walking in the gravel. And I heard one over in my kitchen area that I had set up. It was fascinated with my percolator coffee pot. It would pick it up and then it would rattle and set it back down. They did it about five or six times. Uh. They stayed right there at our tent.

9:08 I mean every now and the inn, the one out in front of the tent would walk away out here and walk off, and then he'd come back. Well, I can't get no sleep because I know what's out there. I didn't know what they had planned, had no clue. Oh I know is I had this girl, you know, I just had met her and done brought he camping in the mountains and something happened to her. They're gonna look at me. And I just couldn't get any rest. So I sat up all night. I would holler at him, you know, like just hold him, like go away, and then I would just talk to him, and then I holler at him again, and then I talked to him.

9:51 I thought the biggest one was just going to grab the middle of our tent and drag us off. Anyhow, they kept hanging around, kept hanging around, and I heard some coon dogs off like in the next holler over them. And there's one thing I know about coon dogs. They think you have something true. They're coming and I'm in They're coming fast. So I tried my best to sound like a hound dog had something treed, and they started coming. And when they come up the haller right there on the creek behind our tent, I heard the car coming out the road. I guess it was their handlers followed them on the road, and as soon as they started to come up behind a tent there was three of them there. They took off and I guess the guys in the car seen them because they jumped out of the car and just let the car roll.

10:56 When they hit a big old rock right there in front of where we were camped and stopped and those dogs were all over our tent. She was scared they were going to Robicus, and I told her there ain't. They've seen them too. They took off up, and the ones looking for him. I don't think they found him, because they come back down a few minutes later and got in their car and left. The dogs were still running them though. And when the next morning I told my girl friend, I said, let me have some coffee and we're gonna pack up and we're gonna get out of here, because I can't do another night like that. I was afraid because he's the type of man that would have stayed normally, but luckily we did it.

11:43 Yeah. I mean, if you have any questions, I mean more, I'm glad to answer them. Where about. Oh and there is one thing I would like to know. I've heard a lot of big put stories, you know, because well now I've seen one. The subject fascinates me. When he come across the road when it got dark to come over to our area where we were at. When he crossed the road, all I could see was like a black fog. It looked like a cloud just to run off the ground about two foot coming across the road. And when he got over to the edge of the road there was a big poplar tree there.

12:26 He materialized again right there, put his hand up on the tree and stepped down in this big old ditch and started making his way over toward where we were. And I saw him, and I didn't think too much about it. Really, Like I said, it was so It's like I wasn't afraid of him at all. A little worried, you know, being they were there at my tent, but them just being around didn't bother me. I was talking to them and motioning to them, you know, friend, come on over and sit down and want to talk. I mean, they It really messed me up because, like I said, when I first seen him up on him, I wanted to almost pass out. But after that I didn't care to see them. But I just didn't want them around my tent at night, you know. But there's nothing that I could have done about that. Now it seems like every but it seems like every since I've saw them.

13:40 I see them everywhere I go. It's I mean, and I can pick them out to them, it's like where I never seen them before. I'd like to see one hide from me now because I know what I'm looking for, and if he's around, I want to know. We were out here at the campground last year here in Ohio, and there was only like four people in this whole big camp and campground, and we were one of them. When it got dark, I bought this big old flashlight because I wanted to be able to see. I took a walk up through the campground and looked across the creek and there was two hiding in this tree that forked off in like three different trees. I went back and got her and told her to come here and tell me if I'm seeing what I'm seeing, and he was and uh, shut up. You could see their eyes shine and everything.

14:51 He's You've actually had three encounters since the games. And when we went back over to the tent and everything, I had raked out all the leaves around where we had our tents set up. We went to bed that night, and I mean I seen and this is I mean, you know, God strike me dead if my mind, there was about welve of them come into that campground. Big for Society will be right back. After these messages, I.

15:43 Kept seeing this one standing by this tree, and I got brave and I started walking down there. And every time I start to go down there, he would get up in that tree and get on the backside of it. Well, I walked right down to the tree and look time and see him up at the top of that tree. And I spoke to him, you know, said hi, And I wasn't gonna bother him. I'd let him go. And I turned around and come back up because I just I'm, like I said, I'm fascinated by him. Uh, they don't scare me, But I'd rather have my encounters during the day rather than nighttime, if you know what I mean.

16:30 But that's man. That's about it. And between the first encounter and our last encounter, he had two more encounters that made him leave again. Oh yeah, I had one down home. I went camping one weekend by myself and h he was with some coyotes. Uh. They come up close to where I was at and I got out to throw some more wood on them to keep the cooties away. And when the cooties came up to here, I picked up a stick that was in the fire and I throwed it back in the woods and hit a tree and made sparks go everywhere to scare them off. When I did that, there was one out in the road that I did not see.

17:22 He screamed, and when he did it said shivers all over me. I jumped in the car. I left everything I had right there because when he screamed, when I sat down the car and I hit the ignition, the lights come on. It was coming toward me, and I just took off. I don't know what I ran over, but I ran over a low a rock or something kind of threw me around. But like I said, ever since I seen him in twenty eighteen, everywhere I go, I see one too. It's unreal. Had questions.

18:07 Yeah, there's a lot a lot going on in this one, for sure, and I just wanted there's some weird stuff in this one. So I just had an interview last night. You guys would have no idea because it just happened. It's not out yet, the gentleman out in the mount Hood National Forest of Oregon. But the way he described what the bigfoot did is very similar to what you described. And I've never heard like a black smoke. He said the same thing. He said, it turned it had black smoke coming off of him and was as he was hovering over the creek. Very very very strange. So I don't know this is something coming out of nowhere or what.

18:59 But yeah, I definitely have some questions for you guys. So you're up on top of the haller and the trees are around you. They're not very big trees. And you see the one laying down on the ground. Is it is it laying flat on the ground or is it kind of like laying against the side of a hill or he's. Laying flat on his he's laying he was laying flat on his back, arched, you know, arched up beside that bank a little bit, and there was a big rock and a maple tree coming out on the side of that bank, right at the top. And he was laying with his head behind that tree, looking between that tree and that rock at me. But he was laying flat on the ground. He had his right leg up, you know, like at his knee. Ben, Yeah, and was laying on his back. But there was nowhere else he could go.

19:54 I mean when I caught up to him, he had nowhere to go because there was no cover. And I guess he tried to hide by laying steel, but he stuck out like a sore thumb on that on the brown leads, and I wasn't thirty yards from him. Uh color, Well, I'll ask this first. Was he completely covered with hair or their parts that were not? No, he was completely covered. And to be honest with you, when I looked up, when when when he was standing right there by me, I looked up, he had the prettiest brown eyes. I mean they were real big brown eyes because he was squint and the sun was kind of in his eyes, but his spur was so black it was almost purple. M interesting, if you've ever seen like a black child, now purple there. Look, that's what he looked like. He was jet black, all of them were.

21:02 Did he have any whites to his eyes at all? I didn't see any they were because, like I said, he was squinting and I seen the brown iris. You know, his pupil was about the size of a marble. I mean, his eyes were i'd say were the size of a tennis ball. He was between ten and a half to letting foot tall. The biggest one was the other one that I saw was probably right at nine foot. And I never saw the third one, the one that kept messing with my coffee pop. Yeah, I think it was a female because the one that was standing in front of the tent, he started rubbing his finger on a tent young and now I heard this slight, little noise.

21:59 It was like a little but it sounded female to me. It wasn't a lobe bitch. It was like a like a woman. And I looked at my girl and I said, thank God, there's some common sense in the bunch. You know. Maybe she wouldn't. Yeah, she wasn't letting them do what they were going to do. And the picture that I got, we thought just one, but. There is more than one in the picture, and a lot of people see more faces too. That is something I'm gonna definitely talk to you. Well, we'll get there for sure. That the on top of the holler, though, it is such a really unique interaction.

22:48 When you were on top of the haller and looking at the bigfoot that's on the ground, did you get any emotion from its face at all? No, he was he was like just a blank stare, you know, like he was just trying to be as skill as he could not move. Now, the one on my right, he didn't care to be, you know, for me to see him, because he was like, look at me, you know, look at me. And I just kept looking back and forth between him, and I was like, I know what you're doing. You're trying to give him time to get away. And then it hit me, it's like, Danny, you might want to leave him alone because they are, after all, wild animals, you know. And I didn't want to pressure him because I didn't know what they would do.

23:44 And when that one walked up on me, like I said, my knees just turned the rubber. I mean, I started going down. Man. He was so big, he was about five foot across the shoulders. His calves were as big as telephone poles. Yeah, uh his, I mean, stay, I'm I'm right at six uh six one, I guess. And I was there and pretty much right at his genitals, but I didn't see any uh if you know what I mean. I was about looking about waist high at him.

24:31 His his hands were like the size of a baseball. Mit. You know, it's the biggest thing I've ever seen on you know, on on foot or on a hook or anything. I mean, he was like super huge. I don't know how something that big could hide and it was at all right. Did what you saw up there look more like an ape or more like a human type of ancestor? Looking at looking at him, it didn't really look like like a gorilla. It looked like an old man.

25:19 M yep. But like I said, he had a pretty us brown eyes. I mean they were just as sparkly as they could be. Uh. He's actually he was beautiful. Like I said, I wasn't afraid, which I guess I should have been, But it didn't bother me at all. They didn't mine speak to me or anything like that, but they didn't give me a feeling like I should be worried that night them being around my tent. I couldn't I couldn't take that because I had no idea what was going on outside. So we booked out her in the next morning.

26:05 Cut it short, absolutely, I don't blame you at all. Seeing one on the ground. Were you able to notice anything about its feet at all? Yeah, there was like it was like a big challice pad on the bottom, hair on the top. Like I said, he was covered hair. I see no bare patches on him at all, on either one of them. They were just jet black. Now the picture that he has of the ones he took a picture of, I think that was the smaller one that she got the picture of.

26:50 But now you can see whites in his eyes. His face was completely covering hair, nose, and everything was covered in hair. He was just all black. Kind of reminded me of a like a stuffed animal. He had fur all over him. And that's really all about about him that I noticed. I should have took more, end, but I was so amazed at seeing them. It's like, how many times have I walked in the woods hunting in the dark without a flashlight and walked right by one room, you know, or had him around me and I didn't know it.

27:46 Absolutely, absolutely. Well. I went to go boat hunting the woll one year, and to be honest with you, it spooped me walking in the woods. Because I only have one eye and I see really well at night, so I don't use the light when I go in. I usually know where I'm going, and uh, every noise I heard made me jump. I was beginning to wonder if he was ever going to let me go in the woods again, you know, But I'm not gonna let it stop me. I mean, I've lived all my life with I'm sure they were around and nothing ever bothered me, and they didn't bother me, So I'm kind of sticking with the hope that none of them will. Absolutely I believe, Yeah, I believe it's the manner ism that you put off. You know, your what your intention is when you see them. Because when that one whistled at me right in front of that tree in front of my fire pit, I just waved at him. I couldn't see him, but I'm sure he could see me. I just waved down him and said hello, can of inviting him over? You know, It's because I thought this is really cool? You know they're right here.

29:14 But when they came that second night and staying around our tent, that that bothered me because, like I said, I had my new girlfriend up there in the woods and. They were already talking about him taking me to the mountains and not bringing me back. Yeah, so you know, yeah, because I thought, oh god, I piny thing happens to her. You know, I'm in big drummle uh it tried the one out front when he running his finger down that, you know, down the door of my tent, wearing my zippers. One comes from the top and down and around and one come straight across the bottom.

30:03 Big for Society will be right back. After these messages. I always leave a little gap in there so I can just get my finger in there and kind of just get my zipper to go on. And he stuck one of his fingers in that hole and was peeling around for that zipper on the inside, trying not to make any noise because he was doing it real easy.

30:51 And I didn't have a gun or nothing, and oh I had was a Winchester pocket Life and I voted it and I thought, man, and if you get if you open that door, if you you know, whatever you do, I'm just gonna stick your knock in the back and hand. When you yank it out, you're going to open that door, and I'm coming out. I was trying to make a game plan that if something went wrong or sideways, what I was going to do, and I was coming up with nothing. Uh, I told you. I said, well, you know they're ear is. See anything happens, make a run for the truck. But we got out of an unscathed and all the way home and even now it's like I can't believe it actually happened and I was there.

31:43 Yeah, absolutely, I know. I keep going back to the top of the hall. But there's one thing, another thing I want to point out for the listeners too, in case they didn't get the connection you mentioned, And I guess it's for clarif vacation too. You mentioned that you were walking down towards Ohio girl, but you weren't controlling your body correct. Yeah. Well, it's like, I don't know what took over me, because if you look as I was going down that hill, I mean I wanted to get a better look at him, but my legs said no, and it was taking me away and they just stood there and let me walk away.

32:38 So I mean, what exactly did you want to know? I mean, well, I want what I wanted to bring up is from an earlier interview, I mean the year or so ago, maybe even more. I talked to a gentleman named Henry Franzoni who's no longer with us unfortunately, from the Pacific Northwest, and he's very involved with many different Native American tribes out there, and what he shared with me is that they per those the individuals he would talk to, and those stribes have the ability to make you do to pretty much control your body if they wanted to, you know, make you walk off a cliff. And that's an incredible example of them controlling a human body.

33:25 I've never had that type of example come up in a an account before, so it's it's very very unique to hear that. Well, it was. It was weird. It was like something else had control of my legs and I wanted to stay but my body when monies almost came out. The second I got them back, my body turned and took off walking, and it was confusing me because I was like, you're not wanting to Laan, how come you're moving you know, but it only lasted for like fifty yards, you know. Once I got away from him and started down the hill, that went away and I was on my own. But it was the weirdest sensation I'd ever felt in my life.

34:19 Asking about the campsite for a little bit. And I know you're in a situation where the next morning hit and you're like, we just get out, we have a coffee, we get out of here. I'm out, I'm done with this area. But did you happen to notice any footprints on the ground or Oh? Absolutely, because like yeah, like I said, when I cleaned all the leaves out, I had a piece of a cardboard with me and I just used it to rap all the way down to the dirt. And when I stepped outside that next morning after seeing him at night, I was hoping and sir enough. When I stepped outside, there where prince all over the place. They had walked over to my car, walked around my car, walked around the back of my tent, and one of them, you could tell, had walked over and stood right in front of my tent. I had no idea. I was laying in the tent awake, but I never heard anything. I finally went to sleep, but yeah, when I got up the next morning, there was foot prints all over the place.

35:30 I tried to take pictures of them with my camera, but the way the sun was coming in there early in the morning, they didn't really turn out. But you could see them as plaint as day in that fresh dirt. How long would you say they were. The majority of them were, I'd say fourteen to sixteen. Now, there was one set of prints in there that was only about sixteen inches long, but my god, it was probably ten inches wide. Wow, that's that's intense a mountain man. From what you saw, was there anything you noticed about them? That the Bigfoot community always gets wrong, and it's depictions of it.

36:28 When they when they look at him and they say, well, it looked like a gorilla. No, they know, they don't. The one I say looked like an old man. Of course, you know. He had a bulgeon ridge above his brow. But his nose wasn't like super big. It was kind of wide, but it wasn't a big protrusion. It didn't look nothing like a gorilla or a monkey or anything else. It looked like an old man. His eyes the way they set in his head. If he didn't have all that for her run his face, it looked like he had real deep crows feet. You know, he just looked like a tired old man. He didn't look nothing like an ape in any way shape or form, because you know, apes they pretty much got four hands instead of you know, their feet are like hands, not big butt. He's got to put like, we do just way.

37:44 Better after you actually, before we get to that. So ohio girl, you took the photo and then so you still have that photo. You were able to take it it turned out all that good stuff. Yes, I do. Oh wow, Yeah, well, I mean we'd love to send it to you if you just tell us that. Yeah, I mean you can. If you've got you can always email it to me a Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. Is that something that if we do get it, that we'd be able to put in the video version of this? Yeah?

38:26 Absolutely cool? Cool? Thank you. Were there handprints on your car at all? Not that I can see, Okay, any fingerprints on the coffee pot or anything weird like that. No, there was no fingerprints on it. But they were fascinated with it because they just kept picking it up and when it would rattle it, say it back down real quick. They wouldn't make it a lot of noise, but they were making enough noise you could tell they. Were there absolutely the area that oh go ahead. Yeah, well, I was gonna say. And right before we left that day, you know, the morning after when we took our tent down, we actually were probably camping in their way of getting to the water and food, and so that may be the reason that they were around us.

39:22 Yeah, Because after I got to thinking about it, where we were camped, there was rush on the right hand side and rushed on the left. Hands had going down to the creek, but it was just probably ten or fifteen big pine trees, you know, tall pine trees with straight trunks on them, and it was all ferns underneath them all the way down to the creek. There's a natural funnel, you know, And I got to thinking maybe they was trying to push us out of here, because they didn't do anything, like I said, They didn't scream at us or raise any cane or anything like that, but I could see where maybe that's where they hunted at night, because it's a natural funnel for anything going down to the creek.

40:18 That yeah, did based on what you saw. Was there anything that gave you an indication of how smart they were or like their mental capacity at all. Well, I'll tell you what I thought. It was pretty slick when that one had my attention, that he got up off the ground and made it over to me without me knowing it at all, And he walked over and he was studying me, you know, looking straight down on me. Yeah, there's intelligence in them eyes. I mean, I have no doubt that they could do probably anything they wanted to do.

41:06 Absolutely. And you said it was so camouflaged that it was almost like a tree at that point. Yeah, because I didn't. It didn't dawn on me that there was nothing in my way when I was looking at him to begin with. And after I was looking at that one on the right, when I turned around, something was walking my view and I leaned forward to look around it, and that's when I realized there was no tree there, so I kind of paid more attention to it. And when I looked to my left just a little bit, I seen it was all burr and that wasn't tree bark, and I just started looking at him from the bottom all the way up to the top, and his proportions were very scary. They were so big and defined. Like I said, his cabs word's biggest telephone poles.

42:01 His upper legs were I'd say his big a rounds of twenty gallon drum. Uh. His biceps were like five gallon buckets, I mean huge. I think his sheer size is what made my legs want to give out. I've seen some big balls, you know, and some big horses in my life. That man, this thing was bigger than anything I've ever seen, you know alive. Is Yeah, he was spooky to look at, but all at the same time, he was beautiful. I mean he was Uh, he was well groomed. He wasn't like shaggy or anything. Uh. His hair was actually kind of clean. Both of them were like, you know, they took good care of themself, like they might have took a bath every day, you know.

43:10 Absolutely. I've always kind of wondered if because that's the thing you hear a lot in interviews, is that they look like they're well groomed, and I wonder if it's a thing where there's other individuals in their community where they're grooming each other, or if it's a cycling yeah, or they just take care of themselves, you know. Just we'll never know that until we get to. A certain I guess somebody sees them doing it right exactly. Maybe somebody already has and we just don't know. But uh, he didn't and he didn't smell neither. I mean that's not true. When we went to lay down that night when we first came, mountain Man would take a shoes off and he said, do my feet sting?

43:56 And I said, no, I don't smell nothing. And then when we lay down, that's when that first stud and thud game. So that was that was definitely dirty. It was raining, and. Yeah, that's interesting. Yeah, but did you smell anything when you're on top of the holler mountain man? No? I mean I was standard and I was standing three feet from him and none smell at all. That's really weird. Yeah, okay, so gotcha, gotcha. When you were at that campground in Ohio? Was that eastern Ohio? Then are we eastern? What are we eastern Ohio? Are we eastern Ohio?

44:45 Yeah, we're just south of. Or Just so I know, some listeners are going to be curious that you were at the campground in Ohio, and you saw at you hiding in the tree that was in the east stur inside of the state. Big for Society will be right back after these messages. Yeah, okay, gotcha. Gotcha. Also, I was curious you you said when you were camping by yourself, you had seen Bigfoot with some coyotes.

45:33 What kind of interactions were happening there when you saw that Bigfoot with coyotes. Apparently because the coyotes come up. Uh, they were off the road, probably fit the yards, uh, following the road, and I was camped over the side of the road, so they were coming like directly at me. Uh. The big boat was in the road following them up the mountain there. I don't know why it screamed at me like it did. That literally terrified me. It was like standing in front of a train when it blew his whistle, you know where so one it was that loud. It's like I must make me feed my pants.

46:30 Uh. Yeah, scared me. It scared me so bad. When I took off the car, I wasn't worried about anything that was in front of me. I was just getting away from him because he started coming towards me like uh, he looked kind of aggressive, and I was just like driving like Nascar. Man, I don't know what it was. I run over. Thank god, I didn't mess the car up, and I didn't let off the gas until I got off that mountain. You've you've mentioned, you know that you've had sightings at different times. Have they all had an old man type look to what you've seen, or or have they been different, you know, at different times.

47:21 Well, just just that big one looked like an old man. The other one, Uh, they kind of reminded me of, like I said, the stuffed animal they had for all of them, and you couldn't really and it was real slick on their face. It's they they just I get. I mean, everyone I've seen is all been black. I have not seen one of another color yet. They've all been black. When we were in that campground and they're there was three of them standing at the campsite right next to us, around a picnic table. And when I started walking that way, it was wild because you know how the edge of light, like the edge of your flashlight, always get somewhere before you know. Actually, I was looking at the ground in the edge of my flashlight, I seen them drop down on all fours and they took off up the creek up the campground. Every time I'd go to them, i'd see them, but they would like go in behind stuff like they were hiding. But I knew they were there. I was really, like I said, their day campground, I felt a lot better than I did when I was out in the National forest the first time. In that campground, there were other people in there,

48:53 so I was really wanting to get a good close up look at one of them, but they just wouldn't give me the chance. There was one that was standing behind this like big bus, and every time i'd go to go around that bus, he would go around it too, And I never did actually get a good clear look at him. He was probably about nine poot on. I don't think that's the one that had that real wide, but I never did see him because whatever whichever one it was, he had to have been massive to have a foot that wide. All of them I saw were anywhere in between eight and nine plat on.

49:44 These different areas that you've had encounters in, have you ever looked to see if there's been other people that have had similar things happen in these areas? No I haven't really they say that. I mean, I've heard some stories that were from out of Pocahontas County, you know, West Virginia, and that's where mine took place. This particular campground down here, it's just a little family campground. There was only a couple of people there, and it's in the hills, like close to Hockey Hills. There was really nobody there to talk to because the camp that was up above us. They would leave of the morning and wouldn't come back till late in the afternoon. And there were two girls camped down just down from us, and as soon as it got daylight they packed up and left. So I didn't really get a chance to off anybody. It's funny, though, a lot of people that I know that hunt and stuff I tell them. I got to tell them about it, and they're like, man, you're full crap, And it's like, look, all I can

51:17 say is I know you're the one that does not know what you're talking about. Is I experienced it. I got a picture of it. I was there. I know that they're real. And now I am constantly going to look out for him. I'll even watch videos on YouTube and I'm watching the background. I try to pick them out, and usually I see one or two in the background on a lot of these bigfoot researchers where they go in the woods, you know, I see them like there's the cameraman out of Ohio. They'll be in the woods and I'll be looking way back in the background. And the last video that I watched his, I seen one run behind a pine tree and passed a couple other trees to another pine tree.

52:20 Uh. And I texted the cameraman or I made to call me in on his video that he had one there close to him because I seen it. I don't think he caught it, of course, I don't know. He had to look at these footage, but I mean I saw it. It's just like a black dot in the background, just went across real quick. What amazes me, though, is how past and how much ground that they can cover in just a few steps. Like I said, that one the big one up Aaron Punker Hoss County. I literally onced him cover forty yards ever bit of the yards and about team steps. And they were quick too.

53:11 There's some most some wild stuff, oh man. That exposed my mind. Well, it was a wild night. Ohio girl, I want to make sure you've been really good with making sure that you know stories are filled in. Uh. I appreciate you both being in this interview. It's worked out really well. Has there been anything else that you've experienced as well, Ohio Girl, that you would want to add to to the account. No, I was only with the first encounter in Poganas County and then the encounter here, and then he's had to prior or to the between by himself. But I feel I feel that once you see they let you see them.

54:06 That you do see them everywhere, but I feel that they have to let you in, like it's just you. Know, after that, let's say the initial Pocahontas County one, did you start having anything out of the ordinary happen at home, like really intense dreams or or anything weird like that. No, okay, nothing like it. But like I said, every time that I go in the woods or I'm watching somebody else go in the woods, I see them everywhere. It's not like they're just little pockets here. And I think that once you see them, they can pop up wherever you.

54:54 Are, they can close. I don't know if I mean that's the only thing I can figure because after all the years I'm hunting fist, why how can I get so lucky as to see them ever wear? Now you know I told him, I said, because you took me with you the first time that wasn't for you at all, but came to see me. I mean, I have, you know, advice for somebody if you ever do encounter one, give it some space and give it some respect, and I believe you'll be all right.

55:36 I wouldn't put off any thoughts like, oh, I got to get to my gun, because that may the way. As intense as they watch you, I think they can pretty much figure your intentions as you move and as you do things. I would never get aggressive with one because if you do your absolutely yeps and over. Mmm wow that mountain man, Ohio girl. Has been a privilege having you guys on. You have shared some incredible things that I have never heard in this show. And it's been years I've been doing this, So I'm just thankful for having both of you on, and thank you so much. I hope that you, you know, if you continue to have stuff happen, please keep me up to date in the in the future, and maybe we'll be uh maybe we'll check in with you in a little bit down the road. So thank you guys.

56:41 Okay, thank you, thank you for having us on and we'll shoot you that picture and then let us know what you think. Absolutely, we'll have a great rest of your day. Guys. I appreciate you to thank you, and all your listeners be careful out there. Is it's Harry Man. That's right, all right, good stuff. Swant to take a minute to say thank you truly for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Mountain Man story is one of those unforgettable accounts, not just for the sheer number of encounters, but for the feeling that something deeper was going on in those West Virginia woods. So huge thanks to both Mountain Man and Ohio Girl for sharing their experiences from the shadowy figures and the trees to the moment as Sasquatch reached into their tent undercover of rain.

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