HIDDEN FIGURE WATCHES HIKER AT HUESTON WOODS, OHIO

0:00 You're listening to Big for Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. Please keep Jeremiah in your prayers as he continues his fight against cancer. For more updates about his medical journey, please go to the carring Bridge link in the show notes. Thank you all right, Big for Society get the privilege of talking to Olivia today.

0:46 Olivia is an individual that reached out to me about an interesting thing that was captured on video out there in Ohio. Correct, Olivia, Awesome, Thank you for coming onto the show today. How are you doing today? I'm good? How about you. Doing well? Doing well? Kind of a hot day in Iowa, but not too bad. You can't complain, so yeah, I've watched the video on your YouTube channel. It is really interesting and I'll have it linked in the show notes so listeners can go over there and check it out. But do you mind walking us through what you experienced that day that you had that you had captured on film.

1:34 So I'll start from the beginning of that day. So my boyfriend and I went to hiking about an hour before sunset. We just want to getting a quick hike that day. I was starting a YouTube channel. I started from this recording about like a month ago. So I decided to film the hike. And I usually just film my hike. Sometimes my boyfriend comes with me, sometimes he doesn't. And so we go to a state park. We live near houston Wood State Park in Preble and Butler County, Ohio, and the part we were in was in Preeble County on the Big Woods Trail slash Hadge Apple Trail, And so we get there, we park our car. So we park our car in the parking lot and we head to the trail, and right off the bat we noticed a bunch of trees in the trail that were cut down, or not cut down, but knock down. And then there's other trees on the side of the trail that were cut with a chainsaw then moved to the side, as if trees just fall on that trail all the time, and so I make we make note of that it's not a big deal, Like it's pretty forested on that trail specifically, so I don't really pay much mind to it.

3:06 And then further long in the hike, there's more trees down. But the thing is the one tree that was down, it was like a not like a young pine tree, but like a it seems like a healthy one that just slumped over, and when it fell, it took down a bunch of other trees, so it was blocking the trail. And all around that area where that pine tree was knocked down, there was like y shaped trees with other smaller trees wedged into the in between the trunks of the tree. And then there was another y sheep tree. It was a pretty large branch that was almost off the ground, off the ground, wedged into the tree. And we also noticed like a pair of sticks in the shape of an ax next to all the down trees, And I'm like, huh, that is very weird for all those things to be happening in such a small area, but I figured, like it's a popular park, especially using the semester because it's Miami University like ten minutes from here, so I figured, like a lot of people come here.

4:20 But like some of the trees were way too large for a person to do that to like budget them in between the trunks of other trees. But you know, I may not notice that in the video, but I never like worried about it too much. And then we loop around the trail because the trail goes straight and loops around and then goes back where it came from. And then along the trail when we were coming back from the loop, we noticed there was like a stick structure, like almost like a nusting shape right on the side of the trail, And I didn't really pay much attention to it, just because it was right next to the trail, and I'm like, oh, well, anyone can made it, but it's kind of weird you would make this right next to the trail if it was a person that made it, which I'm sure it was a person, but it was just very unusual where they had it. And then we were walking back, we were in the area with the down trees, and the stick structures, and then I noticed it was silent, like the birds weren't singing, and the only thing we heard was one crow that caught a few times, and then that was it. There was just silent.

5:43 So I'm looking around and I don't see anything, and I'm filming with my iPhone and I don't see anything at all. So but I did hear rustling a bit when we were heading away, so I'm still looking in that but I don't see anything at all. And then shortly after we heard that rustling and we were walking back out of the trail, I just had that overwhelming sensation like I was being washed. And my experience of hiking, because I've hiked a hundreds of miles in the state of Ohio, I learned that whenever you get that feeling of being washed, it's a it's like an evolutionary adaptations that humans have if they saw a predator or anything, but they didn't process it in their mind. And so I was a little more freaked out because I knew what it meant. And so we get out of the trail, we go home. I'm reviewing the footage exactly where it was silent, and then I'm not really seeing anything, so he zooming on my phone a bit, and then I see like, A I can't tell if it was like at the time where it was like a head or shoulders peeking behind right right by beside like a crooked tree,

7:16 and a and like a sapling that was in like the most unfortunate spot possible, so I will not have been able to see to see what it was very well. And then and I'm like, oh, that's weird. Maybe it was a camera artifact. So I put it on my computer when I'm editing the video, and I look even closer and in the in the on zooms version, and when I looked, you could still see something moving in between the crooked tree and the in the sapling. So the crooked tree was about like fifty hundred feet away from the trail, so it wasn't very far. So I figured, you're like, I would have seen, like I definitely would have seen what it was if it was closer or that close. So I assumed it was a lot farther away, but just how it was placed looks like it was it was like right there, but I wasn't very sure to make of it. So I sent it into the BFROL and they actually sent a guy out to Houston Woods and when he looked, he said there was nothing there that it could have been other than either a person or a bigfoot or a bear. The thing is in the county I live in, in the county where Houston Woods is. There have not been any black bear sightings in this area, if I'm not mistaken, in a

8:49 few years, if any other time. And while the BFRL member was here, he found footprints in the pretty large footprints in the area where I took the video and and what the six structures were. Okay, that's cool, that is really cool. What was the date of this again? Yeah, it was this year. It was it was May fourteenth. I think it was a Thursday. Okay, gotcha. How I would assume the rep from the vf O did did they get did they that's the word?

9:42 Did they get measurements of the footprints that they found. I don't know exactly how big the footprints the one guy found, but I went he said when he was there, I could go up there with him. And I found a footprint myself, and it was hard to make out how big it was, but it was between like ten and four pick thirteen inches or fourteen inches. It was just the ground was like very awful quality because it wind rained all day. So, right, were you able to see more than one footprint or I guess you kind of said that you both had found footprints.

10:24 So yeah, I found one footprint that day. I went there with him, and then he found like three to five more I can't remember exactly, but he casted one of them and he cast it to one I found. Oh, that's awesome. Was this a thing that I don't believe this was published on their website? Was it? It has not been published yet. I messaged the guy today and he said it is if it does get published soon. He said he had to report done last week, so so I don't know if it's gonna be.

11:05 Oh that's awesome, very cool. I know they've got they've got a lot of stuff they're looking into right now. Yeah. Yeah, something I I noticed when I was looking at the map for this state park. So, are you on there's like the big lake, there's Acton Lake. Are you on the east or the west side of the lake? I'm on the western side. Awesome. And then is this over by the campground. It's it's just south of the. Campground, okay, because I noticed that if you go to like the far west side of the campground, there's actually a Indian mound over there, Yeah, which is really cool.

11:58 Sometimes you see those kind of appear in the same area where you have Native American Indian mounds and then potential Bigfoot activity as well. But that's that's really cool. Have you been back to this area besides going back with the BFL representative, Yeah. I went back twice. So I went back before I contacted the BFL just to like see for myself if I could find anything. But I couldn't really figure it out, like if there was anything that it could have been.

12:42 But I did find out that you, like, I take a video of me what I was doing, and even though I might have got the measurement wrong because I said it was like seven or eight feet, possibly it could have been smaller. It was very hard to make out depending how far it was. And the thing is, I wore a purple shirt net video, so even with me wearing a brightly colored shirt and how far back I was, I was very hard to spot on the camera anyway, So I figured like it would be hard to spot me. Like if it was hard to spot me in a purple shirt, it would probably be even more difficult to use something that's all black or brown in color too. And then the last time I went again, I went two days ago, and I found more footprints.

13:33 The one I found was ten inches long. But the weird thing is the footprint had like two or three toes on it, so I don't know if it's just an indent or what else it was. And then I did find two more footprints a little bit farther away, and they're about like thirteen inches thirteen inches long, so it was in range to be a but they were very deep in the ground, like a few inches. The video is very interesting, you know, when you when you combine it in with the video that you that you took on your channel, it is it is a really interesting than it's cool that they got that they sent someone out to investigate it. Have you heard any other things happening in this park? Any other reports of other people having sightings or encounters?

14:33 Actually online, I couldn't find anything. But when the BFR member came, he showed me a map on his phone that they had ugly ports in the area too, like in the same park. And the weird thing is I had another I did have something else weird happened to me a few years ago when I was in the same area. So two years ago, I think an the original email I put twenty two twenty three, I meant twenty twenty four. It must have posted on button. He's like, send it late at night. But so I went stargazing with a friend in May of twenty twenty four. And so we get there around sunset, so just before sunset with then like I don't know, twenty minutes, and as they were starting to get dark from the so describe where we were. We were at the parking lot at the Maple Grove picnic area, and then it's like a road two bolt both of parking spaces, and then like the circle of like you turn around in and farther back there's like a like a slight clearing g aias of picnic tables, and then there's like like a line, like a pretty thick line of woods and a slope, and then it leads to another parking lot where the beaches on acting On Acton Lake. And what happened was, as they're starting to get dark, we heard something walking

16:06 in the in between the parking lots, coming from the north side, and at first we saw nothing of it, like just plenty of animals that live in the in the park. And and then then the weird thing is whatever it was almost got a bipedal in motion. So I tried looking to see what it was, and of course it's just sloped and it was may where that happens. It was there was too much vegetation, so I couldn't see anything, and it was starting to get dark, so it was it was even darker in the in the forested area. And then so whatever it was in there, I couldn't see. There's just no way I could have spotted anything. And then as there was moving south from the north position, so like we're facing east, it like curves and almost like makes a J shape towards the parking lot. And so I tried to get closer to it by the tree line to see what it was.

17:17 And whatever it was got really close to the tree line where I was standing, so it's like a wall of bushes. It was like I couldn't tell how far back it was, but I could tell it was getting a lot closer to me, and it was like making a bee line towards me, and I started backing up. I'm like, wow, whatever this is, it's starting to get close to me, So this is kind of weird. I don't know what animal this is. At this point, when I backed up, I heard it turn around again and then headed back to the direction it came, and then just started like going back and forth trying to like I don't even know what it was trying to, but like it gets to the point we were getting freaked out.

17:59 I'm shinding my lash light back there, and then I kind of swore I saw like green eyeshine and usually out of a thought it was like a lightning bug, but the the the eye or whatever it was looked really large, like like it had have been like maybe this big, but from a distance like farther back, and it was relliant, like pretty high off the ground, like like six or seven feet. It was kind of hard to gauge how high it was. And then given it a slope, there was not really a good gauge, but it was like not ground level, like it seemed a little high for a lightning bug to be and a little too large. So we ended up leaving and then and I thought nothing of it, and I'm like, I just saw, like, wow, it was really weird. That's happened.

18:55 And then and I just looked it at that I didn't know what to think. And then probably a little bit longer or a little bit later, I'm like, that might have been a bigfoot, But I don't know. That's really interesting. I'm looking. I also checked out the big Foot mapping project. I think it's actually your You put your report up on there, right, yes, Okay, cool, cool. I was just double checking. So that's really interesting. But I just want to look real quick on the bfro Ohio, is it Butler County.

19:37 Where we were exactly? There's pre Bowl County, but this it was like ran the border. Pre Bowl County. Okay, oh yeah? In interesting. Could you tell if those are recent reports on that map that he showed you or that the showed you. He didn't show me like how old they were, but he just showed me their sightings. In Okay, gotcha, gotcha. So what I'm seeing is I can't find any documented sightings around the state park. It might be a thing where they might be there, but just the general public doesn't know about it, and this is kind of the first time you're you're coming forward, is kind of the first time people know about it, if you get what I mean. Yeah, which is kind of interesting. You know, if there is other stuff happening in the State Park area in the general public doesn't know about it, Yeah, I think people should know about stuff going on. But yeah, that's just me. But yeah, after you had this experience, sometimes people will have other strange things happen, like at their house or just weird stuff.

21:04 Did anything out of the ordinaries start to happen after this initial experience you had, not. Really like everything has been the same. Like I've gone back to the park too, nothing's weird happened, and I don't feel like anything followed me home or anything. But I always have that suspicion like, oh, I don't know why I'm like this, but I'm like, oh no, I hope what if it was fault didn't follow me home? But that's just me. But no, that's like nothing weird going on either. It sounds like this is something that you are wanting to continue to look into, Is that right correct? Do you have any any goals with looking into you know, potential Bigfoot in this area? Is there is there something you want to have accomplished through all this.

21:57 Probably just make the presence more publicly known. Maybe get a better video, because someone I took isn't very good, but it's still like inconclusive. Like probably something we're convincing to the general public who doesn't know much about bigfoot. Maybe find better footprints that are more detailed and casted, and like the ground when we took the castings at one time weren't wasn't very good because it was just remaining all day. So probably just like find like the better evidence and probably just bring awareness to it.

22:38 Really, yeah, absolutely, I was Did did you get any of the track casts that were cast that day? Or were those those cast by the rap and he held they held onto them. I have the one cast, he has the other one he took. Okay, that's awesome. Is that something you have in in your room right now? Would would would you feel comfortable? Is that something you might be able to show off on on camera? Or yeah? Yeah, that's awesome. Okay, So I've had difficulty cleaning this, but this is it up here is like extra material, so like the extra plaster. So this was the indent in the ground really, but it's really weird because like you could tell those like a heel mark here, then it goes down a bit and then it comes back up and then this I think is a deer print. But then I don't know what this is, what this is because whatever it was was pushed down because there was a stick here, and then something that goes up here a bit, almost like toes, and then this, and I don't know if it's a deer print like part of a deer print either,

24:08 And it was just very weird. And I found a footprint the other day in a similar shape to this, like up here and here like I had like a like a like this shaped feet, So I don't know if it's just how the footprint turned out or what. But where I found it was on a like a game trail, so there's a bunch of deer prints in the area. I also think it's a handprint too, and if it just like whatever it was was laying down and pressed its fingers in the gown. But I still don't know what to think to think of the cast.

24:52 Hold on, I'm gonna I'm gonna show you something real quick. I'll be right back. Okay, so I don't get the chance to really bust this out on the show at all, but this is so I can show you a cast of a handprint that we found in the mount Hood National Forest in Oregon last July of twenty five. Okay, oh wow, So. If you see, can you see like how you've got like the ones going down. Yeah, it's really hard to see, but that's how when you look at it like this way, it's like the fingers are into the mud. So you've got like these weird things that are left with a handprint cast when it's down in the mud. And so then you can look at this again, so you see how it's like where my pinky is pointing right there, that's like one of the fingers going down into the mud right there. So handprint casts are really weird. Yeah, it's weird to wrap your mind around them. But that's that's a good one. I think there's some in Krantz's book, maybe two, but this is an example of one you can keep in mind. Cliff Berrickman helped, but Frank kin Easter was the guy who the researcher that found it initially.

26:22 But that maybe that will help when you're looking around the area in Houston Woods as well. Yeah, okay, so there you go. But yeah, thank you so much for sharing what you've experienced so far. Definitely keep us up to date with if you have any other experiences and have you talked to do they have like a let's see, what would they have? Do they have rangers or anything or or camp hosts in that in that park it's. A stay park, so I assume there's definitely like departments enough National Resources officers in the area, so and just like a nature center there too. But I've been loved to talk to or to anyone or asked you about it.

27:11 It might be interesting. And this is all like how comfortable you are, because it's kind of out of a comfort zone sometimes. But if you do want to kind of get out there a little bit with your investigation, you could always say, hey, have you guys been hearing any weird stuff around here? Or you know, people seeing large and you can say like creatures or figures or et cetera, or seeing tracks or you know, kind of take any of those and use that to to or people seeing anything weird, and you can leave it kind of vague too, you know. But that might be fun.

27:57 It's all. It's all what your comfort level is. You know. Sometimes those guys will talk, sometimes they won't. But at the end of the day, that might be something fun to do. But it sounds like there could be people seeing stuff there. But as you said, as we both said, it's just not public yet, so your sighting could be the first public one and possibly in a group that's about to come out. We'll see. So yeah, but Olivia, it has been fun chatting with you today. Yes, and thank you for sharing. Thank you for sharing with us all these things that have been happening pretty recent and keep us in the loop. If you are able to notice anything out of the ordinary when you go back next time.

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