It Was Crashing Through the Woods Like a Freight Train | NE Ohio

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0:43 Welcome to big for Society. If you have Bigfoot activity to report from the same areas discussed in this episode, please reach out to me directly after this episode, and if you'd like to be on the podcast to discuss a personal Bigfoot encounter, please reach out to me directly at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. Do you wish there was more big for Society to listen to you every week? Well there is now. If you become a supporting member over at Patreon, you get a special members only episode every single week on Wednesdays, and sometimes even more episodes head on over to Patreon dot com forward slash the Big for Society, and now let's get on with the show. All right, Big for Society. We've got the privilege of talking to Melanie today. Melanie is an individual that I've been talking to for quite a while and she's experienced some really interesting things over the years of Sasquatch and many many other things. And it's a privilege to have you on the show, Melanie.

1:39 It's a privilege to be on your shoe Jeremiah. So Melanie, we've got only a certain amount of time, so I'm going to let you go ahead and take us back to where we need to be, what we need to know, where we're at, and I'm going to let you start sharing your story today. Thank you. I appreciate that. Well, I just I'd like to start by saying, I grew up in a really rural little town in Ohio, in northeast Ohio, and from the eight it was all woods and farms. And from the age of four I lived in the woods. I was there from morning from it got dark, and I am so surprised that I never in towned anything.

2:22 It was all woods and there were ponds, it was just and I was there all the time. But I think it's because I'm a little hyper. I was a very hyperactive child and I talked to myself all the time, so they may have been watching me, but I just never shut up enough to know anything. So then I got married and my husband and I moved to another little rural town township even in northeast Ohio that had one traffic light that was a flashing light and it was nothing that railroad tracks and a person it like. It was all woods, three lakes, three or four lakes came together in this area and it it was just a very very country town. So who we rented from, Uh, my landlady's brother used to come over all the time.

3:21 He was a little out there. He was like in the woods all the time. He found arrowheads and he was always finding things. And so one day he came over and he said, would you like to see some human bones? And I said, what are you talking about? He said, well, I found some human bones and I gathered him up and I put him by a tree. Would you want to see him? And I said yeah, sure, So we went we went down the road, uh, and there was a h a path that you could drive on, but it was really bumpy and crazy. That went a mile back into the woods along the railroad. Trap there were three oil wells, and I guess the road is there so they could check the wells, but it was just stick the woods.

4:08 I mean, they went on forever. So he took me. We went back there and at the third oil well, we went off to the left and he took me up on this hill. There was like a hill back there and he said, this is the Indian burialment. And I knew the town had been it had been full of Indians, and I said okay, and he said, I'm going to find the tree. So he said I made an X with a hatchet in the tree. And I said, well, how long ago is this and he said, oh, it's been like eight years. And I'm thinking, I find that that tree grew. Well, damned if I didn't find that that's in that tree, and it was way up. So he dug at the base of it, and damned if he didn't pull out a handful of bones, like finger bones.

4:53 And I said his name was Jimmy. I said, Jimmy, you can't you can't do this. This is a stake for drownd. You got to put these backward, like you can't do this, So, you know, he laughed at that. I him know, it was just kind of crazy. I had never been to an Indian burial mound. But anyway, a couple of days later, I thought, I want to go back there and see what's passed that. Now I got a back up for just a second. When I grew up, my mom and dad were young, and my dad was he was like hip to everything. He was in all kinds of crazy, you know, like we played with I played with Mercury when I was a kid, and he just is always telling me different things. But for some strange reason, I never saw the Patterson Gimman film.

5:40 I never heard the Big Friend. When I moved to the Sleet town, I had never heard of experience and knew anything about Sasquatch or any cryptids or anything. So I was just totally blank on all of that. Well, okay, so I go over this, I go back there, walk back there, went over the mound, and when I got over the mountain, it was rope thick trees, and off to my left there was these trees that were like, oh my god, they had to have been thirty forty feet tall, but they were just like bare trees, and they made a perfect X. Well. I didn't know anything about xes or whatever, but I thought that was really cool, like, oh my god, those trees following made an X well. I kept going past the X, and all of a sudden I came into a clearing.

6:30 That was. The back end of one of the lakes, and one of the creeks was there at the back of this clearing. The lakes were there. It was like all swampy and ponds. And the first thing I noticed was there was I'm going to call it a corral. I don't know what else to call it. It was. It was a half like a half moon shape. It was God, if it was straightened out of it were top would be, oh my goodness, fifty feet long, maybe a little more. And it was made out of long, twenty thirty foot trees that had been stripped down and they were intertwined at the ends, and they were stacked three and fourteen high. And I was looking at that and I thought, oh, I've never seen anything like that before.

7:21 Now this was a place people don't go back there. There's you know, there's nobody that goes back there, so I knew it was made by people. And all of a sudden, I started thinking, oh my god. I had heard about sasquatch but never knew anything about it. And I thought, this is like a habitat or something, and that corral has to be I figured it was either. Now it was great like there was there was back in the lake. There was an area with all kinds of structures, tree structures, and then before that area was this corral, and I thought, well, maybe either run deer into this, something R was gearing to this. I had no idea, but it was nat and nice. It was beautiful.

8:06 So I looked around in there, and I mean, some of these tree. Structures were just incredible. Still didn't quite know what I was looking at. So fast forward. I went back there a lot, and I decided, well, what I'm going to do because I had googled it and looked up online down and said that, you know, like a sasquatch area, And I thought, oh cool, I'll bring them some food. So I had an old cato sack and I would put I don't know, meat like dried meat, and fruit and vegetables and nuts and stuff. In it, and I would take it back there and I would hang it in a tree. And I did that probably every tree or four days, and it was always taken down and sat on the ground and empty. Well, while we lived there, I'm going to kind of add in the other things that I have encountered and experienced, because this covers like years and years and three different areas.

9:04 So I worked. I worked at a a horse farm where it was it was a it had a race track, and the guy was a the sulky riders the drivers, and. So I would work. Oh my god, that horse work is hard. I would work from six in the morning until four in the afternoon, and I'd go home, take. A shower, go back to work, load up the horses, and. We had did the race track by the time we got back, it was like twelve thirty one. I'd have to be back there at six. So the guy I was dating lived not too far from there, and I lived probably thirty minutes away. So I called my daughter, and at this point she was about fourteen fifteen, and I told her, I'm just going to stay at his house because it's closer. I could just step back to work and I'll see you tomorrow.

9:57 Well four o'clock and the line of my phone rings four or five, I don't know, and it's my daughter and she said, Mom, you got to come home. And I said, what's up? Buy and she said, you just you have to come home. And I said, And she's a teenager, right, And like she had all these teenage friends and I what did they do? You know? I said, Mom, they are the police involved. She said no, I said, neighbors. She said no, Mom, you just got them to see this. So I've gotten car. I went home and I came in the front door and she said, come out back with me. Now this house was also surrounded by woods and the train tracks back where that habitat is was just right down the road and back in a mile. So she took me out back, and we had this big fenced in area, probably thirty by thirty feet, where our dogs were. You know, they they were out there all night. They were always out there.

10:50 And she took me and there were these three gigantic its help the trees, which are these giant trees that grow straight as an arrow up maybe they broke. They're high, they must be probably fifty feet eighty feet. I don't know. Well, at the base of one of them shook me over and there was a footprint like maybe three feet out from the base of this tree. And like at first I couldn't determine it as a footprint because it was it had like five toes or four toes, and you could almost see a fifth with claws at the end of them. But it was almost like something was walking on the ball with its foot there, you know.

11:31 The heel was just like this little tiny mark. So these went from that tree down the yard towards the road, maybe every like five feet from each other. So the first one started at the base of the tree, and that was the left one. Then the right one was five feet away, then the left one again was five feet away. And I'm looking at it and I said, normly, I don't know what you sire, And she said, Mom, she said, last night the dogs went realistic. She some alone and her bedroom was up on the second floor in one of the trees. This this tree was like right outside her bedroom window. So so it's blowing my mind. It's like, what are these, Molly, So we're looking at them, and they went down the driveway towards the road. Then they turned and they went back up the yard to the dog fence, and at the dog fence they like shut the back and forth, back and forth. And then after that they went. They proceeded on down the driveway, across the road and into the woods, and I'm there.

12:32 I forgot to say. It was winter and there was like eight inches of snow on the ground, so that's how we could see the tracks. So she said she was terrified. She looked out her window, but she was scared. The girlut looking in the backyard. So I'm thinking it was a dog man because I sent the pictures to some research her friends of mine, and they said those are definitely dog man tracks. So it must have been up in the tree her through her window and then just jump down out of the tree. So the next thing that happened there, my grandkids came to live with me, and they were, uh, they were like three and six, maybe a little younger, maybe a little older, and I'm not sure, but so I would take them on deer rides. There were all these back country roads and we love to go for deer rides. So we get in the van and Destiny, my my granddaughter, she'd sit aside me and Bobpied sit behind us, and so we started doing these rides. So we went this one time. It's good on this one long road where it's all just songs on woods. There is a little there's the lakes on your left, and then there's a little I don't even know why they put this in that. There's like a little loop road on the right that just goes you know, loop comes right back to the road.

14:00 There's no electric back there. I don't know what they put it in for the store of it. So we drove back that, well, we got a little ways up it, and then this little deer, it wasn't a big deer came flying out in front of this mother. Was like nine thirty ten o'clock at night. This little deer just came falling out across the room through that little bit of woods, heading towards the lake. And I said to my granddaughter, I said, now, where do you think he thinks he's going, because there's only the road in the lake. Came in there, and I'm pondering this. I'm looking to see if I could see him, and my granddaughther starts screaming, Granny, Grammy, you've got to go, go, go go. And I looked at her and I said, homey, when does this matter? She said, you just got to go, and she's frying. So I looked where she was looking to the left, and it was kind of a field that there were trees at the edge and about oh my god, like twelve feet up, ten feet up and in these trees or these two red, two red glowing.

15:00 Foot rolls big for society, who will be right back after these messages? And so I'm looking at him and she's she's freaking out, and I said, I'm thinking to myself, there's no electric, there's no like, it can't be lights or so I'm thinking, how like O. No, they were big and fire apart, and uh by now my grandson is trying all of a sudden, Jeremiah. They they closed and opened again. And that was it that I knew, whether I knew it after seeing that habitat, thinking what I had been thinking for everything, it was like, oh my god, that's got to be a sausquad.

15:55 I got out of there. Well. So another thing that happened one night I was I was going for a deer ride with my granddaughter. My grandson was sleeping so we went for a deer ride and it was probably ten ten thirty at night, and we're going down this one road Virginia it's called and there was to the right is the back end of a Christmas tree farm, and beyond it's surrounded by that. It's something that woods as far as you can think. And on the other side of the road, on the left, it was all the woods that all of a sudden, out of the back of this Christmas tree phone comes this big I knew, big black. I would have said wolves, except we really didn't have wolves around there.

16:42 This thing was. Solid black, solid black, and it was kind of I'm going to I'm going to ease. We're loping because it was it was like loping, you know, out of the trees, and somen was hanging out the side and it must have been back there hunting, is what I figured. But it was like seven seven at least seven feet long. It was on all fours, didn't have the tail, and I didn't see its teeth or anything. It never like looked towards this, but its eyes. Now we're sitting in my in my vand and my lights are on it, and it's only maybe ten feet in front of us, so I could see its eyes were like looking at us, and it's I swear to god, its lips like went up in a smirk like I don't know how else to describe it.

17:30 It was like a smirk. And it's like I could I couldn't stop looking at its back legs. Like everybody says, dog man, the front legs are longer, while this guy had. His back legs were long and they were weird looking like it. It almost looked like they had an extra joint in them. So I'm just focused on these back legs and the back like this thing doesn't have my tail, no, And it's just like it was just creepy, and we were so scared, and it went across the road. It went off into the woods on the other side of the road. I instantly got so sick, Like the feeling I had was like like death, like I was gonna die. I had never felt anything like that before. It was the most dreadful sick feeling I had ever had. One Easter, Oh this is after all this, all these different things happened.

18:25 It was Easter night and a friend of mine and my daughter and I were sitting I had this big, four story scary with an old house. And there was a sidewalk across the street and that went up the hill on this road was just kind of a little back road. And we were sitting on my porch and we saw this this woman and these two little girls, and they were dressed in like beautiful clothes but very old fashion, like really old fish and high collars and you know, the dresses. And they just they didn't they look out of place. So we're watching them, and they're walking up the sidewalk and the little girls they ch had a doll in their hands, in their arms, but these dolls had no face. They were like like flatty drag dolls with no face on them. And the mom was holding their hands and she's talking back and forth to each other and they're all laughing and smiling and and we're all and my daughter and my friend are like, this is weird, Like who you know, who are these people?

19:28 Like what is this all about? Well, they proceeded that they never looked over it as they were anne in a place. They walked up the hill to sidewalk up the hill and all and they then they just disappeared. Couldn't see them anymore. Well, at the top of the hill back in the early nights and hundreds, the house that there used to be the the mortuary where the or the funeral home, and we were just shot. So that's I think that's what I think they were ghosts. I think they just like a lot of people in that town told me they would they'd. Seen Indian like visions of Indians riding. Horses through the streets, and it was it's a there's a lot of old mines in this town. It's a it's a very very I would love to go back there with somebody someday and go to these mines and just see if we can't find some things out. The teenagers in that town saw a Now I don't if I want to call it a rake or a crawler.

20:31 It's kind of confusing as to which is which. But they they came to the house, and these were like the younger brothers of my daughter's friends who were always at the house, and they were freaking out, and they said they went over the bridge where the creek is, and back in the creek, up in the tree, they saw this white thing that was just all like long white arms and long white legs like wrapped around the top of the tree. Then we ended up picking the move uh, and my husband got us a place in this city. I hate the city. I'm not a city girl. I hated everything about it. So we lived there for oh my god, nine years. Well, the second year we lived there, I thought, I'm a fisherman. I fish all the time. Like I would get the kids on the bus, go to the lake, come home, get the kids at the bust picking the snack, go back to the lake.

21:23 So they all in the right fish. But when we knew you guys like strew it, I got sign the place to fish. So I just googled it and just fourteen minutes away was a reservoir that I remembered as a child. We had stayed there in the campaign, and I thought, oh, that is really cool. So I started fishing there all the time. So one day I went and it was like you'd go into this park. You go down this little beck road, go on to this parking. Lot, and there was one dock, a little wooden dock, and then all the shore and that people would fish there. People put their boats out on the little dock and it was a cove. So across. There was maybe two hundred yards across, maybe not that much. That was all woods and that went in the never never Land and then it went maybe I don't know, like one hundred yards to the right and it turned and that was like the swamp part and then come up and that's where we'd fish.

22:26 So I'm fishing and it. Was probably got to be it was probably four thirty about set, and all the boats started coming in, and then it got a little later because there were a bunch of boats coming in all and it got dark. Well as it got dark, and these boats were waiting these get off the dock. There was one boat that was like drift casting the shore across from me, and all of a sudden they threw it in reverse and went back like twenty feet and hit a spotlight, and the spotlight in the woods, and I'm standing there and I'm thinking, they what did they see her here? So I'm trying to pay attention to them because I'm going to ask them about this. Well, in the massive boats that were coming in, this one little dog, I lost them, so I never got to ask them. But I stayed there fishing, and it was probably ten thirty ten ten thirty.

23:19 I think it was like ten thirty at night. Everybody's gone. Now this is back in the woods at the Silver Cove. I'm the only one there, and all of a sudden, across the lake, across the cove and off to my right, it sounded like there was a combine coming. Through the woods. Trees were cracking and falling. It was like the most destructive thing I've ever heard. And instantly, Now I will tell you, like I drink when I finished, so but I wasn't drunk. I was just I couldn't like connect with what it was instantly. So I'm thinking, what the hell is the city doing out here tearing the woods down at this time night? And I mean it just it was. It was totally destruction going on. So I listened to it, listened to it, and I'm thinking, this is and then it died. This isn't the city there, This isn't the city doing this. This is something that once the lake and here I said, with my lanterns fishing.

24:20 So so I wait, and I like, I listened to it for about twenty more minutes, and then I thought, okay, I'm going to whatever. I don't know what this is, but I'm going to give it, to give it its time so it can be hunt or whatever it does. And so I walked. I walked back up the parking. Lot, got my car, drove back down to the where I was loaded up, and left. Well, the next morning, I went to the other side, and there's a little parking lot there, and I could see the dock, and I could see where I was standing, and I knew where I heard the noise. So I started walking down into the woods. And it didn't take me but a minute. Well, let me, okay, back up a minute. When I walls into those woods, there was a the carcass of the dead deer laying right there, right there. Its head was gone, excusey, Its belly was ripped open, none of the meat was gone, but all of its insides were gone, and its legs were broken between the like it's knee and ankle, that's and they were broken there, you know, like we're all four of them were broken there, And I thought, well, you know, that's really creepy.

25:33 Who would do this? So I went on down. I walked and instantly I saw the spot that was heard all this destruction, and it was it was crazy. It looked like a now That night, the night before, there had been no wind. It was July. It was a warm, calm night. There was no wind, no anything. This looked like a tornado hit hit. The trees were just it was probably a thirty by twenty for the area. These big trees were just precked, like eight feet up, six feet up, ten feet up, just precked. Some of them were thrown into the tops of other trees. It was just pieces of trees all over the ground. Some of them looked like they had been stomped on. They were like, you know, smashed and saw dust from them, and it was It was incredible, and the feeling I had was like, wow, you know, there's something. I never heard the sound, never heard any sounds, but instantly I knew, I knew what it was. So I started. I decided, that's it. I want to know about these things. So I started investigating this area.

26:43 Well. I so I would bring food back there because I always heard you should leave them gifts, which now I know you shouldn't. But I had a cheesecake I had bought for my husband and he had three pieces left in it, and it was in a round plastic container. With around lid on top. And I found this tree that had been crept, you had fallen, and I put it way up on the highest part of the tree and I left. And I came back the next day and the whole container was gone, and I thought, well, it has to be rectins, you know. So I searched like fifty feet around this tree. I could not find that container anywhere. So I thought, well, they just took it to the way whom knows that.

27:24 So the next day I went back and Jeremiah that container was stilling exactly where I had put it originally, on that tree, empty with the lid beside it. Now, I have no idea what kind of animal would do that other than the scrutch. And I don't call them bigfoot because that just seems kind of disrespectful to me. So I called him the scrutch. So there was that, and then so I'm now I'm into it. Now I'm going to figure out what's going on back here. So I started setting up a game cam and reporters back there. Well, there was one air where there were two gigantic trees that had fallen, and they made like like an l like like the ones base and the other one's base one went off one direction and the other one was like a nineties grangle, and for some reason, that just really dreaming there.

28:18 So there was there were little. Trees around it, so I would I would take things and I would hang them in these little trees right by it, and I like a little red toy car. I put one on the candy cars or whatever up there. I came back there one day and now it was I'm gonna say it was maybe October November. It was you know, chili, and right in the in between the nineties gra angle of these trees was a bare footprint. It wasn't huge, It was maybe seven eight inches long, and it wasn't wide. It just looked like a humans barefootprint only one. But it was long and the heel it was like, I mean, the middle of it was tind of narrow and long, and the heel was was just just really narrow.

29:11 So I took a picture of it. I sent it to my researcher friends and they all said, that's that's definitely a dog man track. So I was like, oh boy. So I did find some big foot tricks back in those woods, not real good ones, but you know, a couple weren't bad. So one night I'm gonna I went back there. When it was an afternoon, I was going to set my game came up and I went back into those woods, and it was the mushroom throughout. I'm a mushroom hunner, and I got totally sidetracked big. For society, who will be right back after these messages.

30:03 Getting mushrooms. I forged a bunch of mushrooms, and I realized, with getting dark, you know, I'd better to find a place with this game camp. So I went out and I went real deep into the woods by the lake, and I'm just looking around at trees when from what would be a tree put this on. All of a sudden, from my right, about fifty feet to my right was an owl sound like it was like an Owlcohol that I hear a lot of ball owl calls because I fish and I do everything at night, so I hear a lot of owls. This one did not sound like an owl. I mean it was trying to sound like an owl, but it was loud. It like vibrated my ear drums, and it just like it went off and into it different, like a different kind of sound.

30:50 At the end of it. Well, immediately from my left, maybe one hundred and fifty feet in the swamp, was an answering call exactly the same. So I just I hunkered down, you know, I squatted in the legs, and I just and and I don't have a had lamp. All I've got is my phone. I have no knife, no nothing on me. I got a basket for the mushrooms and a stick. Well, the one on my left did it again. The one on the race did it again, and I thought, oh my god, they're calling to each other, you know, so honest to God, Jeremiah, I wish, I wish I would have just stayed there so I could have seen them. But I was so scared.

31:33 I didn't have that dread femm or anything, but I was scared. So I just like quickly booked it right back to my car, you know, through the woods, up the hill and into my car to get out of there. I wish I would have stayed there. Another thing that happened there, there's okay, So that that reservoir has another part to it in a different area where there's a dot and it's it's a deer. You could rent boats there. It's a long dock. It's probably well get the deeps tugging feet long. And then at the end of it, out in the water there's a tea. It was out to the left and right. So it was nighttime because I liked to get fish at night, and I was out there and it was dark. It was like midnight, twelve thirty. I don't know nobody was there, it was, and there's like a parking lot, but all the way around this thing is nothing but woods, deep woods.

32:32 So I'm out on the tee at the left and I'm standing out there and I'm fishing. All of a sudden, from my left in the woods, I hear this crash and crash and crash and crash and coming and I'm just what was that, you know, And it's trash, trash, crash. All of a sudden, the biggest dough I've ever seen in my life dove out of those woods into the lake and swam like a like a freight train across that whole lake to the other side. In the meantime, the trash instead going on. Then it stopped. And I had not heard any coyotes. It wasn't like like dogs or coyotes coming through there would dig something big. When something big was chasing this geer and some s came there, I'm thinking, what am I going to do? You know, I had to walk back by these woods to get to my car. It's this, it's whatever that is comes out here on the dock. I got jumped in the water like there's nothing else I could do.

33:32 So that was kind of. Scary, and you think what us was over there. So when my husband worked, it was it was a road. There was nothing but factories and stuff, and there were all woods behind them. So I would go mushroom hung them back there. And I also had foster orphaned directom babies and I released a lot of them in that area. So you have when you release the raccoon baby, yet for a year, you have to pick food to it. So I would leave work. I work with horses. I'd leave. By the time I got to the woods, it was none dark, so I'd go back in there, and I had certain places i'd leave because I had like maybe eight babies as released back there are certain places i'd leave food for them.

34:20 And so then it was falling. The mushrooms drew on the trees in the fall. And it's like maybe eleven at night, and I had the night, I had lamp on, and I'm just I'm just kind of walking and looking at the trees, seeing if I see any mushrooms. All of a sudden, something drops. That's that's the only way I can explain that. From a tree about twenty feet behind me. And when they hit the ground, it jolted me on my feet. Whatever it was was a freaking big, like my feet, my whole body just jolted. And immediately I got that feeling with dread. I got that I was I was completely paralyzed. I couldn't I couldn't hardly breathe, I couldn't move. But it worked over me like like a bomb.

35:06 I was just. So so terrified, and and I could hear it. I could hear it like not breathing or anything, but I could hear like little like it in the leaves and the you know, little twigs and stuff. And it seemed like five minutes, but probably wasn't that long. I could finally catch a good breath, and I didn't look behind me, And that's another thing I regret, because I wish I would have looked. But I said to it. I'm so sorry. I know this is your home and this is your hunting time, and I swear to you if you, if you let me, I will walk straight to my car and I will not turn around, and I won't look at you. But please let me, Please let me walk out of here. And so I took a step, started taking really slow steps. Never looked behind me, which I regret that too. If I wasn't such a chicken, I would have seen a lot of these treachers. But anyway, so I walked, I walked, and I never looked. I walked all the way through the woods to where my car was, and I could hear it walking behind me.

36:15 But it wasn't walking hard. It was just like real delicate walking. Got in my car and I left. I never I'll never know what that was, but the feeling I had was dog man, because you know, that's just a whole different feeling than seeing a squats. We moved again. I mean where we live now, it is up We are butt up against six thousand, fifty acre state park and there the right behind me, through my yard, through my woods is the dam to a thirty six hundred acre lake. So this is like a huge, huge, orderless area. That year. I would go driving at night and see anything dif front.

36:56 I'd go driving at night and just driving through the park, driving around all the wake, all the and just seemed that I could see and there was and this was it was winter time. Now there's a picnic area, and of course there's nobody there, so you know, swinging, nobody's there. Then it was late, it was dark, and I pulled up to where I could see behind me were all trees to and then to my left it was all woods and it was it was just woods everywhere. So I stopped my car and I parked, and I turned off all the lights. And I had a really good flashlight and I had it had I had a head lamp, but it had a red stroke light on it. And like I told you, that really brings them home. And this is how I found out it did. There there was one area in the woods like this, this was like another code part of the lake. There was one area where there was like a tongue almost that went back into it. So I got the red store light out and I started strobing back and forth, strobing back and forth, and then I hit the spotlight. Then strode back and forth, back and forth at the spotlight. The third time I did it in this little area that was kind of hollowing, like a little clearing. All of a sudden, there were probably twelve pairs of eyes, if not more. And like reccoons have a certain color eye deer had wolden like yellow eyes. These were all white, like white eyeshine. And some of them are high, some

38:27 are like medium high, some are really low to the ground. Now, the higher ones, they would like, all of a sudden, I went and see their eyes, and then i'd see them. Then I went and so they were kind of I think they were ducking beyin trees and then looking back out. The little the littler ones. They just stayed looking and I thought, oh my god, such a community. So there there's a lot of sightings here in this state park. This is like a little community back in here. And I got them all wild up. So I watched them for a little bit, and I, you know, like I had an alcohol. I did the alcohol and talked to him, and I don't they could hear me or that, But so then I loved well.

39:11 I came back the next night and in front. Of those woods, where I had seen on the eyes. Over to the left there were these two great, big round it looked like reflectors, you know, like big round red reflectors, real far apart, and they were just you know, solid, staying there and not doing anything. And I thought, and in my flashlight wouldn't reach far enough to show me exactly what that was. So I'm thinking, you know what they do They put like, there's some girls out there. I don't know when else. They got garbage cans or something out there, and I thought, well, maybe just that parking place, but some kind of reflectors on something or. I didn't know. I had never seen it before.

39:53 Well then they went out and came back on and it dawned to me, this is there's something out there and the red eyes make me made me. I got the feeling that it was angry. It was angry that I like, got the whole community upset. I wind up and I watched it for a while and it never moved the boy. It just stared at me. And my my thoughts were like, you need to get out of here. That's I was kind of getting it, and from it, I think from it, you need to go. So I did. I left. Well, I redd like two days and I had to go back and see what was the moon. So it was really la It was probably eleven thirty twelve.

40:35 I went back out there and the eyes were more farther to the left, and they were behind this huge tree and it woods, you know, so this one tree kind of stuck out because it was very large and these eyes were like very beside it, and I'm looking at it, and even with my high powered flashlight, I couldn't I couldn't get a good look at it. I could kind of see a shape. This thing big, whatever it was, was big, and it was kind of like hunched hunched forward, so it wasn't as tall as it probably was, but it was so pretty tall, and it would go behind the tree and then it would come out on the other side, and then eventually it started like coming forward and then go back behind the tree and come out the other side, come forward. And I got the thoughts I was getting, or you got to get out of here, you really, like, this thing is kissed.

41:35 It's just and it's keeping itself from running at you. Because in a state park, they had to kind of maintain, you know, otherwise you'ren have swarm the tops and everybody else there, so I did. I watched it for a little bit and then it came to me. Behind me was deeper woods, and I thought, I don't want to situation between more of them, so I went and had them left and eye let that when I let them alone for a while, because I didn't upset the family or the community. So I'm kind of jumping around on these, but this is all well, I live in the place I live now. So one afternoon my friend from Freeland came and Okay, behind me is the lake and the dam, and then about maybe a quarter mile up the road to the right is like a state route, and then across from now there's a twenty two thousand acre ammunitions arsenal that is supposedly closed down.

42:39 It was opened in World War Two to make ammunition. My dad worked there, my husband now work there. A lot of people have worked there. But the rumor is now, Oh, I forgot to tell you that the UFOs. I'll tell you that when I'm done. So the rumor now is there. They built underground facilities there. You see a lot of UFO was around here. So he came from Fleasland and he had no belief in all he thought out it was crazy, and I told him I'm not you know, you'll see some day. So I said, looks still fishing. So we went. We went down right behind me like at the miles is a boat ramp, and and the dam was up to the right, and then you could just fish all the way along there. So I threw out about it.

43:27 It was maybe seven or eight o'clock. It was starting to get dark. I threw out a bottom line, tightened it up, and then he and I threw out a bobber and we were probably like maybe fifteen twenty feet out and all of a sudden and we had our headlamp signing to said hand la. All of a sudden he said, you're lying. And I looked over and my bottom line was going. It was kind of going back and forth, which was you know, like if the fish hit sad, it's throwing up and down. So I said, well, you know, there's a lot of big. Caps and stuff out there, Muskie and Organs I said something sait the line, So I went I tightened to that. Nothing was there, So went back for barber fishing. All of a sudden this thing rose up from the water, maybe twenty feet out from where our barbers were. And the only thing I could tell you is it looked like a buoy. It was about the shape of a buoy.

44:22 I couldn't see a face on it. It was a real dark night, but it was real calm that night. And it rose up and then it's maybe a foot and a half tall, maybe j feet high, out of the water. And then a second one rose up. It was maybe, oh, I don't know, like nine ten INSes tall. It looked exactly the same, only it was a little smaller. And then in front of that one, this little one rose up. It was maybe six inches high. That looked in the same and they literally stayed at one place, and it was obvious they were watching us. Now the whole time, my phone is in my back pocket. It never gone to met to take a picture of them or a video. I was just floored. And he was freaking out because he doesn't believe in anything here. He's like, what are those things?

45:11 Why are they? You know, it was dark at this point. I'm just mezmerized by him. Well, all of a sudden, the big one just went just went straight down fromly Jeremiah again, my head lamp. The water is very clear out there. I could see this huge golden. Tail big for society will be right back after these messages.

45:53 I mean, that's all I could say. It was. It was like a fishtail, but. It was probably I mean, it was long, it was, it was one, and it just kind of it was like the tail, the tail fin of it was really big, and it never it never made it rippling water. But I could see this tail like move and and then it went down, and then the middle one went down and the little one went down. They came up again to our left and same thing, same way. They came up, just rose a putt of the water, and they stayed there for a while, probably five minutes that time, just not doing anything. I could not detect the face on them, but I mean they had had a face of some kind of With my head lamp, I fitn't see it.

46:39 And they just stayed there watched they were watching us. Then they went down the same way, and then in the big one in the medium and then the little one, and they came up one more time off to our right, like more like towards the dam. And they only stayed there for maybe a minute or two, and then they went down and we didn't see him again. But I think I believe that Arsenal has got things going on there that people don't really know about because of the government facility. So I'm going to back up. I'm going to take you back to the first place I lived. We had a church decide this. I totally forgot about this. So it was a big parking The church had this a big parking lot. And one night I was just out there just looking at the sky, and all of a sudden, these there were like eleven perfectly round, bright orange circles came through the sky. It was a real clear night, and these things were long orange and they were perfectly symmetrically round, and there was one in the front, and then they went by two was all the way back, and I just floor. I knew they were UFOs. I knew they were. They had to be, and they were like a military opposition nation. Well, the two two by two by two behind the front. One would like switch and one would go off a little and then the

48:09 other oneould go over there and then would come back and get around. Well, I watched them for probably half an hour across the sky. Then the first one, once it got over now this this is right where the railroad tracks and everything is. As soon as it. Got back to where the woods started, it literally like like Star Wars, like you could see that the tracer of it, but it disappeared. Two by two. The other ones did the same. They get up to that certain point of where the woods and everything started and they disappeared. And they all of them did that. Also while we lived in this town, my husband and I, it was late at night, it was dark, kids d all in bed, and we had been We had a pool with the trampoline beside it, and we've been to one of the pools.

49:01 We got out and was just laying on the trampoline looking at the stars, and here came this triangular ship way up in the sky, not that high up though, and it was a triangle, and. Right behind it. Was a military jet with a spot lighting it. And we were like playing there watching this and this the jet, the military plane is like following this thing. This thing is going across the sky. That was kind of freaky. So I do believe in in extraterresterials in UFOs, and I've seen a lot of them living out where I live. So okay, so back to where we live now.

49:42 I go out all the time in the woods, like like I like to research for foot and it's you know, I'm just in the main area for it. So this one day I'm I'm in the woods and looking for mushrooms and I also looking for other things. And there was a path like you can almost tell it a crypt that's path from a deer because there's no deer poop, and it's kind of shuffled, I think, especially in the place where those people they kind of shuffled their feet back and forth so they don't need footprints. So I'm following this path and I'm thinking this is really cool. I mean, it's obviously not a deer. Well, all of a sudden, there's this lot, this big tree land on across where it was walking.

50:28 And at the at. The very side of this tree there were five four five toeprints like Doug underneath this tree, and then about six feet from that over the tree was the most perfect footprint I've ever seen in my life. And what I think it did is it didn't see that tree land there in a trip and what the most beautiful footprints we lived in the city and I was seeing the raccoons. There was a and I always did it at night because, like I said, you work at a you work at a farm, and usually you don't get home until long time. And I'm back in I got all the babies, and so I had a loop that I would make to look for mushrooms. And all of a sudden, in my headlamp was this huge white wolf.

51:18 It had to be a wolf. I've never seen anything in Mistag and it was solid white and it was standing there. It was like standing sideways and it was exactly where I was going to walk. And I just stopped and I looked at it. Then it was standing sideways. It had its head turned to me and it was just looking at me. And I didn't feel any fear. I didn't feel any bad vibes or anything from it. So I just looked and I told her, it's okay, I'll just turn around and go this way and go on your way. I was like kind of freaked out, but I turned I went the other way. I don't know what that was. But there's this area, like all the south of this county that I live in is so full of different things. It's incredible, Like there are so many things that go on out here. I found that my habitat once where they had there, they had all these like like little houses, little tree houses built, you know, just told all these and they were made the floorings and they stood them all the other and made these little little into big ones that they were all over the place, right back by the lake. And I know from living here and just being around, I know there. I know a lot of their areas. One night, I was back where one of their areas was, and I hadn't gotten any interaction from any of them anywhere for a couple of weeks, and I was like bombing, and it's like, yeah, they interact with me.

52:46 I need to know you guys are still there. So I took my red Strobe light and I went back to where the from there area is, and of course it's right along the lake, and I just strove, you know, strove the whole area for maybe twenty minutes back and forth, Red Store Strob. Well, then I got back in my truck and I drove down the road and around into where the back of their area is and I was gonna bring my alcohol so I could call to. Him and I walked. I was walk rock walk, and I went into the woods where the back of the area is and I'd forgotten an alcohol in the truck and there was no way I was walking back there for it, so I just started. I was in the woods behind the area.

53:29 I started going, who jeremia, Something back in there, answered me. And it wasn't. It wasn't like an owl thing. Something did the same thing back to me, and I would go and it would do the same thing back, and I just sort I had. So much fun. It was the coolest experience I ever had. I thought that it was so fun because it was doing exactly the same thing I was doing. There's been a lot of other things. I mean, it's, uh, it's weird because I never believed in in Big Father. I never heard of Big Fat. I never heard of cryptids or what they were, but I believe now. I mean, I've seen with the eyes I am at the lake when I saw him in the picnic area.

54:21 There was another time I saw. One and I I just can't remember which son that was. I'll call you back again them if I remember it. But I've seen them like four times. I've never had a clothes to close with them, and I went to so bad. I probably would have if I wouldn't have chickened out every time one was dying me. But sooner or later, I really need to see one up close, and when I have, I just I just want to have an interaction with one face to face. I know they're there. Dog Foot dog Man was there. You know, there are things out there, and I really would like to have somebody or some people go with me to to this little town I first lived in to check out some of these old mind because there's a lot of them. Uh, there's a lot of them out there, and I think that's where these things stay, because you know, there's a lot of them out There's a lot of cryptoids out there. But I don't want to go by myself. I always researched by myself, and sometimes it's kind of scary.

55:22 Right, And Yeah, the thing is is, I know you go out a lot by yourself, which is great, but you know, you start adding in things like mindes caves, that's when you've really got to be careful. And I mean, I would not recommend that just because man, I hate caves. I don't like caves. They freaked me out. Too many, too many bad things, you know, happen. And yes, yes, I don't know. I guess we have a lot of caves. I mean, I'm sure we do. It's like West Virginia, Ohio. We all have Pennsylvania. There's a lot of cryptid settings because it's you know, I've seen orders, well, I know another thing that happened here.

56:03 So I always I always still behind my house in these woods. You would not believe the tree structures back there. It's crazy. And then it just goes to the damn you know. I mean, there's nothing back here. But one night I was I was just sitting out there, and I was and the deer were out. I'm sitting in my truck with my lights on and watching the deer and it was one really big. There were three doughs, and one was a really big and then there were two more. They were a little bit smaller than her, but the other two there we would we always put corn and apples up for him. And they're eating too. They're eating with this big one that's a little behind them towards the woods. She just keeps looking. She's got her ears forward and she's dicking in the woods. Then she eats a little and her head would from up potent.

56:49 She's looking in the woods. Then the other side had They weren't even aware of anything, but this one was. And all of a sudden, Jeremiah, this thing it was almost. Like a cartoon. It came. It was black, it was low to the ground. I mean, it was like down on the ground. It was pulling itself by it's front legs. That's all I could tell you about it. It it came out of those woods and that deer turned and she took off, and that thing went after her. It crouched down like it was. I mean, it almost looked like its legs, your wheels, like its back legs, because it was going like like a cartoon. It was crazy how fast this thing was going.

57:35 And it it went after her, and she took off and it and it was right behind her, and you know, it was so quiet. Those other two dear never looked at once her and that thing were gone. The one dear did kind of looked back in the woods. She went right back to eating, and it's like, what did I just see? What it was? In a coyote? It like it it wasn't anything out of seen before. So I told my husband about it, you know, and he's kind. Of he didn't. He never really believed in any of this stuff. And he's like, oh, that's coney, you know. So then like three days later, he came home from work and he said, I believe you. I believe what you saw. And I said, why do you believe me now? He said, because I saw it on my way to work this morning. He would leave at like four o'clock to go to work, and he was going down the road and all of a sudden, a thing exactly like I described came across the road in front of him, and it was exactly like I had told him about this thing. It was low, pulling itself by its front hands. I don't hands, I guess, and went off, you know, and fast, just fast, so fast, it was like a cartoon.

58:46 And he said, I believe you. So he's a believer now. And things. This area is so full of cryptids, like all of the southern county I live in is just insane with cryptoids. And I do believe in portals. And I'd been to Hockey News and Experience and things there. We went to the Daniel Bue National Forest in Kentucky, one time stayed in the treehouse back in the woods. I'm telling you, you got to take your rights in your kids deck. They had three houses back in the woods around all the cliffs and everything that are so cool. So he stayed in his treehouse. And so one night I was like, I had had I don't know how many beers. I don't drink beer anymore, but I had a lot of beers, and I thought, I'm going back now. The whole time we're there, I'm doing with nonocks and hoops and whatever.

59:40 So I started walking towards. He had told me there's this one cliff behind us. It's straight up, but there's like a way to climb up it, and I'm like, I'm gonna climb up that thing. So I'm walking. I had these dream night vision goggles on, so I could see pretty good. It's like three in the morning, and I'm walking off into the sting. All of a sudden, this feeling came over me, like it stopped me in my tracks. Big for society, who will be right back? After these messages, I couldn't move any farther forward, and I just I just knew that I had to turn around and get out of there, and that's exactly what I said. I turned around and got out of there because whatever that was gave me a warning and you need to turn on and go. There have just been so many cool things like I could, I could go on and on and tell you different experiences that were just so unbelievably amazing with different things that I've seen that I've experienced that I just I still want to have a face to face with a fast squatch. And I think we're going to be moving out west, and it kind of bums me out because from what I understand, the squatch out there are mean, they're not as kind

1:01:14 like these guys around here are just kind of they just like to watch people. You know, you can see their little little areas at the edge of national parks and stuff where pick the tables are, where they made little holes they could like stand back in them and watch people. And the whole time they're like making tree windings and braids and all kinds of bird stuff while they're watching us. A friend of mine, it runs a podcast. I think, oh, I can't think of it that he runs a podcast and he has seen the dog he has a dog man he caught on camera, but he didn't see it while he was there, but when he went and looked to the stilone.

1:01:54 Okay, if you think of it later, just let me know when you try to think of his podcas So question for you. You know you've had so many wild things happen. What instance do you think you felt the most, like it was the most intense or you felt the most scared during that time. Oh, when that thing dropped behind me from the tree, that probably was the most scared. Let me think I've had I've had some funny things. The cheese kick thing was kind of funny. I've had some things that just kind of cracked me up because they're so silly. I've had a lot of scary things. I have to say that one it was probably it was right behind me.

1:02:37 And the thing was is that little patcherwoods had tree structures. I mean there were tree structures everywhere. But then in the midst of these tree structures was a tree about I'm going to say the circumference was probably fifteen inches twenty inches about twelve feed up this tree. That tree was shredded, shredded, I mean tree just endo the tree for like four feet up. It was just in shreds, and I'm thinking, okay, something tall, something like there isn't I know that there are animals of the shreded tree, not that high up and not that deep and not that like amazing. This tree was shredded and that's exactly where that thing dropped. And I felt that dread like when I saw the dog Man. So I've always wondered do dog men also mixed structures?

1:03:33 What do you think? Now? That's that's an interesting though. I've never heard brought up, even though I mean I haven't listened to a lot of dog man stuff, but I guess enough that's really interesting to think about. Usually you just hear of them potentially just messing up people, right, You never hear of them buildings. Oh they love making it scared. Yeah, that smirk is like is incredible. Yeah, they like to make it scared. I think. But but like in the midst of all these and these structures weren't like I mean, sasquatch make some pretty cool structures. They are like really amazing. I built in these areas where they're watching the tables behind like the thrones and stuff that what they're doing with the trees and the ends of the limbs and the vines, like they just go crazy behind them all together and it's really cool to see. I'll send you some pictures of them. But this one, this tree is right in the middle of these structures that were they weren't that intricate, that they were big and they were purposeful, you know what I mean, Like like if there was a tree bend for them and bent together, you know, and it just was different than the sasquatch. They wonder a dog man also makes because they kind of hang out together.

1:04:52 Okay, Well, there are definitely. Instances and parts of the US where they have of you know, you've got like your land between the lakes, and then there's a few other places too where there's a population of bigfoot that's known and then a population dog man that's known too. Right, and that that that friend of mine from the Baggy Creak incident, he that's one of the places he researches. They've gotten there's a big foot community, and he and his partner have gotten to be like they kind of interact with each other. But then one night they were out there and a what they call the ones with all the short teeth, the face eaters, the uh.

1:05:37 Oh yeah, they dug way. Yeah, a drug way came at him and and he has he sent me pictures he had he sets up video cams, you know, game cams. He's got pictures of these things. He's got a beautiful picture of this thing biting his game cam and it's all the teeth and their teeth are like huge and point and there's rows, there's more than one row of them and just thinking after them and like they got out with their lives. So now he carries an elephant guns in his he's like in his eighties. Name is William Lunsford, l u n s. Okay, he loves to talk. I know exactly who that is, Okay, gotcha.

1:06:20 He's the Southern boy and he like he's funny. He'll tell you stories. And Mathew, he's got some really good stories after all these years. He's such a nice guy. He's so sweet. You know. He and his wife rescue dogs. He's a fisherman. He and his partner they go and and they interact with this group of big foot there there. I think this is a it's a great first episode to get get your stories down and I appreciate you coming on. And it sounds like, you know, there's there's probably going to be more stuff in the future, especially if you move out. To at night all the time. I go all over this book, I go over, he says, were ahead laying.

1:07:01 I take a taser and I have a through sixty, which isn't going to do any good. William, Jerry's and helliphant him. Now he said that's he'll never see the sasquatch, but he sees another one of those good guys. Yeah, he's going to protect himself because he said that was the scared, most scared he's ever been. It's also called the whistling pig, whistling bear or something when when they go in the woods, do not whistle. Oh yeah, whistling brings them in. Yes, And when next time you take your son out, bring a red storre of light and honest guy, you you'll get the interaction from him. All right, Melanie, thank you so much for coming on the show and for you know, my eyes sitting.

1:07:47 Yes, I appreciate you letting me from that time. It feels so good like I don't have anyone who ever believes me, so it feels so good to be able to tell somebody who understands, you know, like what I've seen, what I experience than that, I'm not a liar. I'm very truthful about things, and I mean it blows my mind. I'm I'm still like more you had to kidneys. Things are really out there. One time, Oh, I got a one time where those red eyes were coming around the tree behind that area. I was looking for mushrooms. There's a path and I was and I'm standing there and I'm looking at this tree and all of a sudden that samurai ch other I heard in my left ear like this, like not even like a second of samuraich other in my left ear, and I whipped my head to the left. There was nothing there. Instantly there were three wood knocks across to the right, back in the woods that were so loud. And then someone told me that the juke miles play a game with people where they'll see if they can like do something and then get out.

1:08:54 There for people see them. And that's that. I think that's where they had to have been, because it was loud and clear. And then Dan, I instantly it was fine, So I thought that was pretty cool. That's wild. Yeah, Well, Melanie. Good, let me be on your show, Jeremy, You're an amazing man and I wish you and your family. Thank you, and please please keep in touch with with what happens in the future, and I know you will. Melanie, I will, I will. Jeremiah, thank you again so very. Much, absolutely well. You have a great rest of your day, ma'am. You also, sir, Bye bye.

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