Multiple Bigfoot Encounters Across Ohio — Witnesses Describe What They Saw!

0:00 You're listening to Bigflett 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, all right, biglet Society, Welcome back to another episode. Today we have the privilege of talking to an individual named Gigi that reached out through email the information about the location of this group of experiences.

0:51 Per the witnesses request, we are going to keep to the state of Ohio and that's as much as we are going to get into that, which is no problem. But Gigi, welcome to the show. How are you doing today? I'm doing well. Thank you for having me. How are you doing great? Doing a lot of interviews right now, talking to a lot of people all over the place, which is great and a lot of people in Ohio, actually all over the state. People are reaching out. So it's been a great time. But it sounds like you have quite a story to share. But before we get going, is there anything else that you would want to share about yourself for contacts for the listeners or we're just keeping it extremely basic in this.

1:36 Read I'm basic for right now? Yeah, I think so perfect. Well, feel free to take us back to the time where either things started happening or where you'd like to start the story. I've always grown up being open to like nature and exploring. I was born in Washington State, and I grew up being in the woods, the biggest trees in the world, so I know what it's like to be around that stuff. But I didn't grow up where my family was like, oh, yeah, Bigfoot's out there. I had no idea. I grew up watching finey book. But when I got a little bit older, I'm like, oh, Bigfoot. Recently, I experienced something that was very strange, and I never thought it would happen living in Ohio, but yeah, it was something very different, and it's so much different than watching something online and hearing stories.

2:28 It's very much different experiencing it for yourself. Yeah, I think that's that's a great point to bring up. Is when things start happening in your backyard or in your neighborhood, things get real pretty pretty quick, and they do. Yeah, what was the first time that you realized that something out of the ordinary was happening out there? In Ohio? I would always explore the woods there by myself, and I never felt scared. I'm used to being outdoors. I could get lost in the woods for a couple hours because maybe four years ago I went over there by myself, and normally in this spot near this martiness, there's like you can see evidence of deer and other animals, but there's this very large spot that like something was laying down and I'm like, that's really strange. So I kept going, and then I noticed deer trucks like running off and that's very weird. And then I noticed these very weird scratch marks on this tree and I'm like, huh, that's weird.

3:34 And then I keep going and then there's some more and I'm like, huh, maybe it's deer. Maybe it's a bucking rut, because you know it's September, it's towards the end of September, and then all of a sudden, there's something that's like grunting really loudly in these dark bushes next to the water, and I could not figure out what it was, and I was starting to get a little bit scared, and I'm like, that's really weird. And then it started getting louder, and I'm like, huh, maybe it's just a deer, so I put off. But then when I started to hear something else coming from the bushes, like it was down near the water. It was like this dark spot with these rocks, and I'm like, huh, that's kind of strange. I should probably get out of here. And then that was probably the first time I really noticed something strange over there. Maybe it was just deer, but it was very out of the ordinary because I would go over there all the time by myself, and I never saw anything strange until that point where I realized this is not normal.

4:26 Gotcha, So it sounds like definitely the noises had a part in you realizing that that it is not normal. And how close is this to where is this just in your backyard or. So? Where I live and my parents live, we live very close to each other. And at the time I lived with them. Where we lived, there's conservation land across the street, so it's one hundred and twenty two acres of just meadow, marshlands, wetlands, forests, so it's very open. People used to be allowed to hunt over there, and they are not allowed to anymore. There's been a lot of ongoing things to restore the area, so as of late, there hasn't been any a lot of human activities, so it's given a lot more way for more animals to feel safer over there.

5:21 Gotcha, So after that, was it a thing where you had that experience and then things you know, it didn't really happen for a while, or did things continue to happen after that? Nothing really happened for a while. I'd still go over there. We take the kids at are Forest School over there, and there was never an issue. I never went to that exact spot ever again it was too eerie for me. But there was different spots in the woods that we would just go to. But there was just strange things over there that just didn't seem out of the normal where it felt comfortable to be taking you know, people over there. So for safety in mind, it's like, Okay, nothing happened for a while, but things are getting strange.

6:08 Things don't seem like they normally should. So for the best being of what I do for my job, I was like, let's not go over there. Yeah, absolutely need to make the right decision. What kind of strange things were happening that you noticed. We went over there one time, a little bit farther up actually from where I originally saw and experienced this weird noise and what there is these strange grass huts near the water, and they were so perfectly put together. And we went over there and we were very perplexed by these strange grass huts and we were like, is this a muskrat? This is a beaver? There's no way, and we assumed it was a muskrat. And then we tried to go in another direction from these grass huts.

6:58 We kind of got lost in the woods a little been. It was very weird trying to get back because these grass huts kind of just threw us out of like where we were and trying to go around them. It was just very not normal. It was kind of an eerie feeling, like you feel like you're being watched, but there's nothing there, and then there was a storm coming, so it made it even worse. How big were these grass huts? I would say the biggest one was maybe five feet tall. There were some that were lower on the ground that were like mounds across, and then there was these broken sticks everywhere, and it was very close to the water with easier access with the trees how they're lined up to where if there was something like we thought it was a muskrat, okay, easy access to get through and there's no pretters. But if it were something larger with these weird huts, it seemed to be like the perfect spot because nothing's gonna mess with you there.

8:06 Absolutely. And so this is this is not on on the home property, but it's it's close by, correct, Yeah, it's close by, yes, okay, okay, So that that is a strange thing to see. You've got these and I mean that's that's a big sized hut for sure. Were there are any other strange things that were going on too? I wasn't even looking for bigfoot or anything. It's just kind of like enjoy nature and going next. I didn't see anything like weird tracks. The huts were really weird. I didn't hear weird vocalizations at the time. It was just this eerie feeling and finding these weird huts and things just felt really out of place because spending time over there, it's normally like a calm thing, like you just kind of escape for a minute. So to find that it was okay, we don't want to go back.

9:03 Got so then after that you stopped going to that area? Yeah, yeah, we did. Sure. Was there a thing that happened that really made you think that what you were experiencing could be related to Bigfoot? Can I talk about the experience that made me want to email you? Sure? Yeah? Absolutely. I think that's what really started for me is that I was in the pasture with the kids and we were playing, and I didn't have my phone on me, and all of a sudden, these kids were playing, you know, there there, and I'm standing in this pasture and all of a sudden, I'm looking across the street there's this very At first, it was not a person, it was not a dog, it was definitely not a barried here.

9:52 It was something that was so strange looking to me that my first thought wasn't even like, oh my gosh, I'm looking at Bigfoot. It was like this reddish brown figure. It had very large muscle mass. But from how far away could see you could? It was so strange looking to me that I couldn't believe what I was seeing. And it was just like there and I'm like, oh what And I was like, no, whatever, it's nothing. But then I realized, like, oh, I can't even go get my phone because what if it's going to be gone. I just couldn't believe what I was seeing. Okay, that's that's very interesting. When did that happen?

10:33 March eleventh. Of this year? Yes, okay, gotcha? And then what time of day again? I would say between four thirty and six o'clock. It was around like four forty five in the evening. Okay, how far away would you estimate what you saw was from you? I tried you using Google Maps to determine it. It was at least half a mile or like zero point two miles from where I was standing. It's a far enough distance, but I've walked in that same exact spot before, and to see what I don't know what I saw, but to be in that spot if you're a normal size person and or you're just walking or I've seen deer in that spot. It's very hard to see things from that spot. For to be so right there and you could see it's something strange enough, it's enough of a distance where like, okay, this is not.

11:35 Normal absolutely, so you're you're looking at it with your your naked eye or yeah, okay, yeah, got gotcha? Gotcha? How tall would you estimate it was? I would say to at least six or seven feet tall from the distance I could see it at at least that for sure. Gotcha? Did you Was it just standing there or was it doing anything out of the ordinary? It was moving through the grass because the grass gets very long, so it was it was moving very quickly.

12:23 And then as quickly as it was walking in the direction I saw it disappeared and then I didn't see it anymore. But it was moving very fast. Gotcha. So just so that listeners can have a example, So it's it's pretty much like your your two city blocks away from what you're looking at. Okay, yeah, that was about right, gotcha. Yeah, you said you were with kids. How did they react? They didn't notice because they were playing this game about getting the bad guys and they had this tractor so they didn't know it, and I wasn't going to point out like, oh hey, guys, you see that thing over there.

13:09 They had no idea what was going on. Okay, now did you Were you able to go over to that area afterwards to take a look around, or were you really staying away from that area because of what you saw. I went over the next day with kids from my forest school and we went about halfway up the path in I saw tracks, But then after that I decided this was something that kids do not need to be exploring, So me and my mom decided we were just gonna go over there ourselves. But the tracks I got pictures of, and I found that to be very interesting because I've never seen anything like that before and I wasn't expecting to actually find anything, but finding those tracks was assigned for me that something is definitely over here. And when we went up further, we found more tracks, and it was very strange because it's like something to not want us to be over there.

14:09 Yeah. Absolutely, and you sent me those are the photos that you sent me or the tracks? Correct? Yeah? Okay? Is it okay if I share those in the YouTube version. Of this, Yeah, you can do that. That'd be great. Okay, thank you, thank you, very very interesting. How did you How did you feel emotionally when you were having this sighting of something that you're looking at. I was honestly terrified because I've always heard stories, but this feeling of experiences for myself is like nothing that I could ever hear someone else say about it that I feel. It's terrifying that they've been so close to something that I don't know what it is. It's not a monkey in the woods. This is something else. This isn't just oh, there's a monkey hiding out somewhere. This is like some grilling. No, this is something bigger than people realizing it's something. And I'm still trying to figure out for myself because I can't explain it enough.

15:09 Right because I mean, we're recording this on the twenty fifth, so I mean that's just two weeks ago that you had. This sighting is pretty recent. Yeah, And as we were talking before, I mean, that's that's the same time period. Well it's so the eleventh was a day after what's being called the Ohio Bigfoot Flap, happened between March sixth through the tenth, eight sightings up in Portage County and Trumbull County, and so this sighting happened on the eleventh, we're saying somewhere in Ohio. So yeah, yeah, absolutely, which I mean, there have been just people reaching out. I've had some conversations from all over the state, as you can imagine. Yeah, there's a lot a lot moving around right now. What did your You said your mom went with you the next day and was there with the tracks.

16:19 What was she feeling about the whole situation? She felt as scared as I was about it, and we got this really sick feeling and our hearts were raceed, and it was very scary for the both of us because she's had her own bigfoot sightings herself whenever she lives. She was born in Washington and she grew up there, so for her to experience something like this here, it brought back memories for her of living there, and this is something completely different than just hearing about it. For her, she was as scared as I. Was, absolutely.

17:01 So. So then how did how did this affect you after having this experience? What have the last two weeks been like for you? I went about halfway up there on this trail, but I didn't see anything normal. I still heard the birds in the spring papers, trying to keep my eye out over there, but I have not been over there, and I've just been looking with binoculars, but of course I'm not going to see anything from the road. My own family members have went over there and they have seen tracks. And there was one grass hut and it had sticks put over it, and he did not see anything else, but he thought it was very strange over there that this one grass hut that was probably about five he told it had these sticks put over it like an x and he thought that was very weird. But as for myself, the past two weeks, I've just been a little freaked out and kind of APPREHENSI about the thought of trying to explore the woods at all right now, just trying not to go out as much.

18:10 Really sure, absolutely how big were the sticks that were being used? I do not know. Or Oh, that's true, that's true, because you would have been told about that, right, Yeah, yeah, for sure. So this this area of Ohio that we're talking about, have you heard of other people having experiences in the same area where they've had bigfoot sightings or experienced strange things. I don't know of anyone personally that has. I have not talked to anyone else about it.

18:53 Gotcha? Okay, So this is this is definitely a very new thing for you. Wow. Any other experiences that you would want to share that have happened in your life so far that that might be related to Bigfoot? You think. I could talk about the experience my mom had if she's seen something in the fog when I. Was a baby, I mean, if you think she'd be okay with it. This was in Washington, in near Ocean City. It was like early morning and she looks out the window and then she sees these two hairy looking figures that aren't very tall, but they to her it's like, is this annoying? Pendick?

19:43 What is this? And these two strange creatures come out of the fog and they are not a bear or anything of like that, and it completely freaked her out for wanting to go in the woods for a long time because these two creatures just came out of nowhere and you could see that this is not normal, and so for her that was like, Okay, I don't think I want to talk about this with anybody. It was just too scary. Wow, do you know what year or what time period that would have happened in. That would have been at least maybe November or December of two thousand and two.

20:25 Okay, yeah, I mean Ocean City, Ocean Shores, that whole area is a really really active Bigfoot area. Yeah. I mean, you've got Grace Harbor right there, you go up No North, and you've got he mean, you go right into the Olympic Peninsula. The whole thing is just even the reports I've gotten are just crazy. It's not surprising at all that your mom would have had that experience. I actually grew up all along those areas do described, And I was in those woods as a kid growing up until we moved to Ohio when I was nine, So I know exactly what you're talking about hearing about the stories. I never saw anything myself. As a kid.

21:09 We would hear we are vocalizations at night being in the woods. It was just very strange because it's like, oh, is that an ilk? Is that a bear? But there are some noises you just can't explain, and it was very strange. I always wanted as a kid to try and find Bigfoot, and I never saw anything for myself. Until now, but Washington, for me everything bigfoot. You know, people always have their stories, so for me to experience is something like this in Ohio and I'm like, wow, this is crazy. Yeah, absolutely, Maybe going back to your Ohio sighting for a few minutes, are there any other details that you would want to share about that really made you notice what was happening or seem data place.

22:02 There was a couple of years ago, maybe at least four. It was maybe around like midnight or one in the morning. I was outside and I was sitting on the stairs, and across the street there was these I don't even know if it has anything to do with Bigfoot, but there is these very strange like floating orbs or these weird lights that were going in and out above the trees and in the sky. And it was very strange for me to see something like that because it's not something you would correlate with Bigfoot, But there was very strange things happening across the street with these weird lights at night. And then I would occasionally see stuff over there and I'm wondering, oh, this is really strange. And so there were times where I wasn't I was just looking across the street and wondering if there was something else going on over there that I'm not understanding.

22:57 How close was that to where you sighting was right there? Actually? Okay? Same? Yeah, Well that is wild, very very interesting stuff and again super super recent as well. Would you want to have if you were given the choice, let's say, would you want to have another citing experience or or weird encounter like this? Again, Yes and no if something's gonna happen for me, I was aware of the sightings of a bigfoot whenever I didn't think it would happen to me. So for something to happen again, I don't want to be thinking about and like trying to trick myself being like, oh yeah, I'm going to go out and find bigfoot, because then I'll never actually be genuine something For me that if you're actually going to see a bigfoot or experience something that's out of it's paranormal. It's if it's genuine, you're going to be in such shock. You're not thinking about what other people are experiencing. It's just something that's just comes out of nowhere. So yes and no. For me, do I want to see and experience other things again, Yes, but at the same time no, because if it's going to happen, it's just going to happen.

24:23 Yeah, I agree that if it is, it is a thing. If it's going to happen, it's going to happen for sure. Well, Gigi, thank you for sharing your experience is so far. I want to make sure that you were able to share everything that you would come on the show to share tonight. Yes, I have, thank you. This has been great. Well, thank you so much, and please keep us informed if in your area of Ohio, if you experience anything else, we would love to hear about it. You can reach out to me through email and would love to get an update for But thank you, thank you very much.

25:05 All Right, Big for Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Caleb from Ohio today. Caleb contacted me about some an experience they had and out there in the well we'll say Caleb is okay to say the Dayton, Ohio area. Yeah, yeah, perfect, And a little bit of info info about Caleb that was provided. Caleb's a worker for the local park district doing maintenance and he'll he'll probably provide a little bit more info about where we're at or where we're talking about when we started up the conversation. But how are things going for you today.

25:49 Caleb, Oh, it's going good. It's going good, awesome, awesome. You know, there's a lot of a lot of talk right now about Ohio. There's a lot of bigfoot activity in Ohio over the years that has been you know, reported, and so this is actually you know, for listeners that might not have the map up over at big for Society podcast dot com. We're gonna be talking about the opposite side, so more the western side of Ohio kind of down by, not really super the southwest corner, but you know, Dayton's Dayton's close enough, I would say. But anything else that the listeners would want to know about yourself before we get going, Uh.

26:32 Yeah, I'm a in my late twenties, I'm a I'm a pretty avid outdoorsman. Turkey season's coming up, waters warming up. I can't wait to head back out fishing. Probably my love for the woods is probably how I eventually seen one, you know, I mean, if you spend enough time, you know, eventually you'll come across something. And I guess I had mine about ten years ago. M So, so this experience that we're going to be talking about happened about you're saying happened about ten years ago. Twenty sixteen. Yeah, in between my junior and senior year of high school. Fantastic. Now, let's let's get right into it then, Cale, feel free to take us back to you know, when you're that time period of your life about ten, ten years ago, what it was like back then, what you were, why you were in that area to begin with that particular park, and and yeah, then we'll have a chat about it afterwards.

27:34 All right, Well, let's see, like I said, I was seventeen years old, me and my buddy, he was a year older than me. He had just graduated around that time. It was a real big thing on in YouTube. And then you know, the fishing community to go on Google Earth, you know, and look for ponds and stuff to fish something you might have never have, you know, thought of to fish. I just happened to be scrolling one day, you know, looking through the maps and whatnot, and I saw Sycamore State Park. It's in between about Trotwood and Eaton, kind of in the middle there, close to the border of Prebble County and Montgomery County. So I had been there before and boy scouts years ago, but we only went camping one night, and you know it was nothing crazy happened then. So I picked my friend up that night and we got there. Uh, we got there about seven o'clock ish, if I had a guess, you know, back then, the sunset didn't go until nine. We parked in the big parking lot.

28:33 Uh. There was a big it looked like a wedding reception that night on top of the hill. They had a really big shelter there at Sycamore. Uh. You know, we you know, we walked by, you know, we congratulated them, and we continued on down the path, the path, uh, the stairstep going down a big hill about two three hundred dish yards from the parking lot. We set up. We you know, we put our poles in the water. You know, we weren't exactly sure what we were going to get into. We started catching bluegill, you know, little things, a little tiny crappie, no bass or anything. So we had the idea we had nothing else to do. We were both off. The next day we started cutting up some of them bluegill, and then we put them on a hook and we cast them back out because I knew they sometimes stopped catfish in this pond sometimes, And sure enough, we ended up getting one, and then a few minutes later we got another one.

29:28 So we stayed for quite a while. We ended up staying till about ten forty five. I know that park closes at eleven, so I told him, I said, well we better get out of here, you know, for a ranger kicks us out, you know. So we collected all of our stuff, you know, we had chairs, tackle, I kept two of the catfish, some of the bigger ones, and well, we didn't have anything with us light wise, flashlight wise, Like I said, we didn't really intend on staying that late. We were just gonna kind of pull around, you know, in the water, see if we can get anything to hit. And we didn't intend to do as good as we did. So the only source of light we had was he had his phone. I left my phone in the car, so he was in front of us with his flashlight on his phone and we're slowly walking back up them stairs, and the stairs are a little eerie. If anybody knows that area, it's a lot of honeysuckle, bigger honeysuckle too, So it's kind of like a like a cove, like to keep trimming it, you know, but it keeps circling into it at a trying to think of the word for it. They like round into each other. So it's kind of like a big cove of just dark honeysuckle. And you can't really see that far in the woods because how thick it is. And you know, we're not really talking, we're kind of we were both a little burly in high school. We were walking up the stairs, you know, not really saying a word, just trying to catch our breath. And we get to the top of the hill. On the top of the hill, there's a clearing, you know, and we turned, you know, we turned to the right, you know, to go into the clearing, which goes into the parking lot, into the playground area the shelter, and we both happen to notice

31:00 something to her right. Uh, there's a security light on the shelter. Yeah, probably the rangers can see if anybody homeless, people are sleeping in it or whatnot. But there's a trash can right on the edge of the light. And then you know, obviously where they're you know, where the light ended, and we could see something kind of bent over in the trash digging around. We thought it was a raccoon or whatnot. So I whistle at it and this thing stands up and the top of the trash can is only to about in between its knee and its spot or excuse me, knee and waste. And it doesn't take it only stares at us for about a second and we see it turn and as it turns, we see as something swinging. Thinking back on it, now, I'm thinking it's probably its arm, and then it just vanishes into the distance, and we're scared. You know, more of my friend than me. Uh you know, I growing up, I watched all of them shows on you know, Animal Planet, History Channel, Monster Quest all that, so I kind of, you know, I was like, oh, shoot, that was a big fit. My buddy had no idea, so he was freaking out. We're not running to our car, but we're definitely fast walking, and it was kind of like in a horror movie. Not to sound corny or anything, but you know, we're hurrying up putting stuff in the car.

32:13 You know, I pulled my keys out and drop them on the ground. Of course, I told you, it's just like a horror movie. Troupe eventually put the keys in the car and then we floor it out of there, not realizing later that my buddy had left his tackle box on the ground. He was so shook up he forgot to put it in the passenger seat. But we floor it out of there and we drive on back. It's pretty quiet drive back. You know, we're both pretty shook up. But uh, that was And like I said earlier, there was a there was a wedding reception, a bride in the groom, and all the grooms understanding around. At least I'm assuming it was a wedding. Everybody was in white dresses and tuxas. But the only thing we can think of is that it was probably dumpster diving. I know that sounds more of like what a bear or a raccoon does. But in that part of the state, you know, there's not really that many bayers wandering around.

33:02 You know. If there is one, it's a lone male, you know. But what are the odds that we ran into that and that it swung its arm around the can? You know? Yeah, absolutely, Mike, My goodness, that's that is wild. It's not the first time I've heard of, you know, a sighting of a bigfoot around garbage can or I'm thinking of the Oklahoma Casino footage sighting where there was one getting into the dumpster that had the uh it was like the grease trap dumpster. And that was that was from a while while back. But how long would you say that you had the actual sighting of of what you were looking at.

33:47 By the time we looked at it, and then you know, I whistle at it, you know, like I said, I thought it was like a raccoon, like just sitting on top. I whistle at it. It might have been less than like fifteen seconds. And you know, like a if you're like in a barn or whatever and there's a there's a light hanging off of it. The space, the dark part right past the light is really dark. So once it vanished down to the light, it was just pitch black. We had no idea, you know, how far it went, you know, but it was only about fifteen seconds of what we could see. We never heard it, you know, the grass was kind of dewy. We didn't hear it like trudging through the woods. So for all we knew, it just you know, went a few yards and just stopped and looked at us.

34:28 We had no idea, right, absolutely, so you were able to you could see that where the troup where the top of the trash can hit on its leg or. Yeah, like right against like its knee and its waist. Right, So how would you be able to estimate then how tall you would think it was? Well? There, I think that the same cans that we use in our metro parks, and those cans they come up to over your waist if you're an average size male. So if I had to guess, this one might have been seven seven and a half feet if I because I'm six foot and it comes up a little over my waist, so it's probably about seven is if it went above its knee.

35:19 Gotcha. So you already said there were no real sounds that you heard. So sometimes witnesses will will say, you know, they'll report they heard it making some kind of animal type noise, but nothing like that in this situation. No, No, the shelter from where you come up the hill, like I said, it's real grown up and brush you you can't see until you get to the very top of it. And then right on the right is like the opening where there's like a bathroom, a playground, a shelter, and if I had to guess, the shelter might have been if I had to guess forty or fifty yards away from the opening. So and it was. There was a lot of bugs out that night too. It was really wild with bugs and whatnot.

36:03 Okay, I'm looking at a map of this particular park, and I'm noticing was your situation. Was it near the equestrian camp part of the park. No, it's got quite a few areas that aren't open to hunting, and that could be for various reasons. The part of the park I was in, like I said, it's got a shelter house, a playground, a youth fishing pond. You used to have two shelters. I believe that one of them got torn down. There's a family fishing pond, which is what we were fishing at. That was some of the areas you can't hunt. I hunt down there quite a bit. Actually, Sycamore State Park is over two thousand acres and it's actually the only piece of public land in Montgomery County that you can hunt at, so it gets quite a bit of pressure. But in the hunting areas, you know, after that experience, you know, I've looked, you know, I was like, I wonder if I'll see anything, But I've never seen anything out of the ordinary, heard anything anything.

37:03 Like that. That's really interesting. I do have. On my map on big for Society podcast dot com. I have a few reports from north of Dayton, kind of near if you know where Tips City is. And I know definitely others in the in the area as well. But have you ever heard of anyone else experiencing anything else or experiencing anything like this in Sycamore? Yeah? About this might I think it was all forgive me if I don't have the It was August of I think twenty. I think it was last August, come to think of it. One of my coworkers works at another park.

37:44 She was she was scouting out the area. She's a little newer to the area. She was scouting out Sycamore and this actually was in one of the Honting areas. And like I said, it was August. It was well above ninety degrees and she was looking for a spot to maybe hang a stand along from power line they go through the park. There's quite a few power lines that go throughout Sycamore from an as. That's date used to be dating power and lights that they got bought out. But anyway, those those power lines are good. You see a lot of deer in them, a lot of turkey, a lot of game use them. She was walking about six o'clock. She was, you know, crossing one of these power lines. She looks up about two hundred yards up the hill and she sees something all black and she's like, well, that's weird. There's no trail up there. You know, it would have to be someone off trail gallabout and around.

38:36 But she said this was all black and she was like, that's kind of weird. You know, it's ninety ninety one, ninety two degrees. She said, that's kind of weird. And she said this thing lumbered, you know, just kind of it was kind of hard to tell. Like I said, she was two hundred feet away, she couldn't really see that much definition. It's kind of looked like a big black blob. But it crossed the path in front of her, and I don't know if it realized she was there, and it just you know, she said, it kind of glided across the grass back then you know the in August, the grass is really tall. It's up to about your chest, you know, in some of the prairie areas. But yeah, that's the well. Like I said, I don't really talk. I don't run into a lot of other people down there. You run into people down there, but you usually don't talk to them. You know, if you pull into an area and there's already a car, you kind of go to the opposite direction of them, you know, you don't want to mess up their hunt or anything. So, but that's the only one I've heard of down there. I know on the BFRO website, there's some reports in Lebanon, which is decently close to or New Lebanon, I mean, which is decently close to Sycamore.

39:42 Oh yeah, that's just just south of it looks like down near thirty five. Being an individual where you're working in the park system, is it pretty regular then? Do you guys get reports about people visiting the parks and having sightings of weird things or things they think could be a big foot? At least not really what I'm I'm at one of the more urban ish parks that's just happens to be the one I work at. In Dayton's and not really like it's kind of rare to see a deer in the park I work at. But I was I was curious, you know, a few months ago, I was looking at that Bigfoot Mapping Project website. Sure, and it's kind of wild.

40:24 There's quite a few around the parks around the Dayton. Area that it really makes you wonder. And I know that. You know, the further south you go down in Ohio, you get closer to that Ohio River Valley, it does get does get wilder. But man, you could really it seems like any any part of Ohio you could you could find stuff going on. But after you had that experience, and you know, you had that the sighting of going through the trash, how did that affect you after that?

41:05 Well, we didn't go like I was in high school still, So after that, me and my buddy, we didn't really go catfishing much often. After that, we didn't really go after dark unless it was like a pay lake, you know, or there's more dozens of other people like that going out hunting, and you know, in the morning, I would always kind of be a little sketchy, you know, I'd look around, I had my headlamp on full full blast, you know, looking around. But uh, it didn't really you know, I'm not like I wasn't like shaking in my boots, but I was definitely like walking in the dark. You know. My hair definitely was on was on end, you know, it was on edge. Absolutely. I totally told to get that that would be I haven't had a sighting like that, so that'd be wild, wild to see. How did they How did it affect how you thought specifically about Bigfoot? And what I mean by that is some witnesses, when they have a sighting or an experience, they will either get super freaked out and get me away from this topic, or they seem to like I got to figure out exactly what's what's going on? Did it send you down either one of those trails or something completely different?

42:15 Well I kind of felt almost kind of lucky, you know. You know, if these creatures are, you know, as rare as they say they are, you know, then you know me just happened to find one. You Like I said, I haven't seen anything since that was twenty sixteen summer at twenty sixteen, you know, but like I said, as much time as I spent out there. It was bound to happen eventually. You never know it might happen again. But uh, you know, it does make me a little more curious, you know. And the more and more you know, you look into this thing, you know it sometimes you second guess yourself. I'm like, did I really see what I saw? And then you know that controversy, I'm sure you've heard out of that recent controversy about the Patterson Gimlin film, that documentary. I'm like, well, if that wasn't real, what did I see? But then you know, you got to tell yourself, like, well, what is everybody seeing? You know, it's it's a it's you know, it's nothing that keeps me up the night, but it is insanely interesting.

43:12 I think the validity of a sixty year old film does not if it's whether it's true or it's false, doesn't take anything away from what you experienced. To be honest, right, you you saw something and you're trying to figure out what it is, and so yeah, that's that's my thoughts there. But would you ever want to have a sighting of or an experience like that? Again? Uh, I guess it kind of depends. Maybe, you know, I I listen to your show quite a bit, and you know, you hear some people talk about some aggressive ones stuff like that. I don't really want to have anything like that, you know. I Yeah, It's like if you go into the Smoky Mountains, you know, you want to see a bear, you don't really want to get attacked by one, or get charged by one or bullied out of an area. So I don't know. Maybe I guess it depends on you know, what it is, you know, what mood it's in or something like that. I wish I could get a better look of one, I guess, is what I'm trying to say. Like it was just all black to me. It was just it kind of looked like a human kind of like a shadow we think, you know, shadow person kind of thing, just because of how dark it was and how decently far away. We weren't like hundreds of feet away, but you know, we couldn't see much detail, Like I couldn't see its face.

44:39 It was just all just a black shadow to us. Yeah. Absolutely, And I think that's a good point where it's similar to how what I feel as well, is you know, just it would be nice to have like a really good clear sighting, which I'm sure everyone in the community probably thinks the same way. Beat. If you're going to see something, it'd be cool to get a really good, clear sighting of it. Do you have any thoughts about why there are so many bigfoot sightings in the state of Ohio. Could there be a reason for that that you thought of anything like that? Well, for bigfoot sightings, I think it comes down to there's just more people that live in the state. I tell my my uncle lives down in Kentucky, you know, and he's you know, Kentucky's an insanely wooded state. How you remember what the metric of it is, It's well over fifty percent. I think of Kentucky is forested versus Ohio, that's only thirty percent is give or take. But the difference is I thought this was kind of funny. Kentucky and Ohio have the same number of hunting licenses sold every year comes out to about a million. So but like I said, Kentucky's got so much more woods, so everyone's more spread out Ohio, so you don't really have that, you know, there's not that much room to spread out.

46:05 So I think it's just, you know, Ohio's God, don't quote me on this. I think it's the fourth or fifth most populous state in the United States, so there's going to be a lot of people. It's decent habitat in here, you know. I mean, bobcats are here, Black bear are starting to move back in. I think they just saw a fissure I think up in the Cleveland area, moving in from Pennsylvania. So I mean, that's stuff's there. But there's a lot of people that like going outside in Ohio, and unless you're going to like Wayne National Forest, you know you're going to run into quite a few other people that are also in the woods. So it's bound to happen eventually. You know. They can't hide forever the Sasquatch. Can, I mean, yeah, yeah. I mean you bring up a really good point, which is, you know, as a Cliff says all the time, in order to have a big foot sighting, you have to have really two things.

46:56 At least, you have to have a big foot and you have to have someone to actually see the bigfoot. And so your point is extremely valid. Where there's a ton of people in that state, and I think why something like, you know, you had all those sightings up in the northeast at the beginning of March, Glenn Glenn Adkins was saying that, you know, the weather was so nice, so you had all these people out in a time frame of year that they would normally not be out, and so that that probably would explain how you had all these sightings when they were moving through the area. So I think that's the that's the best explanation i've heard that situation.

47:40 You look at some of our counties populations like, God, Columbus has a million and a half people in it, really, but then you go to like counties like I can't remember the county in Maine that a Kadie is in, but you know there could be a Sasquatch up there that lives a whole life and I never run into a person. That's great. Help you people. The population density of Maine is insane, but it's ninety percent forested, so that's true. That's true. Kind of places the slink around versus Ohio. You know there might be like Cuyahoga Valley National Park up in Cleveland. I know there's been a lot of sightings up there, But you're in between Cleveland and Akron, which both are a giant metropolitan area. People are going to see them up there a lot more.

48:23 I would say that, Yeah, you're absolutely right there, that place is still pretty active. I would say it's a if I was in that area, I'd be checking it out. I'll say that. But it's such is it interesting to hear? And I think this is because of all the those reports that I've been talking to a lot of people from Ohio lately. It's interesting to hear how different parts of the state are. But you know, I just want to say, you know, Caleb, thank you so much for coming on sharing what you experienced out there near I know you've got a lot of weird stuff out there. You know, you not only have bigfoot, but I think I've heard you have dog man sightings, all sorts of weirdness.

49:09 So in Germantown, He's always asked something you've heard about out there as well? Yeah, Germantown where Wolf I've heard some stories down there, my goodness from our to get too deep into, but some of our rangers, you know, they've they've said, you know, people have seen you know, people's dogs are leased down there, you know, big old black German shepherds. And I'm like, I don't know. Wow, Okay, so there you go. That might be well, not to get too far deep into it, but it might be a thing. But that might be a thread for some dog man enthusiasts to uh to check out.

49:49 Who knows. I know, I don't really get into the subject, but if it comes up, it comes up. But cale, thank you so much for coming on. I want to make sure that you were able to share all the things you wanted to share about your experience back ten years ago. Yeah, there was something that's kind of small, those small potatoes at this point now. But after I told my dad about it. You know, Dad was always kind of a skeptic. He was one of the first people I told. He was actually my scout master for Boy Scouts and whatnot. This I think his he never really believed me until the summer. I think it was September of twenty I think it was believe it was twenty eighteen. I was out of boy Scouts. You know, you age out when you're eighteen. You can't go anymore. But he went with a group of boys. Him and the assistant scout master went with about a group of eight boys. They went down to Germantown Metro Park, actually Germantown, the whole Twin Valley area. It's like if you connect all the private woodlots and the conservation areas, not just the parks, it comes to like four thousand acre or something like that in southern Montgomery County. But anyway, they were camping one night and the boys wanted to go on to night hikes, so you know that, you know, Dad said, you know whatever, go on ahead. And the boys were walking around, you know, and they said, we're gonna look for Bigfoot, you know, and Dad's like, all right, you know what. I guess they were watching fighting Bigfoot or whatever at the time.

51:12 So the dad, my dad and the other scout master stayed behind. You know. It was just a it was just a circle loop. You know. The boys couldn't get lost as long as they stayed on the trail. But the other scout master said, he said, I got an idea. He said, let's follow behind him a few hundred feet, you know, and let's let's try to prank them, you know. So my dad, you know, they're walking in and the boys they're you know, they're hitting you know, they're hitting sticks against the tree. You know, and then they're they're pausing listening, just like they did in the show. They're walking a few, you know, another few hundred yards, and then one of them like whoops or whatever, and they stop them listen. They do it one time, and my dad and the scout master wait a few seconds and my dad hits a tree. You know, they hit a tree once and I think it was once.

51:55 He said, just bump, and you could hear the boys kind of like they're whispering, but they're excited. And then they're walking a little bit and uh, they said. The boys stop and they're about to hit a tree again, and my dad said him and the assistant scout master right behind him heard two knocks. It was like punk pump, and my dad looked at him. He said, he said, did any of the boys stay behind him? The scout master said no, he said, I think they're all up there. So they, you know, my dad and the scout master they turn around where they're at and they try to go back to camp see if any of the boys, you know, were trying to prank them, and they get back and nobody was there. So they're like that was you know, that was really weird because in that camping area there weren't any houses nearby. You know, there shouldn't be anybody in the park because the park closes the ten So my dad that kind of made my dad start wondering, you know. He was like, was that just a big foot? You know where the was bigfoot following us and the boys?

52:51 Oh my goodness, dude, Wow, that's wild wild. Yeah, I said, man, I said, I was a year I think I was nineteen. I was a year out. Like I said, you age out when you're eighteen. You're not allowed to be in it anymore. But I was like, all the times about to happen. It's when you know, I don't. I went on every camping trip, and it just happened to be the one I didn't go to. That That story really makes you, really makes you wonder. I'm I'm I wouldn't put it out of the question at all. But yeah, the boys didn't hear it, he said. The boys didn't hear Like I said, they were about one hundred and two hundred yards in front of them, and if they had to guess, the knock was about one hundred ish yards behind them on the trail in the area where they kind of just came. So the boys didn't even really know it, you know, and they when they got back to camp. You know, my dad was like, do you guys hear anything? And they were like, no, what are you talking about? You know, the boys had no idea my dad and this the assistants Cupmaster and even left, so they were even more like my dad was trying to rationalize it, but I don't think he to this day.

53:50 Can Oh man, Well that's what you get for trying to prank the kids, I guess. So, yeah, it was funny. He was. He didn't even have a tent that night. He was just in a hammock and look at me or something. I don't know if I would ever, you know, going off of all the accounts I've heard of people in hammocks and what can happen, I don't know if I would ever be in a hammock in a bigfoot area, just because, like, my goodness, you hear some stuff where they start messing with you and tap on you pretty large. So that fire was really huge. They made that bonfire huge that night.

54:30 Oh I don't doubt it. Oh my goodness, Caleb wild stuff, Thank you so much for coming on and you know, sharing some accounts from the Dayton area. And if anyone else out there has heard anything about this area with bigfoot activity, feel please feel free to reach out. You can email me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. But thank you so much for coming on the show today, Caleb. It's been a pleasure to have you on. Yeh, ain't no problem. Thank you. Have you ever heard all the accounts of bigfoot activity around Oakridge, Oregon and you think to yourself, Man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it for myself. Well, guess what this year you can.

55:11 If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summer Fest is coming up July tenth through the eleventh, twenty twenty six. It's going to be even better than the previous year's reason number one, I'll be one of the speakers. It's gonna be wild. I'll probably I'll say this. There may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere else, because let's just say sometimes it's well, you just got to be there. We'll leave at that. More about looking for Bigfoot in the Oakridge Woods. Now check this out. You may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary series Searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year you can not only go to the festival, but you can also sign up for a track deep in the wild forest outside of Oakridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot Spots to look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign up for this, and yes, this will also be filmed for the next chapter in his documentary series, which is Searching for Sasquatch. This is a once in a lifetime deal.

56:26 It's just trust it's going to be a wild, wild experience. To get a ticket, head on over to Sasquatch Summerfest dot com and listeners can use the code b sp like Bigfoot Society podcast in order to get a two day pass for the price of a one day pass. So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys can can get a little a little help with the costs there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see you at the booth in Oakridge this year we can talk about your encounter. Was able to talk to so many people last year and the year before.

57:12 It is an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it, and I'll see you there. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, or if you're a National park ranger or forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, or if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're with the FBI a federal agency, or working intelligence and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about. And if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue responder who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense. If you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field, or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something happen that you've never told a soul. And if you're a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to report. If you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a spiritual retreat and you saw something that shook your faith, or if you work in the shadows CIA NSA or anything with clearance. And you've seen what the public hasn't, then I want to talk to you, even if it's anonymous. You can reach me at Bigfoot Society at gmail dot com. The world needs to hear what you've been forced to carry alone, and you're not alone.

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