March 10, 2026

Northeast Ohio Bigfoot Sighting Flap: SPECIAL REPORT

Northeast Ohio Bigfoot Sighting Flap: SPECIAL REPORT
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Join Jeremiah Byron of the Bigfoot Society Podcast for a special urgent report regarding a rapid series of Sasquatch sightings in Northeast Ohio. Since March 6, 2026, a "flap" of activity has emerged, moving from Mantua Center eastward through Garrettsville, Windham, and Newton Township.

In this episode, we break down six primary sighting reports, including:

  • The Researcher's Encounter: A nine-foot brown male Sasquatch spotted in broad daylight by an MTCR researcher.
  • The Headwaters Trail Incident: A harrowing account from Garrettsville where witnesses observed an 8-to-10-foot figure with a "stilts-like" gait and a powerful musky odor.
  • The Skeptic's Story: A first-hand report from a homeowner in Windham who witnessed a six-foot figure with a massive stride running across her neighbor’s property.
  • The Newton Township Shadow: A very recent 4:00 AM encounter involving a terrified German Shepherd and a large, black shadowy figure estimated at 10 feet tall.
Jeremiah discusses the specific patterns of these sightings, which appear to be moving east-southeast at a rate of approximately three miles per day. We also touch on the "Bigfoot Society" partnership with local researchers to verify these claims on the ground within hours of their occurrence.

Important Note for Researchers: We urge everyone to remain cautious and avoid "overlapping evidence reports" by refraining from excessive call-blasting or tree-knocking in the active areas.

Have you seen something? If you have had a sighting in Portage County, Trumbull County, or the surrounding areas, please contact bigfootsociety@gmail.com.
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The following is a special report as it happens about

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the current Northeast Ohio bigfoot sighting flap. My name is

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Jeremi Biron from the Big Fort Society podcast. So this

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all happened starting March sixth, twenty twenty sixth. I found

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a siting report on the Bigfoot mapping project and started

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making videos about it on the Bigfoot Society social media.

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There's been six bigfoot sighting reports and it's getting to

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the point where there's a lot coming in and a

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lot of it could be troll accounts, but I'm starting

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to talk to people on the phone to be able

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to verify what's going on. It started in an area

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called Manawa, Ohio, and it started to move west to east.

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We'll talk about this more as as we go through it.

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So starts out in Manawa Center. Friday, March sixth, around

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twelve twelve, twenty three pm, a researcher from an organization

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called MTCR spotted a nine foot brown male sasquatching broad daylight.

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Subject was stationary then retreated at high speed. The report

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on the Bigfoot mapping project was I run MTCR, a

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cryptive research organization. I saw a bigfoot and was looking

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for somewhere to report it besides my own organization. I

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was hiking when I saw a large bipedal cryptid or

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bigfoot standing about one hundred and twenty yards for me,

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and it started moving away. It knew I was there,

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and it left fast, and I left just as fast.

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So that is the specific report that was on the

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Bigfoot mapping project there. We then go to the same

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town area, Manawa Center Saturday, March seventh, ten fifty two pm.

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Site was by an individual who wants to be credited

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as Dylan. Obney was an eight foot brown figure, heard

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heavy footsteps, a deep vibrating grunt, and the forest got quiet.

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Dylan contacted me through TikTok on the Bigfoot Society account.

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Here's his report. I was walking along a trail near

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the edge of the woods when I started hearing heavy

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footsteps deeper in the trees. At first, I thought it

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was a deer, maybe someone else hiking, but the steps

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were slow, spaced out, much heavier than anything I've ever

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heard out there before. A Few minutes later, I noticed

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movement about forty to fifty yards away. Something tall stepped

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between two trees that looked easily seven to eight feet tall,

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covered in dark brown hair, with long arms that hung

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low bite sides. It moved upright and slowly turned its

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head toward the trail, like it knew I was there.

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The craziest part was the sound. It made, a deep

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grunt that echoed through the woods before it stepped back

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behind the trees and disappeared. After that, everything became completely quiet.

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When I walked over to where I had been standing,

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I found several large footprints pressed into the muddy ground

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that looked way bigger than any normal boot. I'm not

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saying one hundred percent what it was, but wherever whatever

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I saw definitely wasn't a person, definitely wasn't a deer.

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If anyone else in the Manawat area saw or heard

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anything strange yesterday evening, I'd be curious to know. Please

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credit Dylan Obney if this story is shared or reposted anywhere.

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This happened March seventh, ten fifty two pm. Okay, so

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there's Dylan. So we've gone through March sixth March seventh.

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Now we move east to Garrettsville. We start to get

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reports from March ninth, and this is where things get

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really intense and I start. So the first one is

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ten twenty am and this is from a It was

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reported on the big Foot Mapping Project. I don't believe

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that report is there currently, but I was able to

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get the information here so pretty quick when I saw

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on a foot sasquatch looking creature and I got scared

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ran away. He had a lot of fur. Report is

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having thick black fur. I did get another report. This

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happened at eleven forty seven March ninth, and this is

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an individual I was actually able to talk to on

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the phone. He's going to remain It was two individuals.

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I had the sighting, anonymous individual, an individual named Jacob Taylor.

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I talked to the anonymous individual. So I'm going to

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go ahead and read what anonymous had provided me. My

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name is to keep it anonymous. I want to report something

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unusual that my friend and I experienced while hiking there Garrettsville,

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Ohio earlier today at approximately eleven forty seven am, my

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friend Jacob Tyler, who said he would like to go

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on record, and I were hiking along a wooded trail

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when we notice movement coming from the tree line ahead

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of us about twenty five to thirty feet away, we

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observed what appeared to be a very large, upright figure

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stepping partially out from the trees. The figure was completely

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covered in black hair and looked to be roughly eight

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to ten feet tall. It stood there for several seconds

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while we watched. The shoulders appeared extremely broad, and the

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arms were unusually long, hanging well below where a normal

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persons would. When it took a step forward, we could

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clearly see that was walking upright on two legs. The

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ground shook slightly as it moved, and we also noticed

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a strong musky smell in the air. After a few seconds,

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the creature seemed to notice it. It turned its head

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toward us, let out a deep, crunt like noise, and

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then quickly stepped back into the trees. We could hear

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heavy footsteps moving away through the brush for several moments afterwards.

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We were both pretty shaken up and didn't approach the

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area any closer. We didn't manage to get a photo

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because it happened so quick. Jacob Taylor said, who was

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willing to be listed as a witness, I would like

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to be anonymous if you're documenting sightings. If you needed

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any additional details about the location, or what we saw,

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feel free to reach out, I called. So I then

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called the anonymous witness as I had his contact info.

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We talked over the phone. This witness to me seemed

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to be legitimate and was extremely shook up. But what

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had just happened an hour or so earlier. Some additional

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details that the anonymous witness was able to provide to

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me was he said that it was only able to

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turn his neck by turning his shoulders and not just

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its neck, which I found extremely interesting. And the anonymous

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witness said it had a weird way of moving like

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it was on stilts, like you see an individual that's

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on stilts and it's moving around in a certain way.

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He said that the encounter lasted for ten to fifteen

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seconds duration, and it happened specifically while hiking Headwaters Trail

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north of Hanky Road in Garrettsville, Okay. So that takes

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us to midday March ninth. I then got a contact

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from another individual same day, about an hour after it happened.

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On This happened in Wyndham, Ohio, six pm Ohio time,

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and a few things to go over here. So there

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was an older individual female that was in her house

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looking out the living room window, saw something run out

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of the woods on the neighbor's property. Six feet tall,

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tall figure all brown, stride was very long. Its happened

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at six seconds worth and it was about one hundred

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feet away. This individual got a side view of the

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big foot running the whole time. I was able to

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actually talk to this individual and her daughter and a

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very very interesting conversation over the phone. In fact, the

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witness themselves was a skeptic and told me that her

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quote was I know what I saw, but I don't

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know what I saw, which I thought was fascinating. They

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are going to be listeners that are like, you're in Iowa.

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This is all happening in northeast Ohio. Are you having

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people check up on this for you? And yes, I

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am partnering with a local researcher. I'm providing phone numbers.

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If the witness is okay with it, This researcher is

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being able to go to to places to check it

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out hours after it happened. We are not going to

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say the name of the researcher because, to be quite honest,

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I don't want the researcher being bugged. We need this

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researcher to be able to just do what the researcher

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needs to do. This researcher has help. Multiple individuals are

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helping as well, and you'll be hearing from this researcher

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on the show in the future. But to be quite honest,

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there hasn't been a group of siting in an area

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like this since I would say the nineteen seventies. Let's continue.

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So that being said, since I'm getting a lot of

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the information, I'm trying to take this as serious as

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I can to make sure that stuff is documented and

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the information gets out there. Let's continue. Today is time

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of recording is March tenth, twenty twenty six. I woke

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up to a few emails, as you can imagine, and

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again I'm talking to people over the phone to confirm things,

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as a lot of them have turned out to be

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not legitimate. Now, the one gentleman I was able to

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talk to today interesting gentleman as in he is extremely shook up.

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He's very very emotional about what happened to him in

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the town of Newton Township. So this individual reached out

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to me through email. He had taken his dog out

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at four am this morning. German shepherd. When the door

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was opened, the German shepherd freaked out and it just

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lunched towards the woodline. The witness reports that there was

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something a large black shadow you figure out in the woodline.

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Something was crashing around. He does have bear on his property,

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so he knows the size of bear, and he says

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what he saw, he would estimate the size of it

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to be much much taller. Probably he would estimate around

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eight to ten feet tall. Let me read through my

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notes for this one. He finally was able to get

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his dog inside and the dog was shaking, which is

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not unlike the dog does not do that as a

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German shepherd, and so you know, if you know German

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shepherds that they're not really are not like that. So

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the individual is so shuck up. He wasn't even able

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to go to the back of his yard to the

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woodline to see if there are tracks or anything it out.

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He's like, I'm not going out there. So I was like, hey,

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maybe when it's later today, after you know work or

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your errands, you can go out there. If you go

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out there, please contact and let us know if there

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are any footprints. I'm getting the researcher I'm working with

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connected to this individual, but guys, this is really wild.

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I've been making maps of how this seems to be

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playing out, and if you look at the maps that

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I'm making, you can find these on the big for

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Society social media. So it starts in Manawea Center, goes

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east to Garrettsville, starts to go southeast a little bit

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to Windham, and then southeast again to Newton Township area.

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I have the site on the map, the siting map

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I have at Bigfoot Society podcast dot com. Some of

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these are on a Bigfoot mapping project, but not all

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of them. Some of them are ones I've gotten specifically.

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So the sightings are starting to move roughly east southeast

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at approximately three miles a day. So if you're in

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that area, please be aware if you do have a sighting,

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if you see something, or you experience something, or you

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know someone that has had a sighting, please have them

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reach out or reach out to me at Bigfoot Society

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at gmail dot com. If you are a Bigfoot researcher

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and I've started to see things where people are like

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we're headed out, Please don't start stepping on each other's toes.

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The last thing we need is we need a ton

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of people. I don't need a ton of people out

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in the woods making noises, call blasting, hitting trees, because

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potentially what that could do is you're going to have

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all these groups where they're going to be out in

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the woods and they're going to hear each other doing

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these things, and then there's going to be all these

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false reports. So what I might recommend is observing certain areas,

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looking at maps, seeing the wooded areas around and getting

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out there and observing and see if there can be

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any evidence or you hear any vocalizations. You guys know

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what to do, but just be aware there's going to

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be potentially people coming into this area and we don't

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want overlapping evidence reports. That's not a good thing. I

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will try to keep you guys up to date with

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what comes next for this. The best way to keep

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up to date is to follow the big Foot Society

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social media accounts. Really, the best way is if you

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go over to Facebook, the Facebook page for a Bigfoot Society.

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I'm doing maps, and I'm doing updates, and I'm doing

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videos about all the reports that I'm able to actually

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follow up with and and get information and try and

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again trying to take this very seriously, so if you

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do again at the end here, if you have had

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a big foot sighting in the Portage County, Trumbull County,

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or surrounding counties of Ohio in the last few days

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or today, please reach out to me as soon as

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you can Bigfoot Society gmail dot com and trying to

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get back in touch with people as quickly as I can.

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Thank you again guys for listening and this is very exciting.

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We'll see where it leads.