Snarling Bigfoot Blocks Road in West Virginia!

0:00 You're listening to Big for Society, and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways. The stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. To settle in, because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us, all right, Big for Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Rusty today. Rusty is an individual who listens to the show, and also he is a big foot enthusiast ever since he's had his encounter out there in West Virginia, and he's going to tell us all about what happened that day. But welcome to the show, Rusty. How are you doing today, sir?

0:53 Thank you. I'm doing very good. Absolutely. You know, West Virginia is such a wild state. There's a lot of activity that goes on out there regarding the subject. But I would say, you know, feel free to take us back to you know that day when you have that sighting. All right, Well, it was July seven, two thousand and seven. It had just turned right after that. It was twelve o six a in. And I was traveling Alleghany Mountain. It's east bound in that way. And I was clipping along pretty good and I come around to turn and there's something's walking up the middle of the yellow line, and I really couldn't make it out to start with it. Well, the faster out, you know, I was making a pretty good clip, and I come up on it real fast and had slid a couple of times to get stopped. And about twenty feet from that thing, I realized what it was. And it was huge.

2:03 It was probably at least eight ten foot tall, six at least six feet across the shoulders, and the face didn't have no hair on it, but it had great big yellow eyes shining, and they was white apart. And this thing had a pushed up nose with nostrils flared, and it was more a blacker than anything that I've ever seen. And like I said, no hair on his face, great big, wide, tight lip mouth, and its head set right down on its shoulders it had brown fur. Couldn't see no ears, I guess for the fur, but it had fingernails. I didn't notice that. And the hair hung down underneath its mass of arms, about six to eight inches long. And the chest hair looked completely different from.

2:56 The rest of the hair. It was like wooly and I don't know, greenish, maybe from where he had been eating and not cleaning up. And it had like an ivy vine that went from the right shoulder down to the left hip. I don't know how he had it attached, but I was real close to it and really was trying to pay different attention to the other features. And the chest was massive, you could see the muscle of bulging, and it had it had arms like tree trunks. I mean, it could like pick up too deer underneath its arms and walk off with no trouble whatsoever. And the legs was humongous, great big feet. And it stood there for a good little bit and we checked each other out. Now how it seen me, I don't know. Maybe by the globe of my dish lights because they're nocturnal. And directly this was at White's Run right before you get there, coming eastbound, and there's a big wide spot there, and I let my lights follow it's all as it went over the embankment.

4:07 And as it went over the embankment, I noticed its feet how big they was, and hair puffed up around its feet, like hair was longer than its feet. Maybe that's why they don't leave no tracks. But you could see it go down over, and when it went down over, it gave me a sideway snarl. And it had horse horse like teeth, but it did have dog teeth. And he was a little on the yellow side. And that's that's the last I've seen of him. But seeing something coming around to turn like that and you think you're going to run over somebody or something, it gives you a drop gut filling and your legs go.

4:53 And I mean just a nimble as can be. We checked each other out, and that thing never took its out off me, even as it walked off, like it could see me. And that's about It had brown wrinkly skin on his space crew, his eyes, forehead wrinkles, just like we got no no facial air. It had a big mug like an eight. And this thing was massive. It had to weigh eight hundred one thousand pounds and that's probably a little on the light side. I slid right up to it. I slid sideways one way, let off, and slid right up to it, about twenty feet away. And it was so close that I had to turn my high beams down on low beams to get a better focus.

5:48 So how did you feel when so you slam on the brakes, you're finally able to stop your car, your vehicle about you said, twenty feet away? What emotions were you feeling when okay, your car stopped. You're looking at it. It's right there in front of you. For a few seconds, I thought I was in a movie or something. My stomach hit the floor, my legs went nimble. I had I had a piece I could I could have been the right between the eyes. But you don't do that kind of stuff when you got a live animal and you don't want to, you know, you don't want to prove that it's a live animal by shooting it. But if it had been a few more seconds, it had probably been bigfoot burger.

6:35 That could have ended up pretty bad for the both of you. What were you driving again at that time? I had I had a little red Ranger for four wheel drive, pickup truck. Okay, yeah, I was coming along here a pretty good cliff. And if you're ever buy there, it's a we'ro out thirty three and it's a white run. It turned off the it turned off to the right the way I was going. If you're going west, it turns off to the left and it never left no tracks down over the hill. Is this by Seneca Rocks. Yes, it's very close to Centical Rocks. The closest town you would be coming that way would be one Go and there's not much there, just a few houses.

7:28 Okay, so you're out in the sticks and it looks like I'm looking at a top of graphic. Were you also having to go over mountains on that road as well at the same time? Oh? Yes, yes, there's Rich Mountain, there's Middle Mountain, and then there's Allegany Mountain. There's like three different mountain ranges, and and Dolly Sods is on the Petersburg side oversee that way, and then you got Spruce Snob Lake on the right side of it. And there's many, many, many miles that people was probably never been. It's so rough a territory they could get where they wanted to go.

8:12 But you couldn't. Absolutely, So you're in a remote area. You're also the exact time you said is twelve oh six am, So this is middle of the night. It's it's dead at night. I mean it was. If you look up July seven, two thousand and seven, it'll tell you the weather. It was crystal clear. Sometimes there's patches of fog to there, but I mean it was just crystal clear as can be. You could see the red tint in his arms underneath the thir that hung down six eight inches long. How was it that you were that you're able to remember the exact time that you had this sighting.

8:57 I had just happened to look at my clock on. Dash, gotcha. So it just burned it right into your memory. Yeah? Absolutely? Oh yeah, yeah, this is burning. It's burning. It's like a picture. I wish i'd have had a camera. I didn't have a cell phone or nothing. I didn't. I do carry a piece with me, But you, like I said, you can't. You can't shoot something like that, not just to prove it lives. Right, I'm gonna take one of them first. Now, I want to make sure that I heard a few things right in your description. So you saying it was a yellow eye shine or the color of the eyes, or was it a glowing eyes or.

9:45 The eyes were bright yellow like hoodowls. I mean they shine like rood signs. White apart just saying had a head size of bushel basket. Oh man, so bushel basket. It was mass. It was mass. Yeah, I'd say two and a half three foot around, Like I said, the shoulders for six at least six foot. You could see the muscles. Bulging up underneath its fur, her hair, or whatever you want to call it. Did you get any any ideas as if you were looking at a male or a female of the species.

10:27 It's a male. It was a male. Species, gotcha. You also mentioned, and I've never heard this detail ever in any of my interviews anyways, So there wasn't, you said, an ivy vine that ran from its shoulder to its hip. It's right shoulder, come off for around it's right shoulder down to its left hip. I don't know how it was attached or what it was for or if he was the leader. I knew it was a big one. It was huge. It took up three foot on each side of that yellow line. So it was at least six foot wide at the shoulders, and it was just massive. Its arms was longer than its knees, and it was walking right straight up the middle of the road. Wasn't worried about a thing until I started scratching at tires and rolled up on it, and then it just happened to look up.

11:30 That's when I've seen them big old eyes shining you. You have a very interesting sighting here because a lot of people are able to see it walk from left to right, but you're actually able to see it walking up the middle of the road towards you and walk off. That's true. That's true. So you did have the walk off as well, But that that walked towards you on the yellow line, were you able to know anything about the way that it was stepping or moving towards you? Like the gate of. It, it had its head down. I didn't notice that until the tire started sliding.

12:14 That's when it looked up. Did it seem to walk the same way that a human would walk or was it? Oh? Yes, it was my feetle will was all get. Out, got it. And let's say if you were able to see tracks of the way that it was moving, how would you describe those tracks, like how would they be placed either in a line or by each side by side or by side. They wouldn't come. They wasn't going like a fox travels like in a line. These things here was. I mean, I even seen air puff up then as it was walking up. But it was taken pretty good strides and it was just walking I'd say at least six foot strides.

13:07 I got good detail. I know why I paid attention as I was sliding toward it, because I thought, oh, no, here we go. Did you have or did you do you happen to notice when it when you slid towards it, and then it went from looking down on the ground to looking towards you. Did it have any like reaction emotion to seeing what was coming towards it? No? No, it just looked up and its eyes was bright yellow. And then that's when I noticed the news. It was fluttered and fooshed up like a gorilla, and it had a real wide, tight lip mouth, sort of a mug. No hair, didn't have hardly no hair around the space. Maybe some eyebrows, but other than that, it didn't have no facial hair around its mouth. Lips started underneath its chin and went down and the chest hair was completely different than the rest of it.

14:16 That's right, because you were saying there was it was a different color. But also the hair looked different, right. It was, yeah, like woven, sort of like we got straight hair on our legs and color hair on her chest. That's the way that I could put it. Absolutely, As you'd mentioned that, there was a time when you did actually get to see its teeth, and you describe them as dog teeth. Could you share a little bit about what you mean by dog teeth. Yeah, it had canines the rest of the teeth. It gave me a sideway snarl as it went down over the hill. I don't know if it's because I followed it off the road or it was mad, or it was a gesture, but it gave me. And it had a big, wide mouth, so it had flat tea just looked like a horse would have big yellow, square teeth.

15:15 And then all to the side it had them dog teeth uppers and lowers and they was pretty good size. Okay, so a row of horse like teeth, but also some canines as well, And you're saying more than one on either side. Yes, it had. It had canines, well, at least on the one side. I didn't see the other side. It's got canines like we got. What would you estimate the length of those canines to be? Wow, I couldn't even cook. Maybe two inches. Wow. It had huge It had huge teeth.

15:59 There's a lot of details in your citing that I have just I've never run across. It is really really interesting. Have you ever heard of any other encounters happening in that area where you had yours? Oh? Yes, yes, I've heard the counters in before. As a matter of fact, I rode back with my buddy a couple of weeks later. We rode out that road and it comes out over in Whitmer and Joe and he said, him and his buddy was camping and they was eighteen foot tracks. And he got out and measured them and they was six foot heeled of toe. And he said he knew drake in what it was.

16:40 And I got a. Friend that he swears up and down that he could tell you his stories about three of them. And one of them wasn't very far from where I lived. Is it pretty common for people in this area to actually get visual sightings like you were able to get that day. And nobody he's ever got a sighting like I have not to my knowledge. If they did, they they haven't talked about it. Would you ever want to see what you saw that night? Again? Oh? Yes, most definitely with a camera.

17:20 And why would that? I mean I had, I had, I had enough time to make a movie that thanks to Dursius Long. How many how many minutes do you think you had of actually looking at it before it walked off on you all? At least four or five? He just stood there, Like I said, I had high beams on for a little bit and then I turned them down and I had my windows down. It was a nice, one clear night. I made a few whoops, crewed like a rooster. I made a few crew calls, and. It just see. And then I even asked so while I was standing in the middle of the road, but there was no response.

18:05 Okay, R see. So that's very interesting. So while it's in front of you in the road, you are starting to make a different calls at it. So when you're doing the calls, it's not responding in any way. No response, just checking me out. Had its size bled right on mine. That's almost a little bit unsettling. I mean it's it's not even budgeting mentally, it's just like, what is this well, I mean, if you're in a vehicle, it's probably if it's not used to vehicles, it's it's probably pretty confused as to what's going on. But that's kind of me just thinking there. And then also you started talking or yelling to it correct right right.

18:53 I was because I've heard people in Gillie suits and if somebody would let you slide up that close in the guilty suit, they would have had pretty dumpy pants. You could tell now the eyes the way how far parked eyes was big, yill I mean they was. Big as silver dollars or bigger. And this nose is real wide, pooshed up flar nose wide wide mouth Flaire crossed it smug. It was just Stapel like, there's no way you could reproduce that.

19:34 Here's a really this is a really specific question. But you did. Yeah, you had a definite few minutes. So we'll just go to a shot. So so picture the face and then picture the nose, and you've got the the underneath of the nose, and then if you keep going down, eventually you're going to get to the top of the upper lip. How much space is between those two things? Approximately? No, it had its lips was tightly sealed. Okay, so that the lips are tightly sealed, but is there a lot of so let's let's imagine like a a guy has a mustache, right, and then he shaves his mustache off, So that area of skin where the mustache was, and it's kind of got like a little it's called the fil trum. How how long is that area just above the upper lip?

20:34 Not very long? Okay, not very long. I'd say no more than three eighths of an inch or something. It was tightly lipped and the real wide I don't know if it was cause it was mad, or I caught it off guard or what it was, but it had a tight lip mouth. What shape would you describe the actual head as being. Well, a lot of people say they're conical, But unless it was on the backside of its head where I couldn't see, I didn't see a whole great, big, conical head. It was more like bigg and round and huge.

21:17 Bigging round and huge. Absolutely, Now this is really interesting. And it had a hair enough to cover its ears because I look for him. I want to get back to the vine. That was a crust pretty much across its chest right right, How wide across? Is this like a vine where it might have been woven with other vines or was it a thick vine? Very thin? Do you remember any DJs? Just just looked like one ivy vine like you'd pull piece of ivy off of a barn. And it was attached from its right shoulder around to its left hip, and it didn't slip off, move or nothing when it walked.

22:04 Off, and nothing attached to that ivy that you were able to see. Nothing. No, I don't know how it was attached, but it didn't. It didn't move off of where it was placed. Or just say it a different way. It didn't have anything hanging from the ivy that you could see. No, No, it was tightly fixed. How would you describe how big its hands were. About four times out size? Yeah, that's that's that's it. Hit. It had huge, It had huge hands. It was five fingers or it was four fingers and a thumb. Okay, I never got to see no toes hair was longer on its feet and that's why that that's I guess that's why it puffed up as it walked off or was walking toward me.

23:02 Besides the vine, did it have anything else that was on its person that was covering things or you're really just looking at a huge something that is covered in hair or fur. It was just covered in hair and fur. And the vine wasn't super size of any kind. Just looked like a piece of ivy that you pulled off of a barn. This is awesome. It was massive. Yeah, this thing's just was massive. I mean even around its hips and legs was massive. I mean it's just like your stomach dropped to your feet and your legs wielded.

23:53 Well, that was the reaction that you had when you saw that we were looking at. Yes, indeed, after I got stopped from all the. Adrenaline, because you know, you can't ever tell somebody just might be walking up the road for attention. But there was no place light or nothing until I got up close enough to notice that day was something walking up the middle of the road. Did it as you saw it walking away? Did it have a tail at all? No? No tail? Gotcha big old butt? Yep? Right, Well, I mean that's what people say, and it needs that in order to be able to pretty much move and need those muscles. So that makes total sense to hear that.

24:42 It didn't hang on to any cheat, mim or nothing as it walked down. And now the state has got a wide spot there where they done blue gravel and stuff, and they still was no tracks. It never hung on anything. It just walked right down over And as soon as it started down over, it turned around and it kept its eyes on me as it turned around and gave me a sideway snarl and walked down over. I had a flashlight, but I wasn't about to go after I had a piece with me. But I don't think it would have stopped it.

25:23 No, especially the way you're you're describing it. I mean, I think you're you're right on there. So after you know, it walks and it disappears into the woods, walks away. So then what happens after that? How do you or what happens after that? I sat there and collected my thoughts for about five minutes. Well, I let my lights follow it off the road in that wide spot, and I'm sure there's a creek that runs in to white run down through the off the mountain and I'm sure that it walked down over and stooped over, so I couldn't see it because it was way taller than that bank would have been.

26:13 How long was it before you told someone what had happened? After this? It took me about an hour to get to Petersburg and I called my dad and we talked for about four or five hours that night about it, because. He was supposed to have went with me. It was a couple of truck drivers said that they went over through there that night and seen one or maybe two. But they wouldn't talk about it. Oh wow, other people thinking they're crazy. You know, of course there are some crazy people over that there for it. So to make sure I heard that right. So you're saying there are other people that also had sightings in the same area on the same night.

26:58 Yeah, they was. The lady on be A f r Oh said that her and her daughter was going fishing and camping that night, said, but after their encounter, they didn't go camping, but they went fishing that night. That should be on b A f r Oh. I put mine on b A f r oh and they didn't didn't write it up. Okay, that's interesting. So there's a there's a b fro O report from the same time period, same day or same pretty close evening. Ye should be a few last seven thousand and seven.

27:39 That's awesome. I don't know what they've seen it. So you talked to your father for multiple hours. How did he react to you when you shared what you experienced and what you saw that night? Well, he sort of couldn't believe it, but he did believe, you know. He just we stood and he went with me. Gotcha. I was just so excited that I just told the story over and over and over again. You know, they asked me details like you did. So I've already told him when.

28:22 You would never think in a million years it's something walking up the middle of the road like that. We've got porcupines here, I've never. Seen one, gotcha. And then to see something as as rare as this, even rareer than than a porcupine, is pretty incredible. Way right after so individuals, after they have sightings, it seems like they react in very different ways. Some people have to deal with traumatic flashbacks PTSD. Some people get entirely into the subject and they just go after and they're like, I got to read everything, watch everything. Do you feel like it affected you in any of those ways or maybe something completely different?

29:13 Oh? Oh yeah. I don't go out hunting in the night, no more. I don't go coon hunting. If I go peaching at along the river, I carry a pretty good sized piece with me and I don't do I ain't gonna let something like it catch up with me, you know, I at least try to stop it if it went to attack. But I don't think they're violent. I think they're more curious than they are anything. That's that's interesting. Have you Have you heard any accounts of people having interactions in West Virginia where it was more aggressive or you feel it it lines up with the way you're looking at it.

30:02 And they probably just catch a glimpse of it, or you know, and then it stoops down or it's gone, or because they'd like to stay hid. I just caught it at the right place at the right time. But why it was walking up the middle of the yellow line. Maybe it could see that yellow line since or so nocturnal, they're a very nocturnal animal. Yeah, I think you're absolutely right on that, even though there are you know, daytime sightings a lot of stuff does happen during the night. Regarding this, after you had this sighting, did this affect you in any ways that are out of the ordinary, or did you start to have things happen at your home that are that were just strange anything like that.

30:55 I've had strange things happen around my house all the time. JESU swinging. I've got pictures of keys of swinging, and I was standing there. I even had mom and dad four miles away to come up and they were still swinging. But you know, I lived one clay ground who knew what it was. And I've seen lights one night. I've seen lights of a creek. We was all. Drinking beer back when I was young, way in eighties, and I mean. The whole field lit up. I'm like miles around, like he was underneath a operating table light. It lasted for about seven seconds. You could even see the minnows and the rocks in the water.

31:41 Put her fire clear out. You couldn't see the fire we had built. Took a few minutes forest adjust. We looked at each other and just said, we're the f out of here. It makes sense. So not only do you have this this sighting of what you saw in the road, But you've also had a lifetime of just weird experiences that really like crazy. Yeah, it's crazy, you know. I just sort of try to brush them all. That Bigfoot I can't brush off. It's learning in my mind. I wish, I wish I had a picture or somebody would draw a picture.

32:22 I've seen pictures. On online that look very similar to it. That's interesting. Do you remember where you had seen those pictures that look similar to what you saw? No, just one of the websites. Gotcha this this same area. Is it also known for other creatures being seen besides Bigfoot? Or is Bigfoot the main thing that you have to be aware of around here? Well, they said that they've seen mountain lions over in that territory, and a lot of people don't believe. That through the mountain lines around. Or a black panther.

33:03 I've got a cousin that just swears up and down and he's a gospel going church guy that he said he was a black panther. And the guy said, oh, the bear. He said, unless of the bear had a six foot tail, it wasn't so. Mountain lions, you know, they're they're traveling or they get run out of their territory by force fires and look for new food. So I guess we would do the same. Squirrels do the same thing. If you've ever seen squirrels in a line, what they're doing. They're going from one tree to the next by collecting that food and bearing it as they go along. My granddad told me that a long time ago.

33:53 Russia. I just want to say thank you so much for for taking some time out of your day to share what you experience that night. I want to make sure that you were able to share everything that you had come to the show prepared to share. Today. Well, I'll share the same story that I told you because it's. Burning in my mind and I will never go away. Absolutely. Well, I just want to say thank you for coming on the show today, Rusty. And yeah, if there's anything else that you ever run into out there, feel free to reach out. It was a pleasure talking to you today.

34:37 Okay, it's the pleasure talking to you too. I'm glad you called. I hope it helps other people let alone me. You know, you get it off my chest. But at least a lot of people will say, no, they look like human, they look like they are very very ape like least the one I've seen was. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society Podcast. Every encounter we share reminds us that the world is bigger and stranger than we think, and that the truth is often hiding just beyond the tree line. If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe to the channel on YouTube hit the bell so you don't miss the next episode, and share this with a friend who's into mysteries, monsters, or the unexplained. And if you're listening to us on Spotify or Apple Podcast, please follow the show there and leave us a five star positive review because all that helps more people discover the show.

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