Bigfoot Society - A Couple Shares Years Of Encounters Deep In Indiana’s Hoosier National Forest

Episode Date: March 30, 2026

In this episode, we delve into the experiences of Jimmy and Roxanne from southern Indiana, a couple who have spent years exploring the rugged terrain of the Hoosier National Forest and the surrounding counties of Crawford, Orange, Perry, and Harrison. What began as a shared curiosity gradually turned into a series of encounters that have continued to unfold across multiple locations.Jimmy, a lifelong woodsman, and Roxanne, who has spent years researching the phenomenon, share how their time in these remote forests has brought them face to face with unexplained activity. From rocks appearing out of nowhere while fishing to distinct wood knocks echoing through the hills, their experiences began subtly before building into something far more complex.As they continued returning to the same areas, they began noticing patterns—unusual tree structures, moments where they felt watched, and sounds that didn’t match anything familiar to the region. A winter hike led to a sequence of events that left a lasting impression, while later trips along a quiet river revealed something unexpected in both sound and image.Their accounts span years and multiple counties, all tied together by a deep familiarity with the land and a growing awareness that something shares those woods with them. Jimmy and Roxanne offer a grounded and detailed look into what they’ve experienced, inviting listeners to consider what might be present in the forests of southern Indiana.Join us as we explore their ongoing encounters and the quiet persistence of something just beyond view in the Hoosier National Forest.🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to [e-mail] – your story might be featured on the show!🎥 Watch & Subscribe on YouTube🔴 Subscribe here → Bigfoot Society YouTube💬 Leave a comment & let us know your thoughts!📞 Leave a voicemail with your story → Speakpipe (Use multiple voicemails if needed)👥 Share this episode → Watch & Share🎧 More episodes → Podcast Playlist🌲 Recommended: New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters💥 Support the Show & Get Perks✅ Join the community on Supercast – Become a Member✅ Listen ad-free & early on YouTube – Join Here📱 Let’s ConnectInstagram: @bigfootsocietyTwitter: @bigfoot_societyTikTok: @bigfoot.society🧰 Tools & Partners I Use (Affiliate Links)These help support the show at no extra cost to you:Beam (Better Sleep): Try BeamWildgrain (Better Bread): Join HereSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn MoreLMNT (Electrolytes) Free Sample Pack with your first purchase! : Get LMNTOrganic and non-GMO groceries delivered for lesshttp://thrv.me/uarEhS🎙️ Podcasting Tools:Repurpose.io: Try ItDescript: Sign UpStreamyard: Start RecordingRiverside.fm: Try Riverside🎧 My Audio Interface: View on Amazon☕ Buy Me a Coffee – Support Here🛍️ Grab Some Merch – Shop on Etsy📬 Mailing Address:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072

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You're listening to Bigfoot 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. So 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, Pickfoot Society. We've got the privilege of talking to Jimmy and Roxanne today about some interesting things they've had happened down in the Hoosier National Forest and that's down in southern Indiana. So welcome to the show today. Guys, how's it going? Good.

It's going good. Awesome. Yeah, I mean, as we were talking before the show started, Southern Indiana is one of those places where it is active, but we don't know a lot about it because, you know, sometimes people that are experiencing things down there are keeping it to themselves, which is, you know, all right, but it's definitely special when we're able to have someone on the show to share what they've been through. So, guys, is there anything else that you would want individual or you would want listeners to know about. you for context or is that pretty good what I've said so far? That there's pretty good. Basically, we've had some experiences in four different counties that would be Crawford, Orange, Perry, and Harrison counties. And we spent a lot of time in the, in the Houston National Forest. We do a lot of hiking, we kayak, we forage, we, we're just always, we're in the woods a lot.

Gotcha. Okay, very, very interesting. I know some of those county names I've definitely heard in interviews for this show before. So it'll be very interesting that southern area of the state. And I mean, that's down by the Ohio River too, right guys? Yes. Yes. Oh, yeah, that area is wild. Some wild, wild stuff down there. A lot of haulers, a lot of caves, yeah. A lot of cliffs. Absolutely. Well, You know, Jimmy and Roxanne, feel free to take us back to maybe when you first started noticing some things that were happening that could be related to the Bigfoot phenomenon. Okay. I think I'll start off growing up here and living here my whole life, I am 60, and I just basically grew up in the woods. Never was a hunter, but I always played out in the woods. I would look for ginseng, so I've just always there. But I never really paid any attention.

I wasn't looking. I was too busy playing and looking for ginseng roots and this and that. So I never really believed. I never had really thought about it. And I just think that's what a lot of people's issue is, that they don't even think about the possibilities out there. So I met my wife here in 2015, and we were talking on the phone. I'm going to start off with the little funny story.

It's true. She mentioned that she had thought about Bigfoot. The possibility of Bigfoot. And I did not believe it. And I told her, I said, I've been out in the woods my whole life. I do not believe because I've never seen nothing. It's as simple as that. Well, I thought that we had hung up or I had hung up and I hadn't.

And I went to the fridge to grab me a drink after we supposedly got through talking and I was kind of teasing her. I was saying, oh, Bigfoot, you know, I don't believe in that. you know, well, she called me back and she said that she heard it. And I thought this poor lady is, she's going to split up. She's not going to go out with me no more, but she didn't. But anyway, so after that, I said, you know what? I respect this lady. She's so smart and she believes. So I sat about then in 2015 to educate myself on. Bigfoot. So I started watching the YouTube and started listening to stories. Yeah. And when we talked,

I talked to him about the research I had done since probably, oh my goodness, 2009 is when I first got interested in Bigfoot. I came across a video on YouTube about a man that supposedly he lived on property where Bigfoot regularly came and visited his grandpa. So that got me interested in. I did a lot of research and I saw how they're mentioned all over the world. And and all kinds of Indian history and things like that. So Native American history. So that helped me to appreciate that there was a possibility. I mean, how else what all these people all over the world

who never met each other see the same thing. So together we both decided they exist, but we hadn't had any experience yet. Then he can carry on. So the first thing that happened with us, so that was in 2015, and we got married in 2016. In 2022, we were fishing in Harrison County in a creek, and out of nowhere came a rock probably about the size of a softball. And as it turned out, we didn't see any, no trespassing signs, but.

We were Wade fishing, though. Yeah. We had found out that we were actually trespassing. We were supposed to go the other way, which was into Harrison Crawford Forestry. Yeah, we went the wrong way. And we went the wrong way. Well, this rock came out of nowhere. About six feet from me, it landed in the water with a loud splash. But there wasn't any cliff right there. There was nowhere to actually hide. It didn't seem like. I mean, we still have no idea where that rock actually came from. We looked and listened. Nothing. Nothing. Just that big. We did turn around and go back the other way. Yeah. Yeah. So that got me to thinking.

that whenever I was a young man, that I was out in the middle of nowhere, I was a good mile and a half from anywhere, and a rock came out of nowhere as I was fishing. And I stopped and I listened and looked nothing, nothing. So at least twice, you know, rocks have just came out of nowhere. It's like they're not happy that were there fishing. And we catch their fish, right?

Yeah, yeah. Yeah. But that was high insight, though. We talked about that later. The day that happened, we weren't like, oh, it's Bigfoot. It wasn't until later we thought about it. Yeah. No, the first situation I had, I was, this was the same year, I was picking some berries on a small little trail nearby with my dog.

and I heard a wood knock at the top of the hill. It sounded like a Louisville slugger baseball bat, you know, wooden baseball bat hitting a tree. And I was like, huh, that's odd. And I had heard a little bit about the videos, but I didn't think too much of it. Well, then I came back that way another time because I like to go walking down there

and I decided to go up to the top of that hill. And at the top of the hill I found what looked to be, I thought, tree structures that had been, that were old hadn't been used for a while maybe or knocked down then on the way back down I was walking and on this little runoff I saw a tiny little footprint about six inches long and I could make out the little toes look like a child's foot but there wouldn't be no reason for a child to be up there barefooted so I came home and got him and had him go back with me but he still wasn't convinced about big foot so you didn't really look look did you

You didn't give it too much attention. No, not really. Okay. Roxanne, was that also in Harrison County? No, this was actually in Crawford County. Okay. It's in different county, yeah. And it's not around here, you'll find when you come down here,

who's your National Forestry doesn't have a lot of really well, they don't have a lot of really good hike and walking trails, do they? Not like they do up in Monroe County. Not quite as much. Yeah, it's more horse trails here. There's a lot of horse trails. And so we walk horse trails for exercise and stuff. So it was something like that.

But then he can tell you about the first real experience we had. This was in Orange County, right? Yeah, okay. This was in 2023 in February. And she was wanting to go on this new horse trail. And it was over by where I always go and run. It was 14 degrees. I was freezing.

It was 14 and the snow was barely coming down and there was just a little bit on the ground. And we said, okay, well, we'll just bundle up and go. Take the dog and go, yeah. So us three went out there to that horse trail. I'd never been on it before. That's why I wanted to go on it. I had been on it once, just walking. Well, we walked out there about a half mile and then we came to this creek.

We were following Bobcat Prince. Yeah, Bobcat or coyotes or something. But they got off the trail, so we decided to follow it in the woods a little bit off trail. And as soon as we stepped off of that horse trail, we heard this loud knock up the hill to our left. And then right after. About 200 yards, right? Well, I'd say about 100. About 100 yards, yeah.

But then right after that knock, we heard one two or a left. are right and a little bit up ahead of us. So I feel like that that was them communicating, hey, these stupid humans are now off of the horse trail. They're out here in the middle of nowhere when it's cold out. Now, I don't remember ever hearing that, but they thought that they had that woods to their self. That's what we think.

Because it was so cold, you know, here for Indiana that usually humans aren't in the woods, but there we were. So I think they were a little bit upset with us. Yeah, and then we, you have to cross the, we had already crossed the creek once, and you have to cross it again to go in the direction, because we were like, let's go up towards that knock. First knock we heard. That's interesting. We weren't really scared. No, I wasn't scared at all. I thought it was interesting. So as soon as we went over the second creek, second part of the creek to go up the hill, my dog, we heard another knock. We heard it again, another knock up to the last.

left and then another knock to the right. Yeah. And then my dog, she, she's a blue healer. She came around in front of me and she jumped up on me and was trying to push me back towards the creek. And she even grabbed my minton and was pulling me. She's never done that. She's never done anything like that ever.

Like she didn't want me go up the hill, which just intrigued me more because I'm like, okay, she's like trying to stop us go up the hill. And we're kind of adventurous, I guess. So we decided to keep going. Right. Yeah. And then we got what, like halfway? up the hill and we found a tree structure.

Yeah, we'd gone about 50 to 75 yards and we found a great big axe. It was 10, approximately 10 to 12 feet tall. I think we sent you pictures of that one. Woveing in with one grape vine like. Yeah. Then we found another smaller one that had, oh my goodness, probably what, like 20 or 30 different limbs all weaved in there real tight. You couldn't even pull it. You couldn't pull it apart.

It was really tightly woven. Obviously, it wasn't, you know, natural. No, no, no, no. Something made that. And then we found another one. Then we headed on up the hill, and we got almost up the, well. Almost to the top of the hill. And then the dog ran ahead.

Toward the pine trees, yes. Where towards the noise where the original noise came from. Yeah. And at the top, there was a, it's all pines and cedars, so it was dark up there. Yeah. And she ran up to the edge, and she stopped. and she just started growling and all her hair stood up on her. And we were looking at her like, oh, my goodness, she's seeing something up there.

And then she jerked her head back and ran back down the hill. And she wanted to leave. So that kind of scared us too. And we left after that, didn't we? Yeah. We did. We kind of cut through the woods down the hill. And once again, as soon as we hit that horse trail, they were watching us.

And as soon as we hit that horse trail, two. more knocks. But the, but the first knock as soon as we stepped on the horse trail, this time, it didn't come from up the hill. It came from down below us. It came right down there at that creek. Yeah, below us and it was so close and so loud. It scared me. I just looked and I thought, how can they be hiding? But it's like they flanked. It's like they flanked this. They came around behind us. And it was, they were now down on our left and it was a really loud knock. Like how close do you think that one was? That was, oh my goodness. Probably 30 yards.

Yeah, not very far. And then another one answered up to hill on the left. So there were six knocks total. Six total knocks. So after that day, then I was 100%. I believed in Bigfoot because I heard that with my own ears. Yeah. So then we decided Jimmy's like, well, we watch videos while I'm taking food.

Maybe we should take some food. So we went back there like a couple weeks later, right? Yeah. And we left food under the main. It was just vegetables and fruit and stuff. And then we left and we came back, what, like a week after that. And the fruit was all gone except for a few like squash seeds. And then he could tell you what happened when we came back because it was kind of weird.

Well, about parallel to the eggs, I just looked off. And it was about 30 yards approximately from. Behind me. Yeah. And I looked over there and it looked like about a. four foot black stump. And I said, what is that? And there was, yeah, there was no tree dead on the ground, but it looked like a black stump. You know, I couldn't really see because I'm 60 and my eyesight's not that great. And I thought about walking over to it. And then I thought,

no, we'll just go ahead back home. So we went back home. And we went back home. And And we came back again. We came back for the third time, what, about a week later? About maybe two weeks. Maybe two weeks. About two weeks later. And I stood right there at that X and looked and there was no stump. There was no black stump.

And we walked over there. There was no hole in the ground where. No sign of a stump. No. We looked down the hill to see if it rolled down the hill. Nothing was around there. And it's like where did that four foot stump go? So he thinks.

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2023. My daughter and Jimmy and I, we went kayaking on a small river. that runs in Crawford County. And while we were on that river kayak and we're just having a good time, I didn't see, we didn't see or hear anything that day, but I was taking pictures. Then when I got home,

I noticed a picture took a Jimmy over on the shore. It looked like there was something standing behind a tree. So we went and looked at it closer. I think I sent that picture to you too. It looks like there's something standing by that tree. It really does. Yeah, it's pretty wild. Is it okay to put these photos in the YouTube version? Yes. Yes. Okay. Thank you. I tried to black out everybody's face. That way you can use them. But yeah, it looked like something was standing there. And then there was another one I took of my daughter. And behind her, it looked like there was a head like peeking over too. And I was like, oh, my goodness. So I was also skeptical, too, about taking pictures and people thinking they, see, you know, the Bigfoot in and everything.

But I looked at a few of hers and I was like, yeah, that pretty much looks like it could be a picture. I didn't even know it was in there. It was just standing there. I guess, Jeremiah, I'm just a little hard to convince, but, you know. Should we go ahead and tell them about that same river? Yeah, sure. Yeah.

Later on, this happened like 2025 last year. We took my son there on the same river. And it's a really tiny river. It's not one. There's a big river down here. A lot of people use, but this is one. There's a few down here that are tiny and people don't really go on them. And this was one we go on and we never see people there.

Well, we took our son there on the same river. And we had told them the story about the picture. Well, when we went around that same bin, we came around that same bin, didn't we? It was just three of us. It was dead quiet outside. That's one thing we noticed. And Anthony said later, he said, there was no sound. It was just the sound of the water and the oars.

It was so eerily quiet back there. And he started to talk. And right as he started to talk, we heard this scream. And it screamed and then made like a monkey noise and screamed again. And we're like, and I was like, did you hear that? And Jimmy's like, how can I not hear that? And then my son was, he's like, my eyes are watering. I'm like, he said it's like instant fear.

Like, but they were saying it didn't sound masculine. It sounded lighter. To me, that scream was a little far off, though, like 200 yards. Well, we had already moved past that turn, though. We were our, we were 100 yards, 200 yards past where I took that picture. I mean, it wasn't right on top of us. No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, but.

It was back on the turn when we first. But still, I had never heard any kind of scream. No. And it was, it made your hair stand up. It was just, it was frightening. And we got home and I went I poured through because I knew I was like people were going to say oh it was a fox oh it was this. I've heard a fox that was not. Well I asked him that.

But we looked up we looked up everything didn't we bobcats, fox coyotes. I looked up everything I could think of. And then I finally said, you know what? I'm just going to look up an ape and see if apes scream like that. So I found that one video on YouTube of the female ape screaming at a male ape. and it's exactly what it sounded like. When I played it for my son, he said, oh my gosh, that's exactly what we heard.

I said, I know, right? Wow. Yeah. So that's the first time we've ever heard anything there. But we go down there all the time, me and him do, but I wonder if they didn't like us bringing other people there. Maybe I don't know. Maybe we just caught him in a bad mood.

There's a, if I jump in for a quick moment, there is a photo that is. is extremely compelling to me. And I want to make sure that, I don't know if we've talked about it yet. Like you have numbers on these images, and it is specifically image three. And it's really interesting.

It looks like pretty much something is peeking over a downed tree. But like you can literally see the different parts of the face. It is very interesting. I'm looking at it with you now. that was the one we caught. I was actually not taking a picture. That is taking a picture of my daughter who was behind me kayaking. And when I got home, I looked at that and I said, oh, my goodness, you can see the face right there.

You can see the nose and the eyes and the cone head and everything. It's kind of, yeah. And that was behind me. And then, mind you, the other one was in front of me. So these were two separate. If they are, they're two separate. ones. They were two there that day. Wow. That's a picture he's talking about.

Right. Yeah. Yeah, and that was taken by accident, but yeah, now, as far as a sighting, I did see one one day. This is in Crawford County. This was in Crawford County, yeah. This was in November, 2024. I was coming home.

It was about 4.30, right? It was dusk. Yeah. And I'm driving. And as you drive down this road, you can look down the river. And especially when you come around this one curve, you can see like really far down the river. So I was, I just like looking at the river because it's beautiful. And then, you know, we're going into winter. So just enjoy a little nature before we can't get as much.

Anyway, I looked down and I saw a black figure walking across the river. And my first thought was, oh, it's just a, that's just a hunter or somebody. But then I was like, whoa, wait a minute. What is the hunter doing all dressed in black from head to toe walking across the river with no orange on or anything during hunting season into a dark part of the woods where we know no one lives? There's no one that lives there. This is all, in fact, if you keep walking through those woods,

you'll end up at the spot where we heard the screams and where we, yeah, it's the same area. Yes. Yeah. So, automatically I was like oh it's just a guy it's just a guy walking across but then something in me was like no man that's and it scared me so I pulled over at the next little pull off and I called Jimmy I was thinking about walking down the river but then I was scared I was like do I really want to walk down the river because if it's some dude then that's kind of weird and sketchy that he's all dressed in black but if it's Bigfoot that's scary too so I called Jimmy and he said no don't go down there that sounds like you just saw Bigfoot walking across the river and I was like no no way so we went back down and there a few days later and the river was up a little bit wasn't it? Because when when Jimmy went down there and checked it, how deep was the water where it walked across about three foot?

Yeah. But when I saw it, the water was hitting at mid-calf. The person or the thing I saw walking across, the water was hitting at mid-calfe. And the water was like three-foot deep there, two and a half, three-foot deep. And then I had Jimmy go down there. and stand down there while I was up on the road where the car would be. And I'm going to tell you what, when I saw the difference in size, I knew right then it wasn't a man. I couldn't have been a man then. There's no way.

There's no way. Because he was two and a half, three foot shorter than what I saw. And what I saw was two or three times wider than him going across that. Whenever I got back up from the river, she was barely crying. It freaked me out back. She said, oh, that was huge. Well, you know, I think it's because I kept saying to myself, oh, it's just some guy. And Jimmy said, same thing.

Why would somebody be going all dressed in black across the river? Almost at dark, yeah. At dark with no flashlights, nothing, just walking across. And I'm like, yeah, that doesn't make any sense. Yeah, it freaked me out because it was massive compared to him. He's little. I mean, he's not a big guy. You're five, he's five, eight.

But this was, there's that one video we've seen recently that someone put online of Sasquatch walking, the one that's real thick. It's real thick, backed. That's what it reminded me up. And I was thinking, oh, it's just some big guy. But then if you're, if you know this area, there's not a lot of big guys in this. But it was black. And they, around here, it seems like people always say they're black.

Well, and they. Generally. Well, and you brought out some good point. They would have had camo on or orange or something. And no, it was black, head to toe black. And interesting enough, on this same road, I come home and we tell my son about it. I tell my son about it because he was staying with us at the time. And he goes, oh, yeah, I forgot to tell you.

Like a month ago, I was coming home from work. He works at a restaurant and he closes. So he doesn't get it. And he works over in Louisville. So by the time he drives all the way over here, you know, he doesn't get home to like 2 o'clock of the morning. And he's like, I was coming home and I got off the exit about 2 o'clock of the morning. And when I did, he said, my lights hit a tall figure, Jet Black, the blackest black you can think of standing on the corner there by the cliff. He said it was at least six foot tall, if not taller.

And I was like, wow, that's crazy. And then you've read of other reports of people. Oh, there was a 14-year-old boy who saw. Back in the 70s or something. No, it was actually back in the 90s. 90s. Yeah, and there was also a lady who was driving on the interstate there within like two miles, maybe even within a mile there.

She saw one crossing the. And they both said they were jet black. When I say black, I mean the black is black you can think of. So no, no, just black, black. So right in that area seems to be a really good area for them. I don't know. It's making me shake thinking about it right now. It didn't freak me out as bad until I saw him stand down there on that riverbank

and how little he looked compared to what I saw walking across there. It's like, yeah, I could barely see him. And what I saw walking across there was so much bigger. So much bigger. That's wild stuff. It is. What would you estimate the height of what you saw was then? I think about what we figured seven and a half, eight foot.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, but the chest was thick. You know, I mean, I got a side view. I'm not looking at it straight on. So a side view, but just the thickness from the front to the back was thick. That's why I was thinking it's a big, thick guy with a big thick coat on, you know, walking across to do some hunting.

But I don't recall seeing a gun or anything in their hands. And the arms were hanging probably a little bit lower than a normal man now that I think about it. But, yeah, just walking across the river. headed towards that direction. But yeah, that was a roadside one. And then you already told them about the screaming one. Okay, and then there was one other time I'm a forager. I like to forage for spice fish berries and stuff.

This is a different area. It's still in, no, this is actually Orange County, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah. I went to another, a different horse trail. This is a totally different one. And I was forging. for some spice bushberries again.

And I told Jamie, just let me run down here real quick. I think there's a couple bushes. He stayed in the car and I walked down there. I walked in the trail, horse trail, maybe about, I don't know, 40, 50 feet in. And then I spook something on my right under the bushes and I saw something

Jet Black, the size of my dog, run. It's faster than I've ever seen anything run into the woods. Now, what it was, I don't know. It might, who knows, they claim there's black panthers around here. But I know as I saw a jet black animal just into the woods real quick.

And then that same trail, a couple months later, I was there with my dog real early in the morning. I like to go walk him with her and it's peaceful. And we were both real quiet that morning and she's walking and I'm walking. We're not making any noise, not talking. And then she starts to wander off a little bit

and I always say stay with me when she does that. I want to stay near me. So I go to say, stay with me. And as I speak, something on my left freaks out and goes running through the woods. But it wasn't a deer. It's way too big for a deer. I've been around deer my whole life from southern Illinois. And we have so many deer back there.

And no, it wasn't a deer. It was something bigger running through the woods. I spook something that was right there on the left hand. It ran through the woods like crazy. And it scared me and the dog both. And then when we went ahead and went up the hill and finished hiking, but as we were coming back down, she kept looking up the hill, not on the side that we heard the thing run, but on the opposite side.

And she kept looking up the hill, looking up the hill. So I'm like, man. But I like having her with me because I figure she'll hear something before I do. Because she's pretty smart. But what else happened? Something that I forgot to tell you earlier, that first little story that we had, about these six knocks.

Oh, yeah. Well, after that happened, I got to thinking that probably about two years before I met my wife in 2015. So it was about 2013. I went and I had ran and it was in the fall. And it was probably, you know, about 45 minutes from being totally dark. and I never had walked or ran on that horse trail. Oh, yeah.

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Speaking of trails and running, tell them about what's been going on on the one trail in the Orange County where you run. Well, I've been running on this one horse trail that goes around this lake for about 10 years now. And there's been a couple of times when there's an odd rather large rock right in the center. And I just, you know, that could have been anything.

It could have been humans. but then one evening I was there running and there was a basketball. And this basketball must have been 30 years old. And I'm like, where did that come from? And they left in the middle of the trail. Yeah, there is no houses. No people were there that day either. Around there.

Yeah. And not too long after the basketball, I was running. and it was not skunk mating season here, but I smelled a skunk-like smell, kind of fain. Of course, I'm running. And then about a mile and a half later, I smelled that same smell.

Again, yeah. And I don't smell skunks here, but that day I smelled it twice. So I, and things are just starting to add up. they could easily, you know, follow me for a mile and a half. That wouldn't be nothing for their big long legs. And there was also this weird sounding owl.

And it couldn't have been no owl. That didn't sound like no owl. It was like a sick owl or a weird owl. Did you say that there was several of them then that started making noise? Yes. Yes. Well, there was two of them at least. Yeah.

And that was, it was almost dark. And he normally doesn't run that late. Well, I think what I'm going to do, I'm going to start spending more time on that trail late. Because it seems like during the daytime, they kind of let us humans roam and do whatever we pretty well want to. But then once it gets dark, I feel like that they feel like that's their woods now. So I think I'm going to try to spend a little more time toward evening. Well, and then talking about that pole there. Oh, yeah.

I thought we sent him a picture, right? We did. Okay. Who's your National Forestry? They put gates up. And the metallone's pretty thick. And I went there to run one day, and it was totally bent. It was bent like something that stood on it.

down to the ground. We've never seen that before. You know, and that took a lot of power. And I just thought, well, how in the world, you know, could it have been a four-wheel drive that went up? And I thought, no, there was no scratches on it. I don't even think a truck's going to be that heavy. Well, if they did, they would scratch it. Yeah. There was no scratches or nothing. And then right behind it in the woods, probably what, four feet from it in the woods, there was a structure, a tree structure that's never been there before with limbs all woven. I took a picture of it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. So that was odd too. And then I think is that all the... I think they've been watching me run for years now, and I think they know who I am from that, because they just see me about three times a week. Oh, really. The walking part reminded me,

we went to a different trail. This is in Perry County, which is also very, oh, Perry County is even thicker with woods than some of the other ones. Yeah. But we took our granddaughter there and we went walking on a trail and then we were going to do some fishing in a little pond there. And Jimmy was fishing with her. I was in the car. I forgot to bring coat.

I was cold. So I didn't get out with them. And then they were getting me to walk back. So I decided to walk out and meet them. And I was what, what would you say about 100 yards from you? About 100 yards away. Yeah. I could see them visually, but they were like 100 yards away.

So I started walking. And as I was walking, I could hear something in the woods walking with me. And I'd stopped and it stopped. Then I walked and it walked. And it's really scaring me. So I started walking really faster. And I kept looking and I couldn't see anything. But it was pretty dark in there.

It was getting towards that evening too, wasn't it? When we had her there. So Jeremiah, as you can probably tell now, all we've simply done is we've simply taken a closer look and a closer listen to what's going on around us. We're not out there knocking on trees. We're not out there yelling or anything. And we're not saying not to do that. But we just enjoy nature.

Yeah, we're just looking now and we are finding. And I am sure that it will continue to happen. Yeah, because the last, we just went out there a couple weeks ago with our granddaughter. Structures everywhere. And there's new structures there. And we sent you a picture of the giant arch. That one really freaked us out. Because that tree is, how big around was that tree?

That tree had a diameter of about six, six inches. And it was bent over. It was a big, long, good size long tree and shoved in the ground. He tried to pulling it out. He couldn't get it out. And I couldn't even pull it out. It was shoved in the ground really deep. There are other smaller trees that have been bent over,

and they're now growing into the grass. ground on both ends. That one was new though. Yeah. That one was new. That was brand new. That was a new one. We hadn't seen that one. So what our plans are, we're just going to continue to go deeper and deeper into the woods where we hear these knocks and things and hopefully we'll find some more, you know, sounds and sightings. Oh, I wanted to add your, remember the guy, his, his, his, his, his sister and her husband recently moved to this area, and they bought some property in Harrison County. And they saw something black in their tree out in the back of their property.

And he was looking out the window. And he said, he thought it was a bear, a small bear. And then they went out in the property recently. And he said they heard, he said, they heard, they think they heard wood, wood knocks, two, couple wood knocks. And I said, did it sound like a Louisville slugger wooden bat on a tree? He said, that's exactly what it sound like. So they recently heard something like that. And then you want to tell him about that one guy at the yard sale that was here in Crawford, wasn't it?

Yeah, we went to a yard sale a couple of years back in the Crawford County. And somehow Bigfoot got brought up. And he said, yeah, he said one morning he was in his tree stand. and he saw one. It was bow hunting. Yeah, and he saw one across the field. Came walking through. And he said it scared him so bad that I believe he said he quit hunting for two full years.

Yeah, and he said that one was really big and thick and black. Yeah, he says about eight feet. Eight foot tall and black and thick, yeah. So we are starting to hear a couple stores. We have a lot of people, you know, tease us and stuff. All the time. We don't really mind. We're getting hold or we.

We know what we've seen. We know what we've heard. And hopefully one of these days I'll actually see one. We would like to get a footprint, you know, clear. You should let me get that little baby one. Yeah. Footprints are hard to come by here, though, and we'll tell you why. It's very rocky.

It's very rocky. And the soil that is around here a lot of times is very clay, right? So it's like you can't hardly find a footprint. You can't even hardly leave one. I think they're just smart and they just hide their walk on rocks or something. They're just very smart. Maybe. Anyway, that's a story.

I don't think we left anything out. Yeah. That's about it. It's wild how much stuff is happening down the area. And the pictures you sent of like the trees and the vines woven. I mean, did some wild stuff because that's, I mean, something had to actually do that. I mean, that doesn't happen just by itself in nature. I agree with you guys. This area, though, when I'm looking at it,

I'm always remember of an individual I talked to a long time ago. And have you ever heard anything down by like the Laconia or Macedonia area? We haven't been down there. If you ever do. Laconia is right on the Ohio River. I could see where. That is rugged there. Yes.

I, uh, is Macedonia, I believe. And that was one of the, it was, uh, man, this is back in like, I think it was a show 675. And I talked to a hunter down there. And, uh, just that sounds like a rugged area to hunt, but the stuff going down there, I mean, pretty crazy. But I could imagine you could go anywhere down that southern Indiana stuff. And if you went out in the woods, you would. start having some things happen to you.

We see structures everywhere. Yes. I mean, he's not lying everywhere. And you can tell, well, we just went hiking yesterday and we found, we just went hiking yesterday and we found a structure that it's, it was woven. It's not natural, you know, I mean, when you got limbs and roving in and out. We find small structures, medium structures, and that one big X.

That big one that you're standing by is the biggest one we were found. That big old tree. bent. So we find them of all sizes. They're all over here. You're right. People don't realize down here, you don't hear as much about who's your forest down here as you do up north, but it's not really up north. That's still southern Indiana. Monroe County. Yeah, but it's north for us. But yeah, it's very rugged here. There's not a lot of trails. People that go out in the woods, they just go out freestyle and through the middle of the woods.

Not a lot of population really. No. I mean, we go out in the woods all the time and we don't see a soul. We'll be out there for two, three hours. We never see another human being. So it's pretty remote.

That is wild. Do you guys have a certain idea in mind when you're thinking of what Bigfoot is out there in the woods? I know some people kind of think of it different ways. We just think it's a, we don't know. We don't know, to be quite honest. We don't claim to actually know, but I think we pretty well believe. We believe that it is a very intelligent animal, and period.

That's as much as we know. We don't know anything for sure, though. We don't have any other beliefs other than it is a very smart animal that does not want to be seen or messed with. Yeah. We do believe that here in Indiana, since there's so many people around and the woods are relatively small, say, compared to Worstead, Oregon, Alaska, and Canada. Yeah. We think that here they are a lot calmer. They seem to be more peaceful.

All these stories I've heard, the larger the woods or the more mountainous, the more violent that they may tend to get or really try to scare you more. Yeah, and honestly, we haven't heard any stories from people around here about them being mean or anything other than throw a few rocks. I mean, they may throw a rock at you to. And not hit you. To want you to quit fishing because you're catching their fish or they may throw a small rock at you and hit you. I don't feel scared of them either, do you? Yeah, not really. But, I mean, if I saw one, I'm sure I would be scared.

I'm not going to sit here. You know, we've heard some pretty good stories. and yeah, if one was within 30 feet of me, I'd be scared today. I probably would too. Yeah, in the car is one thing, isn't it? Yeah. Yeah, there's a lot of really, and there's so many caves and stuff around here. I mean, they call it cave country.

There's so many caves that they could live in and exist in. That's what I've heard. And I mean, I know you just keep going further south, and it's cave after cave after cave. and then eventually, I mean, you've got Mammoth Cave down there if you go down far enough south down in Kentucky. But it is a wild area. Yeah, there's large cave systems that go for miles around here. It's like a honeycomb. Yeah.

I mean, we do have several theories, but I guess we really don't want to talk about our own theories. I mean, you know. It's just a theory. Yeah, you know. I wish more people would, I think. I wish more people would talk about it. That's what I wish. But I guess it's like seeing this believing kind of thing.

I hear those on the stories all the time. People that didn't used to believe in, they had to see it for themselves. I get it. I get it. Yeah, I mean, we love the woods. We still go on them. We're not afraid to go in them.

I haven't seen one up close, though. I mean, in the car is one thing. Being in a deer stand and seeing it walk below you, that would be totally different. Yeah. That is true. That is true. Well, Jimmy and Roxanne, thank you so much for spending some time with me, Darren. Derek, we're doing this at night and just thank you for hanging out with me and sharing what you're experiencing down in the Hoosier National Forest area.

It'll be interesting if other people reach out after hearing this. But I would say, you know, keep us up today. If you keep on going out in these areas and you keep on experiencing things, we'd definitely love to hear about it. Thank you so much for having us. Yeah, yeah. If we get some more experiences, we'll let you know. Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oak Ridge, Oregon, and you think to yourself, man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it for myself.

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