Bigfoot Society - A Southern Ohio Couple Shares What’s Been Following Them for Years in the Woods

Episode Date: March 27, 2026

In this episode, we delve into the extraordinary experiences of Rick and Mandy from southern Ohio, who have spent years encountering something they can’t fully explain in the forests surrounding the Ohio River. Living in a region known for dense woods, winding back roads, and hidden pockets of activity, they share how a simple day of hiking turned into a series of ongoing encounters that continue to unfold.Describing moments of being followed through the trees, hearing unexplained vocalizations, and discovering massive footprints and unusual structures, Rick and Mandy paint a vivid picture of a place where the normal rules of the woods don’t seem to apply. Their experiences span remote trails, cemeteries, and quiet stretches of forest where something always seems just out of sight.They also explore the deeper side of what they’ve witnessed, from strange environmental changes to encounters that challenge the boundary between physical and unexplained phenomena. Over time, their curiosity has grown into a dedicated effort to understand what shares these woods with them.Join us as we follow Rick and Mandy’s ongoing journey through southern Ohio, where each trip into the forest brings new questions—and the feeling that something is always watching from just beyond the tree line.🗣️ 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, Bigfoot Society.

We've got the privilege of talking to Rick and Mandy today. Rick and Mandy are from out there in around southern Ohio, I believe, and they like to hang out in the woods, do a lot of outdoor stuff, but they've also had a lot of Bigfoot-related things happen along the way. So we got connected through the internet, of course, and wanted to have them on the show for them to share what they've experienced out in Ohio, which is a really active place as we are learning. But welcome to the show, Rick and Mandy. How are you guys? We're doing good. Doing good. Good.

I had to be on the show. Yes. Yes. Awesome. Thank you for having us. Yeah, absolutely. So are you able to, when you say Southern Ohio, are we talking? I know there's a, the Southwest Ohio really has a lot going on.

Are you guys down there? We're pretty much dead, dead south. We're right here along the high river. So we're close to southwest and southeast Ohio. Oh, that's nice. So you've got a lot of different places you could go to. Is there anything else that the listeners would want to know about you before we get started, guys? I just work in Columbus.

I work in construction up there. And I'm always in the city. So when I'm off work, we're always out in the woods, you know, trying to get away from all that. I'm a cook. I'm a lunch lady. We have six kids between the two of us and we have five grandbabies. We love being outside and hunting for artifacts, hiking. We love animals. We love being outside. That sounds like a good time right there. So when was it that you started realizing that there is something else going to. on out there in the woods when you guys were out there having fun. Well, actually our first, our first encounter together, I'd had a few prior before we got together, but our first encounter together, we were out looking at a waterfall.

We were about four or five miles out this trail hiking, and we had stopped and had a lunch. and I noticed something that was moving off in the distance, cracking around in the brush. I just took it as a deer, and then the further we started hiking back towards the car, the tree breaks were louder, and you could hear something on both sides of us, like it was parallel on us out of there. Then we come up on a cedar grove, we got this smell that was just, just ungodly. It smelled like ammonia.

Just really, really nasty, real musty smell. Had two different smells. We actually had two different smells. But everything went quiet right before we smelled that. And like all the birds and everything stopped. But it's like they escorted us back to the car that day. Yeah. I got really obsessed with, you know, well,

what it was so i would go back out there and stuff and uh thanks happen things were at we'd hear whoops and knocks and like rock we had a rocked road one day oh man yeah a couple different time so were you going did you keep on going out to the same area or were you guys going to different areas and weird things were happening pretty much all the different areas you were going. We were going to different areas and we'd had different things happen at these different areas, but they were all relatively in a close area, a few miles from each other. But the really crazy one is when we were out at this cemetery, we was walking around, looking at the old gravestones out there and just listening to nature, the birds chirping.

it was listed to a woodpecker over inside the tree line knocking. And I glanced up and I thought I'd seen something black coming through the trees. And I looked over at Mandy and asked her if she had seen it. I didn't see anything. She didn't see it. So I just dismissed that as nothing. And about that time, all these birds come flying out in the opposite direction where I thought I said. seen the black figure coming through.

And I heard the woodpecker squawk and fly off. And then we hear this rapid set of tree knocks on the tree where the woodpecker was. So we're looking over there. Our attention is drawn to that area. And all of a sudden this one tree starts shaking, I mean, violently. Figuously. Like a harvester, like a fruit harvester would shake. I mean, there's nothing human that could shake a tree like this.

There's nobody out there. This is a dead end road in the middle of the woods, nowhere. But, yeah, so this tree's shaking. This goes on for probably a minute straight. And we're just looking at each other, I mean, in shock. Yeah. And then all of a sudden it goes quiet. And it goes quiet.

It goes quiet for a few minutes. And then we hear these two big thuds off to our left side. I mean, these thuds were so loud. It sounded like somebody dropped two logs out of an airplane. I mean, they were that. I could almost feel the vibrations in the ground. They were so loud. Yeah, like someone dropped a whole tree down.

By then, we're just totally freaked out. I mean, we're close to the car, but we got closer to the car at this point. And I grabbed my phone out. I'm scanned around the cemetery there. And behind us, there's a figure sitting over in the tree line, black figure. And I'm seeing this thing's head move. I'm seeing its arms, its legs moving back and forth. It's like rocking motion.

This thing's getting real antsy. The hair on my arms are standing up. I got a sick feeling in my stomach. I can see this thing better through my phone than I could with my eyes. eyes because it was getting dusk out. And I'm telling me, do you see this thing? I mean, there's something sitting there. You see this thing.

I'm blind as a bat. I can't see anything, especially when it starts getting dark. But I knew something was there. Like, you could feel it and you heard everything all around us. She goes over to walk towards this thing. And I'm down there. Honey, get in the car right now. Let's get out of here.

about that time we jump in the car well here's where it gets this strange wind comes out of nowhere it's almost like a tornado type of wind it was beautiful out it was sunny beautiful out no wind

and this wind just comes out of nowhere and that freaked me eyes we didn't have any soles or anything to get out it's one way in one way out of this place and just I was ready to get out of there

and we both agreed we need to leave. Yeah. So we left out of there and I get down the bottom of the hill. I'm snapping pitchers. As you go back around the bottom to get out of this cemetery, I'm for sure this thing's going to intercept us before we get out of there.

I mean, totally freaked us out. I went back the next day for had her take some pictures of me in the spot where it was. Try to get like a size comparison. This thing was, I mean, it was on its knees. It hadn't been between eight and ten foot tall. Yeah. I mean, every bit of it.

And its head was four times the size of his. It had to been a foot, a foot and a half wide. I mean, looking at the comparison pictures, it was three times wider than I am. I'm a pretty big boy. Yeah. Wow. Is that a place that you've ever been back to since then? We do.

We go back all the time. We're actually doing current research there. We have things happen to us out there all the time. We started feeding them out there, putting apples in the trees. We start gifting. I'd put her up on my shoulders and have her stick an apple up in a tree about seven foot, eight foot high. And we'd turn around for a little bit, look back and the apple be gone. And there'd still be juice dripping off of this thing where we stuck this apple.

Oh, wow. I felt out they really liked the apple. We left all kinds of things. Strawberry cake. They really, they really like the apples out there. So we kind of made that a constant on the gifting. Have they been leaving any, any weird thing? for you in the same areas? We did have some rock stacked up left where we left some cookies. Tree break, broke the whole top out of the tree. Where we left the apples. They'd break the tops.

There'd be like a branch broke out, 20 foot up in the tree where I left these apples. I don't know. I know if they were mad or that was. It was showing us. Yeah. Nothing else can do this. That's what you're looking for. There's not sure what.

There's tree structures out there. We hear screams and loops all the time. I mean, it's just, it's real active. We're owls that don't sound quite like owls. Yeah. I think they're mimicking other animals out there. Turkeys. Turkey.

It, like, makes the exact same sound repetitive. You know what I mean? Like, turkeys make a few different sounds, and it would just. keep is off. I have some good vocals from out there too. All this caused me to get into the research area, but I just got obsessed with it.

I just wanted to know what was out there, what was doing this. One lady, Donna Copa. She's been on your show. We've had experience, I think, with the same watchers, what she called. that's that's really wild that's good that's good to know don has been through it for sure oh yeah did you hear then that the cemetery was active from someone else or you guys

pretty much just stumbled upon that as a bigfoot area we stumbled upon it as an area there's been other people that's had experiences in this cemetery also that I'm sure have an hours we found out. Yeah. We've seen something on TV and we was like, oh my gosh, that is where we're at. Like, yeah. Like, so we started talking to people

like, yeah, we know. Reached out. But that's not our only experiences we've had. There's another cemetery we was at close by there. We went in there one day. There was a fresh

break. off a tree. There was nuts all over this tree. And I'm a forager, so I was picking up nuts. I was gathering up these nuts. And the whole time watching her go over to the edge of this cemetery. And there's like a cedar forest around this cemetery. Can't see our back out. And we're hearing this tink, tink, tink, tink, tink, tink, sound. That's real light. And like I hear it, so I just keep going to. And I see her just keep getting closer and closer. It's tink, tink, tink, tink, tink.

And then all of a sudden it goes, tink, tink, tink, whack. I mean, this big loud, when she got closer to the edge, it was like a big loud slap. Yeah. That really freaked us out that day. Yeah. And I'm thinking the thing was in there cracking nuts. I think that's what it was doing.

And we came up on it because the tree break was fresh. I mean. Yeah, like it had just been done. Like something had ripped the top of this tree out, loaded with nuts and was gathered. I mean, I think they were eating the nuts too. Yeah. We've heard some screens down back in the area as well before, too. Oh, yeah, the cemetery location.

It was in there one night because I'd go back all the time, any available hour I had back to that location or I had that siding. Sometimes every day. and we're hearing these screams out in there and they're getting closer and this this old man and woman pulls up out there out of blue and they get out and they got a German Shepherd dog with and I'm hearing this thing scream and I look over at this dog and it tucks tail and and whines and goes back to the car and the guy goes over and puts the German Shepherd back into of the car. And his wife asked him,

what's that noise, honey? He said, oh, that's just a bobcat. And I'm telling you, Jeremiah, that's no bobcat. We're in the woods all the time. And that was no bobcat out there. Oh, it is. They eventually waited me out and we left. Yeah.

It sounds makes your blood run cold. Bobcats don't do that to me. I got real freaked out. I mean, I go back to them trails. That other trail we got paralleled. I come over a hump and this hiker come over and scummy ice cream. This guy scared me to death. I thought. I would love to see his gun. I thought for sure it was Bigfoot coming over there on me. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago. It's a safe, effective backup birth control option that helps prevent pregnancy before it starts by temporarily delaying ovulation.

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When it sounds like you are going to the cemetery sometimes without Mandy, would you say it is more active when you are both together or when you're just by yourself, Rick? It's definitely more active when me and her together. Okay. It definitely is. I was scared that that thing was going to take her that night and I'd never see her again. that's I mean I just had the worst feeling but you know I'm more used to them now I'm not as

scared as I as I was and they encounter that we have kind of a relationship with them like I say we take out and gift them and they come out and interact with us it's they know who we are we're always out in yeah they've gotten used to our car and stuff as well this this happened year round. I mean, this clan of them, I don't think they leave. I think they're living

underground out there in the cave systems. Yeah. I really do. We had done some exploring out, found a cave one time with a big boulder there, and we went back the next day, and this huge boulder's gone.

I just totally gone. No person could move this. I mean, this is straight up a hill in the middle of nowhere. Yeah, it's hard to even get to. I'm thinking maybe they had that block and an entrance to their spot or what. Yeah. There's some interesting things going on in here, definitely.

I want to start getting cast because we saw handprints out there and feet print. So we see tracks all the time. We're going to start doing some casting this year out there. How big are the tracks that you've been seeing? They're probably anywhere from, I mean, we've seen smaller tracks, but mainly about 16 to 20 inch tracks. These things are ever better four to six inches wide. And even the baby tracks, when we find them,

like I have even like jumped and tried to get an impression into the ground as deep as they are. I couldn't. I jumped three times and still it didn't go down and, is dirt and mud like that. It was wild. They did this little print about that big, there's barefoot out in the middle of the woods.

Yeah, that's the weird part. I mean, why is there? I've heard that, man, I heard that from a researcher. They were out in the woods by Mount Rainier in Washington. Just these little baby footprints with the toes. Yeah. Why would his little baby be out there? I mean, doesn't make sense, right?

Yeah, it's weird. Really weird stuff. We do a lot of airhead, honey. So we're out in these plowed fields looking for artifacts sometimes. And sometimes we'll run across tracks out there that'll just go out and stop suddenly. Like in the middle of the 1,000 acre field, they go out and then stop. Oh, how'd they get me? I just, I can't explain that.

I don't know. Because out in the fields, like, you're just synced to your ankles and mud everywhere you go. And then you get out so far, and there's just a few pranks. like, there was another time when we're out driving. I was going a little fast out this one lane four straight.

I usually don't go that fast. I was going out through there pretty fast that night and I come around a corner and I thought I seen something jump off of the hill in front of me. And it's standing there. And this thing's huge. I mean, it's just solid mass and black.

You can see the arm. and legs. And he was driving. So I seen it outside his window. Me and her talking my windows down. So by the time I got stopped, this thing had come beside others at a full sprint. Oh, boy.

And she's looking over at me. His first matted. And all I could see was like, like it was like this. And I could see its back. But just from like the window. So it was not even quite to it. shoulders and it took up.

First I thought, tree and then no. There's a tree there and then we heard crashing. We were crashing the awfulest break. Something big was moving through there. In my mind I was like I seen like leaves and stuff like in it. It's fur. I was like, oh my goodness.

We went back the next day and found the prints. Yeah, we found some prints. I tried to make a report of that through the BFRO and the guy. I was working right at the time he tried to call and I couldn't answer the phones and then he just started treating me different after that. I was like, well, I'm done reporting out there too. I was like, well, I'm done reporting these things.

I mean, if they're not going to take me serious, you know, I'm not going to afford. Yeah, absolutely. Yeah, how close was it to you guys when you saw it out the window, Mandy? Oh, it was just, yeah. Close. Yeah, five, six feet,

for us. Oh, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. This happened last year, too. Yeah. There's a lot of activity down here.

That's what I hear because I have talked to, I'm pretty sure I know the area, or at least the county we're talking about. And I've talked to a few people from that area. And there's some wild, wild stuff that happens down there in southern Ohio where you guys are at. It's just weird, weird stuff. In the cemetery, do you guys ever hear, do they ever whistle at you guys? Yeah, we've heard whistles. Yeah. I've heard the garble is what I call it.

Yeah, we hear like they're talking. Sometimes it sounds like a little kid talking out in there. Sometimes you'll catch a word here and there. It's really strange. Yeah. The screaming, though, I just can't get over the screams of these things. and then the one was barking like I've got a video of us we had something it was kind of like a deep bark we were hiking out

there were six inches of the snow out we're four miles up in this trail about to come up on a cliff top it's a long trail it don't end it goes and something's like whoo who it's doing this stuff and it's scared her to death I mean She took off over the side of this cliff. I had to follow her. I almost couldn't get down there. I'm an outdoor woodsie.

Iker me. Yeah, she, I never seen her run that fast. Yeah, I know not to run, but I don't know. That same. It scared me so. That same trails where the cookies were left. We'd left some cookies there and we'd come back and there was two rocks stacked up there. There's nobody out of it.

in this area. I mean, there was six inches of snow. You couldn't. I mean, it was the only tracks out in there. It's like every time we go out pretty much, we have an encounter.

Something. Unless I take a gun or somebody else, like sometimes I'll go out with somebody else, and I don't have much, I don't have much activity. Or if I pack a gun in there, it seems like I don't have much activity. I feel like when I have,

have my phone on me. Like, I'm always trying to record, and that's when stuff don't happen. But if I leave my phone, most generally, something will happen. I know they can sense that stuff. I mean, it's, there's something there. I really think that you are absolutely correct. Last, this July, 2025 in Oregon, it was at the point where you're right if you leave

you leave the electronics behind or you turn them off or whatever that's when you can get some weird stuff and of course I am being safe out there but you know what I mean

so yeah exactly yeah the sorry the cemetery after we come down took some random pictures and I had these crazy light orbs in this. There's like no light out there. We're all the time getting these crazy

orbs in our pictures out in these areas. At the same time. Yeah, at the same time, we usually have knocks or or whistles. And it's not only around the cemeteries that we pick up the

orbs as well. At first I thought it was, just the cemetery. I can't explain. the orbs. Wow, stuff. What color orbs are you guys seeing

out there? We get them anywhere from blue to purple to green to green pink sometimes just clear and it's going to be crazy-looking

orbs in some of the picture. There was another time I got, I was out, I'd stop a little bit, do a couple knocks here and there,

I'd jump back the car, drive down the road a little bit, and then I'd just take random pictures. And I caught one laying off the side of the road. This thing was black. I mean, it had a big conical head on it. You can see the eyes shining.

You can see a six-pack of a stomach and everything. It is wild. But some of these trees that's twisted, I mean, they'll be like twisted and then snap, you know, like snap now. and then a lot of structures like I've seen trees that's hooked up hill into another tree and then have trees laid up like on on them

even meant completely in half and still growing I found I followed the direction of one of these bows one day off trail and I got up in there and I found a cave that I didn't know was ever there there was a really decent sized cave back in there I think this tree bow was pointing in that direction. Oh, okay, so maybe some kind of directional marker.

That's a cool idea. That's what I'm thinking. They're used for territorial markers and probably directional markers since I found that cave there. But like where there's houses there won't be, and then there'll be a patch of woods, and you'll see some tree bows, sometimes some doubles. Sometimes there'll be an A structure or an X.

and like the trees that's leaned up there didn't come from there something's put something's put in there I mean these things haven't been cut they've been placed there yeah and I've watched the thing where they decipher the difference from a tree that's been weighed down or been snapped and how they break different you can tell you can tell that Definitely.

Yeah. Like most time if they've been way down, they splinter. And if they've just been like broke, they just snap clean. Yeah, we're pretty observing. Once you start seeing this stuff, I mean, it's everywhere, Jeremiah. I mean, it's everywhere out of here. So how do you guys view Bigfoot down there? I know there are different ways to try to explain what Bigfoot may be.

Do you guys have any certain theory that you've come across from your years of experiencing things? I think, I want to lean towards that they're a flesh and blood animal. But, I mean, with the orbs and everything, like that wind experience we had, I mean, there's paranormal linked with it. the way that I look at it is like they say how cats have different nervous systems and they say the cats like live on like the fifth dimension all the time you know what I mean because they have a different type of nervous system and like my cat she's all black and white and like when she gets in the light her hair gets all brown and like stripy if the sun hits her and I just feel like that's because of her nervous system it's meant for you know And I think the Bigfoot sort of does that. I just feel like they might have just different abilities. We've seen them like. How they're nervous systems.

We've seen them like shimmering in the moon. We've seen one here a few months back. It was shimmering in the moon like. Wow. I mean, and I'm pretty sure this thing was solid white. Yeah. And I mean, it was like glowing in this moonline. And we watched this thing for about an hour.

I had some cheeseburgers baited out for it. We watched this thing come down a ridge, was zigzagging around, and go back up the ridge, then come back down. This thing wanted these cheeseburgers bad. You guys are spoiling the Bigfoot down there. We feed them good out here.

We've gave them money. They're coins out. Tiny stuff. You know, we've shiny things. That one in the moon, It almost just looked like it was smooth and too fast to just be walking. It was so...

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maybe putting that in my head. I don't know. I just did you get that hum? It's like your ears are ringing. We've had humming. The night we've seen the white one coming back up and down the ridge there. We had like a strange

humming noise in our ears. So loud. We got some strange old pictures that night. So when you say humming, is it like when you have sometimes people get a ringing in their ears is it like that or a little different yeah it just kind of reminds me of that yeah it's like a ring it was real loud it was almost

distract almost like an eye headache you know behind your eyes with the ring it's so loud have you ever experienced any other weird um physical effects out there yes I have been turned around luckily um locally I mean I knew to know if I needed to get out how to get out like finding creeks and stuff but it I have been going to complete other direction following him and thought oh I thought we was going that way and thought I was really paying attention but got turned around I had an answer in the opposite direction. Before I met, before we got together, I'd fell sleep out in the woods

one day. It just, was just weird. I never, I'm like, I just got real tired, laid down and took a noun and woke up in the wood. I was out there digging yellow root by myself. Never really thought about that.

I just got real tired. I've heard some people say they can put you to sleep. We heard that, and then he's like, Nick. And then maybe that's what I thought. Well, maybe that's what it was. Nothing else makes sense. I don't know why I just lay down out there and take a nap one day.

Wasn't that around the time that you was out there in that record who had got for? Oh, God. Yeah, I was digging roots out in the same area. This is years ago, about 15 years ago. And we've been going in there pretty heavy digging roots out. And we come in there one day in the past. was just wrecked, look like a tornado coming there. It was just trees laid

everywhere across. I get up through there and there's a raccoon body laying there. There's like a 40 pound raccoon laying there with its head missing. Just the end trails hanging out of this body of this thing. And up the trail about 20 feet laying right in the middle of trail was this

raccoon's head with the intro. Nothing had touched it. It looked like something that just twisted the head off this thing. I mean, I can't explain that. But I know we got out of there. We didn't go back in there after that. We took the warning. Yeah, I don't blame you. Whatever does something like that. I'm not not tangled. There was another time we seen something black and shiny up in the tree. But it couldn't make it out. And I just dismissed it as a bear. But the,

This is before we started having so many encounters. I'm thinking this might not have been a bear out there. We sat there and watched it forever, too. And it was like, what in the world? Yeah, shiny black. Then it was definitely. We see bear all the time, but this wasn't a bear. It was too big to be a bear.

There wasn't like a lot of looms on that tree for a bear to have, like, gotten up there either. The more I think about it was just like. Definitely. definitely strange. Very strange. I can't explain. I can't explain this stuff.

Some of the things I have them were so baffled. No, yeah. It gets weirder, the more time you spend in there. Has there ever been a time where you almost didn't go back to the area afterwards because it got, it was so bad. The barking.

Yeah. The barking. The barking for her, that barking incident. It was more of the cemetery. Terry for me. I went back, but I still get scared where I go back out to that place.

Like the other night when I caught something there, last night, I caught something behind us moving in there. And just it brought back memories of that encounter. Yeah, he don't even let me out of the truck. Couldn't know when we go up there now.

It bothered me for a long time. It still bothers me. I got obsessed with it. I never went out and hunting for big until the stuff happened to me and now it's an all the time thing it's weird

I man I think stuff is revving up I honestly do I mean we were just we were talking before the show started this will be coming out

in a few weeks but at time of recording it's at right now it's it's five sightings in Northeast Ohio in four days in a, I don't know, 20 minute radius. I mean, it is so close. It's all in the same county. Yeah.

I've been watching where you've been posting about it. I'm keeping track on it. Sorry. I feel like the bell's getting thinner. Yeah. Also, which calls is. Yeah. Some crazy things.

I mean, there was another time out there. We were gifting pretty heavy, and I went out one day, and we didn't have any gifts. And I'd noticed a cat had puked on the car. And I'm like, oh, now I'm going to, so I scrape that cap pew. I'm not thinking nothing about it. So we leave. We come back the next day, and there's, there's some feces. There's a piece of feces laying there with hair on.

And I didn't recognize this cat. Yeah. I see it. I mean, I reckon I'm out of the woods all the time. I know what difference cat looks like, and this was unrecognized. It looked kind of human.

It really did. But it had fiber in it, like tree, like tree hairs all that. It was really weird. I have another, I think there's a lot of sidings in the, where these cedar forests and stuff are.

I think maybe they use that stuff for maybe a food source. I mean, there's a lot of vitamins. them and see in some of these cedar trees. I mean, the great cover. The benefits from the cedar and pine are just endless, you know, for them, from food to medicinal coverage because they're so thick and bloom all year. There's so many caves around here where we're located.

There's a lot of huge underground cave system. And I do believe they use those. Yeah. Then he sent me a video one day where these soldiers like dig underground and make like them huts, you know, and then use like tree stumps. And it looks like just, you know, regular nature. And I just wonder if they don't do that as well. I'd say they dig holes and make secret doors in there. I mean, they got, go to. And they're like dead tree stumps. I think they kind of camellian out. is my opinion. I think they kind of blend in with the environment around them.

We call it shimmering. We've seen a few shimmering. Okay, you have. I was hoping that would come up. Okay, very interesting. Wow. So when you say shimmering, are you, it's kind of like the predator thing? Kind of like the predator.

Kind of like they blend back into the environment. I like a chameleon or an octopus who does in the ocean So that's how I think that they stay so hidden I think they have that power to change Oh sure So you just want to make sure I understand it right

So are you saying that you've seen Something that looks like it's a predator Or you've seen something that looks like it was a big foot And then it changed into like a shimmering type deal. I've seen something that looked like a big foot and then watched it

just blend into the environment. Oh man, really? And just be gone. Is there? No, it's just not. Yeah. I mean. Oh, wow. I know they move fast,

but this is different. I mean, it has to be it has to be crazy. Yeah. That's crazy. I think that's almost like where the whirbs come from, I almost feel like that is almost like that.

I know we're not. I know we're not crazy. Some of the people I work for them. They're like, oh, you're crazy. They call me crazy, whatever. Yeah. It eats at you. I mean, you want to go back out in there.

I want to be out there all the time. I want to see these things hurt. I want them to be protected. Yeah. They're logging a lot of forest. They're logging a lot of forest out in here. And these things are moving. and they're dispersing them out.

And they're moving into areas of people, residential. Yeah, you keep hearing. A lot more sightings going on. Getting in dogs. Where they keep getting pushed and pushed. It'll be interesting. And I'll leave it at this, really basic. There's going to be situations where vast amounts of forest

that haven't been cut down before. are going to be cut down pretty soon. And that's potentially going to lead to some really interesting encounters as things can't be in the forest anymore, and then they go other places, right? Yeah. We'll see what happens. Totally agree.

We've seen it happen here with these forests. They've been logging thousands of thousands of acres out of our state forest down here. Yeah. They're pushing them further and further. They're putting these new data. centers in now down here it's going to get worse. Yeah, they're trying. And they're putting other, it makes other predators, sorry.

That makes other predators move in together. We're putting all these days. We have some other crazy, like there's a serpent mound down around here. Yeah, we're kind of close to the serpent mound. Oh, okay. And there's Peach Mountain over there where they have that G. Government facility over there. wild stuff

range things we see over there sometimes some wild stuff last night actually yeah last not wow but the white one that was coming down shining that moonlight it was just crazy

that was crazy that's just weird and it sounds like you guys most of the time you're out there you're not trying to record video or audio stuff like that right sometimes we do

but like we're working with minimal equipment. We can get better equipment. I get it. We're just a old cell phone. A hundred dollar cell phone. Don't even take a good selfie. We got, we got some stuff coming.

We got some night vision and some thermal stuff coming. Oh, nice. Parabolic microphones. We're, we're on full scale. I'm going to get some tracks casted this year. Yeah. We're going to keep doing our research and document things.

Do you guys? Do you guys have, some people have in their Bigfoot area, they'll also have to worry about other things as well? Or is it primarily just Bigfoot in the area? I know some people will have also things like Dog Man in the same area. I mean, we've heard a few encounters of the Dog Man. I was personally, I don't think we've ever had a dog man encounter. But what we hear of them, I mean, they're real violent. It's mainly the big foot that we're seeing.

I guess we sort of. But that opened us up to believe in other things, like the dog man. By seeing having all these encounters, you know, I'm open to about everything right now. When we was down in the LBL, they got some. footage of some wild things while we was down there. They did. They got a picture of a dog man. We went down to the LBL,

done some research with it. Was that for one of those meetups down there? There's a town hall meeting. Yeah, it went to a town hall meeting down there at the Golden Palm. Okay. The Martin Groves. Oh, gotcha. That's great.

People down there, yeah. Yeah. Martin is such a great guy. I've met him twice, and he is just an upstanding guy. They all were incredible. My father had a big foot encounter in the 70s, and my dad wasn't a liar, and he'd always tell me a story. And so that made me believe her mama, why?

I believe my father in his encounter. It scared him. It bothered him. and his buddy had an encounter. One time I was a kid, I got off the bus, and dad had the tractor stuck down the creek. And I was probably nine years old. So I go down there to look at the tractor,

fight my way through the goats, and get down there, and something jumps up and starts just ripping up trees. I mean, just, it happened so quick. It scared me. I ran back to the house. I got my BB gun, and I went back down to the creek. And there was four-inch saplings ripped apart down there.

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What's weird is the very first encounter I ever had was just the road run. past his house where he grew up and had that. I had something paralleled me. I was just walking on the road, and there was something in the woods. It was probably 1 o'clock in the morning, and I had one, I guess it was one. I couldn't take of anything else that would follow me and keep, like, these like little tiny gravels or something. They kept, like, tossing out when I was walking out.

it was right there where he had lived yeah that is wild what a weird that's such an interesting connection really hmm way years apart yeah exactly yeah there was another time we were camping with my dad and i don't lose out on a boat it was the fourth of july we're coming down this creek something was start cracking over off to the side there and we're all shooting fireworks at these things and that just made it more than made it intense. I mean, things got intense that at that time. And I always thought that that was a that was a big foot encounter for us that's close to where we've had our other encounter. So you're you're shooting off fireworks at what you think are big foot, what things were happening

that made you think that there were big foot involved during the fireworks? Deer, deer and other predators around here, they don't like fireworks and loud bangs. They're going to take off in the other direction. This just made these things carry on worse. I mean, they was cracking some major trees, like just thrashing around, just out of side off the edge of the river bank.

Man. Was you, was your teenager? Yeah, I was young. I was younger. But, yeah, we see tracks all the time.

I'm going to start plaster casting these tracks. And I guess some more good evidence. There's one spot that we seen, and there was tracks going, like bunches of them going this way, and then you could see them where they can come them back. It's just like a highway for them or something. Oh, man.

Oh, man. Yeah. of these. Yeah, some of the trails. So many of them. Some of the trails through there. I mean, just tell something massive has been through there.

But I know when everything goes quite like at the cemetery, everything went quiet and then birds flew off. And that, I mean, that just scared me to death, that tree shaking. Yeah. And then seeing that thing sitting over off the side of the cemetery. I haven't experienced anything like,

I've experienced the quietness and stuff going on with your ears and then you know stuff is going to happen. I've not had the visual yet. I'd know one of these days it'll happen. It'll probably be life-changing. It will change my life when I've seen that thing. There's so much more human-looking to me in a face. Then, you know, a lot of people have them. They look like gorillas or monkeys or something.

and I don't have that experience. I feel like they look a lot more human in the face than... Yeah. They look a lot more human. The one I've seen. I mean, that had looked a lot like a human. It just might be bigger and covered in hair. Very odd looking.

I've had a few people describe it to me, and I think it's, it makes sense how they're like, you know, imagine what would happen to you, if you went out and just lived in the woods and left everything behind for years and years and years and like what would happen to you out there like you know what would you look like and and what would you be thinking and what would you be doing and and i think that's the the truth from that is is kind of connected you know they're they're they're similar but they're you know they're they're always hungry they're always looking for food for food all the time

Cheeseburgers everywhere. Everywhere. They love. They're opportunists. That's right. Whatever's available. Yeah. Yeah.

But they love cheeseburgers and apples. They love them apple. Yeah. They like strawberry cake too a lot. Sweet stuff. Well, Rick and Mandy, it has been really fun chatting with you guys. I always like talking to people about Southern Ohio just because it's a weird place. I've been there once

and it was pre-Bigfoot stuff but I remember we were driving along the back roads and we were lost and this is like back in the 90s without like without GPS and stuff and dad was like

I'm just gonna walk up to that house and ask for direction and I was like a 10 and I was like that's a bad idea dad like I wouldn't do that out here but yeah it's a different world it's beautiful but it's a different world but, you know, I just want to say thank you guys for both coming on and keep us in the loop with, you know, if more things happen. And is there a way that people can keep up to date with things you got going on?

Or is it or a way to reach out to you or anything like that? We're both on Facebook. I'm on Facebook and Richard Stiltern. Mandy Stilner. Yeah. Awesome. And we're working on getting us a page up. We can show all the evidence and everything.

Our email, we've used the one since mine. It is not. We're having an email. Email problems right now. You know that. Right. We're working on it. Yeah.

Forget it. I know what the problem is now. Definitely. Which email would that be that would be good to use, Mandy? It's probably the Southern Ohio. Yeah, Southern Ohio. Gotcha. Bigfoot, 1979 at gmail.com.

Yep, Southern Ohio, Bigfoot, 1979 at gmail.com. Perfect. I will make sure that's in the description too. But thank you so much for hanging out, guys. It has been a pleasure, and you guys are having a good time down there, but be safe out there in the woods and in the cemetery. Definitely. You too.

Appreciate you. Thank you so much. Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oakridge, Oregon, and you think to yourself, man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it for myself. Well, guess what? This year, you can. If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summerfest is coming up July 10th through the 11th, 2026. It's going to be even better than the previous year's reason number one. I'll be one of the speakers, it's going to be wild.

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We can talk about your encounter. I was able to talk to so many people last year and the year before. It is an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it. And I'll see you there. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, or if you're a National Park Ranger or Forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're with the FBI, a federal agency, or working intelligence, and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about,

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