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Episode Date: September 11, 2025

What happens when a weekend camper decides to visit Salt Fork’s legendary Bigfoot Ridge during the Ohio Bigfoot Conference — and ends up facing the unknown just feet from his tent?In this terrifying and unforgettable episode, we speak with “E,” a Bigfoot believer turned knower, who recounts a chilling class B encounter during an overnight stay at Salt Fork State Park. From raccoons stealing Chipotle to bloodcurdling grunts in the dead of night, what started as a peaceful evening ended in primal fear.You’ll hear how a glowing red tent, a Mr. Heater, and an unlucky woodland creature triggered one of the most intense Bigfoot vocalizations ever heard — and how BFRO investigators camping nearby confirmed they heard it too. E also shares encounters from Coshocton County, details on massive prints in frozen ground, and explains why Ohio might just be America’s Bigfoot hotspot.This isn’t just a campfire story. It’s what happens when the forest fights back.🗣️ 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📧 Business Inquiries:[e-mail]

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Visit your nearby lows on West Pico Boulevard in Los Angeles. 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. 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, Big Fifth Society, we've got the privilege of talking to E today.

He is an individual that reached out to me through email from Central Ohio about some things that he's experienced in that state. So it's a pleasure to talk to you tonight. I'm going to go ahead and hand it right over to you. Sir, thank you for being here tonight. Yeah, thank you for having me. I like to stay up from Central Isle. I guess I've always been a believer. And now a kind of a knower.

Had a type B, a class B sighting. Pretty, pretty, I guess, vulgar, you'll say, that happened to me. Never, never will forget it. So obviously living in Ohio, grass man is the terminology. Didn't even know about the grassman until I moved to Ohio about over 10 years ago. And so Fort State Park is like the mecca of it all. And so me, I always want to go out there and check it out. This situation happened to me April 29th of 2022.

I know that because it was Ohio big football. Ohio Bigfoot Conference and a month ago. I wanted to meet people. I knew all the big names, you know, Bigfoot community were going to be there and just and it's like

the, you know, the place to be for Ohio. So the place that my situation happened was a spot called Bigfoot Ridge and it was campsite number six. I'll never never forget it. Still go there to this day. So it was on

a Friday night. Got there kind of late, about 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, and it's still kind of like that sunset in about 6. So I was putting on my camp, got off work, setting everything up in the middle of them, kind of like darkness. How to use my head lamp to put it up. And I was going to get cold that day, too.

So I got my Mr. Heater, got everything I needed. So after I set everything up, I had Chipotle and I ate Chipotle, and I forgot I left it outside. and raccoons were I could hear little footsteps coming in and whoever was at the

Ohio football conference they even told the story to them Mark who runs it to everybody that year as well too that fall and Sunday so if you were there

you know who I am what I look like and everything else so yeah fast forward to you know raccoons coming in and out of my camp and this is about

two o'clock. And they kind of disturbed me. So I decided to unzip my zipper, kind of scare them away, and used the bathroom. Also to mention there were people from the BFRO.

They were camping that night around me. Later found that out. They were from New Jersey. They drove all along from New Jersey to a while to experience the Wildeville Conference. So they went out for a night investigation. So it's about 2.30 now.

I'm going out to relieve myself, and they're coming back from a night hike. They had their red lambs and everything. And so I knew I wasn't the only one up during that time. So I decided to go because they're coming back from the cars and have their headlamps and going into their tents. And I'm going back to my tent. So I'm kind of surrounded my people. If you ever been to Bigfoot, Bigfoot Ridge, there's a brush line near the, they can buy that sign. If you're pulling them, I'll be on your right-hand-side in campsite number six, like I said.

So I had a red tent. Had my Mr. Heater. It was going to be in the 30s. And so I hear this raccoon, like I said, they're coming in and out, in and out. Here we go back to the brushline and they'll take him food that I left out, Chipole, to kind of hear rumbling through some other stuff as well. And you hear it nibbling, like, and you can hear it's like a small creature,

a raccoon possum, something on that nature. And as it misses, this animal is eating, whatever it was, small rodents, my eternal animal. I hear it die, like, ah, I hear it like, like,

it's fighting for his life. Like, something is attacking it. And I'm like, okay, I'm thinking, I'm trying to be logical, like a coyote, fox, something like that, you know, that would be, could kill, like, a predator or some type of a predator. The only predators we have or Blackbeard, but we only got, like, a population of 100 in Ohio.

It's not like Tennessee was in the thousands. So, so, yeah. But I'm all, like this animal die and so forth. So decided to turn out my Mr. Heater to keep me warm, just like 30 degrees. Her came a little bit colder in the nap. And from the brushline, I heard, and I was like, did I just hear that? And it was all because I turned on my Mr. Heater

and my whole tent lit up from being red. And I heard it a third time. And it blew me away. And the third time, at first time I turned it on the missile heater is weird because it's like counterclockwise to turn it off like it was the first time using it too

and so like I said I turned it on I didn't believe what I heard and then it happened again a second time and I had it on a low setting and it got super loud when I accidentally turned from low to high and I was trying to turn it off

I mean, the lungs on this thing, it was like, and I'm laying on my back too, like, leaning on my back. And I'm like, it's not even ground level. And I'm like, this thing is up. Like, if I was just stand up, like, you know, six feet plus. Like, I'm trying to, because I'm trying to get distance from a distance and how high, high up it is. And I'm like, that sounds like taller than me. And I can't even do justice of with the grunts and so forth.

in my mind like I'm thinking did I just disturb a Bigfoot kill in and I didn't even hear it come up and I'm thinking thinking to myself if this was a Black Bear like it would

it should have went through my camp which it didn't should go to other people's camps but it didn't you hear it slowly like crunch crunch crunch away but for something

something that big I should are need to come up to the brush line. And yeah, it pretty much ambush whatever that was. So it was a raccoon or possum or whatever. But I didn't hear anything until it made a kill. Like I could hear that little animals. And then it's just like if you ever heard like a like a calf, not a cat fight, but something fighting for his life and then he could tell us small

like a dog or like a dog fight or whatever and so yeah so I mean I'm up by then turn on my my Mr. Heater my tense red and I heard the grunts and I didn't believe it

and I heard it again and I'm thinking to myself is this the vocalization that people is this what it sounds like and clearly is directed towards me because I'm the only one that had like lit up the tents

I mean I went out to use the bathroom prior nobody else had their tent lit up at all so and that red on red really glowed up the area and I'm probably like 20 yards from five yards pretty close to our brush line. I know that because I play football,

so I don't know how like, you know, first downs and all that. So, yeah, I'm pretty close. It's this thing. I mean, it could have been on me right, right there and there. And luckily it didn't. And the third grant,

because I was trying to turn it from below to off, I actually turned it low to high. and so he had grown it so I didn't get a look of sleep all night I didn't know what's going to happen next I didn't know if it's going to come back I did at all and so as soon as daybreak

as soon as day break I go back to Central Ohio was only in one city that's really in Central Ohio so so go back to Columbus my wife thought I was going to spend a night there like, you know, the morning in the lab, come home

and I came to her and said they're out there. I said they're out there. She said I look like I've seen a ghost. Like I, my skin's you know, I'm African-American. I'm just kind of like lost pigmentation, I guess, a little bit in my

skin, fair skin like African-A so I guess I look whitish. And, A.L. scared. K.L. scared. K. K. K. K. K. K. K.m. Kept listening and listening. Didn't hear anything. But I did hear it, like, bipedal walk away. So I just left everything there, you know, just going to come back and get it.

And so, because I had just, there was no way I was going to sleep out there. I needed some sleep. So my son had a soccer game anyways. So I decided to go later that afternoon. So April 29th, that Friday, I guess technically it's April 30th, it's 2.30 at the morning. So April 30th, the next one, because the weekend, the Bigfoot conference is just a weekend thing. So later go to the afternoon, and I pull up, and the BFR people from New Jersey came to me immediately after I got out of my car and asked me, did you hear anything? And I said, yeah, 2.30 in the morning.

They're like, yeah. So that gave me validation that I wasn't the only one. And it was, I don't know what else. And Ohio, the biggest name we really, really got is white-tailed deer and a hundred, 100 bear, roughly, black bear. And, I mean, the place is notorious for. obviously big foot and grass

mirror and so yeah I mean I what validated for me was

after we planted it over and over and over my head was the fact how high

up those vocals and I can tell if it's ground level or not you can tell

if this is six feet or more you know you know from treat like so

it definitely was and what what runs at you and like walks away and there was nobody with flashlights

nothing like that so if it was if it was a bear it should have went through everybody's stuff they didn't it was particular it had a mission

it completed the mission and I think I deserve part of its mission that's why I got those vocalizations directly towards me and yeah yeah so

share with my experience that with the Ohio Info conference that Sunday where it's like a town hall meeting that Mark holds can remember Mark's last name but he's pretty much runs it sort of

let everybody there in front of Renee Cliff Dr. Meldrum even moneymaker as well too Don Don Guine was there as well I saw John as well I see John quite a bit

when I go there. So I, after that happened, I was like, I'm never, don't need to go back. Don't need to. I was scared. Like, it took me months to even build up the courage because, like I said this is COVID, but ending, ending of COVID. And I was always curious about it. And beforehand, I was hiking.

that was my first time spending the night there and there's a map of I guess where other sightings has happened as well and I wanted to go to a primitive site and it's a primitive spot throughout the park there's no running water there's not electricity and yeah I

I've done hikes there where I've seen footprints in March which is still like 30 degrees and I wear a size of a little boot and the width the length the depth the depth is like incredible

that something can leave an oppression like that in frozen ground the heel point like when you step like heel first toe second and the heel is somewhat deeper the heel leaves the bigger impression

because that's where all the weight goes and it spreads the earth, spreads the dirt. Which is like rolls it up. Got pictures of that. Kashton County went on high control there. This is probably like a year or so ago. Hunting season. I'm walking.

There's deer everywhere. I think Kashton County in Jersey County, I got the biggest kills, deer, kills you're and your else. So plenty of food. And those two counties kind of touch each other, board each other.

And so, yeah, fall, obviously year season, walking down the trail part, like my mom. And there's some houses on my right-hand side. Not houses, I would say a farm, a farm. But the loudest, like,

Louisville's slivered, not ever. and I do a lot of hiking hoping I get lucky like I said to build some time after this situation happened to me in 2002 and it's not probably happened

last year last fall so Bill has some courage to go back out there and heard that is what I'd hike I don't know what else I mean it wasn't It was so early in the morning. It was like 7.30 in the morning.

And I'm like, who's building anything? And it wasn't repetitious knocking. It was just one solid, this like, pow. And that was it. It wasn't a, like, it wasn't even a tree falling over because you were with crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, fall over. It wasn't even that. So I had a walker stick. I tried to knock back nothing.

But I saw, when I saw the day. deer on that day that day this was like last fall it felt like a knock like someone's here the grunts I'm going back to the grunts I'm all over the place because

the grunts felt like someone saying hey hey knock it off like that's what that's what it felt like cut it out knock it off type grunts and I didn't act fast enough to the grunts are apart because second apart.

And the third one that's got pretty, pretty low. Like it escalated. And I couldn't get that Mr. Heer shut off fast enough. So, I mean,

I've, I still go out. I reach out to Harley Owens. Let him know that. I am pretty close six hours away. So I heard them. I seen the impressions.

They leave on Earth. And I do, I do one day want to have a class, obviously I don't want to, if I'm going to have a class A, you know, if I have my pickings of something that is, I can go home that day.

But, so yeah. So far, I had those class Bs. And they were never, never forget them. And, yeah, I mean, they're definitely here. I mean, I don't know what else could leave that type of type of front in the middle of the night. And, yeah, it has to be.

That's very interesting, that whole situation happening that weekend. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions? Yeah. So you leave early in the morning to go back to. Columbus, which is just under an hour and a half. Right. And then you go back to get your stuff. Now, when you went back to the campsite to get your stuff, you know, did you notice signs of a struggle, how, you know, you were saying like that raccoon or whatever it is got taken out?

Or did you see any evidence? So, yeah. So one of the guys from the, how I knew it was from BFRO because he had a BFRO ad on. and I talked to my and they told me they're from New Jersey and this is one particular skinny lady red hair pink hair that we went back there to look to see like a tussle this thing it sounded like they got a hold of and it was like you know if you pick up a wild cat is trying to get out of your arms and I think this I think this is saying it's just like snap his neck, twisted it, something, and that was the end of it. So it wasn't much, it wasn't even tussling, really. It was like a snatchup. And it wasn't, like, the bushes weren't, you know, rumbling around, the leaves, none of that.

It's like, like I said, that, that animal that was eating my Chapoli was occupied, you know, and I'm thinking to my, that night, I'm thinking, oh, what a perfect opposite. opportunity to ambush animal in the midst of it's being occupied eating is this food you get behind it or and get it so i'm thinking what do we have in a while that can do that i'm like possibly fox coyote but they're not going to leave those vocalizations like how i heard or bear for that matter because they don't go like they this is different a growl and a grunt and this is definitely playing a grunt. Right.

Right. And you said it was immediate. So you said you heard, you actually heard like bipedal footsteps as well. Afterwards, yeah. It was odd. It was, it sounded like a sneak up. I mean, when I say it sounds like the fact that I didn't hear it come, the fact that I didn't hear it. And it was, it was large.

It was large. It was and it was and I'm laying on the ground and I can hear it like six feet up. I'm being conservative when I say that too. When I say six feet up, I'm like a minimum of six feet. Like a minimum of that. I'm glad I got the validation from the people from the BFR telling me, hey, did you, they, I couldn't, they came out. I couldn't get out the car fast enough without them coming towards me. Right.

And the lady, he heard it, the skinny girl from New Jersey. The guy with the BFR all had on, he said he fell asleep. I mean, when they went in their 10 and out, I got done doing number one. It happened 10 minutes, 15 at the most. And I'm thinking, like, you know, when you're in the woods, and if you're looking for big foot like they were, you're going to want to stay up a little as long as you can, especially just got into your tent.

So for him to say that, yeah, I fell asleep. I was like, man, you fell asleep less than 10 minutes, 15 minutes. And I was kind of like, there's no way you felt it. And then here in the house, like, that didn't, that didn't like wake you up at all. Like, you're, I can understand if you're going slowly to sleep. But so he was kind of bummed out. He didn't hear it a little bit if he did. And other people were saying,

there. Yeah, there was a lot of animal activity. Which makes sense because there's a dumpster there was a prime opportunity for them to get into the trash cans after the people leave or, you know,

there's in camps. But, yeah, Bigford Ridge is obviously a hospital whoever's been there knows about it. So, yeah, they've been seeing throughout the whole entire park. Can you Can you share it just in case listeners don't know.

Do you, can you share any information about why that area is called Bigfoot Ridge? The story that I know of is that there was a picnic area before they made it a campsite. And I think John has said this on one of his podcasts on YouTube or he was telling a story or somebody was. is that I guess this is going back to the 80s, maybe early 90s that two of them

stepped out. Man, I think it was a handicap, like picnic area. So, and then they convert into a campsite eventually, a primitive campsite. Like I said, it doesn't have any of electricity or running water or anything like that. And I guess when they named

it, they named it Bifford Ridge. There's a sign-up. up for it and everything you can look at it up on google but i guess once like it was being known as the hot spot of ohio in a sense yeah they decided to name it bigfoot rich absolutely yes salt fork state park is a huge huge bigfoot area for people that aren't aware it's also the site of the ohio bigfoot conference as you said earlier but were there any other other reports from that night or weekend of other people in other areas having Bigfoot interactions? Yeah. So the place, there's a horse, there's a horse camp area. Everybody,

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I'd be smelling them. I didn't smell anything. I did get asked a question, did I felt sick I remember telling my story at the conference and one guy

came up to me and said he'd feel sick and I was like no I didn't feel nauseous because I heard of ultrasound but with the aggression of the vocalization

towards me because I turned out my Mr. Heater and just lit up the place with my red tent and so which kind of gave it like a

you know a glow it lit it up for sure and that's why I think, because I didn't hear it, it was certainly trying to be stealthy. And me lighting up the tent, you know, blue was like somewhat cover. So, and so yeah, I mean, it was definitely towards me. I mean, like I said, it happened a second soon as I turn on in the city here.

But other people did the, there was another lady from New Jersey from the BFRO, by, like I said, the horse camp. There's the Orange Trail. that kind of begins there, so to speak. There was like the white trail, blue trail, purple trail, orange trail. They saw two sets of blowing red eyes, one low and high. So, yeah, there was other people that saw something glowing red eyes. And they were out there.

When I was setting up tents, I guess 8 o'clock, 6, 6, whatever it was, They were heading out. So they were out there for like six hours from about, it was to say from eight to two. That's very, very interesting. Besides, so I guess a few, few follow-up questions. No strange smells in the campsite at that time. No, nothing, nothing worse like the stuff you hear.

Right, exactly. The stuff, like the skunk, the wet dog and all and just some stuff that makes you want to throw up. Like, none of that. No. They didn't feel nauseous. Didn't feel sick. But, um, the, like, the sound, the best way I can describe is, like, below the diaphragm. Like guttural, in your gut.

If you can, like, make sounds from your belly up versus from, your lungs up like that's how I would describe it it sounded like if if a gorilla could do that that's I mean that's

I never really heard a gorilla grunt but but it's not a known animal in Ohio that can like I said dare and bear right okay and it was like it had intelligence

because it didn't do what I wanted to, like, it cleared, it stopped the grounds I turned off the Mr. Heater, you know, after the time of third run. So I had intelligence, like, to do that. And I'm thinking if this, this thing, we're not known for a bear state at all.

We're just, just not, West Virginia and Tennessee are. Right. But we're not known for that. Well, I should tell people you have a better chance for going to a big foot than a black bear. That's funny. Here in Ohio.

And I mean, I think Ohio is the high spot just because all our rivers run into Ohio River. So you got the water stream, all the creeks and the small rivers, the Sayyota rivers and all that run into it. Obviously, you got the Great Lakes that, you know, so we're surrounded by water. Really no main big predators, 100 bear, black bear, which is nothing to them. and I mean trophy, if you won a trophy book for a trophy book, you're trying to get that 225 to 250

range of pounds. You can definitely get it here. So, and I know winners are not, well that lately they've been very, very mild, but but yeah, I mean, it goes back to the 1800s when that one

particular father and daughter are walking down and she just I don't think she said gorilla because the gorilla didn't exist back in those terms

I forgot what she called it and attacked her dad so yeah I mean it's and then I also go to Hawking Hills

just has of stories I mean National Forest I haven't had experience there but yeah I don't I don't, I really don't go once in the summertime just because you can't see any foliage.

I mean, the foliage is so thick. But, yeah, the situations that happen to me with the knock vocalizations, they were spring and fall. So. Yeah, that makes sense. Yeah. That's a, that's a good time, especially the fall from what I hear. So you are, you're actively going to Hawking Hills or you've been there a few times. Yeah, yeah, I mean, living in Columbus, you know, you're about, I mean, I live on the hour 15 that can get to self-work and then like an hour, hour, hour and 15 penned in Hawking Hills, main national forests, southeast Ohio.

Taylor Hall is a good place, brooks, a good place, state park. I'm trying to think of some other ones as well, but yeah, anything over there is obviously in Hawking Hills. that whole general region is a good spot. If you look at it on a BFRO map that's mapped out, you can pretty much draw a straight line from Lemieux County all the way down to Hawken Hills, which runs into Salt Fork. So it's our highest point of the state, and I guess the Appalachian of Foothills and plateaus, I guess,

and it kind of makes sense whether they stay from eastern Ohio southeast to northeast so kind of a diagonal line was kind of much to soft work if you were drier on the map but um

but yeah I'll never forget there's nothing I've been to the zoo I've been at San Antonio Zoo Columas Zoo was pretty well known there's there's nothing that makes

makes not, there's nothing in North America will at least classified. It makes that. It's a noise. Did you say that you had actually seen a track there? I have, yep, have. Tell us, was that the weekend? That was in the weekend, you saw that? No, that was, that was, like, the year prior.

Oh, okay. That was, I was going out there, like 2002, I'm sorry, 2000, COVID, COVID years. because there's not much else to do. Then go hiking and camping and I was getting tired of playing golf all the time. So neither another outlet of and I think that's where I picked it up because, like I said,

one story short, I was working from home and I'm listening to a bunch of podcasts and so forth. So it kind of expired me to go out to, you know, to solve forth and get on those trails. Like I says, a whole bunch of vital trails that can go eight miles to 10 miles. And I guess on four mile once as well, too. So, yeah, I got on the trail,

and I saw the footprint like crossed the trail. There was this one single footprint that stepped on the trail. And you couldn't see the rest of it because it was, you know, leaf litter everywhere. But the trail didn't have any leaves. And you can definitely see a heel for sure. It looked blocky, like a blocky foot. It didn't, yeah, just wide and blocky.

You can see toes as well in it. But the heel, it looked like the dirt just rolled up on his heel when it stepped on it. Because it's pretty like rounded, bounded at the heel area. And it's pushing off his heel into the toes. So Or landing is heel. been going on to the toes. But yeah, I was walking down the trail of it and step right over it. Step right over it and was kind of, it looked fairly fresh.

But what caught me was the impression, and I was looking for rocks. But I'm thinking like, and it's a horse trail. So like, they're going to clear rocks out the way. They don't want their horses breaking their, you know, I mean, it's a massive animal. and take care of it all that. So they keep it somewhat kind of cleared out for the horses. And I'm looking around for rocks, not finding a rock, but it is clearly going on us.

This is on the Blue Trail. That's all this. And the Blue Trail is, if you look at us all, focus on the peninsula, you can say. And a lesser crossing the waters is really one way in and one way out, on land without crossing water. So it's the reason why I went on a blue trail and it's where I noticed it. Did you have any way of, did you have like a tape measure or anything with you to try to?

Yeah, I did. I made my foot, size 11 foot so I can, like I send it to you. Okay. Love it to compare. And it makes my foot like a child's foot. It really does. Wow. That was a stunts and like, I guess, what on quote, grown man feet.

I mean, I'm not 6'4, 6'5, but that made my stuff with, like, my toddler when I had my kids were toddlers. Were you able to try to do like a cast or a 3D scan or anything like that besides? No, I didn't have anything. I didn't have anything on me. I mean, the only thing, I didn't have my wallet on me. I left it in the car. So I didn't have building that much other than I knew everybody knows what the size of 11 foot looks like or a boot. So I put my foot up against it to say, hey, this is like almost 12 feet right here, size 11.

So, man, it's another three to four. Yeah. Yeah, it looked like 15 feet to me. Yeah, and then the width, like my, it was like the width of my foot plus another half of my foot at least. So I put my foot in it and it was based on left and right of it. And I weighed 240, 240, so I'm not a skinny guy. And I couldn't do nothing in the ground. And the ground was frozen.

It was, it freezes at night, thaws out a little bit. So, but we're in March, so it's like 40 for a high. So it's not throwing out that fast or that, that efficient. So it's more frozen throughout the day than it is above freezing. So, yeah, and to leave that impression, went to the ground like that was something. How deep into the ground did it go again? At least a, at least an inch, at least, like an inch and a half. And I couldn't do nothing.

I couldn't do nothing. Like, I tried stopping on it and everything around it, like not in it, but around it to see what I can do. I couldn't move it. I mean, the grounds, like, it's like semen almost. So there's nothing I can, my 240 pound body could do to put her impression into the earth like that. And coming out of winter, so barely.

Scott from Patreon has a question for you. What was it that first got you into Bigfoot in the first place? Monster Quest. Monster Quest definitely did. The Ohio Grassman episode, and I just moved to, I guess, Ohio in 2007. And I think that came in like 2007, or I want to say eight, really. And that floor came.

And then they had another one about Kentucky. You know, like, we're in Ohio, Kentucky. They got to be in West Virginia and found out about the Florida Skunk Cape. So it intrigued me. I was in college and I was about to go into college and then school and girls and bars and parking

and all that got in the way. And then COVID hit. And it's like, okay, I think everybody had to find an interest because if your guy was going to the gym, I was going to movies, going out to eat, all that came to a hole.

So I need something to gravitate take towards keeping my interests throughout the day and that's what kind of I guess we sprung it or it was there but I always believe I always believe in evolution anthropology as well too so evolution of you can say beings in the beings I guess the other thoughts and so forth I but uh yeah I mean and then the fact that every Native American has a word for it Yeah, that's huge. And I was like, oh, and then, like, from coast to coast, like,

they're definitely not calling each other, writing each other, none of that. And then, yeah, that's, and that I mean, everybody can be crazy. Everybody is, like, making this up over and over and over and over and over again. I'm like, you know, and I was like, there's no money to make this stuff up. there is like you're not you're not gonna get rich off of telling the story well that's the thing it's you know all these people emailing and giving reports and it's like they're not my emails is full every day and it's like these people are not getting anything from sending these emails like it's just yeah i i totally get what you're saying and then like for me like

But the podcast was the harshness of treatment from, I guess, higher authorities and the governments that people get. And I was like, really? Like, they go that far of threats and stalking and, yeah, the harassment was like, wow. So that caught my interest. I'm like, that definitely not making this up. Absolutely. Absolutely. At all. Have there been any other interesting encounters you've heard of from the Salt Fork area?

Just curious if you've ever heard anything. Yeah, yeah. Don't want to give out this guy's name. Sure. I don't know if his permission, but he's pretty well known. Yeah. There was a guy that if you know, well, even Google were the, I made him out Bigford Ridge. This is, he knows who he is if he's listening.

His name starts with the E as well too. Let's say that. And over by the group camp, there's like a swampy area. And it's a little role that goes into it. And him and his partner in crime, he has his own YouTube chains well. So he's, I don't want to tell too much about him. But him and his partner go out for a hike.

come back. His story is that I think his wife was going to, they only have one car. So normally he goes in with his car, comes out of his car, go back in his car and leaves. Well, this time, like, I guess his wife was dropping him off. And

so they dropped them off. They go in and out. Where they normally park at, they kept on walking. And at Saw Fork, like I said, at the camp, there's this little road. and this is kind of swamping on both sides.

He saw one about 10 feet tall, all black, moved trees out the way to see if they left. Because normally, like I said, they drive in, track out. They doors closed, opening clothes, and all that. And I guess the Bigfoot was like, where are they? I didn't hear them get back in their truck. I didn't hear them drive away. and they were walking towards his bridge,

this narrow bridge over this little swamp spot to get I guess closer to his wife that was on her way. She was running a little bit late. And so they did something out of the routine that they normally do. And he saw one. And he was shook up for months. He told me, showed me a picture.

I guess Mark seemed one as well too. I talked to Mark. I think you know who Mark is who has a big food conference. He saw a black one as well. So I guess they're pretty common to be black here in Ohio. I'm not to say there's not brown ones or anything like that or whatever, but two of the people I saw talk to face to face that had an encounter and at Class A, good Class A, that they did they're black.

so so yes that's the class A I heard of at a salt fork so yeah and um that's extremely interesting let's I'm sure a lot of people listening to this would be a man I've always wanted to go to salt fork and look for bigfoot do you have any advice for people that are going to salt fork for the first time to to go camping there's going to be a lot of knuckleheads out there don't go on it don't Don't don't go out there in the summertime. Because everybody, I know there's people that don't even bother going to soft work anymore because it's some people, nothing else to say is getting squashed out.

But you get all these people going out there in the summertime and knocking on trees, hooping and hollering and doing hoops. And, you know, they got the kids camp where they go out there and they walk around. it could be pushing them away at certain times of the year and that's why I talked about Ohio if you look on the BFRO you can plot a straight line

so they can go up and down out line in the state so they could maybe like I said the Hawking Hills is just right below it on that Appalachian the Appalachian of Ohio really that they do get pushed out because there's too many

people in the state park they got somewhere else to go So definitely if you're going to do this, do it when I did it, early spring, late fall. I like going because if you're going on these trails, it's so thick in there. You can't see 10 feet. And you're almost wasting your time doing that. If you're going to do it, you want to go when all the leaf litters down, you know, is November, December, January, February, where you actually can see a month.

mile, you know, half a mile. This point is doing it during the summertime. It really is. So I don't even wish her, I mean, I'm not saying that go out there, but have low expectations. In other words, I would say if you want them to come up close, you're going to need at least three days. I think I just got lucky that one night of them, it really didn't come up to me. It really had no interest in me.

I just disturbed it with turning on my Mr. Hirolamp, glowing up my tent, and it got pissed off at me. So it wasn't there to check me out. It was really there to do its normal routine of getting a dinner, a meal, and keep it moving. But if you want these things, I guess I've heard you need at least a week, about that, four or five days. for them you feel comfortable approaching you.

It was clearly pissed off at me and, you know, probably didn't even want me there to begin with. So if you want to have an encounter, I guess, them coming into your camp. Mine didn't come in my camp. I don't count that. The accountant has passed in my camp by. I just got lucky of turning on my Mr. Heater

at the time that I did. and definitely directed towards me 100% and other people heard it too so yeah I think it's a solid yeah a solid class B vocalization I really haven't heard too many stories like mine like kind of like the old man get off my yard type of thing

like yelling at me never really heard that from anybody you thank you for coming on And Sharon, this is a very interesting interaction. It's kind of a unique one, I would say, definitely haven't heard many like it. But I appreciate you coming on to talk about your experience at Sol Fork. Yeah, appreciate it. Thank you for having me. It was a pleasure.

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