Bigfoot Society - Bigfoot Stalks Teen Along Westerville, Ohio Railroad Tracks In Terrifying Midnight Encounter

Episode Date: December 22, 2025

In this episode of Bigfoot Society, Bob shares a terrifying firsthand encounter that haunted him for over 50 years. In 1972 near Westerville, Ohio, a teenage walk along railroad tracks and wooded clearings turned into a life-altering nightmare when Bob came face to face with two massive Bigfoot-like beings.What began as a quiet nighttime trip quickly escalated when one creature stood upright in a clearing under a full moon—and another, far larger, charged from the woods, crashing through trees and paralleling Bob all the way back to the road. Bob describes the encounter as intelligent, intentional, and deeply aggressive, leaving him with lasting PTSD, fear of the woods, and decades of silence.Listener Disclaimer:This episode includes discussion of trauma, suicide, and suicidal thoughts. If this brings up difficult feelings, help is available. In the United States, you can call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline, available 24/7 and completely confidential. If you’re outside the U.S., visit findahelpline.com to find support in your country. You’re not alone, and support is available.🗣️ 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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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. 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.

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It's better than 980. Let me believe you. All right. Yes, sir. 3, 2, 1. All right, Bigfoot Society. We've got the privilege of talking to Bob today. Bob is an individual.

He listens to the show. He had something really intense happen about 50 years ago. And he's been trying to work through it ever since. So we were able to be connected. And it's just a pleasure having you on the show today, sir. how are you doing? I'm hanging in there. Thanks for answering.

Absolutely. You know, we've been talking a little bit before the recording started, and it sounds like, you know, you have been through just a lot because of this. And, you know, Bob, would you be able to take us back to what you experienced where it was and just what you were going through at the time? well first of all you know no good deed goes it goes unpunished so let's put it that way I my friend Rob we're both named Rob and we were maybe weren't the best students and he had run away from home and he was living out in the woods and I he asked me to like come out

there and see where he was staying and when I stepped off the river there was river tracks that go through Westerville through Columbus all the way up to Cleveland and a county line road is where everything ended there wasn't anything but

fields after that so he had gone up about two miles into the up the river tracks and then going east and made like the little campers you know and when I

walked in down the tracks i was amazed at this you know rock circles um kind of logs like something sit on but it was like you took a huge glass igloo and made vines in a perfect igloo shape um it was obviously a big foot nest now that i've seen over the years I asked, how did you do this? This is amazing. You got all these vines and stuff. No, I found it this way.

We had hobos back then in 72. It wasn't unusual to see a guy down to the grain or, you know, sleeping that night or something. We all knew each other. It wasn't different back then. so Rob showed me where he lived

so I told him I'd be back that night and I got two gallons of water one hanging on each side of a little BMX motorcycle I got a huge backpack and a fanny pack U.S. Army

so I just always had affinity for Army If it was good enough for them, it's good enough for me. So I was loaded down pretty good. And at 2 o'clock in the morning, there was curfews were already two hours in. But you could hear a police car half mile away with no traffic or anything. I mean, it was really easy to dodge them.

So I made it to that county line road, dumped my bicycle in the day, ditch so the police couldn't see it from the road. Walked north on the railroad tracks for about the first mile. And I'm having trouble. I'm only 105 pounds. I was a pretty scrappy kid. I wrestled 105. I was a pitcher.

I was a halfback. And I was a point guard. so I was pretty scrappy little kid but I was doing okay I was stumbling on the rocks on the railroad tracks and they had made a pretty good

a pretty good yard ditch up to the river tracks and stopped it looks like they were going to make sewer pipe install for the next housing development that was going in on the other side. So there's this wide patch of clearing

and a little stream running through it. And I'm probably taller than I was farther away. I'm up on the river tracks. They hadn't tried to dig underneath there yet. And I look like a little deer bent over getting a drink of water. And I wasn't that nice. You know, I hunted deer.

I shot one. I couldn't do anything. I could shoot birds and eat those, but a deer was just too much. But this thing stood up on two legs, and it pivoted at the waist. I was in a full moon. I couldn't see any facial features, but I could see shadows of it on the ground. That's how bright it was. I had kicked some rocks and it hurt me and it turned around and we made eye contact for I'd say 10 seconds

I didn't move and he didn't move and he ran north into the woods where the clearing had gotten and just he didn't slow down. He didn't give a crap. He went through briars, trees. I told people it sounded like a golf car going through the trees. It stopped. And it made that what Larry heard this morning on your podcast. And it just echoed.

I mean, I've been hunting in Arkansas, Melbourne, Arkansas, the hunting, duck hunting capital the world. I've been all Uber. I shot everything, listened to everything. This thing sounded like you just let the air

out of a car tire. What I remember was when the thing stood up and we made contact, I didn't seem intimidated by size. It seemed to be about Well, I don't know, five, five, maybe my size. And when it turned off and ran and ran through the woods,

it got to a point where it stopped and started breathing. Well, I knew Rob was pretty sufficient, so I decided to make a U-turn, and I started to go south. I started to go south. I wasn't going to go beside those woods where those things had run into. Well, I didn't know there was two. So I turned south.

I don't remember anything about dropping water bags or anything. I may take about three steps. And what I saw was I had actually, my dad worked for federal. I was able to get on the court at Globetrotter game. And remember how tall the guys at the globe trawters team. And this was made what's much bigger than that. It just came through the trees like an F-150, much louder than the first one.

And when it hit the clearing, I turned around. obviously I'm looking over my shoulders they're trying to head back to my bicycle and this thing took about six steps and cleared those 40 yards and when I hit

the trees on the other side it didn't slow down it just crashed bang until I got to beside me and then it stopped and so I took a few steps and I could take it here take a few more steps. The whole

incident it boils down to that point where the intelligence of it overrid any kind of animal or creature. This is a distinct hominid

that has developed from Genozovins or Neanderthal or Dichanib, whatever. It's some kind of a human species. and it has intelligent. And it paralleled me out to the road in 1972

way before you hear anybody talking about that. It stayed right beside me and it didn't follow me. It just stayed right beside me all the way to the road. And all I can remember was I felt like I was Mark Marquez riding that bicycle making corners. And I made it home. I laid on the patio for two hours and looked at stars, wondered what happened. I never really asked Rob about it.

I really don't remember ever having any contact with them again. All I can tell you is that there's patterns. I live north of in Westerville, which is 10 miles. 10 miles west of Hoover Dam, which has been there forever. They have a migration pattern. They go up through the Hoover Dam. They go up through Salt Lake State Park, State Park in Ohio. Oh, the Salt Fork?

Yes, sir. Yeah. I tried a couple times to go out there for, a session but I just get so jumping I would protect myself obviously but I just don't want to

I don't want the confrontation I don't want to listen to the stories I don't need imagination I've lived it so the stories are nice and everything it's nice to hear people have the same experience

but when they talk about a fun about a fun book big foot and stuff like that that is not what I experienced. I experienced extremely aggressive hostility. What I believe that this was

a young big foot getting a drink. It ran into the woods, pointed at me, and mom came in a hurry. And she had a purpose, and she had an intent that I felt that I didn't start moving.

I wasn't going to make it. But I ran track, I ran 200 million, 200 track. Like I said, I was pretty scrappy, so I was able to get out of it. I do the funny thing I don't ever remember asking Rob about it. The only thing I remember was asking about the shelter. How could you build this? It was big enough for six big foot. I think that was probably a good migration point, taking the train track all the way up to where they need to go.

Not a lot of houses close by. But the government, I can't say they're real. Look at the, look how much, how much, look how much, the forestry and everybody went into it. about the spotted owl. Can you imagine what it would be like for another hominid species? It would change everything 100%. Logging? You know, they think logging.

Oh, I won't affect logging. Why does every logger have to sign an NWA or NWA? NWA. Sorry, I'm old. NDA. NDA, yeah, yeah. Oh, is that? I didn't know that.

That's very interesting. Just about every logger has to sign a non-disclosure agreement. NWA. I'm embarrassed. You're good. I hate to date myself. I've got a few questions for you, Bob. Yes, sir.

So, one, thank you for sharing, is I know that this has really affected you through your life, as you were saying earlier. but so the second one that you saw how tall would you estimate that that was you said it was taller than the Harlem Globetrotters yes sir and I have been on the court standing side by side in metal arc lemon so I'm guessing I mean we could be talking about like I was seven to half eight feet but it was it looked like it had football pads on shoulder pads I didn't see any breast it was you know like i said it was full moon i had a good good vision up top but um this thing came in hostile you could feel it it's intent i've been around bears and co-panthers in arkansas that's you know i never been scared before i run in run in lit you know five buildings on fire to save look for people.

I came, I was the first one at a car wreck. I was checking the guy's polls to see he was still alive. I'm not a person that runs away from, I'm not a signlighting player, you know? Right, exactly. Yeah. How close was the second one to you? He ran by past, about 10 yards past the little one, where the little one went. into the trees he came out about 10 yards farther back than like then where i was and like i said

two steps down to the creek and then two steps back up right it's so both ones that you were able to see you're you're just seeing shadows correct well there were complete silhouettes I was certainly one or never shot anything that looked that human. Right. So you're able to see the silhouette of the full figure of the creatures. Did you notice anything about the arms or any other parts of the Bigfoot that really stood out to you because of being able to see the silhouettes? I just remember being Look, back then there was

Arnold Schwarzenegger had just come out with pumping iron Oh yeah, that's classic That's the only thing I can refer to It just looked like it could just crush you by just sticking your neck in its elbow You know

I tell you that I moved I moved I still had cops to deal with all the way home, so I had to go left and right and up streets, down the streets, through alleys, cutting through baseball fields to get, you know, home safe. And I remember laying on that porch for two hours and just looking at the stars. And what do you do? You can't, my dad, nobody believes me.

And now I've got the Bigfoot Society that sounds, people sound like a lot, like what I heard and what I experienced. I think it's more like a mother, sow, bear, and her children. You get anywhere near Sal's cubs and you're in trouble. Absolutely. That was the impression, that was the impression I got. because I had scared this thing. So it sounds like then after you got home,

eventually you tried to tell your father or your parents, and that didn't go so well? I seemed to have blacked it out. How was I going to tell my mom I was sneaking out at 2.30 in the morning to take provisions to a guy to run away from home? I'm only 14. So it's just stuff something I've had to live with for the rest of my life. tried to tell my 35-year-old wife my 35 years that we were married she never believed me my dad's still 88

he doesn't believe me um and he knows that i don't lie cheater steal i don't have 10 commandments i only go by three it's a lie cheater steel i think that covers about them all so um i just don't have um you know i you know my uncle bob said he saw one one time no this was completely different this thing chased and stalked me that's the difference okay not my aunt philly told us to stay away from the mountain no this thing wanted he he was upset okay and i think of a story from another show maybe it started with a T and ended with a W

and there was a gentleman on there rest in peace, his name is Mike Wully Oh yeah, that's a classic That is a classic story, yeah, absolutely That is my story right there I never felt as visceral as I did look at Todd Standings, long big foot face.

I just have a certain people call it psychics, inability, six cents and everything, but I had died and got to read my obituary. And when I came back, I got to see things that weren't always available to other. people and the impression i got from that blonde even the black one there those those are real you go out and shoot and hunt in any woods and you come up on a deer that's going to lay flat and not move not

breathe so did that happen after your bigfoot sighting or before where you you had oh no i just saw that Stodd standing maybe a month ago. This was 1972. You said that you had like a near-death experience or? Yeah, about 18. Oh, okay. I got to flip the pages on my newspaper to read my little two-line obituary. I was so embarrassed.

I didn't see any light. I didn't see any tunnel. I just saw that I had a chance. to go back and make a difference and I decided that's what I wanted to do so I didn't have no regrets I have no wants I have no need I have no jealousy it's a really interesting way of life it's kind of but kind of kind of Buddhist I have a Ramaniana big big big beta I have all that stuff my grandfather my grandfather was a sheriff in Arkansas all the way through the 20s and 30s and had bootleggers and all that stuff.

And I asked him one time, I said, did they talk, they still call it a woolly bugger. It sounded kind of nasty to me. I was from, I'm a northern guy, but my parents are from a little tiny town in Arkansas. So you've held on to this, I mean, 1972, over 50 years. Was there ever a person that heard your story and said, okay, I do believe you? Or is this a thing where you've always had to deal with people just being like, I don't think you're telling the truth? Yeah, I've been punched before. Oh, my goodness.

they told me that you believe in the demons that's why your wife died of cancer because you didn't believe in God don't take that one who told you that can you imagine anybody saying anything worse than that

that's the I mean that's one of the worst things I've ever heard that's terrible well I can make up a better story sir but I'm just telling you the truth so I'm pretty much alone.

I don't, I'd care not to be around people like that, even if we are family. So I'm alone up here. Like I said, my wife died of cancer four years ago after 35 years of marriage. It's difficult, you know, learning how to be by myself again. But I'm trying to get out and try to conquer my fears. I got, I hit 14 clay targets with a deer slug, 14,000, had 12-gauge deer slug, pistol grip. It's a model 500 moss bird with an assault rifle stock.

Plus I got max. I'll just leave it at that, with the holster. So if I ever go out and hunting again, I'm not, I'm going to. I'm coming to the teeth. Nothing was going to scare me out of the woods like that again. The woods of my whole life growing up, hunting, trapping, fishing. And now I can't even hardly walk to the garbage trash at night. I've been, like I told you, I've been in therapy for many, many years.

What are they going to tell me? Oh, it didn't really happen. Well, why do I shake and I start? crying at 40 years later. And, you know, it's PTSD. It's obvious. You know, I accepted that. Try to deal with it.

That's why your podcast has been really helpful in the fact that I don't feel so much alone anymore. I do give Todd's credit for being out there in the bush all the time. you know nobody looks he's a UFO because who looks up anymore right right but this guy's out there and he's put on boots on the ground and you know the guys fought off big puts with a flare you don't think he's going to be a little wired after that mr. standing's definitely probably one of the top guys that has spent the most time out in in the bush for sure right

is pretty incredible the time he he spends out there um and less too i really enjoy less jell less is an open mind you know he i guess he's making some new documentary he must be anyway i just um i told i told my therapist and my psychologist and i want to get off this medication and i think this will help I'm just going to have to come to the terms that this was something that happened to me. I'm not ever going to explain to people what happened. I don't want to go on any bigfoot excursions or talk to Bigfoot stories about other people.

Like I said, no imagination needed. I lived it. Absolutely. So, but it might help my isolation some, but after, you know, the lady's, the first text I ever wrote, she wrote back that I was answering her riddles. And my skin was a little thing. Bob, I'm deleted. I'm sure, yeah.

I'm glad this show is helping you in that way, though. That is something I hadn't realized that it was able to help in that way. So. Just never had anybody to go to. If I'm suicidal, I got 9-8-8-8, right? Who do I talk to about 20 years? I was in therapy talking to different doctors about Bigfoot, you know, and they just all kind of roll their eyes.

Well, I've been on fire. I've been, I've got a rod in my leg. I've been shot. I've had two friends murdered. I have a boss that was. murdered and I swear on everybody's graves that this affected me more. Thinking back to what you experienced and the years that have followed, do you have any thoughts about what exactly Bigfoot is based on what you experienced personally that day?

It's a relic hominidon. It's either Denisovin, a mix of Denisovin and Neanderthal and maybe even Cro-Magnin. You know, they found Neanderthal DNA in humans. Why can't it be it the other way? Bigfoot might change color every year like a snowshoe rabbit to adapt to its habitat. We've seen, heard gray ones and white ones and red ones. Right.

You know, that might, I used to raise rabbits. I have canaries too, so I see all the different colors that they mix. week and haven't drank alcohol in 40 or three years and I almost thought about it today. Well, I'm glad you stuck to what you're wanting to do, but Bob, I just want to say thank you for coming on the show, for sharing your experience that happens in the Westerville, Ohio area back in 1972, and I'm sure that a lot of listeners, this will help them as well listening to what you've shared today so thank you sure i'd just rather not go out i'd just rather not find another one to be honest with you um good luck to those people that you know metallica says careful what you wish

careful what you say careful what you wish you just might get it careful what you wish you just might regret it so um 100% I just really, I really think it's a hominid species that lives in caves and has obviously a prefrontal cortex that's much larger than ours. If we're talking intrasound, there's no telling what this thing can do.

So I don't put anything past it. I just don't, I don't even, I just don't want to take a chance of meeting. another one that's all there is to it but thank you for your time and your podcast it's really helped

a lot of us out here that haven't had a place to give their stories and expect to be believed it's the worst feeling in the world to have this and you can't expect anybody to believe you it's not like

a UAP I mean I don't know but I do know So that's what's always given me comfort when I look up at the ceiling at night. I know in my heart, I don't have to prove it to anybody. So I just try to deal with it the best I can. I haven't been hunting in a long time.

I really do appreciate your time and your service. I said after my wife passed away it's been pretty quiet around here and this is really the first time first time first podcast I ever called or made a comment about of course I'm just learning how to use the phone so but

I can send an email and stuff so I'm doing okay I bought something about myself a 200 mile an hour Duccotti so I'm waiting for the sunshine. Nice. There you go, man. I love it. Hey, things are looking up. I love it, Bob. Voices, you have an excellent, excellent radio voice. Probably not a face for TV.

Yeah. Sorry, I just want to leave your laugh. It's like the 988 people. I always like to leave the 98 people with a laugh. Exactly. So have a good evening. Thanks again for your service. I did subscribe. Somehow I thought I pushed the right button. I'll check it again. I'm not very good with the phone.

But I want to watch the... I want to watch everything you got. We appreciate your time and your service. You've got to take up a lot of time doing this. You've got to be paid for it. So thank you. Thank you. Bob, and you have a great rest of your day. Thank you for sharing again.

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