Bigfoot Society - Campsite Terror in Pocahontas County!

Episode Date: April 29, 2025

What happens when a lifelong West Virginia hunter takes his girlfriend camping deep in the Pocahontas County woods — and they find out they’re not alone? In this intense and mysterious episode, we sit down with Mountain Man and Ohio Girl, a couple who’ve experienced some of the most vivid and close-range Bigfoot encounters ever shared on Bigfoot Society. From a Sasquatch laying silently on its back just 30 yards away... to a second creature swinging from a tree to distract — their 2018 camping trip was anything but ordinary. You’ll hear about mysterious whistles, midnight tent encounters, a coffee-pot-loving Bigfoot, and the eerie moment Mountain Man realized something else had control of his body. This story spans from the hollers of Pocahontas County to eerie run-ins in Ohio’s Hocking Hills, and it just might change how you think about what's really watching us out there. If you’ve ever wondered how close they’ll get… listen to this one. You won’t forget it.🗣️ 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 Patreon – 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 HereGoodchop (Better Meat): Check it OutSeed (Probiotics): Get SeedMedi-Share (Healthcare): Learn More🎙️ 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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It's from a man who spent decades hunting and fishing in the wildest corners of West Virginia. But one weekend in Pocahontas County, everything changed. A creature watched from the hill and another swung from the trees. and one, the biggest of all, stood over him so close he could see its eyes squinting in the sun. This isn't just one sighting, it's multiple encounters, a night of fear in a rain-soaked tent, and the eerie moment he realized he wasn't even in control of his own legs. This is the story of Mountain Man and Ohio Girl, and the night Sasquatch came to their camp. So stay with us.

All right, Pickfoot Society. I've got the privilege of talking to a few individuals today from the great state of West Virginia, where this incident happened and we have Ohio girl and mountain man with us today. They're involved with hunting, camping, fishing, all the good stuff outdoors out there in the great state of West Virginia.

So welcome to both of you. How are you guys doing today? Good. Good. Thank you. Doing great. We're starting to get warm out here in Iowa so it can't complain and maybe we'll be able

to get out in the woods before too long. But, you know, it sounds like you guys have had a really interesting thing happen when you're out camping and then maybe some things since then. So I want to make sure you have the time to share what you experienced during those times. So I'm going to go ahead and hand things right over to you guys. And then we'll have a discussion after that. So go ahead and take it away, guys. I didn't fish those mountains down there all my life and never have I ever seen or heard anything that I couldn't explain.

And in 2018, I took my girlfriend camping up in Oklahoma County, just outside of Durban and the Little River Cooperative. And when we first got there, the camping spot that I made, somebody was already in it. So we had to go down the road to another. one. And I told her after we got there, I said, well, let's walk down to the creek and see how far we are away from the creek, you know. So when we walked down there, as soon as we got down to the creek, there was something coming off the hill, crash and brush. I mean, you could hear it.

It's loud. And she likes bears, so I told her, I said, hey, you might get your chance because that ain't no deer. Well, as we were standing there, it stopped. and I looked back in the brush where it stopped and I could see a silhouette of what looked like a human. It was leaning out off the edge of the path and kind of looking at us and I made a joke to her. I said, hey, honey, am I looking at Bigfoot? So, set up, camp, and everything.

When it started getting dark, we had dinner and everything. Right when I lit the fire, standing in front of my fire pit that was there, about eight feet away from the fire pit, I hear this whistle. I mean, just as plain as day, just like a human would whistle. And I turned around up there,

and I said, well, you know what does that, don't you? I said, yeah, mm-hmm. And we kind of just, you know, laughed it off, even though I was thinking in the back of my head, there's nobody out here, you know, it does. And the next day, we took a walk in the evening because, like I said, she likes bears, and I told her we'd walk down the road and look down in the creek bottom and see if there

were any bears down around the creek bottom. And on our way back to camp, we were about, I don't know, about 80 yards from camp. I looked up on the hill and I seen something black going through the, trees up through there and I told her I said hey I think I see one I said I'll run up to here and see if I can't get ahead of it you stay here

and if I get ahead of it I'll run it back down the hill and you can see it when it crosses the road up there so I went up to the woods there behind it and I couldn't catch up to it to save my life but when we got up to the top of the holler there I come out on a log road and just off to my left

it had been logged and the biggest trees in there was three to three and a half inches round you know just small saplings that started to come back up and there was nothing he could hide behind he was laying on his back up against the bank

where they'd cut a dozer road through there and he was looking at me and I was looking at him and I was like I can't believe what I'm looking at looking at. You know, it's it was like so surreal at the moment.

I can't explain it. I wasn't afraid of it. I was actually talking to it. I told me, I said, well, that's about all you can do, ain't it, big fella? Because he couldn't have behind anything. And as I was talking to him, I hear a

whistle come from my right. And I look over it, and there's another one. And he's hanging off the side of a tree swinging his arm. arms, you know, trying to get my attention. Well, I thought, okay, he's trying to get my attention so that one can get away. Because I had him pretty much pinned down. I mean, if he had moved, you know.

But while I was looking at the one on the right, that one got up, and it blowed my mind. I was talking to the one on the right, and I went to the one on the right. and I went to look back at the one on the left, and I leaned out to look around what I thought was a tree to look at him, and then I realized that was fur and not bark. He had done walked right up on me, and the standing looking straight down on me. I looked up, and for the first time in my life,

my knees wanted to give out on me. I mean, I was going down. And then all of a sudden, it's a weird feeling because it's like I had no control over what my body wanted to do. My body wanted to leave. You know, I just turned and took off walking. And I had no control over that. It was so weird because I was looking back saying, I want to stand, look, you know. But my legs were not stopping.

So when I got down to the bottom of the hauler back down onto the road, she had already got tired of me because I hadn't come back yet. And she walked on over to camp. Well, I got my firewood to get her there that I'd picked up on the way down the hill and drug it over to camp. And I told her, I said, you want to see Big Phip? Come here, and I'll show him to you. I said, yes, sure, okay.

So as we walked over there, I watched because he was standing out the bottom of the hill. I hadn't come down on the road yet, but he was down against the road, you know, watching me go across there. And I literally watched him in about 10 steps cover about 40 yards. And he went over and got him between four big wild cherry trees, about 30 foot off the road. So I told my girlfriend, I said, you walk down the road. and I'll tell you when to stop. I say, get your camera ready.

I'm going to step up on the bank and see if I can't get him to move. Well, she got down there, and when I stepped up on that bank, he went to leave out from in between the trees. I snapped the picture and said, oh, my gosh, he moved. Yeah, and she took off running. Well, that night, right at dark, we were getting in the tent because it started to rain and all of a sudden you hear these two footballs right at our head

and then I heard one out in front of the tent walking in the gravel and I heard one over in my kitchen area that I had set up it was fascinated with my percolator coffee pot it would pick it up and it was rattling and set it back down they did it in about five or six six times, they stayed right there at our tent.

I mean, every now and then the one out in front of the tent would walk away out of here and walk off and then he'd come back. Well, I can't get no sleep because I know what's out there. I didn't know what they had planned. I had no clue. All I know is I had this girl, you know, I just had met her and they brought her camping in the mountains and something happened to her. They're going to look at me.

and I just couldn't get any rest. So I sat up all night. I would holler at them, you know, like just cold them, like go away, and then I would just talk to them. And then I'd holler at them again, and then I'd talk to them. I thought the biggest one was just going to grab the middle of our tent and drag us off. Um anyhow

they kept hanging around kept hanging around and I heard some coon dogs up like in the next hall or over and there's one thing I know about coon dogs they think you have something true they're coming

and I mean they're coming fast so I've tried my best to sound like a hound dog had something treed and they started coming and when they come up the haller right there on the creek behind our tent I heard the car coming out the road I guess it was their handlers followed them on the road

and as soon as they started to come up behind the tent there was three of them there they took off I guess the guys in the car seen them because they jumped out of the car and just let the car roll and they hit a big old rock right there in front of where we were camped and stopped. And those dogs were all over our tent. She was scared they were going to rob us, and I told her, they ain't done.

They seen them too. They took off up in the woods looking for them. I don't think they found them because they come back down a few minutes later and got in their car and left. The dogs were still running them, though. And when the next morning I told my girlfriend, I said, let me have some coffee and we're going to pack up and we're going to get out of there

because I can't do another night like that. I was afraid because he's the type of man that would have stayed normally, but luckily we did it. Yeah, so I mean, if you have any questions, I'd be more than glad to ask him. Oh, what about all? Oh, and there is

one thing I would like to note. I've heard a lot of big foot stories, you know, because, well, now I've seen one, the subject fascination. when he come across the road when it got dark to come over to our area where we were at when he crossed the road all I could see was like a black fog it looked like a cloud just hovering off the ground about two foot coming across the road and when he got over to the edge of the road there was a big poplar tree there he materialized again right there but his hand up on a tree

and stepped down in this big old ditch and started making his way over toward where we were, and I saw him, and I didn't think too much about it, really. Like I said, it was so

it's like I wasn't afraid of them at all, a little worried. You know, being they were there at my tent, but them just being around didn't bother me. I was talking to

them and motioning to them, you know. And, friend, come on over and sit down and we'll talk. I mean, it really messed me up because, like I said, when I first seen him up on the hill, I wanted to almost pass out. But after that, I didn't care to see them. I just didn't want them around my tent at night, you know. But there's nothing that I could have done about that. now it seems like every

it seems like every sense I've saw him I see him everywhere I go I mean and I can pick him out too man it's like where I never seen him before I'd like to see one hide from me now because I know what I'm looking for and if he's around

I want to know we were down here at a campground last year here in Ohio. Yeah, here in Ohio. And there was only like four people in this whole big camp and campground. And we were one of them. When it got dark, I bought this big old flashlight because I wanted to be able to see. I took a walk up through the campground and looked across the creek.

and there was two hiding in this tree that forked off in like three different trees. I went back and got her and told her to come here and tell me if I'm seeing what I'm seeing. Yes, he was. And sure enough, you can see their eyes shine and everything. You've actually had three encounters since the first one ago. Yeah, when we went back over to the tent and everything, I had raked out all the leaves around where we had our tents set up. We went to bed that night.

And, I mean, I've seen, and this is, I mean, God strike me dead from mine. There was about 12 of them come into that campground. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. Agents who are real tours do more than open doors. They analyze market trends, interest rates, comps. They can tell you about flood zones, mixed use zones, and decode acronyms like HOA, APR, MLS. They connect you to lawyers, contractors, even Phil, the Sewardcope guy. They negotiate, coordinate, advocate for you, close the deal with you, and hand the keys to you.

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They don't scare me. But I'd rather have my encounters during the day rather than nighttime, if you know what I mean. But that's, I mean, that's about it. In between the first encounter and our last encounter, he had two more encounters that made him leave again. Oh, yeah. And I had one down home. I went camping one weekend by myself. And he was with some coyotes.

They come up close to where I was at. And I got out to throw some more wood on the fire to keep the coyotes away. And when the coyotes came up there, I picked up a stick that was in the fire, and I throwed it back in the woods and hit a tree and made sparks. go everywhere to scare him off. When I did that, there was one out in the road that I did not see.

He screamed, and when he did, it shivers all over me. I jumped in the car. I left everything I had right there. Because when he screamed, when I sat down the car and I hit the ignition,

the lights come on, was coming toward me. And I just took off. I don't know what I ran over. but I ran over a log or a rock or something. Kind of threw me around. But like I said, every since I seen him in 2018, everywhere I go,

I see one or two. It's unreal. Do you have any questions? Yeah, there's a lot, going on in this one. for sure. And I just wanted, there's some weird stuff in this one.

So I just had an interview last night. You guys would have no idea because it just happened. It's not out yet. The gentleman out in the Mount Hood National Forest of Oregon, but the way he described what the Bigfoot did is very similar to what you described. And I've never heard like a black smoke

Yeah. He said the same thing. He said it turned, had black smoke coming off of him and was as he was hovering over the creek. It's very, very, very strange. So I don't know this is something coming out of nowhere or what. But yeah, I definitely have some questions for you guys. So you're up on top of the hauler and the trees are around you. They're not very big trees.

and you see the one laying down on the ground. Is it laying flat on the ground, or is it kind of like laying against the side of a hill? He's laying flat on his, he was laying flat on his back, arched up beside that bank a little bit, and there was a big rock and a maple tree coming out of the side of that bank right at the top, and he was laying with his head behind that tree,

looking between that tree and that rock, at me, but he was laying flat on the ground. He had his right leg up, you know, like had his knee dent. Yeah. He was laying on his back, but there was nowhere else he could go. I mean, when I caught up to him, he had nowhere to go because there was no cover. And I guess he tried to hide by laying still, but he stuck out like a sore thumb on that, on him brown leaves. Gotcha.

And I wasn't 30 yards from him. color well I'll ask this first was he completely covered with hair or were there parts that were not no he was completely covered and to be honest with you when I looked up

when he was standing right there by me I looked up he had the prettiest brown eyes I mean they were real big brown eyes because he was squinting the sun was kind of in his eyes but his fur was so black it was almost purple interesting

if you've ever seen like a black child you know purple there and look that's what he looked like okay he was jet black all of them were did he have any whites to his eyes at all um

I didn't see any because like I said he was squinting and I seen the brown iris, you know, his pupil was about the size of a marble. I mean, his eyes, I'd say, were the size of a tennis ball. He was between 10 and a half to 11 foot tall. Gotcha. The biggest one was. The other one that I saw was probably right at 9 foot.

And I never saw the third one, the one that kept messing with my coffee. I think it was a female, though. Yeah, I think it was a female because the one that was standing in front of the tent, he, like, started rubbing his finger on the tent, you know? And I heard this slight little noise. It was like a little tent, but it sounded female to me. It wasn't a low pitch. It was like a woman.

And I looked at my girlfriend, I said, thank God there's some confidence. common sense in the bunch. Yeah, she wasn't, yeah, she wasn't letting them do what they were going to do. And the picture that I got, we thought just one, but there is more than one in the picture, and a lot of people see more faces, too. That is something I'm going to definitely talk to you. We'll get there for sure. On top of the hauler, though, is such a really unique.

interaction. When you were on top of the hauler and looking at the Bigfoot that's on the ground, did you get any emotion from its face at all? No. He was like just a blank stare. You know, like he was just trying to be as still as he could, not move. Now, the one on my right, he didn't care to be, you know, for me to see him because he like look at me you know look at me and I just kept looking back and forth between them and I was like I know what you're doing you're trying to give him time to get away and then it hit me it's like Dana you might want to leave them alone because they are after all wild animals you know and I didn't want to pressure them because I didn't know what they would do and when that one walked up on me like I said my knees just turned to rubber. I mean, I started going down, man. He was so big.

He was about five foot across the shoulders. His cabs were his biggest telephone poles. His, I mean, I'm right at 6-1, I guess. And I was there and pretty much right at his genitals. but I didn't see any, if you know what I mean. I was looking about waist high at him. His hands were like the size of a baseball mitt, you know. It's the biggest thing I've ever seen on, you know, on foot or on a hook or anything.

I mean, he was like super huge. I don't know how something that big could hide in the woods at all. Right. Did what you saw up there look more like a ape or more like a human-type ancestor? Looking at him, it didn't really look like a gorilla.

It looked like an old man. Yep. But like I said, he had the prettiest brown eyes. I mean, they were just as sparkly as they could be. He's actually, he was beautiful. Like I said, I wasn't afraid, which I guess I should have been, but it didn't bother me at all. They didn't mind speak to me or anything like that,

but they didn't give me a feeling like I should be worried. That night, then being around my tent, I couldn't take that because I had no idea what was going on outside. So we booked out of there in the next morning. Cut it short. Absolutely. I don't blame you at all. Seeing one on the ground, were you able to notice anything about its feet at all? Yeah, there was like, it was like a big chalice pad on the bottom.

Hair on the top. Like I said, he was covered hair. I see no bear patches on him at all on either one of them. They were just jet black. Now the picture that she has, of the ones he took a picture of. I think that was the smaller one that she got the picture of.

But now you can see whites in his eyes. Okay. His face was completely covered in hair, nose and everything was covered in hair. He was just all black. It kind of reminded me of a, like a, stuffed animal. He had fur all over him and that's really all about him that I noticed.

I should have took more in, but I was so amazed at seeing him. It's like how many times have I walked in the woods hunting in the dark without a flashlight and walked right by one of them, you know, or had them around me and I didn't know it. Absolutely, absolutely. Well, I went to go bohunting the following year, and to be honest with you,

it spooked me walking in the woods because I only have one eye, and I see really well at night, so I don't use a light when I go in. I usually know where I'm going, and every noise I heard made me jump. I was beginning to wonder if he was ever going to let me go in woods again, you know, but I'm not going to let it stop me. I mean, I've lived all my life with,

I'm sure they were around, and nothing ever bothered me, and they didn't bother me. So, I'm kind of sticking with the hope that none of them will. Absolutely. I believe, yeah, I believe it's the mannerism that you put off, you know, what your intention is when you see them, because, When that one whistle at me right in front of that tree in front of my fire pit, I just waved at him. I couldn't see him, but I was sure he could see me. I just waved at him and said hello, kind of inviting him over, you know, because I thought this is really cool.

You know, they're right here. But when they came that second night and staying around our tent, that bothered me. because like I said, I had my new girlfriend up there in the woods. They were already talking about him taking me to the mountains and not bringing me back. Yeah. So, you know, yeah, because I thought, oh, God,

if anything happens to her, you know, I'm in big trouble. It tried, the one out front when it ran his finger down the door my, tent wearing my zippers. One comes from the top and down and around, and one comes straight across the bottom. Bigfoot Society will be right back after these messages. Agents who are realtors do more than open doors. They analyze market trends, interest rates, comps. They can tell you about flood zones, mixed use zones, and decode acronyms like HOA, APR, MLS. They connect you to lawyers, contractors, even Phil the sewer scope guy. They negotiate, coordinate, advocate for you, close the deal with you, and hand the keys to you. They bring you home. Real Tours are members of the National Association

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I'm just going to stick your knife in the back of the hand, and when you yank it out, you're going to open that door, and I'm coming out. I was trying to make a game plan that if something went wrong or sideways, what I was going to do, and I was coming up with nothing. I told you all right, I said, well, you know, they're here. Anything happens. Make a run for the truck.

But we got out of an unscathed and all the way home. And even now, it's like I can't believe it actually happened. And I was there. Yeah, absolutely. I know I keep going back to the top of the hauler, but there's one thing. Another thing I want to point out for the listeners, too, in case they didn't get the connection. You mentioned, and I guess it's for clarification, too.

You mentioned that you were walking down towards Ohio girl, but you weren't controlling your body, correct? Yeah. Well, it's like, I don't know what took over me because I actually looked back as I was going down that hill. I mean, I wanted to get a better look at him. But my legs said no. And it was taking me away. And they just stood there and let me walk away. So, I mean, what exactly did you want to know? I mean, well, what I wanted to bring up is, is from an earlier interview, I mean, the year or so ago, maybe even more. I talked to a gentleman named Henry Franzoni, who's no longer with us,

unfortunately, from the Pacific Northwest, and he's very involved with many different Native American tribes out there. And what he shared with me is that they, per those, the individuals he would talk to in those tribes,

had the ability to make you do, to pretty much control your body if they wanted to, you know, make you walk off a cliff. And that's an incredible example of them controlling a human body.

I've never had that type of example come up in an account before. So it's very, very unique to hear that. Well, it was, it was weird. It was like something else had control of my legs. And I wanted to stay, but my body, when my knees almost came out, the second I got them back, my body turned and took off walking. And it was confusing me because I was like, you're not wanting to lean. How come you're moving, you know?

But it only lasted for like 50 yards, you know. Once I got away from them and started down the hill, that went away. And I was on my own. But it was the weirdest sensation I'd ever felt in my life. asking about the campsite for a little bit and I know you're in a situation where the next morning hit and you're like we just get at we have the coffee we get out of here I'm at I'm done with this area but did you happen to notice any like footprints on the ground or oh absolutely because like yeah like I said when I cleaned all the leaves out I had a piece of cardboard with me and I just used it to rake and all right all right. the way down to the dirt. And when I stepped outside that next morning, after seeing them at night, I was open. And sure enough, when I stepped outside, there were footprints all over the place.

They had walked over to my car, walked around my car, walked around the back of my tent, and one of them you could tell had walked over and stood right in front of my tent. I had no idea. I was laying in the tent awake, but I never heard anything. I finally went to sleep. But, yeah, when I got up the next morning, there was footprints all over the place. I tried to take pictures of them with my camera. But the way the sun was coming in there early in the morning, they didn't really turn out.

But you can see it was plain as day in that fresh dirt. How long would you say they were approximately? The majority of them were, I'd say, 14 to 16. Now, there was one set of prints in there that was probably about 16 inches long, but my God, it was probably 10 inches wide. Wow, that's intense. A mountain man, from what you saw, was there anything you noticed about them that the Bigfoot community always gets wrong in its depictions of it?

Yeah. When they look at them and they say, well, it looked like a gorilla. No, they don't. The one I see looked like an old man. Of course, you know, he had a bulging ridge above his brow. but his nose wasn't like super big. It was kind of wide, but it wasn't a big protrusion. It didn't look nothing like a gorilla or a monkey or anything else.

It looked like an old man. His eyes, the way they sat in his head, if he didn't have all that fur around his face, it looked like he had real deep crow's feet. You know? He just looked like a tired old man. He didn't look nothing like an ape in any way, shape, or form. Because, you know, apes, they pretty much got four hands instead of, you know,

their feet are like hands. Not big pun. He's got to put like we do, just way bigger. After you, actually, before we get to that, so Ohio Girl, you took the photo and then, so you still have that photo. You were able to take it, it turned out, all that good stuff. Yes, I do. Yeah, well, I mean, we'd love to send it to you if you just tell us that. Yeah, I mean, you can, if you've got that, you can always email it to me at Bigfoot Society at gmail.com.

Is that something that if we do get it that we'd be able to put in the video version of this? Yeah. Absolutely. Cool, cool. Thank you. Were there handprints on your car at all? Not that I can see. Okay.

Any fingerprints on the coffee pot or anything weird like that? No, there was no fingerprints on it, but they were fascinated with it because they just kept picking it up when it would rattle. They'd set it back down real quick. They wasn't making a lot of noise, but they were making enough noise you could tell they were there. Absolutely. The area that... Oh, go ahead.

Yeah. Well, I was going to say, and right before we left that day, you know, the morning after, when we took our tent down, we actually were probably camping in their way of getting to the water and food. And so that may be,

be the reason that they were around us. Yeah, because after I got to thinking about it, where we were camped, there was brush on the right hand side and brush on the left hand side going down to the creek, but it was just probably 10 or 15 big pine trees, you know, tall pine trees with straight trunks on them, and it was all burns underneath them all the way down to the creek. It was a natural funnel, you know, and I got to thinking maybe they was trying to push us out of here because they didn't do anything, like I said, they didn't scream at us or raise any cane or anything like that. But I could see where maybe that's where they hunted at night because it's a natural funnel for anything going down to the creek.

that makes sense yeah did uh based on what you saw was there anything that gave you an indication of how smart uh they were or like their mental capacity at all

well i tell you what I thought it was pretty slick when uh that one had my attention that he got up off the ground and made it over to me without me knowing it at all

and he walked over and he was studying me, you know, looking straight down on me. Yeah, there's intelligence in them eyes. I mean, I have no doubt that they could do probably anything they wanted to do. Absolutely. And you said it was so camouflaged that it was almost like a tree at that point? Yeah. Yeah, because it didn't dawn on me that there was nothing in my way when I was looking at him to begin with.

and after I was looking at that one on the right, when I turned around, something was blocking my view, and I leaned forward to look around it. And that's when I realized there was no tree there. So I kind of paid more attention to it, and when I looked to my left just a little bit, I seen it was all burr, and that wasn't tree bark. And I just started looking at him from the bottom all way up to the top, and his proportions were. very scary they were so big and defined like I said his cabs were as big as telephone poles his upper legs were I'd say as big rounds of 20 gallon drum his biceps uh five gallon buckets I mean huge I think his sheer size is what made my legs want to give out I've seen some big balls you know and some big horses in my life, but man,

this thing was bigger than anything I've ever seen, you know, alive. It was, he was spooky to look at, but all at the same time, he was beautiful. I mean, he was,

he was well-groomed. He wasn't, like, shaggy or anything. His hair was actually kind of clean. Both of them were. Like, you know, they took good care of themselves. Like they might have took a bath every day, you know? Absolutely.

I've always kind of wondered if that's the thing you hear a lot in interviews is that they look like they're well-groomed. And I wonder if it's a thing where there's other individuals in their community where they're grooming each other or if it's something. Yeah, or they just take care of themselves, you know, just we'll never know that until we get to a certain point. No, I guess we'll never know unless somebody sees him doing it. Right, exactly.

Maybe somebody already has, and we just don't know, but you met. He didn't, and he didn't smell neither. I mean. That's not true. When we went to lay down that night when we first came, Mountain Man would take his shoes off, and he said, do my feet stink? And I said, no, I don't smell nothing. And then when we laid down, that's when that first thud and thudged game.

Well, that was definitely dirty feet. It was raining and, yeah. That's interesting, yeah. But did you smell anything when you're on top of the hauler, Mountain Man? No. I mean, I was standing three feet from him and no smell at all. That's really weird. Yeah.

Okay. So gotcha, gotcha. When you were at that campground in Ohio, was that eastern Ohio then? Are we eastern Ohio? What? Are we eastern Ohio? Are we eastern Ohio? Yeah, we're just out to promise.

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Yeah. Gotcha, gotcha. Also, I was curious, you said when you were camping by yourself, you had seen Bigfoot with some coyotes. What kind of interactions were happening there when you saw that Bigfoot with coyotes? Apparently, because the coyotes come up, they were off the road, probably 50 yards following the road. and I was camped over the side of the road, so they were coming, like, directly at me. The Bigfoot was in the road, following them up the mountain there.

I don't know why it screamed at me like it did. That literally terrified me. It was, like, standing in front of a train when it blew its whistle, you know, or so on. it was that loud. It, like, I must make me peeve my pants. It scared me. It scared me so bad when I took off in the car, I wasn't worried about anything.

It was in front of me. I was just getting away from him because he started coming toward me, like, he looked kind of aggressive. And I was just, like, driving like NASCAR, man. I don't know what it was. I run over. Thank God, it didn't mess the car up. Right, right.

And I didn't let off the gas until I got off that mountain. You've mentioned that you've had sightings at different times. Have they all had an old man type look to what you've seen, or have they been different, you know, at different times? Well, just that big one looked like an old man. The other one, They kind of reminded me of, like I said, a stuffed animal. They had fur all over them, and you couldn't really, and it was real slick on their face.

They just, I mean, everyone I've seen is all been black. I have not seen one of another color yet. They've all been black. When we were in that campground, there was three of them. of them standing at the campsite right next to us around a picnic table. And when I started walking that way, it was wild because you know how the edge of light, like the edge of your flashlight always get somewhere before, you know, you actually, I was looking at the ground in the edge of my flashlight.

I seen them drop down on all fours and they took off up the creek up the campground. Every time I'd go for them, I'd see them. but they would like go in behind stuff like they were hiding but I knew they were there I was really like I said there at that campground I felt a lot better than I did when I was out in a national forest the first time in that campground there were other people in there so I was really wanting to get a good close up look at one of them but they just wouldn't give me the chance there was one that was standing behind this like like big bus.

And every time I'd go to go around that bus, he would go around it too. And I never did actually get a good, clear look at him. He was probably about nine foot tall. I think that's the one that had that real wide foot toe. I never did see him because whatever, whichever one it was, he had to have been massive to have a foot that wide.

all of them I saw were anywhere between eight and nine foot tall these different areas that you've had encounters in have you ever looked to see if there's been other people that have had similar things happen in these areas um

no I haven't really they say that I mean I've heard some stories that were from out of Pocahontas County you know West Virginia, and that's where mine took place. This particular campground down here is just a little family campground. There was only a couple people there.

And it's in the hills, like close to Hocking Hills. There was really nobody there to talk to because the kids. camp that was up above us, they would leave other morning and wouldn't come back till late in the afternoon. And there were two girls camp down, just down from us, and as soon as it got daylight, they packed up and left. So I didn't really get a chance to talk to anybody. It's funny, though, a lot of people that I know that hunt and stuff, I tell them, I got

tell them about it, and they're like, man, you're full crap. And it's like, look, all I can say is, I know. You're the one that does not know what you're talking about. Because I experienced it. I got a picture of it. I was there. I know that they're real. And now I am constantly going to look out for them.

I'll even watch videos on YouTube. And I'm watching the back. I try to pick them out and usually I see one or two in the background on a lot of these big foot researchers where they go in the woods you know I see them like there's the cameraman out of Ohio they'll be in the woods and I'll be looking way back in the background and the last video that I want to watch it is I see him run behind a pine tree and passed a couple other trees to another pine tree. And I texted the cameraman, or I made the comment on his video that he had one there close to him because I seen it. I don't think he caught it.

Of course, I don't know. He had to look at these footage, but, I mean, I saw it. It's just like a black dot in the background just went across. real quick. What amazes me, though, is how fast and how much ground that they can cover in just a few steps. Like I said, that one, the big one up there in Ponga, House County, I literally once 10 cover 40 yards, every bit of 40 yards in about 10 steps. And they were quick, too. Some wild stuff.

Oh, man. I had to suppose my mind Well it was a wild night Ohio girl I want to make sure You've been really good with Making sure that You know Stories are filled in

I appreciate you both being in this interview It's worked out really well Has there been anything else That you've experienced as well Ohio girl that you would want to add to to the account No, I was only with the first encounter in Pogana scouting

and then the encounter here and then he's had two prior to in between by himself but I feel I feel that once you see they let you see them that you do see them everywhere but I feel that they have to let you in

like it's just you know after that let's say the initial Pocahontas County one. Did you start having anything out of the ordinary happen at home, like really intense dreams or anything weird like that? No. Okay.

Nothing like that. But like I said, every time that I go in the woods or I'm watching somebody else going to woods, I see them everywhere. it's not like there are just little pockets here. I think that once you see them, they can pop up wherever you are. Absolutely. They can close.

I don't know. I mean, that's the only thing I can figure because after all the years, I'm hundred and fissed, why, how can I get so lucky is to see them everywhere now, you know? I told him, I said, because you took me with you, the first time it wasn't for you at all, but came to see me. I mean, I have

advice for somebody if you ever do encounter one, give it some space and give it some respect and I believe you'll be all right. I wouldn't put off any thoughts like

oh, I got to get to my gun because that may the way, the way as intense as they watch you, I think they can pretty much figure your intentions as you move and as you do things. I would never get aggressive with one because if you do, you're going to lose.

Absolutely, yep, 100%. That's the end is over, yeah. Wow, the Mountain Man, Ohio girl, it has been a privilege having you guys on. You have shared some incredible things that I have never heard in this show. And it's been years I've been doing this. So I'm just thankful for having both of you on. And thank you so much.

I hope that you, you know, if you continue to have stuff happen, please keep me up to date in the future. And maybe we'll be, maybe we'll check in with you in a little bit down the road. So thank you guys. Okay. Thank you. Thank you for having us on. And we'll shoot you that picture and then let us know what you think.

Absolutely. We'll have a great rest of your day, guys. I appreciate you. Thank you, thank you. And all your listeners, be careful out there because it's Harry, man. That's right. All right. Good stuff.

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