Bigfoot Society - He Blocked My Escape and His Eyes Turned Red | Multiple Bigfoot Encounters Across Pennsylvania

Episode Date: January 26, 2026

A lifelong outdoorsman from Pennsylvania shares a series of encounters that followed him for years across remote lakes, mountain ridges, and deep forest trails. What begins as a routine deer hunt near the Maryland border turns into a face-to-face sighting at close range, followed by powerful vocalizations, unexplained structures in the woods, and an encounter near a dam bridge that escalated into physical contact.As the years go on, the activity continues. Jeff describes additional sightings near Blue Knob, a shoreline encounter while kayaking at a secluded reservoir, and later experiences involving repeated whooping calls and glowing eyes witnessed by others after dark. Each account is grounded in firsthand observation from someone deeply familiar with the terrain and wildlife of Pennsylvania.🗣️ 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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These are the voices of the people who've lived it. So settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. All right, Bigfoot Society. Welcome back to another episode. We've got the privilege of talking to Jeff today. Jeff is out there from the Maryland, Pennsylvania area.

We'll be talking more about the area in a little bit. He's a construction worker in outdoorsmen, so definitely gets out there. And he's had some interesting things happen over the year. So welcome to the show, Jeff. How are you doing, sir? I'm doing pretty good, thanks. Awesome. We were just talking about where some of this takes place, and I was double-checking the map.

And we will be going, if people are falling along with the map that's over at bigfoot societypodcast.com and then the siting map, we're going to be in some areas that have been heavily discussed in Pennsylvania. So it would be very interesting. So make sure you do that if you can. But Jeff, you know, feel free to take us back to when this first started happening for you, when you first started realizing you were having some sort of interaction with something out of the ordinary out there.

Okay. I'll start with the first time I ever seen them there I was I was it was a second week of buck season and I'm thinking it was I think it was 2005 and I had vacation so I was hunting for buck down

it was the lakes I was hunting around They're called Gordon Lake and Coon Lake. One of the lakes dumps into the lower one, and there's like a long bridge that goes across where the breast is, where it dumps into the lower dam. But this first one was out where the boat launches across the road from it, straight up.

And I was hunting up there. and there's like the area has a bunch of like little ridges that come down from the top of the mountain and they there's like little hollows in between them and you get further up and there's bigger it gets steeper and there's like a big series of bowls that come together and you can see like a couple hundred yards in that area So the first time I went up to that right at the edge of that big bowl where you can see

like all the valleys go down to that one point and it was in December so it was like the night before it snowed but it got real

nice in the next morning and it was like between 40, 50 degrees out. So the snow was melting on the ground. And I sat in this one spot for until about 12, 12, 30. And I thought, well, it's kind of quiet walking. And I decided to take a walk. So there's a, when you go down into the ravine and back up, the other side, it's real steep up to the top of this next hill.

And on that top of that hill to the right, there's a little pond, like, up in the, right in the, right in the, right in the, right in the middle of the woods up there. And there's a stream right above it that goes down under this real big rock and into the ground. And I guess it comes out in that spring. Well, I got to the edge of this, uh, hill where it starts to flatten out. and it was real quiet walking. I got up over to the edge of that hill, and I walked right up to something that was sitting on the ground. Like if you look at a gorilla or a chimpanzee,

they, they, uh, it was sitting on its rear end and its legs were, uh, were bent up and their feet flat on the ground. And its arms were out like, like an ape does, like on an angle, and its hands were touching the ground. It was kind of like a dog sitting straight up, you know. So it had its back to me and it's facing to the left.

And it didn't hear me. I walked right up to it. It was like 10 yards away. It was that close. And it finally turned its head and, looked at me and something in the back of my mind was thinking at first i thought it was a bear because nothing else is black in the woods down here you know that's the first thing i thought of but when it looked at me something in the back of my mind said that's not a bear because its head was

like right on its on its body you know it didn't hardly have any neck at all its head was right on its shoulders and it looked at me and it jumped up and like ran to my right up towards that pond and it made like four gallops like about 30 yards away and it got up on its back legs and started running up through the this there's a deer trail that goes up through there and it's all mountain laurel and them red and green jaggers it's real thick up through there and I had my rifle with me and I'm like I just wasn't sure what the heck it was

you know and I decided to follow it up to mountain to see if I could see it again you know and it went up through this thicket and I could it was probably about 100 yards away from me and I was following it up through this thicket. I had a rough time getting through it. And it went straight up the mountain.

And I come out of the thicket. It was way ahead of me. And I lost sight of it. So I got out of that thicket and it comes into more open woods up there. And there's like big oak and cherry trees. And I got up to there. and there's this logging road up there and it goes from the left to the right

like straight across the hill and when I got to that like right before there I seen something walking like a person walking on that logging road and it got in front of me and there's a series of rocks there's like three or four bigger rocks

that I I didn't know they were, I didn't realize how big they were until I went back recently. And I, I had my rifle there. And it was like a foot taller than my 22 magnum rifle. So I'm thinking like 50 some inches these rocks were. But at the time, I didn't realize that. But it just, it started walking across on that logging road. And those rocks were like right at the edge of the logging road.

And there was a bunch in between there, too. small rocks and it got to those rocks and it would step up on the rock and it looked over at me and kind of like in the quarter of its size and it would snarl its lip up at me like if you try to take a dog's bone and it tries the growl and try to get in like it's going to bite you it curls its lip up, that's what it did. It curled its lip at, like showed me its teeth. I seen one bang and the rest were just like human, flat teeth, you know, I could see them. And it looked right at me and then looked back and stepped off the rock and walked to the next one. And it kept doing this on, even on the little rocks. It would step up on a rock, look at me and like, give me a bad

you know, snarled look. And I'm thinking, this thing's trying to scare me away or something, you know, kept doing it. And then it got to the second big rock, and it did it again. And then it stepped off. And I thought,

well, I had my rifle kind of pointed towards it, you know. And I thought, well, maybe if I put it on shoulder it and you know so I put it on my shoulder and went like yes as if to say I'm not trying to hurt you or nothing you know and it seemed to understand what I did because when it stepped off to the last rock then there was a the last rock was the biggest one it was like a triangular shape one and it was pointed at the top and it stepped up on that rock and it didn't it looked at me, but it didn't snarl this time.

It stepped off, and then it just turned its back on me like, like it was calm. And it walked, there was a deer trail, it went right up over the hill, straight up. And it got on that deer trail and started going up there. So I left to get ahead of me a little bit, and I continued to follow it to see where it goes, you know. So I went up to the, we followed this. this trail up and it comes to a steeper part of the mountain and there's a deer trail that's pretty well beaten down. It goes right through real thick mountain laurel up there.

And there's very little leaves in there because there's not many big trees. It's all mountain laurel. And I got up into there to where I couldn't hardly see like maybe 15, 20 feet in front of me. And I heard them running, you could hear feet slapping on the ground running up the trail. There was several of them running up the trail. So I backed off. I decided to stop and I went back down a little bit. And I went back into them open woods to the left.

And I went back up clean to the top of that hill. And at the top, I think it's, well, I know it's posted up there. somebody owns that up there and it's all posted at the top and there's a yellow gate on the one logging road that goes up on an angle and I seen the same one walking and it looked back at me and then it went around the yellow gate and it it like started walking real fast up through there and I had my gun and everything and I didn't want to go in the posted land so and I thought But I better get out because I didn't know where the other ones were up there, you know. So I got out of there. That was the first sighting I had. And, Jeff, was that in Maryland or Pennsylvania? It's in Pennsylvania.

Gordon and Coom Lake is actually, from what I heard, is the lake that supplies Cumberland, Maryland with their drinking water. so it's there's there's a big upper dam I think that's the one that's Gordon it's one or the other I'm not sure Coon or Gordon but and then there's like a there's a bridge there there goes across where the breast is and it's a about a hundred foot drop to the lower lake there and that

my second sighting was right next to that bridge and that's where I had to second sighting. And is that near a certain town at all? The nearest town, there's a gas station on Route 220. If you go south towards, towards Cumberland, it's still in Pennsylvania. It's on the right. I think that's Centerville or New Centerville, one or the two. But there's a gas station right there before you, like then probably six or eight miles down the road there's route 68 down Maryland that's where the border is

I gotcha so this is like between Bedford and Cumberland on 220 it's close to yeah it's close to Maryland okay oh I see that I think I see the big lake now oh Coon it's K-O-O-N right yep I got it yeah cool on the east side awesome very cool so you're saying by the bridge over there then that was where you had your second encounter happen as well. Yeah. It was right on the upper dam side of the bridge. When you come, well, when you come up to that bridge, there's like a series of sharp turns, and then it comes right onto that bridge, and then you cross the bridge, and on the left is the upper side,

and on the right is the lower dam. I was on the left side of the bridge after you crossed the bridge. I was like right next to the bridge down here. And where I parked, if you go past the bridge, you go about 100 feet past the bridge or maybe 100 yards. And there's a little area, there's one of them yellow gates like they have there. Like down in the bottom this little parking lot there. so people can stop barren fish or whatever. And there's like a gate there.

I parked right at that gate. I turned around and was facing the road there. And I went down, I walked, there was a trail that goes right down beside that bridge on the upper dam side. And I was fishing right there next to the bridge. And I was catching bluegills that evening. It was right in the evening. On this episode of plant killers, we'll explore one nation's most notorious fruit and vegetable killer.

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And it was starting to get dark and stuff, but I just decided to, I was still catching nice bluegills and stuff. So, and I was just throwing them back. I wasn't keeping them or nothing, but I was having fun catching them and I didn't want to leave, you know. So it was dark, but it was starting to get dark, and I was still fishing. And all of a sudden I heard like a real loud growl, the, First one kind of sounded like a bear. And that's the first thing I thought of. There's a bear up bear on the,

it sounded like it was on the other side of the hill or the road up on the mountain there. And I heard this roar. And if I've recently just seen that there was recordings from Arizona and there's one from Bluefield, West Virginia. And they were like them, they were like a howl or more like a yell, but they sound exactly like those recordings. And the first one, I actually thought it was a bear because it was more like a growl, you know.

And I thought, man, I better pack my stuff up and go, you know, because I didn't want to stick around. I didn't have no gun or anything. So I just had a little tackle box and two rods with me. So I grabbed them with my right hand. I had them all in my right hand. And I started going back up the trail to the road, to the main road.

And I got halfway up in whatever ground. It made a real loud yell. It's almost as loud as a, like a fire whistle, like a fire siren. It almost sounded like that, but after that, it sounded like a man yelling at the top of his lungs. But it was deeper than a man's voice, and it was a lot louder. You could actually, like, feel the rumble of it, you know. It was real loud. and I stopped dead in my tracks.

I'm like, and it was, it sounded like it was right on the other side of the road this time. There's like a little hill that drops down to the road on the other side of the road. So I decided, well, I'm going straight for my car. I ain't going up there to the road, you know. So I went through, there's just a little patch of woods to the car, but it was thicker than what I thought it was. But I was going through this thick patch of woods straight towards my car. And there's a like a trail that goes from the road down to the lake right in front of there. And when I got right before that trail, I could hear it crunching walking down that trail.

So it got right in front of me at that one. I got to that trail, it was standing there waiting. And so it was like crouched down and it had its hands out like to the side of it. And I tried to go left and every time I moved left, it moved with me. It was like blocking my way to my car and it wouldn't let me go. And then all of a sudden it started like bumping my chest with the back of its hand. It would bun, it started bumping my chest. And grunt,

it was making a grunting at me. Like it was grunting. And then, uh, it, uh, it took its hand, it had its hands like right on the outside.

Like as I was trying to move away from it. It had its hands right at my shoulders. So it was almost touching me, but it wouldn't touch me with it's on my shoulders. Then it kept bumping my chest, and then it started bumping my shoulders. And then all of a sudden I see its eyes. They glowed up like pure red.

The whole eyeball, you know, both eyeballs glowed up, started glowing red. And it had big pupils. I could see the pupils in it. And when it did that, I just, I started hollering yelling, you know. I was scared. And I just started freaking out on it. And I had, I had my fishing stuff in my right hand and I made a fist like this.

And I hit its, I like darted to the right and hit its, like about right here on its elbow. And I hit its elbow. and I hollered. And when I did that, it scared it. And it took off down to the lake. And I went the other way. And I got to my car. I got out of there.

I got in my car and I was out of it. It scared the crap out of me. Okay. Wow. So you are, you're one of the only people I've talked to. So you pretty much had a physical altercation. Yeah. With Bigfoot.

Yeah. Okay. Yeah, I have some questions for you. Yeah. Yeah. But, but, sorry, go ahead and, and, by all means, finish your account of what happened first, and then I will definitely ask you some questions. Yeah.

As soon as I backhand, like, they call it backhanded, but I actually used my fist and kind of punched it with the back of my fist and kind of punched it with the back of my fist. you know, with this part, and I hit it on the side of its arm right by its elbow. I hit it as hard as I could, and I hollered it. I was hollering as soon as I seen the glowing eyes. That freaked me out, and I'm like, get away from me, you know? So I just out of reaction, I just punched it like at, and I jumped. At the same time, I went that way to the right, to my, right so it couldn't get me in the but when I I've sensed that when I punched it like

at it kind of startled it and it hurried it like jumped away from me and then it ran right towards the lake I went straight to my car I was only probably a hundred feet from my car you know when it happened okay when you get to the car then then what you do Oh, I had the one or the, I had a pathfinder, so it had the keyless entry. So I hit the, hit the, uh, the, uh, uh, the key fob and got it unlocked as I was running to it. And I jumped in it. And I just started up as quick as I could. And I rammed it in the drive and I was out of here.

And I didn't look back. Gotcha. Um, just to remind. me so at the point when you're going back and forth yourself in the big foot yeah i mean you're probably what half of half a foot away a foot away you're close yeah it was like right right in front of me like with within arm lengths of it which is a lot big it was wider than i was a lot wider right but it had its hands like right on my shoulders the whole time but it then it started bump my chest and hitting me on my shoulders like like the I don't know it it just didn't want me to

get past it I guess it was trying to scare me or what I don't know absolutely um my goodness uh was there any smell uh you being so close no I didn't have I didn't smell them on any of my occasions I don't know got you I didn't smell know any skunk like others or anything, which is weird, you know, I don't know. But I never. It's going to feel a certain way. If you hit something that's muscular versus if you hit someone that is not muscular at all, you're going to get a different reaction, right?

Right. What could you tell about the Bigfoot by how it felt? when you you hit it. Well, I felt it was real solid, like a, like a real, well, when it was standing in front of me, there was moon, it was a full moon, so I, I could see a little bit, but I could, the moon was, like, out over to the left, out over the lake. So I couldn't see the front, like, its face real good until its eyes glowed up. But I, I just, like, what I, more or less focused on its eyes and uh but uh when it uh when it was standing there in front of me don't like bumping my chest

and stuff i could see it's like chest muscles and it's like ab area and i was i was about eye level with it like right at the bottom of its chest muscles that's about where my i was eye level with that area of it. So I got to see, I seen the hair on it. I seen like it was thinner on its on their chest. And you can actually see the muscles and stuff on it. But okay. And the top of its head, you can see the long stringy hair sticking up. Like, you know, because you could see a little bit of moonlight in the sky there. So I

could see like the outline of it and it was like wild hair like a wild man you know right um how did it feel when it actually pushed you it just it used the back of its hand like this part of its tan and it was like by its knuckles and it was bumping my chest like yes and going like a grunt at me. It just kept doing that. Did you get a sense as to how much of its force it was using when it was doing that? It wasn't doing it to, I don't think it was, if it wanted to, it probably could have done a lot harder, but it wasn't really bumping it real hard just to like, like it was trying to scare me or spooky. me out of there or what that it seemed like to me but it yeah it wasn't real it it didn't hurt a lot but

it was like a like like someone smacked your chest half as they could you know absolutely how tall are you i'm about five six five seven okay gotcha interesting when the eye started to glow, did that happen really quickly or did it happen like it was a slow ignition? It was kind of like

a slow they glowed like real slow and they got, gradually got brighter and brighter and they got real bright red. Okay. And you can see the pupils were

bigger than normal, you know. but you can see the darker pupil in the middle. But it gets a whole eye was glowing, both of them. So after, was there a point then where you were able to see any details about the face since you were so close to it? Yeah, kind of. It had, I seen it had a real small nose and like a little, bump for a nose.

And the rest was real dark. It was covered everything was covered with hair except around its eyes. That's pretty consistent with the other ones I've seen. The one, the first one that I walked up to when I

said I climbed that hill and bounced that one right at the edge of the hill. It didn't have facial hair on it. That was the only one that was different. It didn't have facial hair on it, but and it had like more of a like Caucasian, like a whitish color of skin to it, but it was grayish. And, uh, it, it, um, I'd describe it as looking like an old chimp, but its face was longer than a chimp's face. It was like longer, like a more like a person. But that was the only difference.

It's extremely interesting. I've talked to a guy in Oregon before where he got backhanded by a Bigfoot. Yeah. But this is the opposite. So it's extremely interesting. Yeah. Man, because if he wanted to take you out, he would have taken you out.

No question is asked. I mean, you look at how strong just a chimp is. I mean, it would have been game over. So what I'm kind of taken away is that. But he just wanted you out of the area. Yeah. Yeah, that's what I'm thinking because I kept throwing them.

These bluegills were big. They were like 11 to 12 inch long bluegills. They're bigger in my hand. I was catching them every cast. And I kept throwing them back and throwing them back. I don't know if they were watching me do fish or what, you know. That's what I thought. Maybe they wanted me out at her so that I,

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close interaction but also one that got kind of physical as well well i i definitely don't go night fishing very often anymore that's for sure yeah that uh since then well i always carry a i have a 44 magnum pistol and I carry it every time I go hunting well if I can if I have to use a smaller one I have smaller caliber ones you know like for small game they don't allow you certain sizes of pistol to carry but I if I go up in them woods I take my 44 magnum with me

and just in case you know and I don't go fishing without a gun anymore. I have a gun inside my tackle bag, and if I go somewhere more remote, I have my 44 on my side. I don't like to go night fishing anymore. I don't, I haven't gone very many times since then,

unless I don't blame you. I don't blame you. You know, but I probably won't either. Yeah. Yeah, that was something else there. Have you been back to that spot at all? Yeah, I've been back to it. Yeah, I actually went back to that up to where my first encounter was up in the woods.

And I, years ago before I ever seen any of them down there, I seen this weird tree blind up there at the top. And that's about where I seen my second one, where it was walking on, stepping on the rocks. It was close to that, I think, right above there. And years ago, before that even was there, there was a tree that there's like a drop-off rate before you get up to those mountain walls. And there was a tree that come out over it. And I used to hunt. You could walk out this tree stump, like the, the, the, trunk of it and you can sit in the wide of tree and you're like 10 or 15 feet off the ground

and there's a deer trail that went right under there and the one time there was like real long stringy hair on it and I never thought nothing of it because I never seen nothing like cat out I just figured maybe a coyote was up there or you know bobcat or something using it for hunting or whatever to jump on them. or something because they would walk right under you never see you and then this one year one year a big windstorm and come and blew that tree down and i had noticed that that it was coming down and then i walked over to the left more and there was this weird tree blind and uh it was made up of logs that were broken and wrapped around like two standing trees, but the bark was all in one

piece. You know, they were still intact on the tree. They were like about eight inch from logs. They were broken like about five foot long and then like wrapped around the other trees. And they were stacked on each other. And they're about, they were, the top of the blind was maybe about six feet tall, the last log on. I have pictures of it. And it was weird because they weren't cut or nothing. They were broken, these trees, like the log part was broken, and it was wrapped around the trees. and I sat, I went in it, there's a log that sits against a tree that you could sit in inside of it.

And I sat inside of it and I'm sitting there and the logs were way above my head. And I'm like, why would they put logs that high if that's a hunting blind? And you can't put your rifle up to shoot through it. I'd have to actually step out of it to shoot through it. I always thought that was a weird blind, you know, and how they made it. I don't know. I just thought it was weird. And then recently I went back up there, and I thought I walked up onto that blind again.

And here it was later on, I found my old pictures, and it was a totally different blind. This one was more triangular shaped, and it was facing towards the lake. And that's the way the sun goes. Like, if you're facing down towards the lake, the sun goes to the right all the time. And there was right below that, there was one of those, there was a tree about 10 inches round that was up about 20 feet. it was busted off and it went down like to the ground and then it formed almost like an X right there on the like on that and then that's right that uh blind that's triangular shaped is pointing towards that so it i thought that was weird too and that was recently i seen that that other blind i didn't see that one before and I actually thought it was the old one but it wasn't it was a different one it sounds like there's a lot of weird stuff definitely going on in that area it's cool that

you're still going there as well you mentioned so you've had things happen in other parts of pennsylvania as well correct yeah yeah by blue knob up on the top of the mountain right near Wimber in Ogletown is called. From Johnstown, you go take Route 56 east towards Bedford, and you go out to Ogletown. You come out to Ogletown, and right, there's a trout creek that goes across the road, under the road, and then you go, and if, If you turn right, it takes you to Wimber Sportsman's Dam.

And it's a little pond. But you go past that road. And then into the next big dip, there's a big dip on Route 56. You turn left. And there's a mountain road that goes back here. It's all gravel. And it'll take you back towards Blue Knob. If you go straight, you can't go that far because there's gates back here.

But you go back and there's a crossroads. And you go a little further straight through that crossroads, and you come to a gate where you can't go any further. There's a gas line that goes back there across that road. It runs back across there. You can go past the gas line a little way, like maybe a mile more. And then there's another gate there that they always have closed. And that's where one of them, the third sighting was. that was back there on the right side of the road when you go back.

There's more like a trail that goes back, like a tram road. And there's a, it's called the Lost Turkey Trail is back there. It snakes through Ogletown and goes out towards Bluneau about that way. And I think it circles back around. or something. But I went back I was probably maybe 300

yards from the car probably from the road. I went back here and it this trail goes back and on the right side it's real thick and on the left side it's more open woods and I went back there and it

circles to the right and there's there was a nice log against the tree and I decided to sit there for the first day of buck. And I'm sitting there and all of a sudden, I seen something brown. It was kind of deer color, but it was darker. But at first I thought maybe it was a darker color of deer or something.

So I picked up my rifle and I had a nice scope on it. and I picked the scope up on it and I seen, I thought it was a game warden at first. I thought it looked like somebody in like brown clothing, you know. I thought, what kind of idiots in the woods on the first day of hunting, you know, in all brown, no orange or nothing? And I, so I had a small pair of bono. in my bag and I I pulled them out because I since I I didn't realize it was a person or something and I put my gun down real quick you know because at first I thought it was a deer and so I put the binoculars on it and when I focused down on it I realized that wasn't it wasn't clothing it was hair on it. It had hair covering all.

of it. And it was walking directly towards me down this little hill right before that trail, the turkey trail back here. And when it walked down over that little hill, I noticed its thighs were like freakously longer, like real long. It had real long arms and the same thing. its head was right on its shoulder, and it had all, it was fur all over it, and it had like an over around its eyes, like about that much,

where I could see this face. I could see a little flat nose, a little bit of its nose there, but it had like a big brow on it. You could notice it. It was like a freakish brow on it. This one looked, looked like more giant like to it because uh the like the thighs of it were like it wasn't like a normal

person would be it was like a giant you know it was bigger and it just walked onto that trail and it went uh to my right on that trail it never i guess it never seen me or anything but it then it went out of sight and i didn't see it again But yeah, that was a different color in the other ones. It was like a little bit darker than a deer, like a brownish. The other ones were like a dark gray, grayish brown. And the skin was like grayish on them. Gray color.

Was it similar to what you had experienced before, or was it different than those other ones you had seen? in a way. It was like the overall appearance of it looked the same, but the color was different

and its face was a little bit different and it was bigger than them other ones. The other ones looked like maybe a normal person with longer arms. You know, but that one,

it had like, it seemed to have like a small torso on it, but the legs were like a lot longer on it. And then on its face, it, like, its brow and stuff was a lot bigger in the other ones I've seen. They were more, the other ones were, they had a brow like that, but where they had a, where a human has a nose that sticks out,

it was flat right there. Like, it was flat and it came out to their, to their lips, like, and then they have, like, lips like an ape, like a monkey, you know, their cheeks, like, long down their lip. That's what... Oh, okay. So when you say that, are you saying, like,

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I guess because of the brow is out over it more. That's what it seemed like to me. That's a really interesting detail that not a lot of people bring up. I used to ask about it a lot. I haven't in a while. So that's really interesting. You'd bring that up. I believe that area is called the filtrum.

If people want to look that up. Yeah. That's pretty cool. Yeah. And then you, you said you've had one other encounter as well in this area? Yeah.

Actually, it was, I think it was 2022. I was, well, actually I had two on that, this other lake. It was near Beaverdale out on Route 869. If you go from Beaverdale, like towards Pavia, PA, there's a road, it's Route 869, and you take that out. And there's a lake on the left side. It's called Beaver Dam Run Reservoir. And it's called, I think they used to call it on a Linda Dam, before it was closed down, but they opened it up the fishing. And you can take your boat out on it.

now and uh but it's just electric motors but uh i went out on that lake with my kayak the one year and uh i went to i went back like it's almost a mile probably from the dock to the breast and then the right side of the lake extends out into a long cove and it's you can't see it from the breast of the dam there it's pretty remote it goes long it's a long one that goes back and i was on like the breast end of it and i i was like halfway back almost the whole way back to the the end of the that long eddy and uh i was just fishing along there's a couple inlets ago the streams come into it and I was I caught a lot of nice big bass in there and stuff I was just fishing for whatever but would bite you know so I I made it back like two of those

inlets I fished two of them and I went back and I was on my way out and I was going to go to the last inlet in the center of that which I I caught a lot of brook trout there before, nice ones, because there was a stream that runs into there. And so I was headed over that way, just fishing. And I looked up on the bank about probably, about 200 feet away or so. There was one of those things standing right on the outside edge of the lake right there. And there's no trees there or anything.

It's like it's bushes back there and there's reeds in front of it And it was standing in front of them bushes just standing there with its arms to its side watching me fish And I looked at it, I'm like holy crap And you could tell it it was the same way it had hair all over it except around its eyes like that right on its eyes and its arms were pretty long on it but it was just standing there like straight looking at me and uh i was i started like kind of moving towards it and between there and that other uh cricket comes in it's real shallow and rocky and you if you don't watch where you're going you get stuck in there on the rocks and i

I got into that area and it was windy that day. And I was kind of looking down so I didn't hit the rocks. And I looked up and it was gone. So it got out of there like within a couple seconds. But then just recently in 2022, I think it was on Memorial Day, I took my two friends, those guys out, bass fishing out on the lake gear and uh we went over like right before you get to that eddie on the right side of it we're there's a small little inlet in there and we were catching bluegills and stuff in there

just having fun you know all of a sudden we uh we heard what sounded like an owl call but who, who, who, who, who, kind of like one of those alcohol calling. And it would do it for, like, several minutes, and then it would stop, and it, we wouldn't hear it for a while. And then we heard it, like, two other times after that. And then the third time, when it did that, it made like a more of a it turned into like it wasn't like an owl it turned into like a monkey whoop like multiple ones of them

and they were whooping like over and over like a ape does you know when they when they start whooping like a repeatedly it sound like more you know a couple of them back here doing it but you could like when you when it sound like an owl you could tell it wasn't an owl it was it was something or someone i thought it was someone imitating one but it you know it almost but then when it turned into whoopin like that we're like holy crap you hear that and we're looking up in there you can see something dark moving up there but we you know you couldn't see it real good but you can see something moving up in there. And this was, so you're a guy who spends a lot of time out there fishing and in the outdoors.

So this is different than when like a bard owl starts to sound weird. So you're saying it was way different than that. Yeah, it was like someone trying to imitate an owl, something. Okay. And then when it turned from an owl call to like a monkey, like, whooping, you knew it wasn't an owl. There's no way that was an owl. You know, it sounded like a bunch of them back here doing the same thing. Like you're like a kind of whoop over and over, you know.

I would explain it, but, yeah, it turned, it went from an aisle call and then they started whooping like it. And I thought that was really weird. It's some really interesting things that you've been having going on. Sorry, go ahead. Yeah. Oh, then, sorry about that. The next day, Robbie couldn't go and Logan and I went there. And we stayed there until,

it was starting to get dark and we were we were still heading to the back to the boat launch and I was fishing the whole way back and it was dark until we got to the boat launch and I got right before the boat launch and I was I was driving and I was in the back of the boat using the trolling motor and he was facing me like towards the back of the boat and when I got into the right before the boat launch he yelled

Jeff look over there and he was pointing across the from the dock in the trees right there and I looked over and I didn't see nothing I said what did you see he said there was something peeking out from a tree right there and I seen two glowing red eyes I said nah and he said yeah I just seen it. I'm dead serious. And then we heard something back here walking like around to where our car was parked over there. There's a, there's like a little creek that runs in right there to the left of the,

like if you're facing the parking lot, it'd be to the left. And you could hear something crunching going around that way, like over towards the car. I had the 44 Magnum with me. I said, you wait here and I'll go get the car real quick. And I ran to the car with the 44. And we got down there and loaded it up.

And we didn't hear nothing after that. So luckily, we got out of there safely. But I guess he described it as two glowing eyes. And it was like peeking out from behind the tree over there. Oh, wow. That's crazy. Man, do you ever get to the point where you don't want to go out anymore or you're just, you're okay with it? I'll go out, but I don't like to go night fishing at all.

I won't, I'll leave before it gets dark now. It definitely changed that. And when I used to hunt, I used to go in before. four daylight with a flashlight and I knew where I wanted to sit and I'd sit there until dark if I didn't see anything, you know, a lot of times, you know, so I, I was always walking in and out of the woods at dark. Not, not anymore. I don't do that either. Yeah. Based on, you know, what you've seen over the years, would you, how would you classify what Bigfoot is. Do you have any thoughts about that?

In my, in my mind, I think they're like a cross between a, like a gorilla type ape and a human. And I think they're more human than they are eight. In my, from what I've seen and seen them, they remind you a lot of a, gorilla but like most of their features are like a human's like their body and their shoulders

the way they stand and everything it's like a human more they're you know and I that the one the first one that I seen that it got up and like it gallop it looked like it was galloping for

30 yards on all fours it used its front legs like an ape. And it, then it got up on its back legs and ran like a, it was fast, you know, real fast like a person.

So, you know, I, I think they're more human than they're, like, human like, than they are ape-like. But they have their feet,

facial features or a lot of that is like an ape, you know. That's, so I think it's like a cross between, or something. I don't know. It's pretty weird because they have face, you know,

where a human normally doesn't have it on, like from here up. You know, they had face, facial hair, like covering their nose and everything. You know? Yeah. It was thinner right there,

but they still had like a thin hair around their, eyes and stuff it's it's definitely one of the last great mysteries of the world i i would say and i mean in i you are one of the only guys out there from what i've heard that can say you back on backhanded a big foot which is pretty wild but it's not that you did it because you wanted to i think uh would you say it's probably more in a self-defense type deal. It was out of survival instinct.

Yeah. Because I thought it was going to grab me and kill me right there. And I had to get away from it. There's no way other way I could have done it. You know, I just, I didn't even think about it. I just, when I seen them eyes grow let glow red, I, I knew something was not right. And I, it just freaked me out. You know, I'm like, get the heck away from me. You know, and I yelled at the top of my lungs and I just hit it as hard as I could. And luckily, it scared it. It seemed to like it startled it. Like if, you know, something touched them, you know, and he wasn't expecting that. He wasn't expecting me to hit him. And I think I was lucky to get out of your life. I would agree with you.

I'd say you're very lucky to be here telling the story today. But Jeff, thank you so much for spending some time and sharing what you've experienced over the years. Definitely keep us in mind if you experience anything else out there in Pennsylvania. But thank you so much for coming on the show today. No problem. Thanks for having me. Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oak Ridge, Oregon? and you think to yourself, man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it for myself.

Well, guess what? This year, you can. If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summer Fest is coming up July 10th through the 11th, 2026. It's going to be even better than the previous year's reason number one. I'll be one of the speakers. It's going to be wild. I'll probably, I'll say this,

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

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