Bigfoot Society - It was Killing Something Right Outside my Tent at Salt Fork!

Episode Date: May 31, 2024

In episode 443: It was Killing Something Right Outside my Tent at Salt Fork, Jeremiah from Bigfoot Society talks to E, a Central Ohio resident who shares his chilling experience at Salt Fork State Park during the Ohio Bigfoot Conference weekend. E dives into the night that forever changed his views on Bigfoot, recounting the eerie grunts, bipedal footsteps, and what he believes was a Bigfoot kill just yards from his tent. They also discuss the infamous Bigfoot Ridge, known for its high activity of sightings, and strategies for anyone looking to have their own Bigfoot encounter at Salt Fork. This episode is a mix of firsthand experience, local legends, and expert advice on navigating Ohio's Bigfoot hotspots.Resources: https://ohiobigfootconference.orgShare your Bigfoot encounter with me here: [e-mail]🔴 Subscribe to hear more Bigfoot encounters: https://www.youtube.com/@BigfootSociety?sub_confirmation=1Share this video with a friend: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z5v75Od-X38Watch more episodes of the Bigfoot Society podcast here – https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-MGeHs0XglFJE5LwUHpmJm_&feature=sharedRecommended Playlist – New Jersey Bigfoot Encounters - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3t1vwtsKh-Mk4032IyZtWgP6LVPU8uat✅ Help me help others share their Bigfoot Encounter by joining the community on Patreon and get access to EXTRA WEEKLY MEMBER'S ONLY EPISODES! - https://www.patreon.com/thebigfootsociety✅ Hear ad-free episodes early by joining the community on Youtube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q/joinLet’s connect:Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/bigfootsociety/Twitter – https://twitter.com/bigfoot_societyTiktok - https://www.tiktok.com/@bigfoot.societyAffiliate links mean I earn a commission from qualifying purchases. This helps support my channel at no additional cost to you.My Audio Interface: https://amzn.to/3L1q8XYPut some pep in my step by buying me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/bigfootsocietyPick up some merch here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/bigfootsociety/?etsrc=sdtSend mail here:Bigfoot Society125 E 1st St. #233Earlham, IA 50072Send business inquiries to: [e-mail]

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Wednesdays and sometimes even more episodes head on over to patreon.com forward slash the bigfoot society and now let's get on with the show all right bigfoot society we've got the privilege of talking to e today uh is an individual that reached out to me through email from central ohio about some things that he's experienced in that state so it's a pleasure to talk to you tonight e i'm going to go ahead and hand it right over to you sir thank you for being here tonight. Yeah, thank you for having me. I'd like to stay up from Central Isle.

I guess I've always been a believer and now a kind of a knower. Had a type B, class B, exciting. Pretty, pretty, I guess, vulgar, you'll say, that happened to me. Never, never will forget it. So obviously living in a while, grass man. It's the terminology. Didn't even know about the grassmen until I moved to Ohio about over 10 years ago. And South Forest State Park is like the mecca of it all.

And so me, I always wanted to go out there and check it out. This situation happened to me April 29th of 2022. I know that because it was Ohio Bigfoot Conference. And a month ago, I wanted to meet. people I know you know all the big names in the Bigfoot community were going to be there and just and it's like you know the the place to be for Ohio so the place that my situation happened was a spot called Bigfoot Ridge it was

campsite number six I don't never never forget it still go there to this day so it was on a Friday night got there kind of late probably about 8 o'clock, 9 o'clock, and it's still kind of like that sunset in about 6. So I was putting on my camp, got off work, setting everything up in the middle of them, kind of like darkness. How to use my head lamp to put it up.

And it was going to get cold that day, too. So I got my Mr. Heater, got everything I needed. So after I set everything up, I had Chipotle and I ate Chipotle, and I forgot I left it outside. and raccoons were I could hear little footsteps coming in and whoever was at the Hobbit Football Conference they even told the story to them um Mark who runs it to everybody that year as well too that fall and Sunday so if you were there you know who I am what I

look like and everything else so so yeah fast forward to you know raccoons coming in and out of my camp and this is about 2 o'clock. And they kind of disturbed me, so I decided to unzip my zipper, kind of scaring them away, and use the bathroom. Also to mention there were people from the BFRO that were camping that night around me,

later found that out. They were from New Jersey. Israel Waller from New Jersey to a while to experience the Wadipickfoot Conference. So they went out for a night investigation. So it's about 2.30 now going out to relieve myself. And they're coming back from a night hike. They had their red headlamps and everything.

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

It was going to be in the 30s. And so I hear this raccoon. Like I said, they're coming in and out, in and out. Here we go back to the brushline and they'll take them food that I left out, Chipotle. They kind of hear roaming through some other stuff as well. And here it nibbling like, and you can hear it's like a small creature, a raccoon possum, something that nature. And as it misses, this animal is eating whatever was small rodents, not a internal animal. I hear it die.

like, ah, I hear it like, it's fighting for his life. Like, something is attacking him. And I'm like, okay,

I'm thinking, trying to be logical, like a coyote, fox, something like that, you know, that could kill, like a predator

or some type of perpetrator. The only predators we have or Blackbeard, but we only got like a population of a hundred in Ohio. It's not like Tennessee was it's in the thousands. So, so, so yeah.

But I'm, I'm all awoke now. Like, heard this animal die and so forth. So, decided to turn out my Mr. Heater to keep me warm. It's like 35 degrees. Pyrgy, even a little bit colder and then that. And from the brushline, I heard, and I was like, did I just hear that?

And it was, all because I turned on my Mr. Heater and my whole tent lit up from being red. and I heard it a third time, and it blew me away. And the third time, that first time I turned it on, the missile heater is weird

because it's like counterclockwise to turn it off. I did it was the first time using it too. And so like I said, I turned it on. I didn't believe what I heard. And then it happened again a second time. and I had it on a low setting

and it got super loud when I accidentally turned up from low to high and I was trying to turn it off I mean the long zone this thing it was like and I'm laying on my back too like leaning on my back

and I'm like it's not even ground level and I'm like this thing is up like if I was just stand up like you know six feet plus like I'm trying to because I'm trying to get distance from a distance and how high high up it is. And I'm like, that sounds like taller than me.

And I can't even do justice of with the grunts and so forth. So in my mind, like, I'm thinking, did I just disturb a Bigfoot kill? And I didn't even hear it come up. And I'm thinking to myself, if this was a Black Bear, like it would, it should have went through my camp. But you didn't.

Should go to other people's camps, but it didn't. You hear it slowly like crunch, crunch, crunch away. But for something that big, I should have heard it come up to the brush line. And, yeah, it pretty much ambush whatever that was. So it was a raccoon or possum or whatever. But I didn't hear anything until it made a kill. like I can hear the little animals and then it's just like

if you ever hear like a like a cat not a cat fight but something fighting for his life and then he could tell a small like a dog or like a dog fight whatever and so yeah so I mean I'm up by then turn on my

my Mr. Heater my tent's red and I hear the grunts and I didn't believe it and I heard it again and I'm thinking to myself is this the vocalization that people is this what it sounds like and it clearly is directed towards me because I'm the only one

that had to like lit up the tents I mean I went out to use the bathroom prior or nobody else had their tent lit up at all. So, and that red on red really glowed up the area. And I'm probably like 20 yards, 25 yards, pretty close to that brush line. I know that because I play football. So I'm not like, you know, first downs and all that.

So, yeah, I'm pretty close. This thing, I mean, it could have been on me right, right then and there. and luckily it didn't and the third grant because I was trying to turn it from low to off I actually turned it low to high

and so you hit grind it so I didn't get a lick of sleep all night I didn't know what's going to happen next I know if it's going to come back I did at all

and um so as soon as daybreak, like soon as day break, I go back to Columbus, Central Ohio. It was only one city that's really in Central Ohio. So go back to Columbus. My wife thought I was going to spend the night there like, you know, the morning and now and I come home. And I came to come to her and I said they're out there.

I said they're out there. She said I looked like I've seen a ghost. like I my skin's you know I'm African American I just kind of like lost pigmentation I guess a little bit in my skin

I'm fair skin like African American so so I guess I look whiteish and pale scared kept be playing that over and over my head that night kept listening and listening didn't hear anything but I did hear it like bipedal walk away.

So I just left everything there, you know, just going to come back and get it. And so, because I just, I, there was no way I was going to sleep out there. I needed some sleep. So my son had a soccer game anyways. So I decided to go later that afternoon. So April 29th, that Friday,

I guess technically it's April 30th, it's 2.30 in the morning. So April 30th, The next phone because the Bigfoot covers is just a weekend thing. So later go out to the afternoon, and I pull up, and the BFRO people from New Jersey came out to me immediately after I got out of my car and asked me, did you hear anything? And I said, yeah, at 2.30 in the morning, they're like, yeah. So that gave me validation that I wasn't the only one to heard it. And it was, I don't know what else.

And Ohio, the biggest thing we really, really got is white-tailed deer and a hundred, 100 bear, roughly, black bear. And, I mean, the place is notorious for obviously Bigfoot and Grassman. And so, yeah, I mean, what validated for me was at three, playing it over and over and over my head was the fact how high up those vocals. And I can tell if it's ground level or not. You can tell if this is six feet or more, you know, you know, from treat. Like, so it definitely was. And what runs at you and, like, walks away.

And there was nobody with flashlights, nothing like that. So if it was a bear, it should have went through everybody's stuff. It didn't. It was particular. It had a mission. It completed the mission. And I think I just served part of its mission. That's why I got those vocalizations directly towards me.

And, yeah. Yeah. So share with my experience that with the Ohio. for conference that Sunday where it's like a town hall meeting that Mark holds I can't remember Mark's class man but he's pretty much runs it sort of told everybody there in front of Renee Cliff Dr. Meldrum even a moneymaker as well too so Don Keene was there as well so John as well I sleep jog quite a bit when I go there. So I, after that happened, I was like, I'm never, don't need to go back.

Don't need to. I was scared. Like, it took me months to even build up the courage because, like I said, this is COVID, but ending, ending of COVID. And I was always curious about it. And beforehand, I was hiking. That was my first time spending the night there. And, you know, there's a map of, I guess, where all the sightings that's happened as well.

And I wanted to go to a primitive site and there's a primitive spot throughout the park. There's no running water. There's no electricity. And, yeah, I've done hikes there where I've seen footprints in March, which is still like 30-degree. and I wear a size of a little boot. And I mean, the width, the length, the depth. The depth is like incredible. That's something can leave an impression like that in frozen ground.

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our hunting season I'm walking there's deer everywhere I mean I think Cassacta County in Jersey County they got the biggest kills deer deer kills year and your else so plenty of food

and those two counties kind of touch each other, aboard each other. And so, yeah, fall. Obviously, deer season, walking down the trail part, like a mile, a half. And there's some houses on my right-hand-side. Not houses, I would say a farm, a farm.

But the loudest, like, Louisville slivered, not ever. And, oh, I don't. I do a lot of hiking. I hope when I get lucky. Like I said, to build some time after this situation happened to me in 2002. And it's not probably happened last year,

last fall. So Bill has encouraged to go back out there and heard that as where I'd hike. I don't know what else. It was so early in the morning. It was like 7.30 in the morning. and I'm like, who's building anything?

And it wasn't repetitious knocking. It was just one solid, just like, pow. And that was it. It wasn't a, like, it wasn't even a tree falling over because you were with crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, crunch, fall over. Wasn't even that. So I had a walk a stick.

I tried to knock back nothing. But I saw, when I saw the deal, year on that day, that day, this was like last fall. It felt like a knock like someone's here. The grunts, I'm going back to the grunts. I'm sorry, I'm all over the place because the grunts felt like someone saying, hey, hey, knock it off. Like, that's what that's what it felt.

Like, cut it, like, cut it out, knock it off type grunts. And I didn't act. fast enough and the gruntar apart a second apart and the third one that's got pretty pretty

pretty low like it escalated and I couldn't get that Mr. Deere shut off fast enough so I mean I've I still go out

I reach out to Harley Owens I'll let him know that I you know, just pretty close. I mean, what, six hours away? To, uh, I heard them. I seen the, the impression they leave on Earth.

And, um, I do, I do one day want to have, like, class, obviously I want to, if I'm going to have a class A, you know, if I have my pickings of something that is, I can go home that day. But, uh, so yeah. Um, So far had those class Bs. And they were never, never forget them.

And yeah, I mean, they're definitely here. I mean, I don't know what else could leave that type of type of front in the middle of the night. And, yeah, it has to be. That's very interesting. That whole situation happening that weekend. Do you mind if I ask you a few questions? Yeah. Yeah.

So you leave early in the morning to go back to Columbus, which is just under an hour and a half. Right. Right. And then you go back to get your stuff. Now, when you went back to the campsite to get your stuff, you know, did you notice signs of a struggle, how, you know, you were saying like that raccoon or whatever it is got taken out? Or did you see any evidence? So, yeah. So one of the guys from the how I knew it from BFRO because he had a BFRO ad on

And and I talked to my and they told me they're from New Jersey and this is one particular skinny lady red hair pink hair That we went back there to look to see like a tussle This thing it sounded like it got a hold of and it was like, you know, if you pick up a wild cat is trying to get out of your arms and I think they're saying just like snap his neck,

twisted something, and that was the end of it. So it wasn't a much, it wasn't even tussling, really. It was like a snatchup. It wasn't, like, the bushes weren't, you know, rumbling around,

the leaves, none of that. It's like, like I said, that that animal that was eating Magiapole was occupied y'all and I'm thinking to my that night I'm thinking oh what a perfect

opportunity to ambush animal in the midst of it's being occupied eating is this food you get behind it or and get it so I'm thinking what do we have in a while that can do that I'm like

possibly Fox coyote but they're not going to leave those vocalizations like how I heard or there for that matter because they don't go like they this is different to growl and a grunt and this is definitely a grunt

right right and you said so you said you heard you actually heard like bipedal footsteps as well afterwards yeah it was odd it was

it sounded like a sneak sneak up uh I mean when I say it sounds like the fact that I didn't hear come. The fact that I didn't hear it. And it was, it was large. It was large. And it was, and it was, and I'm laying on the ground and I can hear it like six feet up. I'm being conservative when I say that too. When I say six feet up, I'm like a minimum of six feet, like a minimum of that. I'm glad I got the validation

from the people from the BFRO telling me, hey, did you, they, I couldn't, they came out, I couldn't get out the car fast enough without them coming towards me. Right. And, and, and the lady, she heard it, the skinny girl from New Jersey. The guy with the BFRO had on, he said he fell asleep.

I mean, when they went in her 10 and after I got done doing number one, it happened 10 minutes 15 at the most and I'm thinking they like you know when you're in the woods and if you're looking for big for like they were you're gonna want to stay up a little as long as you can especially just got into your tent so for him to say that yeah I fell asleep

I was like man you fell asleep less than 10 minutes 15 and I was kind of like there's no way you fell in it and then hearing it I was like that day didn't that didn't like wake you up at all like you're i can understand if you're going slowly to sleep but so he was kind of bummed out he didn't hear it a little bit because she did and um other people were saying that yeah there was a lot of animal activity um which makes sense because there's a dumpster there um which is a prime opportunity for them to get into the the trash cans after the people leave or, you know, there's

in camps. But, yeah, Bigfoot Bigfoot Ridge is obviously a hospital whoever's been there knows about it. So, yeah, I mean, they've been seen throughout the whole entire park. Can you share

just in case listeners don't know. Do you can you share any information about why that area is called Bigfoot Ridge? the story that I know of is that there was a picnic area before they made it a campsite and I think John has said this on one of his podcasts on YouTube

or he was telling a story or somebody was that I guess this is going back to the 80s maybe early 90s that some two of them stepped out and I think it was a handicap, like picnic area. And then they convert into a campsite eventually, a primitive campsite. Like I said, it doesn't have any electricity or running water or anything like that. And I guess when they named it, they named it Bifford Ridge.

There's a sign up for it and everything. You can look that up on Google. But I guess once, like, it was being known. as the hot spot of Ohio in a sense. They decided to name it Bigfoot Ridge. Absolutely. Salt Fork State Park is a huge,

huge Bigfoot area for people that aren't aware. It's also the site of the Ohio Bigfoot Conference, as E. said earlier, but were there any other reports from that night or weekend of other people in other

areas having Bigfoot interactions? Yeah. So, the place there's a horse there's a horse camp area everybody everybody that has

courses like to go over there as well too and there's a lot of broad trails that's like four or five of one I like

it's a great place if you want to go for long hikes I do now just to see what I can see I think the next thing for me is like

possibly smelling them never I didn't smell anything. I did get asked a question did I felt sick. I remember telling my story

at the conference. One guy came up to me and said, you feel sick. And I said, no, I didn't feel nauseous because I heard of

ultrasound, but with the aggression of the vocalization towards me because I turned out my mister ear and just lit up the place with my red tent.

And so, which kind of gave it like, you know, a glow. It lit it up for sure. And that's why I think, because I didn't hear it,

it was certainly trying to be stealthy. And me lighting up the tent, you know, blue was like somewhat cover. So, and so yeah, I mean, it was definitely towards me.

I mean, like I said, it happened a second as soon as I turned on, I'm just a heater. But other people did the, there was another lady from New Jersey from the BFRO by like I said the horse camp.

There's the orange trail that kind of begins there, so to speak. There's like the white trail, blue trail, purple trail, orange trail. They saw two sets of glowing red eyes, one low and high. So yeah, there was other people that saw something glowing red eyes. eyes and they were out there. When I was setting up tent, like I said, 8 o'clock, 6, 6, whatever it was, they were heading out. So they were out there for like six hours from about, able to say from 8 to 2.

That's very, very interesting. So I guess a few follow-up questions. No strange smells in the campsite at that time. No, nothing. Nothing worse like the stuff you hear. Right. Exactly. The stuff,

like the skunk, the wet dog and all and just some stuff that makes you want to throw up. Like, none of that. No. They didn't feel nauseous. Didn't feel sick.

But, um, the, like, the sound, the best way I can describe it's like below the dire frame like gutterol

in your gut. If you can like make sounds from your belly up versus from your lungs up like that's how I would describe it. It sounded like if if a gorilla could

do that that's I mean that's I never really heard a gorilla grunt but um but it's not a known animal in Ohio that can like I said deer and bear right and it was like it's had intelligence because it didn't do what I wanted to like it clear it stopped the grounds I turned off the Mr. Heater you know after the time of third run so I had intelligence like to do that and I'm thinking if this this thing we're not known for a bear state at all we're

just not much Virginia and Tennessee are. Right. But we're not known for that. I should tell people you have a better chance for going into a big foot than a black bear. That's funny. Here in Ohio. And I mean, I think Ohio is the hot spot

just because all our rivers, we're into Ohio River. So you got the water stream, all the creeks and the small rivers, the Sayota rivers and all that. run into it. Obviously, you got the Great Lakes that, you know, so we're surrounded by water. Really no main big predators, 100 bear, black bear, which is nothing to them.

And, I mean, trophy, if you won a trophy book, the wilds where it's at for a trophy book, you're trying to get that 225 to 250 range of pounds. Right. You can definitely get it here. so and I know winners are not well that lately

they've been very very mild but but yeah I mean it goes back to the 1800s when that one

particular father and daughter are walking down and she just I don't think she said guerrilla

because the gorilla didn't exist back in those terms I forgot what she called and attacked her dad so

So yeah, I mean, it's, and then I also go to Hawking Hills, which has the stories when National Forests. I haven't had any experience there. But, yeah, I don't, I don't, I don't, I really don't go much in the summertime just because you can't see any foliage. I mean, the foliage is so thick. But, yeah, the situations that happened to me. with the knock vocalizations they were spring and the fall so yeah that makes that makes sense yep that's a that's a good time uh especially the fall from what i hear so you are you're actively going to hawking hills or you've been there a few times yeah yeah i mean living living in columbus you know

you're about i mean i live on the hour 15 i can get to self-work and then like an hour hour 15 painted Hawking Hills, National Forest, Southeast Ohio. Taylor Hall is a good place. Broke's a good place. State Park. I'm trying to think of some other ones as well. But yeah, anything over there is obviously in Hawking Hills. That whole general region is a good spot.

If you look at it on a BFRO map that's mapped out, you can pretty much draw a straight line from Columbia and County all the way down to Hawking Hills which runs into soft work so it's our highest point of the state and is the I guess the Appalachian foot foothills and plateaus I guess and it kind of makes sense whether they stay from eastern Ohio southeast to northeast so kind of a diagonal line was kind of much

do soft work if you were drier on the map. But yeah, I'll never forget. There's nothing. I've been to the zoo. I've been at San Antonio Zoo. Colomino Zoo. Colomazoo is pretty well known. There's nothing that makes,

there's nothing in North America will at least classified. It makes that type of noise. Did you say that you had actually seen a track there? I have. Yep. I have.

Tell us. I think it was that the weekend? That was in the weekend. You saw that? No, that was that was like the year prior. Okay. That was, I was going out there like 2002, I'm sorry,

2000, COVID, COVID years. Yeah. Because there's not much else to do. Then go hiking and camping and I was getting tired of playing golf all the time. So, needed another outlet of and I think that's where I picked it up because like I said one story short I was working from home and listen to a bunch of podcasts and so forth so it kind of expired me to go out to you know to soft work and get on those trails like I

says a whole bunch of barter trails that can go eight miles to 10 miles and I guess on four mile once as well too so yeah I got on the trail and I saw the footprint like crossed the trail. Those was just one single footprint that stepped on the trail and off. And you couldn't see the recipe because it was, you know, leaf litter everywhere. But the trail didn't have any leaves. And you can definitely see a heel for sure. It looked blocky like a blocky foot.

It didn't. Yeah, just wide and blocky. You can see toes as well in it. But the heel, it looked like the dirt just rolled up on his heel when it stepped on it. Because it's pretty like a rounded or mounted at the heel area as it's pushing off his heel into the toes. So our landing his heel and going on to the toes. But yeah, I was walking down the trail of it. and step right over it.

Step right over it and was kind of, it looked fairly fresh. But what caught me was the impression, and I was looking for rocks, but I'm thinking like, and it's a horse trail, so like they're going to clear rocks out the way. They don't want their horses breaking their,

I mean, it's expensive animal, the own and take care of and all that. So they keep it somewhat kind of, clear it out for the horses. And I'm looking around for rocks. I'm not firing a rock, but it is clearly going across.

This is on the Blue Trail. That's all this. And the Blue Trail is, if you look at us all, focus on the peninsula, you can say. And unless they're crossing the waters, there's really one way in and one way out on land

without crossing water. So, that's the reason why I went on a blue trail and it's where I noticed it did you have any way of did you have like a tape measure or anything with you to try to yeah I did I had my foot um size 11 foot so I can um I can send it to you okay um of it um to compare and it makes my foot like a child's foot it really does and I was I was astonish and like I got, I guess, quote-unquote, grown-man feet.

I mean, I'm not 6-4, 6-5, but it made my stuff with, like, my toddler, when my kids were toddlers size compared to my feet. Were you able to try to do, like, a cast or a 3-D scan or anything like that besides the... No, I didn't have anything. I didn't have anything on me. I mean, the only thing, I didn't have my wallet on me. I left it in the car. So I didn't have building that much

Other than I knew everybody knows what the size of 11 foot looks like Or a boot So that's why I put my foot up against it To say hey this is like almost 12 feet right here Size 11 So man it's another Three to four Yeah

It looked like 15 feet to me um yeah and then the width like my it was like the width of my foot plus another half of my foot at least um so I put my foot in it and it was spaced on left and right

of it um and I weigh 240 240 so I'm not I'm not a skinny guy and I couldn't do nothing in the ground and the ground was frozen it was I mean freezes at night thaws out a little bit so

but we're We were in March, so it's like 40 for a high. So it's not throwing out that fast or that efficient. So it's more frozen throughout the day than it is above freezing. So yeah, and to leave their impression, into the ground like that was something. How deep into the ground did it go again? Oh, at least a inch, at least like inch and a half. That's wild.

couldn't do nothing. I couldn't do nothing. Like, I tried stopping on it and everything around it, like, not in it, but around it to see what I can do. I couldn't move it. I mean, the grounds, like, it's like semen almost. So there's nothing I can, my 240-pound body could do to put an impression to the earth like that. And coming out of winter, so barely. Scott from Patreon has a question for you What was it that first got you into

Bigfoot in the first place? Monster Quest Monster Quest definitely did the Ohio Grassman episode and I just moved to I guess Ohio in 2007 and I think that came in like 2007 or I want to say eight really

and that floored me. And then they had another one about Kentucky. In Ohio, Kentucky, they got to be in West Virginia and find out about the Florida Skunk G. Having MG can make cooking difficult. But over the years, I found some really helpful tools and tips that I'm excited to share. Hi, I'm Alicia.

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I need something to gravitate towards keeping my interest throughout the day and that's what kind of I guess we sprung it or it was there. But I always believe, I always believe in evolution, anthropology as well too. So evolution of, I guess you can say beings, human beings, I guess. Neanderthals and so forth and all that. But, yeah, I mean, and then the fact that every Native American has a word for it. Yeah, that's huge.

And I was like, oh, my. And then like from coast to coast, like, they're definitely not calling each other, writing each other, none of that. And then, yeah, that's, and definitely never, everybody can be crazy. Everybody is like making this up over and over and over and over and over again. I'm like, you know, and I was like, there's no money to make this stuff up. There is none. Like you're not, you're not going to get rich off of telling the story. Well, that's the thing.

It's like, you know, all these people emailing and giving reports. And it's like they're not, my email is full every day. And it's like these people are not getting anything from sending these emails. Like, it's just, yeah, I totally get what you're saying. And then like for me, like, with the podcast was, was the, the harshness of, treatment from, I guess, higher authorities and the government that people get. I was like, really?

Like, they go that far of threats and stalking and yeah, the harassment. I was like, wow. So that caught my interest. I'm like, that definitely not making this up. Absolutely.

At all. Have there been any other interesting encounters you've heard of from the Salt Fork area? Just curious if you've ever heard anything. Yeah, yeah. Don't want to give out this guy's name. Sure.

I don't know of his permission, but he's pretty well known. Yeah, there was a guy if you know, well, even Google were the, I made him about Bigfoot Ridge. This is, he knows who he is if he's listening. His name starts with the E as well, too. say that. And over by the group camp, there's like a swampy area. And it's a little rule that goes into it.

And him and his partner in crime, he has his own YouTube channel as well. So he's, I don't want to tell too much about him. But him and his partner go out. for a hike and come back. His story is that I think his wife was going to don't have one car. So normally he goes in with his car,

comes out of his car, go back in his car, and leaves. Well, this time, like, I guess his wife was dropping him off. And so they dropped them off. They go in and out. Where they normally park at, they kept on walking.

And at Sawfork, like I said, at the camp, there's this little road and this is kind of swampy on both sides. He saw one about 10 feet tall, all black, moved trees out the way to see

if they left. Because normally, like I said, they drive in, drive out. Doors, close, opening clothes, and all that. And I guess the Bigfoot was like, where are they? I didn't hear them get back in their truck. I didn't hear them drive away.

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

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

good class that they did they're black so so yes that's the class that I heard of at soft fork so yeah and that's extremely interesting um let's I'm sure a lot of people listening to this would be a man I've always wanted to go to salt fork and look for bigfoot do you have any advice for people that are going to salt fork for the first time to go camping. There's going to be a lot of knuckleheads out there. Don't go in it. Don't, don't, don't go out there in this for summertime.

Because every everybody, I know there's people that don't even bother going to self-work anymore because it's some people, nothing else to say is getting squashed out, but you get all these people going out there in the summertime and knock on trees. hooping and hollering and doing hoops and you know they got they got the kids camp where they go out there and they walk around it could be pushing them away

at certain times of the year and that's why I talked about Ohio if you look on the BFRO you can plot a straight line so they can go up and down out of line in the state so they could like I said

Hawking Hills is just right below it on that Appalachian, the Appalachian of Wile, really, that they do get pushed out because there's too many people in the state park. They got somewhere else to go. So, definitely if you're going to do this, do it when I did it. Early spring, late fall. I like going, because if you're going on on these trails, it's so thick in there.

You can't see 10 feet. and you're almost wasting your time doing that. If you're going to do it, you want to go when all the leaf litters down, you know, it's November, December, January, February, where you actually can see a mile, you know, half a mile. This point was doing it during the summertime. It really is. So don't even wish for, I mean, I'm not saying that go out there,

but have low expectations, in other words. I would say If you want them to come up close You're going to need At least three days I think I just got lucky That one night of them It really didn't come up to me

It really had no interest in me I just disturbed it But turning on my Mr. Hero lamp Glowing up my tent And it got pissed off from me So it wasn't there to check me out It was really there

to do its normal routine of getting a dinner, a meal, and keep it, keep it moving. But if you want these things, I guess I've heard you need at least a week, about that, four or five days for them, I mean, feel comfortable approaching you. So it was clearly pissed off at me. And, you know, probably didn't want me there to begin with. So if you want to have an. counter, I guess, them coming into your camp.

Mine didn't come in my camp. I don't count that. The count as passing my camp by. I just got lucky of turning on my Mr. Heater at the time that I did. And definitely directed towards me. 100%.

And the other people heard it too. So, yeah, I think it's a solid class B vocalization. I really haven't heard too many stories like mine like kind of like the old man get off my yard type of thing like yelling at me

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

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Her and I can get on here and we can tell our stories. Maybe there's somebody else out there listening who's too afraid to tell their story. Maybe this will give them the courage to come out. And now it feels so bad about it. Who cares what anybody thinks? I know what I saw. I know what's out there.

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