Bigfoot Society - MASSIVE BIGFOOT TERRORIZES CAMPERS IN EASTERN KENTUCKY

Episode Date: June 24, 2026

A campsite in Eastern Kentucky becomes the center of a series of unsettling events when an expedition group reports footsteps circling tents in the middle of the night, loud vocalizations from the dar...kness, objects being moved around camp, and an onion thrown from the woods that struck a camper hard enough to leave a welt.That encounter is only one of the stories featured in this packed voicemail roundup.Listeners from across North America share firsthand reports including a massive footprint discovered near Icebox Cave in Ohio, chilling tree knocks and screams near California's Upper Cache Creek, a childhood encounter with a small hairy creature in a Tennessee cemetery, a terrifying nighttime experience outside a tent in North Idaho, possible rock-rolling activity along Oregon's Bigfoot Highway, and a thermal sighting of a towering figure in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia.These accounts come from hunters, campers, hikers, outdoorsmen, and everyday people who found themselves face-to-face with something they still struggle to explain.Leave your voicemail here: https://www.bigfootsocietypodcast.com/📖 Follow Jeremiah's cancer health updates here:https://www.caringbridge.org/site/569ef3d3-68be-11f1-8790-97fdfd2bbc64🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to bigfootsociety@gmail.com – 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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Starting point is 00:00:00 You're listening to Bigfoot Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways, the stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it, so settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. Please keep Jeremiah in your prayers as he continues his fight against cancer. For more updates about his medical journey, please go to the Caring Bridge link in the show notes. Thank you.
Starting point is 00:00:43 The following episode is a collection of voicemails from you guys, the listeners. There's all sorts of encounters in here, all Bigfoot ones from different parts of the country. If you've had a Bigfoot encounter and you might not necessarily want to go on an interview, But you'll leave a five-minute voicemail about it. Then please, now is the time to share that encounter in a voicemail. If you want to go over to bigfoot society podcast.com, there's a share or send a voicemail button there. You can also go to speakpipe.com forward slash bigfoot society. So let's get into it.
Starting point is 00:01:19 Enjoy these voicemails of Bigfoot encounters from all over the country. So back in March of 2020, it was around the 20th. of March. Me and my wife were hiking out in Akron Peninsula area near Icebox Cave, and we decided we were going to jump off the beaten path and start taking some deer trails. Well, at a cross-section of a deer trail, there was, if I had to guess, a big foot footprint in the middle of this trail like it had stepped in the center of this section and then cleared it. And there was a clear indent of the heel and toes pushing through the mud. It was full of water by the time we got there, but it was still very visible. And I took a photo of it. And it's, uh, it was, it was really cool,
Starting point is 00:02:14 but I thought it was kind of strange that this bigfoot was 30 yards, 40 yards in the woods away from a normal hiking trail where hundreds of people are at almost every day. But I just want to share my story with you guys. Hi, my name's Dave. Well, I guess my story starts when my cousin from New York came here to Grafton, Ohio. I was 18 at the time, and we had the T-tops out of my 79 Grand Prix Lindenburg, and we were out on the back roads cruising. And this location, has been well known for crazy stuff happening. Like people parking there and party in and somebody coming up and trying to push their vehicle over.
Starting point is 00:03:16 And a lot of stuff's happened there. I mean, people's been murdered there. And it's just, I'm surprised that it's never made the news or it's not on YouTube. But I was thinking about trying to take somebody out there to show them at night time where this Bigfoot lives. I have a YouTube channel with me at the location, and there's a structure there that got built by the big guy.
Starting point is 00:03:57 Anyway, we backed my Grand Prix into the spot, and we had Slayer cranked up, and it was about 1 o'clock in the morning that was cold out. When my cousin was driving my car and he kicked the amp wire out of the fuse box and the radio went quiet and it was pitch black. It's pitch black on this road. It's nothing, but it's in the forest that connects to other roads. And when he kicked the amp wire out, we heard footsteps straight in front of us. There was a creek running lateral in front of the car and then the road runs parallel to the car.
Starting point is 00:04:45 creek and then the woods behind it. And we heard footsteps come in and I got out of the car, anyway, I got out of the car, walked around the car, opened up the door while he was sitting in a driver's seat. And I was reaching underneath the dash to hook the amp wire back in. And that's when we heard the tree break. It must have been like, I don't even know, man. It sounded like a shotgun going off. That's how big the tree was that it broke.
Starting point is 00:05:15 broke. Me and him looked at each other and we screamed to the top of our lungs in a pitch black. And I couldn't get around the car fast enough. So I dove through the teetop. And I told him, start the car, go, go. And by the time he pulled out of where we were backed in and turned left to go back to where I live, he turned the headlights on. And I tried to get him to turn around, but he was crying. He wanted to go back to New York. And a lot of crazy stuff's happened on this road. I just, I really don't want to give the location, unless I take somebody there to show them, give them an adventure.
Starting point is 00:05:59 I'm getting old, so I'd like to get the story out. Well, anyway, when we, after we got done screaming to the top of our lungs, this thing was at least, it felt like it was like 10 foot away from us. And it growled, a low growl, It went, and it was so deep. And it rumbled, and all the hair on our body stood up.
Starting point is 00:06:31 I've never, ever been that scared in my life. I'm 50 years old now. I've never, ever experienced something like that. If you want to give me a call, you can. My name's David. Thank you. Hey, Jeremiah. This is Jerry Brandenburg.
Starting point is 00:06:50 I was turned on to this place by someone who didn't care about them, but told me where they were, that they were there. And so we went, and sure enough, the first four hikes we went in there hiking, I have evidence from four different times. And plus a lot more, because we've been in there like 30 times an hour more over the last year and a half. I got video, I got pictures, I seen them. the craziest stuff you ever saw in your life. And it's really amazing what's in there. And I like to share it with you guys. It's on my Facebook.
Starting point is 00:07:29 All the pictures are all real. But I'm willing to tell you about each one of them. Hit me up. Thank you. Hi. My name is Shanda. I won't give out my full name, but I'm originally from Utah.
Starting point is 00:07:46 And I just wanted to share this experience. when I heard the howl back in 2013 and 2014. I heard a lot of stories, and I noticed that when I heard like a big howl and all the dogs were barking and even my neighbor's dogs were barking, I never thought anything of it, but I would go inside after I smoke a cigarette.
Starting point is 00:08:16 I used to smoke cigarettes. and my grandmother would ask me what happened because it was just me and my grandmother at the place in a remote area within Monument Valley, Utah, slash Arizona. And she would always question me when I go in the room, like I told her what I heard.
Starting point is 00:08:44 She said, yeah, that's, in a Navajo way that's the boogeyman there's a word for it I can't remember the word of it and right now in this society
Starting point is 00:09:02 we're losing that you know in Navajo we're losing our language right so with that being said she would always warn me that stay inside because I
Starting point is 00:09:19 described what was what I heard and then slowly gradually I noticed that the dogs would just be quiet but yeah
Starting point is 00:09:34 they barked but there's a point where it got quiet right and to me it's not normal because they would always bark when the Keogis, where we lived at the time, Keogis, yeah, foxes, yeah, dogs.
Starting point is 00:09:54 I know the tone of each voice, but I noticed that at the time it was quiet. And I noticed that there's a lot of things I must say. but if you want to reach out to me, I don't have Gmail, but I do have an iCloud. And I used to have Yahoo. But if you want to reach out to me, Jeremiah, Schender from Utah. Hey, Jeremiah, nice to speak to a fellow Iowan. I'm a 65-year-old who lives in Northern California.
Starting point is 00:10:42 I've been out here for many decades, but I grew up in Western Iowa. fishing, hunting, camping, everywhere. Minnesota, way back up in northern Canada with Indians, Alaska, and all throughout California. Again, giant redwoods to ancient forests. I've seen it all. Never thought of Bigfoot as a kid. Of course, we saw some of the movies. But I'm recording this to you because
Starting point is 00:11:14 in 1987, 88, 89, co-worker and I who worked in San Francisco together, I was about 27, 28 at the time, and we would leave our work site Friday early, like at noon we'd cut out. We'd drive up to the Upper Cash Creek. Yeah, that name's starting to ring a bell because it's close to Indian Valley Reservoir.
Starting point is 00:11:42 And I've heard a few elsewhere. episodes, or at least one, about Indian Valley. And it all made sense. Again, I've been around. Okay, I camped my whole life. And we would even float down this Cache Creek for three-day float trips, and you wouldn't see anyone. Very remote, two million-year-old ancient canyon. So we were there with our guns, always in fishing poles. We would catch trout, small moth bass, catfish, and just have a good old time. So middle of the night, two or three a.m., which seems to be the witching hour for these things, we heard massive, loud tree knocks. In hindsight, there were tree knocks. It sounded like trees just smashing into each other. We jolted up out of our sleeping bags, looked at each other and naturally said, what the heck was that? Shortly thereafter, we heard the most blood-curdling scream, shrill. It was not a wounded animal.
Starting point is 00:12:52 This thing had lungs, and it was loud and scary. It wasn't that close. We have no idea. We stayed in our sleeping bag because we didn't think Bigfoot Sasquatch. We didn't know what to think. All these years later, I know what I heard and what I heard. Again, the tree knocks, nothing knocks trees. Bears don't do it. Dears don't slam their antlers against a tree at 2 a.m. This tree knock is what was undeniable. But that scream never heard anything before or sense. Again, this is Upper Cash Creek. not far from Indian Valley Reservoir. So there's been other incidences up there.
Starting point is 00:13:44 So funny, you travel all over the place and you see nothing, you hear nothing, and then you go a two-hour drive from your work, and you run into this. Pretty crazy. Any rate, if you can share this, maybe other people have heard things up in that area. again, it was late 1980s. So this is Pat from Novato, California. I grew up in Carroll, Iowa. So hopefully that gives me a little credibility with a fellow Hawkeye. Thanks so much, Jeremiah. Love what you are doing. Love what you are doing. If I share this story with my family, they're going to laugh at me. But I think I will because now it all comes back loud and clear. Thank you, brother. I'll start with the first one because I have four. I was about eight years old.
Starting point is 00:14:45 This was in Midway, Tennessee, in a cemetery, a very old cemetery that's not even used anymore. And I was looking at gravestones, and I saw this little, at that time, you know, I was eight, a little, I'll just call it a ma'amination. but it had long hair hanging off of it and it was eating something excuse me and so I walked up to it and was like what hey what are you eating and it didn't say anything it just kept eating off the ground he was on all fours and I kept talking to it what are you eating can I have some you know, a little eight-year-old kid. And it never said a thing, never made a sound. And I'm sure there were full-grown ones around somewhere.
Starting point is 00:15:46 But I just saw that little one. And when I went back to the house, we were at a relative's house in Tennessee. And I went back and I was talking about it. And my dad looked at me like, what are you talking about? and his cousin who was sitting across the table said oh yeah it's a hairy man a hairy man what's a hairy man he goes we see him all the time and he got up and left he went back to see if it was still there of course it wasn't um but that was my first encounter with a big foot um and i see i still have some time left so i'll go into the next time i saw one
Starting point is 00:16:31 It actually was just a couple of years later, and this was in Indiana, down by a river. A neighbor and I used to ride our horses back there, and we run our horses again, and they just stopped. They wouldn't go any farther. Refused. And I looked at my friend, and I was like, what is going on? And, of course, you can smell them. They smell so bad. And he goes, oh no, it's back.
Starting point is 00:17:04 And I was like, what? What's back? And he said, you know, the big hairy thing, the DNR is tracking it. So I have to go tell Mr. who he lived on their property. He goes, I have to go tell Mr. it's back. So he can call DNR. Well, I said, I want to see it. So I got off my horse.
Starting point is 00:17:28 My friend was holding my horse. and I went back there and there was this huge, and I mean huge thing at there, they had a, it was a like a fishing camp and they had a sink rigged up that pulled water from the river where they could clean fish, had a little counter by it, you know, and it was standing there looking through the dishes that were in the sink, I guess it was trying to find something to eat or something I don't know and I do I walked right up to it I was standing like face to face well I went face to face it was much bigger than me long brown hair brown blondeish mixed and I looked at it and I I was like hey well hey what's going on I
Starting point is 00:18:21 didn't know what it was I was nine and it turned and looked at me And I, of course, being nine, I didn't know at the time, you never show your teeth to a primate. I looked at it and smiled, stuck my hand out. And I said, hi, my name's, you know, blah, blah. And I smiled, showed my teeth, and that thing was gone in the blink of an eye. I couldn't find it. I looked around, kept looking around, didn't see any. It was just gone.
Starting point is 00:18:55 But that was my second encounter, and I'm running out of time on this one. So I'm going to sign off. Thank you very much for letting me share. Hi, Jeremiah. My name is Mary. My encounter happened in North Idaho. I was camping with my sis back in 2008. We went to our favorite spot every summer to camp. This area is called Bumblebee Meadow.
Starting point is 00:19:26 My tent is a small two-person dome tent. My sister camped across from the fire pit area, across from me, and she was on the opposite side of that corner of the meadow. I decided to head to bed in my dome tent. I was almost asleep when I heard something massive, massive moving fast through the brush. I could hear the leaves going just so fast near the head of my tent. It stopped, and it was. was on two legs it sounded like. Its breathing was really loud and guttural.
Starting point is 00:20:06 It sort of sounded like a mixture of a growl and a breath, and it kept doing that. I was terrified. I began to pray silently over and over in the name of Jesus. Leave me alone. I was frozen for I don't know how long, but it seemed like a long time. I finally heard it moving through the brush away from my tent.
Starting point is 00:20:35 I was so scared, Jeremiah. I will never forget this. And I couldn't sleep that night. And as soon as daylight hit me and I was out of there. All right. Thanks, Jeremiah. Hi, Jeremiah. This is Dan from Shelby and,
Starting point is 00:20:56 Blacksburg area. We did the interview a couple weeks ago. Anyway, I had forgotten to get into some of the specifics about Shelby. I guess the whole thing started a year, probably about March of last year in 2025. My brother was struggling with some problems. at the time. And he was always going out to the woods to clear his head. And he said he's going to show me a dark spell cast over Shelby. And so we went out into the woods and he was showing me all these blockages in the waterways and trash in the woods and all this kind of stuff. And we were going
Starting point is 00:21:49 around out the backside of my neighborhood up the train tracks into the woods in these utility access roads. And when we were out there, we didn't really see anything at first. And then we went over to a graveyard across town where he was trying to show me a tombstone with the name on it that said self. Because he would always find these weird patterns and weird strange things. So there was a tombstone in a graveyard across town that said self on it. I guess that was the last name of somebody. but when we were walking back
Starting point is 00:22:27 it was just kind of like a strange night because there was a lot of people out it was like the start of spring like end of winter start of spring and there was just strange people out it was late at night probably like around 10 30 11 o'clock and when we were walking back we didn't take we initially went into a neighborhood through a utility access lane through the woods.
Starting point is 00:22:54 And when we were walking back, we were going past that utility access lane over by the Dover YMCA. And about, it sounded like about 50 coyotes started howling all at once. And my brother screamed out, shut up demons. And then they all kind of like faded into the distance,
Starting point is 00:23:15 about 100 yards within a matter of like three seconds. And as they faded away, the chatter scattered the the the the the yips and howls scattered into like like laughter and then a whispering chatter um and then uh we were walking back up the street after that happened and then probably three minutes later when we got to that backside of the track the the pavement trails on the backside of the Dover YMCA where the soccer field is, there was this animal or I say animal. I mean, you know, I can't really identify what it is, but it was over in the woods and it was kind of like whispering or groaning to itself, like, you know, some kind of like unintelligible
Starting point is 00:24:15 gibberish. And then my brother was like, yeah, do you hear that? And I was like, yeah, yeah, yeah, I hear it. Like, what is it? And then it kind of like, was like, and then, you know, there was a couple footsteps.
Starting point is 00:24:33 It was like, and I was, and I, you know, I was like, yeah, I got a knife tough guy or something, you know, something like that to try to skimps. it off and it was like, uh, and uh, and, uh, it might have made that noise first and then I said something. And I had a headlamp on and it was, uh, too dim to see anything. Uh, so we couldn't make out what it was. But, you know, it sounded like it was probably, uh, 150 to 200 pounds and, uh, somewhere within the range of, uh, five to six feet tall, just from what I, what I heard.
Starting point is 00:25:16 And then, you know, with those strange noises. And then we kind of like walked on. There was a lot more strange stuff that was happening. But that was one of the main instances that I forgot to record on the initial interview. Thanks. Hey, Jeremiah. This is Steve from Michigan. I just seen that you were looking for more encounters or more reports of Sasquatch.
Starting point is 00:25:47 I've had three encounters here in Michigan, different parts of Michigan. My first one was up in central Michigan by the Osama River, and my other two encounters were in southeastern Michigan on the Raisin River. Be more than willing to talk to you about them. So, yeah, if you would like to touch base with me, I'm on Facebook. I don't receive emails right now. I can check them every couple weeks or every week or two because I don't have Wi-Fi where I live right now. But I'd be more than willing to go more in depth into those encounters and be more than willing to talk to you about other stuff.
Starting point is 00:26:31 I know you don't really do like UFO or weird stuff like that. But yeah, I've had me and my friend have had a ton of strange experiences here in southeastern Michigan. So yeah, I'd be more than welcome to. talk with you and if you need the encounters wherever, just get a hold of me or send me an email and I'll hopefully eventually be able to check it. Thanks man.
Starting point is 00:26:58 Hey Jeremiah, this is Anita Allen from Southwest Virginia checking in and an update from my area. Now I haven't been back since early this year when they did the controlled burn. That was absolutely
Starting point is 00:27:15 necessary. Follow the devastation of the spring storms. But when I was last up there, I was spending some time sitting on one of the rocks, and I had some strange encounters. The first was a woman who, at first I heard lots of ladies talking, like a social group. And I wasn't sure what was going on. And I looked down the trail about a quarter mile, and I saw a woman walking. And I thought she was listening to a podcast.
Starting point is 00:27:49 But when she got to me, it was her and her little dachshund and a, what do you call it? A radio in her backpack that she was playing. So I was surprised because normally dogs love me. But for some reason, this dog began acting panicky. And he wouldn't come past the rock that I was sitting. on, which was on the side of the trail. I had some crochet out because I find that when you sit
Starting point is 00:28:26 quietly and you do something, they get interested. And she said, oh, he's just afraid of strangers, which, again, very strange. Dogs usually will drag their owners to me.
Starting point is 00:28:42 And again, he wasn't exactly looking at me. He was looking more up the trail. And I did look up the trail, but I didn't see anything right away and I didn't want to be obvious. So I talked with her for a minute and talked to the dog for a minute and she was able to get him to continue down the trail. And though he was reluctant, it didn't seem like his issue was passing me. It was more something ahead, but he calmed down. So I think something may have been ahead. I'm not sure. But I sat there for a while continuing what I was doing.
Starting point is 00:29:15 I didn't hear anything with her that I would take as her radio playing it. There was nothing that was multiple voices. So what was playing was just a newscast. So I don't know what it was. It sounded like several women down there. I expected a group of at least four walking up. So she passed. And, you know, I listened to her, go up over the two.
Starting point is 00:29:45 trail and around the way and out of earshot and continued with my crochet. And then about, again, about a quarter mile ahead of me, this is over a whole lot of deadfall from the storms and back towards the edge of the hill that I was sitting on, where it starts to slope down towards some of the pasture lands. All of a sudden, I heard what I can only describe. as either a goose, like a Canadian goose, taking off out of water, or maybe a large jowl, wet-mouthed dog shaking its face. It was a very loud, wet, sloppy sound.
Starting point is 00:30:35 You know, and I don't know what could have made that noise because there's no such place for a bird to be able to. flapping wet wings in front of me, and there was certainly no dogs on the trail that fit that description. Hey, Jeremiah. You interviewed me probably about, I don't know, maybe 10 months ago, maybe it was a year. I can't remember what episode it was. I saw a big foot about 15 feet from me in Long Beach, Washington, staring in the window.
Starting point is 00:31:16 You know, since then, probably about two or three months ago, I was out fishing on the highway between Esticated and Detroit. They call it the Bigfoot Highway. And a big boulder rolled down off the hill there and landed in the river right across from me where I was fishing. The boulder was rectangle. They're not rectangular square in shape. so I'm not sure how a boulder by itself that shape would start rolling for any reason.
Starting point is 00:31:56 And then one time when I got out of my car, I heard a... Ooh! Something like that. Funny noise, just as I got out of the car. And then the third time, another boulder came rolling downhill, a little farther down the river from me,
Starting point is 00:32:15 maybe 200 yards. So, rocks and odd noises could be coincidence. May not be, who knows. That's the only thing that's changed lately. I have heard more stories, though, about Long Beach location. I guess there's a family up there that lives, the stones throw from that house I was at, that have been communicating and having relationships with a Bigfoot family for more than, I think, 20 years, at least 10 years on Loomis Lake. I heard that from another Bigfoot reporter who interviewed me.
Starting point is 00:33:04 Anyway, hope you're well. Thanks for doing your work. And, yeah, maybe we'll talk again sometime. time. Hello, my name is Craig. I have 25 years or more of time in the mountains since 1960. I have had numerous experiences that I know are Bigfoot, and I have seen Bigfoot twice, once in 1982, and once in 2021. For sure, giant nine foot tall, hairy, man in northeast Oregon in the Blue Mountains. I'll tell you my story. It takes a couple of hours. I've had a Jillian experiences out in the woods. So I'll talk to you. Anyway, it's all I can think
Starting point is 00:34:03 of now. Thanks. Bye. The first time I've ever had a big footing counter wasn't necessarily mine. He was a friend of mine. We were out on a fishing trip, and we left him at the bridge while we went down to said lines. And when we came back, we found him sitting in the car, his own car. About a couple hundred yards up the road from the bridge, we left him at. The windows were all fogged up, so we could tell he'd been in there for a little while. We get up to the car, and this is a big guy, East 64, Native American descent, you know, but he's in the backseat of his own car with all four doors locked.
Starting point is 00:34:52 And it took us a minute to convince him to unlock the doors to let us in. Because he was just terrified. Apparently, while he was down there fishing, something, he said, he wouldn't ever say exactly what it was, but the way he described it could only be a Bigfoot. but something he said something ran across the creek at him he said they looked like it was running on the water well the water was only a couple feet deep so something that's knees or three foot high you know it probably would have been like it were just waiting um but he said it ran across the creek at him straight at him and then turned and went off into the uh little cane thicket there beside him and just scared him, scared him bad enough. He left his his principal pole on the side of the bank and went and got in the backseat of his
Starting point is 00:35:49 own car and locked the doors and sat there until we got there. And he would not get out of the car and would not go back to the creek. Hi, Jeremiah. This is Kelly Jones. I've had a couple of encounters now. Both of them have been with expedition groups. My first was in October of last year with Charlie Raymond and the KBRO. We were in a on some private land east in eastern Kentucky. And the first night we were we were visited, which was the very first, my very first encounter.
Starting point is 00:36:36 I was trying to wake up about it was about we found out later about 1.30 in the morning and the the dogs the owner had some dogs on the property and they were going crazy which was what roused me in the first place and as I was trying to wake up I was hearing some noises that sounded like someone beating on the on a plastic or a rubber garbage can and um when i finally woke up the dogs had quieted down and i could hear footsteps around my tent um and no one we had all gone to bed probably an hour prior um and uh so they come into the camp and we're walking we could i could hear clearly the crunching under the feet walking around on the property and we found out the next day that they had also were flipping up cooler lids for some of the folks behind me and so that was the
Starting point is 00:37:52 first night the second night well really it was we had gone to bed later at the second night because we were all out in different areas. And most everybody got back by about 12, 30 or so. But we didn't start having an activity until about four, sometime after four in the morning. The dogs woke me up this time, and I had audio equipment running that night. And I could hear, once the dogs quieted down,
Starting point is 00:38:28 I could hear the steps again around the tent. And I actually have two recordings from that night. The first one, because I saw my clock, it was probably about a quarter to five in the morning. And one of them was standing close to my tent, close enough for me to catch a recording of flatulence from one of them. At first I thought it was a grunt, but an analyst listened to it and said,
Starting point is 00:38:58 No, that's one of them farting near your tent. So I've actually got a recording of that. And also, it was about 10 minutes later, I've got a recording of a howl from one of them. And it was extremely loud, much louder than any of the dogs, so I know it was not a dog. I've had several other people listen to it and confirm the same thing. So they were walking around.
Starting point is 00:39:32 Of course, I didn't, I didn't leave the tent. I laid and listened for a while and then they all left at that point. Later that same day, it was about 2.30 in the afternoon, we were standing. The couple that was in a tent behind me in the woods was packing up, we're getting ready to pack up to leave. And the wife was standing at the end of her. truck. It was next to my car and she was faced away from the woods kind of faced towards me and I was at my I was charging something so I was standing at the back
Starting point is 00:40:10 of my car and she all of a sudden she exclaimed she said out well she she yelled for her husband and he came he was packing up at the tent and he came running over and And another gentleman came running over and she said something hit me in my back. And when he looked at her back, she had a big red welt on her back. And when they looked on the ground for anything, there was a big onion, like a normal sized Vedelia onion. That something in the woods had thrown at her and hit her in the back with. So to continue my story, those two gentlemen went running off into the the woods and they could hear two individuals running away from the campsite at that time.
Starting point is 00:41:06 They never did get a visual, but they could hear them clearly running away. So they had been, I guess, toying with us. We also had reports that same night of them scratching on the sides of Charlie's trailer and also, um, uh, uh, uh, you're near one of the other tents nearby. So they were pretty active that night. I have a more recent encounter. I was with Sheila and Scott Granger that you're familiar with with Squatch Fitters.
Starting point is 00:41:45 And we were in North Georgia in the Blue Ridge Mountains camping. And they took us to a site on top of a nearby mountain. and we were able to capture at least one on a thermal. When Scott was leading the group, there were eight of us. And as soon as we were trying to determine what we were going to do, we went around up, we went on a service road that was up at the top of the mountain. When we went down that started to go down that service road, just as soon as we had crossed the barrier,
Starting point is 00:42:27 to the service road, Scott stopped and right in front of us was a set of eyes. So we all saw it on the thermal and it was it was crouched down. Apparently just watching us at the time. It stood up and walked off at that point and so Scott then turned down the road. And as soon as he did that after a few steps, we started to see one tree peeking with two more sets of eyes we're not sure if it was the same individual or not we it might have been but it was it kept moving it you know right to left it would peek out from the right and then we'd lose it and peek out from the left and it was there for quite a while and then it moved it didn't walk away from us completely it It just walked to another set of trees a little further down the service road and started doing the same thing. And then Scott had seen it in his, he had looked up from the camera and he could see it in his headlamp.
Starting point is 00:43:45 He could see the actual creature walking away with its back to us. It went to the other tree. It did the same thing for a while. And then it walked across the road. And at that point, most of us saw it walking across the road. We could see a full-sized creature walking across the road. It walked to another set of trees and starts doing the same thing. And then it did that a few times peaked out between and around the tree.
Starting point is 00:44:18 And then it must have been crouching down the entire time we'd seen it previously. because then it stood up. When it raised itself up, it was fully above kind of a fork in the trees. And when we measured the next day, it was approximately nine feet, eight and a half feet to nine feet where we saw the set of eyes. Scott walked further down the trail,
Starting point is 00:44:45 and he could clearly see it, and it actually, Scott stood there. there for some time and watched it as it blinked at him. It blinked at him. He said it blinked at him three times. And then he, he advised that. He said, you know, this thing's, this thing's not moving away from us.
Starting point is 00:45:09 And so we may be able to, we may just need to back off, which is what we did at that point. And then it, it disappeared off into the woods. But I'd be glad to share more information. if you feel like you want to pursue this. The other thing I'll say is that there was a deer that was further down on the side of this service road, further down the trail. So we're not sure if it was staying there to protect its prey or if it was just curious enough to watch us that long, but it was there for quite a while. Okay, so my second big foot encounter was close to Astro, Missouri, just outside of Springfield. A friend of mine and I were out looking for something he had thrown in the ditch and lost.
Starting point is 00:46:12 Well, there was a big storm coming, and we wound up pretty much driving through a tornado. Once the storm was gone, we came to a fork in the road and there was a limb laying across one side of the fork. And even though we weren't going that way, my friend stopped and went to pull the limb out of the way so the other road was clear. Well, he parked with his headlights pointing in the middle of the Y between the two roads. and while he was out moving the tree, I look up in front of the truck and these two chestnut brown creatures are standing there looking directly at us and it wasn't bears. I mean, it wasn't a bear's face.
Starting point is 00:47:05 Yeah, it looked like a big put to me. There was a female and a young one, and the little one ducked down under the bushes while the big one stood there looking at me. And about that time, my friend hits my window, tries to open my door, trying to get in my side of the truck. And he said, did you see that? Let me in.
Starting point is 00:47:34 I said, well, go around. So he runs around the truck and gets in the driver's side, which I don't know why he tried to get in my side. He was driving. He runs around the truck and gets to the driver's side. He's in his side of the truck and he's hollering at me. Lock the door, lock the door. Did you see that?
Starting point is 00:47:50 I said, yeah, he said, what was that? I said, well, what do you think it was? Well, all he'd say was, what was that? What was that? And he never would, I kept saying, I kept asking him, well, what do you think it was? Because I didn't want to say it out loud either. And finally he backs up and we drive off
Starting point is 00:48:09 and both of us are just, I mean, on, on edge, you know, just all back. bouncing around the cab of the truck and just all excited and yelling and all her. And what was that? Hello, this story is about Bigfoot or what I think or what I believe to be a bigfoot encounter for myself. So back in 2017, I lived in a campsite. I did have a house, but that house was so haunted.
Starting point is 00:48:34 I refused to live there after I had already paid six months. I was unable to get a refund. So I basically just stayed at the campsite to get some good rest. Anyway, so I had to. I had two tents. One tent was like for my cooking utensils and all of my clothing. And then the other tent was for just me sleeping with my blankets on the floor, you know, of course. And that's it. But this one night, I had worked so hard. I had two jobs. So I kind of just went to the morning job, went to the night job, and then just wanted to rack out as soon as I got wherever I was going to sleep, right?
Starting point is 00:49:09 So in this particular night that it happened, I was super tired and I did not want to sleep in the tent because there was a big spider that had gone into my blankets. And it was, you know, it just had a big butt. So I was afraid. I knew that was like a nasty spider. I didn't want to get bit. I ended up sleeping in the car. So as soon as I started getting ready to go to sleep, put my blankets and everything, I started smelling something and it smelled like trash. I don't know if anybody has ever smelled a raccoon when they passed by. And it kind of has that really nasty, trashy scent. So that's exactly what I thought it was a raccoon because every non-end then you'll see a raccoon out in the boonies you know anywhere because there's trash somewhere there's food somewhere they're going to find it right i thought it was a raccoon
Starting point is 00:49:54 i didn't hear any little footsteps or anything you know i just kept smelling it so i was like okay fine raccoon it's okay and then i started feeling the van shaking and i had a little 2012 master five so you can kind of look that up and kind of see how big and you know it was you just lay the seats down and you'd be really comfortable back there Or at least I was. Anyway, so I just smelled the samuel, and I just kept smelling. It just smelled like trash, and I kept getting whips of it. Like, it was super close to the van or super, like, you know, usually the van kept, like, you know, in the winter.
Starting point is 00:50:30 Sometimes I would sleep out there, and it would go like 32 degrees, sometimes eight degrees. Or, you know, it got a little cold in Washington sometimes. And, you know, the heat stayed in the van as well as when it was hot at night, you know, in the summers. it would stay cool. So anyway, I don't know how I was smelling it, and I know I didn't have trash in the van. You know, I just kind of figured something's out there, and it just stinks, you know,
Starting point is 00:50:55 that raccoons right under the car or something. Anyway, but who would shake it? So somebody was shaking the van or something was shaking the van. First, it started like really slowly, like just barely kind of rocking me to sleep is what it felt like, and then it just went really, really fast right thereafter. And so I just screamed, leave me the F alone or I'm going to stab you because I kind of thought maybe it's one of the other campers, you know, just running around. But I didn't hear any footsteps, right?
Starting point is 00:51:23 So anyway, it stopped. And then, you know, when I was dozing off, it started again. So then I opened the van door and I look outside and there's nobody there. Nothing there. There's not even animals. Nothing, nothing. And it's super quiet. So then I close a van, lock it up.
Starting point is 00:51:41 up, go back to sleep. And then it started again, shake it really bad. And I was just like, chingau, you know, let me go out there. Let me see what the heck's going on. So I'm looking through all the windows. The windows were really dark tinted. But I was able to see out. I know nobody was able to see in. And so as I was looking out, like it just, I mean, there was this face right pressed up against the van. Like it was looking straight back at me. And that's what I think was the big foot. I really do. The weird thing is, is that I didn't hear any footsteps. I didn't. didn't hear any leaves, no nothing. But as soon as I saw that base, I started honking the horn, and I turned on the van, and I just booked it. The next day, I came back for all my stuff,
Starting point is 00:52:20 and that's it. I never seen that campsite again. I have a lot of stories about other campsites and the house that I lived in. I have pictures of things that happened to me there and, you know, demons and stuff. I mean, like real footage of different stuff that was crazy that really happened. But I tried to upload all this to the Amazon KDP, because I was going to write a a book about all of it and put it all together, but it just wouldn't let me. So that's my story, and I hope you enjoyed. Well, bye-bye. Have a good day. 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
Starting point is 00:53:03 interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summerfest is coming up July 10th through the 11th, 2026. It's going to be even better than the previous years. You may know Jason Kenzie
Starting point is 00:53:19 from his documentary series searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year, you can not only go to the festival, but you can also sign up for a trek
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Starting point is 00:54:16 So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys can get a little help with the cost there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. 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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