Bigfoot Society - My Uncle Shot a Bigfoot… and It Didn’t Die

Episode Date: April 6, 2026

In this episode, we delve into the extraordinary experiences of Scott from southern Ohio, whose life has been shaped by encounters that stretch across generations. Growing up with stories from his grandfather about a terrifying creature in the woods of Clay County, West Virginia, Scott shares how those early accounts set the foundation for everything that followed. From a close-range encounter where a family member came face to face with a massive being in rural Ohio, to the deeply unsettling events he experienced as a child in the remote hills of eastern Kentucky, a pattern begins to take shape.Living part of his childhood along the Kentucky River, Scott describes a place where strange activity was treated as part of everyday life. Animals disappeared without a trace, food was left out and taken overnight, and something large moved through the hollers after dark. Known by a name passed quietly through his family—“the cowker”—this presence carried a reputation that kept people inside once night fell.As Scott grew older, the experiences didn’t stay in the past. From unexplained activity near a cabin in Tennessee to ongoing encounters in Adams County, Ohio, including movement in the woods, vocalizations, and moments that defy easy explanation, the same feeling followed him into adulthood. Along the way, he connects with others who have seen similar things, reinforcing that these events are not isolated.Scott’s account offers a grounded, firsthand look at what happens when multiple generations encounter something they cannot explain, yet never forget.Contact Scott: [e-mail]🗣️ 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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all right thanks for coming back to another episode of the bigfoot society podcast we've got uh listener scott who reached out to me wanting to share some interesting things that have happened to him over the years and uh to some of his uh family members as well i believe and so we'll be focusing on uh the kentucky and ohio area but welcome to the show scott how are you doing sir i'm doing very well thank you for having me awesome is there anything else uh contacts wise that the listeners would want to know about you before we get going today. Well, I am 46 years old. I currently live in southern Ohio, about 30 miles east of Cincinnati, a small town that I grew up and lived in my entire life, and I'm married with three children and

three dogs. There you go. That sounds like a full house. That's great. Good stuff. So, Scott, feel free to take us back. back to when you started realizing you were having some stuff going on that was out of the ordinary. Okay. Well, I had a very unusual childhood. My grandfather would tell me stories from a very young age. We lived just next door in the house that I was born. This would be my dad's dad. and he was born in 1907 in Clay County, West Virginia. And one of the very first stories he would tell me was about his first encounter. He was working in Clay County, West Virginia, and this would have been back probably in the early 30s.

And he was cutting railroad ties. He worked for a company cutting railroad ties. And he said one morning they got up, they went out, they went to the job site, they started, you know, get ready for work. and they heard this horrible scream, guttural, real low scream that went up into a real high pitch, and the bushes started shaking. And the way he describes it is that a eight to eight and a half foot tall, hairy, human-looking creature stepped out and screamed again at them,

and they dropped everything and took off and ran back to get the rest of the crew. When they returned, they found 18-inch footprints in the mud, mud. And he described it as having a horrible smell, very muscular, dark brown and color, human-like features. One of the things that really caught my attention in these stories growing up from my grandfather was that he never, ever called it Bigfoot or Sasquatch. He always called it a demon. I don't know why. He was a very religious man, so I assume that might have something to do with it. he did also subsequently after having that encounter he took his entire family at the time and moved them from west virginia to ohio because he was so frightened of what he saw it changed his entire life so growing up that was one of the stories that i would sit on my grandfather's lap and that's what

he would tell me right so i was born in 79 go ahead sorry what was your grandfather's emotional state when he would tell you that story. Like, how would he act emotionally? So he always had a very serious look when he would tell me. It wasn't a joke. It wasn't a story. It wasn't like him telling me a story of him doing something else when he was younger. It was always a very serious story.

And I think he wanted to convey that, right? He wanted me to know that this is real. This is something I'm telling you. I'm not just trying to scare you or trying to tell a story. he always seemed very not emotional because he wasn't really an emotional kind of man but you could tell like he was unnerved whenever he would tell the story that's fascinating i can't imagine how emotionally shook up he would have had to been to move everything to a different state i mean that is that's a really really intense detail did he ever say if the scream he had heard if it reminded him of anything else ever? No, he's described it as something almost unearthly.

He grew up there. He'd been in the woods and everything his entire life. He said he'd never heard anything like it before. It's all he would say. Gotcha. So then you are then because of your grandfather moving due to his big foot encounter, that's why then you are in Ohio. pretty much, correct?

Wow. Wow. So I've never, I mean, man, I've never heard a Bigfoot encounter affecting a family tree like that. That's wild. So how did that affect you as a younger child hearing that story? Well, I immediately fell in love with the idea of, you know, Bigfoot, monster. I had an aunt that also lived there with my grandfather. Her and I are only 13 years apart.

She's the youngest of his children. She was basically my first best friend, my first babysitter. And she also, because of Grandpa's stories, fell in love with Bigfoot. So we were always, when I was a kid, she was always showing me stuff. I was always checking out the books, watching in search of, Legend of Boggy Creek, you know, all the tale tales of, you know, kind of that fascination. as a kid. So that wasn't the only story that my grandfather would tell me. So in the early, well, probably mid-70s, we've determined it down to between 75 and 77. While living in Ohio,

my uncle came to visit, and he was an avid hunter, been all over the country hunting and, you know, deer, elk, bear, all kinds of stuff. And it was kind of tradition that when he came into town that him and my grandfather would go hunting of some kind. Usually it was squirrel, hunting because it involved, you know, my grandfather wasn't much of a hunter, so he would just kind of do it to, you know, spend time with my uncle. And grandfather, my grandfather would tell me the story where him and my uncle went to a wildlife reserve, which is not far from where we live, about 20 miles south of where I actually live now. And they went to a wildlife reserve to go hunting. They said it was a very strange morning. They got out of the truck. It was super quiet. My grandfather

had always described it as you could hear an acorn drop in the woods. I thought it was very odd. And the story he would tell me is that they split off. They both went in opposite, you know, kind of opposite directions to go squirrel hunting like they would any other time, nothing out of than ordinary. And as they separated and had been, you know, probably 20, 30 minutes, all of a sudden he heard gunshots. My uncle always carried a sidearm in addition to the four tens that were using for squirrel hunting and he said he heard the 410 go off and every single round in in the handgun and he just heard boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom so he takes off running in the direction of my uncle and he runs into my uncle who's just white as a ghost I mean just white as a ghost

terrified and he keeps screaming I shot a monster I shot a monster and so my grandfather um takes him back he's like well come show me if you shot something if it's bleeding if it's injured we need to check it out, show me what's going on, trying to calm him down, gets him back to the spot and there's this giant down tree, this log. And just on the other side of the log was all the grass and all the weeds were all matted down. He said it was bigger than a cow had been laying there. This is how he described it. And my uncle Jess said, he said, I was coming up to the log. I thought I'd climb up on the log, maybe take a sit and sit and sit here and listen for squirrels. I guess when he climbed up in the log, he kind of slipped a little bit and didn't, you know,

wasn't looking, wasn't paying attention. He slipped a little bit. And when he stood up on the log and it was the way they described it was about a three foot high log, about two and a half three feet. He said something stood up behind the log and looked him basically nose to nose. And he said he could feel its breath like a horse, like right up on him. And he shot and fell off the log. log and rolled a bit, jumped up and took off and ran back to my grandfather, and that's when

they met. He described it as a big foot. He always used the word big foot. He said that it was, he was six foot two, six foot three. So he's standing on a two, two and a half three foot log. And this thing looked him in the eye. So he knows it was, you know, pushing that nine foot height. And he always called it a big foot. And he swears he unloaded on it, point blank, but they never found any blood. They never found any trace other than the grass and the weeds being smashed down around that, behind that log. And he thinks he surprised that he think he jumped up there and he was being quiet and he

jumped up there and the thing might have been sleeping and stood up. And he said that, you know, it roared and you could feel the breath. And he always described the breath. Like that was always the thing. He was literally nose to nose with it when he. drew his handgun and just started firing. My goodness. So we're talking, we're not talking feet away. We're talking potentially inches away. Inches away. And what's most interesting is that with this story, I heard it directly from my uncle,

but of course I was a little kid, right? Then I heard it from my grandfather sitting on his lap, one of his stories. I was estranged from my real father for almost 20 years. And when we reconnected back in 2016 and I asked him about the incident, he told me almost verbatim, word for word, the story. And it kind of gave me chills. And then my aunt that was there when I was a kid, who was 13 years older than me, I reconnected with her. We were estranged for about 22, 23 years. And she lives in Maine. And we reconnected. And she was telling me the exact same story, verbatim, word for word. They're like, Everyone in the family knows that your uncle Jess shot a big foot.

It's well known. That's just how it is. It's not like a story of the family that we made up. It's something that actually happened that all of us know about. And my uncle never went hunting again after that incident. He never went back in the woods again. I don't blame him. I wouldn't be going in the woods either.

Oh, my goodness. Did he ever describe the face of what he saw at all? So we didn't get a lot of details on the face. Most of what I remember and what's in the story was that it was hairy, you know, six to eight inch long hair on the body. And he was so close to it that I guess he maybe he didn't get a good look at it because it was literally in his face. He just remembers the eyes and the breath, big amber colored eyes and feeling like this

immense, I guess you could say, just the presence of it, just being so massive. And that it was at least four foot wide. And he was guessing probably right around that nine foot tall mark. Yeah, I mean, at that point, I'm trying to put myself in your uncle's situation. I mean, you're not trying to get details. You're trying to save your life. I mean, you're in shock. You're just going into primal response mode.

How did that affect your viewpoint of Bigfoot as a younger child after hearing that? So those are the stories that kind of shaped my intrigue, right? Those are the two that started everything for me. And I had a very unusual childhood. Like I said, I had these stories from grandpa, and then I lived in a house that had a lot of strange things going on. I think it was demonic. It was really bad.

And actually, I think that was the reason for my parents' divorce when I was five. But I've always been very sensitive to certain things. And I just always got the feeling like I know this is true. I don't think, you know, my grandfather being this religious man, I don't think he would just make these things up. And he, you know, he told it to me like he would say, hey, I saw so-and-so down the street the other day. And I said, hi, you know, he didn't tell it like some big elaborate. He didn't add anything to it. It always was consistent.

It never changed. It is very, it's almost ironic in a way that, man, it really follows the family. like your grandfather has has a situation moves to a different state and then because it not well because the move then you end up

buying that house and you're having over the years you're having that activity in the house just it's a very weird how sometimes that is all connected some individuals have as you said definitely a form of sensitivity

with paranormal or things that are unseen. Were there any other stories that were shared with from your relatives or family of people having Bigfoot interactions? So that's basically what I have from my family from Ohio, and that's my father's side of the family. Now, when my parents got divorced or were going through the divorce, this would have been right around that, 1985, 1986, so I would have been five or six years old, and they would ship me off to my mom's parent, grandparent, my mom's parents in eastern Kentucky in the middle of nowhere. They lived on a dirt road, 16 miles from the nearest town. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago.

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So I loved going down there, but I noticed right away that some strange things were happening. So the first summer I stayed there, the very first thing that started happening was my grandfather woke me up one morning and told me, hey, there's some chickens missing. Can you come help me find, you know, see what's going on with the chickens or whatever? And so I went out there and he had said he had a couple chickens missing. So what I thought was really odd was I remember this really specifically. He takes this piece of wire because he had just a piece of block wood to make a door latch on the door. And he took a big piece of wire and he wraps it around the chicken coup. And we came back out the next day and that wire was completely unwound and laying on the

ground. And he said there were two more chickens missing. And so I thought that was really strange. And a lot of this stuff didn't catch up to me until later on in life when I started getting more into listening to other people's accounts. So I'm kind of reliving some of this and thought about it. And it's really, really crazy. So the wire was laying on the ground. Grand Paul goes into his little shed and he gets like a powdery substance and starts spreading it around the outside of the chicken coop. Well, that was sulfur. And I've heard in a lot of stories that sulfur will keep these things away. And I had no idea. I just assumed it was something to keep out, you know, raccoons or something, but there was no blood, no feathers. There was no, didn't look like anything broke the cage or the chicken

coop in any way. It was really strange. And then I also noticed that my grandmother started acting very differently. I noticed all the window curtains were always closed. And it was like all of a sudden she just closed them. And she would always tell me, you are not allowed to go out of night. It was never allowed to go out at night. She said, if you go out of night, the booger will get you. And that's what she always, that was like clinically her threat.

If you go out of night, the booger will get you. If you don't go to bed, the booger will get you. If you don't listen to me, the booger will get you. and they always called, she always called her to bug her. Well, she, after the chicken started going missing, I noticed that she had this big silver pot and it was just this beat up old pot. And where they lived in this trailer was right at the base of what we call a holler, right? So it literally goes straight back behind their trailer.

And there was a natural spring back there. It was very deep, very narrow. And right at the very front of it next to their trailer was a stump, this big, huge stump, probably three, four feet around. And instead of taking the daily scraps from the food and throwing them in the ditch like she normally would, she started putting them in this big pot and she would sit it on top of that stone. And the next day when we would go out, that pot would be completely empty and still sitting there, not knocked over, not found, you know, laying a couple feet away.

It would just still be sitting on the stump. And I didn't think about that till later. I think she was, I think she was feeding them. I think she was trying to bribe them into saying, don't eat my chickens. Here's some food, right? I didn't catch on to that until much, much later. Now, you fast forward just maybe like another week or so. I don't know where my grandfather was.

It was just me and my grandmother sitting there. And you have to think, we're in this little tiny trailer in the middle of nowhere. And there's nothing to do. And I'm a kid, right? So grandma takes me out of the porch. We're sitting on the porch. We're watching, you know, the lightning bugs. and I wanted to listen to the Whipperwills

because I never heard Whippoorwill. So she took me out to listen to the Whippoorwills, and I thought that was the coolest thing ever. So there's just one little tiny porch light, barely given off any light. And Grandma's sitting there, she's reading her Bible, and she's got a little AMFM radio going. I don't even remember what was on it. And I remember we heard this how,

this just long, huge how that just echoed through the mountains, right, through the hills. I guess there hills down there. And it wouldn't be until years later, when I heard the Ohio how that had that kind of like tornado drill kind of sound, that siren sound, it hit me instantly. I mean, it almost made me sick because I remember sitting there in the dark with my little old grandma miles from anywhere and hearing that ring through the mountains. And I asked my grandma, I said, what was that?

And I remember she looked at me and dead serious. said, oh, well, that's, that's just a mountain lion or a bobcat. And I was a little kid. So I didn't know. I'm like, okay, all right. So it's just, it's just, that was, that was kind of my, my first summer there. Now, my second summer there, the next year, it gets a little weirder. So my, my grandfather wakes me up early one morning. And we did this a lot. He would wake me up. We'd go check. They had a trout he had a trout line that he ran across the Kentucky River. I don't think that's legal now, but he had a trout line in a little boat, and he would wake me up and we would go check the trout line for fish. And if he caught something, we'd have fish for lunch. And it was just kind of

a common thing. We'd pick vegetables in the garden and all that. So he woke me up early one morning. And I remember he's standing there. And my grandfather was this little man. He's just, he kind of hunched over a little bit. He always had on a real nice, like, plaid, button up shirt. And he always walked with a cane. And in his back pocket, he always had a little flask, which I assume was whiskey. And then the other pocket, he always had like a little 38 special or something like a little silver gun. And he wakes me up one morning and he says, boy, I'm going to go check the trout line. You want to come with me? And I'm a little kid.

I'm super excited. I'm like, yeah, grandpa, I want to come with you. They always called me boy. Him and grandma always called me boy. So we get up and it's just right before dawn, right? It's just starting to get light outside. And instead of going to the right out of their driveway and walking down to the side of the river where we always went, we went left and walked down past my aunt's house and some other family to a spot we'd never been before.

And it was actually at the base of the mountain where my great-grandfather lived. So he takes me down there and we were on this dirt road and we hit this little, it's just a little sand trail, like a little, I don't know, two-foot wide little trail. and it goes straight down into what I would call like a like a creek bed between two hills. So you had a big hill, the road, then another hill, and then you had this flat bottom creek bed, and then another hill going straight up the other side. And so we get down there, and I remember it was super quiet. It was eerily quiet. I thought I didn't, I didn't think about it at the time, but I couldn't even hear the river.

We were so close to the river, normally you could hear the river. And I remember the weeds were really tall. So I'm a little kid, right? So the weeds were over my head and grandpa's in front of me and I smelled something really, really bad. And the only way I could, I thought it was like dead fish in the river because that's historically what I'd smelled going down to the river so many times. I just thought it was dead fish. But I got hit with this horrible, horrible smell. And that's when the noises started. It sounded like someone was taking like three or four inch big limbs and just snapping them. And the strangest thing happened. My grandfather, he turns, I'm just walking along a little kid. My grandfather turns around. He takes his hand. He puts it right in my chest and stops me dead in my tracks. And he holds his hand up. And he goes like this. And now my grandfather, he never touched. He was not a touchy feeling kind of guy. You never got a hug from him. He barely gave anybody a handshake. And he stopped me and put his hand on me, which totally took me like by surprise. And me being a little kid, I'm like,

whoa, what's up? What's going on? He's like, he takes me. And I hear, and he's starts getting louder. I hear these noises. It literally sounds like Andre the giant is like 50 feet away up on the side of the hill, just breaking limbs, throwing stuff. You could feel the ground kind of shaking like it was stomping. It was crazy. And my grandfather grabs my shoulders, turns me around the path and kind of pushes me back. And so I hear all this going on the whole time. And I'm walking back up the path. We get up on the road. And then it kind of, it kind of quietes down and you don't hear anything. And I look at my grandfather. I'm like, what was that? And he's like, let's just go see if grandma has breakfast ready. Well, I'll come back and check that one later. And that was it. I was like, oh, okay.

Again, little kid. I had no idea. I was like, all right. Okay. But I could tell you, whatever was up there, that was not a bear or even a person. It was something just huge, massive. And then, of course, we go back and grandma makes breakfast. and never talked about it.

That's the one thing I've noticed about all my family down there. None of them will talk about it except for this is this is where it starts to get interesting. So again, my grandma and grandfather, they live alone. They don't drive. They don't have a phone. Well, I have an uncle that lived way back in the hills at the very end of the road. And he would come by sometimes and he would check on him. Hey, do you guys need anything?

How are you doing? And well, he came by one evening and he's sitting there and he's talking to grandpa. And he says, do you see them loggers haul out of here real fast today? My grandpa was like, no, I didn't see him. It was, yeah, he goes, a bunch of lagers said they saw something big and white and hairy and it smelled really bad and screamed at them. He goes, they left their coffee sitting. They left machines running. They just took out of there.

All of them left middle of the day. And grandpa was like, well, that's probably probably. Oh, I hit again. My grandfather never said it. But my uncle said a word that jumped out to me like, I will never forget. He said, must have been the calcare. And I had no idea what that meant. I said, you know, calcare. What's a calcare? And, you know, my uncle was telling me, you know, there's big white thing in the woods. It's a calcare. And I had no idea. I had no idea. And so we toward the end of the summer, we actually, my mom, comes down to get me and we go up to see my great grandfather. He was still alive at the time, right? So this was still that 86, probably 87th, the latest now. We go up to see my great grandfather and he's 97 years old. And he's got one bad eye and, you know, he's just, he's getting up an age. And so we go see him and I'm in the living room. I'm sitting on the couch. Again, they have no TV. It's a very rudimentary house. They're still using a wood cooking stove and all that.

And the house is kind of busy because, you know, cousins and family are there. We're just having to visit, having dinner. And out of nowhere, I was like, you know what? I'm going to ask grandpa. So I look over my great-grandfather sitting just directly across from me in the recliner. And I said, Grandpa, what's a cowker? And you would have thought I broke a window or something. It was like those old 80s movies where the record scratches across, you know,

and everything stops and goes dead quiet. everybody in the house got super like dead quiet. And Grandpa leans up to me. And this is a haunting because, you know, he was so old and his eye was bad. And he gets right up to me in the edge of that chair. I'm sitting there. And he goes, it's big. It's white.

It moves faster than any man. He goes, if you, if you stand real still and you look out of the corner of your eye, you'll see it look out around the tree at you. He goes, that's why we don't go out at night. The booger will get you. And he just leans back in a seat. And I'm just sitting there just like, what? What?

And then, of course, I had to go to my mom and ask my mom, what's the Calcare? What are they talking about? And she's like, oh, yeah, no, it's been well known in our family that there's this thing called a Calcare. It's a big white monster that lives in the woods. And that's why we don't go out at night. She goes, when I was a little kid and I used to lay in bed at your aunt's house and with, you know, her cousin. and we always knew when it was coming in because all the dogs would go underneath the porch and hide. And then at night when you're laying there in bed, she said, we would lay there and listen.

You could hear it walking up and down the creeks turning over rocks, big rocks. You could hear it. But nobody would go out to see what it was. Nobody would investigate nothing. Dogs cowered. All the animals were quiet. She goes, you could hear it because where my aunt lived, it was literally my aunt's house, dirt road, and then a creek with a waterfall. And she goes, you would hear it walking this creek.

And she goes, it happened all the time. And nobody, nobody even acted like it was anything. And that's all she would say. And my grandma would never talk about it. I always tried to get my grandma to talk about it. My grandfather passed away when I was 17. He never talked about it at all. But all of my family down there know about the calcare.

And I thought that was just such a weird word. Like what does that mean? Like calcare. I mean, cow cur. Kerr means like hairy animal or something, I guess. and I thought maybe it killed cows. I don't know, but I've never heard that word any other time than when I was talking to another podcaster who's probably everyone knows. I don't know if it's okay to say his name, but he's pretty well known.

Busted out. Okay, so I was talking to Wes from Sask Fox Chronicles. And he goes, you know, Calcare, Calcare, that's such an unusual name. He goes, I did hear that one time. I said, really, where at? Was it in Kentucky? He goes, no, it was a little old man in West Virginia. And he was way up on a mountain.

And he had really bad cell phone reception. So I couldn't get him on. But he was telling me, he goes, you know, that calcare keeps coming around. And West was like, what's a calcare? He goes, you know, man, a big foot. And West was like, that's the only time I've ever heard anyone else call it that. It was such a unique word. And it must be specific to that area or specific to a group of people, right?

It's just, it was so strange. It was just the weirdest time in my childhood. And as I got older, and I listened to more eyewitness testimonies and more people's stories and I connected, I was like, the how. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago. It's a safe, effective backup birth control option that helps prevent pregnancy before it starts by temporarily delaying ovulation. Plan B is the number one OBGG. GYN recommended brand and the only one that you can find at all major retailers in all 50 U.S. states. There's no minimum age requirement and you don't need an ID to buy it.

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back to when, at least to when my grandfather, my great-grandfather would go out and walks and walk up into the hills and get coal and all that and go fishing. So at least that long, it's just, it blows my mind. And I've never, I've never heard about it. I've never heard anyone else call it that. And where this is located, this is only probably less than 20 miles as the crow flies to like the National, what is it, Daniel Boone National Forest.

Yeah. So it's right there. Yeah. It's right there. So that kind of also made me, you know. And of course, I actually went back there this last January. And of course, my grandfather and grandmother's trailers all falling in. It's really sad.

You know, his chair that he always sat in sitting out in the front yard. It's all overgrown. And I got out and the stump is still there. And it just brought back so many memories. It was just, it was crazy. It was just nuts. But that was a lot of the Bigfoot stuff that happened when I was a kid. Now, as I got older, and I've listened to hundreds and hundreds of thousands of hours of eyewitness testimonies and research and all this time.

And I've just become fascinated. At first, I was going to write a book. And so I thought, well, let me do some research and write a book. So that's what led me to start listening to Sasquatch Chronicles and, you know, some of Vic Gundavs shows and things like that. And, you know, from the shadows and with Shane and things like that. So I really kind of got into that. And obviously I've beenched every one of your shows. Just my job allows me some free time to just listen as I'm working.

So I put it on. But as I got older, I realized that a lot of what it, I was told her what happened to me as a kid had to be Bigfoot, had to be, right? It's just no other explanation. Man, I can't imagine living through that. You put everything together. What an incredible group of accounts. And have you ever gone actively out yourself trying to figure out really the mystery of Bigfoot?

Or is it a thing where you have this? family history, but you're not really crossing that line. So being kind of sensitive, I, I'm worried, right? So I have. I did one time. And I've actually been looking for actively looking for years for the wildlife area where my uncle shot the Bigfoot, right? I've been looking for it forever. And I found it.

My accident. I found it. I know exactly where it is now. And I've been very skeptical to go. I don't know. I have this feeling like my family harm your people. Is that that sounds weird? Like, I have this feeling like maybe it would know me because of that. And that's not what I would want.

You know, I wouldn't. I'd be like, here in peace, man. I just want to get a glimpse of you just to say I did once. I don't have any, you know, but I always have that feeling deep down like maybe they would know. And that's, I know it's weird, but I kind of kind of feel that way. The wildlife area, is that anything that you would be willing to share? I know there's probably a few listeners that are like, ask them, but if you don't want to share, I totally respect that.

I can share with you. So it's called Tranquility, and it's located in Seaman, Ohio, just outside of Seaman, Ohio, which is about 20 minutes south of where I grew up. I have to look into that. I don't think that has ever come up. in any of my interviews, but I'll have to take a look interesting. So I always, you know, obviously I was, I mean, I was in way, way super deep when I started listening to the podcast and researching for my book.

I was in super deep. And my family, we took a trip to Tennessee in 2022 and took my daughter and my son. And we went and got a cabin in Sevierville, Tennessee, Severe County. and way out in the middle of nowhere. And it was really nice. And the first night we're there. My son was little. He was grumpy.

So I laid down with him in bed and I fell asleep. And I woke up at like 3 o'clock in the morning, like 2.45, 3 o'clock in the morning. I was mad because I missed out on, you know, the hot tub and some of dinner or, you know, dessert and marshmallow. I was, I was upset because I missed all that. So I go out and this was back when I smoked. I go out on the back porch. I'm cleaning up around the jacuzzi where everybody left all their, towels and trash and stuff. I'm just cleaning and I'm smoking a cigarette and I'm standing there and

all of a sudden up the mountain is like right behind us probably 300, 400 yards up on the mountain. I hear one good crack and I got all excited. I totally fan-boied out right. I got my phone out and I'm trying to get record on and I'm like listening and listening and it didn't do it again. I didn't hear anything else and it was it was but it was it was so loud. And it was so late. And I told my wife the next morning, she's like, no, there's probably people up there. I'm like, come here. And I point up the mountain.

And she's looking and we're looking, you know, like this. And I said, do you think you'd want to be up there walking around the middle of the night with no light? And she's like, no, I guess that makes sense. I'm like, yeah, no, that was something. I'm not saying it was Bigfoot, but that was something very cool for me to just go, was that my first experience? Was that my first thing? You know, he's as little as it sounds since I was a little kid for me to go, wow, I don't know.

It's so it's weird because I think you are the third person on the show where it has been a like a rented cabin in the Severeville, Tennessee area. And I don't know what's, I mean, yeah, it's a smoky's so incredibly active. But I mean, man, if you want to have something to happen, maybe you just need to rent a cabin over by Severeville because it has happened. more than once out there where people have had activity. If we fast forward a little bit, I actually had a siding of something else that I'll get to in a bit, but I had a siding also in 2022 in October, something that was not Bigfoot.

But in 2024, we started going to a campground with our friends. Some friends knew the owners of this campground. They just bought it. So we went down for the summer in 2024. It would have been in June. And we took the kids and it was like an all weekend thing. And this campground is located about an hour from where I live. It's down in Adams County along Brush Creek.

And we had just a great day kayaking and, you know, having fun with the kids and everything. And of course, the adults that night, we started having some drinks and, you know, goofing off and whatnot. And I kept getting this weird feeling while I was there, right? It was just the strangest feeling like, man, I really really. really feel like I'm not like I'm not I don't know if I'm being watched or observed or something strange and so you know I didn't think anything about it really I just sat there and I got this it was probably it was probably pretty late I mean we stayed up the adults stayed up well well past two o'clock in the morning and everybody was winding down and going to you know getting ready

to go to bed and I was just sitting there by myself by the fire for a minute and I got this feeling I was like, my mind is muddy. What? What? What? And I literally felt like something was trying to tell me my mind was muddy. And I kept picturing like muddy water. And I'm like, it just jumped out.

It was like all of a sudden I just felt like, why am I being told my mind is muddy? And then I started thinking, you know, does that mean you think I'm because I'm drinking? Are you saying that's a bad thing? And it was just really weird. So I went in the tent and I laid down. And I kid you not, I was literally laid down. I wasn't even there two minutes. And I heard crack, this huge crack.

And it was, we were camped right on the river, like right on the river. Like, I mean, there was a ledge going straight down. And we were right on the river. And this came from what it sounded like on the edge of the river on our same side. And it's probably about a 75 foot gradual. you know, declined down into the, end of the river from where we were. And I heard this crack. And I just laid there with my eyes wide open like, okay.

And I just, I laid there until I fell asleep. I don't know how late it was, but I didn't hear anything else. So the next day I get up and I start talking to the owners of the campground. Really nice ladies, really super great ladies. And I said, hey, you know, do you guys ever see anything weird or heard anything weird down here? And the owner was like, actually, this used to be called the Bigfoot homestead. And I'm like, what? And she's like, yeah, a doctor bought this campsite because he believed that a group,

a family of Bigfoot lived on this property. She goes, we hear wood knocks and breaks. And she showed me pictures of huge footprints, all kinds of stuff. And she goes, no, you know, I didn't really believe it when we first. moved here, but my stepson, he's really into it. He's really wanting to research it more. So we went out one night and there's a cemetery just down the road there. She's like, we went out to the cemetery one night. We were just kind of checking it out. And she goes, I kid you not, something through a huge piece of a cinder block at me and came inches from hitting me.

And we got out of there. We ran. And she's like, there's all kinds of strange stuff that happened. here. She's like, I could take you to a cave right now where there are multiple deer carcasses and bones and all this stuff. And she's like, I can take you up there. And I'm like, I don't know if I want to go, but thank you. She's like, no, seriously, it's real. And I'm like, no, I believe you. And she, I still, we actually are going to go back again on Mother's Day and go camping. But so we left that weekend nothing else weird happened. I never went to the cave. It wasn't brave enough. But we went back in October. And in October, there was, we had a big Halloween party. So they had a haunted trail that was all

decorated with animatronics and lights and all that stuff. And I planned a band and my band played the party. And then after it was all said and done, we decided we're going to goof off and me and the singer, we're going to go walk down the haunted trail. Everybody's just winding down, right? And this was late too. This was probably that 233 o'clock in the morning. So we go down the trail and I'm joking with him because I, you know, I'm telling him stories about Bigfoot and all that.

He thinks I'm just crazy, right? And I'm like, hey, grab, I got my phone out, grab one of those logs and smack that tree. So he picks up a log and he smacks the tree like five times really fast. And I'm like, whoa, whoa, whoa, how do you know how many times to do that? What is that? Maybe you're ringing the dinner bell. Don't just smack the tree.

And right then. there off in the dark while we're back on this haunted trail and you know with all this stuff going on behind us right out in front of us about 50 feet in the bushes you hear something big move and you can actually see off in the distant like you can see like just real quick whatever like the top of the bushes move and he just stops and looks at me and he's like what was that and I'm like I don't know he's like there's no people over there I'm like no we're at the very edge of the campground man this is the end of the trail I said there's nobody back there and if there is they're going to risk walking around on cliffs and edges and all that. Yeah, no, no light. No,

there's nobody back there. So he just hits it again and he breaks the lock, let the stick. It's probably about three inches around. He breaks it in half. And then he's looking at it and he just chucks it into the bushes. And I'm freaking out. I'm like, don't do that. You don't throw things at these things. And he's like, what? I said, no, you don't. I trust me, historically, you do not throw things at these things. They throw things back and it's not good. And so he's like, well, maybe we should get out of here. I'm like, yeah, let's leave. So we go back to camp and he's like, do you want to go down to the creek bed and just kind of look around? I'm like, sure, sure.

I had a little really bright spotlight flashlight and, you know, my phone light. I'm like, let's walk down there. So it's, it's probably, you know, I don't know, probably a 20 minute walk to get down to the creek bed. And I noticed as soon as we got down to the river bed, I guess it's a river. As soon as we got down to the river bed, the temperature. dropped. I mean, it went from like, feeling comfortable wearing a hoodie to like seeing your breath and cold, cold, cold. And he's like, that's so weird. It's like we walked into the cold. I'm like, it's really weird. So he's got the light, right? And he's just nervous as heck. Because he's just shining it around everywhere. I'm like, got my phone and I'm filming. And I got all this on film. And he, we're walking around. And I swear on the other side of the

river. There was some bushes and a log. I swear I saw a huge black furry mass. I mean, we're talking huge, but it was just within a quick second as he was flashing the light around. And I said, do, do, do, do, do go back, go back. And he goes back and there's nothing there. But the size, I mean, we're talking like Volkswagen bug or bigger. Like, we're talking something huge was hunching over behind the foliage. Just. and then gone. So we're sitting there. He's shining a light around.

I'm like, just be really quiet for a minute. We're going to stand on this little peninsula. The river's running around us. Let's just stand here and listen. The water was really low. So let's just listen. As we're standing there,

we hear one side of the river. And just almost within just a couple seconds later, you hear it again. And on the audio recording, you can barely hear it. You have to really turn it up, but you can hear it. And he looks at me and he's like,

what was that? And I'm like, I've been telling you, man, that, you know, there's no animals or people out here. You could see the camp way off in the distance. It was just this little tiny light, the campsite, right? He's like, no, no, that's that can't be. And I'm like, I'm like, yeah, I'm telling you that he's like, well, what are we going to do? We don't have guns. We don't, what are we going to do?

And I'm like, calm down. It's okay. I'm more worried about, you know, bear and mountain line. He's like, mountain lion. I'm like, just calm down. And literally during this conversation, I stopped for a minute. And you hear this how. I mean, it is this long, just, and it echoes through the, through the, through the,

through the valley, right? You just hear it. And he looks at me and he goes, was that them? And I'm like, I don't know. And I've got all this recorded on my phone, right? So he's just like, okay, I think we need to leave. I think we need to leave now. And he started really panicking.

And I'm like, it's okay. I've not heard, you know, you don't very often hear people getting hurt by them, maybe scared out. But it's okay. if they're here, you know, just trying to be like, it's okay if they're here. And he's like, no, no, no, no, no, we got to leave. So we get back up the creek bed and there's this long field to get back to the camp and it's surrounded on both sides by woods. You've got the creek on one side with woods and then you've got the woods on the other side. Plan B made over-the-counter

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whimper, but like, I don't know, like it hurt itself or stepped on something or just this weird, strange noise. And he immediately stops and shines a light over there. And I'm like, what was that? He's like, I don't know. What was that? And I'm like, haven't heard that noise before. That was really strange. He's like, yeah, we should get out of here. So we left. And we didn't experience anything. We left early the next morning, so we didn't experience anything. But the owner of the campsite has told me that they've had a lot of people come down there and research and camp out. And that kind of takes me back to my siding. So because it all is connected, right? So in 2022 in October, I was taking my daughter home from a choir recital.

My wife and my youngest stayed home because he was little. And it was just the two of us driving home. And we were only about a couple miles outside of town. And we saw what I can only describe as a giant wolf run across the road. I mean, huge. And I looked at my daughter. I kind of elbowed her. And I said, you see that?

And she just looks at him and goes, big dog? And I'm like, uh, that was not a big doll. And had a mane like a lion, big pointed ears, long snout. It was just crazy looking. And it moved so fast. Had I been just one second or two seconds, you know, later or earlier, I probably wouldn't have seen how fast this thing covered across the road from one empty creek bed over into a field and disappeared. Well, they were doing construction on the bridge. I just crossed the bridge.

and I went back and I took a tape measure. I stopped. I was that crazy guy, right? I stopped on the side of the road. I take a tape measure out and I measure. And the shoulders where one of the signs were for construction was like four foot seven at the shoulders. It was huge. And I didn't, I had no idea what I saw, right?

I just, I've heard about dog man and all that stuff, but I had no idea what I saw. Well, I didn't know, but I was talking to the owner of the campground. and in October of 2022, she saw a huge wolf-like creature, but it was on two legs running through the same campsite, or the camp area, right, in a field. And she's like, I've never heard of that before. And I explained to her dog man. I said, you know, I saw something at the same time. And so she was just, it was really weird that we'd both seen it in the same month, an hour apart from each other.

I saw it on a creek, you know, a pretty good size creek. she was she's got the campsite right on the the river it was just weird it was all very strange so I don't know I don't know what I saw but I I don't know it wasn't natural it moved in a way that was not natural I can tell you that for sure it moved like like something out of this world like the legs were so fast it was like a blur but I saw the main I saw the ears I saw the snout in my mind I grew up watching werewolf movies I thought it looked like something like American werewolf in London or oh jeez are you kidding me oh no yeah it if you ever seen the movie willow yeah oh yeah classic 80s right oh you remember the big wolf-like creatures in willow

with the big shaggy mane yes it looked like that but bigger oh i hate dog man stuff i mean maybe that no it it's okay to say that i don't like it it it freaks me out it really does there's nothing good about it it it really freaked me out and it it it really freaked me out and it It had an effect on me. It's going to sound crazy, but ever since I saw it, I have very strange dreams. I had one very vivid night terror where I saw a big giant wolf shadow standing in the corner, and I freaked out so bad. I woke up screaming, and I fell out of bed.

I woke up my wife, like, and, you know, flip on the lights and there's nothing there. I had, I don't know if it's just in my mind, but I've had some really, really, really strange, strange dreams. Some that are really out there, like I'm me living my life, but my family is all different, right? Like my son, I know he's my son, doesn't look like my son. My wife, I know she's my wife, but she doesn't look like her. And there are all these unfamiliar faces, new house, new places, weird things happen in these dreams. But there's always this like lurking, dark presence.

presence, always in the background. When I first saw this thing, I had them regularly. I would have them two or three times a week. Now I only have them probably once a month, but I still have these strange dreams. And they say you can't dream about a face you've never seen, but I've seen faces. You can. You absolutely can, 100%. Scott, you have lived through some wild, wild stuff. I have a few. A few. You have a few. few questions for you. One, I want to make sure I don't skip past it. Do you want to share, I'm just curious, if you're able to share the name of your band? Oh, yeah, no, my band is called Fire 4-1. So Fire the number 4-1, Fire 4-1. Fire 4-1. Okay, and where's the best place to

listen to that? We haven't officially recorded anything yet. You can check out a lot of our videos of our recording and stuff on Facebook at Fire 4-1. There's a lot of, you know, we don't really do things very seriously. We just kind of, you know, play parties and events and festivals. But we are working on writing an album currently. Nice, nice. Yeah, send me links when that's out. I'd love to listen to that.

I'm sure other listeners would as well. So you're saying, I just want to make sure I hear this. So that campground not only has Bigfoot activity, but that's also where you saw that dog man as well. It's the same area. That's where the owner saw the dog man. She saw it in the same line, the same year that I saw it, and they're about an hour apart. Okay, gotcha. So.

Gotcha, got you. Yeah. I saw it just out. I saw it 10 minutes from my house, which made me super nervous. Yeah, it made me, like, I turned on all the floodlights every night now. I, you know, we have cameras up. I live on a lake, and, you know, it's a subdivision, but it's still, it still creep me out enough to, you know, to take a little extra precautions based on what I've heard. absolutely it's just crazy the uh i'm i'm just going to ask uh as it's it's my job um and you don't

have to of course but that are you able to share the name of the campground or is that something where i know sometimes we have places we go to and we don't want to really have the rest of the world messing around with it i get that but no so i really don't want to say and i'll tell you why Okay. After my wolf preacher siding, I met with a member of the BFRO. They actually came out to investigate and made me on site, which I thought was weird because I didn't think they came for dogman related stuff, right? And I don't know if he was there on his own personal accord or he was doing something for the BFRO. I don't think there's a report on it.

And I got talking with him, and he said, Um, you know, I was like, hey, I really want to go to like Salt Fork or, you know, all the big hot spots. I really want to go check out. I want to get involved. I want to go out more and do more research and, and, and be involved in the community and somehow. And he's like, you know, you don't have to go far to, to, to, you know, look for Bigfoot. He goes, you know, I put my LDRs or RRD, whatever they are, the long, long term duration. field recorders, those guys. Yeah, that's it. It was I put them about an hour from here.

And I'm like, oh, okay. But at the time, I didn't know. I hadn't been to the campsite yet. This was 2022. I didn't know. And I would later find out from the camp owners that he's out there frequently putting up his equipment. So that's why I didn't get it. Yeah, I didn't want to share. But that's, that's the only reason I wouldn't because I wouldn't want to step on his research without his permission or anything is a great guy i really like yeah totally totally understand that i will say uh adams county has come up a few times on the show and man if i was in ohio that's where i would be focusing on if i was in that corner definitely adams county that place just sounds wild and then you've got the serpent mounds over there right yeah it's actually it's funny because the

last time we camped in october of 24 we actually stopped at serpent mound on the way home because it's right down the road. I mean, it's literally 20 minutes down the road from our house, Surpermald is. And we stopped there and we walked around. And I hadn't been since I was a kid. It was super cool, which is funny because there's another Bigfoot story there. We go into the shop. And in the shop, there's this young girl working there. And they've got a couple bigfoot things, not a lot, but a couple, you know, I was looking at like some mugs and things like that. And we walked up to the desk and my wife is kidding me. You know, she's teasing. me about Bigfoot, you know, and the girl behind the counter goes, oh, no, Bigfoot's real.

And with dead serious face. And my wife was like, yeah, okay, you know. And she's like, no, the BFRO has been to my house. They've investigated. I live near in Adams County. She's like, yeah, they've been there. They've been there a couple times. We have lots of activity. She goes, I'll tell you right now, Bigfoot is real. And I'm like, oh, my goodness. I started fanboying again. I was just, okay. But she's, but she said, She didn't want, you know, she got, she got busy with other customers, and I didn't get a chance to talk to her. But she told me flat out, they've been here. So this is a gift shop at Serpent Mouse.

That's, that's like a, is that a national park? No, it's not a national park. Excuse me. So it's just, that's just like a locally owned gift shop that you were in, right? So sorry. Oh, you're good. Roads dry. No, losing my voice.

No, that's actually, oh, my God, I can't talk. You're saying stuff that, no, man, that happened. That's crazy. Wow. Yeah, take a few minutes, definitely. I am so sorry. I don't know what happened there. I'm losing my voice all of a sudden.

That's so weird. So the gift shop is actually in the mountain park. It's actually on, like, feet from where you go into the park. So it's actually part of the serpent mount. Okay, and that's a federally owned park. I assume so, yeah. I should know this. I got to look it up real quick.

Because it's called Great Serpent or a Serpent Mound, Ohio. All kinds of crazy stuff happens there, like electromagnetic stuff, UFO. Oh, it's a historical site. Okay. I don't think it's federally owned. But I know it's a huge deal, though. Okay, that's so interesting. I know people in the comments will probably be able to let me know what's going on over there.

But my goodness, you are definitely, you have gone through some wild accounts. I mean, you've lived through some wild things over these years. I can tell. Or if I was in your situation, I'd probably be at the point where I'm like, okay, yeah, I need to. maybe not go too crazy with this because as you said, you're sensitive and you don't know really where this is going to end up if you go for it. I don't know what you're thinking, but. No, I kind of feel that way. Once I got the muddy water thing in my head, nothing like that's really ever happened before. It was really strange. And nothing like that's happened since

than other than strange dreams. But yeah, I kind of, I'm kind of tore because I want more than anything to just see one, but at a distance, right? Like, just see one safely, maybe from a car, from, you know, far away through a telescope or something. I would be okay with just seeing, you know, a glimpse just to satisfy this, you know, for my childhood. I, I know what was so close to me when I was little. I know this thing was like right there. And I couldn't see it. I was a little kid. There were, you know, tall weeds and all that. Like, I wonder if my grandfather saw it. I wonder, you know, I just have that. feeling like I just want to see one again, but I'm terrified too because, like I said, I just get

the feeling like maybe they wouldn't like me because of whatever my family did in the past, and that sounds weird, but I kind of have that feeling. I don't know how you feel about this, but it might be maybe worth a conversation to have. And I don't know how you feel about that, but it might be, hey guys, you know, This happened in my family relative tree, but, you know, I'm not the kind of guy that would do this myself. I don't know how you feel about that. Some people are open to that, but that's exactly what I was going to do if I went to where my uncle shot the spot. That's exactly what I was going to do. And I do when I'm out, you know, in some of these areas and stuff, I do talk to the, you know.

Absolutely. I do. And that's exactly what I would do. I picture myself, you know, going to to tranquility, getting out and saying, hey, this is who I am, I'm here, don't mean any harm, just, you know, come to visit, you know, I don't, so don't want anything against me for what my family's done, you know, that kind of thing. That's exactly what I would picture doing. I agree with that. I think that just based on all, you know, different conversations I've had, I think that is the right way to handle things. And I know that's a super polarizing conversation in the community, but hey, man, at the end of the day, I'm right there with you. Now, I do have one more for you, Jeremiah.

So I'm always wearing bigfoot shirts and stuff. My wife and kids are always buying me stuff. And where I live, I have like a little separate deck from the house, the fire pit. It's between me and my neighbors. Plan B made over-the-counter emergency contraception legal more than 20 years ago. It's a safe, effective backup birth control option that helps prevent pregnancy before it starts by temporarily delaying ovulation. Plan B is the number one OBGYN recommended brand and the only one that you can find at all major retailers in all 50 U.S. states. There's no minimum age requirement and you don't need an ID to buy it.

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I'm sitting out there, and I'm just chilling by the fire, just got the fire going, just plan on sitting by the fire for the night. And my neighbor comes over, and he sees my shirt. And it's like a Hawking Hills big foot shirt or something. And he's like, hey, you into that? And I'm like, you could say that, you know, in the back of my mind being, you could, you could say that. And he's like, you know, most people don't believe in that. And I said, oh, I absolutely do.

And he's the kind of liens every's like, well, can I tell you something? And I said, yeah, man, you can tell me, you know, we've been neighbors for years. Tell me whatever you want. And he goes, about about 10 years ago, me and my buddies were about, I don't know, 20 miles from here. And they were more towards Chill of Coffee area. And he said that they were coon hunting, but they were really sneaking on to this, I guess it's like a deer farm where they raise deer, hoping to maybe, you know, snag a buck in the middle of the night. And not, you're not supposed to do that. But he said they were out and they're walking along and they look up in the fork of this tree about 20 feet up in the air.

And here's this big buck, 20 feet up. near in this fork of this tree. And he goes, it was really weird. None of us could figure out how that deer got up in that tree. And he goes, about that time, we started smelling something really bad. And I was like, thinking to my head, okay, I know where you're going with this. Come on. Let's, let's hear.

He goes, we shine the lighter around. Everybody's got their spotlights to shine around. And we saw two big red glowing eyes. And we bolt it. He goes, all but one of my buddies. He stayed behind. He's like, well, let's see what it is. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm

see what this is or shoot it or something. And so they all tear back to the trucks. And, you know, they get back and then within just a few, like not even a minute later, he comes running and screaming and doesn't even have his gun, doesn't have anything. And he jumps in the bed of the truck. And one of the other guys is back there and they're shining a light on him. They can see his leg is completely ripped open from thigh to calf. Whoa.

And he's like, what, what happened? What happened? He's like, just go, just go, just go. Get out of here. So they took off and he says the thing tried to grab him. And that's what the fingernails or claws were from. He said it tried to grab him. And luckily, he had fallen and dropped his gun right when it was grabbing him.

And he was able to get away. And he jumps in the car and takes off. And I said, man, I want to talk to this guy. You still got his number. Your friends leave him on Facebook. I want to talk to this guy. And he's like, you know, he used to show up to parties and show us the scars. He would always, it was like a party thing.

He'd show up and show everybody the scars. And he goes, that guy, he went to a whole other level. He got on drugs really bad, got super depressed. He's like, he was bringing up his phone. He's trying to find it. He's like, he's not even on Facebook anymore. He's like, I wouldn't even know how to get a hold of him. He's like, but I can tell you, whatever happened to him really messed him up.

And he said that he's seen the scars. He saw it that night. He said, whatever tried to get a hold of him just tore right down his leg. And he said it was some kind of hairy monster, which I'm just sitting there shaking my head. Like I did not expect you to come over and tell me this story. I thought we're going to talk about, you know, barbecue or or grass cutting or, you know, our normal conversations. I did not see this coming.

He's like, no, really happened. He goes, but I don't tell anybody. He goes, nobody believe me. And I'm like, I believe you. I absolutely believe you. Trust me. Wow. Adams County as well.

So that would have been Ross County. Ross County. So yeah, so that would have been Ross. But you got you got Hyland, Ross, and Adams, right? And then you got Pike County. So it's all all right there. And I know there have been reports in like Tar Hollow. It's a funny story.

My wife and I actually got lost in Tar Hollow when we were younger in a car. We got lost in the car and couldn't get our way out of there for hours. But I've heard people saying it's, there's activity there. And, you know, people getting lost and disappearing and being found, all kinds of weird stuff happens there. And that's like 30 minutes from our house. Scott, such a fascinating conversation. I just want to say, thank you so much for coming on the show and sharing some really incredible accounts from down there around Ohio in Kentucky. And there are some incredibly active areas down there.

You know, as when you signed up, you're okay with your email being in the the description for people to reach out to you. Is that still okay? Yeah. Absolutely. I'm okay with that. The Gmail.com. So people want to reach out.

They can't send it's in the description. But thank you so much for coming on the show. Is there anything else? You know, I guess you're at the point where not a lot of presence online for the band, but maybe eventually we'll get some links where people can check that out. Yeah. And then also,

I'm really, really going to try to kick off my own podcast. Nice. So I'm going to do kind of a different spin on it. My wife is actually trained in AI, and, you know, she's got all these certifications in machine learning, AI, and all this stuff. And I said, how cool would it be if I brought you on?

Because she's a complete skeptic. If I brought you on a podcast, and I showed you some videos and some photos of things that I think are real, and you give me your input. Right? You tell me what you think. That's solid, dude. Yeah, we take other people, have other people submit things. And you can tell me what your thought is.

Because she's a photographer, digital photographer. Like she does it all. She knows all of it. And I said, that would be so helpful because we're so overpolluted with AI crap right now and fake stuff. I said, I would love for you to be the one to come on and then see your face. Like, because I want to see your reaction to some of the stuff. that I think is real. And then that kind of be the premise, right, of our show.

And I've already got several people interested in coming on and being interviewed. But we're going to call it Monsters and Matrimony. Nice. It's been in life, right? So I'm the believer. She's a skeptic. There you go. I love it.

Very cool. So we're going to try to get that started up and get that, at least get it piloted next month. Awesome. Yeah. Send me the link when you get that up and rolling. And we'll make sure that it's out there. but, Scott, thank you so much for coming on the show. It's been a pleasure talking to you today.

Absolutely. Thank you for having me, buddy. I'm a big fan. Thank you. I appreciate that. 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 Summerfest is coming up July 10th through the 11th, 2026. It's going to be even better than the previous year's reason number one.

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