Bigfoot Society - Northern Georgia Hunter Shares Terrifying Bigfoot Encounters in Indiana and Georgia

Episode Date: March 24, 2023

Welcome to Bigfoot Society, where we explore the mysteries surrounding the legendary Bigfoot. In this episode, we have a special guest, Gabe Rassi, a skilled hunter from Northern Georgia. Gabe is here to share his riveting encounters with Bigfoot that he experienced while hunting in the woods of Northern Indiana.During the podcast, Gabe will recount how his close encounter with the creature forced him to move his tree stand, a rare occurrence for him. He also reveals how the encounter has left a lasting impact on him, and why he has yet to return to that spot.But that's not all, Gabe will also share his experience when the Bigfoot creature got too close to his house and the aftermath that ensued. You won't want to miss out on his chilling tale.And if that wasn't enough, Gabe will take us on a thrilling adventure to the Indiana Jones-style waterfall area they visited in Northern Georgia. He will recount the spine-tingling details of what happened to him in that mysterious location.Join us as we delve into the fascinating world of Bigfoot with Gabe Rassi's incredible stories of his encounters with the elusive creature. Don't forget to subscribe and leave a review to let us know what you think!---If you want even more exclusive content, become a Patreon member and gain access to extra audio, a Patron-only Discord and much more over at https://www.patreon.com/posts/after-show-more-80185862Do you have a Bigfoot encounter that you've been dying to share? Look no further than Bigfoot Society! Simply email us at [e-mail] to learn more.Join our private Facebook group "Bigfoot Sasquatch Encounters" for a chance to connect with others who have had similar experiences. Follow the directions to ensure your entry is accepted.https://www.facebook.com/groups/5762233820540793/?ref=share_group_linkTune in to our YouTube channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8Qq45W6iaTU8FE9kelxT7Q) for new episodes of Bigfoot Society, and visit our website (www.bigfootsocietypodcast.com) for all the links mentioned above and more.Don't miss out on the Bigfoot action!

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There were screams coming from the swamp. Welcome back to Bigfoot Society. In this episode, we talked to Gabe, a hunter who's had encounters both in northern Indiana and northern Georgia. What was it that happened that made him leave his hunting area never to return? and what exactly did Gabe hear in the swamp that was screaming that one night? Find out this and more on Bigfoot Society. All right, Bigfoot Society. I've got the privilege of talking to Mr. Gabe Rossi today from Northern Georgia.

Ran into Gabe on Facebook a few days back, and he said he's got some interesting stories to share of his time out in the woods and things he's experienced. How's it going tonight, Gabe? It's going really well. Awesome, awesome. This is kind of new for me. I've never done anything like this before, so bear with me.

Oh, you got it. You got it. All right. Well, Gabe, let's go ahead and get started, and I'll have you start the story where you would like to. All right. I guess, give a little bit of background. the area where a lot of these experiences are happening, which they're still happening today from what I understand,

where in northern Indiana is where the majority of my experiences took place while scouting for deer and deer hunting. So I guess the first time I was, it was me and my ex-wife and my two kids we're on a nature trail. There's a 3,000-acre public land close to where we lived. So we would go and we would walk through the nature trail, you know, and it's a pretty extensive nature trail. It probably takes an hour or so to walk through it.

It's just a big loop. And we get to the bottom. It goes down a hill and goes around, and it's really thick and dense. and we get to the bottom and I felt like something was watching me. I just, I didn't feel like we were alone.

So I stopped and I pulled my binoculars out and I had them go on and I start looking and I can't see anything but I still have this feeling. I've been in the woods a long time. You know, from the time I was a kid and I know when something's not right

and something wasn't right. So I sent them on ahead and I just stayed down there for a little bit and I kept looking around and glassing and still didn't see anything. So I caught back up with them and the feeling got worse and worse and worse. And I told my ex-wife, I said, just go. Take the girls and just go. At this point, I'm freaking out. I hadn't seen anything. I hadn't heard anything with the feeling. So we get up to the vehicle. we get up to our car and there is the most horrendous smell I've ever smelled in my life.

And her and I looked at each other and she says, what is that? And I just said, you know what that is. And that was my first experience there. And I would say probably, well, 2008 was when I had my eye opener. I was I'd set my my tree stand up I was when I did some scouting for deer season and I'd set my tree stand up on the corner of a creek and a swamp and I was out one morning and you know my stand was like 20 feet in the air and my ex-wife was in a blind probably 50 to 75 yards behind. behind me. I had her tucked back up and it's blind. And it was probably right around sunrise.

And I hit my bug, and I heard something splash on the other side of the swamp. And I could hear it coming through the swamp. And I, you know, I wasn't thinking anything else but dear. So I can hear it. I can hear it coming through the swamp. And I'm like, all right. So I'm getting ready.

And I hear it come out of the swamp. And I can hear a bunch of rustling in the, there's a real dense thicket, probably 40 yards away from me. And you can't see into this thick. And it's so thick. And I hit my grunt again. And it stopped. And that's when I heard something hit the ground and roll past me. And I'm like, what the heck was that?

Yeah, I just kind of blanked it out and I'm like, all right, there's a deer in there. So I hit my ground again. Sure enough, it happened again. I couldn't see, but I could hear it, hit the ground and roll past me in the leaves. So daybreak came and I didn't see anything else. nothing else happened. It was just calm and quiet after that. And when I say calm, the birds didn't wake up that morning.

It was so eerily calm in the woods that morning that two days later, I wouldn't move my stand. I just, I don't want anything to do with that area. I just, I got out of there. Now, I, sorry, I actually have a few questions for you, if you don't mind, Gabe, because I find that fascinating. So as a hunter, it was so off-putting to you that you actually moved to a different hunting area. Oh, absolutely. Oh, yeah.

Wow. Yeah, because after all that happened, you know, in the moment, I was like, oh, that's, you know, that's a deer. But the next, well, later on that afternoon, I was like, wait a minute. Deer don't have hands. Something threw something at us. that's when it started, everything started to run through my head. And I was like, oh, wow. That's when it all started to click.

And I, yeah, I moved my stand after that. Even to this day, I have not gone back into that area to this day. And that was in, remind me again where roughly that was. That was in Indiana, northern Indiana. Okay. Have you looked to see if there's been sightings in that area that you were? Is that anything you looked into? Well, see, that's the thing.

When I had my sighting, when I actually had my sighting, when I actually saw one, it was in that area. Okay. So, yeah. And then there were like two years. Well, I've been down here for two years. So three years ago, there was actually two sightings in the same day. about 20 minutes apart in that area. So, and, you know, growing up in that area, my mom had told me stories, you know,

but you're a kid and you're like, yeah, okay, whatever. You don't really think much about it, you know. But then as you get older and unexplainable things start happening, that you just I'm not the type of person that just says oh well this is what it is I try to look for what it can't be first

and then I go for what I try to think of what it could be and in these experiences there's only certain things that it could be because northern Indiana where I'm from we don't have bears you know so if you see something that big it's not a bear because they're not there so it's kind of it's kind of where and and as far as tree structures and oh i have found so much up there

down here even every down here in northern georgia my girlfriend and i we like to hike a lot up in the mountains and we have found so much stuff. And it's just right on the trails. But when I look for this stuff, when I notice, I don't really look for it, but I notice it. And some of it could be human, but then you start thinking, it's like, all right, you know, you've got broken branches 15 feet off the ground. who's going to climb up a tree and break branches 15 feet off the ground, right? So when you say broken branches, describe that to me a little bit.

So are these massive branches that are broken or small guys? Oh, yeah. These are probably, you know, three, four inches around. And they're just broken and just hang in there. Yeah, there's tree structures, tree bins, you know. What I take these as is their markers for people to stay on the trails. They've come. I feel that they've come to, they're not okay with people being there, but they've accepted it as long as you stay on the trail.

And some of these trails, there was one. It was, I'm trying to think. I think it was around New Year's of 2021. It was my first winter down here. And her and I, we decided to go on a hike. And it's like a quarter mile hike. It's pretty dense area back to a waterfall. You get to this waterfall.

It looks like something out of Indiana Jones. I mean, it's really, really cool. And we're just checking things out. and walking around and just looking at things and checking out the waterfall and, you know, and all of a sudden she looks at me and she says, I don't feel so good. I'm like, what do you mean? She says, my head hurts. I can't think straight.

I just, I feel nauseous. I said, all right, we need to go because I had a little bit of a feeling, but not like that. So we're not running, but we're moving at a good pace out of there. And she kept going and I stopped. And I heard the heaviest footfalls I have ever heard in my life. And they were coming up quick behind us. So I told her, I said, just go. Whatever happens is go, just go.

Don't look back. Just go. And I grabbed the, we always take fruit and stuff with us on our hikes. Well, I grabbed an apple out of her backpack and I threw it back behind me. me and we just took off. And we went about another 15, 20 yards, and I stopped. And everything, the footfalls had stopped and everything was quiet. So I don't know if it took the apple as an offering or what.

But, and the further we got away from that waterfall area, the better she started feeling. So, I don't know. take that for what it is, but I know what it was. Sounds like you could almost have been dealing with an infrasound type situation. Who knows? Yeah. Yeah, she's pretty in tune with that kind of stuff. And it's, that was the first time it happened.

And it's happened a couple of times since, but not to that extent. So there was another, another hike we were on. And we were going to hike through a waterfall. And the trail just kind of just disappeared. I mean, we're hiking. We're looking for trail markers. And it's just gone. We're hiking right next to a river, creek.

And we're like, you know what? This looks like a good place to stop. So I usually take a cigar and I'll light up a cigar and I'll sit there and smoke cigar and just chill. And she'll go walk around in the water in the creek and, you know, do her do her thing. and we just kind of enjoy nature. Well, she was on the other side of the creek, and this kind of gave me chills, but I'm sitting there,

and I hear this low, low, low, guttural grumble, like a growl. And the funny thing was, she's on the other side of the creek, and this is where it came from. And it's real thick, and, I mean, you know, the mountain goes straight up on the other side.

And she stopped what she was doing, And she looked at me from across the creek and we looked at each other and we're like, you know, just just staring at each other for a few seconds. And then we heard it again. And she just stopped and she just sat there for a second. Then the, I don't know how you want to put it. I think it was cool. But we heard two of them chattering back and forth to each other. real soft, real low,

and she said she could hear him in her head. Stay tuned for more Bigfoot Society. We'll be right back after these messages. But you couldn't make out what they were saying. Can you describe if it sounded like anything similar at all, any description of what that language sounded like? It was just chatter. Almost like...

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Like a deep, deep, deep squirrel chatter almost. Does that make sense, I guess? I don't know how else to describe it. It wasn't, you could hear the voices change and fluctuate, but you couldn't make out any words. Gabe, have you ever heard the Sierra sounds? Yes, and it sounded nothing like that. Okay, I didn't want to put it,

into this story, but I wanted bring it in just as was it like that or was it not? Okay, so it wasn't like that at all. Interesting. No. I, her and I both kind of feel that

it may have been a couple of juveniles that were just checking us out and trying to figure out what we were doing there because we weren't, we weren't causing any problems. We weren't doing anything goofy. They were just trying, they were just feeling us out.

It's kind of how we feel about it. Now, is this situation here? Is this in Georgia or is it in Indiana? Yeah, this was in Georgia. Okay. Have there been many sightings in that area that you were in? Yes. Yeah.

That was, that's up. I don't really want to give the area because, but, you know, because I don't know, I just kind of want to leave my alone. Let them do their thing. You know, if I say where it was and there's potentially that everybody could go up there. So. Oh, yeah, that's no problem. I respect you for that.

You know, we don't want to, we don't want to mess with them for sure and kind of keep them safe in their habitat. So. Yeah. Yeah. And then I had, in Indiana, I had my first sighting. And that was, that was kind of crazy. I was, I was doing some scouting. And I had a golf cart that I was going, all these, that 3,000 acres that I hunted was,

there were, there were roads going down, going through it. And there's fire lanes. The park rangers had cut fire lanes to the CRP grass, you know, every 50 yards or so. and they go from the road all the way to the wood line. And then they would go around, you know, just basically to make it so people can get to where they need to go. And so they can get in and they can check for fall in trees and stuff like that. Basically access roads, I guess. But they stay out of there unless they absolutely have to go in there.

But I was looking, I was going down the main drag. And I looked to my left down one of the fire lanes, like I always did, because I was always looking for deer. And I, it was about 100 yards away. And it was massive. It was at least seven and a half feet tall at the shoulders. And it was about two and a half to three feet thickness of the chest. because it was walking across that fire lane as I went by. We were going the same way.

And I hit the brakes, I backed up and it was gone. But like I said before, there's no bears in Indiana. So something that big is not a bear. And that was the same area that they had had a couple, well, just a couple years ago, they had two reportings in the same day. So, and it was brown. it was a like a

dark reddish brown color and it was it was getting close to dark it was still plenty of daylight but it was you know the sun was starting to set but yeah that's that's when I had my first signing

that is incredible yeah do you mind if I ask you some questions about that no go ahead um did you so did you notice anything about its head at all or its face or is it just a very quick, quick sighting? It's just a very quick, quick, you know, the fire lanes are only 10 feet wide.

So it was probably two strides, step and then step and it was gone. But like I said, something that big can only be one thing in our area because we don't have any bears. Absolutely. So did you remember anything about how it was holding its arms when it was crossing? It was, its right arm was back, and I could kind of make out some of the fur on the sides. It was pretty long hair.

Yeah. Wow. Male or female? Any indication on that? I have no idea. Okay. All I know, it was big. Mm.

And here, and this is, some people are going to think I'm crazy for this, but the area that I lived was probably a mile and a half from all this. And there was a swamp that was connected to it. And my ex-wife at the time, she was very skeptical. And it was about 11 o'clock one night, and she was out on the porch. And she comes back inside. She says, you need to come out here and listen to this. And I'm like, all right. So I go outside and I can hear screams.

There were screams coming from the swamp. And the swamp is connected to this hunting preserve. And shortly after I had that siding, I was sitting in my living room. and about 10 feet up the wall on the outside, I heard, wham, something hit the side of my house. This happened two different times at about 2.30, 3 o'clock in the morning

when I was sitting up watching TV. Now, 10 feet off the ground, and it just, I don't know. I personally think that after, that they knew I saw, it and they were letting me know that they knew that's what I think but I don't know. How you know was that that freaked me out? Oh, I totally would be the same way. I mean, how did that make you feel to know that, you know, you see the guy in the swamp,

the big boy in the swamp, and you live a mile away from that? How did that make you feel as a homeowner? No, it didn't bother me. Oh, okay. I've got guns. All right. I'm on the teeth, so, I mean, I'll protect myself and need me, but it. All right.

It was, it was eye opening, to say the least. Was that the same after it hit the side of your house with that big boulder or anything like that? He still felt the same way? No, no, no, no. It was, it was, it was his hand. I think it was just a slap. It was just a slap on the side of the house. Just letting me know.

You know, it happened twice. That's even wilder, Gabe, because they could have been outside listening. And then all of a sudden they're like, all right, time to give them the warning. And there's a blam, slap. Yeah. Is that why you left that area? No, no, no. And we won't get, don't feel like you have to get into why, but I was just curious if they were related.

Oh, no. No, that never bothered. All right. No. But, yeah, there's, there's, I've seen, I've found a lot, like I said, a lot of tree structures, a lot of tree bins. Just some crazy, crazy things out there. Now, I want to go back to, let's go back to that night when your ex, I believe your ex-wife says to come out, listen to this scream. Can you describe in any way what that scream was like if you've ever heard anything like it or what it reminded you of?

It sounded like a woman, like a woman being tortured. it was just a loud, high-pitched scream. And I mean, it made my skin crawl when I heard it. You know, and after that, we don't have, well, we do have Bobcats, but they're not very prevalent. And I pulled up a fox, and Fox was close, but not close enough.

and I've never heard anything like it before in my life so as far as that goes I think it could only be one thing because it was I mean it was loud it was so loud I've never heard anything so loud in my life you know and that's the difference right that's what I usually hear is that it sounded this one way but the thing was is that no other creature

could make the sound that loud, it would need to have a huge diaphragm, a huge set of lungs behind it in order to do that. Exactly, yeah. And if it would have been a fox, it would have been muffled because it would have been on the ground in, you know, underbrush, thicket.

This wasn't. You could tell this was booming. Is that the only time that you, heard vocalizations around that property, that main time with the screen? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, that was the only time I'd heard that there. Yeah.

And then the chattering down here in Georgia, which was pretty intense. That was crazy. That's a lot, Gabe. You definitely have gone through some stuff. That area with the chattering and everything in Georgia, because you're still down there. Do you ever go back to that area? We're planning on it. We're planning on going back.

We haven't really since. Yeah, because we, you know, we try to hike. Well, when we go on these hikes, we look for hikes that are out of the way. They're, we have all trails app and we pull it up. And if it says you may, you may encounter a lot of people on this. It's a very popular trail. We avoid those. We don't like them.

We go to the ones to say, this is not a. very popular trail, you probably won't see anyone. And when we go on these trails, we don't see anybody. So they're not, some of them are pretty much goat paths that you have to, you have to try to find your way through.

And luckily, I have enough experience with finding game trails that I can, I can keep, I can keep finding the path. So that, that's, that's pretty helpful on some of these and some of the things that we found on these trails

like I think I see a picture of the handprint they send that to you? I believe you did yes and the footprint we found a footprint I found two footprints a handprint all kinds of stuff I mean

yeah it Now, I'm looking at them right now, actually, Gabe. And the handprint is interesting because it's almost like something put its hand on top of some moss. And you can just see where it dragged down and just drag the moss away. And that's going up the side of the mountain. She actually is it. That's actually her hand. Yeah, that's my girlfriend's hand.

And she took the picture. She's the one that found it. Yeah. Man. She's sitting here. I think she's wanting to tell some of her stuff too. Oh, is she there with you? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I mean, that's up to her. Gabe and his girlfriend will be back next week on Bigfoot Society. As his girlfriend shares some very interesting viewpoints on Bigfoot encounters that they've had. You can hear the whole interview right now about becoming a supporting member of the Bigfoot Society podcast over at patreon.com forward slash the Bigfoot Society. If you've got a Bigfoot encounter you'd like to share, please email me at Bigfoot Society at gmail.com. And as always, thank you for listening. On this episode of Plant Killers, we'll explore one nation's most notorious fruit and vegetable killer, bad dirt. What makes bad dirt so bad?

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