Bigfoot Society - TOWERING SASQUATCH STALKS 12-YEAR-OLD NEAR TOMAHAWK, WISCONSIN | ARCHIVES

Episode Date: June 26, 2026

Originally released as Episode 524 of Bigfoot Society on 9/11/24.In 1979, a 12-year-old boy found himself stranded on a lonely road outside Tomahawk, Wisconsin after a stolen junkyard car broke down in the middle of the night.What happened next stayed buried for more than 40 years.As he walked toward town under a bright moon, something massive moved through the swamp beside him. Trees shook. The sounds got closer. Then an enormous figure stepped from the darkness and began pacing him from across the road.For miles.Pete shares one of the most intense encounters ever featured on Bigfoot Society, describing a face-to-face experience with a creature he estimates stood 8 to 9 feet tall. He recalls every detail—the eyes, the hands, the teeth, the body proportions, and the fear that followed him for decades.The story expands into a deeper mystery involving the same remote area of northern Wisconsin. Strange sightings, Dogman reports, unexplained activity around homes, and multiple missing-person cases have all been reported within a small geographic region surrounding Highway O and Bellevue Road.You'll also hear from Rick in Warren County, Ohio, who describes a night filled with precise wood knocks, owl-like vocalizations, and a strange aerial object that appeared above his property. His investigation led him to discover a history of Bigfoot reports in the same area.📖 Follow Jeremiah's cancer health updates here:https://www.caringbridge.org/site/569ef3d3-68be-11f1-8790-97fdfd2bbc64🗣️ Share Your StoryHad a Bigfoot encounter or strange experience?Send it to [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

You're listening to Bigfoot Society and I'm Jeremiah Byron. In this show, we go beyond the campfire stories to bring you first-hand encounters from people who say they've seen something impossible. From backwoods trails and remote mountain haulers to quiet farms and crowded highways, the stories come from everywhere, and each one leaves us with more questions than answers. These are the voices of the people who've lived it. So settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. Please keep Jeremiah in your prayers as he continues his fight against cancer. For more updates about his medical journey, please go to the Caring Bridge link in the show notes.

Thank you. All right, Bickfa Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Pete today. Pete is an individual that reached out to me from up in Wisconsin. And he's got some interesting things that happened to him back quite a while ago. but I'm going to go ahead and let him kind of set the stage, and thanks for coming on the show, Pete. Yeah, no problem, Jeremiah.

Thanks for letting me. My name is Pete. I was born in 1967 in Tomahawk, Wisconsin. Just to set the mood a little bit, like if you've never been to Wisconsin, when you get up past the sandbairns, like midway through the state, the northern half starts like the late country. Minnesota's like claim the same is, you know, 10,000 lakes.

They actually have like 13,000. Wisconsin has 15,000. Alaska has over a million. So it's swampy lake country up here. My encounter happened in 1979. And seriously, like, the reason I came on this show was, like, I wanted to tell my story to thousands of people that I knew would believe me. I never said anything for probably 40 years about this.

And when I first started telling people, they would look at you like, you were crazy. You'd say, oh, hey, that's a cool story. You want to hear a Bigfoot story? And, you know, you might as well be running around telling people you've seen Bugs Bunny running out in the woods because it's just so fanciful. And so anyway, I didn't tell my story until probably five years ago. And I was watching Bigfoot podcasts and stuff. And I thought, man, that'd be cool just to get this out of my chest. I'd been trying with people that I knew and like nobody was trying to hear it.

They're like, yeah, sure, whatever. But about five years ago, I got the courage and I text Steve Isdahl from How to Hunt about my encounter. And it was kind of bland because he was reading it, you know, from an email. So my encounter happened in 1979. I was 12 years old. My dad owns a or owned a racetrack and a junkyard here in Tomahawk, which is a little community of 3,500 people. And being kids, I was the youngest of the 13,

having the junkyard, we always had junk cars to drive around, but we didn't have driver's license. So in my town, you could look from my house to the parking lot of the police station. This is 1979. and see if the squad car was there. If the squad car was there, you could get in one of dad's junk cars that ran, and you and a couple of your buddies go cruising out in the boondocks or whatever. So we'd wait for the cop to, you know, pulling the station,

and we knew we'd get out of town, but we had to drive out of town because we didn't have license while I was 12 years old. So one particular night, probably September, I had taken like 1972 Toyota Tersel for a joy right out of the junkyard

but I did it at night and if you can kind of picture this if you looked at a map obviously North being north Tomahawk or if you had a T Tomahawk could be down on the left corner of the T you go up to the top corner of the T

one road goes left one road goes right the road that goes left is 28 miles long it's highway E, the road that goes right is a four-mile stretch called Highway O. So it's about three and a half miles of town to Highway O. I get to Highway O, I take a right, and I'm noticing that my headlights are getting dim. So I roll down the window. When I rolled down the window, like you could hear the cicadas and crickets and bullfrogs,

you know, it's just br-br-br-h-uh. So I lean my head out at the window to listen, and the lights are getting dimmer and dimmer, so I turn off the dash lights, turn off the radio, and like, okay, I got to turn this car around and get it back home. Well, the car ends up dying about a half mile from this four, four and a half mile stretch of highway all. And I'm like, I got to get this car back. Dad's going to know this is gone next morning. So I get out of the car, there's like a muskeg area, probably half the size of a football. field. On the side that the car was broke down on, there's another smaller musk egg field kind

on the left, which is indicative of a swamp, cat tails growing up and stuff. So I'm kind of debating what do I want to do. It's a long walk back to town. It's probably like 11 o'clock at night. So I start walking across this little two-lane county road, you know, four-foot gravel on the end going down to the swamp on both sides. And it's like 90% full moon with a little bit of cloud cover. So you can literally see, you know, pretty much everything. So, well, I hear a noise and I look over and I see like the tallest pines that are probably like 80 foot on the edge of the swamp, maybe 60 footers, are shaken back and forth. And I'm like, what in the world is that?

And then I see the next tree shake and the next tree shake. And then two of them are shaken like someone's pulling on them. Now, typically the biggest animal we would have up here in Black Bear, the state record's like 783 pounds. So I'm thinking it's got to be a black bear. So now I'm getting kind of scared. I kind of walk back to the car and I'm thinking, should I get back in the car? And I'm like, I don't want to be stuck out here with whatever that is or that bear trying to dig in the car. So I'm like, I'm just going to start walking real fast.

As I'm walking, pretty much as fast probably as a 12-year-old could do with all. running the trees are getting still moving and they're getting closer and closer to road well growing up in the 70s like my exposure to bigfoot was like Steve uh whatever his name was with a six million dollar man Steve austin or whatever um where he wrestled bigfoot if anybody remembers that show It was probably on in 1976 or so. That was pretty much my exposure to it. We had ABC, NBC, CBS, so we didn't like ever hear anything. I've heard about Bigfoot.

I probably got books in school about them. But to my mesmerment or astonishment, it steps out from the edge of that tree bank into the ditch, which is probably 30, 36 inches deep. and starts walking along with me. Now, everything in me told me, do not run, don't run, don't run, because I was trying not to elicit that predator response or, you know, the chase response. But my mind said that and my legs said something different. So I started booking it, and I'm looking across at this thing.

I mean, it's 16 feet away from me. and it's stepping like well I was smaller back in so it probably seems like it was a bigger step when I was a kid but I would say eight to ten foot steps so as I'm running as fast as I can this thing is walking just leisurely clipped with its hand swinging just like the Patterson film now I got like three miles to go to get back to the street light were highway O-Ns and E-starts. If I took a left, I'd go back to town. So I'm like, man, oh, man, this is something else. Now, when I think back on it, to me, it seems like I was floating over the scene watching what was happening with the Bigfoot on one side or road on the other side. That's kind of what my memory tells me now.

But anyway, so I'm running down this road, and halfway down this road, A guy had put up a Kwanzit hut, which the army would helicopter them around. You could park like a Willie's Jeep under a couple of them. So he somehow got a hold of this Kwanzut, and he put it up right alongside the road and Highway O, and he had a street light out in front. And as I'm running, I probably had covered a mile at this point, like looking at this thing, just sinking, it's literally just going to reach his arm across the road and freaking and grab me and wring my neck.

So to say that I was terrified, there's not even a word to describe the amount of terror that I had floating through me, especially being a impressionable, you know, 12-year-old boy.

So anyway, how I keep running, well, I'm coming up over this little crest of a hill and I see that yard light where that Kwanzut was. So I'm thinking, man, all right, I forgot. I just got to get to that yard light. It's probably three-quarters of a mile or a mile distant when I first see the light. So I'm like, yes. And I'm sitting there thinking, I mean,

this thing's been running, even if I did a seven-minute mile, I mean, this thing's been running, walking alongside me running for 10 minutes by now, or 8 minutes, whatever it was, a long period of time. But at this point, it's starting to come into my head. I'm just thinking, and there's a billion things coming to my head, but I'm like, man, I'm dead. You know, why hasn't it grabbed me? When it grabs me, I hope it's quick. You know, like, what are my parents going to think? Are they ever going to find me?

Like, all this is going to your head. So, anyhow, I'm getting closer to the light. I get a half mile away or whatever. It's getting brighter and brighter and brighter. And then it just dawned on me or something epiphany came to me that if it was, going to grab me, it was going to grab me before I got to that street light, because obviously it's going to want to do it under the cover of darkness. So now I'm like a quarter mile away from the light, and I'm getting closer, and I'm getting really scared to get to that light, but I got

no other place to go. So I'm like, okay, the plan is when I get like two blocks from where, I'm going to, you know, just put it in the final gear that I got overdrive and get up to that house run into that house. So it's something in me. Like, if you would ask if I would do that again, would I do this? I slowed down and started walking. Like, I don't know, maybe three, four blocks away from the life. And when I started walking, I noticed how hard I was bawling, like, literally sobbing.

And I literally just looked over at it, and I said, dude, I will never say I've seen you. Like, I got no problems with you. I'm just a kid. I just wanted to live. I want my mom and dad. And this thing did the like Sierra sound thing like, and like literally talked back to me. And I just kept walking and I'm like,

I'm getting closer. I'm getting closer. I'm trying to think of anything I can say because I can tell like there's like a dialogue going. Trying to elicit any empathy I could from this thing to spare me. And when I got like a block away from the street light, I just booked it or maybe two blocks away, ran up, started pounding on the door. Bigfoot, I hate to even call it, that sounds so cliche.

Whatever it was, Sasquatch, took a right, started crashing through the woods, and I could just hear, crack, crack, I mean, just like a bulldozer was going through the woods. And I knocked on the door, no one came to the door, and they had a 296, 197, 76, three on the tree, Chevy pickup, orange one. And I got in there and, man, keys were in there. I thought, they don't come out. I blew my horn for like five minutes. And I'm like, there's no way that I'm staying out by this thing.

Keys are in the truck. I'm headed to town. So that's pretty much the end of it there. And like I said, I didn't tell anybody, probably the first time was about five years ago. And believe it or not, one of the people I told was one of my sisters. So we had this remembrance party for a guy named Ronnie Proctor up here. He was a Vietnam vet who owned at Northwood Sabrin. And Ronnie had been dead for 15 years at this point, but we had a remembrance for him. And my sister walks up to me and she says, Peter, tell about your

bigfoot encounter. And I was like, like, uh, shut up. Like, why did you do that? And looked at me and she goes, oh, I believe you. She said, because I've had dog man encounters. So that kicked off a whole other thing. And, uh, she had a dog man encounter and the guy three miles away from her was having dog man encounters and he's been missing for 12 years.

And two years ago, another guy disappeared like from three miles away from there without a trace. like infirm guy that wrote a hover around and no activity in his credit cards or nothing and about 40 years ago another guy went missing there but obviously you know no one even thought big foot or dog man at that point

but so I'm starting to think there's some pretty nefarious stuff going on around here so wow first off thank you for sharing that with the audience. I mean, that is, that's an incredible story for something. I mean, for you to go through that as a 12-year-old, that is just incredibly intense.

You know, I've had events in my life, like a car accident I had a couple months ago, you know, to where you think about it and you kind of just shake your head and think, like, man, oh, man. But I'm telling you, that encounter, Jeremiah, for me, like, at least five days a week, I still dwell on that and literally shake my head and just think, is that crazy or what that that happened to me? Because, I mean, part of it's a miraculous thing and another part of it's just like lunacy. You know, it's where you're like thinking you lost your mind almost. I agree that when the logical side of our brain starts kicking in, it just can't handle any of that stuff.

And it tries to explain it away. and I haven't seen anything yet, but I've heard stuff and it tries to explain it away and it's intense. Do you remember anything about what you saw that day? Like, did you get a good look at the face at all? Sure, man, I could see, like I said, that moon was like, it was probably like 98% full with occasional cloud cover. and when them clouds went covering that moon, I mean, it was just, you know, almost like daylight out. I seen every aspect of it, believe it or not, except for the feet. I mean, the high brow ridge, higher set cheekbones, flared out nose, believe it or not, thin lips.

Like, didn't have big lips, just had like them thin chimp type lips. big, like, horse chicklet teeth. Now thinking back, I don't remember really seeing ears. I definitely had the cone head with the giant trap muscles. Huge hands, like, I would say mine, or the one that I seen, was eight foot tall. But part of me, as an adult, thinks it might have been, like, nine foot tall. But, yeah, the hands on that thing had to be, they had to be 16 inches from wrist to fingertip with, you know, fingers like the size of kilbasa. Like the grip strength that thing would have had in them hands would just have to be out of this world.

And I remember seeing them hands as he was walking because they were swinging back and forth. And like my biggest fear was like, man, I hope he doesn't wrap them around my neck, for real. Wow. How far down were the hands hanging on the body would you say? Like I would say, I would say three inches below the knee. Okay. Were you able to get a feel for what color it was, maybe like what length of hair, anything like that? I would say the hair length.

I would say it was like two to three inches. It definitely didn't have like a big droopy fur coat or six inch long hair. And who knows, I mean, that could be due to the food source up here as opposed to other places. But color was probably dark brown. You know, there may have been like some orange or red in there, but really I couldn't see with that moonlight. I mean, it just, I would say they're black or dark brown. them arm Jeremiah like

seriously like them biceps had to be like 35 inches around wow you know bicep and tricep which is just gargantuan

the forearm too you know the forearm I don't know probably 20 inches around at the you know forearm muscle like this thing should literally be able grab a car and like crush it like a soda can.

Did it affect you in any way as you grew up? Did it, would you see it in your dreams or were there any other weird things that would happen to you as you grew up that might be connected to that sighting? Yeah, probably the most poignant, you know, event that ever happened to me. Like I said earlier, you know, there's events that have happened. in your life or on occasion you think of them be like sure that was something else and kind of shake your head but like i said five days a week at least i sit here and reflect back in that account for the last 44 years or whatever and just shake my head like did that really happen to me like you know it's so far-fetched that it's hard to even believe it happened to me myself i mean

it's just surreal. If you were to say, hey, Peter, let me tell you about seeing, you know, the three pig

cartoon characters on the woods. I mean, I'd be like, okay, Jeremiah, whatever. Right. Right.

Have you ever seen anything that even comes close to what you saw that day? Mm-hmm. No. So no representation

of it is even close. I mean, yeah, Bigfoot. That's it. Or, you know, how there's,

like, different versions of it. There's like your Harry and the Henderson's or you know there's the uh the like ones where let's say like from exists or or the Patterson Gimlin film version or any of those even come close to what you saw well i mean not probably quite as cosmetic looking as harry and the henderson's but that would be a pretty good representation of it and really when i think about like some of the emotions like responding to

But when I started telling it, like, I'll never tell anyone I've seen you, and I'm just a kid, and I want to get home. Like, some of his, like, facial expressions were kind of like, oh, really? I didn't realize that. So they, it did have, like, a level of emotion to it, or curiosity at the very least. Oh, so you think maybe, I mean, that could go a few ways.

Maybe he understood you, or perhaps he was just like, what is this little creature making noise now and what's coming out of its mouth? Maybe he was just curious at that. We don't know. Right. Yeah, but regardless, if it was curiosity or empathy or what, I mean, it wasn't just like, you know, one of my cats, which was 100% instinct. Mm-hmm. You know, there was some level of restraint or, you know, apathy or empathy or empathy, you know,

towards me and probably my bawling and I know I often think a lot like I wonder if like shedding them tears saved me that day you know like if I would have been more stoic might I never been heard from again or you analyze it every way almost every day of your entire life and you know try to think back on certain little things that you might have missed and you're overanalyzed parts of it I mean, the fact of it, you know, my encounter was pretty intense. I mean, the thing was 14, 16 feet away from me for 15 minutes. Yeah, not super dramatic, but it was pretty traumatizing. Still is.

I don't think I've ever had a nightmare over it or anything like that, but I'll tell you when I go camping, boy, like, if I hear, a frog move and I'm you know like ooh what is that right yeah that obviously they're they're real and I mean I know that without a doubt so I mean I know they're out there and put it past one and come visit campers you know like they reportedly do did it have an older look to it or a younger look or did you get any feel for the age of it at all to me it looked like it was like what a 40 or 50 year old human would look like

sure like it had like the what I took to be is like beginning crow's feet because I've reflected back on that thousands of times too and then based on like the roughness looking look of the teeth and yeah it looked like it had some seasoning to it and in the Tomahawk area it sounds like you've never heard any other stories of anyone seeing a bigfoot in that area? Not the Bigfoot, but the couple dogman stories I kind of briefly talked about it.

There is also a guy like 25 miles north of Tomahawk, like two decades ago, was driving back from Monaco, which is a resort town, and got to a highway named Highway K and a dogman ran out in front of his car. And he started the Northern Wisconsin Dogman Research Center or something like that. I'm not sure what it is, but it's up there. But other than that, Bigfoot, nope. Like, I'm the only one that I know of. There are sightings like 60 miles northwest of Tomahawk that have been on podcasts, like in Phillips.

But I've never, never heard of any other ones in time. Oh, much. So sometimes we talk about dog man. If it comes up organically, I don't go out and pursue it just because, to be honest, it freaks me out a little bit. But since you brought it up, are these, what kind of interactions were these? Were these, like, pretty wild ones? Okay, yeah. Well, I'll actually just tell it.

Okay. This one-time shot anyway. Sure. when my sister walked up at that cook-up, she said, tell me your Bigfoot story, and I was, like, ready to strangle her. I'm like, you know, like, shut up. She didn't think I'm crazy. And then he looked at me and could see, like, my reluctance. And she goes, oh, don't worry, if you have a Bigfoot encounter, I believe you, because I've had a dog man encounter.

So, come to find out, she starts telling me about her dog man encounter. when you turn on Highway O, and I told you, Highway E goes like 27 miles to the left, Highway O is four, four and a half miles long, there's one road off of that road. That's like a quarter mile dirt road. It's called Bellevue Road. So it's starting to tell me this story, and I go,

where was this? And she said, off of Bellevue. And I said, oh, that's interesting because my big foot encounter was, you know, a quarter mile away from Bellevue Road when I got to that guy's Quonset Hut. The start of it was like two and a half miles down. So I go, well, tell me about your dog, man. Now, again, I'm kind of going just off memory, but she said when they moved out to Bellevue, a neighbor come up to her and said, hey, keep a close eye on.

He was like a nine-year-old. And Anne was like, well, what's up of that? and he went, get into it. He said, just keep an eye on them. We're out in the woods, you know. So she moves in. They get settled in a month or two later. It was pretty early after they had just gotten there,

got dropped off the school bus, and he came flying in the front door, slammed the door and started bawling, and she said, what's wrong? And he told her that a werewolf chased him after the school bus left up the driveway. So she kind of attributed it, you know, to overzealous imagination and just said, oh, well, I'm sorry, honey, you know, like, okay, wear a wolf, whatever. So weeks later, she decided to put in a garden, she rototils the garden, and she said it was close to the woodline.

She started rototil in this area for the new garden she was putting in, and she said she kept smelling like sewer smell. So she's like out there for a week and sometimes she smells it. You know, half the time she does, half time she doesn't. But she started thinking like, my neighbor's septic must be backed up. So whatever, and she just went on with her life. Well, within a day or two, she was doing dishes in the sink and the sink overlooks the backyard. And she said she happened to raise her head and looked on the woodline. She said there was a werewolf standing there.

a dogman. And she said that when she looked up, she could tell that it locked eyes with her. And when that happened, when that eye connection was made, she said it sprung down to its knees and put its hands on the knees

and jumped so high up in the air, she said it had to be 30 feet high up in the air back into the woodline and was just gone. So at that point, she knew that story, her nine-year-

old was true. So she's like, okay, now I'm like super freaked out. And she goes, I feel like a terrible parent because she told me about it. I was just like, yeah, whatever. And now this thing is really out here. So shortly after that incident, they started having it on her roof of her trailer. Then doorknob shaking started tapping on the windows. And she said she literally seen the claws capping on the window, which would be like, tricky terrifying if you ask me. Well, and the doorknob thing happened like every night. So at this point in the story, her ex-husband,

who is like a 60-year-old zizi top beard, you know, biker with the chain wallet and the greasy blue jeans, comes walking up upon her telling me the story. And he goes, yeah, he goes, I thought she was crazy. Like she's talking about there's a werewolf. And David was telling me he's chased by a werewolf. And I'm sitting there thinking like, man, these people have lost their minds.

Like, my kid's crazy. But he's a biker. He's a gun of fishing at all. So she said, we just come out here and spend the weekend. So he said he brought his 12 gauge and like the 357. And now he's telling this story. And he goes, I'll be, we're not sitting there. And he goes, something starts jiggling the door.

And he goes, I'm looking right at the doorknob. And, you know, kind of telling me, like, he thinks it's a prank or, you know, whatever. And he goes, but then I heard it jump up on the roof and start running across the roof. He runs out the back patio, you know, with a 12-gauge, whatever, with probably a flashlight, take to it or something. And he's seen it just leap off the backside of the building. So they got out of there within months of that. But during this time, getting back to that road, Highway E goes 27 miles to the left,

Highway O, four, four and a half miles to the right, a guy named, lived five miles up Highway E from where I turned to go on Highway O. Found out about having a dog man issue, and he had been having a dog man look in their cabin window that him and his dad, you know, shared, still sitting there listening to him. but reaffirmed, you know, that there was something out there, so I'm, like, pretty intrigued at this point. He called her and he said, hey, this thing's been looking in my window, like, every night now, and he said, I'm going to go kill the thing. And next morning, they found car keys and wallet.

Now, keep in mind, this is seven miles out of town now, on the countertop, and was never seen again. It's been, I think, 13 years now. The guns are missing, everything. He just disappeared. They've had one of my buddies owns an insurance company here, and he's taken out scent dogs, cadaver dogs, all over that property. And they went, you know, searching for the body. Like every three years, they go out there with dogs and do, you know, massive searches.

So that's the second part of it. Now, three years ago, a man named... Just got his third drunk driving ticket. This guy was probably 400 pounds, drove a scooter, lived two and a half miles from where my encounter occurred, like nine miles away from where it disappeared 13 years ago, and like five miles away from where he was having her dogman issue. he gets the third drunk driving, gets out of jail, gets a ride home. This guy can barely walk.

He lives like seven miles out of town, 50 yards back on the little gravel driveway with a house with a barn. And to get his mail at the end of the driveway, he parks his pickup right next to the steps of the house and he'll get in that truck, drive the, you know, 30 yards or whatever it is to the mailbox, grabbed the mail, back the truck back up. That's how infirm he is. So he went back home, and then the mailman started noticing the mail was piling up, so he looked into it and called the cops, and the cops went out there.

No sign the card activity. He was on, like, food share. There's no food share activity on his card. Just disappeared without a truck. race. Oh, wow. And who don't? I mean, that's speculative as to me trying to pin that onto a cryptid.

But when you think about it, Jeremiah, like all these four incidents happen within less than 10 miles of each other. And then the last instance I'm going to talk about is in the 70s, a kid that I went to school with, his name was they had a farm out there too, probably another five miles distant and his brother went missing like 40 years ago and they said he was just in the house and next thing we know we couldn't find him anywhere and they were like trying to pin that on thinking he did something to his brother and that kid no one's seen hiding her hair of him for like 40 or 45 years so that's just another five miles away from there so the chance that like

three people would come up missing in that small proximity with no clues whatsoever other than hearsay of like dog man talk is beyond coincidence in my eyes you know what the scary thing's going to be pete is that there's going to be people with more too yeah always happens there's going to be more from this town i guarantee it oh my goodness this is this is really weird But, like, really? Like, Jeremiah, I called a deputy sheriff, like, a year or year and a half ago in Lincoln County here. He was like the homicide guy. And I go, man, are you ready for like a stupid story? And he's like, well, I don't know. You know, what's pertaining to?

So I go, just here, I need you just to hear me out. And I probably told the story twice as fast as I did you, you know, just to get to do a brief synopsis of it or whatever. and gauge his opinion. And when I got done, he literally said, you're crazy. Wow. And I'm like, well, dude, like, there isn't, like, really any homicides up here. So I'm pretty sure you're not that swamp. Like, why don't you open your mind and just kind of look into it?

Yeah. Oh, man. Wow. You said there were, so you definitely a few missing people. and man, I wonder how crazy it gets. I wonder if there's people that have encountered portals, like out in the woods and they walk through something that feels electric, you know, things like that. Or I don't know.

Hmm. Yeah, we'll see what this one goes. Yeah, I don't know neither, but there's certainly, you know, of course I follow, you know, Pilates. Right. You know, missing 411 and other channels and stuff like Bigfoot Society. and Sasquatch Chronicles. That's you, obviously. I'm pretty selective

with what I choose, but like that poured whole thing, like as bizarre as that sounds, it sounds more, you know, palatable all the time because there's obviously something getting people,

you know, maybe nine out of a ten of them will be found 15, 20 years from now, but man, there's still people missing from 100 years ago. you know, that nobody's ever stumbled upon or, you know, came across out in the woods or, you know, like a belt buckling some old leather shoes or something. And so, yeah, I don't know if it's a portal or if it's Bigfoot dog man and they just chew every bone down, you know, it's nothing or what it is. But, like, where do these people's clothes go then? Mm-hmm.

Man, yeah, Lincoln County, Wisconsin, some weird stuff going on. Is Rhinelander in Lincoln County, too? No, that's Oneida, but it's 20 miles away. Yeah, so it's not that far away. No, it's really close. Wow. Oh, man, Pete, I'm so glad that you reached out to me, because this one was, I didn't even reach out to you. You just randomly, you know, filled out the form, and I'm glad you did, because this could really lead to some interesting things.

but I'm glad that you got the opportunity to share what happened to you way back then with your sighting, though. Well, I appreciate telling it to where I know 99 out of 100 people ain't going to say I'm a maniac. Yes, sir. And if anything else, you ever run into anything else or hear anything else strange up there, definitely feel free to reach out and let me know what's going on up there. Like if there's an update or anything like that, I certainly will. And, you know, the last thing I kind of wanted to say is of the thousands of times that I pondered, you know, this sighting and, you know, like how it could live up here. And, you know, like the bare skin and the sparse hair.

I mean, it had a lot of hair, but, you know, like a lot of guys, like have back hair that's, like, out of control. It was kind of more like that. So I don't know if they put on more hair for the winter months or, you know, or what. And there certainly is an abundance of, you know, berries everywhere. There's raspberries and, you know, blackberries and everything. Like anywhere in the woods you'd watch here, there's berries. And certainly loads of deer and, you know, small game. But I don't know, to me, like, it just seems weird that a creature,

granted a bear or deer I mean, yeah, we know about them but that a creature would literally choose to live up in this environment because the winters get pretty brutal here. You know, and what they, I mean, like, the amount of hair I seen on this thing, like it just seems

impossible like it could have stayed warm, you know, in the wintertime. It's just like human skin, you know, just grayer. Mm-hmm. Oh, yeah. Yeah. So I guess that's last thing, my man. All right, Pete. Well, we'll see where this leads. This is a very interesting one. And listeners got some pretty crazy dogman stuff out of it, too. So there you go, guys. But I appreciate you calling in, Pete. Yeah, Jeremiah, I appreciate it letting me. And thank someone for hearing me out. Have a good one. You too.

All right, Bigfoot Society. You've got the privilege of talking to Rick tonight. Rick is a listener from Warren County, Ohio. And, And he's got some interesting things that happened to him earlier. And it's a pleasure to talk to you. Rick, how's it going? It's great. Great weather here in Ohio. Oh, absolutely. Same here in Iowa.

Which is, I mean, last week was a little bit too hot during the state fair. But right now, pretty good. Rick, it's a pleasure to have you on the podcast. I know we've been meaning to talk for a little bit. a time. So I'm going to go ahead and pass things right over to you and yeah, feel free to share what you have experienced. Okay. Well, like a lot of people, they listen to you, your fans. I really got interested in Bigfoot's and UFOs back in the early 70s with the in search of program and the Patterson Gimlin film.

And so, you know, I, like I guess a lot of people back then, I had to go to the library. And so I read books as many as I could. And, you know, I was probably 12, 13 years old at that time. And I was really into it at that age. But, you know, getting into high school and in college and professional life. I, you know, just really, I paid attention to it, but I had other priorities. And never lost interest in it. But with YouTube and the proliferation of videos and podcasts and things like that,

it rekindled that interest. And I've, you know, I listened to this stuff. on a daily basis. I live in an area that was exclusively farmland up to 50, 60 years ago.

It's in the I can say the I-75 corridor between Cincinnati and Dayton. But as time has passed, it's been built up mostly with residential housing and you know there's kind of a 10 mile you know housing belt for brown i 75 just

just because of the transportation and a lot of people here either work in Cincinnati or Dayton so they travel back and forth um i i live on a the last part of my grandfather's farm It's been in the family for about 140 years. And this area, like other areas around here, is being built up with residential housing. But there still remains a lot of wood lots, a lot of farm fields, a lot of water sources, plentiful deer on this particular property I've seen

all kinds of animals and birds plenty of deer, plenty of coyotes, fox but I never really thought you know anything what happened to me could happen in this area so I'll tell you

what happened It was, I'm in the security business now. I spent 16 years in the Army, 14 of that in special operations. And then after that, I was a police officer for 22 years, 17 of that in SWAT operations. And I was predominantly a sniper. So I'm now in my 60s, I'm in security work. So April 13th, get off at 1130, always making home right before midnight.

So I think it was a, I think it was actually about 1158 at night. Driving the driveway, got out of my car like I usually do. And my habit is that I just go to the rear of my car and I just stand and I listen to what's going on in the woods. And, you know, here if I can,

if there is, if there's any animal activity. Well, I was up standing there. I was facing east. And I looked up in the sky and I see something that appears round and has an orange, reddish hue to it.

And I immediately think it must be Mars. But it surprises surprises me because it appears larger than I would expect Mars to appear. And so I don't see any movement. I don't see any change

in the light intensity. I stand there in three, four minutes probably watching this thing. And at the same time, back in the woods, I hear these knocking sounds with an

owl sound. Right. after another. There's like four or five knocks and then an owl call. And this is repeated, I'm going to say five to six times. So after,

and I'm thinking about more about what I'm looking at instead of what I'm hearing. But I thought at the time, I thought, I don't know if any owls or any animals that knock, not around here. So after watching this object, and nothing is changing.

It's not to go inside, but I notice an important detail. And that is, I don't see any stars. I look around the sky. And my view is partially hidden due to mature trees, but I don't see any stars in the sky. I'm inside now. And I'm talking to my fiancé. And I'm telling her what I was seeing

and hearing. And she said, you need to go outside with the binoculars and look at that thing again. I said, yeah, you're right. I do. So I grab the binoculars, go out. It's gone. Nowhere to be seen. And still no stars. So how was I seeing Mars, but there's no stars? So I come back inside, I look on the internet, and I say, okay, where's the position of Mars? Basically, upon my location. I look it up. It tells me a direction. The direction is different than where I saw this object.

I saw this object, due east, and using a horizontal finger technique I learned in the army, it was about 40 degrees above the horizon. It's an outstretched arm with fingers horizontal. Each finger is about 10 degrees. So it was about 40 degrees. Not perfect, but it's good for general. idea um so i come back inside and i'd taken a picture of it and a video of this object um so i enlarge the photo twice and much of my surprise it reveals a object that is generally rectangular in shape

and it has angles and street lines in it. Now, it has this kind of coronal white filaments coming around it, but I think that it is more due to the enlargement process and the type of camera I was using. It was just a cell phone camera. So I can't actually say that white, those white filaments were part of the object. So, you know, come back inside.

start talking about it again with my fiance and and she's very curious she's very interested in this subject too so I decide the next day I'm going to report it to move on

so I do written reports and it I don't hear anything from them okay that's fine with me I don't care but I get to think more about the sounds.

The sounds, I've just never heard anything like that in the woods in Ohio. And I've spent a fair amount of time in the woods, did some hunting, did a lot of camping. Can't call myself an expert on Ohio fauna or flora, but I'm pretty familiar. So I look up if there are any UFO reports.

in my county or possibly Clinton County, which was the direction I was looking. Nothing. I'm thinking, I can't be the only person that saw this, but there are no reports that I see. So, okay. It was about a week later that I'm watching a video. It's a video taken from a Navy, Navy F-18

super horrid flying off the USS Theater Roosevelt back in 2004. This was taken, I think, off to our southeastern coast, somewhere like South Carolina or Florida. And I'm watching this, and

it's from the camera taken by the pilot and I see something that looks really familiar. I'm like, whoa! Let's wind that back. It's like, wind a back started up again. And I freeze it.

And I'm like, oh, my gosh, that looks almost exactly what I saw. I really saw UFO. Never in my wildest imagination, I think I would get out of my car look east and see a UFO. But it happened. So it's time that was by. I really started thinking about the sounds. and so I look up on the owls that live in Ohio because I hear great horned owls all the time

especially in the fall early winter so the ones I can remember screech owl barred owl barn owl hornedow I think there is sawweed owl but I got on hotmail or not hot mail but YouTube and listen to the various owl calls. And what it most closely resembled to me was the bard owl.

Now, as time has gone by, and I've heard witness accounts of their encounters. I've heard barred owl calls or mimicking mention a couple times. And I thought, that's kind of, that's pretty interesting. To me at the time, listening to the actual, the YouTube audio of a barred out, it was very close, but to me in my memory, it didn't, it wasn't exact. I could be wrong.

What also struck me about this, these repetitive sounds, the wood knocking, it, Did not sound like a branch being struck against a tree or anything like that based upon the tone. The consistency of the sound. It sounded more like two machined pieces of wood that were finished. And I immediately thought, okay, could it be like two baseball bats are being struck together? Something like that or clobas, right? You're familiar with the clobber. It's a percussion instrument.

Yes, yep. And it sounded, it had that kind of ringing, that resonance to it, that a branch would not have or a tree wouldn't have. So that got me more curious. And nobody, I thought, I'm looking for alternative explanations. You know, somebody, some percussionist out there hitting, very large clothas or baseball pads together

and I thought no no very unlikely and it would take a percussionist because there was a precision in this the repetitiveness from repetition

to repetition of the sounds it was there's a preciseness of it There was the volume stayed the same. The tone stayed the same. The space between the sounds stayed the same. Now, I wish I had a spectrum analyzer and I could have recorded that and looked at it, you know, that way. But it didn't have one in my back pocket.

So I heard these grouped sounds probably five to six times. And there was no distinct difference in the space between the Knox and the Bard Al call. And that's what I'll call it because I have nothing else to call it. That's what it resembled. So the more I've listened to people talk, the more I've rolled this around in my brain, it made me do a lot of thinking. So then I looked on the BFRO website and, you know, for a sightings map, I looked at the sightings in Ohio and the listings of sightings in the counties.

Much of my surprise, there are, I think, five sightings since 2014 in my county. And these were not necessarily seeing. a big foot, but hearing rocks clacking together, wood knocks, and I know of, I can remember at least one visual. It is a little further south than

where I live, about 10, 15 miles. In those areas, it's significant forest for them to hide. So I made a report to BFRO. Didn't hear from them. It doesn't matter. But so the more I've gone through this process of analyzing this,

I have become more and more convinced that it was a big foot that was making the sense. another line of investigation that I went on was I have heard from people that on the podcast that many times UFOs are sightings are related to or in conjunction with Bigfoot sightings. So I looked up how many, what's what kind of percentage and the number I saw was 30%, which was really surprising to me.

That's a huge number. and even if it was 5%, that number is significant. So, you know, I thought, what's the connection here? Interdimensional being? You know, my mind is just opened up to a variety of things.

Although, there's the rational mind and there's the emotional mind, and I'm trying to separate those two things and, you know, trying to operate on evidence and not let my emotions get to involve with this. So then I began researching what other, are there other cryptids sightings in this area?

And not really. And I found something back in, 1890 or 1882 that was published in the Western Star which in newspaper back then of a some kind of lizard monster that was cited by boys on his littleville it's just north of Waynesville the men of the area chased this thing into a tree and it popped out at the tree at the top it was hollow as a sycamore tree and it scampered away with the local men chasing, it went down a hole and it's never seen again. It was the only sight. But

thinking back to my life around here, my family's been around here a long time, something that I had heard when I was a, just after my senior year in high school, I was working at a Denny's as a dishwasher. And people were, a couple people were talking about some monster that supposedly was living over by Caesar's Creek State Park. And I got me interested. So one night, I was probably July of 1978,

took my girlfriend, she picked me up in her little Mercury Capri. And we went over there, and I really didn't know the roads. We were driving around in the dark, not knowing where we're going. Okay. And so she makes sense. turns she gets stuck she panics she's starting to cry well you know we had to go home i didn't want upset her but i thought maybe thinking back on that that was possibly a potential bigfoot sighting people had seen back in 78 and that and that may be a stretch i don't know um but that in a way

supported the hypothesis that Bigfoot is in this area along with the other sightings which made my experience easier to believe in my view that it was potentially Bigfoot.

I've been out the last three nights sitting outside. I have to work. It's after midnight one on one o'clock or just listening and there's such a cicadas and the crickets. are so glad I can hardly hear anything else.

I heard some alcohol a couple nights ago, but there's nothing at this time. So, you know, that's what I got for you. Did you find those better? I did. And so I'm looking at the outline of both of them is so similar. It's incredible how similar it is. it's definitely like it's got to be the same object

there's no doubt maybe maybe not the same object but the same kind of object exactly now we we have right Patterson Air Force bases it's probably 18 miles north of us

and if they're manmade you know that's that's a potential place where it could have flown to or from I don't know how long it had been there sitting I don't know why I chose that spot you know thinking about the range it was I'm pretty good arranging on land

because it was a sniper but in the air and not knowing the size of the object it's really impossible but it my wild guess would be it was five to eight kilometers away or three to five miles.

And yeah, it's kind of crazy. Nothing for 64 years of my life, and then all of a sudden, boom. The vocalizations, that to me is just as weird as you seeing something in the sky, because you're saying there's a pattern to the wood hits, then what sounds like an owl,

and that pattern of wood hits, and then the owl noise repeated five to six times, you said? Yes. That's weird. Have you heard anything like that before? Well, I mean, usually... Has any of your guests alluded to anything like that before? Not like, not exactly the same,

but I am curious if the owl noise that you heard was there, anything weird about it, like, sounded really, really big or, like, almost like something was trying to do an owl noise, but didn't know what it was doing, and it just felt off when you were listening to it? Well, it wasn't louder than the other sounds. I mean, I'm going to guess at the range, and I was trying to kind of range how far this sounds are coming from. It was off, it was over my left shoulder, and there's a lake.

there over my shoulder about turn 25 yards and it's kind of hilly surrounding this lake so sounds kind of bounce off the hills and it i'm not sure exactly how far away it was but i'm going to guess between 100 and 150 yards um and it sounded like it was on the north side of the lake. And something I want to make clear was the volume of each sound was the same, essentially, that includes the owl call. There was no appreciable difference that it was louder or softer. There was no space difference between each sound. so it led me to believe that

it was two people very much in sync who had rehearsed this or one person very unlikely percussionists who can do an alcohol or a Bigfoot and in hearing about people are saying now that I've heard

that Bigfeet are making this sound, they're imitating owls. And the tree knocks are actually not, they're not actually hitting wood, but they're making it with their mouth and throat. Exactly. Yeah. And that makes sense to me. In this case,

looking at this situation, that makes a lot more sense than any other alternative explanation. Was there anything involved where sometimes people will say like, well,

imagine you hear a normal owl and then it's like a really bad impression of an owl sound. Did it actually sound like a pretty good owl though? Yeah, yeah, it did.

It did. It just didn't sound like the part of owl recording. Exactly. It sounded very much like it, but not exactly. No, that comes down to, you know, my memory.

Did I remember it exactly? I think I looked up those recordings the next day. But they, at the time, they were, they were, you know, just, they stuck in my mind. So I know for certain it was most closely resembling

an out call or a bar now. Yeah, logically, it doesn't make sense that, you know, you have that repeating five to six times, and it just, I can't logically explain that away. I mean, I would be going to the, the weirder option as well if I was involved with that. That's just, that's just a very strange. Yeah.

And we don't have people on those woods. This woodlot that we own in the portion next to us. There's a neighbor zone. There's just not people back there. You know, that doesn't mean that somebody wasn't back there that night. But this is a really an odd place to do that to try to get attention. There are a lot better places.

I go over to Sears Creek, stay park, and do it out near the campgrounds, but wanted to get attention. Not here. Yeah, that whole area that I know I've heard. heard I've heard other big, there's other big foot stuff that happen in that area. And I know there's

UFO stuff. I'm just not a UFO guy, but I know people all the time in that community are talking about the area around Wright Patterson and Dayton and, you know, the other areas that we've been talking about. And I mean, I wouldn't be surprised that you've got weird stuff going on. Do you ever hear any other sounds that just don't really, you know, there's a lot? You know, or at a place or anything else weird? Up until April 13th, I really hadn't been paying attention consistently. Yeah. I, you know, like my habit was, I'd get out of the car, get to the back of the car,

and I'd stay in there for a minute or two and just listen. Didn't hear anything, so I'd just walk in the house. But since then, I've been paying a lot more attention. I actually, I started to do some banging some rocks together three nights ago. Oh, really? Yeah, just to see if I could get any kind of response. Nothing. And, you know, it's so loud back there with the cicadas and the crickets.

Well, it's hard for me to hear anything. I'm probably sure that Bigfoot would have a hard time here and get over all the insect activity. maybe not but I think once we fall comes first frost

something like that maybe and I've also thought about getting some club as baseball bats and just

banging them together and see yeah I mean in response that way I think that's what I'll do after this

all these insects die down it's it's really interesting and it doesn't come up a lot on this show, but the whole connection between UFOs and BigFa, especially

I'm sure you've looked into like the Chestnut Ridge area of Southwest Pennsylvania. Have you ever looked into that? I have not. Oh, that'll really blow your mind. So look into there's a gentleman out

there who has collected a lot of reports to do with UFO and UFOs and Bigfoot's over the years. Stan Gordon. He's got some really interesting books. But there's a ton of things that happen in the southwest part of Pennsylvania in an area called Chestnut Ridge and just a lot of really weird things. Like there'd be a UFO sighting and then a heavy Bigfoot presence a day or so later. And I want to say even there were sightings where they were both seen at the same time.

I think that's a thing. I'm sure people in the comments will let me know if that's right or not. But that's an interest. If you wanted to kind of look into the connection between UFOs and Bigfoot, look up the Chestnut Ridge, Pennsylvania stuff for sure. Okay. I certainly will. The thing about this is everything is connected.

And there's going to be individuals that come out of the, woodwork and they probably are going to say that they've been experiencing the same thing in the same area and that's really when and the fun starts that that will be interesting that will be interesting yeah most you know my plan is i'm just going to uh i've been hearing some sounds over by the lake at night um you know splashing knocking it was it was so muffled that I really couldn't discern what it was

then I'm going to go down there in the woods and at night I'm going to find a spot where I can go sit down and possibly get a visual line on that area and see if I can spot anything and I can hear better but yeah

it'll be interesting to see if other people start speaking up and maybe we'll get some people who show that you have foe on April 13th like I did. It probably would have been in the area of Maysville and a little village of Lytle.

Okay. Cool. Well, Rick, this has been a fun one because it's not one that I usually go into, but it's a good way for me to get some more info in an area that I'm not overly familiar with. but thank you for sharing about that would weird me out too. And I hope people that are listening will reach out to let us know that if they've been experiencing similar things in the, you said, Wainsville, Ohio, Warren County area.

Yeah. Okay. Cool. Well, it's been a pleasure talking to you. Well, my pleasure, Jeremiah. I love your show. Keep up to good work. Thanks for hearing me.

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