August 27, 2025 • 25 mins
Tonight’s guest, Don Widner, has been hunting and tracking Sasquatch for 8 years now, in Western Kentucky. Due to his interest in Sasquatch, he is the founder and president of Western Kentucky Bigfoot and Paranormal Investigations LLC. Don had his first Sasquatch experience 8 years ago, while he was coyote hunting just off Highway 764, in Ohio County, Kentucky. That was his first experience with a Sasquatch, but it wasn’t his last one. We hope you’ll tune in and listen to him share the details of that experience and more. We hope you’ll listen to him do that.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
My name is Don Widener. I was born and raised
in Ohio County, Kentucky. I was selling fifty years old.
I've been hunting sasquatch and tracking them for about eight
years now down in those parts in Western Kentucky, which
I am founding president of Western Tucky Bigfoot and Paranormal
Investigations LLC, where I have all my videos and photos
(00:24):
on it my experiences.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The first time I seen one.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Was probably eight years ago Colodi Hunting and Panther Creek
bottoms down on Highway seven sixty.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Four in Ohio County.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's a shortcut between pleasant Ridge and Whitesville. I had
mayor fifteen my night vision watching this big old cody
come out, and about thirty yards to my right, I
kept hearing something that sounded like a pig grunt. Wasn't
a heck, So I turned around and looked with my
green light, and there it was. It was squatted down
looking at me.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I got up, grabbed my rifle, took off running, and
I waited for a couple of hours because once I
seen it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It was covered in hair.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
It looked like a big gorilla because it squatted down,
but he was black, his skin was black except for
his eyes. I mean, you know, they they were shining.
They shined real bright. He's probably about seven, I'm the
only guesstimated, about seven and a half feet tall, probably
about six foot wide at the shoulders and just mu
it looked like a silver back gorilla, but.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The face and big, wide nose, big forehead.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
But it's almost like their skin is that that colored
ultra black that sucks in like ninety percent of light.
It's it's almost like that their skin in their hair
is almost like ultra black, like it just brings in
the light, it doesn't reflect it. But yeah, he's big enough.
He just it turned around the wall. It scared me,
(01:56):
Like I said, I locked myself in a deer camp
as the first one I ever seen is. I seen it,
but my mind couldn't comprehend what I was looking at. Well,
I was terrified, to be honest, like I said, I
had to wait till day light to come out and
start tracking. But once I started tracking, I started researching,
and then I figured out what it was. And this
(02:17):
still took me a while to actually comprehend what I
had seen that night because I wanted to forget about it,
just be like, no, I probably just you know something,
my mind playing tricks on me. But it was and
it was right there in flesh and blood and it's stunk.
It smelled like raw sewage and wet dog and it
was foul. But it didn't stay once he disappeared, Once
(02:41):
he took off up the heel, the scent went with him.
So if you ever smell something like that, you're thinking
about thirty yards of big male. So he was huge,
handstuck down on his knees. It was kind of odd looking.
It was like he had a little little short, stumpy
legs but massive, scary, like he's the one I had
(03:02):
the green out the green blowing eyes, and that's without
a flashlight reflecting on it was pitch black.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
They're just green.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It almost kind of reminds you if you like, if
you're looking through the woods, your first initial thought would
be like, oh, well, that's just a porch light off
a house, or that's just a street light. But once
you throw your bino's up your binoculars and start zooming
in the eyes except one solid light or separate and
right there they are, it's almost like it's a natural adaption.
(03:36):
Be completely opposite of what we are, you know, want
to look back behind him one time.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Through the trees.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So I looked out the door of the deer camp
looking and I had seen in my eyes. That's what
struck me the most, was the eyes. That's why I
hunted nighttime to get them easier to see. It just
stood up and just took off walking. So after it
got daylight, that's when I started going out and tracked,
and I found his tracks and tracted to an old
(04:04):
swamp which there was a big Indian burial mound there,
and that's where I lost his track sat. But back
then I didn't believe in bigfoot either, but once I
found that, yeah, it just changed my life completely.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Now I'm hunting them all at ten, doing anything and
everything to get out there in the field. So I've
probably spotted I'm gonna say, a good thirty or forty
of them since i've been down in Ohio County. It's
like I said, that's where I'm from, but you knew,
never thought that a bigfoot would be there, but they are.
So I've got video from McClean County, Kentucky. I got
(04:42):
photos of tracks from Ohio County, Kentucky and video from
Ohio County, Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
But I did what I did learn.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
About them game cameras. You won't be able to catch
them on a game camera because it puts out an
infrared light. My belief is that they're on the same
light the visual light spectrum as a cat. They can
detect that infrared light coming off of those cameras because
when I was in my gilly suit Cadi hunting, I
(05:14):
had my gilly suit on and my infrared out and
he could see the infrared, but he couldn't see me
until I raised the bell of my gilly suit and
that's when he realized I was a human and he
took off back towards the swamps. So then Cromwell, Kentucky.
If you look at my website, Westernentucky big Foot and
(05:36):
Paranormal Investigations, LLC, the cover photo is a frio, but
if you look further into the photos you'll see there's
actually thirteen of them. I got lucky when I took
that photo because when you get close to them, they
will take off running or they'll close their eyes and hide.
And the thing about their eyes, they're a ball luminescent.
(06:00):
They glow in the dark. Like a firefly. Why, I
don't know how, I don't know, but I've noticed there's
blue eye colored green, yellow, white, orange, and.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Red, and that's how they hide from you.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I mean, I think they see better that nighttime than
they do in the daytime, the perfect day pax predator.
They're tall, their natural gilli suit and that's like their
living room. And another thing with them, if you look
at them and they see you the weather stay completely
steel or they move real slow because the human eye,
(06:39):
by nature, is designed to pick up fast and heavy,
fast and quick movements, so they're completely opposite. I spotted
one down at the deer camp down Ohio County while
we was down there, probably thirty yards away from me,
hiding behind a tree. He had its arms, its elbows
were sticking straight out, and the only way that I
(07:01):
noticed it whenever the breeze blew, I seen the hair
move and I just happened to look and he was
popping his head real slow around the tree.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Then McLean County, I was down there tracking when I
got photos of the tracks and a video for my
cousin security camera. But I was in McLean County tracking
through the cornfields and one of them had tracked me
all the way back to the house. I went inside
and under I just happened to be looking at the
monitor and you can see it looking through the trees,
and the size to be glowing everything. We measured it
(07:35):
with the tree that he was at. He's about eight
and a half nine feet tall.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But they're quiet.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't understand how you know that's a There's things
I don't know. But there's things I have seen and
things I figured out, and there's some things that I
haven't figured out. I know, well, curious beaculation on my part,
But this time of year, because of the beans in
the field and all the corn, they'll be in your
(08:02):
corn fields and your bean fields anywhere from twelve to
four am, feeding off the corn. Now I'm thinking it's
the breeding season too, because I've heard what sounded like
too big I don't know, too big gorilla is going
at it, screaming, bouncing, breaking trees. I'm thinking it's the
(08:24):
breeding season because you always get you always see them
more out at this time than you do any other
time of the year. Then what other experience that a
bunch of them Cromwell, Kentucky with is looking for arrowheads
and finding them. And that's when I seen those thirteen
that I took a photo of. They was on the
(08:46):
opposite holler or the opposite ridge that I was on.
I just had to look over and I was recording,
you know, the arrow heads and bamb right there they were.
I was lucky when I got that shot on the camera.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, they're I just I don't know how to explain it.
I know, big butt.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I know, we come in when we start talking about
it and people, you know, we get ridiculed and made
fine of which is fine.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You know, that's just part of it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But if you want to find them, Ohio County, Davis County, Kentucky,
McLean County, Kentucky, and Butler County, Kentucky are the four
main counties that I found them in.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Me what else I know?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
There's white ones, brown ones, black ones, red red, reddish
colored ones, kind of like a ranting and they're huge.
I've never seen a baby before, but I found the
baby tracks, which they're on my website too, if you
go to it and look on my photos.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
There's two different little ones that I've tracked.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
One track was no bigger than my hand, and there's
another one probably I don't know, it's probably six inches long.
But I've taken people out hunting now, my team members,
you know, they're I want to start hunting with me.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You know, I can get them trained up. Then as
far as.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Night vision goes, I don't. It just doesn't do any
good to use it because they can spot that coming
a mile away, and I think they like a deer vision.
They can actually see your clothing, the ultra violet light
coming off of your clothing, and they see it coming,
so they just stay away. But whenever you do see one,
(10:28):
it's pretty it's pretty amazing. I mean, it kind of
makes a question everything everything you ever believed, everything is
ever told, Thermal is the way to go always you.
Finally was able to afford a bunch of ATM thermal
monoculars and scopes. So I'm gonna take them out this weekend.
I have an investigation coming up in old and Indiana.
(10:50):
Then once I do that investigation on Saturday night, I
go down back to Kentucky and Ohio County to do it,
which is a three hour trip south, to do another
investigation back through Panther Creek Bottoms. South Fork Bridge is
where we'll start, and that's on Highway seven sixty four
towards Whiteville. We're gonna be down there where me and
(11:13):
the wife is on if any of the team members
are going to go. But I've had reports and videos
and one of them sent me can't remember their names,
but it's on my website again, Western Entucky, Big Potting
Paranormal Investigations. They sent me a video something screaming. They
said their dog was one hundred pounds and something grabbed it,
(11:38):
threw it, threw it like twenty feet away and just
ripped it up. And then they sent me audio and
video of something surrounding them, just screaming. I can't explain
what it really sounded like, but I'll have to look
the video up.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, it didn't sound like no bigfoot, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
They've had reports of joint wolves down there, crossing the
Highway five oh five in Baystown, Centertown, going out towards
Crow's Nose. They've had reports of sasquatch and dog men.
We're still investigating, and we still don't I mean, I
(12:17):
don't know everything about them, but I learned something new
every time I do see them.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And as far as the big wolves and the big
wolves I'm thinking are dog men. Ohio County.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
It's six hundred square miles with only fifty thousand people
living there. So there's parts of Ohio County that have
not even been touched yet or found that I'm thinking. No,
I'm still finding places in Ohio County now, the trees
that are broken where they bend them and break on
(12:49):
My found forty foot oak trees snapped in half and
just scattered everywhere. And it shouldn't be. I've been hunting
since I was three years old. I mean, I've been
known that county like the back of my end. I
know what anomalies are, and those are anomalies. You find
trails inside of small tree lines that go around the
(13:11):
fields that they use for cover. Yeah, they leave The
biggest footprint I found, I think was sixteen sixteen inches
by seven inches or something like that. But it's like
I said, I I took photos of them too, But
I just now figured out that, you know, to start
doing casting of all the footprints that I find. So yeah,
(13:37):
it's it's because it's it's because it's an expensive little
investigation once you start, you know, especially if you have
to pay for everything by yourself. You know, a lot
of hunters like me and everybody else. You know, you
pay for your own equipment when you go out. You know,
you don't have sponsors. You know, you don't have investors
(13:58):
to help with that. So it takes a little bit
to get everything together. Then it takes a little bit
to figure out exactly what you need to find them.
But if you want to find them, like I said,
just drive around Ohio County. You know, we had a
we're trying to get our first annual Bigfoot Festival going
down there as well. Yeah, my experience is with them,
and as long as you act like you're not hunting
(14:20):
them or pay them any attention whatsoever, you'll start seeing
more of them. But they know that you're actively out
there hunting them, they're gonna hide, They're gonna they're gonna
go somewhere. As soon as you walk in the woods,
they're going to disappear. But if you act like you
don't see them, I've had them within thirty yards of me.
You know, you just keep looking through the ground and
(14:41):
just keep walking, kind of shift your phone up every
now and then you'll see their eyes glowing, or at
night time they'll squat down and put their head down
and close their eyes, and you sit there shine them
with a flashlight. It's almost like the light hurts the rise,
which I mean I can see why because of the
like I said, they have better vision at night time
(15:02):
than they do daytime. And I've never really had a
bad encounter with them. Every time I've ever been down
there with them, you can walk right past them. As
long as you act like you're not hunting them or
see them, they feel safe and you can basically do
what you want. But if they know you're actively hunting,
they will leave that area when you come in or
(15:24):
anybody else does.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, anything anytime that we've.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Ever found relics like arrowheads and tomahawks and anything else
that you always find bigfoot side, either footprints or broken trees,
you always find something. You know, the correlation with that,
I'm not sure. I mean, well, I'd have to read
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up on it. I made a few nab a whole friends,
but they just said that they've always been here. You know,
they're the children of the night, like we're the children
of the day. You know, when we go to sleep,
they wake up and do their thing. So, yeah, there's
still a lot to learn. There's still a lot to go,
(16:11):
and we still have a lot of footage together. But
like I said, hopefully this weekend I'll be gonna I'll
go live on my Western Tucky Bigfoot and Paranormal Investigations LLC,
and we'll see what we can't dig up foot prince uh,
broken trees with this old in Indiana. It's not familiar
area to me, so we're gonna have to go in
(16:31):
into the daytime and do some tracking see what we
can't dig up. But Kentucky, that not that Saturday Sunday night,
we'll try to make it to Ohio County, Kentucky, and
we'll be going live on Western Kentucky Bigfoot Paranormal see
if we can't see what we can't kick up down there.
Because it's been about a year since I've been down there,
(16:52):
and nobody else hunts them.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I think me and.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Two or three other men from Ohio County actively track.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Them, considering how uninhabited Ohio County is. At least from
what you said, are there any areas of the county
you refused to go into.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, there's a like I said, down on a highways,
there's a lot of farms out there in Ohio County
a lot of rock faces, cliffs, caves.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
But if you go to uh.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It's the highways seven sixty four in Ohio County. If
a shortcut between pleasant Ridge and Whitesbilt, Kentucky into Davis County,
I call that big put bottoms. You drift through there
anywhere from twelve to four am, they're out in the fields.
You'll just see the blue lights flashing at you, the
red lights, the green ones, and the reverd they're all
(17:47):
in them corn fields because them corn fields be six
what six seven feet tall and they're like three feet
above the corn you know, I mean, yeah's they're there.
Everybody I've taken out out there the same.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
One sounds like a real hotspot for him.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Then, oh yeah, which a lot of people, Like I said,
a lot of people may follow there out there.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
There ain't out there, you know. Then you take them
out there and they're like what is that? You know?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
And then you show them, Yeah, they don't go back
out there. A lot of them go out they'll see
them and don't ever go back out there again. And
then you got the ones that are curious, you know,
once they see it, they want to see more, you know,
so and then they take it upon themselves go out
there and look at them and try to record them.
And which when you try to record one, that's all
(18:35):
you're going to get is that eye shine.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You know, you can't see the outline of the body.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Like I said the photo on my website, I got
lucky because the sun was coming up and they was
headed back to the bed their bedding area, and I
was out there hunting them, and I just having to
look over and I clicked the photo. And as soon
as as soon as they stood up and I clicked
that photo, they took off on me. But there's a
(19:01):
bunch of them out there. And I was saying, U Baystown,
Kentucky out in Cromwell, which is still Ohio County, but
it's on the Ohio County Butler County line where you've
got the Green River running through it. They stay along
that river like a highway. Usual old creek beds coming
up and they get in them old big old hollers
down there. Was there's a bunch of them. Their's place
(19:24):
is in Ohio County. I haven't put steps in, but
I've had reports of like I said, the giant wolves
that people have seen, and Ohio County don't have wolves,
so it could be a possible dog man. Yeah, we're
gonna have to investigate that more. I took a year
off to relax. Now I've ordered me some thermo scopes
(19:47):
and monoculars and time to get back in there.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Go a little deeper.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
What's the main reason behind why you found did Western
Kentucky big footing paranormal investigations? Was it to prove their
existence to the world or for personal reasons?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Now personal land let the world know.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I mean I can tell I can sit there and
talk about them till I'm blue in the face, you know.
But every time I put my videos on there, you know,
i'd put my photos on there. But ninety five percent
of the people that you're going to tell, even if
they see the evidence themselves, they're still going to deny it,
you know. I mean, they're still going to ridicure, ridicule,
(20:32):
you make.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Fun of you. Oh, they're not real, they're not real.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You know, they haven't been out in the field. You know,
they haven't seen what we've seen. They haven't experienced what
we have. You know, a lot of times, just take
it on the chin. And go on, you know, hopefully.
I mean, I don't know how much Black'll take out
of this one. But what needs to happen is one
needs to be brought out and showed to the world
(20:57):
that they are real and that they exist.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, not easy to do, no.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Uh well.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Plus, I mean a lot of times when you see one,
you got about three or four more behind you hiding,
you know, So if you go after that one, you
ain't walking out of those woods. You're just gonna be
another number another statistic. Oh it's a hunting accident, or
this happened, and this happened, you know. I mean, what
(21:24):
are the I mean they what are they going to investigate?
You know what I'm saying, You're just another missing person.
So the lots, like I said, a lot of times,
the alpha male, he'll he's the one they'll draw the
attention of you while the other ones are behind you.
It's almost like they work in distraction. You know, he'll
(21:45):
just track you here with a tree, offer a whoop,
or he'll show youself while the other ones are sneaking
off behind you. Of the safety the females and the
little ones, which I found out out a lot too,
because a lot of my videos are behind my back.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I'm just holding the phone behind me. Now. They like
to sneak up on you.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
But like I said, as long as you act like
you're not hunting them or don't see them, you won't
have no problems out of them. You know a lot
of people that get attacked, you know, they're like right
there on they're having any problems out of them. But yeah,
as long as you act like you're not hunting them
and don't see them, yeah you ain't had no problems.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
You said that one of them tracked your hums A.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, that's in McLean County. I probably tracked that one first. Well,
I got, like I said, I got photos and videos
on there. One of them is a security camera as
at a cousin's house. But yeah, track me all the
way back to the house, I said, I happened to
walk in, kick my boots off, and the everything, put
my equipment up. It's happened to look the monitor and
(22:50):
I've seen it. I'm like, uh uh, yeah, tracked me
all the way in the backyard center just you can
just see its eyes coming in through the trees, moving
up and down, back and forth.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh yeah, it's but you can't see the face and
you can't see the outline of it. Though.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I mean, that's just it because I'm thinking, like I said,
their hair and their skin absorbs most light. That's why
you never catch them on a game camera, when when
you do, it's only their eyeballs. You know, that globe
on them, that's the only thing you'll catch. Now, I've
seen a lot of photos at nighttime off game cameras
and all you see is two big eyeballs.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
How far did you have to track you to track
you home?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
About four or five miles. That was down on East
Harmon's Ferry Road in McLean County.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
There's a bunch of old woods, backer river bottoms and cornfields.
I tracked that one for about four or five miles
to a lost as tracks and I turned around and
came back. That's probably about eight nine o'clock at night.
And I, like I said, once I got came in
to eat track me all the way through to where
(24:01):
he would you could see him on the security camera, which,
like I said, I have that video on my website too.
And I got the two tracks of the Mother and
the Little One, and that's what got me on the
tracks right there. I don't know off as a male
or the female that I was tracking, but there's a
little one or a little baby one there too.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
It's so amazing how they can just track people over
such great distances, even people driving their cars and everything
on the highway. It's just amazing, it really is. Well,
thank you so much for coming on and sharing those
experiences with us, don I really appreciate it, and please
remember if I can ever help you out in the future,
I'll be there for you before we get out of here.
(24:39):
You want to plug your website again?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
It's a Western Kentucky Big Pot and Paranormal Investigations LLC
on Facebook and it's got all my videos of big
put photos of tracks, the creature itself.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, feel afraid to look.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Of course, I'm going to put a link to that
in the description for tonight's show. That'll make it real
easy for the listeners just to click on it and boom,
it'll take them right there. But having said that, thanks
again so much for coming on, and I hope you
have a great night. That's it for another episode of
(25:22):
Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio with Vic Kundiff.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
If you've had a sasquatch encounter and would like to
be a guest on the show. Please go to Bigfoot
eyewitness dot com and submit a report. We'd love to
hear from you. Thanks for listening, Have a great night.
My name is Don Widener. I was born and raised
in Ohio County, Kentucky. I was selling fifty years old.
I've been hunting sasquatch and tracking them for about eight
years now down in those parts in Western Kentucky, which
I am founding president of Western Tucky Bigfoot and Paranormal
Investigations LLC, where I have all my videos and photos
(00:24):
on it my experiences.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
The first time I seen one.
Speaker 1 (00:29):
Was probably eight years ago Colodi Hunting and Panther Creek
bottoms down on Highway seven sixty.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Four in Ohio County.
Speaker 1 (00:39):
It's a shortcut between pleasant Ridge and Whitesville. I had
mayor fifteen my night vision watching this big old cody
come out, and about thirty yards to my right, I
kept hearing something that sounded like a pig grunt. Wasn't
a heck, So I turned around and looked with my
green light, and there it was. It was squatted down
looking at me.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
I got up, grabbed my rifle, took off running, and
I waited for a couple of hours because once I
seen it.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
It was covered in hair.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
It looked like a big gorilla because it squatted down,
but he was black, his skin was black except for
his eyes. I mean, you know, they they were shining.
They shined real bright. He's probably about seven, I'm the
only guesstimated, about seven and a half feet tall, probably
about six foot wide at the shoulders and just mu
it looked like a silver back gorilla, but.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
The face and big, wide nose, big forehead.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
But it's almost like their skin is that that colored
ultra black that sucks in like ninety percent of light.
It's it's almost like that their skin in their hair
is almost like ultra black, like it just brings in
the light, it doesn't reflect it. But yeah, he's big enough.
He just it turned around the wall. It scared me,
(01:56):
Like I said, I locked myself in a deer camp
as the first one I ever seen is. I seen it,
but my mind couldn't comprehend what I was looking at. Well,
I was terrified, to be honest, like I said, I
had to wait till day light to come out and
start tracking. But once I started tracking, I started researching,
and then I figured out what it was. And this
(02:17):
still took me a while to actually comprehend what I
had seen that night because I wanted to forget about it,
just be like, no, I probably just you know something,
my mind playing tricks on me. But it was and
it was right there in flesh and blood and it's stunk.
It smelled like raw sewage and wet dog and it
was foul. But it didn't stay once he disappeared, Once
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he took off up the heel, the scent went with him.
So if you ever smell something like that, you're thinking
about thirty yards of big male. So he was huge,
handstuck down on his knees. It was kind of odd looking.
It was like he had a little little short, stumpy
legs but massive, scary, like he's the one I had
(03:02):
the green out the green blowing eyes, and that's without
a flashlight reflecting on it was pitch black.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
They're just green.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
It almost kind of reminds you if you like, if
you're looking through the woods, your first initial thought would
be like, oh, well, that's just a porch light off
a house, or that's just a street light. But once
you throw your bino's up your binoculars and start zooming
in the eyes except one solid light or separate and
right there they are, it's almost like it's a natural adaption.
(03:36):
Be completely opposite of what we are, you know, want
to look back behind him one time.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Through the trees.
Speaker 1 (03:43):
So I looked out the door of the deer camp
looking and I had seen in my eyes. That's what
struck me the most, was the eyes. That's why I
hunted nighttime to get them easier to see. It just
stood up and just took off walking. So after it
got daylight, that's when I started going out and tracked,
and I found his tracks and tracted to an old
(04:04):
swamp which there was a big Indian burial mound there,
and that's where I lost his track sat. But back
then I didn't believe in bigfoot either, but once I
found that, yeah, it just changed my life completely.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Now I'm hunting them all at ten, doing anything and
everything to get out there in the field. So I've
probably spotted I'm gonna say, a good thirty or forty
of them since i've been down in Ohio County. It's
like I said, that's where I'm from, but you knew,
never thought that a bigfoot would be there, but they are.
So I've got video from McClean County, Kentucky. I got
(04:42):
photos of tracks from Ohio County, Kentucky and video from
Ohio County, Kentucky.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
But I did what I did learn.
Speaker 1 (04:52):
About them game cameras. You won't be able to catch
them on a game camera because it puts out an
infrared light. My belief is that they're on the same
light the visual light spectrum as a cat. They can
detect that infrared light coming off of those cameras because
when I was in my gilly suit Cadi hunting, I
(05:14):
had my gilly suit on and my infrared out and
he could see the infrared, but he couldn't see me
until I raised the bell of my gilly suit and
that's when he realized I was a human and he
took off back towards the swamps. So then Cromwell, Kentucky.
If you look at my website, Westernentucky big Foot and
(05:36):
Paranormal Investigations, LLC, the cover photo is a frio, but
if you look further into the photos you'll see there's
actually thirteen of them. I got lucky when I took
that photo because when you get close to them, they
will take off running or they'll close their eyes and hide.
And the thing about their eyes, they're a ball luminescent.
(06:00):
They glow in the dark. Like a firefly. Why, I
don't know how, I don't know, but I've noticed there's
blue eye colored green, yellow, white, orange, and.
Speaker 2 (06:14):
Red, and that's how they hide from you.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
I mean, I think they see better that nighttime than
they do in the daytime, the perfect day pax predator.
They're tall, their natural gilli suit and that's like their
living room. And another thing with them, if you look
at them and they see you the weather stay completely
steel or they move real slow because the human eye,
(06:39):
by nature, is designed to pick up fast and heavy,
fast and quick movements, so they're completely opposite. I spotted
one down at the deer camp down Ohio County while
we was down there, probably thirty yards away from me,
hiding behind a tree. He had its arms, its elbows
were sticking straight out, and the only way that I
(07:01):
noticed it whenever the breeze blew, I seen the hair
move and I just happened to look and he was
popping his head real slow around the tree.
Speaker 2 (07:10):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (07:12):
Then McLean County, I was down there tracking when I
got photos of the tracks and a video for my
cousin security camera. But I was in McLean County tracking
through the cornfields and one of them had tracked me
all the way back to the house. I went inside
and under I just happened to be looking at the
monitor and you can see it looking through the trees,
and the size to be glowing everything. We measured it
(07:35):
with the tree that he was at. He's about eight
and a half nine feet tall.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
But they're quiet.
Speaker 1 (07:42):
I don't understand how you know that's a There's things
I don't know. But there's things I have seen and
things I figured out, and there's some things that I
haven't figured out. I know, well, curious beaculation on my part,
But this time of year, because of the beans in
the field and all the corn, they'll be in your
(08:02):
corn fields and your bean fields anywhere from twelve to
four am, feeding off the corn. Now I'm thinking it's
the breeding season too, because I've heard what sounded like
too big I don't know, too big gorilla is going
at it, screaming, bouncing, breaking trees. I'm thinking it's the
(08:24):
breeding season because you always get you always see them
more out at this time than you do any other
time of the year. Then what other experience that a
bunch of them Cromwell, Kentucky with is looking for arrowheads
and finding them. And that's when I seen those thirteen
that I took a photo of. They was on the
(08:46):
opposite holler or the opposite ridge that I was on.
I just had to look over and I was recording,
you know, the arrow heads and bamb right there they were.
I was lucky when I got that shot on the camera.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
Yeah, they're I just I don't know how to explain it.
I know, big butt.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
I know, we come in when we start talking about
it and people, you know, we get ridiculed and made
fine of which is fine.
Speaker 2 (09:13):
You know, that's just part of it.
Speaker 1 (09:16):
But if you want to find them, Ohio County, Davis County, Kentucky,
McLean County, Kentucky, and Butler County, Kentucky are the four
main counties that I found them in.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Me what else I know?
Speaker 1 (09:29):
There's white ones, brown ones, black ones, red red, reddish
colored ones, kind of like a ranting and they're huge.
I've never seen a baby before, but I found the
baby tracks, which they're on my website too, if you
go to it and look on my photos.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
There's two different little ones that I've tracked.
Speaker 1 (09:48):
One track was no bigger than my hand, and there's
another one probably I don't know, it's probably six inches long.
But I've taken people out hunting now, my team members,
you know, they're I want to start hunting with me.
Speaker 2 (10:01):
You know, I can get them trained up. Then as
far as.
Speaker 1 (10:05):
Night vision goes, I don't. It just doesn't do any
good to use it because they can spot that coming
a mile away, and I think they like a deer vision.
They can actually see your clothing, the ultra violet light
coming off of your clothing, and they see it coming,
so they just stay away. But whenever you do see one,
(10:28):
it's pretty it's pretty amazing. I mean, it kind of
makes a question everything everything you ever believed, everything is
ever told, Thermal is the way to go always you.
Finally was able to afford a bunch of ATM thermal
monoculars and scopes. So I'm gonna take them out this weekend.
I have an investigation coming up in old and Indiana.
(10:50):
Then once I do that investigation on Saturday night, I
go down back to Kentucky and Ohio County to do it,
which is a three hour trip south, to do another
investigation back through Panther Creek Bottoms. South Fork Bridge is
where we'll start, and that's on Highway seven sixty four
towards Whiteville. We're gonna be down there where me and
(11:13):
the wife is on if any of the team members
are going to go. But I've had reports and videos
and one of them sent me can't remember their names,
but it's on my website again, Western Entucky, Big Potting
Paranormal Investigations. They sent me a video something screaming. They
said their dog was one hundred pounds and something grabbed it,
(11:38):
threw it, threw it like twenty feet away and just
ripped it up. And then they sent me audio and
video of something surrounding them, just screaming. I can't explain
what it really sounded like, but I'll have to look
the video up.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Yeah, it didn't sound like no bigfoot, I mean yeah.
Speaker 1 (11:57):
They've had reports of joint wolves down there, crossing the
Highway five oh five in Baystown, Centertown, going out towards
Crow's Nose. They've had reports of sasquatch and dog men.
We're still investigating, and we still don't I mean, I
(12:17):
don't know everything about them, but I learned something new
every time I do see them.
Speaker 2 (12:22):
And as far as the big wolves and the big
wolves I'm thinking are dog men. Ohio County.
Speaker 1 (12:29):
It's six hundred square miles with only fifty thousand people
living there. So there's parts of Ohio County that have
not even been touched yet or found that I'm thinking. No,
I'm still finding places in Ohio County now, the trees
that are broken where they bend them and break on
(12:49):
My found forty foot oak trees snapped in half and
just scattered everywhere. And it shouldn't be. I've been hunting
since I was three years old. I mean, I've been
known that county like the back of my end. I
know what anomalies are, and those are anomalies. You find
trails inside of small tree lines that go around the
(13:11):
fields that they use for cover. Yeah, they leave The
biggest footprint I found, I think was sixteen sixteen inches
by seven inches or something like that. But it's like
I said, I I took photos of them too, But
I just now figured out that, you know, to start
doing casting of all the footprints that I find. So yeah,
(13:37):
it's it's because it's it's because it's an expensive little
investigation once you start, you know, especially if you have
to pay for everything by yourself. You know, a lot
of hunters like me and everybody else. You know, you
pay for your own equipment when you go out. You know,
you don't have sponsors. You know, you don't have investors
(13:58):
to help with that. So it takes a little bit
to get everything together. Then it takes a little bit
to figure out exactly what you need to find them.
But if you want to find them, like I said,
just drive around Ohio County. You know, we had a
we're trying to get our first annual Bigfoot Festival going
down there as well. Yeah, my experience is with them,
and as long as you act like you're not hunting
(14:20):
them or pay them any attention whatsoever, you'll start seeing
more of them. But they know that you're actively out
there hunting them, they're gonna hide, They're gonna they're gonna
go somewhere. As soon as you walk in the woods,
they're going to disappear. But if you act like you
don't see them, I've had them within thirty yards of me.
You know, you just keep looking through the ground and
(14:41):
just keep walking, kind of shift your phone up every
now and then you'll see their eyes glowing, or at
night time they'll squat down and put their head down
and close their eyes, and you sit there shine them
with a flashlight. It's almost like the light hurts the rise,
which I mean I can see why because of the
like I said, they have better vision at night time
(15:02):
than they do daytime. And I've never really had a
bad encounter with them. Every time I've ever been down
there with them, you can walk right past them. As
long as you act like you're not hunting them or
see them, they feel safe and you can basically do
what you want. But if they know you're actively hunting,
they will leave that area when you come in or
(15:24):
anybody else does.
Speaker 2 (15:26):
Yeah, anything anytime that we've.
Speaker 1 (15:28):
Ever found relics like arrowheads and tomahawks and anything else
that you always find bigfoot side, either footprints or broken trees,
you always find something. You know, the correlation with that,
I'm not sure. I mean, well, I'd have to read
(15:49):
up on it. I made a few nab a whole friends,
but they just said that they've always been here. You know,
they're the children of the night, like we're the children
of the day. You know, when we go to sleep,
they wake up and do their thing. So, yeah, there's
still a lot to learn. There's still a lot to go,
(16:11):
and we still have a lot of footage together. But
like I said, hopefully this weekend I'll be gonna I'll
go live on my Western Tucky Bigfoot and Paranormal Investigations LLC,
and we'll see what we can't dig up foot prince uh,
broken trees with this old in Indiana. It's not familiar
area to me, so we're gonna have to go in
(16:31):
into the daytime and do some tracking see what we
can't dig up. But Kentucky, that not that Saturday Sunday night,
we'll try to make it to Ohio County, Kentucky, and
we'll be going live on Western Kentucky Bigfoot Paranormal see
if we can't see what we can't kick up down there.
Because it's been about a year since I've been down there,
(16:52):
and nobody else hunts them.
Speaker 2 (16:54):
I think me and.
Speaker 1 (16:57):
Two or three other men from Ohio County actively track.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Them, considering how uninhabited Ohio County is. At least from
what you said, are there any areas of the county
you refused to go into.
Speaker 1 (17:12):
Yeah, there's a like I said, down on a highways,
there's a lot of farms out there in Ohio County
a lot of rock faces, cliffs, caves.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
But if you go to uh.
Speaker 1 (17:25):
It's the highways seven sixty four in Ohio County. If
a shortcut between pleasant Ridge and Whitesbilt, Kentucky into Davis County,
I call that big put bottoms. You drift through there
anywhere from twelve to four am, they're out in the fields.
You'll just see the blue lights flashing at you, the
red lights, the green ones, and the reverd they're all
(17:47):
in them corn fields because them corn fields be six
what six seven feet tall and they're like three feet
above the corn you know, I mean, yeah's they're there.
Everybody I've taken out out there the same.
Speaker 3 (18:00):
One sounds like a real hotspot for him.
Speaker 1 (18:03):
Then, oh yeah, which a lot of people, Like I said,
a lot of people may follow there out there.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
There ain't out there, you know. Then you take them
out there and they're like what is that? You know?
Speaker 1 (18:13):
And then you show them, Yeah, they don't go back
out there. A lot of them go out they'll see
them and don't ever go back out there again. And
then you got the ones that are curious, you know,
once they see it, they want to see more, you know,
so and then they take it upon themselves go out
there and look at them and try to record them.
And which when you try to record one, that's all
(18:35):
you're going to get is that eye shine.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
You know, you can't see the outline of the body.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
Like I said the photo on my website, I got
lucky because the sun was coming up and they was
headed back to the bed their bedding area, and I
was out there hunting them, and I just having to
look over and I clicked the photo. And as soon
as as soon as they stood up and I clicked
that photo, they took off on me. But there's a
(19:01):
bunch of them out there. And I was saying, U Baystown,
Kentucky out in Cromwell, which is still Ohio County, but
it's on the Ohio County Butler County line where you've
got the Green River running through it. They stay along
that river like a highway. Usual old creek beds coming
up and they get in them old big old hollers
down there. Was there's a bunch of them. Their's place
(19:24):
is in Ohio County. I haven't put steps in, but
I've had reports of like I said, the giant wolves
that people have seen, and Ohio County don't have wolves,
so it could be a possible dog man. Yeah, we're
gonna have to investigate that more. I took a year
off to relax. Now I've ordered me some thermo scopes
(19:47):
and monoculars and time to get back in there.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Go a little deeper.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
What's the main reason behind why you found did Western
Kentucky big footing paranormal investigations? Was it to prove their
existence to the world or for personal reasons?
Speaker 2 (20:07):
Now personal land let the world know.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
I mean I can tell I can sit there and
talk about them till I'm blue in the face, you know.
But every time I put my videos on there, you know,
i'd put my photos on there. But ninety five percent
of the people that you're going to tell, even if
they see the evidence themselves, they're still going to deny it,
you know. I mean, they're still going to ridicure, ridicule,
(20:32):
you make.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Fun of you. Oh, they're not real, they're not real.
Speaker 1 (20:37):
You know, they haven't been out in the field. You know,
they haven't seen what we've seen. They haven't experienced what
we have. You know, a lot of times, just take
it on the chin. And go on, you know, hopefully.
I mean, I don't know how much Black'll take out
of this one. But what needs to happen is one
needs to be brought out and showed to the world
(20:57):
that they are real and that they exist.
Speaker 3 (21:00):
Yeah, not easy to do, no.
Speaker 2 (21:03):
Uh well.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
Plus, I mean a lot of times when you see one,
you got about three or four more behind you hiding,
you know, So if you go after that one, you
ain't walking out of those woods. You're just gonna be
another number another statistic. Oh it's a hunting accident, or
this happened, and this happened, you know. I mean, what
(21:24):
are the I mean they what are they going to investigate?
You know what I'm saying, You're just another missing person.
So the lots, like I said, a lot of times,
the alpha male, he'll he's the one they'll draw the
attention of you while the other ones are behind you.
It's almost like they work in distraction. You know, he'll
(21:45):
just track you here with a tree, offer a whoop,
or he'll show youself while the other ones are sneaking
off behind you. Of the safety the females and the
little ones, which I found out out a lot too,
because a lot of my videos are behind my back.
Speaker 2 (22:00):
I'm just holding the phone behind me. Now. They like
to sneak up on you.
Speaker 1 (22:07):
But like I said, as long as you act like
you're not hunting them or don't see them, you won't
have no problems out of them. You know a lot
of people that get attacked, you know, they're like right
there on they're having any problems out of them. But yeah,
as long as you act like you're not hunting them
and don't see them, yeah you ain't had no problems.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
You said that one of them tracked your hums A.
Speaker 1 (22:28):
Yeah, that's in McLean County. I probably tracked that one first. Well,
I got, like I said, I got photos and videos
on there. One of them is a security camera as
at a cousin's house. But yeah, track me all the
way back to the house, I said, I happened to
walk in, kick my boots off, and the everything, put
my equipment up. It's happened to look the monitor and
(22:50):
I've seen it. I'm like, uh uh, yeah, tracked me
all the way in the backyard center just you can
just see its eyes coming in through the trees, moving
up and down, back and forth.
Speaker 2 (23:00):
Oh yeah, it's but you can't see the face and
you can't see the outline of it. Though.
Speaker 1 (23:06):
I mean, that's just it because I'm thinking, like I said,
their hair and their skin absorbs most light. That's why
you never catch them on a game camera, when when
you do, it's only their eyeballs. You know, that globe
on them, that's the only thing you'll catch. Now, I've
seen a lot of photos at nighttime off game cameras
and all you see is two big eyeballs.
Speaker 3 (23:28):
How far did you have to track you to track
you home?
Speaker 2 (23:32):
About four or five miles. That was down on East
Harmon's Ferry Road in McLean County.
Speaker 1 (23:40):
There's a bunch of old woods, backer river bottoms and cornfields.
I tracked that one for about four or five miles
to a lost as tracks and I turned around and
came back. That's probably about eight nine o'clock at night.
And I, like I said, once I got came in
to eat track me all the way through to where
(24:01):
he would you could see him on the security camera, which,
like I said, I have that video on my website too.
And I got the two tracks of the Mother and
the Little One, and that's what got me on the
tracks right there. I don't know off as a male
or the female that I was tracking, but there's a
little one or a little baby one there too.
Speaker 3 (24:18):
It's so amazing how they can just track people over
such great distances, even people driving their cars and everything
on the highway. It's just amazing, it really is. Well,
thank you so much for coming on and sharing those
experiences with us, don I really appreciate it, and please
remember if I can ever help you out in the future,
I'll be there for you before we get out of here.
(24:39):
You want to plug your website again?
Speaker 2 (24:42):
Oh yes, sir.
Speaker 1 (24:43):
It's a Western Kentucky Big Pot and Paranormal Investigations LLC
on Facebook and it's got all my videos of big
put photos of tracks, the creature itself.
Speaker 2 (24:58):
Yeah, feel afraid to look.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Of course, I'm going to put a link to that
in the description for tonight's show. That'll make it real
easy for the listeners just to click on it and boom,
it'll take them right there. But having said that, thanks
again so much for coming on, and I hope you
have a great night. That's it for another episode of
(25:22):
Bigfoot Eyewitness Radio with Vic Kundiff.
Speaker 2 (25:26):
If you've had a sasquatch encounter and would like to
be a guest on the show. Please go to Bigfoot
eyewitness dot com and submit a report. We'd love to
hear from you. Thanks for listening, Have a great night.
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