June 17, 2026 • 39 mins
Tonight’s first guest, Josh, had his first Bigfoot sighting around 2002, in Davis County Kentucky. At the time, he was helping his uncle clear a treeline on a property he owned with his bulldozer. The property had a lot of hills and deep ravines, because his property was close to where the Ohio River river bottoms started. Josh and his uncle had been working for some time when, all of a sudden, Josh heard a tremendous roar ring out behind him. The roar was so loud, it was easy to hear over all the noise his uncle’s bulldozer was making. Josh turned to look for the source of the sound and saw animals scattering, so he knew he wasn’t the only one who had heard the roar. Not knowing what to make of it, he turned back and continued watching his uncle operate the bulldozer. About 10 minutes later, Josh felt a creepy feeling coming over him, so he turned around again to see if he could determine what might have been causing that. When he turned to look, his eyes fell upon an old barn that was sitting just inside the tree line and 50 to 60 yards behind him. To his shock, standing in the doorway of the barn was a huge figure, leaning out of the doorway, looking right at Josh. Immediately, Josh told himself that what he was looking at didn’t exist in Kentucky. You could only find Sasquatch in the Pacific Northwest. His eyes told him a different story, however…
Tonight’s second guest, Jason Monk, had his Bigfoot sighting in 1994, about 10 miles south of Samson, Alabama. You see, when he was 16 years old, his step-dad and his uncle used to take him deer hunting in a stand of woods close to the Florida line, just north of the Pea River. When Jason, his step-dad, and uncle went to that stand of woods to scope it out, before season started, they would notice strange things. One day, in December, a few weeks before Jason’s 17th birthday, Jason had fallen asleep in his tree stand. The tree he was in was swaying in the breeze that day. Considering how drowsy Jason was, from being up before the crack of dawn, that just helped an already drowsy kid fall asleep. Jason doesn’t know how long he had been asleep when, all of a sudden, he heard a loud snap, like something was coming through the reeds. When Jason snapped his eyes open, he couldn’t believe what he saw staring at him from about 40 yards away.
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Tonight’s second guest, Jason Monk, had his Bigfoot sighting in 1994, about 10 miles south of Samson, Alabama. You see, when he was 16 years old, his step-dad and his uncle used to take him deer hunting in a stand of woods close to the Florida line, just north of the Pea River. When Jason, his step-dad, and uncle went to that stand of woods to scope it out, before season started, they would notice strange things. One day, in December, a few weeks before Jason’s 17th birthday, Jason had fallen asleep in his tree stand. The tree he was in was swaying in the breeze that day. Considering how drowsy Jason was, from being up before the crack of dawn, that just helped an already drowsy kid fall asleep. Jason doesn’t know how long he had been asleep when, all of a sudden, he heard a loud snap, like something was coming through the reeds. When Jason snapped his eyes open, he couldn’t believe what he saw staring at him from about 40 yards away.
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, you there, thanks for tuning in. You're ready for
another episode of my big foot sighting. All right, then
let's do this.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Seen a bunch of rundown no horse towns, where the
church at the backbone lows and the bow and the
fasting melodies cove in with the bomb man rose, with
the roofs run deep beyond the nose of the busy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Streets, with the songs.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Of the South of su Then when I hear the
promp porch picking down home rhythm bringing out I Don't
Run from Banjung music.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah, if you've had a bigfoot sighting and would like
to be a guest, please go to my Bigfoot sighting
dot com and let me know.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
My big foot sightings started around two thousand and two
in Davis County, Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
My uncle owned.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Quite a bit of property in an area where there
was quite a lot of tall hills, deep ravines, and
it was right an area where that met into the
river bottoms near the Ohio River, so lots of game,
lots of dense woods.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
My uncle was.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Clearing out a treeline in a field and some of
the property right at the edge of the hills, right
off of the river, bottoms, and he had asked me
to come help him, and so my job was to
drive a small tractor with a blade on it, and
he would knock down the trees with a dozer and
(01:51):
scrape them away, and then I would come through with
the blade and pick up the roots and stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And get them out of the way, and rent and repeat.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
So while I was waiting for him to do his part,
I was sitting in the middle of the field, and
I was sitting on the little tractor, had it shut off,
and my uncle's using a very very large bulldozer. He's
got it running full blast. And from behind me there's
(02:22):
a ravine that led up into the hills, and there
was an old, abandoned barn just inside the woodline.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
At the mouth of this ravine.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
And while I was watching my uncle, at one point
I just heard the loudest roaring scream I had ever heard,
and heard it plain as day over the sound of
this bulldozer running full blast, and of course made the
hair stand up on the back of my neck and
gave me chills. And I turned to look because the
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roar had seemed to have come from that ravine out
behind the barn. And when I turned to look. I
happened to notice what looked to be I seen deer, rabbits,
and raccoons, any animals that were up in that area
were fleeing extremely fast, and I thought, Okay, that's kind
(03:20):
of weird, and of course didn't think much else of it,
and then went back to watching my uncle. About probably
ten minutes later, the hair on the back of my
neck stood up again, and I turned to look, and
I could just make out one of the door openings
of the barn, just inside the tree line, and there
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was something there and I could see it. It was
leaning out, it was looking right at me, and he
had his arm out reached up and wrapped around the
beam at the top of the doorway to the barn.
And I kind of had an idea what I was
(04:03):
looking at, but still wasn't sure. I'd watched I think
this was around the time that Monster Quest had started
coming out on Discovery, so I'd been watching it a lot.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
And.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I didn't think this shouldn't be happening. These things aren't here.
This is Kentucky either, and those things are in the
Pacific Northwest. But here was and it was looking at me,
and it was there for fifteen twenty minutes, maybe just watching,
and every now and then i'd turn and look at
it again and it would still be there, and I
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could see it lean out to get a better look,
and go back in and hide a little, and eventually
I just went back to watching my uncle again and
it finally left.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I didn't tell anybody about it.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I did go back a few days later and went
up to the barn, and its was right at the
top of the doorway opening to the barn, and I
could and I remember its arm being up and wrapped
around it kind of steady in itself. And when I
(05:13):
went to check the barn height just to try and
figure out how big this thing was, I'm six foot
three and on my tiptoes, I could barely barely touch
the beam running across the door opening to the barn.
So this thing had to have been eight to eight
and a half feet tall at least, And so I thought,
(05:36):
maybe it's a one off thing. Maybe it didn't, you know,
I didn't think much of it after that. I mean,
it kind of freaked me out a little bit, and
I just kind of forgot about it for a while.
Then around two thousand and seven, me and a close
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friend of mine were there at this back at the
same place. My uncle also ran a construction business, and
so he would haul dirt out of these hills to
using various projects in the area. So he would dig
down so far and he would always hit shale or something.
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So me and my buddy went up to the upper
areas of the property, near the back end, where it
was right into the edge of the woods, digging through
the shell piles looking for fossils and stuff, and we
were throwing stuff over the edge down into a ravine
off the side. And then it was we'd been there
most of the day and about the sun was starting
(06:39):
to set, and my buddy said, al He said, what
did you do that for? He said what?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
He said, why?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Why'd you throw a rock at me? He said, I
didn't do nothing. I said, I didn't throw nothing. And
about that time I got hit in the head with
one and they said we'd been throwing these pieces of
slate over the side down into this ravine, and so
we noticed they were getting thrown back at us.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And so.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
We decided it was time to leave. And it was
about a two to three hundred yard walk back down
to my truck, and once we got back out of
the hills and down along the gravel road that ran
up through there, there was probably a probably a five
or six foot deep ditch next to the road, and
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it had cane and reeds and stuff growing up through
it that you couldn't see anything down in the creek
or anything like that. And so we were walking and
then we realized we were hearing footsteps in the ditch
next to us, So we start moving a little quicker,
and we realized it's pacing us, so we would stop,
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it would stop. We would take a few steps, it
would take a few steps, and finally we got to
where we could see my tre truck, and we were
maybe fifty yards away from it. We took off at
a dead run got to my truck. We're of course
freaking out at this point, and I'm trying to find
my keys and I'm setting on them, and I get
(08:13):
them in the ignition, turn it on, I throw my
high beams on because it was pretty it was starting
to get dark at this point, and my truck was
parked on a culvert where this ditch ran through it.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So as soon as I kicked.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
My high beings on, this thing came out of behind
the reeds, out of the ditch, ran straight out in
front of my truck, and then took off straight up
the side of a very steep hillside quicker. And I'd
seen anything move like that, especially something that big. And
it had to be the same one that i'd seen,
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you know, a few years earlier in the barn.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It had a little more gray on it.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
The one in the barn was more black, but I
could tell it had this sort of a grayish tint
to it. I was probably I think I was probably
fifty or sixty yards away from that one in the barn.
But this one, this time, it was right in front
of my truck. I got a good look at it.
It was shaggy looking but clean, and it had a
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little more gray in it than when i'd seen it before.
And it didn't turn to look at us, but it
took off the muscles in the arms and the legs, and.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I mean, this thing was just built.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
And the way it moved, I can't even explain how
it moved as fast as it did. So we got
out of there, and I'm pretty sure I almost broke
an axle getting over the railroad tracks to get out
of my uncle's farm. Another event I remember, my cousin
and I we had built a fort up on top
(10:02):
of one of these ridges, actually fairly close to my house.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Now.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
My uncle's property where the first two sightings happened was
about three miles from where I lived, and so we
also lived down into the bottoms, and so my cousin's
my cousin was next door, and they were up on
other ridges, and so we had built a pretty large
tree fort up on top of this ridge with two
(10:29):
with a ravine on either side of it. And so
one night we decided, once we had finished it, we
were going to camp out there and stay out there
all night.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
We built a fire, and.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Probably it was probably getting close to midnight, and we
were middle schoolers, so we were telling jokes and cracking
each other up, and at one point my cousin said
something funny to me, and I laughed real hard, and
from down at the bottom of the hill right below us,
we heard the loudest solid whistle either of us had
(11:05):
ever heard our entire lives. It you could I've never
felt a whistle in my chest before.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It was that loud. It had power to it, and.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
At first we thought it was his dad messing with us,
and then we went to check and he was actually
was in bed to sleep, and at that point we
were a little friked out, so we didn't go back
out there for the rest of the night. Didn't know
what it could have been at the time. I think
that was actually before my first sighting on the tractor,
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But as I've learned more and more over the years,
I've gone back and I've actually talked to my cousin
about it, and we agree that it may have possibly
been one of these creatures. Now, over the years, I've
had lots of times where I've been out in the
woods in that same area and I've had rocks thrown
(12:01):
at me, I've found tepee structures, I've had more whistles,
And the weirdest was a really weird, high pitched chittering
noise that I thought it might have been a squirrel
at first, but then the more I listened to it,
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it sounded like monkey gibberish almost, and it was like
bouncing back and forth from like one side of the
woods to the other. And I was out of the
woods at that point when I started hearing it, and
I just got out of there.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
At that point.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Now my uncle's property where it's located. Let's say this.
Once I had started researching the topic more, I had
people found out that I did research this, and they
started contacting me with their stories. And I had one
gentleman call me who was a hunter, and he had
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told me that he had been having issues with something
stealing his deer and he had a stand set up
on one of these high ridges. And what he explained
it to me was he would set up early in
the morning, he would get a good deer would come out,
he would shoot him. The deer would go down, and
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he said, no, sooner than he could climb out of
his stand. He said, this big hairy creature on two
legs would run out, grab the deer, throw it over
its shoulders, and run back off into the woods with it.
And he said it happened to him three times. And
I asked him too, I said, well, why did you
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not take a shot at it? He said, well, looked
too human. And I asked him, okay, so where was
this located at? And he said the name of the
hill where he had his stand on was named Honda Hill. Okay, well,
I have to research this well. That evening I asked
my dad, I said, Dad, have you ever heard of
a place named Honda Hill? And he goes, yeah, that's
(14:08):
the property right next to your uncles. I couldn't believe it.
I'm like, okay, well, that explains a whole lot. Then
there was another woman that reached out to me and
talked about how back in the mid seventies, her and
her sister lived in a house down in the bottoms
in that area, and I think her sister had gotten
up to get a drink of water in the middle
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of the night one time, and she said she just
started screaming, bloody murder. She ran down to see what
it was, and there at the kitchen sink window was
this pair of big red eyes and a hairy face
attached to him, just staring in the window at him.
And I think what freaked him out more was the
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fact that the window, they said, was about ten feet
off the ground. They said the screaming, I guess startled
it and it took off running, they said, back towards
the hills. And then I got more info out of them.
The house they lived in was about a quarter a
mile away from my uncle's property.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
So the area.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Had quite a bit of activity over the years, all
the way back into the seventies.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I also.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Am not too far from Spotsvield, Kentucky, where of course
they had those Spotsfield Monster stuff happened back in the
seventies as well. So the whole region has just covered
with activity all the time. It seems even now I'm
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living on the opposite end of the county. There's more
hills out on this end. Not hardly any bottoms anywhere.
There's few creek bottoms, but lots of woods, lots of hills,
cattle farms like that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Every year, it seems like around.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Late fall, early winter, we can set out on the
porch and we listen, and we can listen for the coyotes.
The coyotes will always start up, but then you'll always
hear something else howling with them.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That just sounds a little off.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
And I mean, to me, that's just that just sells
it for me, that yep, they're they're out there. There's
one of them right there, and we hear it all
the time. And I've even gotten my wife to set
out and listen to it, and she's even agreed with
me that no, that's that's not a cody.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Whatever that is.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
It's it's howling with the coyotes, but it is not
a cody. You can just hear it. There's a lot
more force in it, and it it almost drowns them
out sometimes. Now more recently, around eight to ten months ago,
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me and a good friend of mine went out to
go drive the bottoms. You know, he had taken an
interest in going out, and you know, let's go hunt
for Bigfoot. You know, we'll go drive the river bottoms
and the back roads and see if we see anything.
And we went down in the areas between where I'd
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had my original sightings and where all the Spotsville stuff
had happened back in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So we were it was a.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Lot of open farmland and just a lot of open
flat area with little, little, sparse areas of trees kind
of thrown in. And as we were coming around and
the gravel road was turning back into pavement, I happened
to see a bright yellow pair of eyes that looked
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like they were eight to ten feet up in a
tree that we were heading straight towards. I got my
buddy to look because he was watching out the side
of the truck with my night vision goggles, and as
soon as he turned to look, the eyes closed. But
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the tree they were in, this was probably a forty
to fifty foot tall tree, and the whole tree just
shook violently, and trying to get my phone up, got
the video up, and I think I maybe recorded just
the last little bit of the tree shaking, and then
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it just took off and was gone, and so were
we it we you know, we wanted to see one,
but we didn't want to get quite that close because
we were probably fifteen yards away from it when the
when the whole tree started shaking back and forth.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Another time, at my.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Uncle's place, he had and he had a couple of
lakes there we could fish in a lot.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
And.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
I would go there fishing quite a bit, even before
I had my driver's license. I would walk the three
miles from my house to my uncle's place just to
go fishing. And I went there one day, and this
was after my initial sighting, but before me and my
friend had went there, So two thousand and four or five,
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and I got there to go fishing, and was a
little later in the day, probably probably around five o'clock
or so. It might have been a after school thing.
And I got there and you have to walk The
lake level was above the regular ground level. They had
built a big dam to build this lake, and so
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I had to walk up the dam to get up
to the lake to fish. Well, I walk up and
nothing seems off at first, and I'm just kind of
looking around, trying to figure out which part of the
lake I want to go to and try and see
if I can catch anything. And then I noticed down
at the very far end of it, where it's real shallow,
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what looks like a giant tree stump just sticking up
out of the water that was not there like two
or three days earlier when I was there fishing, and
I'm trying to figure out what it was, and it
starts moving and I figured out it was another bigfoot,
and it was setting down in the water, and I
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watched it because it hadn't seen me yet, and it
was sitting there, and all of a sudden, I see
one of its arms moves real quick under the water
and it comes up and it's got a fish and
it throws it up on the bank, and.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I was just dumbfounded.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
I was just watching this and I guess it finally
realized I was there, saw me, and slowly, like it
so slowly got up out of the water, and it
was such a smooth, fluid movement, it was like it
almost didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Even ripple the water when it got out.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
And it got out, it grabbed the fish that I
had seen it throw, and I guess there was a
one or two more there, and it just scooped them
up in one fluid motion and then took off down
the other side of the dam, but down into the woods.
And I still think it was the same one because
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it had that real black look to it, but with
the little bit of the grayish tint. And that pretty
much brings us up to date with where I am now.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
My big foots happened in nineteen ninety four, about ten
miles south of Samson, Alabama, when I was sixteen years old.
My stepdad and my uncle would take me hunting in
a particular set of woods there close to the Florida line,
just north of the Pea River in Alabama. And I
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didn't get to hunt much during the football season because
I played football, so I just I waited until season
was over, and then then I would go into woods
with them and we would do our thing, and when
I went in to woods for the first time that
that year, I noticed my tree stand was off the
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tree and was laying down beside it. We had a
tropical storm that year, and we naturally thought I'd just
been blown off during the tropical storm, in which it
very well could have. But we were very you know,
we didn't have a lot of money, and my stepdad
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and uncle were carpenters by trade, so we built our
own ladder stands to lean up against the tree. Well,
since my tree, my tree stand was down on the ground,
I looked around and there just happened to be a
holly tree that was laid over against a big white
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oak tree, and I thought it was a perfect blind,
you know, And so I just sat up underneath it
for a couple of weeks until I could build my
own stand. And in that time I killed two deer
out from underneath that that blind and really didn't think
anything of it because it was just natural. Was like, hey,
it's natural cover. It was wonderful. So we started noticing
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things we would hear in We would hear huffs, you know,
real aggressive guttural just like a deer blowing. But it
had more base to it, and it sounded angry, and
we just kind of blew it off, you know, and
kept walking in and we found a couple of footprints
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and they looked like bare human footprints. And in that
part of the woods and the swamp and wetlands, we
were is no person should be back their barefoot. We
didn't think anybody would be back to their barefoot. And
whenever we saw them, naturally, my stepdad and my uncle,
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they're practical guys. They're very practical, and it's just they
seem to not believe in bigfoot. They seem to not
think anything of the such, or that's the way they
portrayed it to me. So they just they just looked
over it. They forgot about it and kept walking. We
(25:00):
found a couple of deer, you know, a few weeks
later on into November and the first part of December,
you know, we found two dead deer a few weeks apart,
not at the same time, but one of them was
mangled pretty badly, and it was it was killed. I
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couldn't understand or explain how it was killed, but it
looked like it was ripped, like instead of a bite
on its neck, you know, like a predator would do
to kill it and then eat at it. It looked
like it was ripped open in the hind quarters the legs.
One of the legs was taken and twisted like it
was trying to twist it off, like something had tried
(25:44):
to take it and just wring it and twist it
off to tear the flesh to get it off. Most
of the deer was there except for the organs. The
organs were all gone. All the soft tissue was gone
out of the body. Well. They attributed that to maybe
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there was a big cat in the area, or maybe
there was a bear we didn't know about. That's why
they told me big cat or bear. I had never
seen any big cat paws there. I knew there were
big cats in the areas. I had seen them, but
they were it was further north north of Sampson. But
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in December, it was a few weeks before my seventeenth birthday.
Late in the evening we would go early in the mornings,
you know, before sunrise. We would hunt until about ten o'clock,
come out, go home, get us somebody to eat, go
back in the woods around one or two, and then
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come out at dark. That was our routine every time
we went in. Well, one day the afternoon we went
in late in the evening. I was up in the
tree and I'd fallen asleep, like I had done many times,
because it was just it was a comfortable day. It
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was a little warm. It wasn't too cold for us.
I mean it was kind of warm, so I was
just comfortable. It wasn't it wasn't uncomfortable, if that makes sense.
I was just sitting there, swaying with the wind back
and forth, and brought myself to sleep. And I don't
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know how long I was asleep, but something startled me
and it was just a snap, just allowed to break,
like something was coming through the reeds. And when I
woke up, it was staring at me. It was about
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about seven seven to ten foot, it was in that range.
It was really tall. I was looking down at it
from about fifteen feet in the air and it was
still tall, and he was just looking at me. He
was about forty yards away, just staring at me. Dark,
really dark colored. He was like a dark oak tree,
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like a muddy oak tree, that kind of dark fur
was kind of looked kind of wet and matted pronounced
brow with a little. The eyes were a little sunken,
not too much, but it had a wide, flat nose.
The body was kind of square is wide at the shoulders,
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but it came it tapered in toward the waist, but
it didn't come in so much that it looked like
a v but it didn't narrow. And I just remember
being scared. That's all I could think of was how
frightening it was. Really scared the crap out of me.
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So the only thing I could think of was it
is either him or me, And I thought that I
really thought he was coming to attack me. So I
picked my rifle up and I pointed it at him.
I aimed for the first shot, and I know I
hit him in the center mass, and after that the
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other five shots, I just kind of cycled my rifle
and pulled the trigger five more shots. When the shots.
When the sound of the shots subsided, it led out
the loudest howl I had ever heard. To me, it
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sounded like a cross between a banshee and a dinosaur.
And later on I heard somebody describe another howl they
had heard. They said it sounded like he had two
vocal chords, and it reminded me that's exactly what mine
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sounded like, because it was it had like the roar
of a dinosaur, but the squeal and screech of a banshee.
So whenever he started this howl this scream, I covered
my ears and closed my eyes and put my head
down and thought, oh my god, he's gonna kill me.
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And when the howl stopped, I opened my eyes and
he was I saw just the back of him as
he was running off into the bushes. He ran off
into the tree line to my left toward the river,
and kept running. My stepdad and my uncle showed up
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probably about ten minutes later, because whenever we any of
us would shoot something, we would wait about ten to
fifteen minutes before we would get down out of our
stands and meet up to try to track whatever we
had shot, or to pick up and drag out whatever
the other had shot. Well, they showed up to me
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and they said, well, where is it? What'd you shoot?
And I told him I just shot a big foot
and they laughed. They just laughed. They shook their head
and laughed, and I asked, did you not hear him scream?
And they thought it was me yelling for them. Somehow,
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this giant creature sounded like a sixteen year old kid
yelling to them. Well, I took him to where he
was standing when I shot. We found the footprints and
we found blood. It wasn't a lot of blood. It
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wasn't pulled up. It was just spots of blood periodically,
like if he would he would have just nicked a
deer and a ran off. As it was, just we
found a few spots here and there, and we followed them.
We tracked them, tracked the blood to the river, which
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was about a quarter of a mile away through the woods.
You know, we had to go into and out of
slews across them. You know, it's just it's just a
swampy area. So it's about the way we had to
take to follow the blood. For us, it was about
a quarter of a mile and whenever we come out
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of the tree line on the river bank, there was
a few tracks in the sand going into the water,
and then no more tracks. They were gone. Now I
don't know if he somehow went up the other side
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of the river. I don't know if he went upriver
or downriver, because he was nowhere to be found by
the time we got to him. So after that, I
would try to talk to him about it periodically and
they would just chuck on and shake their head. And
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it always bothered me as why they would never acknowledge it,
Like I don't know if they thought I couldn't handle
the truth, or if they thought maybe I had accidentally
shot just a very tall man and it had scared me.
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But it's small of a town as Samson is. We
knew everybody, and in that area, we know everybody. And
if there's an eight foot man in Geneva County, we
would know about it because he would have played basketball.
That's just how small those communities are. And I never
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heard anyone else talk about it. I've asked other members
of the family and it was never mentioned to them.
So that's how I got started into this, and I
held on to that story for thirty years. I haven't
told a lot of people about it. I wrote it
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down after it happened so I could keep that memory
and remember it. But I didn't need to because it's
ingrained in me. I can still see it happen, and
I mean sometimes I can still I can still feel
the reverse erration in my chest from the how it
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is how loud it was, and it shakes you. And
when you see something like that and you hear something
like that, you never forget it. And that is actually
what started me on my quest would pop a Squatch
Productions and pop a Squatch Outfitters. I wanted to be
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able to go out and look and try to find
and go out and just find the truth. Now I
just want knowledge. I go now out and look, and
with Papa Squatch Outfitters, you know, whenever we go out
and we do our podcasts on YouTube and stuff, I
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don't take any weapons with me anymore other than knife.
And that's it. It's like, I just want the knowledge.
So we have pop A Squatch Productions on YouTube, Facebook,
on Instagram, we are Instapop Pap and we are on
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TikTok and that's all I got.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Well, that's it for tonight show. If you've had a
big Foot siding and would like to be a guest,
please go to my Bigfoot Siding dot com and let
us know. Thanks for listening, have a great night seeing a.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Bunch of run down, no host towns where the church
is the backbone, Loves and the Bow and the Fasting
melodies coove in that the bombman rosewe the ruse run
deep beyond the nose of the busy streets with the
songs of the southa su Then I'm when I hear
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the promp pot picking down home rhythm, bringing that add
on run from Banjum music. Yeah, the sound of a
memory brings me back to the bluegrass playing the madaddy Jack.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
It's become many.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Bins through it, getting through the tea on scrubs and
Skaggs bucking name bales to this Tennessee jams.
Speaker 8 (37:20):
There's no other way that I do it.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
And I hit the flow boat picking down on rhythm,
bringing out that over run from Banjong music.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
Yeah, something going backwards backwards and double top faking and
the sword and.
Speaker 9 (37:40):
The strumming looking tuk staff. There's nothing in the strumming
out country boy living mom, and I hit the bum
boats pinking rhythm, ringing us that all from from then.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
Of Hysic.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
The city La tras me wild on the two.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Music cars rushing by with the bass on the sterios
to man.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
And I hear the brown bod picking down on them
bringing nuts run from.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Man of music.
Speaker 7 (38:24):
Yeah, something going backwards backwards and double time picking in
the sword and the strumming looking tucky stars because something entstrumming.
Speaker 9 (38:35):
Now, count your boy living mom in and hit a
bum boards picking down rhythm, bringing.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
Us bad on from the mass heavy, something going backwards backwards,
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a double Townking and the soul and the strumming hooking
took stop because something had those strumming now because you're.
Speaker 7 (39:16):
Both living.
Speaker 9 (39:18):
And I hit a potpots picking double.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
And the mad Chicken Batsman.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Mama's very sweet tea kind of
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Sounds that old round
Hey, you there, thanks for tuning in. You're ready for
another episode of my big foot sighting. All right, then
let's do this.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Seen a bunch of rundown no horse towns, where the
church at the backbone lows and the bow and the
fasting melodies cove in with the bomb man rose, with
the roofs run deep beyond the nose of the busy.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Streets, with the songs.
Speaker 2 (00:30):
Of the South of su Then when I hear the
promp porch picking down home rhythm bringing out I Don't
Run from Banjung music.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Yeah, if you've had a bigfoot sighting and would like
to be a guest, please go to my Bigfoot sighting
dot com and let me know.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
My big foot sightings started around two thousand and two
in Davis County, Kentucky.
Speaker 1 (01:05):
My uncle owned.
Speaker 5 (01:08):
Quite a bit of property in an area where there
was quite a lot of tall hills, deep ravines, and
it was right an area where that met into the
river bottoms near the Ohio River, so lots of game,
lots of dense woods.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
My uncle was.
Speaker 5 (01:29):
Clearing out a treeline in a field and some of
the property right at the edge of the hills, right
off of the river, bottoms, and he had asked me
to come help him, and so my job was to
drive a small tractor with a blade on it, and
he would knock down the trees with a dozer and
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scrape them away, and then I would come through with
the blade and pick up the roots and stuff.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
And get them out of the way, and rent and repeat.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
So while I was waiting for him to do his part,
I was sitting in the middle of the field, and
I was sitting on the little tractor, had it shut off,
and my uncle's using a very very large bulldozer. He's
got it running full blast. And from behind me there's
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a ravine that led up into the hills, and there
was an old, abandoned barn just inside the woodline.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
At the mouth of this ravine.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
And while I was watching my uncle, at one point
I just heard the loudest roaring scream I had ever heard,
and heard it plain as day over the sound of
this bulldozer running full blast, and of course made the
hair stand up on the back of my neck and
gave me chills. And I turned to look because the
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roar had seemed to have come from that ravine out
behind the barn. And when I turned to look. I
happened to notice what looked to be I seen deer, rabbits,
and raccoons, any animals that were up in that area
were fleeing extremely fast, and I thought, Okay, that's kind
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of weird, and of course didn't think much else of it,
and then went back to watching my uncle. About probably
ten minutes later, the hair on the back of my
neck stood up again, and I turned to look, and
I could just make out one of the door openings
of the barn, just inside the tree line, and there
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was something there and I could see it. It was
leaning out, it was looking right at me, and he
had his arm out reached up and wrapped around the
beam at the top of the doorway to the barn.
And I kind of had an idea what I was
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looking at, but still wasn't sure. I'd watched I think
this was around the time that Monster Quest had started
coming out on Discovery, so I'd been watching it a lot.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
And.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
I didn't think this shouldn't be happening. These things aren't here.
This is Kentucky either, and those things are in the
Pacific Northwest. But here was and it was looking at me,
and it was there for fifteen twenty minutes, maybe just watching,
and every now and then i'd turn and look at
it again and it would still be there, and I
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could see it lean out to get a better look,
and go back in and hide a little, and eventually
I just went back to watching my uncle again and
it finally left.
Speaker 1 (04:50):
I didn't tell anybody about it.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
I did go back a few days later and went
up to the barn, and its was right at the
top of the doorway opening to the barn, and I
could and I remember its arm being up and wrapped
around it kind of steady in itself. And when I
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went to check the barn height just to try and
figure out how big this thing was, I'm six foot
three and on my tiptoes, I could barely barely touch
the beam running across the door opening to the barn.
So this thing had to have been eight to eight
and a half feet tall at least, And so I thought,
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maybe it's a one off thing. Maybe it didn't, you know,
I didn't think much of it after that. I mean,
it kind of freaked me out a little bit, and
I just kind of forgot about it for a while.
Then around two thousand and seven, me and a close
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friend of mine were there at this back at the
same place. My uncle also ran a construction business, and
so he would haul dirt out of these hills to
using various projects in the area. So he would dig
down so far and he would always hit shale or something.
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So me and my buddy went up to the upper
areas of the property, near the back end, where it
was right into the edge of the woods, digging through
the shell piles looking for fossils and stuff, and we
were throwing stuff over the edge down into a ravine
off the side. And then it was we'd been there
most of the day and about the sun was starting
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to set, and my buddy said, al He said, what
did you do that for? He said what?
Speaker 1 (06:46):
He said, why?
Speaker 5 (06:46):
Why'd you throw a rock at me? He said, I
didn't do nothing. I said, I didn't throw nothing. And
about that time I got hit in the head with
one and they said we'd been throwing these pieces of
slate over the side down into this ravine, and so
we noticed they were getting thrown back at us.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
And so.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
We decided it was time to leave. And it was
about a two to three hundred yard walk back down
to my truck, and once we got back out of
the hills and down along the gravel road that ran
up through there, there was probably a probably a five
or six foot deep ditch next to the road, and
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it had cane and reeds and stuff growing up through
it that you couldn't see anything down in the creek
or anything like that. And so we were walking and
then we realized we were hearing footsteps in the ditch
next to us, So we start moving a little quicker,
and we realized it's pacing us, so we would stop,
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it would stop. We would take a few steps, it
would take a few steps, and finally we got to
where we could see my tre truck, and we were
maybe fifty yards away from it. We took off at
a dead run got to my truck. We're of course
freaking out at this point, and I'm trying to find
my keys and I'm setting on them, and I get
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them in the ignition, turn it on, I throw my
high beams on because it was pretty it was starting
to get dark at this point, and my truck was
parked on a culvert where this ditch ran through it.
Speaker 1 (08:27):
So as soon as I kicked.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
My high beings on, this thing came out of behind
the reeds, out of the ditch, ran straight out in
front of my truck, and then took off straight up
the side of a very steep hillside quicker. And I'd
seen anything move like that, especially something that big. And
it had to be the same one that i'd seen,
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you know, a few years earlier in the barn.
Speaker 1 (08:56):
It had a little more gray on it.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
The one in the barn was more black, but I
could tell it had this sort of a grayish tint
to it. I was probably I think I was probably
fifty or sixty yards away from that one in the barn.
But this one, this time, it was right in front
of my truck. I got a good look at it.
It was shaggy looking but clean, and it had a
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little more gray in it than when i'd seen it before.
And it didn't turn to look at us, but it
took off the muscles in the arms and the legs, and.
Speaker 1 (09:36):
I mean, this thing was just built.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
And the way it moved, I can't even explain how
it moved as fast as it did. So we got
out of there, and I'm pretty sure I almost broke
an axle getting over the railroad tracks to get out
of my uncle's farm. Another event I remember, my cousin
and I we had built a fort up on top
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of one of these ridges, actually fairly close to my house.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
Now.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
My uncle's property where the first two sightings happened was
about three miles from where I lived, and so we
also lived down into the bottoms, and so my cousin's
my cousin was next door, and they were up on
other ridges, and so we had built a pretty large
tree fort up on top of this ridge with two
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with a ravine on either side of it. And so
one night we decided, once we had finished it, we
were going to camp out there and stay out there
all night.
Speaker 1 (10:38):
We built a fire, and.
Speaker 5 (10:42):
Probably it was probably getting close to midnight, and we
were middle schoolers, so we were telling jokes and cracking
each other up, and at one point my cousin said
something funny to me, and I laughed real hard, and
from down at the bottom of the hill right below us,
we heard the loudest solid whistle either of us had
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ever heard our entire lives. It you could I've never
felt a whistle in my chest before.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
It was that loud. It had power to it, and.
Speaker 5 (11:17):
At first we thought it was his dad messing with us,
and then we went to check and he was actually
was in bed to sleep, and at that point we
were a little friked out, so we didn't go back
out there for the rest of the night. Didn't know
what it could have been at the time. I think
that was actually before my first sighting on the tractor,
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But as I've learned more and more over the years,
I've gone back and I've actually talked to my cousin
about it, and we agree that it may have possibly
been one of these creatures. Now, over the years, I've
had lots of times where I've been out in the
woods in that same area and I've had rocks thrown
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at me, I've found tepee structures, I've had more whistles,
And the weirdest was a really weird, high pitched chittering
noise that I thought it might have been a squirrel
at first, but then the more I listened to it,
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it sounded like monkey gibberish almost, and it was like
bouncing back and forth from like one side of the
woods to the other. And I was out of the
woods at that point when I started hearing it, and
I just got out of there.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
At that point.
Speaker 5 (12:40):
Now my uncle's property where it's located. Let's say this.
Once I had started researching the topic more, I had
people found out that I did research this, and they
started contacting me with their stories. And I had one
gentleman call me who was a hunter, and he had
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told me that he had been having issues with something
stealing his deer and he had a stand set up
on one of these high ridges. And what he explained
it to me was he would set up early in
the morning, he would get a good deer would come out,
he would shoot him. The deer would go down, and
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he said, no, sooner than he could climb out of
his stand. He said, this big hairy creature on two
legs would run out, grab the deer, throw it over
its shoulders, and run back off into the woods with it.
And he said it happened to him three times. And
I asked him too, I said, well, why did you
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not take a shot at it? He said, well, looked
too human. And I asked him, okay, so where was
this located at? And he said the name of the
hill where he had his stand on was named Honda Hill. Okay, well,
I have to research this well. That evening I asked
my dad, I said, Dad, have you ever heard of
a place named Honda Hill? And he goes, yeah, that's
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the property right next to your uncles. I couldn't believe it.
I'm like, okay, well, that explains a whole lot. Then
there was another woman that reached out to me and
talked about how back in the mid seventies, her and
her sister lived in a house down in the bottoms
in that area, and I think her sister had gotten
up to get a drink of water in the middle
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of the night one time, and she said she just
started screaming, bloody murder. She ran down to see what
it was, and there at the kitchen sink window was
this pair of big red eyes and a hairy face
attached to him, just staring in the window at him.
And I think what freaked him out more was the
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fact that the window, they said, was about ten feet
off the ground. They said the screaming, I guess startled
it and it took off running, they said, back towards
the hills. And then I got more info out of them.
The house they lived in was about a quarter a
mile away from my uncle's property.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
So the area.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Had quite a bit of activity over the years, all
the way back into the seventies.
Speaker 1 (15:21):
I also.
Speaker 5 (15:23):
Am not too far from Spotsvield, Kentucky, where of course
they had those Spotsfield Monster stuff happened back in the
seventies as well. So the whole region has just covered
with activity all the time. It seems even now I'm
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living on the opposite end of the county. There's more
hills out on this end. Not hardly any bottoms anywhere.
There's few creek bottoms, but lots of woods, lots of hills,
cattle farms like that.
Speaker 1 (16:02):
Every year, it seems like around.
Speaker 5 (16:06):
Late fall, early winter, we can set out on the
porch and we listen, and we can listen for the coyotes.
The coyotes will always start up, but then you'll always
hear something else howling with them.
Speaker 1 (16:20):
That just sounds a little off.
Speaker 5 (16:23):
And I mean, to me, that's just that just sells
it for me, that yep, they're they're out there. There's
one of them right there, and we hear it all
the time. And I've even gotten my wife to set
out and listen to it, and she's even agreed with
me that no, that's that's not a cody.
Speaker 1 (16:43):
Whatever that is.
Speaker 5 (16:44):
It's it's howling with the coyotes, but it is not
a cody. You can just hear it. There's a lot
more force in it, and it it almost drowns them
out sometimes. Now more recently, around eight to ten months ago,
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me and a good friend of mine went out to
go drive the bottoms. You know, he had taken an
interest in going out, and you know, let's go hunt
for Bigfoot. You know, we'll go drive the river bottoms
and the back roads and see if we see anything.
And we went down in the areas between where I'd
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had my original sightings and where all the Spotsville stuff
had happened back in the seventies.
Speaker 1 (17:34):
So we were it was a.
Speaker 5 (17:36):
Lot of open farmland and just a lot of open
flat area with little, little, sparse areas of trees kind
of thrown in. And as we were coming around and
the gravel road was turning back into pavement, I happened
to see a bright yellow pair of eyes that looked
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like they were eight to ten feet up in a
tree that we were heading straight towards. I got my
buddy to look because he was watching out the side
of the truck with my night vision goggles, and as
soon as he turned to look, the eyes closed. But
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the tree they were in, this was probably a forty
to fifty foot tall tree, and the whole tree just
shook violently, and trying to get my phone up, got
the video up, and I think I maybe recorded just
the last little bit of the tree shaking, and then
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it just took off and was gone, and so were
we it we you know, we wanted to see one,
but we didn't want to get quite that close because
we were probably fifteen yards away from it when the
when the whole tree started shaking back and forth.
Speaker 1 (18:56):
Another time, at my.
Speaker 5 (18:58):
Uncle's place, he had and he had a couple of
lakes there we could fish in a lot.
Speaker 6 (19:04):
And.
Speaker 5 (19:05):
I would go there fishing quite a bit, even before
I had my driver's license. I would walk the three
miles from my house to my uncle's place just to
go fishing. And I went there one day, and this
was after my initial sighting, but before me and my
friend had went there, So two thousand and four or five,
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and I got there to go fishing, and was a
little later in the day, probably probably around five o'clock
or so. It might have been a after school thing.
And I got there and you have to walk The
lake level was above the regular ground level. They had
built a big dam to build this lake, and so
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I had to walk up the dam to get up
to the lake to fish. Well, I walk up and
nothing seems off at first, and I'm just kind of
looking around, trying to figure out which part of the
lake I want to go to and try and see
if I can catch anything. And then I noticed down
at the very far end of it, where it's real shallow,
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what looks like a giant tree stump just sticking up
out of the water that was not there like two
or three days earlier when I was there fishing, and
I'm trying to figure out what it was, and it
starts moving and I figured out it was another bigfoot,
and it was setting down in the water, and I
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watched it because it hadn't seen me yet, and it
was sitting there, and all of a sudden, I see
one of its arms moves real quick under the water
and it comes up and it's got a fish and
it throws it up on the bank, and.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
I was just dumbfounded.
Speaker 5 (21:02):
I was just watching this and I guess it finally
realized I was there, saw me, and slowly, like it
so slowly got up out of the water, and it
was such a smooth, fluid movement, it was like it
almost didn't.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
Even ripple the water when it got out.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
And it got out, it grabbed the fish that I
had seen it throw, and I guess there was a
one or two more there, and it just scooped them
up in one fluid motion and then took off down
the other side of the dam, but down into the woods.
And I still think it was the same one because
(21:43):
it had that real black look to it, but with
the little bit of the grayish tint. And that pretty
much brings us up to date with where I am now.
Speaker 6 (21:59):
My big foots happened in nineteen ninety four, about ten
miles south of Samson, Alabama, when I was sixteen years old.
My stepdad and my uncle would take me hunting in
a particular set of woods there close to the Florida line,
just north of the Pea River in Alabama. And I
(22:24):
didn't get to hunt much during the football season because
I played football, so I just I waited until season
was over, and then then I would go into woods
with them and we would do our thing, and when
I went in to woods for the first time that
that year, I noticed my tree stand was off the
(22:47):
tree and was laying down beside it. We had a
tropical storm that year, and we naturally thought I'd just
been blown off during the tropical storm, in which it
very well could have. But we were very you know,
we didn't have a lot of money, and my stepdad
(23:08):
and uncle were carpenters by trade, so we built our
own ladder stands to lean up against the tree. Well,
since my tree, my tree stand was down on the ground,
I looked around and there just happened to be a
holly tree that was laid over against a big white
(23:29):
oak tree, and I thought it was a perfect blind,
you know, And so I just sat up underneath it
for a couple of weeks until I could build my
own stand. And in that time I killed two deer
out from underneath that that blind and really didn't think
anything of it because it was just natural. Was like, hey,
it's natural cover. It was wonderful. So we started noticing
(23:56):
things we would hear in We would hear huffs, you know,
real aggressive guttural just like a deer blowing. But it
had more base to it, and it sounded angry, and
we just kind of blew it off, you know, and
kept walking in and we found a couple of footprints
(24:18):
and they looked like bare human footprints. And in that
part of the woods and the swamp and wetlands, we
were is no person should be back their barefoot. We
didn't think anybody would be back to their barefoot. And
whenever we saw them, naturally, my stepdad and my uncle,
(24:39):
they're practical guys. They're very practical, and it's just they
seem to not believe in bigfoot. They seem to not
think anything of the such, or that's the way they
portrayed it to me. So they just they just looked
over it. They forgot about it and kept walking. We
(25:00):
found a couple of deer, you know, a few weeks
later on into November and the first part of December,
you know, we found two dead deer a few weeks apart,
not at the same time, but one of them was
mangled pretty badly, and it was it was killed. I
(25:21):
couldn't understand or explain how it was killed, but it
looked like it was ripped, like instead of a bite
on its neck, you know, like a predator would do
to kill it and then eat at it. It looked
like it was ripped open in the hind quarters the legs.
One of the legs was taken and twisted like it
was trying to twist it off, like something had tried
(25:44):
to take it and just wring it and twist it
off to tear the flesh to get it off. Most
of the deer was there except for the organs. The
organs were all gone. All the soft tissue was gone
out of the body. Well. They attributed that to maybe
(26:07):
there was a big cat in the area, or maybe
there was a bear we didn't know about. That's why
they told me big cat or bear. I had never
seen any big cat paws there. I knew there were
big cats in the areas. I had seen them, but
they were it was further north north of Sampson. But
(26:31):
in December, it was a few weeks before my seventeenth birthday.
Late in the evening we would go early in the mornings,
you know, before sunrise. We would hunt until about ten o'clock,
come out, go home, get us somebody to eat, go
back in the woods around one or two, and then
(26:53):
come out at dark. That was our routine every time
we went in. Well, one day the afternoon we went
in late in the evening. I was up in the
tree and I'd fallen asleep, like I had done many times,
because it was just it was a comfortable day. It
(27:14):
was a little warm. It wasn't too cold for us.
I mean it was kind of warm, so I was
just comfortable. It wasn't it wasn't uncomfortable, if that makes sense.
I was just sitting there, swaying with the wind back
and forth, and brought myself to sleep. And I don't
(27:35):
know how long I was asleep, but something startled me
and it was just a snap, just allowed to break,
like something was coming through the reeds. And when I
woke up, it was staring at me. It was about
(27:56):
about seven seven to ten foot, it was in that range.
It was really tall. I was looking down at it
from about fifteen feet in the air and it was
still tall, and he was just looking at me. He
was about forty yards away, just staring at me. Dark,
really dark colored. He was like a dark oak tree,
(28:19):
like a muddy oak tree, that kind of dark fur
was kind of looked kind of wet and matted pronounced
brow with a little. The eyes were a little sunken,
not too much, but it had a wide, flat nose.
The body was kind of square is wide at the shoulders,
(28:42):
but it came it tapered in toward the waist, but
it didn't come in so much that it looked like
a v but it didn't narrow. And I just remember
being scared. That's all I could think of was how
frightening it was. Really scared the crap out of me.
(29:03):
So the only thing I could think of was it
is either him or me, And I thought that I
really thought he was coming to attack me. So I
picked my rifle up and I pointed it at him.
I aimed for the first shot, and I know I
hit him in the center mass, and after that the
(29:26):
other five shots, I just kind of cycled my rifle
and pulled the trigger five more shots. When the shots.
When the sound of the shots subsided, it led out
the loudest howl I had ever heard. To me, it
(29:53):
sounded like a cross between a banshee and a dinosaur.
And later on I heard somebody describe another howl they
had heard. They said it sounded like he had two
vocal chords, and it reminded me that's exactly what mine
(30:13):
sounded like, because it was it had like the roar
of a dinosaur, but the squeal and screech of a banshee.
So whenever he started this howl this scream, I covered
my ears and closed my eyes and put my head
down and thought, oh my god, he's gonna kill me.
(30:38):
And when the howl stopped, I opened my eyes and
he was I saw just the back of him as
he was running off into the bushes. He ran off
into the tree line to my left toward the river,
and kept running. My stepdad and my uncle showed up
(31:02):
probably about ten minutes later, because whenever we any of
us would shoot something, we would wait about ten to
fifteen minutes before we would get down out of our
stands and meet up to try to track whatever we
had shot, or to pick up and drag out whatever
the other had shot. Well, they showed up to me
(31:27):
and they said, well, where is it? What'd you shoot?
And I told him I just shot a big foot
and they laughed. They just laughed. They shook their head
and laughed, and I asked, did you not hear him scream?
And they thought it was me yelling for them. Somehow,
(31:51):
this giant creature sounded like a sixteen year old kid
yelling to them. Well, I took him to where he
was standing when I shot. We found the footprints and
we found blood. It wasn't a lot of blood. It
(32:13):
wasn't pulled up. It was just spots of blood periodically,
like if he would he would have just nicked a
deer and a ran off. As it was, just we
found a few spots here and there, and we followed them.
We tracked them, tracked the blood to the river, which
(32:34):
was about a quarter of a mile away through the woods.
You know, we had to go into and out of
slews across them. You know, it's just it's just a
swampy area. So it's about the way we had to
take to follow the blood. For us, it was about
a quarter of a mile and whenever we come out
(32:55):
of the tree line on the river bank, there was
a few tracks in the sand going into the water,
and then no more tracks. They were gone. Now I
don't know if he somehow went up the other side
(33:16):
of the river. I don't know if he went upriver
or downriver, because he was nowhere to be found by
the time we got to him. So after that, I
would try to talk to him about it periodically and
they would just chuck on and shake their head. And
(33:37):
it always bothered me as why they would never acknowledge it,
Like I don't know if they thought I couldn't handle
the truth, or if they thought maybe I had accidentally
shot just a very tall man and it had scared me.
(33:58):
But it's small of a town as Samson is. We
knew everybody, and in that area, we know everybody. And
if there's an eight foot man in Geneva County, we
would know about it because he would have played basketball.
That's just how small those communities are. And I never
(34:18):
heard anyone else talk about it. I've asked other members
of the family and it was never mentioned to them.
So that's how I got started into this, and I
held on to that story for thirty years. I haven't
told a lot of people about it. I wrote it
(34:39):
down after it happened so I could keep that memory
and remember it. But I didn't need to because it's
ingrained in me. I can still see it happen, and
I mean sometimes I can still I can still feel
the reverse erration in my chest from the how it
(35:03):
is how loud it was, and it shakes you. And
when you see something like that and you hear something
like that, you never forget it. And that is actually
what started me on my quest would pop a Squatch
Productions and pop a Squatch Outfitters. I wanted to be
(35:26):
able to go out and look and try to find
and go out and just find the truth. Now I
just want knowledge. I go now out and look, and
with Papa Squatch Outfitters, you know, whenever we go out
and we do our podcasts on YouTube and stuff, I
(35:46):
don't take any weapons with me anymore other than knife.
And that's it. It's like, I just want the knowledge.
So we have pop A Squatch Productions on YouTube, Facebook,
on Instagram, we are Instapop Pap and we are on
(36:11):
TikTok and that's all I got.
Speaker 3 (36:17):
Well, that's it for tonight show. If you've had a
big Foot siding and would like to be a guest,
please go to my Bigfoot Siding dot com and let
us know. Thanks for listening, have a great night seeing a.
Speaker 2 (36:28):
Bunch of run down, no host towns where the church
is the backbone, Loves and the Bow and the Fasting
melodies coove in that the bombman rosewe the ruse run
deep beyond the nose of the busy streets with the
songs of the southa su Then I'm when I hear
(36:50):
the promp pot picking down home rhythm, bringing that add
on run from Banjum music. Yeah, the sound of a
memory brings me back to the bluegrass playing the madaddy Jack.
Speaker 4 (37:09):
It's become many.
Speaker 7 (37:10):
Bins through it, getting through the tea on scrubs and
Skaggs bucking name bales to this Tennessee jams.
Speaker 8 (37:20):
There's no other way that I do it.
Speaker 2 (37:24):
And I hit the flow boat picking down on rhythm,
bringing out that over run from Banjong music.
Speaker 7 (37:33):
Yeah, something going backwards backwards and double top faking and
the sword and.
Speaker 9 (37:40):
The strumming looking tuk staff. There's nothing in the strumming
out country boy living mom, and I hit the bum
boats pinking rhythm, ringing us that all from from then.
Speaker 8 (37:53):
Of Hysic.
Speaker 6 (38:05):
The city La tras me wild on the two.
Speaker 2 (38:09):
Music cars rushing by with the bass on the sterios
to man.
Speaker 9 (38:16):
And I hear the brown bod picking down on them
bringing nuts run from.
Speaker 6 (38:21):
Man of music.
Speaker 7 (38:24):
Yeah, something going backwards backwards and double time picking in
the sword and the strumming looking tucky stars because something entstrumming.
Speaker 9 (38:35):
Now, count your boy living mom in and hit a
bum boards picking down rhythm, bringing.
Speaker 8 (38:42):
Us bad on from the mass heavy, something going backwards backwards,
(39:10):
a double Townking and the soul and the strumming hooking
took stop because something had those strumming now because you're.
Speaker 7 (39:16):
Both living.
Speaker 9 (39:18):
And I hit a potpots picking double.
Speaker 2 (39:21):
And the mad Chicken Batsman.
Speaker 6 (39:23):
Mama's very sweet tea kind of
Speaker 4 (39:24):
Sounds that old round
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