Southern West Virginia Bigfoot Sightings - My Bigfoot Sighting Episode 186

Tonight’s guests, Danny Buckner and Mary Buckner, live in Southern West Virgina and like to go out looking for Sasquatch. Danny had his first sighting last year and on tonight’s show, he’s going to share the details of that sighting and several other encounters that he’s had, as well as encounters other have had, in Southern West Virginia, that they’ve shared with him.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
Hey, you there, thanks for tuning in. You're ready for
another episode of my big Foot sighting? Right, then, let's
do this.

Speaker 2 (00:11):
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the church at the backbone, ls and the bow and
the pasting melodies, cove in with the bomb man rose
with the roofs, run deep beyond the nose of the
busy streets, with the songs of the South of su

(00:32):
Then when I hear the prompt poort picking down home
rhythm bringing out I Don't Run from Benjum music. Yeah.

Speaker 1 (00:52):
My big Foot sightings began last year, approximately the last
part of twenty three, twenty three. I had saw a
post on Facebook about it was a big foot Facebook page.
And before I get started onto that, I like to

(01:13):
introduce myself. My name Danny Buckner. This is my wife,
Mary Buckner. We live here in southern part of West Virginia.
We both are paranormal investigators. We like to ghost hunt
and we like to do a little sasquatch hunting, sasquatch looking,

(01:35):
I guess you could say investigate. We've done several ghost
tours here in our area and we've got a few
things that we've done locally and then, like I started
to say, a minute ago, I posted on Facebook, has

(01:58):
anybody seen or heard anything bigfoot or sasquatch wise in
southern West Virginia And immediately I got like eleven or
twelve responses, people wanting to know where, who, why, just
asking questions if I had seen anything, telling me their stories.

(02:22):
And then I found another Facebook page and people were
recommended me to watch podcasts videos. I started out watching
small town Monsters and started meeting people that was on there.
My best friend in this is less Odell and Beth Duncan.

(02:47):
I want to thank both of them, and I also
want to thank my wife Mary for doing what we do.
And less was on a couple of the podcasts and
Beth was on a couple other podcasts. Less is a
paranormal investigator. He's a bigfoot investigator also up in the

(03:08):
northern part of the state, up near the town called Fairmont.
And Beth has a farm just south of here, which
happens to be where I had my first sighting. I
had gotten contact with her and went down to the
farm to visit and to look around. I had never

(03:33):
done anything like this before, being out anywhere like this,
doing any kind of investigating looking for the so called Bigfoot.
And as matter of fact, my wife was kind of
upset with me because she didn't fully understand and like
what I was doing by myself. I was doing it

(03:53):
by myself. And that's another reason why I appreciate and
I love her so much. I was down on the
farm and I got some of her family to walk
me around the farm, and they've not only got Bigfoot sightings,
but they have UFO sightings, ORB sightings, ghost sightings. There's

(04:19):
a family cemetery, there's an Indian burial ground somewhere on
the property. And that afternoon, after I finished up, I
set up a little camp kind of in the middle
of the farm on a power line, which in this area,

(04:41):
the way the hills and the mountains run, power lines
run up and down the hills and they clearcut the
power line so that the lines can go through them
and no trees can fall over on them. So I
walked around and for a little bit to get a
look at the area. And the only thing I had

(05:02):
was my chant and a cot and my truck, and
I just walked around, looked around a little bit, went
down to the cemetery, did a few EVPs, checked out
a few of my devices. It was real foggy, rainy,
cloudy that night. That evening that day was nasty. It

(05:26):
was one of those July days that was a surprise
because usually in July around here it's in the nineties.
That day it was only in the seventies, and it
was real rainy. On July the twentieth, which is today
that I'm talking about. That evening, I decided I was

(05:48):
going to take a nap about seven o'clock, and when
I laid down on my cot it was still rainy
and kind of cloudy, and the temperature was kind of
dropping a little bit. And I just laid there for
a little bit a couple hours and slept, got up,
drove around the farm and got some more EVPs and

(06:13):
a few more things at the family cemetery, and I
walked around some of the area of the farm, some
of the fields, and went back up to the tent
and I was like, well, I could only see about
twenty feet up into the sky. It was so cloudy

(06:34):
and foggy. Said well, I'll just go ahead and lay
back down for a little bit and then I'll get
up and I'll go around the farm. A little bit
more later, approximately two o'clock that morning, I was laying
there asleep, and just for some reason, I woke up,

(06:57):
and as I looked straight up, I noticed that all
the windows were still open on my tents, and I
had had my raincoat on. I could see something out
the window of the tent and it was looking at me.
And my tin is about seven foot tall and this
thing was about seven and a half eight foot tall.

(07:21):
I knew exactly what it was. It was black skins,
reddish colored hair, It had yellow eyes, and as I
was looking at it, it was looking at me, real peaceful, somber,
just staring at me, like checking on me to see
if I was okay. And my wife said that I

(07:45):
was probably snoring when I had went to sleep, because
I had went right to sleep as soon as I
laid my head on a pillow, and I kind of
shook my head a little bit, blink my eyes and
opened up my eyes, and it was gone. It was

(08:09):
like there was nothing there. And I kind of raised
up a little bit and looked around into the tent
and I could see out the windows and I didn't
see anything, and I thought, well, I'm dreaming I've got
to be dreaming, because something was looking at me and
watching me sleep. And the next morning I got up,

(08:36):
I was going to get back up and go do
some more investigating, and I guess I had just went
back to sleep. At about six o'clock, I woke up,
and instead of getting up and doing stuff around where
I had the tents set up and getting in the
truck or walking around the farm, I walked around the
tent and started looking around. I don't know why I

(09:00):
did that. I just got up, walked around a tent
and was looking around. And the tent was setting against
a gravel pile, and right behind the gravel pile, it
was just a little slope up a little about five
feet higher than where my tent was setting. And earlier
that day I had put a jar of peanut butter

(09:22):
and a game camera, and I thought, well, you know,
i'll take a look at them. And I looked at them,
and a squirrel had gotten into my peanut butter. You
could see the little claw marks. And I took the
camera and just left it alone. And I got back
down to the chench and I was looking around. I

(09:44):
didn't see any footprints. I didn't see any tracks, and
I got in my truck and started walking around, went
down to the bottom of the hill and started walking
around the farm. It was still rainy, but the sun
was up. I was walking around the ponds that they've got.
I was walking around the old timey spring coming out

(10:07):
of the mountain, checking things out, and I was noticing
some trees were broke over, which happens to be a
lot of people say there is a sign that there
are sasquatch in the area. And I noticed there was
a tennis racket hanging on one of the trees, and

(10:29):
I took a picture of it. And this whole time
I was taking pictures of different things that I could see,
and what I thought was footprinting mud, Like I said,
this is the first time I'd ever been out doing
anything like this. And I got done and went down
to the house and started talking to Beth's brother Roy,

(10:55):
and she was sick so she didn't get to come out,
and I told him i'd taken some pictures, and I
left my camera up there and I was still, and
I didn't say nothing about what I thought I saw.
But she had seen multiple times this sasquatch, and she

(11:17):
had seen him so much. She caught him Waldo and
she would go into the woods and she'd say, hey, Waldo,
where's Waldo? Where's my Waldo at? So the next weekend
I asked her if I could come back down and
get my camera and my voice recorder which was hanging
by the peanut butter. She said, yeah, come on down.

(11:38):
So we walked around the farm. She was showing me
some more stuff around the farm, the different parts of
the property. It was a real, super super nice day.
The sun was out. It was in the eighties, and
we was walking around checking things out, and I was
talking to her about some of the pictures and I
showed her the picture of the tennis tracket. I said,

(11:59):
what abot got this tennis racket? I took a picture
of She said what tennis racket? And I showed her
and she goes, oh my. She said that was in
my outbuilding. And I got talking to her about it,
and she said that she would leave things for it
in various places. It would bring things to her house,

(12:22):
turkey feathers, branches, acorns, set rocks on her sidewalk. And
we went over and I took her and showed her
the tennis racket. And that was ju live last year,
and that I know of, it's still hanging there. She
hasn't moved it. So we went up and I showed

(12:44):
her how I had my tent laid out, and before
we got to where the tent was, she noticed there
was two sticks laying in the gravel. And a lot
of people know this. A lot of people have heard
of this. I've heard of it, and I've had people
tell me about it. The uh sasquatch or bigfoot. If

(13:09):
they like you, if they want to be friends with you,
if they welcome you into their area, they will leave
a forked stick, kind of like something that you ROAs
hot dogs or marshmallows. And there was two and they
were about the size of a small cigar and they
were about two foot long. One was laying about a

(13:35):
foot behind where my tent was, and it's about where
this thing was standing. The other one was laying about
seven or eight or about ten feet in front of
the other one, about where the door of the tent was.
And I didn't realize what she was talking about. And
she said, hey, she said, you know what that is?
And I said, well, I've heard of fork sticks, and

(13:56):
what it means. She said, it likes you, it cares
about you. And we got to looking around, and about
fifteen feet away there was a patch of grass behind
some BlackBerry bushes. This little patch of grass was about
fifteen by fifteen and the grass was about four foot high,

(14:18):
and about a four foot area in that little patch
was trump down and she yelled at me, she said, hey,
come here and look at this. And we got to
looking at it and compared the way it was trumped.
This squadch or thing whatever it was, which to me,

(14:41):
I believe what I believe was standing there watching me
all evening. It knew who I was, It knew that
I was friendly. It knew that I didn't come there
to hurt Bath or Roy or the kids, and it

(15:03):
knew that I didn't come to hurt it. And I
looked around some more and all we could find was
the sticks and the grass, and we decided that that's
what it was. It heard me snoring, walked over to
the tent to check on me, and I guess it

(15:25):
realized I was awake, and it just stepped back, stepped away. Well.
We walked up to where I had the camera and
the peanut butter jar and I had a couple of
little treats and a couple of toys, hopefully trying to
catch a glimpse or something of anything really, and come

(15:50):
to find out, I didn't have the camera turned on,
and the peanut butter jar, like I said earlier, was
plummeted with squirrel scratches. The squirrels had gotten into my
peanut butter jar, and two little snackcakes were gone that

(16:10):
I had left, and the toys hadn't been touched. But
that was my first try with a trail camera and
I did not have it turned on. Well, we looked
around the farm some more and found another place that
I could possibly put one. Well, I wanted to make

(16:30):
sure that I treated it, you know, turned it on
or whatever, So I brought everything home with me after
I had left, and I just decided a couple days
later I would call a friend of mine, less Odell,
Like I said, he's a very very good friend of mine,
and he's a good bigfoot investigator and a paranormal investigator,

(16:53):
and he's been doing it for about ten twelve years.
And I asked him, I said, Les, what do you think?
And I told him the story. He said, I think
you might have might have had an experience. You don't
really realize what you got there, but I think you've

(17:14):
had an experience. And that's when I realized. I was
putting pieces together while I was telling him this that
I actually did have a encounter with a bigfoot, and
the way I figured it out, it was about four
feet from me and was watching me. Then Mary and I,

(17:40):
I took her with me a couple times to the
farm and to Twin Falls State Park. We go down
there and put out voice recorders. I've tried a few
trail cameras, and the trail cameras haven't picked up anything.
I've gone down there and taking pictures of tree structures,

(18:03):
which a lot of people know that tree structures are
made by something. I keep an open mind about anything
like this because until I see myself what makes something
or does something, and then I'll know exactly what it is.
But tree structures are generally seen in the areas where

(18:26):
Stasquatch activity is. There was one down there that had
rocks laid on It was made tepee style. It was
about six feet tall and had rocks laid on the
outside of it. There was one that was approximately twenty
feet tall and had logs, probably about four or five

(18:53):
logs that were about six inches eight inches in diameter.
And then there were some other ones that she and
I found that had was built right beside a cemetery,
which was kind of odd. And Beth had had told
me that she had found a few near a different cemetery,

(19:17):
and the next time I went down, Beth went with me.
Mary wasn't able to, and we found several more structures
that made a total of probably about ten or twelve,
not only near the roads, but near the cemetery, near

(19:38):
another cemetery, and down over the hills. We would go
on like a mile hike, just walking around the playgrounds
or around the camping areas, and there would be little
small structures or big structures or logs laying up against

(19:59):
other trees. The one day we went down there, we
found a tree break. This tree was approximately four inches
in diameter, and I don't really know how tall. It
was maybe about ten feet tall, and it was about

(20:22):
eight inches off of the ground is where it was broke.
It was like something had grabbed hold of the bottom
of it, and something had grabbed hold of about a
foot and a half above it. Twisted it and bent
it down. And when we found it that day, it
was relatively new break. It was just like if somebody

(20:43):
would have just done it. The color of the wood
was tan, it was fresh, it wasn't old, it wasn't brown,
it wasn't gray. And you could see on the bark
where it looked like something had twisted grabbed hold of
it and twisted it. And we got to looking at it,
and the whole break was probably about a foot and

(21:06):
a half long, and there was a couple of red
dots like something had dropped red dye or something into
possible we thought possibly blood. We both got kind of
excited about that. We took we was real careful and
we took the samples off of the tree that had

(21:30):
the the red on it. We took those little pieces,
put them in it. We didn't have a baggy, but
we had a jar. We put them in a jar,
and we waited till we could finally say, get us
a blood kitch. And we never could get that to
figure anything out on how to get that to turn
out to anything. Thinking back before I forget speaking of

(21:56):
state parks. We were marrying myself. We're invited to beach Fork,
which is over near Huntington, West Virginia, and I had
talked to a lady and her husband on those one
of the Facebook pages. They had said that they had

(22:18):
seen some movement and heard some activity at Beach Fork.
And there's one camping area that the way Beach Fork
is laid out, it's in sections, and one of the
sections they say that you can sit outside and you
can hear stuff that sounds like a woman screaming or

(22:43):
somebody moaning or yelling or whooping across the lake. And
it's only about not even fifty to sixty yards from
these campsites to where the sounds are heard. Well, the
weekend we went down there. We had just got new

(23:05):
mountain bikes, and we thought we'd take a trail and
I said, well, let's go around the backside and go
up in there where they talk about all this this activity.
So we tried to get up in there, and it
was a little rocky and real steep, and it was
mainly a hiking trail, so we didn't ride the bikes

(23:27):
very far. And I happened to notice in what was
a dried up creek what looked like footprints they weren't
shoe prints, and they were bigger than mine, and I
really couldn't tell that much about them because I had
not really seen an actual footprint, and I tried to

(23:50):
take some pictures of it, and the pictures didn't turn out.
We got back to camp and I got to looking
at him, and they did look humannoid type footprints with
the toe indentations, the triangular shape with the heel in

(24:11):
the back and round it. And I went back over
the next day and I couldn't find them to take
a better picture of them. But that was probably pretty
interesting because it was a walking path that people were
walking on. But in this area, I don't think anybody
would have been walking on gravel and rocks in this

(24:33):
little creek bed barefoot. To go back to Twin Falls,
a lot of people go there, and there's one certain
area that people like to camp that they hear things
here sounds at night, hear loud whoops, loud wars, growls,

(25:00):
and screams. A lot of people think the screams might
be wildcats, because cats do scream like a woman. To me,
i'd lead on to the part that they're not they're
not a cat because there's not many cats wildcats in

(25:22):
that area, whether it's bobcats or mountain lions. So I've
heard several stories of people being in this particular area.
One woman said that she happened to be setting outside
her campsite one night and saw something across to the

(25:48):
next campsite. It was real dark and she could see
it moving and it was probably about eight feet tall.
The next day she realized her in her usband went
over and looked around and investigated a little bit, and
there was what looked like to be footprints there. So

(26:08):
Twin Falls is kind of like a home base and
best farm for both of us. Whenever we do a
lot of activity. She does a lot of stuff there.
It gets a lot of voice recordings. She'll call me
or she'll text me and we'll share audio and I'll

(26:31):
listen to it and she'll use me. With better ears
and the headphones, I've got to say, hey, what do
you think this is? And you can hear the birds,
you can hear airplanes, you can hear cars go by
in a couple places where we've left voice recorders. You
can hear people. But whenever you start here in the

(26:55):
or chirping, that's not a squirrel or a bird. You
gotta believe a little bit. The next adventure that I
guess you could say that I went on was back
in the fall. Lesson I started a group called the
West Virginia Case Bigfoot Collective, and we decided a bunch

(27:20):
of us to go camping up in the Laurel Fork
Oceola area of West Virginia's in the northeastern part of
the state. And that Saturday we went into this one
little area and there were tree structures everywhere, the triangles,

(27:45):
the axes, the pyramids, They were anywhere from four foot
five foot eight foot ten foot high xes logs that
you couldn't how one person could move this log and
put it in the position that it was in. It
was crazy. It would have to be somebody that was very,

(28:06):
very strong. We found some footprints. Walking around into the woods,
we found more tree structures, the best footprint that I
myself have ever seen. Less said, come here, I want
to show you something. He took me over to this

(28:26):
hilaria and it was approximately if it would have been
a person, about a size fifteen shoe that made it
about fifteen inches long. It was in a mossy, muddy
area and where we were standing, we weren't even stinking
into the muck, the moss, the mud, but whatever it

(28:51):
was sunk down in it a good inch and a
half and I took a couple of pictures of it.
We measured it, and not think until the next day
I had plaster in my backpack with me. I was
so excited about seeing the footprints that they had found

(29:13):
that I had plaster in my backpack and wasn't thinking.
Which now I have two bags of plaster in my backpack,
so in case if we run into a couple of
sets of tracks. That night, a really really cool interesting

(29:34):
thing happened a friend of ours he said, he said,
I'm going to take you to an area and let
you let you see something or hear something. And we
went up to this little clearcut area, which a clear
cut area is where a lumber company will come in
and cut all the timber out. And this area was

(29:57):
probably p the acres and it was a hillside that
we were up on. Went down into this little valley
and went back up the hill. There were trees laying down.
There was trees that still had their their root balls.
A few of the trees were probably three foot across.

(30:19):
Some of them were a couple of feet across, some
of them were a little bit smaller, and they were
pretty tall trees because a lot of them were laying
down still. And I don't know what they were going
to be putting in there, but the local water company
and gas company was just down the road approximately ten
to fifteen miles, so I would say they were going

(30:42):
to be putting some gas lines up through there. And
about eleven o'clock after it had already gotten dark. This
was in October, late October of last year, we sat
there and after making some calls and making some whistle
and we even had a bullhorn that whenever you keep

(31:04):
the mic in front of it, how how it squeeches
and squeals and squalls sounds kind of squatching. So we
did that and we was having a good time. And
one of the guys had a flear, which is a
thermal imaging binocular, a single like a monocular, but you

(31:29):
can see into the dark and it shows heat signatures.
One of the guys is looking through it and he says,
something just stepped out from behind a tree and it's
standing there, rocking, and they all was stepping back and
forth and trading back and forth watching this, and I said, well,

(31:50):
let me see if I can see it. And I
looked down through and I couldn't tell where they were
they were looking at because we tried not to use
any light at all. If any light at all, we
had red lights. And I just happened to notice where
I was looking and what looked like a big rock

(32:11):
something stepped out from behind it. It was literally like
a person that just stepped out from behind it. And
the distance from these two creatures was approximately one hundred
yards from us. And after making the noises that we were,

(32:32):
we were watching them back and forth, and you could
see them moving back and forth as if you were
standing still, just rocking back and forth on your feet.
That's what they were doing. It was like they were
watching us. No sounds were made by them. We stood
there and watched them probably about an hour and a half,

(32:54):
and it was a real nice clear evening. We were
watching the stars and you could see everything clear. The
moon was coming out. It was real bright, but you
still couldn't tell details of things down in that little valley,
in that little bottom. Well, after we got done there

(33:16):
for a little bit, watching one of the guys decides, well,
let's take a spotlight and shine down there and see
if we see him. As soon as he hit that
one area with a spotlight, there was nothing there. Hit
the other area with a spotlight, nothing was there. So
we stood there for a little bit and made some noises,
made some whoops and some whistles. Nothing came out. So

(33:40):
Daniel looked at us. He said, how would you like
to hear another little Go to another little area. So
about ten miles down the road, we all got into
our vehicles. We had three three trucks, and we got
into the trucks and went down the road and as
we were pulling up, we had the windows down in

(34:01):
the trucks. All of a sudden you could hear screaming
yelling right down under the hill from us, and we
got out of the vehicles. And as we were getting
out of the vehicles, about one hundred yards in another direction,
you could hear screaming and yelling. So we got out

(34:24):
with the thermal tried to see anything. We couldn't see anything,
but you could hear playing a day, it was just
like if you were at a football game. From one
side of the stadium to the other and you were talking.
One of the guys had a parabolic mic and I

(34:48):
got mine out, and so we had two parabolic mics
out and trying to listen to see what, you know,
we could hear, and we could hear a lot clearer,
a lot plainer. It was screeching, screaming. It was like
they were yelling at each other. And one of the
guys that had the mic on, he looked at me
and he goes, there's something with that one. And the

(35:09):
guy that was in front of the vehicle one of
the trucks with the other mic, he goes, there's something
with this one. And we stood there about an hour
or so and listened to this, and we got to
talking about it, and they probably had little ones with them,
because that's the way it sounded. It sounded like they

(35:29):
had little ones. There was real faint sounds of moaning
and little squalling and aww, but you could hear it
real faint while the other two were screaming at each other.
And we got to talking about it that it was
possibly two females that was either talking back and forth

(35:55):
or mad or they knew we were there, and they
really didn't like the fact that we were there, and
they had their young with them, and we went back
to camp after being there about an hour or so,
and our camp was basically down over the hill about

(36:15):
two miles from where we were at, and they had
heard something down there. We couldn't We didn't know what
it was. They didn't know what it was. It was
just something that was screaming real loud. And then whenever
we left the next day, we stopped out at where

(36:36):
we had saw those two on the thermal and got
to looking, and the one that I had seen had
stepped out what I thought was a rock, had stepped
out from behind a fallen tree, and the ball of
that tree that had stepped out from behind was probably
about ten foot across, and this thing had to be

(37:00):
about eight foot tall, and there was nothing there, no rocks,
no trees in that area, and the same thing. We
guestimated that the other one was about eight foot because
where it was standing was between two trees on this
little road that they were using to access that area,

(37:21):
and we could not see anything that looked like anything
we had seen at night. So that was my second
real good, real good, I guess you could say sighting.
I still want to see one up close and personal,
I guess you could say, or see one a little
bit better during the day. To me, I believe they exist.

(37:46):
I know they exist. They have to exist because there
are footprints out there that either a very big basketball
players running around barefoot and woods, or somebody just likes
walking around in the woods barefoot. A lot of people
have seen footprints with little tracks with them or tracks

(38:12):
in them in the bigger ones, which indicates those are
small kid. I guess you could say, young Ling's I've
got a friend that's got a cast of a track
that has a little one inside it. This spring our

(38:34):
outing was back in April. It was up in the
Canaane Loop area of West Virginia, which is up near Davis,
West Virginia and Canaane Valley, and we decided that this
would be a good area since a lot of people
had heard things and seen footprints, and less had even

(38:57):
casted a few footprints up there. We was walking around
on Saturday in this little area what's known as Little Canada,
and it is amazing, amazing area. And the reason they
call it Little Canada is because it looks like the

(39:18):
Canadian tundra. There are areas up there that looks like
they could shoot the movie The Hobbit, any of the Hogwarts,
Harry Potter movies, they could shoot them up there. This
one area of Little Canada is a marsh area that

(39:41):
the moss and the swamp is about two foot thick.
You have to wear rubber boots to get into it
and cross it. And from our camp we walked across
the road into this little pine area and in this
little pine area some more little camping areas and this

(40:01):
is all dispersed camping, which there's fire pits, there's fire rings,
and that's about it, and you really don't have to
pay anything to camp there. So we got into the
pine thicket area and there is a tree limb that
is broke down and they call it the Sasquatch Bridge.

(40:23):
You crawl under it and go into the marsh and
it's just open for acres and acres. And when we
got to the other side to another tree pine area,
a little thicket, we started noticing some rock structures. Unless said,

(40:45):
I've got to show you this one structure up here.
He showed us a and it's been there for several years.
There is rocks that it would take two or three
people to pick up and stack, and there's about ten
of them stacked one on top of the other like
a little tower. And on top of it is a

(41:08):
couple of little small rocks. And you can tell that
it's been there for a while because of the moss
growing on it. And these rocks are not in this area,
they're not from this area. The area around it is
all trees, it's all moss, it's all leaves. We decided

(41:31):
to split up from there and go in a couple
different areas. Me and one of the guys decided to
walk down over some rocks and look at this little
kind of like a structure. They call it soccer ball rock.
It's a rock that looks just like a soccer ball

(41:51):
and it's sitting on top of a rock the side
of a car. And how it got there, nobody knows.
Nobody could pick it up up. Something pretty strong and
pretty big would have to set this rock there. So
we got down off of that rock and was looking
around and I said, Dave, this looks like a track,

(42:13):
and we got to look in and there was another
one and we got to look in and there was
a couple of rocks that looked like had just recently
been set there. And these rocks were about the size
of a toy car. They weren't very big, maybe softball size,
and the way they were placed, it was just four

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or five feet apart in a straight line. There was
nothing in between them, just leaves. And we picked them
both up and looked at him and looked underneath him,
and it was like something within a few days had
left them. There. Got to looking at the two tracks
that we had found, and then there was another one,

(42:57):
and there was another one. We had found a pathway
from the tree area to the marsh, and we got
to look in and there was deer tracks. This set
of footprints, which were humanoid footprints, was following the deer.

(43:18):
They were dough tracks, which a doe will only have
two like toes on their foot, now a buck will
have four. Well, there was two or three of these
tracks that was going out into the field into the
open area, and about in the middle of the tracks
of the seven, one set looked like it had turned around.

(43:42):
It stopped and looked back the other way. It was
almost like it had stopped heard something, turned around and
continued walking on out into the marsh. As we were
leaving that area. We got back to camp, we decided

(44:02):
to A couple of us decided to go back into town,
and about a mile down the road from our camp
there is a deer leg looked like had been completely
broken off and hanging in a tree about seven feet
in the air on the side of the road. It

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didn't look like it had been if it were a
hunter would have done it, it would have been chopped off.
It was just hanging from this little tree beside the road.
We stopped took pictures of it, and it was hanging
a little bit higher in my height I'm six foot,
and there was It wasn't torn up. It was just

(44:48):
like it was removed from a deer. We don't know
what the deal is. The last time I heard of
anything that people had been up in that area, which
was about a month and a half two months ago,
it's still there. When we were looking at it and
checking things around, we couldn't find a carcass anywhere. But

(45:10):
we did find a little puff of hair about the
size of a dime laying on the ground. That was
about it. Whenever we got back to camp, one of
the guys decided to take a walk down one of
the trails right behind our campsite, and he found a
canine print. This is the biggest canine print I had

(45:35):
ever seen, and a lot of people walk their dogs
on this trail. This was approximately my hand is about
ten inches from pinky nail to thumbnail, and this thing
was as big as my hand and there was a
couple of them, so and I had never seen anything.

(45:55):
We took some pictures of it, and the only thing
that we had seen walking around with some cordies, some labs,
people had some German shepherds, even a great Dane. I
think we saw great dane. We never saw anything with
Paul's that big. Earlier this year too, after the trip

(46:18):
to Canane Valley, I have been back to a farm
and looked around and checked things out, and we're going
to do a couple of investigations on another part of
that county. There has been sightings and I've got a

(46:42):
couple of friends that I work with that have heard
some very strange things. A friend of mine told me
that when he was younger he was squirrel hunting, which
was about ten or twelve years ago. He said that
he had heard something screaming and yelling about fifty sixty

(47:03):
yards from him. Well, a couple of years later, him
and a friend of his went back into the same
area and the same exact same thing happened about the
same time of the first incident where he heard his uncle,
which lived down the road a couple miles had seen

(47:26):
two different on two different occasions, something bipedal, long haired,
dark haired, real tall seven to eight feet walking across
the farm. I have got in a couple people that
have told me on the same road that things have happened,

(47:48):
that they have seen footprints, they have seen tree structures,
they have heard stuff that they couldn't explain. There are
areas of the state that I didn't even think of
that I didn't believe at the beginning of my journey

(48:09):
onto this that anything like this would be in the
state of West Virginia. I always grew up thinking and
hearing that this was out west in Washington State, Oregon
out there. Several years ago when I started watching some
of the Bigfoot shows, and then when Mary and I

(48:31):
got married, we started watching Expedition Bigfoot, and then we
would watch some of the paranormal shows, and there would
be not only stuff about ghosts, which like I said earlier.
We enjoy and get into and love watching people's responses
for that. But there are some sightings that people would

(48:52):
talk about. And then the podcasts I watch, not only
lessons when he would have his The Small Town Monsters
or I've Got a couple of Friends. Bill Rigby has
Agents that the unexplained, and then Roger Williams has Squatch

(49:14):
and Holler, and there's there's several other things you know
that I'll watch, and that's how I get my my research.
I'll not only watch the podcast and learn, which that's
how I met you, was watching the podcast that you
were on one night and listen to some of the

(49:35):
things that not only you talk about, that other people
talk about. And if you put all this together, we're
all in this for one thing, and that's to learn.
The more information that we find out and we share
with each other and give each other, then we'll know

(49:56):
more about these things. The area that I'm talking about
with all this activity is not far. It's actually across
the county from the farm I'm talking about at Beths.

(50:17):
There are areas of the state that people have seen sightings,
and most of the sightings that people talk about or
you hear about our road sightings, which are people are
driving down either a country road or down the highway
and they see something on the side of the road

(50:38):
that stands up and turns around and looks at them,
and it's bipedal, its humanoid shape, seven to eight feet
tall and hairy. A lot of them described having yellow eyes,
green eyes, red eyes. There's no true to me set

(51:00):
eye color depending on the lights that you shine to me,
whether it's red lighting headlights can be different colors. The
one I saw by my tent that night looked like
it had yellow eyes, and I could see the light

(51:20):
from the moon shining its eyes. I had no flashlight
with me in the tent. I had accidentally left it
in the truck, so there was no way, you know,
And like I said, I thought I was dreaming anyway.
But I shine is something that people talk about when
they talk about the height. They range anywhere from six

(51:46):
to eight feet. A lot of people talk about the
ones being out west or even taller. They averaged nine
feet ten feet from what I know of what I've
heard people talking about from different parts of the country.
When you've got open areas, the bigger the area, the

(52:07):
bigger the animals in that area. Just like a fish tank,
if you have a ten gallon fish tank and you
have five fish, they're only going to get to be
two or three inches long. You have a forty gallon
fish tank, those same fish are going to go to
six to eight to ten inches long, depending on the
type of fish that they are. A lot of people

(52:31):
are saying in different parts of the state that deer
is their main food source. When you go into an area,
you want to check. That's one of the things that
we look at, is food in the area, whether it's berries,
deer tracks, world tracks, turkey tracks, any kind of animal activity.

(53:00):
We just recently Less came down and this summer we
had here in West Virginia the West Virginia Bigfoot Festival,
which is in Sutton, and a girl come up to
not only me, but to come up to less and
showed us some footprints that they had found near Charleston,
which is the state capital. Lesson I got together and

(53:24):
we decided to make a weekend of it and go
down into that area and look around, and we camped
out where they had got the foot The picture of
the footprint and this track was about seventeen inches long,
about eight or nine inches wide at the toes, and

(53:45):
she had a size seven foot and it was like
it made her foot like it looked like a little thumb.
But we got up and we investigated. We found a
few little tree breaks, tree structure like, but we didn't
see anything. And one thing that we did find that

(54:05):
there was there was fruit up there. There was vegetation
to eat. Deer tracks was plenty, Turkey tracks was plenty,
there was some bear tracks. The bear tracks were real
small the ones we saw. But whenever we try to

(54:25):
go into an area, that's one thing you want to
look for food source because if you see a small
food source, then something bigger is going to eat that.
Then something bigger is going to eat that. So a
lot of people believe that deer is the only food
source for a bit, but if there's fish in the area,
they will tend to eat fish. I've had people tell

(54:49):
me in some of their stories that they've been fishing
and they have had their fish stringers taken away. They've
stepped away from their pole to relieve himself in the
woods and come back, and there have been footprints that
they've seen and their stringers of fish are gone. I've

(55:12):
had probably in the past year. People just call me
or people text me and say, hey, you know, can
you check this out. I've got a real good friend
I'm going to butcher. His name and I'm sorry. Richie,
Richie es Avido. He's a retired wrestler, the Cuban Assassin,

(55:37):
And when he was ten, he was at a church camp.
And he and I both have been trying to figure
out where the church camp is, and we think that
it's somewhere near Bluestone Lake down in there. There is
an old church camp down there, and when he was ten,

(55:59):
him and his uddy had to go to the bathroom
that night, so they got a flashlight from their group
leader and they went to the bathroom. Well, something was
stolen rocks at them, and they kept talking back and forth,
and one of them turned around and looked up and
this thing was standing there. It was approximately, Richie said,

(56:22):
about eight foot tall nine foot and it scared both
of them and they took off running and it started
walking after him, but by the time they got back
to the cabin, it disappeared. They got into the cabin
and the next day they found out that it had

(56:45):
scratched the side of one of the buildings about ten
feet up and had hit some of the buildings that night,
and they didn't know what it was. One of the
other investigations that I was on with Less, we were
at the at Bluestone. We met a couple guys. It

(57:08):
was a guy and his son. They had been fishing
on the river and something was throwing rocks and logs
at him. And when he said logs, he doesn't mean
the little tiny limbs. He said, these were logs that
were about six to eight inches in diameter and they
were about five six feet long throwing. They were on

(57:29):
a boat and this stuff was getting thrown at him
and something was yelling at him. I had went with
a friend of mine to that area right before winter
of this past year, and we heard some interesting things
down there. That night, we watched some guys fish and

(57:54):
all of a sudden we heard some coonhounds, which a
lot of people here in West Virginia do coon hunt.
They use hounds and they track the coons to the
trees and the coons go up and the dogs bark. Well,
these dogs, you could tell that they had treated something
or something had gotten the area and they were barking

(58:15):
at it. A raccoon makes a distinctive sound. This was
a scream screech in sounds, didn't sound anything like a coon.
And on one of the dogs you could hear them
yelp and then they got real quiet. And if you've
ever heard a dog that's been hit by something or

(58:37):
been hurt, the sound that they make, you could tell
something was going on. So we left and as we
were going across the field where we were at, we
would stop to try to hear activity, and across this
field when we stopped, you could hear buzzing, and it

(58:58):
was only in one area. He pointed the parabolic mike
which we were using, into this one area and it
would buzz, and hum pointed to take it away from it. It
wouldn't do it. Then we decided to go down on
the other side of the field. We got in the
truck and drove around the other side of the field,

(59:20):
and whenever we were pointing back into that area, the
buzzing was there. So we don't know what was causing
the buzzing, but something was caused in the buzzing. A
lot of people believe that and see orbs which are
bright lights anything from the size of a ping pong

(59:43):
ball to the side of a beach ball. Whenever a
lot of bigfoot activity is around the orb lights, nobody
fully knows. I've got friends that have recently seen orbs

(01:00:04):
through thermal ima imagery that move around the sporadically. And
these things are almost perfectly round, and they are different colors.
They're green, they're red, they're blue, they're yellow. Like I said,
they're different sizes, and they just float like if you

(01:00:26):
were to take a balloon with a string on it
and healium in it and let it walk across the floor.
Some of them zigzag real quickly and then it just disappear.
I have not seen one yet, so I do not know.
A lot of people think that UFOs and orbs and

(01:00:51):
bigfoot belong together. Well, like I said, I can't answer
that question until I see something myself, and I've had
other researchers tell me the same thing that until they
see it, which is what I believe. It's like a
piece of cake sitting in front of you. I know

(01:01:11):
that that cake is sitting there. I know I saw it,
just like what I saw that night. I thought it
was real. I've had family members ask me the same question,
did you really see something? Do you really believe that?
And it's like, I have to believe it because I

(01:01:31):
saw it, just like the cake. I believe that piece
of cake was sitting there, and I thought. One of
the things that got me into the bigfoot activity, like
I talked earlier, was ghosts. Mary and I will watch
a lot of the paranormal shows. She and I have

(01:01:52):
went out numerous times to different places. What was the
name of that hotel that we used to go to
and Ohio Laffy was at the Lafayette. We have been
to numerous buildings here in town. There was a gentleman
he was a historian for Raleigh County and the Beckley

(01:02:15):
area where we live, Scott Worley. He passed away a
couple of years ago. It was a great loss to
the area for his knowledge and things that he knew
about the county and the area from the eighteen hundreds.
Of seventeen hundreds, we have been ghost something at the

(01:02:39):
trans Allegheny Lunatic Asylum. What's some of the other places
that we've been. We've been recently we went to Thurman,
which is a little old coal town that used to
be here in West Virginia, in Fayette County. At one

(01:03:03):
time it was the Dodge City of the East. That's
how big of a moneymaker Cole was in its heyday.
And there was a hotel there that the world's longest
poker game fourteen years was at the activity that's there

(01:03:28):
still today. It is a National park, part of the
National Park in New River Gorge. We had a group
go down last month and we got to experience a
few things that we had never experienced. Cat Balls rolling
around by themselves. I caught a what looked like a foggy,

(01:03:53):
black foggy image on a recorder. We have gotten voice
activity on voice recorders whenever you asked the question is
there anybody here that wants to talk? And you play
it back and it goes no. You kind of wonder

(01:04:19):
I've done that in two different locations and gotten the
same response. At the trans Alleghany, I saw a black
shadow figure walk across the hall. We had recently been
to a what was the Mountain are with that a
hotel that was a hotel that was here in a

(01:04:42):
little town called Mount Hope, and there was some voice
activity there one of the rooms. I took a picture
of me and Mary in a mirror, and behind me
is a black shadow. I took a picture later and

(01:05:02):
that black shadow was not there. She was standing in
front of me, and it was like a black silhouette
behind me. I took a picture of the side where
Mary was standing in front of the mirror. I took
a picture of the other side and there was nothing.

(01:05:22):
And then I even took a picture of just the
mirror itself and there was no black silhouette. I can't
explain that there is a lot of activity there that
I can't explain that I've experienced Mary's experience. We've had
doors closed on us. I was leaning against a coffee
pot at this one building and the coffee pot turned

(01:05:44):
on by itself. But to get into the paranormal, it's
questions and things that go through your mind. It's like,
how or what is this? Whether it's a big foot,
whether it's a ghost, whether it's nessy, or whether it's

(01:06:10):
mothman or skin walkers out out west or Chupacaberas down
toward Texas area. The paranormal is unquestionably one of the
oddities of the world, and it's kind of fun to
get into it. And try to figure out what it's what.

(01:06:31):
Out of everything that I've talked about, we've talked about
it has been kind of interesting, and I would like
to say that's just some of the fun things that
we've gotten into in the past year and a half
two years. And it's been a journey. It's been a
fun journey. We've met a lot of nice people, interesting

(01:06:52):
people from all over the country, so it's quite interesting
and I would like to thank everybody out there that
that's helped me through this.

Speaker 3 (01:07:04):
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.

Speaker 2 (01:07:14):
Seen a bunch of run down no horse towns where
the church is the backbone lows and the bow and
the fasting melodies coove in, but the bomb Man rose,
where the roofs run deep beyond the nose of the
busy streets with the songs of the South O su

(01:07:35):
Then I mean, I hear the promp porch picking down
home rhythm, ringing out I don't run from Banjung music. Yeah,
the sound of a memory brings me back to the
bluegrass playing the Madadi jack. It's become an it been

(01:07:57):
through it, getting through the teal on scrubs and skaggs,
bucking name bears through this Tennessee jams.

Speaker 1 (01:08:07):
There's no the way that I do it.

Speaker 2 (01:08:11):
And I hit the blom board, preaking down on rhythm, bringing.

Speaker 4 (01:08:14):
Out that oh run from Banjong music.

Speaker 5 (01:08:20):
Yeah, summon dolling backwards backwards and double tip, poking in
the sword and the strumming look and tuck stop. There's
nothing in the strumming out Country boy Living, warming and
hit a bumboat, picking down rhythm, bringing us put on
front and from men.

Speaker 4 (01:08:40):
Of music, the city last drowsed me while on the dune,
Miss Scars rushing by with the beasts on the stem

(01:09:00):
used to man.

Speaker 5 (01:09:02):
And I hear the brown board picking down on them,
bringing nuts pad round from bunch of music. Yeah, summing
gallop back words back, what's in double tub getting in
the sword and the strumming look and tuck start because
on the end and strumming down Country Boy Living, I'm

(01:09:25):
gonna get a bad boards picking down rhythm bringing us
paddle from the best.

Speaker 6 (01:09:31):
Room, summing gallop back words back, what's in double tub,

(01:09:57):
getting in the salt, and the drumming.

Speaker 5 (01:09:59):
Looking tuck start because of the heads.

Speaker 1 (01:10:01):
Of strumming down because you.

Speaker 5 (01:10:03):
Won't leaving, and I hear the pout Portswick and down
bring the brat chick and portswin Mama's best sweet tea
kind of sad that all round bedroom music