Reports for Ohio County, KY
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Interview 10-9-2011
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Witnesses:
Jim, wife, his son and son's friend.
Estimated date? Summer
2009
Estimated time? Over a two week period.
Location: Hartford
The first incident occurred just before dark. The witness' horses were making a commotion which prompted an investigation by Jim's son and his friend. Fearing for a young colt, the boys quickly ran outside. The boys noticed an 8', dark brown, hairy creature staring at them from behind a 4' water tank. It was getting dark and the figure was about 25 yds away. In two swift steps the creature turned and vanished into the woods. Not much detail was noticed as the visual encounter was brief.
On a few occasions Jim would hear loud footfalls and low growls circling his home. At various times very long, deep vocalizations were heard. "It would start like a low howl, then turn into a high, whaling pitch. It was like nothing I've ever heard before." - Jim
An electrician was at the top of a ladder hooking up a security light in front of the witness' home and the same loud vocalization has heard. The startled electrician promptly left vowing never to return again after dark.
Jim's wife was leaving for work at 9:00pm and noticed the creature standing by a tree. She entered her car quickly and sped off.
A four-wheeler was pushed acrossed the backyard with it's brake on creating deep ruts in the ground. Tension was still on the brake, because as Jim released the brake it settled back down.
- Charlie Raymond, Lead Investigator
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Interview 7-30-2011
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Witness:
Caleb
Estimated date? 7-30-2011
Estimated time? Noon
Location: Undisclosed (exact location on file)
Length of time the encounter lasted: 20 seconds
How many witnesses? 1
I spoke to Caleb (the witness), Rylan (his brother)
and Beth (his mother) over the phone. During the day Caleb (age 7) went down
to the barn to ride his four-wheeler. As he approached the barn, his dog would
not go inside, rather it turned around and went back towards the house. It did
not bark or whimper, which is unusual behavior since his dog has never been
afraid to go in the barn. Caleb walked inside the barn and sat on his four-wheeler.
He heard a noise in a nearby stall. Through a crack, he could see a big hairy
creature in the stall playing with his brother’s dip cup. The creature
had his back towards him the entire time and Caleb could only catch glimpses
of the creature. Caleb immediately held his breath in fear as he watched it
for almost 20 seconds before running back to the house. He said he never did
see its face or hands. On occasion he could see its arms as it was playing with
the dip cup. It had long reddish-brown hair which covered its entire body, even
the head. The hair looked straggly and he could see some dirt in the hair. It
had wide shoulders, a round head, muscular and it was estimated at seven feet
tall. The dip cup had dip in it and was called “a grizzly dip cup”,
which looks like a hockey puck with a picture of a grizzly bear on top of it.
Rylan added, "Caleb loves to ride his four-wheeler. Something must of really
scared him."
The following day Rylan placed some apples on a stump at the mouth of a nearby
path per my suggestion. The path initiates behind the barn and wanders through
the woods for about a mile ending at a large cave which has a creek running
through it. Rylan and a friend performed three tree knocks just inside the tree
line and received a loud tree knock in response. It scared them so they left
immediately. I advised him to continue to leave apples out and try to “habituate”
the Bigfoot. They are also going to place a trail camera nearby.
Caleb is very mature and intelligent for his age. At times during our conversation
I almost thought I was talking to a teenager. He did not embellish his story
when I asked him specific questions. For example, when I asked "How
do you know it was playing with the dip cup? Did you see it's hands?" He
replied, "I could hear it playing with it and I would see it moving around
once in a while." Typically IF a young person makes up a story, he might
embellish his story, i.e. he could of answered my question regarding its hands,
"yeah, it had huge hands with long sharp claws" ect, ect.
Thoughts: Why did this squatch ignore Caleb?
A. This
area has a history of sightings (some not published due to privacy issues).
Many of these reports are of a reddish-brown creature which is apparently old
and perhaps loosing some of its senses, i.e. rare pictures captured on a trail
camera (multiple times); walking down a dirt road in broad daylight, moaning
loudly (multiple times). Caleb's barn encounter.
B. The squatch was pre-occupied with the dip cup.
C. The barn floor was covered in dirt so it couldn't hear Caleb's footsteps.
D. Caleb said he held his breath the entire time in fear.
- Charlie
Raymond, Lead Investigator
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Website submission 3-26-11
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Your
first name: John J. Stranely
Which county? Ohio
Estimated date? Nov 97- 99
Estimated time? 10:30am
Nearest city? Whitesville
Nearest Road(s): Sunnydale Road
Length of time the encounter lasted: 30-40 minutes
How many witnesses? one
Please describe your encounter:
While deer hunting on a farm in Ohio County Ky during the November season I
was sitting in a camo ground blind near a known deer trail. The sky was partly
sunny with a light wind. The temperature was around 45 degrees. I was using
a 54 cal. muzzle loader. I noticed there where no birds or other wildlife moving
about. A little while later I heard a group of cattle on the next two farms
over (about 400 yards) away, start to sound alarmed. I could hear them running
to the far side of the field by the sound of their mooing. A few minutes later
I heard a fairly large group of dogs, estimated at 8 or 10 start to howl and
bark. I then heard what sounded to me like a real loud deep growl followed by
a high pitched howl. It sounded like it was shaking the whole woods. The dogs
kept up their barking, whatever it was kept on with its howling. My truck was
about 200 yards from my blind and was parked right next to the blacktop road
which was Sunnydale road. Whatever it was, it sounded like it was coming right
down the road. The dogs stayed about 50 to 75 yards behind it. I could tell
by the noise they were making, they wouldn't get any closer. I was pretty scared
by then, not knowing what it was. This went on for about 30 to 40 minutes. Then
i could here it moving across the road I started to go and see what it was but
thought better of it, because what ever is not afraid of a pack of farm dogs
is probably to much for me to handle with a single shot muzzle loader. Then
two years later the exact same thing happened in the exact same spot. The weather
was the same, the cows started their bawling and mooing, even the dogs did the
same thing, and it started its sound again. It lasted about the same length
of time. After the first episode I told my wife, who is now deceased I was going
to start taking a recorder with me but didn't, I didn't think I would ever here
it again. After the first episode I waited about 30 minutes before getting out
of there. When I got home my wife could tell I was shaken up about something,
and I told her what happened. She knew something serious had to happen to get
me out of the woods so early. I was raised on a farm at Philpot all my life
and have hunted and fished all my life to. I know all the sounds of animals
either wild or domestic and have never heard anything like this in my life.
When this happened I went up to the store and asked if any one had seen or heard
anything strange or out of the ordinary, but they said they hadn't. I would
not mind if you contact me about this, it would be good to talk to someone who
would listen to my story about what happened.
FOLLOW UP: 3-26-11
I spoke to John for over an hour on the phone. I believe him to be highly credible.
He said the howl/moan was so incredibly loud it shook the forest. It was began
low and ended in a higher pitch. Each vocalization latest about 3-4 seconds,
then it wopuld stop for 3-4 seconds. It kept this pattern for 30-40mins as it
walked slowly down the road as the pack of farm dogs followed, keeping a safe
distance. John stayed in his blind the entire time, which was approximately
200yds from the road. It ended as it headed into the forest and up a hill. The
dogs continued to bark, even after the vocalizations stopped. No visual contact,
nor smells were obtained.
- Charlie Raymond, Lead Investigator
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Website submission on 3-17-11
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Your
first name: Terry
Which county? Western Ohio County
Estimated date? 3/11/11
Estimated time? 9:00 pm
Nearest city? Livermoore
Nearest Road(s): hwy 69
Length of time the encounter lasted: three times 1 min each
How many witnesses? 4
Please describe your encounter:
I bought a very rural peice of property near where the Green river and Rough
river come together about 10/2009. Since then My friends and family have cleared
some areas to camp and hunt and fish on the green river, and have done so many
times. This night was a little different in that the entire area was flooded
for miles. Our property boarders a thick, marshy, slough, and all the lower
areas where we usually camp were under water. There is a large steep rocky hill
that has cliffs and overhangs and some shallow caves on it. We camped at the
base of that. Me my girlfriend her daughter of 4, my daughter of 17, and one
of my close friends had built a fire and walked away from camp about 200 yards
to look at a food plot that was planted the fall before. An owl across the river
was sounding, and as I always do I sounded back to evoke a response. A coyote
responded instead so I called back to it in a long howl type sound. What we
heard back sent chills up our neck as what sounded like 50 yards the other side
of our camp came a Deeper long howl that got higher in pitch toward the end
of the howl. At this the several coyotes started calling as well but not like
have ever heard. They were almost winy, and dosil sounding. as if the call made
them afraid. we stopped in our tracks and listened and it did it again. with
the same response from the coyotes except this time you could hear they were
on the move and going away. I called out with sort of a growl like sound, and
we were talking a little of course and heard nothing else. Now I have owned
coon dogs, beagals , and all sorts of other hounds in my life, and am very familar
with all their types of howl's. I could pick my dog out from others and vicea
versa. This was no dog! We went back to the fire and resumed talking and eventually
got out the Guitars and sang some. We had sang about three of four songs and
stopped for a while to talk some more when It made that terrible howl again,
this time only about 50 yards away. In your mind you want to explain it away
as something else and try to reason as to what it could be. But as an avid hunter
all me life and an outdoorsmen, I can tell you that this was not a fox,or bobcat
or anything like that. Everyone froze as once again coyotes sounded. Except
this time they were a different group across the river. Again they had a very
haunting and dosil sound as well. I have never heard coyotes act this way. As
if they were begging for forgivness. The howl came again and in an attempt to
startle it I yelled back at it in clear human voice. As I did this we all heard
a very heavy set of foot steps in a running fashion head back down the trail
toward the hill and slough. It was unnerving to all of us, and took us awhile
to settle down. Some time went by and no more sounds of any kind. The woods
had an erie silence, and there was that feeling you get when you feel like your
being watched. The girls were frightened and to ease the tension I started to
play Guitar again after awhile. We cooked some hotdogs as I sang and I stopped
playing to eat. About 10 min after I stopped playing we heard it again about
100 yards in the woods and from an elevated position. This time no coyotes responded.
I shined a flash light in its general direction but saw nothing. The rest of
the night was uneventful. The next morning my buddy gary and I went up the trail
where we thought the sounds came from, but tracks would be hard to see because
of the heavy thick leaves on the trail. We found nothing unusual However last
november my buisness partner in the property had told me he would not go back
to that same trail anymore alone, he said he was back there looking for deer
sign when he heard something about 200 yards away beating what sounded like
a large stick or limb aganist a tree. Like how a man would do. Remember this
is very rural and surrounded by water, our bridge across the slough is the only
way in and its 5 miles to the nearst road or house. He said it was like what
ever it was could see me because as he went further up the trail it would beat
the tree (pap,pap,pap)but once I got scared and turned around and went the other
direction it stopped. At the time he told me that, I thought it was interesting,
but wrote it off that there was probably an explaination. Now I have second
thoughts about that. I beleive that the area is a great place for something
that does not want to be found, to live. Its a very remote area as most of the
area floods each year and will never be inhabited.There are two major Rivers
and a very swampy slough that is at least 5 to 6 miles long within 500 yards
of each other. When the area floods the hill I decribed is some of the only
dry ground around for miles. And may be why during this flooded time we had
our interactin for the first time. The flood water has a way of putting all
mammals in close vacinity of each other.The hill is dressed with many small
caves for shelter. Turkey, deer, squirland rabbits all floursh here. I wish
we could have sighted the creature, but in a way i'm glad we did not. I will
never forgrt that sound it made and hope never to hear it again. I used to go
there without a gun, but I will always have one with me from now on. No wonder
the coyotes are afraid of this thing it is truly frighting!
Describe
the creature with detail:
Had a very heavy sounding trot.
FOLLOW UP: 3-17-11
I spoke to the witness at great length. An experienced outdoorsman, he is absolutely sure the vocalizations were not from a coyote, dog, bobcat or owl. I mentioned that his music most likely attached a curious sasquatch. He will continue to camp there with his family and sing campfire songs, acting normal. This is a non-threatening approach which has been successful throughout history. He will bring a camcorder to hopefully capture the vocalizations the next time they occur. Terry also mentioned how remote the area is, as his land backs up to the power company's 600 acres of untouched wilderness (no hunting or trespassing). He mentioned a few caves in the area, one in particular had an odd pile of rocks at it's entrance. I believe Terry to be highly credible and sincere. The area is a prime location for a future investigation.
- Charlie Raymond, Lead Investigator
Ohio County, Summer 1988
Witness
Chad Askins and a friend had parked near a creek bed on an isolated farm to
sip a cold beer or two after a long day of hunting.A few feet in front of them
the creek bank sloped upwards before dropping down the other side to the creek
bed, which was not in view. They had been there only a few minutes when a large,dark
shape rose up from the other side of the bank, as if whatever it was had been
stooping down in the creek. Chad saw it immediately as it rose to its full height
and observed that, although it was human in shape, it was of tremendous size
and covered with dark colored hair. Neither Chad nor his friend could believe
their eyes as the thing took two long, slow strides to their right,then stopped
and turned in their direction.It did not turn its head,Askins said, which seemed
to be mounted directly onto the shoulders with no visible neck, but turned its
entire upper body from the waist up. The sun was setting behind the creature,which
turned it into little more than a stark silhouette,but they could see that it
had extremely broad shoulders and was very thick through the middle. They could
not see any facial features,nor could they see the creatures lower extremities
which were blocked from view by the slope of the creek bank in front of them,
but stated that it had a human shaped head with long hair and thick, muscular
arms. Chad felt sure that it must have been over ten feet tall. It stood there,
completely unafraid and still as it watched the two men. The feeling was not
mutual, however, and the two wasted no time in exiting the area.
I asked him why the encounter had such a frightening effect on he and his friend,
since the creature made no aggressive move towards them. He replied that the
scariest thing was the thing's size and the fact that it looked immensely powerful.
Also, it had seemed completely unafraid of them, making no attempt to flee from
human presence as most wild animals would. Further questioning left me with
the impression that he knew very little about the bigfoot phenomenon, other
than the fact that he was convinced that this was what they saw. When asked
of his impression of the famous Patterson/Gimlin film of the late 1960's he
was completely unaware of its existence and seemed anxious to view the footage.
Chad impressed me as being completely honest and intelligent and his sincerity
while recounting the event was obvious.
- Bart Nunnelly, Lead Investigator