Speaker 1: It would wake you out of a dead sleep.
Speaker 2: And there were several times that I stayed up to
try to wait to catch it. And when I heard it,
by the time I would get outside, you'd just hear
something running through the brush, or you'd catch like I
want to say, silhouette, but just like a blob or
a shed, just something darting. It was very knit, like
it could disappear in the second if it wanted to.
I installed some motion sensor lights. It seemed to deter
it for a while, and then it just came back.
It was still hitting the back of the house. But
it was just horrendous there for a long time because
the dogs would go crazy, and then that would stir
up the animals in the barn.
Speaker 1: And we just couldn't figure out what the heck this
thing was.
Speaker 2: Now that I'm you know, not in the wilderness, I've
gone back and thought about it.
Speaker 1: I know what I saw. I can't think of anything
else that it could have been.
Speaker 2: It's, I mean, it's world shattering.
Speaker 3: I'd like to welcome Scott to Bigfoot Crossroads. Scott sent
me an email about some experiences he had on a
property he owned and man this laid out like so
many stories I've heard, experiences, whatever you want to call it.
Whenever Bigfoot is on people's property, it's almost like there's
a playbook that they follow. So I was really excited
whenever Scott agreed to come on and here he is. Scott,
thanks for joining me.
Speaker 1: Not a problem, glad to be here.
Speaker 3: You know, just walk us through the story bit by bit,
just like you did in the email of what happened
to You.
Speaker 2: So I bought a property in New Marshfield, which is
kind of south of like the Hawking Hills area. Moved
in October of twenty seventeen. Beautiful property, five acres, I know,
it's not that huge, had a big open field, and
then the back half of my property was wooded and
it sat across from the Waterloo Wildlife Area. Beautiful, tucked away,
hidden kind of place. Nothing for like the first month
or so, pretending it was mid November. I remember it
was near Thanksgiving, middle of the night, just this god
awful scream grown right outside the living room window.
Speaker 1: Dogs went nuts.
Speaker 2: They were barking, trying to claw their way through the
window to get it.
Speaker 1: Whatever it was. I grabbed a spotlight and.
Speaker 2: A rifle by the time I got outside, I could
see nothing.
Speaker 3: Did you have any idea what it might be?
Speaker 1: No idea.
Speaker 2: Honestly, the first thing I thought of was it sounded
like a moose. Okay, but being in Ohio, that's something
that shouldn't be.
Speaker 3: There, right, not very likely.
Speaker 2: But it was a horrendous like glass rattling noise. Again,
after that, nothing until spring. When spring rolled around, I
kind of got my little farm set up, got goats,
pot belly pigs, turkeys, chickens, all that good stuff. Throughout
the summer it wasn't much, but I started noticing. I
worked early shift, and when I would go out to
feed in the morning, around five five thirty in the morning,
when i'd step off the back porch, there'd either be
a crack like a wood knock on the back hill
behind me, or a real crisp whistle, just one quick
like and that was it. A single tone, yep, just
a single tone, just real quick, maybe a second or
too long. And it happened like multiple times a week,
and it was an eerie feeling sometimes when you go
out there and it was barely light and you would
hear that.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I can imagine.
Speaker 2: But so that went on through the summer, and then
when fall rolled around, things started to get really odd.
I never locked the barn or the chicken coop because
I had no need to, there's nobody around to bother us.
But I was starting to feel like I was going
crazy because full bags of feed started disappearing from the barn,
like fifty pound bags of sweet feed and corn would
just disappear.
Speaker 3: Like the entire bag itself, the entire bag.
Speaker 2: Because I would make one trip to the local farm
store stock up on like twenty bags, and they just
disappear all at once. Maybe once one would disappear a
week or every two weeks, they were just gone. In
that winter, I noticed so at Max, I think we
had about thirty five chickens in our coop, and then
it slowly was like, well, no, there's only thirty two,
and there was only thirty, and then it just kept
dwindling and again every few days one of them would
just disappear. And the chicken coop was set up where
you had to unlatch a door step into the coop,
and then there was another door that had to be
unlocked to get to the roosting area. They were completely enclosed.
The coop had a run on it. The run was
completely covered. The wire went two and a half feet
in the ground because I was terrified of foxes and
coyotes digging their way in. Could not figure out what
was going on.
Speaker 3: And like the doors were never unlatched or anything.
Speaker 1: No, the doors would always just be closed.
Speaker 3: What kind of latch was it?
Speaker 2: Just a simple like eye hook okay, where you just
pushed the little hook down through the eye a loop
and then latch it closed, which to me seemed like
it was going to be enough to keep the chickens
in and keep them safe.
Speaker 1: But you would think so, you'd think I.
Speaker 2: Had at that point started to think about putting security
cameras in.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately the location I.
Speaker 2: Was at internet was spotty at best. I was running
off satellite internet that could barely load an email.
Speaker 3: So like, as all this kind of plays out, you know,
you had you had the scream, and then you had
the whistles and the knocks whenever you had come out,
and then you know, the sweet feeds disappearing slowly, the
chickens are seemingly vanishing. You're not having anything torn up
or you're not finding the latches undone or anything. Are
you starting to kind of dots at this point, or
what do you think is going on?
Speaker 2: Honestly, for a long time, I thought it had to
be some teenagers or something sneaking their way out there.
Speaker 1: Never thought bigfoot.
Speaker 2: That just never occurred to me, and I don't know why,
because that went by the end of the story, it's like, well,
this all just makes sense. I don't know if it's
just like a deep seated you don't want to go
to that, you don't want to think about that.
Speaker 3: Now. Did any of the other animals get messed with
or was it just chickens?
Speaker 1: Not At that point, it was just the chickens.
Speaker 2: We did have a couple of turkeys and they were
never taken. I don't know if there's a reason for that,
but chickens seemed to be I guess easy pickens. But
started to get fed up with all of that, so
I switched to UH locks on the barn and the
chicken coop. And then shortly after changing the locks, something
kept slamming itself into the back of our house at
three or four in the morning. Oh wow, it sounded
like somebody took a baseball back and just smack the
back wall. It would alloud, if it would wake you
out of a dead sleep. And there were several times
that I stayed up to try to wait to catch it,
and when I heard it, by the time I would
get outside, you'd just hear something running through the brush,
or you'd catch like I want to say, silhouette, but
just like a blob or a shed, just something darting. Yeah,
never got a clear picture what it was.
Speaker 3: Did it seem to always be the same spot on
the house.
Speaker 2: It was the back of the house, which in retrospect
I think it's because whatever was doing it only had
to step fifteen feet out of the woodline to hit
the back of the house. It was very nit like
it could disappear in the second if it wanted to.
Speaker 3: Did you have any lights back there?
Speaker 1: I didn't. At first.
Speaker 2: I installed some motions in their lights and it seemed
to deter it for a while, and then it just
came back, but it wouldn't set the lights off.
Speaker 1: I think what it somehow.
Speaker 2: Figured out if I go this far and no further,
it doesn't trigger the light. Yeah, it was still hitting
the back of the house, but the lights wouldn't come on,
and it was just horrendous. There for a long time
because the dogs would go crazy, and then that would
stir up the animals in the barn sometimes, and we
just couldn't figure out what the heck this thing was.
Speaker 3: You've said we a few times.
Speaker 2: My partner and I lived in the house there for
what was it, twenty seventeen to twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: Okay, And what did they think about?
Speaker 2: All this there from the city, So they were already
terrified of living. They thought every noise was, you know,
a bear or something coming in. Yeah, So, I mean
they weren't much help.
Speaker 3: Did you see any signs of bears or anything on
the property while you were there?
Speaker 1: No.
Speaker 2: We did have wild turkey that came through occasionally, we'd
say coyote or two of course, deer stuff like that.
Some hillaciously large snapping turtles in the pond at the
end of the property. But I never saw any bear
or sign the bear. Not to say they aren't there.
I know they're But then the next big incident that
came up was.
Speaker 1: In the bathroom.
Speaker 2: Using the bathroom, and the house was really old, so
the only vent it had was a small window that
you pushed open above the toilet. I was using the
bathroom that little window was open, and my dogs came in,
sat down, stared at the window and started growling. And
when they when they did, there was a large rode
adendron bush outside that window, and you heard it rustle
all around and something running off. Oh wow, and that
since I was icy cold, that was shivers down the spine.
I slowly reached up and closed that window without looking. Yeah,
like that's it, turned off all the lights for the night,
and sat and fed. You're already on the toilet, Yeah right,
no doubt. That was probably the most terrifying instant. Just
knowing that it was that close. Yea, it was within
a foot of me potentially looking in that little window
is terrifying.
Speaker 3: And every time that whatever it is at this point,
you don't know, but the dogs are reacting to it aggressively.
Speaker 1: Yes, they.
Speaker 2: Had a Pug Beagle mix and a pitt German Shepherd
mix and they were both They aren't big enough to
do anything about it if they got to it, but
they were hell bent on getting to it. Whatever it was,
they were not happy about it. And during the day,
like when I'd let them out in the afternoons, they
seemed real interested in searching the hillside and they would
run up and down the woodline and stuff, just sniffing.
So I'm sure whatever it was, they were trying to
figure out where it was coming from, where it was going.
But I had the barns locked, but on the rare
occasion that I would forget to lock them, or I'd
leave the barn door open because it was really hot
in the summer to let some air went through, feed
would disappear again, which in retrospects makes me think these things,
this thing must have been watching the house all the time,
which is another creepy feeling and red like, it's so
weird to think about that. You know, the whistling and
knocking still happened in the mornings when I would go
out to feed and stuff, but just that they would know, like,
oh the doors on today, how's the day to go
see what's going on? And then would that have been
the last winter we were there? So twenty nineteen we
had a male pop belly pig named Buster. He was
three hundred and fifty three hundred and sixty pounds, and
one night he just vanished from his stall.
Speaker 1: Barn was locked, His stall was locked, and this.
Speaker 2: Paddicked that he could get to from his stall outside
was locked, the gates were all locked, but he was
just gone. And it was electric fence. Granted it was
only about three and a half feet tall, because that's
all you need was a pop belly pig. They're not
really good at climbing. He was just gone. No signs
and for anybody that's owned pigs, they don't tend to
want like if you go out with food, they're going
to be right. And we searched for him for days,
never found anything, no signs where he dug his way
in and out.
Speaker 3: So he was in a locked stall inside of a
locked barn.
Speaker 2: Yes, he could access the small paddock outside that was
had an electric fence running around it. And honestly, you know,
coming back to this years later, the only thing I
can think is this thing just reached over and grabbed.
Speaker 3: Him, picked up a three hundred and fifty pound pig.
Speaker 1: It just walked off.
Speaker 2: Because Buster would come out anytime somebody would drive up
the driveway. He would come out to see what was
going on because he assumed he was getting food. And
the only thing I can piece together is that he
walked out because he heard somebody walk up to the
fence at the front of the barn and he was
just taken. Never found any ruts where he was like
loose in the yard of.
Speaker 3: The woods, t tracks, no signs of a struggle, nothing.
Speaker 1: And if you've ever had pigs, when you pick them up,
they shriek.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they don't go quietly into the night.
Speaker 1: Yeah, they do not.
Speaker 2: And no, no, nobody remembers, like, we don't remember hearing anything,
don't remember the dogs ever barking.
Speaker 1: Just we went out to feed and he was gone.
It's baffling.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and went back to it in retrospect again, it's
terrifying to think that this thing, one of these things,
is strong enough to pick him up and just carry
him off. Yeah, the fifty pounds bag, the feeder one thing.
Speaker 1: But I couldn't pick buster up. And I don't know,
it's just crazy.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Did stuff continue to happen after the pig was taken.
Speaker 2: Stuff did just the normal smacking the back of the
house randomly, the whistles in the morning, stuff like that.
But then that followed Spring is when I actually had
my sighting. I stepped out on my front porch and
just out of the periphery on my left was.
Speaker 1: The big open field.
Speaker 2: At the end of it was a pond and there
was something large and brown and at first I thought
it was a bear or maybe like a Saint Bernard
or something. I mean, it was pretty big and it
looked like it was just drinking out of the water
or something.
Speaker 1: But then as I.
Speaker 2: Turned, it kind of popped up into a kneeling position,
and my heart sank.
Speaker 1: I knew that it's not a bear, it's not a dog,
and what the hell this thing is.
Speaker 3: Like on two legs.
Speaker 2: It was almost like it squatting or kneeled like it
was not a posture that a dog takes, and I
mean a bear can pop up like that.
Speaker 1: But it was.
Speaker 2: There for like two or three seconds, and then it
kind of rose up a little bit and just wh
it was swift, gone into the brush line, just gone.
And it's when it got up and it.
Speaker 1: Like moved.
Speaker 2: Bipeeda league that I was like, ah, man, I can't
believe what I just saw. And that's when everything started
clicking together, like, oh, cray, this is what.
Speaker 1: I've been living for three years.
Speaker 2: Then COVID hit and everything shut down and we moved
out that summer, so I was only there for like
three more months after I had my sighting, and those
were like the most sleepless nights of I know what
this is making noise outside. I kind of changed my
feeding schedule to where I would go out as late
as possible before work so that I had the most daylight.
Like I got terrified of. I don't want to be
outside with this thing. Yeah, but I mean it wasn't
huge it I mean I saw it like one hundred
and fifty yards. If I had to guess, it was
my foot six and a half foot.
Speaker 1: But man, it was thick.
Speaker 2: It looks I'm almost six foot and it looked like
it was twice as thick as me.
Speaker 1: It was like a tree trunk.
Speaker 2: It was broad, it had thick legs, and it was
a deep chocolate brown kind of color. And the head
on top almost looked like an almond. I didn't I
couldn't see any facial features or anything, but it was
just imagine a piece of ply would with an almond
on the shape on tuck, and that's what the thing
looked like.
Speaker 3: Could you tell to look shaggy like long hair or
short hair?
Speaker 2: If I had to guess, I would say it looked
like about like a black bear, So I mean not
real shaggy, not long flowing, like not dreads or anything
like that. Yeah, it seemed relatively uniform and clean looking.
And I mean, I'm only guessing that it was drinking.
I don't know what it was doing down there at
the edge of the pond. It could have been drinking,
it could have been, you know, trying to get a turtle.
Speaker 1: I don't know what it was doing.
Speaker 2: It's just my first thought was, oh, there's a bear
trying to drink out of the pond.
Speaker 3: Until it stood up, like it had that profile of
like head closer to the water.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 2: It was almost like if I were to lay down,
it would be me on my like hands and knees. Yeah,
and then just in an unnatural movement, was up into
a kneeling position like I would have to use my
hands to like push off the ground. This thing just
kind of popped up. I don't know if it heard
me or caught scent of me.
Speaker 1: It didn't. I mean, it never looked directly in my direction.
Speaker 2: But it seemed like it got kind of sketched out
and was like all right, time to leave, and it
was just we were gone.
Speaker 3: Sorry, no, you're good man.
Speaker 1: It's starting to feel a little bit like just you know,
talking about it, it's.
Speaker 3: Like, who did the activity change after you had the sighting?
Speaker 2: Not really, I think it was the activity didn't really change.
I changed my behavior. I was super heightened, the wear
like it was nerve wracking. I can't think of any
activity that really changed. Uh.
Speaker 1: I know that I was in the house by nightfall.
I didn't go out until the sun's up.
Speaker 2: Yeah, because after seeing it, I was like, I don't
think I have enough rounds that I could stop one
of the Like, if it's the only one, I don't
think I could stop it let alone. If there's another one,
and from the whistling and knocking and stuff, I'd assume
there had to be more than one.
Speaker 1: In the area.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I would think.
Speaker 2: So, because here are you whistling too if there's nobody
else around.
Speaker 3: You know, did the whistling and knocking continue after that
point whenever you go out.
Speaker 2: Yes, the whistling and stuff in the morning when I
even when I would go out to feed it in
the early morning light, there would still you know, a
few days a week there'd be whistles and knocks.
Speaker 3: And did that always seem to come from the same location.
Speaker 2: Yeah, there was a pretty steep hill right behind my
house which would have overlooked the top of the barn,
and that's where it always seemed to come from. And
I was never brave enough to climb up there and
poke around. I would step into the woodline every now
and then look around before I saw it.
Speaker 1: I would step in and look around. I could never
see anything.
Speaker 2: But with how you know, dense everything was, Yeah, there
could have been something twenty feet away.
Speaker 1: You wouldn't have noticed it.
Speaker 3: Now it was bigfoot. Something that was ever on your
radar prior.
Speaker 2: To this, Uh, not really like a passing thing where
you'd see, you know, some cheesy horror movie. But I
was not, i would say, an enthusiast or anything until
much later, about a year and a half ago, my
son asked me about bigfoot, and that's when all this started,
like popped back into my head and I was like,
oh yeah. And then I started to get interested in
it and started reading and listening to podcasts that came
across s doors. And after listening to about one hundred
and thirty something episodes of your podcast, I was like, Okay,
I feel I could probably share this and not feel
completely insane.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean again, like I know it sounds crazy,
especially to someone that might be listening to this stuff
and just you know, kind of on the fence of it.
Does this really exist or not? It probably doesn't, but
it's entertaining. But I mean, like, your story is just
like pretty typical of the kind of stuff I would hear.
Speaker 2: I've heard a lot of people talk about whistling and
woodknocks and stuff on various podcasts and stuff.
Speaker 3: Well, especially the missing sweet feed, Like that's that's something
I haven't really talked about on this podcast, but years ago. Like, yeah,
I've talked to numerous people. If you want to find
out if you have bigfoot on your property, yeah, yeah,
they love the sweet feed for some reason. I don't
know what it has that they can't get on their own,
but there's something right.
Speaker 2: It would disappear before the corn wood corn was like
the backups food to steel.
Speaker 3: Now, this will probably be a long shot, but do
you know anything about the property before you moved into it?
Speaker 2: From what I know, the gentleman that I bought it
off of had rented it for a number of years
and had the only thing I talked to him at closing,
and I asked him about it, like why did you
put it up for sale? And the only thing he
said was we just couldn't keep renters. So yeah, I don't.
My assumption at this point in my life is I
can understand why he couldn't keep interest because things are creeping,
peeking in the windows and smacking the house.
Speaker 3: Yeah, could you tell if it had sat empty for
a while before you moved in?
Speaker 2: I believe it had been on the market for two
years before I purchased it, so it had been vacant
for a while. I mean, the yard and everything was
real overgrown and everything, which after you're saying that they
were probably having the run of the place, and then
we moved in and messed up there their yard.
Speaker 3: That's sort of another ongoing narrative to this stuff. It
seems whenever people move into property such as that one
that's sat empty for a little while and they've kind
of taken over the area as part of their territory
or whatever, and then you move in and disrupt that,
they let you know. They let you know maybe the
sweet feed and the chickens and the pig they saw
as a form of payment. You know you're gonna you're
gonna pay rent if you're staying here.
Speaker 1: That's a fair way to think about it.
Speaker 3: Yet, whenever you let the property go, did you disclose anything?
Speaker 1: No? I did not.
Speaker 2: I honestly haven't didn't talk about what happened at that
property until about a year ago, just to know, like
we didn't talk to anybody about it, because that whole thing.
People gonna think you're crazy. Sure, I mean, how do
you explain something smacking the.
Speaker 1: Back of your house at night?
Speaker 2: How do you explain animal animals disappearing behind locked doors?
And I mean I thought I was going crazy at
one point. I would check my debit cards, seem like
did I buy feed? Did I buy this as much
as I thought I did?
Speaker 3: You know, I get what you're saying with the missing
chickens and the sweet feed and everything. Maybe your mind
is just looking for an answer, right, So you're you're thinking, Okay, well,
this must be some local teenager just messing with me
or something whatever. But I mean, the whistling and the
knocking and the smacking of the house, Like, how did
you justify any of that?
Speaker 2: I'm going to one hundred percent it was just I
had to be denying what was gone. It was denial
because I didn't know what to think. And like I said,
looking at it, after I saw.
Speaker 1: One of them, it all made sense.
Speaker 2: Yeah, of course that's what this was all the of course,
the thing with hands was opening the doors. Of course,
the thing with hands is what's hitting the house at night.
Speaker 3: I know you don't like talking about the bathroom window,
but I did have a question about the bathroom window. Yes,
how high up was it off the ground?
Speaker 2: The window itself probably sat about seven or seven and
a half feet off the ground, and.
Speaker 3: The one that you saw by the pond.
Speaker 1: Would probably not have been tall enough.
Speaker 2: Yeah, to look in the window that Yep, that is
something I have not thought about.
Speaker 1: That is even scarier.
Speaker 3: I just.
Speaker 1: So big. Yeah, right, that's somebody else's problem with this.
Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean, so there is that way to look
at it. But I mean, I just think that reaffirms
your suspicions that there is more than one. You know,
I agree with you totally. I believe there is one
that was, you know, standing guard over the property, standing
watch or whatever, and alerting at least one other one
whenever someone would come outside.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and I don't is it Hey, he's out here,
or is it Hey when he goes back in, it's
time to check if the.
Speaker 1: Doors are unlocked.
Speaker 2: I know, it's questions I'll never get answered, but you know,
it's things I think about now. What were they doing
and what was going on when I wasn't home?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, there's a lot of rabbit holes you can
go down with this, I know. You know again experiences
that I've heard about over the years. You can't be
on both sides of a house at the same time, right,
so like they can literally just be playing ring around
the rosie with you and you wouldn't even know it.
Speaker 1: Yeah.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but I have a feeling as scary as it was,
I'm sure obviously they weren't acting aggressive, so that's a plus. Yeah,
and I think that you were probably being watched and
a lot closer to them than you realize.
Speaker 2: I again, I'm not there anymore, so I don't I
shouldn't feel as stressed about that statement.
Speaker 1: No, No, thats just.
Speaker 3: But I mean they didn't they didn't take your dogs
or anything, right, Yeah, there was no How can I
say this violent taking of chickens or a violent taking
a buster? Yeah, you know it seemed like they were
just using it as like an extra food source, just
being opportunistic.
Speaker 2: Yeah, you know, and it's winter, can't find anything else,
time to go steal some chickens.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Now, the the interesting thing about the chickens, though,
that I just can't get out of my head is
to get the chickens, they have to undo the latch.
But then they also have to put the hook back through. Yeah,
they have to relock.
Speaker 2: Correct, which is why I think it was easy for
me to deny. It had to be teenagers. It had
to be somebody sneaking over the property.
Speaker 3: Why.
Speaker 1: I don't know why.
Speaker 2: Why I think people would come steal a chicken or two,
but it had to be a person because the doors
were still locked.
Speaker 3: But why would a person still a chicken, you know,
And why would they take just one chicken? And why
would they bother re locking the doors.
Speaker 2: I guess that's the whole denial thing. My brain wanted
to say, this is what makes sense.
Speaker 3: Yeah, so I can't pretend like I know why they
do the things that they do or their thought process, right,
But a lot of this seems like doing things to
see how you're going to react or what you would
do about it. Okay, Okay, Now, whenever you put padlocks
on everything where they couldn't just undo them, that's whenever
the slap int of the house started.
Speaker 1: Yep, which I now think like they were irritated.
Speaker 3: Yeah, And you never had any reason to believe. I mean,
there was no like rock throwing going on or anything.
I never had anything thrown, nothing hitting the roof of
the house.
Speaker 1: Nope.
Speaker 2: It just always sounded like somebody ran up and open
pumps back the back wall.
Speaker 3: And the first time that happened, you ran outside to
see what it was.
Speaker 2: Yeah, several times over the course of that first year
that it happened, I would.
Speaker 1: I mean it got to the point where I kept
a spotlight.
Speaker 2: At the front and back door because I didn't want
to waste time trying to ruck and get the light.
Speaker 3: Yeah, but.
Speaker 2: Looking at like how it laid out, fifteen twenty feet
and in pretty much any direction you were in cover
from the house, So it's not like I was ever
going to catch him. Every now and then, like I said,
I would hear something bulldozing through the brush, or i'd
catch the still a wet or shadow just darting, but
never got a clear sight until the one was at
the pond, and I think that I only got lucky
with that because it was out in the open and
just didn't happen to hear me open the door.
Speaker 3: Did it happen at a normal time that you got
side though.
Speaker 1: I honestly no.
Speaker 2: It would have been later, like nine am, So it
would have been because I'd already fed that morning, so
they might have just thought I was done.
Speaker 1: For the day.
Speaker 3: You've already done your routine, so yeah, it's safe to
come out now.
Speaker 1: I never thought about that, Begeka. It was much later
in the morning.
Speaker 3: And then nothing with the vehicles that seemed suspicious.
Speaker 2: Not that I can recall. I don't remember the cars
ever being messed with. Never, the cars were never messed with.
Had a tractor that never seemed to get messed with.
Speaker 3: Like a lot of times when people have them coming
around like that, if they use like a tractor or
a chainsaw or a lawnmower or something like that, sometimes
there's aggressive reactions to that. There's some bluff charges, are
screaming or things like that.
Speaker 1: I can't say no.
Speaker 2: The only scream I ever heard was right after a
few weeks after we first moved in around Thanksgiving. That's
the only scream. After that, it was all whistles, knocks
and hitting the house. Yeah that first, Yeah, that's the
only scream I can recall.
Speaker 3: And how remote was this?
Speaker 2: Like?
Speaker 3: Where was your closest neighbor.
Speaker 2: The closest While there were several vacant houses down that way,
I would say my closest neighbor was about.
Speaker 1: A mile and a half away, so a good bit.
Speaker 2: A good bit then nobody would have heard me scream.
Speaker 3: Was there any water sources other than the pond?
Speaker 2: There was a across the road for me in the
wildlife area was.
Speaker 1: Like a swampy bog.
Speaker 2: It was only like four or five inches deep, But
I mean it was acres of just still water, which
doesn't sound the greatest to drink, But right, if you're
if you're living back there, nothing's going to come bother
you either. And that's honestly, I think. I think they
had to have been living the wildlife area or the
hillside behind me, or just and I was the hallway
between the two rooms.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And when I moved in that mess with them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, they had to change their route.
Speaker 2: Right the bushogged the field down, which when I moved
in would have been you know, four foot tall, which
would have offered a lot of cover, and now it's
just a big open field.
Speaker 3: Yeah. Might have also offered cover for other animals that
they might have been hunting.
Speaker 1: That's true too. I took, I took away the native wildlife,
so they came after my chickens.
Speaker 3: Maybe, So, so this happened. Uh, you kind of finished
off in twenty twenty, twenty twenty one around and there.
Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, and we moved out the summer of twenty twenty.
Speaker 3: So where are you at with everything now?
Speaker 2: Well, the reason since I've shared my story of people
have asked, did you move because of Bigfoot?
Speaker 1: No?
Speaker 2: I mean after seeing it, I was terrified to be
at my house. But I worked in the travel industry
and COVID happened and everything shut down, and you know,
life as I knew it changed, right, So I moved
up to Akron. And now that I'm you know, not
in the wilderness, and I've gone back and thought about it.
You know, I know what I saw. I can't think
of anything else that it could have been. I mean
took me, you know, five years to you know, reconcile
with it, but nothing else it could have been.
Speaker 3: You said that you listened to podcasts obviously, and m
you started looking into it. I mean, is that something
that you find kind of a drive to do to
try and learn more about it? Do you have interest
in her? Are you wanting to just get some closer
and put it behind you?
Speaker 2: I would say at this point, because I'm not living there,
it's much more of an interest now. And like I mentioned,
my oldest is the one who kind of opened the
floodgate back into it. I don't know if he's watched
TV or something, but he asked me about bigfoot, and
you know, now he's asking to go bigfoot hunting and stuff.
And I'm like, I'm not quite there yet, kid, but
we should read some books or watch a documentary.
Speaker 3: But slow down.
Speaker 1: I don't think.
Speaker 2: I don't think I want to be, you know, in
the tent with one of the things outside.
Speaker 3: I mean, is it just off the table or do
you think you could work up to that point?
Speaker 1: At this point, it's off the table. But that's just me.
Speaker 2: It's like you said, it's not that they anything aggressive.
I mean, I guess the most aggressive thing was looking
in the windows. But it's the thought of these things
are smart enough to open and close latches, strong enough
to pick up fifty pound bags of feed or a
three hundred and fifty pounds pig. The potential for one
of them to do something nasty is there. And I'm
sure they're like people. You have grumpy ones and you
have friendlier.
Speaker 3: Ones, Yeah, for sure.
Speaker 2: But to think that the ones I have were pretty friendly,
yeah they were. They were okay with just getting fed
every now and leaving me be.
Speaker 3: I mean, there's a big difference between people that are
interested in the subject and want to see one, and
then people who had no interest in the subject and
didn't have a choice in the matter and just had
the curtain rip back on them. Not everybody's going to
react the same, right I will.
Speaker 2: Say, I will be happy if I never see one again.
I could lift the rest on my day is completely
content with networth seeing another one. I'm sure other people
have had similar stories, like you said, So the only
thing I can hope is like somebody hears it and goes, well,
I've done I've looked through that too.
Speaker 1: Well.
Speaker 3: I mean, you said in your email you made a
comment about it not being the most exciting big foot encounter,
but I mean, this is the kind of encounter I.
Speaker 1: Love the every day like this is just what they do.
Speaker 3: I mean it's not every day that you know, people
hardly experience this. But you know, you weren't like attacked,
they didn't, you know, sea Yeah, but behavior wise, I mean,
there's a tremendous amount of information here. There's a lot
that can be learned from this. And yeah, you know
it might put in a piece of the puzzle to
somebody else that can use it.
Speaker 1: Or fair enough, Yeah, and be helpful. I'm glad it's
I mean, it's it's world shattering.
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you can't explain, you'd like to share that on the podcast,
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