WEBVTT 1 00:00:02.040 --> 00:00:05.559 Hey, you there, thanks for tuning in. You're ready for 2 00:00:05.599 --> 00:00:09.599 another episode of my big foot sighting. All right, then 3 00:00:10.160 --> 00:00:10.800 let's do this. 4 00:00:11.839 --> 00:00:14.759 Seen a bunch of rundown no horse towns where the 5 00:00:14.839 --> 00:00:19.079 church at the backbone, laws and the bow and the 6 00:00:19.079 --> 00:00:24.480 fasting melodies coove in with the bomb man rose with 7 00:00:24.679 --> 00:00:28.640 the roofs run deep beyond the nose of the busy. 8 00:00:28.280 --> 00:00:32.840 Streets with the songs of the South of su Then. 9 00:00:34.079 --> 00:00:36.880 When I hear the promp porch picking down home rhythm 10 00:00:36.960 --> 00:00:41.000 bringing out I Don't run from Banjung music. 11 00:00:43.039 --> 00:00:53.759 Yeah. If you've had a bigfoot sighting and I would 12 00:00:53.799 --> 00:00:56.240 like to be a guest, please go to my Bigfoot 13 00:00:56.280 --> 00:01:01.320 sighting dot com and let me know. My bigfoot sightings 14 00:01:01.399 --> 00:01:06.400 all happened in southern Ohio. My name is Wes Ruth 15 00:01:07.040 --> 00:01:10.959 and I am an investigator with the BFRO. And I 16 00:01:11.000 --> 00:01:15.439 am also a member of the Northern Kentucky Bigfoot Research 17 00:01:15.519 --> 00:01:19.280 Group and that group is headed up by Tom Jay 18 00:01:19.560 --> 00:01:28.599 out of Kentucky. I began my big footing journey actually 19 00:01:28.599 --> 00:01:35.280 in Kentucky. I growing up, I was an adamant disbeliever 20 00:01:36.000 --> 00:01:42.400 in bigfoot or almost any cryptid. I had seen some 21 00:01:42.480 --> 00:01:48.319 shows on TV that I was really kind of curious 22 00:01:48.359 --> 00:01:53.879 about one of them being the Jersey Devil the Pugwagie. 23 00:01:54.760 --> 00:01:59.640 I thought they were really interesting, but I didn't really 24 00:01:59.640 --> 00:02:05.560 believe even Bigfoot at all. I didn't see how it 25 00:02:05.599 --> 00:02:10.879 would be possible for a creature to be that large 26 00:02:11.319 --> 00:02:16.280 and exist in our modern world, you know, with all 27 00:02:16.319 --> 00:02:21.120 the cameras that we have, with all the people that 28 00:02:21.199 --> 00:02:26.840 traverse the woods, that squatters that live in the forest. 29 00:02:27.599 --> 00:02:31.919 There was just no way that a cryptid that large 30 00:02:32.039 --> 00:02:38.360 could exist on Earth in this day and age. I 31 00:02:38.400 --> 00:02:43.439 didn't discount the fact that there could have been at 32 00:02:43.439 --> 00:02:46.879 Bigfoot at one point in time, but I thought the 33 00:02:46.919 --> 00:02:52.240 whole idea was ludicrous. I wasn't even skeptical. It was 34 00:02:52.639 --> 00:02:59.360 just hardcore adamant this thing cannot possibly exist. You couldn't 35 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:04.280 have shown me any evidence and me have accepted it. 36 00:03:05.120 --> 00:03:11.560 And I believe that's part of where we are today 37 00:03:12.199 --> 00:03:18.719 with the scientific community. It seems like there is an 38 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:26.560 unwillingness to accept an abundance of evidence. And it may 39 00:03:26.599 --> 00:03:32.639 be just the same lines of thinking that I was 40 00:03:32.719 --> 00:03:39.039 going through. I really don't know. But my father, who's 41 00:03:39.159 --> 00:03:43.199 Dusty Ruth, he leads the expeditions for the bf R 42 00:03:44.280 --> 00:03:48.599 in Ohio. He had called me and asked me if 43 00:03:48.639 --> 00:03:53.759 I would go on an expedition with him in Kentucky 44 00:03:54.199 --> 00:03:58.080 with the kb R that group has headed up by 45 00:03:58.240 --> 00:04:06.400 Charlie Raymond, and I reluctantly agreed to go. I assumed, well, 46 00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:10.560 nothing's going to happen. I'm just going to go camping 47 00:04:11.439 --> 00:04:16.079 and then that's going to be pretty much it. Maybe 48 00:04:16.360 --> 00:04:20.120 someone might hoax, I don't know, try to give people 49 00:04:20.439 --> 00:04:25.360 a story to tell. I wasn't really sure what to expect. 50 00:04:26.639 --> 00:04:34.720 But leading up to the expedition, an attendee that's a regular, 51 00:04:35.079 --> 00:04:38.399 or I assume he still is, but he was a 52 00:04:38.480 --> 00:04:43.759 regular at those expeditions. His name is John Gregory. He 53 00:04:43.839 --> 00:04:51.160 had sent me a friend request and he was very 54 00:04:51.199 --> 00:04:54.240 welcoming when I got there, greeted me with a smile. 55 00:04:55.560 --> 00:05:02.839 Everyone down there just seemed very, very very friendly, very 56 00:05:02.920 --> 00:05:09.759 passionate about what they were doing. They really were adamant 57 00:05:09.800 --> 00:05:14.399 about their beliefs, and I got along with the people 58 00:05:14.759 --> 00:05:19.000 really well. I tried not to judge anyone based on 59 00:05:19.079 --> 00:05:26.319 their beliefs. I was honest about not believing, but I 60 00:05:26.439 --> 00:05:30.000 kind of took things in stride, and as the weekend progressed, 61 00:05:30.079 --> 00:05:35.360 I just began hearing and talks and lectures and hearing 62 00:05:35.399 --> 00:05:42.879 people talk. Some people even discussed topics like the forestry, 63 00:05:43.759 --> 00:05:50.439 how the government has began doing conservation efforts, and what 64 00:05:50.600 --> 00:05:55.360 those efforts included. And I thought that it was a 65 00:05:55.800 --> 00:06:00.759 really nice presentation because it wasn't just big foot facts. 66 00:06:00.839 --> 00:06:08.680 I was hearing more scientific arguments and about things that 67 00:06:08.720 --> 00:06:12.879 weren't crypted, and it really resonated with me, and I 68 00:06:12.920 --> 00:06:18.560 thought that was a really nice relief. But there was 69 00:06:18.600 --> 00:06:23.680 a night that we went on night ops and we 70 00:06:24.000 --> 00:06:30.600 went to a location not all that far from base camp. 71 00:06:31.439 --> 00:06:37.160 And on this drive, the ground is it's a very 72 00:06:37.279 --> 00:06:42.279 hilly area, but this road that we're on, the area 73 00:06:42.439 --> 00:06:48.439 around the road begins to get narrower and narrower until 74 00:06:49.199 --> 00:06:53.959 the road begins to enter in an area that is 75 00:06:54.120 --> 00:06:58.240 on a knoll, and surrounding the knoll is a very 76 00:06:58.319 --> 00:07:04.399 deep valley, and outside of that valley is a large hill. 77 00:07:05.439 --> 00:07:09.160 So at the area, we've sometimes referred to it as 78 00:07:09.160 --> 00:07:15.600 being like a fish bowl. Once we exited the vehicles, 79 00:07:18.160 --> 00:07:23.199 within two minutes, there was a knock to the north 80 00:07:24.439 --> 00:07:28.120 that was easily within one hundred yards, maybe even within 81 00:07:28.279 --> 00:07:33.439 fifty yards of our location, and it wasn't two or 82 00:07:33.480 --> 00:07:38.000 three seconds after that knock to the north that there 83 00:07:38.279 --> 00:07:43.360 was the sound. The best way I could describe it 84 00:07:43.439 --> 00:07:51.079 was a decent sized tree being pushed over. And when 85 00:07:51.120 --> 00:07:54.319 I heard the knock and I had seen the people 86 00:07:55.680 --> 00:07:59.199 at the expedition, I saw what teams they were going with, 87 00:07:59.319 --> 00:08:02.439 I was I don't even think I've ever admitted this 88 00:08:02.519 --> 00:08:07.680 to anyone, but I was studying the other people, trying 89 00:08:07.720 --> 00:08:11.000 to memorize who was going with what group, what people 90 00:08:11.720 --> 00:08:15.160 were staying at base camp, so I could take stock 91 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:21.120 of exactly where everyone was in this area. Because again 92 00:08:21.199 --> 00:08:26.600 I didn't know if someone was gonna hoax and bring 93 00:08:26.639 --> 00:08:30.439 about an experience for people or what was going on. 94 00:08:30.600 --> 00:08:34.480 But I heard this knock and the sound of this knock. 95 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:40.200 It's an issue that we sometimes bring up today, but 96 00:08:40.240 --> 00:08:44.279 it doesn't come up a lot. Is the home run knock. 97 00:08:45.720 --> 00:08:48.799 I know, if you find it a stick in the woods, 98 00:08:48.840 --> 00:08:52.320 you're going to be pretty hard pressed to slam it 99 00:08:52.360 --> 00:08:55.039 against a tree and make a sound like that. And 100 00:08:55.240 --> 00:09:01.799 it's really like maple baseball by at hitting a ball 101 00:09:02.759 --> 00:09:09.639 in a professional setting, and it's existing somewhere around fifty 102 00:09:10.720 --> 00:09:13.759 one hundred yards away from me, So it was really 103 00:09:13.799 --> 00:09:18.639 close and I didn't see how a person could make 104 00:09:18.679 --> 00:09:22.440 that sound, and I knew no one else was in 105 00:09:22.480 --> 00:09:27.279 that area. I had studied a topographic map, so I 106 00:09:27.360 --> 00:09:32.759 knew the terrain behind that area before we went, and 107 00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:35.960 it just wasn't logical that a person was back there. 108 00:09:38.200 --> 00:09:41.840 So we heard the knock and then the sound of 109 00:09:42.240 --> 00:09:48.720 what I would describe as a medium to large tree 110 00:09:48.960 --> 00:09:53.480 coming down, and then not too long after that, there 111 00:09:53.639 --> 00:10:00.120 is a single deer that comes into our vicinity stays 112 00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:05.159 near us, which is atypical. I'm not saying that deer 113 00:10:05.360 --> 00:10:09.639 do not approach human beings, but it's pretty rare that 114 00:10:09.720 --> 00:10:13.120 they do that, especially if you're not offering food, you're 115 00:10:13.159 --> 00:10:18.639 not offering shelter. The tips of a deer's ears being 116 00:10:19.080 --> 00:10:24.879 bent down might be a sign of malnourishment, in great distress. 117 00:10:26.279 --> 00:10:29.240 None of those things happened. We didn't have food. You 118 00:10:29.279 --> 00:10:33.559 know that, the tips of the deer's ears weren't pointed down. 119 00:10:34.559 --> 00:10:37.519 But the deer as it came close to us, and 120 00:10:37.639 --> 00:10:41.919 it just stood there. It kept turning its head looking 121 00:10:42.000 --> 00:10:47.799 to the hill that surrounded the knoll, and would check 122 00:10:47.919 --> 00:10:55.679 different spots periodically, and it was acting frantic about being 123 00:10:56.840 --> 00:11:00.799 what I would describe as being paranoid. And I didn't 124 00:11:00.840 --> 00:11:05.320 see a big foot in Kentucky at this point in time. 125 00:11:05.879 --> 00:11:08.399 Actually I don't. I haven't seen a big foot in Kentucky. 126 00:11:09.840 --> 00:11:14.799 But it was just a very, very bizarre incidence, and 127 00:11:14.840 --> 00:11:20.120 from a perspective of the non believer, I could no 128 00:11:20.240 --> 00:11:27.120 longer just look at this and say, well, it can't 129 00:11:27.159 --> 00:11:30.840 be a big foot. There's no such thing. There was 130 00:11:30.919 --> 00:11:34.840 actually substance to it, and despite not seeing it, it 131 00:11:35.000 --> 00:11:39.960 opened my eyes to the possibility of there being a bigfoot, 132 00:11:40.559 --> 00:11:44.960 or being multiple bigfoot in the woods. It was just 133 00:11:45.320 --> 00:11:54.120 a really interesting experience, and it was honestly kind of fantastic, 134 00:11:55.080 --> 00:11:57.919 even though I wasn't at this point, I wasn't a 135 00:11:57.960 --> 00:12:02.279 hardcore non believer. I was airing the realm of being skeptical. 136 00:12:03.759 --> 00:12:08.320 I just needed more proof. The next morning we woke 137 00:12:08.440 --> 00:12:15.000 up and I believe there were two people who had 138 00:12:15.080 --> 00:12:22.799 heard a bigfoot near camp. When I sleep, I am 139 00:12:23.240 --> 00:12:26.919 dead to the world. Absolutely. You might have to shake 140 00:12:27.000 --> 00:12:29.200 me to wake me up. But one of those people 141 00:12:29.279 --> 00:12:35.000 I believe was Ron Ron Leatherman. He had pointed to 142 00:12:35.080 --> 00:12:39.799 an area in the woods. It was about thirty yards 143 00:12:39.919 --> 00:12:46.480 away from where his tent was set up, and they 144 00:12:46.519 --> 00:12:51.320 had heard sounds, they heard something come into camp, and 145 00:12:51.399 --> 00:12:53.960 I didn't really know what to think about it, because 146 00:12:54.320 --> 00:12:57.559 again I didn't hear anything that night, I didn't see anything. 147 00:12:58.679 --> 00:13:04.600 So they announced Tom Shay was at the expedition, and 148 00:13:04.639 --> 00:13:07.360 they announced that he was going to lead a small 149 00:13:07.360 --> 00:13:10.320 team out into the woods to try to find some tracks. 150 00:13:10.840 --> 00:13:15.799 And it didn't seem a lot of people were going 151 00:13:15.840 --> 00:13:19.440 to participate. I didn't know if they had something else 152 00:13:19.440 --> 00:13:22.519 that they wanted to do, or if they were wanting 153 00:13:22.559 --> 00:13:25.759 to take a nap, or what the circumstance was. But 154 00:13:27.440 --> 00:13:33.320 my dad wanted to go. He thought this would would 155 00:13:33.360 --> 00:13:41.120 be an incredible experience. So there was myself, my dad, Dusty, Ruth, 156 00:13:43.639 --> 00:13:52.320 Ben and Rich Taylor. Steve was going, Jim Wilcox was going. 157 00:13:53.320 --> 00:13:57.600 So Tom Shay let us out in the forest in 158 00:13:57.679 --> 00:14:02.519 a formation of a v. Tom Shay was a tracker, 159 00:14:02.879 --> 00:14:08.120 he was in the Army, and he led us out 160 00:14:08.159 --> 00:14:11.840 looking for tracks, and I ended up being the first 161 00:14:11.879 --> 00:14:17.240 person to find an impression in the ground that Tom 162 00:14:17.360 --> 00:14:20.720 Shay after evaluating it and said, yeah, this looks like 163 00:14:20.759 --> 00:14:28.960 a bigfoot. The one side detailed of this was that 164 00:14:30.399 --> 00:14:34.200 it wasn't a full impression of a foot. 165 00:14:35.200 --> 00:14:35.720 It was. 166 00:14:37.240 --> 00:14:40.799 Only about I would say, a quarter of the foot 167 00:14:41.200 --> 00:14:48.120 at most. And my father had casting powder and asked 168 00:14:48.120 --> 00:14:50.039 me if I wanted to cast it, and I said 169 00:14:50.120 --> 00:14:56.320 no today. I look back at it and realized if 170 00:14:56.639 --> 00:15:01.759 I had found it today, I would have cast it, 171 00:15:02.120 --> 00:15:05.200 but at the time I just said, no, that's okay, 172 00:15:05.279 --> 00:15:08.799 I don't really want to cast it. But from that 173 00:15:09.519 --> 00:15:15.960 individual track, Tom was able to get a bearing and 174 00:15:16.440 --> 00:15:20.919 track where this bigfoot had walked, and I ended up 175 00:15:21.080 --> 00:15:26.200 seeing the very next impression in the ground. I believe 176 00:15:26.320 --> 00:15:31.759 he found that one the next one and it was 177 00:15:31.840 --> 00:15:37.039 actually the full foot, and I thought, wow, this is incredible, 178 00:15:38.480 --> 00:15:44.519 and they found it. I believe maybe four more. I 179 00:15:44.559 --> 00:15:48.840 could be wrong about that, but after seeing all these 180 00:15:49.519 --> 00:15:54.320 tracks and seeing how they were individually different, it wasn't 181 00:15:54.639 --> 00:15:59.519 something you could have taken a mold and made, and 182 00:15:59.679 --> 00:16:04.440 so the whole experience really started opening my eyes to 183 00:16:06.519 --> 00:16:10.799 there quite possibly is a such thing as a bigfoot. 184 00:16:11.440 --> 00:16:13.919 It would have been one thing if the tracks had 185 00:16:13.960 --> 00:16:17.120 been all the exact same size and the exact same shape, 186 00:16:18.279 --> 00:16:22.519 the toes in the same position, but every single impression 187 00:16:22.559 --> 00:16:29.320 in the ground was unique, and if someone would have 188 00:16:29.320 --> 00:16:32.360 been out in the woods making these tracks, I would 189 00:16:32.360 --> 00:16:37.480 have known it was. It was just an incredible weekend. 190 00:16:39.399 --> 00:16:42.840 Charlie Raymond was a really good host, and it was 191 00:16:44.960 --> 00:16:48.840 it was so awesome to meet all these people. That's 192 00:16:48.960 --> 00:16:51.759 quite a few of them became really close friends of mine, 193 00:16:52.399 --> 00:16:56.960 and my father is still close friends with probably most 194 00:16:57.000 --> 00:17:02.799 of them that attended. It was just a really cool experienced, 195 00:17:02.840 --> 00:17:07.039 really cool people in a really cool place. We ended 196 00:17:07.119 --> 00:17:10.559 up coming back to his expeditions a few more times 197 00:17:10.599 --> 00:17:19.519 over the years, and I don't know how many outings 198 00:17:19.680 --> 00:17:23.079 my father had been on up to this point, but 199 00:17:23.240 --> 00:17:29.640 this was I believe late April of twenty nineteen. The 200 00:17:29.680 --> 00:17:36.119 next outing that I went to was two months later 201 00:17:36.440 --> 00:17:44.200 in June of twenty nineteen. And up until this point, 202 00:17:44.240 --> 00:17:49.519 my father had never seen a bigfoot, and he had 203 00:17:49.559 --> 00:17:54.480 been out quite a few times looking for bigfoot. He 204 00:17:54.759 --> 00:18:01.920 was a firm believer in bigfoot. He watched all the shows. 205 00:18:01.960 --> 00:18:04.960 And when I say all the shows, I truly mean 206 00:18:05.160 --> 00:18:08.319 all the shows. And I used to laugh about it. 207 00:18:09.240 --> 00:18:12.680 I thought it was just the most ridiculous thing. I mean, 208 00:18:13.400 --> 00:18:16.720 I'm so opposite. I don't even watch TV. That's how 209 00:18:16.759 --> 00:18:18.920 opposite I am. I don't believe in Bigfoot. I'm not 210 00:18:18.960 --> 00:18:23.880 going to watch this show. Are you seriously watching this dad? Well, 211 00:18:23.880 --> 00:18:28.920 we went on the expedition in Ohio that was hosted 212 00:18:29.000 --> 00:18:33.640 by the BFRORO. So this is two months later and 213 00:18:34.559 --> 00:18:39.559 the very first night, my father is leading a team 214 00:18:40.880 --> 00:18:45.720 and on this team there are some other people that 215 00:18:45.799 --> 00:18:54.680 are BFRO. One of them is Lorie John Gregory came 216 00:18:55.799 --> 00:18:58.480 amazing guy. I got to hang out with him again, 217 00:19:00.079 --> 00:19:01.920 and we had a few more people on the team 218 00:19:04.400 --> 00:19:07.319 and we ended up going to a place that was 219 00:19:07.440 --> 00:19:15.039 a trailhead. This is in southern Ohio and all of 220 00:19:15.079 --> 00:19:18.799 my sidings are are in southern Ohio. It's it's a 221 00:19:19.200 --> 00:19:21.519 it's not that northern Ohio. You can't see a big 222 00:19:21.599 --> 00:19:25.480 Foot up there, because you can absolutely there have been 223 00:19:25.599 --> 00:19:31.359 some reports of sidings recently in northern Ohio. I live 224 00:19:31.440 --> 00:19:36.440 in southern Ohio and it's it's just a fantastic place 225 00:19:36.480 --> 00:19:42.720 to have an experience, really homely area. I love the hills, 226 00:19:42.799 --> 00:19:47.799 I love the forest down here. It's just home. So 227 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:54.599 we're on a trailhead set up, but it's it's pretty 228 00:19:54.599 --> 00:19:58.119 deep in the forest and if I remember correctly, you 229 00:19:58.119 --> 00:20:01.559 don't even have cell phone service this area. I mean, 230 00:20:01.599 --> 00:20:05.559 we are in the sticks. So as soon as we 231 00:20:05.599 --> 00:20:09.359 pull into this area, we set up our chairs in 232 00:20:09.440 --> 00:20:12.839 a circle, all facing each other so we can look 233 00:20:12.920 --> 00:20:17.319 over each other's backs and shoulders to make sure we 234 00:20:17.359 --> 00:20:21.160 can see what's going on around us. And I believe 235 00:20:21.200 --> 00:20:26.720 there are seven of us in this group. And we 236 00:20:26.799 --> 00:20:34.400 begin hearing very gentle footfalls in the forest. And one 237 00:20:34.400 --> 00:20:37.759 of the incredible things and frustrating is that some of 238 00:20:37.799 --> 00:20:40.480 the loudest sounds you'll hear in the forest that come 239 00:20:40.559 --> 00:20:46.880 from an animal are going to be the smallest. The squirrels. 240 00:20:47.440 --> 00:20:50.559 They're going to tear things up and chip monks and 241 00:20:51.160 --> 00:20:55.079 really cause a racket. But it's just so amazing that 242 00:20:56.400 --> 00:21:00.799 something so large could be so quiet. Actually, when a 243 00:21:01.599 --> 00:21:08.880 bigfoot was walking, the footfall just the foot actually managed 244 00:21:08.880 --> 00:21:11.480 to land on a small stick and you'd hear a 245 00:21:11.480 --> 00:21:15.200 little snap, and it could have been a large stick 246 00:21:15.240 --> 00:21:21.079 as well, because of the possible foot padding, all that 247 00:21:21.240 --> 00:21:26.720 fat mass on the bottom of the foot dampening the 248 00:21:26.759 --> 00:21:32.880 sound of you know, six hundred to one thousand pounds 249 00:21:33.640 --> 00:21:39.440 being could really dampen that sound. So it kind of 250 00:21:39.480 --> 00:21:48.480 got our attention and at first, the footfalls were happening 251 00:21:48.640 --> 00:21:54.279 very slowly and sporadically, seemed to come from one very 252 00:21:54.640 --> 00:22:02.640 general area, definitely within fifty yards of us, but we 253 00:22:02.839 --> 00:22:07.240 really didn't see anything. There was a lot of vegetation, 254 00:22:09.759 --> 00:22:16.000 quite a few trees in the area on one side 255 00:22:16.119 --> 00:22:20.759 of the trailhead where all the sounds were coming from 256 00:22:22.920 --> 00:22:26.319 the other side of the trail starts to go down 257 00:22:26.559 --> 00:22:30.160 and gets a little bit more steep and more steep 258 00:22:30.559 --> 00:22:33.799 as it goes down the hill, and on the other 259 00:22:34.000 --> 00:22:39.119 side of us. As soon as you clear the trailhead 260 00:22:39.839 --> 00:22:44.839 the train it's fairly flat, but you have to go 261 00:22:45.000 --> 00:22:51.519 up a hill maybe five ten feet, but then it 262 00:22:51.559 --> 00:22:55.599 gets gently rolling. But all these sounds were coming from 263 00:22:55.640 --> 00:23:00.279 down the hill, and then a few minutes later, out 264 00:23:00.279 --> 00:23:05.720 of nowhere, things begin getting thrown. At first we begin 265 00:23:05.839 --> 00:23:10.200 to think that maybe there's debris falling out of the trees. 266 00:23:11.359 --> 00:23:16.160 It happens, but being June isn't really the month that 267 00:23:16.240 --> 00:23:21.720 we expect a lot of debris falling. And the fall definitely, 268 00:23:23.039 --> 00:23:28.759 I've heard so many walnuts and acorns coming down the fall. 269 00:23:29.400 --> 00:23:35.839 It gets loud very quick, but being in June, we 270 00:23:35.880 --> 00:23:38.640 didn't really expect it. What we thought it was natural 271 00:23:38.720 --> 00:23:42.920 because there were so few coming down at first, but 272 00:23:42.960 --> 00:23:45.720 then when we begin to figure out that they're actually 273 00:23:45.759 --> 00:23:50.480 being thrown, that kind of was a game changer for us. 274 00:23:51.440 --> 00:23:59.039 Well more, an more acorns get thrown, and one of 275 00:23:59.079 --> 00:24:02.799 these acorns managed to hit a kid that was on 276 00:24:02.839 --> 00:24:08.079 our team. His name is Wyatt. He was fourteen. He 277 00:24:08.799 --> 00:24:12.960 absolutely pelted and I don't mean to laugh about it, 278 00:24:13.039 --> 00:24:16.359 but it was just the shock and surprise of him 279 00:24:16.400 --> 00:24:21.279 getting pelted. Me. He hollered something out I don't even remember, 280 00:24:22.279 --> 00:24:25.000 but it was kind of funny. But he didn't get 281 00:24:25.039 --> 00:24:29.000 seriously injured, but it was just the shock and surprise 282 00:24:29.559 --> 00:24:32.279 and how he handled it was just kind of kind 283 00:24:32.319 --> 00:24:35.119 of funny. He didn't get freaked out, which is a 284 00:24:35.200 --> 00:24:41.759 really good thing. But after that, a Wyatt brought his 285 00:24:42.880 --> 00:24:47.599 thermal with him. He had a fleer, maybe a TK model, 286 00:24:48.400 --> 00:24:52.799 and he was scanning the area and my father had 287 00:24:52.839 --> 00:24:58.119 his fleaer with him, and they were sort of sitting 288 00:24:58.200 --> 00:25:02.200 on opposite sides of the circle, so Whyatt was looking 289 00:25:02.240 --> 00:25:05.799 over my dad's back and my dad was looking over 290 00:25:05.880 --> 00:25:12.039 Whyatt's back. A little while later, the footfalls begin to 291 00:25:12.119 --> 00:25:16.519 get louder, and to me it sounded like they weren't 292 00:25:16.839 --> 00:25:22.720 just occurring in one general area anymore. They were still 293 00:25:22.799 --> 00:25:26.319 happening where we first heard them, in the direction that 294 00:25:26.640 --> 00:25:32.400 the acorns were coming from, but they were also happening 295 00:25:33.279 --> 00:25:38.759 within maybe seventy five yards of us, in a different direction. 296 00:25:39.759 --> 00:25:43.039 So if one was happening, the majority of it was 297 00:25:43.079 --> 00:25:48.599 happening to the south. I began hearing footfalls happening off 298 00:25:48.640 --> 00:25:56.519 to the west. And then Whyatt exclaims while looking out 299 00:25:56.720 --> 00:26:04.759 of his thermal, I see bigfoot and my father doesn't. 300 00:26:05.559 --> 00:26:07.599 I don't know what he was thinking when he heard it, 301 00:26:07.640 --> 00:26:12.559 but you never know, because some people have mistaken claims 302 00:26:12.599 --> 00:26:16.480 where they believe they see or hear something, but they're 303 00:26:16.559 --> 00:26:24.559 just mistaken about what it is. So my father just says, oh, really, well, 304 00:26:25.200 --> 00:26:31.200 where is it? And my father is passing his thermal 305 00:26:31.799 --> 00:26:35.759 back and forth between him and I so I can 306 00:26:35.799 --> 00:26:39.640 get a chance to look and kind of get a 307 00:26:39.680 --> 00:26:45.480 feel for the for the monocular, and at this point 308 00:26:45.519 --> 00:26:50.720 in time, I have his monocular. So when my father 309 00:26:51.200 --> 00:26:57.119 asks why where the bigfoot is, WHYAT whispers to him, 310 00:26:57.799 --> 00:27:03.359 it's right behind you. And it really shocked my dad. 311 00:27:04.039 --> 00:27:07.720 That was kind of funny. Also, so at this point, 312 00:27:07.799 --> 00:27:10.880 why it's the only one that's seen it. We don't 313 00:27:10.960 --> 00:27:15.359 know if that's exactly what he's seeing or not. But 314 00:27:16.519 --> 00:27:19.039 I decide to take a look and see if I 315 00:27:19.079 --> 00:27:25.160 can try to identify why it is looking at and 316 00:27:26.200 --> 00:27:32.599 we are both, I believe, using white hot settings. So 317 00:27:32.759 --> 00:27:38.880 I start scanning the area behind my father, and unfortunately, 318 00:27:38.920 --> 00:27:44.279 when you look through night vision and a thermal monocular 319 00:27:44.640 --> 00:27:50.680 or any type of thermal camera, if you have a 320 00:27:50.680 --> 00:27:55.119 a heat source or a large image in front of 321 00:27:55.160 --> 00:27:59.000 what you're trying to view, the background can get blurred 322 00:27:59.039 --> 00:28:04.200 out or get water out because of the heat or 323 00:28:04.319 --> 00:28:09.319 the radiating light coming off of an object, you know, 324 00:28:09.359 --> 00:28:15.119 if you're using a night vision. But I end up 325 00:28:15.160 --> 00:28:20.039 looking around my father and I see a little bit 326 00:28:20.079 --> 00:28:22.799 of something on beside a tree, but I don't know 327 00:28:22.839 --> 00:28:25.960 what it is. It's sort of is the same color 328 00:28:26.440 --> 00:28:30.519 of the tree in my mind, so I don't know 329 00:28:30.559 --> 00:28:37.400 what to think. The next thing I know is this 330 00:28:37.559 --> 00:28:43.160 white hot setting. If something is abnormally hot compared to 331 00:28:43.200 --> 00:28:48.559 its surroundings, it will be maybe like a pinkish or 332 00:28:49.559 --> 00:28:56.480 almost red. I see these dots that look like there's 333 00:28:56.519 --> 00:29:02.519 space about three inches apart in the area, and the 334 00:29:02.599 --> 00:29:08.079 seat signature was to the left of the tree. To 335 00:29:08.119 --> 00:29:10.279 the left of the tree in that area, I see 336 00:29:10.319 --> 00:29:17.039 these two blazing hot little circles that are about three 337 00:29:17.240 --> 00:29:22.079 maybe four inches apart, I can't tell. And then it's 338 00:29:22.160 --> 00:29:27.000 all of a sudden it dawned on me, Wait a minute, 339 00:29:27.279 --> 00:29:32.039 you're if you view eyeballs through a fermal monocular, they're 340 00:29:32.079 --> 00:29:37.839 going to glow just like this is. I don't know 341 00:29:37.880 --> 00:29:40.119 if I stood up, but I know I was thinking 342 00:29:40.200 --> 00:29:44.440 about it because it just floored me. Because I'm thinking, 343 00:29:44.920 --> 00:29:47.599 down this hill, there can't be a person down this hill. 344 00:29:48.480 --> 00:29:52.799 Something is standing there on two feet, peeking out behind 345 00:29:52.799 --> 00:29:57.440 a tree, and I know it's not human, and so 346 00:30:00.160 --> 00:30:09.039 I am just absolutely blown away, and I just stay 347 00:30:09.160 --> 00:30:12.559 to the group. I see it. I see what he's 348 00:30:12.599 --> 00:30:17.640 talking about. That's a bigfoot. And I had asked my 349 00:30:17.759 --> 00:30:21.920 father if so. They asked me questions and about how 350 00:30:21.960 --> 00:30:25.400 far away it is, how big it is. Of course, 351 00:30:25.480 --> 00:30:29.240 I have no idea. I've never seen this place in 352 00:30:29.279 --> 00:30:32.559 the light. I don't know the size of these trees, 353 00:30:34.079 --> 00:30:37.920 so I can't really answer many other questions except the 354 00:30:38.039 --> 00:30:41.559 general area of where it is. So I asked my 355 00:30:41.680 --> 00:30:43.799 father if he wanted to look at it and he 356 00:30:43.880 --> 00:30:47.240 did well. He tried to turn and couldn't see it. 357 00:30:47.680 --> 00:30:50.279 So I said, well, why don't you slowly stand up, 358 00:30:51.279 --> 00:30:55.200 come over to one where I am, turn around, and 359 00:30:55.240 --> 00:30:59.039 I'll guide you to the area. So he did that 360 00:30:59.119 --> 00:31:03.759 and couldn't see it. Well. Then I had to move 361 00:31:03.839 --> 00:31:07.799 his hand while he's holding the thermal to the area 362 00:31:08.440 --> 00:31:11.680 and then he saw it. And Whyatt at the time 363 00:31:12.160 --> 00:31:17.720 was recording with his with this flear so we were 364 00:31:17.759 --> 00:31:21.440 able to obtain the footage from that the next morning 365 00:31:22.720 --> 00:31:29.440 when we got back. Well, more sounds were heard that night, 366 00:31:29.759 --> 00:31:36.240 and Whyatt was able to keep an eye on on 367 00:31:36.319 --> 00:31:42.000 the big foot. But while when my father was done, 368 00:31:42.480 --> 00:31:46.720 he handed the thermal back to me and I went 369 00:31:46.799 --> 00:31:52.400 back to where I was sitting. But Bori had kept 370 00:31:52.400 --> 00:31:58.000 reminding people it checked the trees, checked the area surrounding us, 371 00:31:58.079 --> 00:32:00.960 because you don't always know what's going on on other 372 00:32:01.119 --> 00:32:04.839 sides of you, so you need to be aware of 373 00:32:04.880 --> 00:32:07.920 all of your surroundings, not just where you see a bigfoot. 374 00:32:08.799 --> 00:32:13.319 So I began scanning in other areas and up the 375 00:32:13.440 --> 00:32:18.759 trail about seventy five to one hundred yards away, I 376 00:32:18.799 --> 00:32:25.240 saw a different bigfoot crossing the trail. And again I 377 00:32:25.319 --> 00:32:29.440 saw the eyes glowing and I could see that it 378 00:32:29.559 --> 00:32:35.759 was walking on two feet, and I was florida. How 379 00:32:35.799 --> 00:32:40.319 it moved. It was so bizarre because the feet were moving, 380 00:32:41.400 --> 00:32:44.319 its head was pointed at me the whole time. It 381 00:32:44.440 --> 00:32:50.599 was looking at me, but it was like it's chest 382 00:32:50.920 --> 00:32:54.519 wasn't going up and down. If we were taking steps 383 00:32:54.599 --> 00:32:58.599 as humans, you might expect the shoulders to go up 384 00:32:58.640 --> 00:33:02.240 and down when we went, but this thing wasn't doing that. 385 00:33:03.039 --> 00:33:06.240 And I could see the legs moving, but I couldn't 386 00:33:06.960 --> 00:33:10.640 see shoulders going up and down, So it was it 387 00:33:11.880 --> 00:33:19.279 really confused me, and I could hear more footfalls coming 388 00:33:19.319 --> 00:33:26.759 in from behind me. So the trail where I saw 389 00:33:26.880 --> 00:33:30.799 the big foot crossing was to the west, where I 390 00:33:30.799 --> 00:33:34.680 could hear footfalls happening to the north behind me and 391 00:33:34.759 --> 00:33:38.640 to the east, And in my mind, I'm thinking, well, 392 00:33:38.720 --> 00:33:43.559 there's several of them around us, and I can't see them. 393 00:33:43.599 --> 00:33:46.960 So I can't say that for certain, but to this day, 394 00:33:48.480 --> 00:33:57.359 I feel like it was possible that we saw two 395 00:33:58.680 --> 00:34:02.000 and there were possibly two or three more that we 396 00:34:02.079 --> 00:34:07.599 didn't see around us. And that next day we were 397 00:34:07.680 --> 00:34:12.440 interviewed by Mark der Worth on what we saw and 398 00:34:12.480 --> 00:34:17.920 what occurred, and we went back to investigate the scene, 399 00:34:18.239 --> 00:34:26.280 and I believe that there were either four or five, 400 00:34:27.159 --> 00:34:32.639 maybe even six tracks that were cast at this occurrence. 401 00:34:32.760 --> 00:34:39.639