Speaker 1: Hey everyone, and welcome to the Sasquatch Theory podcast. On
this episode of Sasquatch Theory, I am talking with Jim
from Tennessee. Jim shares a series of strange encounters that
began in Pennsylvania and later on in Ohio. What started
as a relaxing camping trip with his friends quickly turn
into a night filled with fear, crashing sounds, rocks being
thrown into the river, and the overwhelming feeling that something
massive was watching from the darkness. Later on, Jim had
a strange encounter in Ohio where he watched a dark
figure manipulating a brush pile and bending branches before disappearing
over a hill. If you enjoy listening to Sasquatch Theory,
you can help support the channel by liking the video,
subscribing to the channel, and hitting the bell notification. And
if you have a bigfoot or crypt encounter that you
would like to share with me here on the podcast,
feel free to reach out sometime at Sasquatch Theory at
outlook dot com. With all that being said, let's dive
straight into Jim's terrifying encounters from Pennsylvania and Ohio. All right,
Jim Welcome to Sasquatch Theory. How are you doing today.
Speaker 2: Hey, excellent. Thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: Absolutely, it's a pleasure to have you on the show. Jim,
If you would tell me a little bit about yourself,
where you're from, and your Bigfoot encounters and experiences from
the very beginning, please.
Speaker 2: Yeah. I'm thirty nine, I'm in Middle Tennessee. I work
a decent blue collar job. I've got my master's degree
in philosophy back in twenty eleven, which is somewhere around
the time when the encounter occurred. I have to be honest,
I'm not exactly sure that the year anymore. If people
wanted to go back. I did a show a long
time ago. I think it was called Bigfoot Tonight Radio
or something. The host is no longer with us, but
I had the exact year back then, but I can't
remember now. I think it was somewhere in the two
thousand and nine to twenty eleven era.
Speaker 1: Okay, if you would tell me about this experience that
you had, kind of put me in your shoes and
describe everything with as much detail as possible, please.
Speaker 2: Yeah. So this was in western Pennsylvania, specifically in Fayette County,
or maybe the next county over, because we were on
the river. What happened was there. It's on the mononga
Hilla River, the closest, the closest sort of big town.
And by big town, I mean it's an abandoned coal
mining town with like a pharmacy and a small little
diner in the area. But it's called Brownsville, Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
And anyways, we would go up there in the summers
and load all our camping gear on a boat and
just go up the river till we found a nice
place to camp. This particular time, we found a nice
sandy shore, and right behind it was a big not
quite a mountain, but a monstrous hill of a slate
that's a byproduct of producing coal, or at least mining
the coal rather, And right across the river you would
ever see it from the from the river or from
the shore we were on. But a little ways across
the river is a little place called Crucible, And if
you look on Google Maps you can see it. It's
it's called Crucible. It's in western Pennsylvania. And if you
go directly across the river from this little village of
like two blocks of coal mining houses, you'll see this
big shale mountain. And if you look there and follow
go look at the shale mountain and then kind of
go back towards Cruicible, right where the bank is, and
you might even still see that sandy shore. I looked
maybe a year ago and you could still see it.
But anyhow, that's a good reference mark for where this
happened at. So anyways, I got up there on a Thursday.
This is in the summer. It could have been June
or July, I can't remember. But I got up there
myself on a maybe a Thursday or a Friday. I
set the camp up and everything, and I was gonna
go pick the guys up later. And uh, nothing out
of the ordinary whatsoever. I had been on this river,
not my whole life, but probably half my life. So
I'd been in these woods in this river. I four
wheeled on there. We had a little cottage that we
would go to up there, so I'm familiar with the
area and the sounds, the sites, everything like that, you know.
And this is probably just in retro spector in hindsight,
rather that every time I would walk up the the
rain ruts or something to go to the bathroom, or something.
I kind of I felt like maybe I wasn't alone
or was being watched, But uh, I'm a little superscis
in that regard anyways, so I didn't think any anything
of it at the time. So everything's normal. I get
a camp set up where we have one big tent
and it's it's it's basically like an easy up with
just screens around it, so you're not covered. Anybody can
see in it. It's wide open. And then a buddy
would later on that night set a tent up. But
so the other guys get to the docks, so I
pack up. I go down and pick them up, load
their gear up. We set camp up. That evening. Nothing
out of normal happened. It was a wonderful evening, good weather. Overnight.
I woke up a few times and quiet as could be,
nothing out of the ordinary. The next day we load
the boat up. We're going fishing, we're going boating, We're
going in and out all day long. I'm bringing this
boat right up onto the sandy shore and just beaching it.
And so we're going in and out land in different
spots in this on this sandy shore. And because it's
a river, the drop off is really steep, so you
walk out more than a foot off the shore and
you're dropping down into ten foot of water, twenty foot
of you know, and so so on. So we're coming
in and out. We have a great day, and it's
getting towards the evening and U around. I think it
was about eight o'clock or maybe nine o'clock. I was
the first one to start getting tired, and they're all
pretty much everyone else is just kind of sitting around
the campfire, finishing off food and stuff. And so I
go to bed and I lay there for a little
bit listening to them, and then I'm out, and one
by one the other guys make their way in and
I fall back asleep. And finally when the last guy
got in the tent, there was three of us total
in the big tent, and then there was one guy
in the small tent. And when we went to bed,
I mean we left everything out. Their skillet's full of
baked beans and you know, meat bones laying around and
food all over the place. We did not I've seen
a bear in that area before, but it was from
far away, and honestly, I just really didn't think about it.
So we left. We left everything laying out. Well, by
the time the last guy got in the tent, he
was being It's not that he was being loud, but
it was enough for me to wake up. And by
this time, I'm guessing it's midnight or so. And once
he's in and he moves around and gets settled in,
I'm wide awake. So I'm just laying there and very
very peaceful evening and start to hear stuff up behind
me and using the the the the slate hill behind
us as reference. My back is to that that hill,
and I'm facing the river, and because we were at
a slight incline, I could actually just see if without
lifting my head up, I could just open my eyes
and kind of see the river, and very very peaceful. Well, anyways,
back towards that that hill, I start hearing just a
little bit of rustling here and there. I think, okay,
that's a squirrel. And then you hear like rocks kind
of roll down a little bit. So it's like dang it,
and it's it's getting louder and more frequent, like the movement.
And I don't hear there. I don't hear any footsteps
or anything like that. I just hear brush rattling around,
maybe just the leaf cover on the ground, you know,
just being rustled around. Well, whatever's making the noise is
getting closer, and as it's getting closer, it's getting louder,
more frequent, and I'm starting to get a little nervous
because now instead of me thinking it's a squirrel, I'm
starting to think, Okay, it's like a big deer or something.
And not that I'm necessarily scared, but like, if it's
gonna get close enough, what if it's not a deer
and it's a bear. Geez? We left all this food
laying out, and I'm starting to think, like, oh my gosh,
I'm really messed up. And I don't hear any breathing,
any animal noises, I don't smell anything, but it's getting
louder and louder, and it's getting really close now. So finally,
I don't know what the timeframe of this was, but finally,
after some time, whatever it is, I know it's not
a deer or something anymore, because it sounds like it
is directly behind my head and it's just grabbing the
biggest branch that it can and just violently shaking it
to where it's I mean, it doesn't sound like a
bulldozer because it's not making forward progress, but it's just
so loud whatever it is. And what was kind of
unique about the sound is that it would like go
from kind of end to end of the camp, but
it never lost its presence, you know, like if it
goes to the left side, you think you wouldn't hear
it as much as when it goes to the right side,
right next to your head. But it had a presence
around the whole camp. And this went on for what
seemed like like fifteen minutes, but I'm sure it was
much less than that. And I was so frightened. And
I know it sounds trite to say that I was
paralyzed with fear, but when I look back, I really was,
because I told myself that, like, if you move, it's
going to see that you moved, and then what's it
going to do if it knows you're awake? And then
my other thought simultaneously was if I if I turn
around and see it, I might not want to see
what it is because I'll be scared. Because I was
convinced at that point that whatever it was, it wasn't
a typical animal for the area. A bear, he wouldn't
have done that. He would have just went over started
licking the pots and pans and digging through all our stuff.
If it was a deer. A deer wouldn't have the
capacity to do that. So and I didn't. I didn't
hear any footsteps or anything. It wasn't It was just
so unusual how the and when it was earlier, when
it was coming down and like making noise randomly, I
could hear the noise these the brush rattling getting closer,
but I never heard something approaching, you know, at the
same time. So this is going on, and I'm at
the height of the fear. I don't know what it is,
but it is right behind me. And because where our
tent was, it was directly where the brush line started,
So I mean, I don't know, but I was very scared.
And this went on for however many minutes, and finally
I heard the guy in the other tent kind of
like moving around, and it almost from the best I
can remember now, like instantaneously stopped once that that noise happened.
Once he or whatever it was heard the noise coming
from the other tent, it just stopped. And so I'm
sitting there and I'm waiting, and it is as silent
as I had ever heard it. There no noises, and
I'm very scared now because it's like, well, what's it
going to do next? And so I'm sitting there in fear,
just kind of almost tensing up because I'm expecting like
an impact or a loud noise or the tent to
come crashing down. And however, many minutes later it was
I heard a huge splash in the water, and since
I didn't have to like move my head or anything,
I was looking at the river, I saw, like you know,
ripples in the water traveling away. It was a huge splash.
It wasn't a fish, and it wasn't even a big
fish either. I mean, not even a big fish would
have made the sound. It had that deep ker plunk
sound that we all easily associate with, you know, a
big rock plunging into the water, And so that's why
I assumed it was. And then it was silent again
for a little bit, and then another huge splash, and
at that point I heard more rustling in the other tent,
and then as the dude was unzipping his as he
was unzipping his tent. I heard another huge splash, and
I was looking at the water, and this time I
didn't really see the I didn't really see the ripples
or anything. So I'm looking and he gets out. My buddy,
he gets out of his tent and he starts storming
over to us, and he's in a deep voice yelling us.
He's like, hey, you guys were throwing rocks up there.
And I jumped up. I like instantly sat up, and
I'm like, dude, I don't know what's going on when
they're all in here, they're sleeping, these two guys. The
guy's next to him, you didn't even wake up. And
that was so bizarre to me because it was so loud.
And he said, well, what's going on? What was that
noise that was so loud. I'm like, dude, I don't know,
but it was right behind my head, you know. And
he's like, what the hell is that? And you know,
he's freaked out too. Apparently he was listening the whole time,
and he was like, man, it was like I could
hear it there. I could hear it there. It was
so loud. It sounded like somebody's shaking trees. And I'm like,
I know, man, So I I was so thankful that
he was up and that there was just somebody else there.
So we get up and uh, we uh just are
kind of talking about it. He heard the same things
I did. He's you know, he said he kind of
heard little noises and then it got louder louder louder.
So we we experienced the same thing, and we got
a fire going, and we we stayed up till like
the morn, till like four or something in the morning.
And by that point, you know, a few hours later,
those guys got up. So we were up and you know,
we asked them and they said, no, oh no, we
didn't hear anything. So I don't know what that was
all about. But so me and him are the one
guy that also heard it. Were kind of freaked out.
But also we planned on staying two more days there
and nothing happened to us, so we decided to just
continue on. So we get ourselves together, get breakfast or whatever,
and then we decided to go out. So we loaded
the boat up. We had been in and out of
this beach, like I said earlier, all all day long.
So we get in the boat and I back up
and I hit something just on the side of the
boat when I'm trying to turn to back out, and
so I pulled back forward and me and one of
the other guys, one of the guys that was actually
a sleep, we're like kind of looking around and we
find a really big rock. I don't know, maybe there's
it was a size of a small backpack or maybe
a medium sized backpack, and I don't really remember how
thick it was, but a medium sized backpack is a
pretty good measure, and it's it's sitting there in the
sand in the bank, you know, if like a right
off the shore, and I'm like, dude, we've been coming
in and out here all week and this wasn't here.
And they were all kind of looking like, yeah, I
don't know, just maybe missed it or something, but I
know we didn't because it's not like it wasn't a
it's not a huge shore or anything. And I kind
of tried to go generally in the same area, but
you know, in and out all day whatever. So we're
kind of looking. We picked the rock up and launch
it off into the channel, and it took the two
of us to get it, and then I'm started looking
around because I'm starting to piece it together, and I
find another one and it's around the same size. And
we launched that one, and I was thinking I was
going to find a third one naturally, and I looked
around and I didn't see anything. But that was so
to me. I know that something threw that in there,
and but it was it was a very frightening experience
at the time, and the more I look back at it, I, uh,
it got me thinking. So a little while later I started,
uh like looking at the bf R thing because when
even when the next morning, when we were telling the
guys that were asleep about it, I said, that's like
what they say bigfoot does, and they they laughed. The
one dude, the one dude that experienced it too, he
he didn't think it was funny. He was like thinking
the same thing I was. And but that stayed in
my mind, and uh so, uh anti climatically, nothing else
really happened on that trip. It was pretty uneventful. We
actually stayed another night. I don't think we stayed the
two nights, but we stayed another night and nothing happened.
Was I was actually spooked, and I don't know why
I was. I wasn't so scared that night to go
to sleep. But at any rate, when we got back,
I kind of started looking online and I noticed that
where that was, where that had happened, there's a fairly
significant history of sightings and encounters and stuff there. This
is kind of in the same general region as a
Stan Gordon's whole thing from the seventies, I think or
the eighties where they had the rash of bigfoot sidings
and they coincided with a UFO siding either before or
after the Bigfoot siding. So it's in that area. And
then if you look on the BFRO they've there's sidings
in that county and in the surrounding counties, and it
makes sense it's very depopulated. This used to be a
booming coal It used to be booming coal country. I mean,
all the big conveyors and stuff are still up, they're rusted,
and they still do col there to this day. But anyways,
after I had done research, I was pretty confident that
it was a big Foot experience. I didn't smell anything.
And another thing that was that puzzled me after I'd
really absorbed the experience was that the rocks that we
heard they were kind of off to the left of us,
and you know, once that tent started on zipping, I
didn't hear any footsteps running away or something moving away
from the tents, nothing like that. And that, I honestly
think that's the most puzzling piece of the encounter to me,
was that you think you would have heard footsteps or
something running or laying down or anything. But whatever it was,
it had to move from behind directly behind me to this,
you know, off to the left of our camp to
go throw rocks, and you know, I didn't hear any
rocks getting picked up. I started thinking about it. I
didn't even see many rocks laying around there. I mean,
there were some small ones like in the rain rut,
but that was a you know, that was that was it.
So that was kind of the most puzzling aspect of that.
And I've heard some theories over the years about how
they can move silently and all that, but yeah, that
was a that was a that was the most impactful
experience I had, certainly, at least with what I presumed
to be bigfoot.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and it sounds like a chilling experience. Why do
you think they were displaying this type of behavior. What
do you think their goal was.
Speaker 2: I initially thought that, uh, it was maybe to scare
us off, but I don't necessarily, I don't believe that anymore.
And that could be partially because I've heard so many
encounters now it's more and more common where people say
that they're very interested in people and they just kind
of want to see how you're going to react to
things they do, or they just want to see you
do something. And so now I sort of less so
think because if they wanted to intimidate us and scare
us away, they had two other knights to do it,
and they could have been a lot more aggressive, you know,
if they wanted to. But I mean, they just threw
stuff into what they could have thrown stuff at us.
So I think they were honestly just trying to get
a reaction out of us, or just to see if
we were awake. Maybe I don't they couldn't cross the river.
Well if they could that I don't know how they would.
But yeah, I think they were just trying to get
a reaction.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And I know exactly how you feel. And
when these things come around your campsite, it's definitely a
chilling feeling put you on edge, and you just you
can't put your finger on exactly what it is or
what's going on in the moment.
Speaker 2: No, And you know, after I had that experience, I
my whole perception of how I heard Bigfoot stories because
I had seen like Monster Quests and stuff, which is
a great show. Sadly, like, I try to watch Monster
Quests nowadays just as kind of a what do you
call it, a novelty, you know, back in the day
or whatever, But it's it doesn't necessarily hold up as
much as I wished it would have. But at any rate,
you when I I know how scared I was, So
I can't imagine if you actually see something how scary that.
I mean, I'm going from being frightened to death to like,
I'm I don't know how my heart wouldn't stop beating
if I actually had seen something that day.
Speaker 1: Yeah, for sure. So you and another guy kind of
believe that it possibly was sasquatch, Huh.
Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, that's that's all that really makes sense
to me. There's there's a lot of you know, the
only other theory I had heard is that it was
people doing it. But there's a lot of problems with that.
I would have heard them moving around. How would they
have launched those rocks from because when these rocks felt
like when we heard the rock splash in the water,
it's not like they just rolled them in there. I mean,
they just they got lobbed in the air, you know,
that's how big. The splashes were, huge splashes. So I
just don't and I know that there's no other animal
that can throw rocks, and not nevertheless rocks that big.
So I'm pretty convinced. I mean, unless there's another unless
it was ghosts or something. But to me, the most
logical thing is that it was sasquatch.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, So what happened next? What's your next experience
that unfolded after the camping incident?
Speaker 2: Yeah, so it was I think it was a few
years later. And this one I only share because it's
very interesting and I it was so much so that
I contact the BFRO about the siding just because I
thought it was noteworthy. But anyhow, this was right by
Magadoor Reservoir Reservoir in Kent, Ohio. It's a really nice,
peaceful little lake and I do know that they're on
the BFR website. There is a history of sidings there.
I believe it would be under Portage County, and if
you go to Portage County you'll see you'll you'll see
Magador Reservoir or Magador the town. But anyhow, I had
some time during the day I was I was at
the Can't State University at the time. I was actually
getting working on my master's degree, and I had some time,
uh during the day. It was between noon and two
something like that. It was in April, but it was
particularly humid that day, which that can happen in that
area of the country. I think it has something to
do with the Great Lakes being forty minutes north of
the area. But it was very humid and it was warm,
probably eighty something, which unusual for that time of year.
But I was down at the lake and I was
just just getting some nature time in. You know, you're
at the university all day and there's tons of people
and all that, so I just enjoyed it. It was nice.
And as I was leaving, I was driving out this
road it's called I used to go down the road
all the time. I can't remember it, but it's off
it's off of Magodor road and it leads to a
boat ramp, so if people on a map wanted to
see it, just following Maggoedoor Road, there's actually a bait
shop right across the street from where this road is,
so Maggodor Bait and Tackle. You could look there. Anyways,
I was coming up the road and there's a gas
line that runs through that road back there, and I
was going along and on this gas line there's a
hill that peaks from which behind you can't see anything,
so it's the tallest point in the area. Well, anyways,
I was going along and I saw someone up there
like messing with this big wood pile. It was like
a big brush pile, but it was all black, and
I kind of slowed down and I was looking. I'm like, man,
it's hot to be wearing that, And for whatever reason,
I actually slowed down, and then I finally just stopped
a little bit in front of this person's house and
was just staring at it because it was pretty It
seemed pretty big just from scale that I could see
it so well, because I don't know how many I
couldn't tell you how many yards away it was, but
it had to. I'm not good at distances, but I
mean it had to be two hundred yards or more,
but it was enough for me to see a dude
that I assumed was wearing all black, and it was
hot and humid, and they're laboring over this woodpile and
they're kind of like hobbling. But whatever it was, it
was like grabbing branches and sort of like twisting them
and bending them through other ones, and it was just
like reaching over it and hobbling. You know. The movement
was just kind of weird. And I cracked my window
after a little bit, and I'm like, I wonder maybe
the dudes up there were chainsaws and stuff. And it
was odd for me because normally, if I thought it
was a guy, would have never stopped. But for some
reason I was. It didn't seem right. So I was
watching this thing just hobble and reach over this brush pile,
and it was kind of like working its way away
from me, and it just kept messing with that pile.
It was all black. I didn't see like a ad
on or anything, and from my perspective, from how far
away it was, I felt like it was just bigger.
It was a really big dude or something. But I
just watched it work over this brush pile until finally
it was like slowly working its way to the other
side of the hill until it went out of you.
And you know, back then, I think there was still
like just flip phones. But it never occurred to me
to take a picture or something, because I was just like,
what is that? But I'd realized that I had sat
there for like twelve minutes or or fifteen minutes something
like that, just watching it move over it. So I
obviously I didn't think bigfoot, but I was just like,
I didn't think it was a person either, because it
nothing about it seemed right. So I just watched it
go over the hill and I it just it just
didn't It didn't seem normal, even though it was doing
completely normal things, or at least it seemed like it
was just like messing with a brush pile. But like
what person if they're doing a brush pile in the
heat and all black, just you know, messing with little
branches and stuff. I just didn't understand it, but I
thought I thought it was interesting. I contacted bfo R
agent or yeah bf R O, and uh, I can't
remember his name, but you know, he was he said
he basically he said, unless you can confidently tell me
that you saw a bigfoot, I can't really post a report,
which I thought was kind of odd, but he was
he was kind of an he was kind of arrogant,
much unlike the guests you had on a few days ago.
That was a very he was a very interesting interview,
really interesting guy too. The Marsha I think it was. Yeah,
but so I reported that and he did say that, yeah,
there's a you know there there's a there was a
story about a guy who was fishing there with his
buddy and they had their bucket of fish up by
the truck and they were throwing catfish in there, and
it seemed like the pile was not increasing or the
bucket wasn't increasing, and then finally it was gone. So
and they said and then they said, I forget They
said something else happened, but it was, you know, definitely
indicative of bigfoot whatever it was. But that report's still
on there so you can see it.
Speaker 1: Yeah, really interesting. And what thoughts did you have in
the moment when you have that experiences?
Speaker 2: Well that that that was the thing I I it
was unusual for me and I didn't realize how unusual
it was until I left and I was like, what
was that? Because I really know, I was just watching
it and it was it was odd for me to
not think to like get my phone or something, but
I just it never dawn on me. And that was
after that experience. That was really when I finally understood
when people said, you know, I would listen to experiences
later on, of course of people where they would say like, oh,
it was one hundred yards away. I was in my car,
so I'm like, dude, you're safe. What I would the
first thing I would do was pick up my phone.
But that's when I really realized. I mean, I was
in no danger and this thing didn't even know I
was there. Well, I could have known, but it didn't care.
I mean, I was perfectly safe, and it never occurred
to me until I picked my phone up, and so
I wasn't thinking anything. I was just like, what is that?
Because I knew. I knew instinctively that it wasn't a person,
and if it was, then I don't know what It
was a huge dude wearing black, even his face was
covered to what twists, some twigs and eighty percent humidity
in the beating sun. You know, it was eighty degrees
so it wasn't too hot.
Speaker 1: But still Yeah, and what stuck out the most.
Speaker 2: Just that, uh well, large and black was the big thing.
But what was puzzling to me and what was compelling?
And I think the reason I stayed is maybe I
was trying to figure out what it was doing because
it was like leaning over and it was like, you know,
it was putting almost it's the whole top half of
its body over this big brush pile, and so it
was like really reaching over it. And then it's like,
what's it doing up there? Because you know, if it's
a dude that's just wearing long sleives and long pants
that are black, and I hear a chainsaw or something, yeah,
I get it. But it was just like casually messing
with these branches and just like moving them and then
really reaching over the top of the brush pile. So
that's what stood out to me.
Speaker 1: Yeah, And if it was a sasquatch, do you think
it was looking for like small game maybe like rabbits
or some type of crater in the brush.
Speaker 2: I don't know. It I felt like, well, thinking of
it now, maybe I don't. It didn't seem like that
to me, But I mean, what would I know, You know,
if I was guessing, I'd be like, maybe it was
building a shelter. I don't know why you build a
shelter for an undiscovered animal right out in the open.
Granted it was right next to a woodline. But the
one thing that was also puzzling to me about this
area is if you look at where my goodoor is
on Google Maps, there's not really a good forested corridor
that connects it to a larger forest. You know, that
area in particular, if you go west, it starts to
get pretty flat and a lot of farming and stuff
like that, and a lot of the tracts of land
are just pretty open. There used to be a lot
of farming and you know, agriculture stuff. So I was
just thinking, man, this doesn't seem like a great place
for bigfoot, just because there's just usually if it's a
smaller if the forested area isn't that big, usually there's
a corridor where, you know, you have access to more forests.
So I thought that was kind of puzzling too, But
I still think it was odd.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, and it definitely sounds unusual. What happened after this,
did you have another encryptid experience? Did you have a
paranormal experience one unfolded later on in life?
Speaker 2: Yeah, those were the two. I guess you'd say, like
class B big foot encounters I've had. I've been out
in nature in the woods since and never never really
experienced anything. I tried to do a little bit of
big footing, but nothing, nothing that I can speak of.
But yeah, I did have a interesting experience. This happened
in This would have been around that same time frame,
maybe two thousand and seven to two thousand. Yeah, yeah,
probably two thousand and seven or so. The only reason
I remember is because I actually skipped a day of
undergraduate classes. So but at any rate, this happened in uh, oh,
what's uh It's north of Sagamore Hills. Sagamore Hills, Ohio.
It's like northeast Ohio. My uncle they had a house
there and they the my great uncle he passed away,
and then my aunt she well, they were I'm sorry
great aunt and uncle, and she passed. My uncle moved
into the house next door to take care of them,
and she passed away maybe two years later or so,
well about within a week of her passing away, there
was a mysterious electrical fire at their house and it
had to be completely demolished. Well, my uncle inherited the
prop so he decided to move out of the place
next door and he was going to build a real,
real nice house where the old one stood. And as
it happened, they actually built the new house partially on
the old foundation, and that may have something to do
with it, but at any rate, Uh, me and my
dad went up to stay with my uncle and my cousin.
We were on a bowling league at the time, so
we went up Friday night. We were going to practice Saturday,
we were going to practice early, and I think the
tournament was that evening, So we got up there in
the evening, we hung out, we went bowling. We came
back and everybody was getting ready for bed. My uncle,
my dad, and my cousin, they all went upstairs and
I decided to sleep on the couch. And I'm sure
a lot of people can relate to me when I
say this, but I took my keys, phone, and wallet
and put him he had. The house was brand new,
so there was you know, the counters weren't cluttered yet
or anything, and He had a big table in the kitchen,
and I put him like basically right in the center.
I'm like, nobody will mistake that for theirs. I won't
be able to lose it, it won't fall on the floor.
So I set my stuff there and I went to
bed sleep, slept on the couch and don't really remember anything.
I recalled like rustling around, but it really sounded like
somebody was going to the bathroom or something, and there
was a bathroom downstairs. So I just heard a little
rustling around. I didn't think anything of it and never
really came out of just sort of deep sleep. And
the next morning I started. I heard my uncle in
the kitchen, so I was kind of just laying there
and he's doing whatever. And then I hear my dad
come down and he says, hey, man, what were you
doing going through my pants? He goes, I wasn't going
through your pants. He said, well, Chris was my cousin.
He said, no, you would have heard him. He's still
in his room. He's asleep. You'd heard the door open.
He goes, well, somebody was going through my pants. And
there was a there was kind of some silence, which
I thought was weird, and my uncle said, so you
saw him too, And as soon as I heard that,
I got up, and because I'm I get pretty freaked
out about like ghost stuff, and so I instantly stood
up and went in there. And my dad said, what
are you talking about? And he said, well, we've we
We've had just weird stuff happen. I'll be upstairs taking
a shower and it sounds like Thanksgiving parties going on downstairs,
and I think the TV's on, so I hear all
this noise, and even he said, even when he was
walking down the stairs, like you would hear the noise,
and then he gets to the bottom of stairs and
looks through the end of the living room that there's
no noise, no nothing. And he said my cousin would
be sitting at his computer and his laundry bag would
just fling like somebody kicked it or something. And then
he mentioned that somebody that was over there. I can't
remember who it was, but it wasn't my cousin or
my uncle, but they were there too. It's just this,
I can't remember who the person. I forget who, he said,
but they said they saw somebody just standing there for
a split second and then almost blink their eyes and
they were gone, but they were very certain they saw
what it was. And uh, and so I'm freaked out.
And my dad said, well, I saw somebody standing over
the dresser where my clothes were, and I thought somebody
was going through my pants looking for something. And he goes, yeah,
it might have been uncle Eddie. You know that. That
was his name. And I'm like, oh geez, and I
just thought in my head, I'm like, well, I'm not
staying here tonight. So anyways, we get we all get
up and get going and we're getting ready to go
to the to go bowling, and I go to grab
my keys, phone and wallet and my wallet isn't there,
and I'm like okay, So I start looking and then
pretty soon they're kind of waiting on me, and then
they start looking for it. And we looked all over
that house. We looked everywhere it would make sense. We
even went out into his barn out back and was like,
because that's where he keeps all the trash bags and
we were like kind of looking through the trash. Even
though we didn't take any trash out. It was gone.
It whatever happened to it, we don't know. So we
go bowling and we come We do that, and we
come back and me and my cousin go upstairs. We're
gonna go in his hang out in his room. And
when we get up the stairs, you have to pass
by the room that my dad was staying in, and
you can see that dresser. It was very bright in there,
and you know it there was like I said, there
was like nothing on any of the surfaces because the
place is so new. And he says, there's your wallet.
And I thought he was joking, but I was looking
at it too, and I thought it was like a
trick or something. And I was like, we've you know,
we all looked up there a ton of times. But
there it was, sitting there, right in the middle of
the dresser, and there's one thing on it, and it's
a picture of my grandpa and it was sitting like
kind of right in front of it, and there it was.
I mean, we had looked all over the place. We
looked up there a ton of times and thought maybe
it was with my dad's stuff, but there it was.
And I thought, Okay, that's pretty crazy. So we go
it's just like, well whatever, but I was kind of
spooked because they had told me that they have you know,
they see apparitions, they hear stuff, stuff happens. So I
was really spooked. But at any rate, we go about
the day and then later on we get ready to
go get the to go bowling again, and we head
out and pretty uneventful other than we go to the
snack bar to get drinks and some food and I
see my cousin put his card out and give it
to the person, and I assume he hands it back
to him. Well, later on he goes up to buy
more stuff and he comes back and he's like, hey, man,
you got my card. I must have gave it to
you or something. And I'm like, no, I thought that
guy handed it back to He's like, I don't have it,
and so we started kind of looking around and we
couldn't find it anywhere. And they even made an announcement,
if you find this card, dig the front desk. And
the card never came up, so it was gone, and
you know, that's not that unusual. You know, it could
have fell trash can whatever. So we wrap up bowling
and then we head back to the house and I
go with my cousin. We go upstairs because he's gonna
go cancel his card, and we go up the stairs.
We walked towards his room, and when we get to
the room, his bed's made, which he never made. Everything
in his room was picked up, and in the middle
of the bed was his card and it was this.
It was the craziest thing. I couldn't I thought he
was messing. I thought it was somebody was messing with
us or something. And I said, oh, did did your
did your dad's girlfriend come over and clean the place
up or something? Was like, no, no, nobody's coming over here.
But his card, and he was like, this is my card.
And it was the card he used at the at
the bowling alley like hours earlier, and it disappeared, you know,
in the bowling alleys, like I don't know, it was
probably fifteen minutes away or something like that. And it
was just sitting there in the middle of the bed
and his bed was made, and he had stuff laying
on the floor and everything and everything was picked up,
and that just it just flipped me out. And I
share that story with everybody just because it's it's so inexplicable.
You know that the wallet thing is almost but I
realized that the wallet disappeared for the same reason the
card did, whatever that reason was, but I could chalk
the the wallet thing up. But the card thing was
just insane to me, and I was so I was
really I've never seen anything any any ghosts or anything
like that, but I mean I was. I was pretty spooked,
and I thought to myself, well, I'm definitely not staying. Well,
sure enough that night. It was it was late by
the time we got back, and we didn't necessarily plan
to stay, but sure enough we did. And it was
weird because that night was the worst windstorm in Northeast
Ohio in like the last twenty five years. And for
some reason that night, I don't remember what it was,
but I ended up sleeping in his room. I think
it was because they were they were like up watching
TV or something, and I was just trying to fall asleep,
and which I don't know why I did it now,
but I woke up in the middle of the night
and somebody left the hall light on and you know,
this wind is just raging and you can hear the
trees right outside the window and stuff. So that was
spooky enough. And I'm laying in the bed just expecting
a head to pop out or something all the rest
of the night and nothing. Nothing happened that night, oddly enough,
but that was just that was crazy to me, that
a physical object could travel somehow. And it's not like,
you know, somebody went up there before us, like my
dad went up to the room before us and at
least threw the card on the bed. I mean, we
were the first ones up there. And how his card
got there, I just I'll never never know. But obviously
they had something about money or cards because they my
great aunt and uncle. They they weren't like ultra wealthy,
but they the place they worked it was like a
bottling company, and they were offered stock in these companies
like AT and T or something that were kind of
new or I don't know what it was, but they
made a lot of money and they were you wouldn't
have known it. They were pretty tight with money. So
it was I don't know if that has something to
do with it or not, but I thought I would
share him because I remember another person sharing a paranormal
encounter and I thought people would like to hear that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and I appreciate you for sharing that with me.
That's definitely a spooky situation there. I've heard that with
paranormal activity that people's keys go missing or objects or
misplaced and then reappear, And yeah, man, that's that's definitely
a scary situation there.
Speaker 2: Yeah, and my my dad had mentioned and he had
told me this long before he and he was It's
not that he didn't want to believe or anything, It's
just he had never had conceringe enough experiences. But I
think it was when another like grandparent or something passed away.
When we were at the funeral, my dad said he
saw Uncle Eddie there. And this was before we had
stayed at their house, but he said he saw him
there or something, and I just kind of remember that
now and then he's said he saw him again, so
he had some ability to see it. But yeah, the
the I've heard that too, the keys and all that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely, And yeah, it definitely sounds like bigfoot activity
what you shared, and I would definitely classify that as
cryptid activity. And it sounds like these creatures were either
being territorial or just making their presence known and they
were just in the area before you guys went out
there camping, and that's usually what happens. People go out
to these wilderness areas and they set up camp and
then these things let you know that they're around.
Speaker 2: Yeah. Yeah, I certainly learned that it would have been
cool if something would have happened the next night, you know.
And I always, I so sincerely regret not lifting my
head and looking. But I mean, at the same time,
I couldn't. So I just always that I always look
back and regret at that, but I know that it
was an impossibility because I was genuinely too scared to
do so. And you know, with the with the walking, uh,
with not making noises when it moved, like no footsteps
or anything. That was always bizarre to me. And I
just I would love to know what these things are.
It's and I'm very conflicted because you know, uh it
for me, it used to be pretty a basic flesh
and blood biological creature, but they seem to have abilities
that defy that. And uh, I I do know that
for a uh a on uh what is it in
uh for an unknown species to stay unknown, it has
to remain unknown necessarily, so that aspect of it, and
you know, I hear people complain it's like, well, you
think with all these sightings and all this thing that
somebody would have shot one, and you know that I
understand why people say that and how that's a reasonable
thing to think. You know, I think of the area X.
You know, I've been hearing about them since the mid
two thousands or twenty tens at least, you know, hearing
about the stuff they have going on up there, And
it's like, geez, if you have these things in your
gun sights every weekend or at least every time you
go up there, Like, what ability do they have that
they evade that they evade getting hit by a cat? Well,
I know people have said they got hit by cards,
but you know what I mean.
Speaker 1: And were you guys fishing in the area when you
guys went out there to camp.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we did not much, but you know, we had
poles and people were just ran. We grab a pole
and throw it out in the water. I did the
most fishing. I don't actually recall catching any fish though.
If I did, it was when we were on the boat. Yeah,
but yeah, we did do some fishing.
Speaker 1: And that could have something to do with the activity.
I hear that a lot when people are fishing off
of the river.
Speaker 2: That's interesting. Maybe that's a competing for food or something.
Speaker 1: Yeah, it sounds like it. And these things will get
territorial and they'll let you know.
Speaker 2: Right, Yeah, I was, I was going to ask you something. Well,
I was kind of curious. I'm sure you've done this
on the show before, so you don't have to share
or brief about it if you have, but I was
kind of curious where you're at with the what bigfoot
actually is. I've heard other people's takes, but I don't
believe i've heard yours. I know the type of research
you do, so I think I know, but I was curious.
Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean, I definitely think it's some sort of
unknown primate species or hominid, but I also believe it's supernatural.
It has something to do with what the Bible refers
to as the Nephelon. There were giants in those days,
and there were they were breeding with like different animals
and they created like human animal hybrids. So that that's
kind of what I believe. But I don't really know.
What do you think?
Speaker 2: Well, I think my initial theory was that it was
just it was a species that ust the land Bridge
and knew of it was it must have been a
very tribal people and knew that their existence depended on
them being isolated, separate, and very careful around the other species.
Maybe that was you know, the early humans or whatever,
and maybe they branched off and they went to the
woods where they could commune with their gods. And I
believe when an indigenous people, or at least a people
unexposed to the outside world, when they're in communion with
whatever spirits, God or nature that they worship and observe,
I believe that that gives them powers that we don't have.
And I'm not saying powers like they can conjure tidal
waves and separate seas or anything like that. I just
mean that, well, they know what the birds are indicating
when they chirp in a certain way, or they can predict,
you know, weather patterns, and if they do a ritual,
they can reasonably expect that rain will fall or the
crops will grow, or they can smell humans. And I
don't think that, you know, after Christianity, I think since
it wasn't an indigenous religion, that it sort of separated
people from that power that they may have initially had.
And I think that maybe that's that's part of why
the Bigfoot still have these abilities they do, I mean,
they can do they do crazy things, and I've never
seen one, but I mean I've heard enough encounters, and
I don't necessarily believe all all the encounters, but I
know that I've heard so many people on your show
and others that they're just they're honest people, and they
don't they have no especially now, you know, Bigfoot stories
used to make money in the seventies and eighties, maybe
even the nineties, but now, I mean with the with
all the shows and all the encounters, I mean just
everyday people are finally you know, it's no risk to
them anymore. And so I mean, I know these things
are just capable of crazy things, but that's generally my
best guess. And I mean I'm not I'm not discounting
or negating the possibility that it's some government experiment or something.
And that's not to say that it's fake or a
hoax or something, but that maybe I think they certainly
know what it is, or at least they document it.
I mean, we've heard plenty of stories about military bases
them documenting it and all that. So after the year
twenty twenty, you know, I'm much more cynical about things
like that, so I can't discount that, but I tend
to think it's more simpler than that.
Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's a very applausible theory. All right, Jim,
you did an excellent job at sharing your experiences and
you described everything with great detail. So thank you for
contacting me and for your patience. And I'm just really
glad that you were able to come on the show
and share everything, everything that you had with the audience.
That really means a lot.
Speaker 2: Yeah, Hey, no problem, it was great speaking with you.
I hope everybody enjoys it.
Speaker 1: I want to thank Jim for coming on the Sasquatch
Theory podcast and sharing his experiences openly with the public.
Encounters like these leave more questions and answers, especially when
multiple witnesses experience the same thing at the same time.
I honestly can't even pronounce the name of the river
in Pennsylvania, but from the river experience to the strange
activity near Magador Reservoir in Ohio, these stories remind us
just how much mystery still exists in the forest and
waterways of America. If you have had your own encounter
and would like to share it on the channel. You
can contact me directly at Sasquatch Theory at outlook dot com.
And I really appreciate all the viewers for watching the videos,
and you guys really help to keep this channel going
and spreading this information out there to the public. And yeah,
if you guys can definitely contact me by the email. Lately,
there's been a lot of people adding me on my
personal Facebook page and sharing their experiences with me rather
than using like the Sasquatch Theory Facebook or my Sasquatch
Theory email. And it's been a little because I feel
like it's invading my personal space just a little bit.
I'll post photos of me and my family and people
will just start commenting about dog Man and Bigfoot and
my past videos, which it's okay, people don't know. But still,
if I post a photo of me and my little
nieces together, don't comment about Bigfoot or dog Man. It's
just has nothing to do with some of the photos
that I'm posting. So here in the future, I'll be
mindful of who I add, and yeah, just contact me
at the Sasquatch Theory email and let's keep the reports
with the channel and not with my family and the
personal life that I have going on out there. I
do have a life separate from sasquatch theory. But yeah,
I'm not trying to gripe or complain, but I just
want people to know that there are other outlets out
there other than posting about dog Man. When you see
a photo of me at church with my family or something, okay,
So I just want people to be mindful of that.
And it's okay because you guys don't know, and I
just wanted to make that clear.
Speaker 2: Okay.
Speaker 1: So thank you guys so much for watching and for
everything you guys do. And I hope to get more
reports in the future about cryptied creatures and hopefully we
can gather a better understanding as to what's going on.
And if you believe these are just unknown cryptied creatures
out in the woods that hasn't been discovered by science,
let me know down in the comments. Or if you
believe it's something spiritual and these beings are interdimensional and
traveling through portals and coming from their world to ours,
or if it's some sort of demon shape shifting into
an unknown creature, let me know down in the comments.
I want to see what you guys think about all
this and until the next Bigfoot report, you guys be
safe out in the woods.