I have a Pal who bought acreage abutting Woodbury Wildlife Area. He built a cabin 30-plus years ago. He's an avid deer hunter so he's posted there throughout the hunting season. I asked him if he had ever seen 'anything' out of the norm. He said he had not seen anything but heard 'things' and when he gets the feeling like he's being watched he heads back to the safety of his cabin.
We just went on a Bigfoot squatching excursion tonight with John!! It was awesome. He’s so intelligent, and so great and gracious as a tour guide. His knowledge is very extensive as a botanist and naturalist. We thoroughly enjoyed this excursion and even though we did not have a sighting, we did hear a weird whistle sound that could not be explained away by any other known creature in the woods here in Ohio.
I moved to Ohio twenty six years ago. The closest I've ever come to Salt Fork State Park is Uhrichsville, which I believe is around thirty miles north of it. REALLY beautiful country down there and I most definitely want to go and spend some time in the park. This was very interesting and the gentleman in this video is quite interesting and intelligent, and I love his perspective on the subject. Excellent video.
Used to go to salt fork quite often back in the 70s and 80s. Have had only two peculiar experiences there. One was when the time my brother and I were on Enduro m/c and rode into the woods and camped. It was getting dark when we arrived. We built a very small fire and had a few beers. We turned in to a small two man tent which I brought along. We were just about asleep when a a deep growl that turned into a scream came from right above somewhere. It was definitely a large cat of some sort. A few seconds later we heard something hit the ground. It sounded fairly of some weight, maybe a hundred pounds or so. I've seen a couple bobcats before but whatever it was had to be bigger than a bobcat. The other experience was my girlfriend and I we're camping at a campground near Salt Fork we were riding through the back roads in the park windows open when we came across a bad stench something like roadkill. We smelled it for about the length of 100 ft or so. We thought what in the world, something must be dead and it's got to be big. I managed to turn the car around in the road intro back to see if I could see what it was. We couldn't see anything. Anyway the next day we went back to that location in the morning and there was no smell. One place for sure that I KNOW where there's a creature of some sort is Burr Oak primitive campground. A little further south of Salt Fork. I have not gone camping since Burr Oak.
I recently went on a Bigfoot hunt with Cliff from the show finding Bigfoot on animal planet. I asked him where the most Bigfoot activity was and was surprised to hear that Ohio was a very active area. More even than my home state of Michigan
Hi Mr. Sixtringunderdog,(liked that cartoon as a kid in the 60s). I took a picture with Cliff and talked for several minutes, maybe 2014 or 15, at Salt Fork Lake Ohio Bigfoot Conference. However going on a Bigfoot Hunt with Cliff had to be fun and educational. Where did this take place? On the BFRO website Ohio recorded more sightings and encounters, however this is just a sliver of actually activity. Michigan though is still a very active area, with I believe, the most active areas in both the Manistee and Huron National Forest corridor. If I had to choose an area state that may have the largest population of Bigfoots, it would be Kentucky.
because people here are just that bored! LOL. Living here I have heard my share of stories. Alas no one believes my "beauty and the beast love story" big foot stories.
This is really well put together - enjoyed watching. I’m a lifelong outdoorsman and have had weird unexplainable experiences in the woods in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin - who knows what they could have been. Keep up the great work, guys.
I spent the first 70 years of my life having weird things happening to me but blaming anything and anybody but Bigfoot! I never once thought about them being here in the Eastern U.S.(if they existed at all !) Once I retired and moved back to live alone in the old family homestead in the mountains of WVa, I still was in denial. Until the Clan here decided to make me aware they had always been here and one older female who had grown up with me decided to step out of the tree shadows briefly and smile at me! That was about 7 years ago and i have learned so much since then. I'm a "knower" that they exist and I sense when they are around. But there is so very much i don't know about them. I'm just glad the Clan here are the more enlightened type and are really good neighbors!
Hi Janet I assume. I'm close to 70 and grew up in central Michigan. Although most probably watched the Patterson/Gimlin film in 1967, 68 time frame, we were so clueless that they were all over the country. In the past few months I have become most aware of the Bigfoot population in West Virginia. Cliff and Bobo from Finding Bigfoot have a podcast and a few weeks ago they had the owners of the Sasquatch Museum in Sutton West Virginia on as guest. They opened this a few years ago and stated the number of locals and just West Virginians are off the charts in comming to talk about their experiences, and every year they have a festival that draws in a few thousand people. What a great experience to have seen that female Bigfoot show herself to you, and they treat female humans differently from us men, in a good way. I hope you have more experiences with them.
In winter/spring of 2021 John Hickenbottom did a 4 part series on youtube which was put out through the Ohio DNR on Bigfoot. One of the segments last I looked had garnered around 1 million view. Fact is Ohio probably has more Bigfoot sightings and encounters than any state east of the Rockies, several thousand have been documented in one form or another, although I think Kentucky probably has a higher population of Bigfoots, but has less human population. Everyone in the Daniel Boone National Forest area know they are there, but in the past few have been willing to talk about it. In the past 10 years or so, more and more folks have come out to talk or write about their experiences. I am not a believer, in fact I am a knower having seen one on opening day of deer season, 1976 in Roscommon County, MI where my relatives and Father have hunted since the 1920s. I have lived in Darke County, OH (western SW Oh county)) since Sept of 1996, and even though it is sparse on woods (but lots of rivers, creeks, and drainage ditches which they travel) they do show up around here also. Preble county just 5 miles south is better conducive to them with more woods and rolling hills and July 30, 2022 I found a huge 20.5 inch x 10 inch width track above Twin Creek on Enterprise Road parking area outside of Gratis, OH. Had to have been a huge male maybe 10 foot tall or so. However SE and Eastern, OH is the foothills of the Appalachian Mtns and hugely forested and this is where the Bigfoot population really resides, and Salt Fork Lake area has documented many hundreds of reports, maybe thousands in its history.
given all these numbers of sightings, reports, pictures, videos, samples of hair, dna, feces, dead bodies and alive(!), not only across north america but also in europe, scandinavia, russia/siberia, himalaya, china, australia, pacific islands etc etc ... isn´t it ridiculous to still talk about the "elusive bigfoot", the "legend" ...??! it´s not a myth or lore but a flesh and blood creature, varying in types, colors and characters, tall, intelligent and incredibly strong, perfectly adapted to a life out in nature: our hairy nocturnal cousin - the sabe, woodwose, sasquatch, yeren, leshi, yeti, yowie and whatnot. i saw one too, myself, at least three times, here in germany where they roam the woods, being depicted in medieval paintings, towns and sites named after them, noble families showing them in their coat of armor ... . ghosts don´t leave footprints, i say!
There's a channel on TH-cam called Buckeye Bigfoot I suggest you try if your really into sightings all over the US. There are more Ohio sightings than you can imagine.
@@SharonC225 Thanks for the tip Sharon. Another gentleman,Don Keating, started the Ohio Bigfoot Conference that takes place every spring at Salt Fork Lake, and maybe the largest Bigfoot Conference this side of the Pacific Northwest, drawing thousands every year and great speakers. He wrote a small book back in 1993 called The Buckeye Bigfoot documenting his work including much field work and his own experiences also in the 1980s and 90s.
@@cbrippee There's a lady who narrates Bigfoot encounters sent in by people who've experienced sightings. Her voice is so soothing it could put put you to sleep if the stories weren't so edge of your seat good. Thank you for putting me on to this guy!
@@SharonC225 I know of whom you write Sharon. My problem is that the stories are so far over the top, they probably, at least some, not true. This is just my opinion, but they seem to be written by a well schooled author. For me the best are audio and video interviews with witnesses of people pulling from memory and not rehearsed. Like the Sasqautch Chronicles that has now done 1000 episodes. When you hear the emotion in witnesses voices and them chocking up even though the event may have happened years before, it just seems real and natural.
Back in the late 1900's, I went to a friend's Grandmother's house in Marietta, Ohio. She lived in the country surrounded by forest and ravines. My friend Charlie and I (my name is also Charlie not important to the story but I always think it's funny.), went exploring around the property. We crossed over wooden and electric fences and ended up on top of a ravine overlooking the edge line of the forest below us. The place we were standing had lot's of dirt clumps from the cattle trails and tractor ruts that provided a couple of young boys ample supply of things we could throw down the hill into the ravine to watch them explode in a glorious fashion only young adolescents can appreciate. We were doing this for several minutes when we heard this "SCREAM". It was a noise that neither of us have ever heard before. The blood in our veins curdled and we RAN! I'm not sure how we LEAPED over and dove under these fences but we did. We got back to the house and told the grownups what we had heard and it was politely brushed off as a bobcat or some other wild animal. I asked if these wild animals always sounded like they were being mutilated? They laughed it off as our young imaginations. It wasn't till years later when the Interwebs was born, that I listened to a sound wav. someone had posted of a cry/howl of what they said was a Bigfoot. My body shivered and my blood curled again and I remember saying .....That was it!!!! THAT was the sound we heard!!! I have always been fascinated by Bigfoot but after that experience I was convinced.
I am the very same way. Was born and raised in South Eastern Kentucky way back in the mountains, if it wasn't for school we would have never seen any one but our family in the holler. We were way out in the hills. I am at home in the woods, most women have just come to terms that they won't see much of me because I am always in the woods and most call me feral. I never thought I would ever say anything about a big foot, but I had a run in with something I have never seen, or heard in my entire life and has kept me from running wild in the woods at night like I used to and after what I saw that night I left the woods for the first time with head lamp on a flash light and gun light on while I ran fast as I could back home. I have seen bear, seen it all, but the sound, the size and the distance it covered as quickly as it did it can only be one thing. I try to convince myself almost everyday since that incident that it was something other then what I know it was but I keep coming back to the fact that I know exactly it was. I mean I used to make fun of anyone that would ever say they had an experience, I mean I would rip on them forever the second I heard someone say something about it. But I know what I saw and I feel crazy and can never say anything to any of my buddies because they will think I am lying, but I know what I saw and wish I would have never seen it
@@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot I would give anything to have not seen it, I don't night hunt coyotes anymore, I never feared a thing in the woods, bobcats, bear, mountain lions, I know they are there and to be aware, but when you see something like that, it has changed everything. Deer hunting this year, I have only been out about 3 or 4 times, squirrel hunting a couple times, it is going to take a while before I get back comfortable with things I reckon. Sorry for the long post and response, I just have not said anything to anyone because I know what they will think, so I have kept all this bottled up, and I still trying to work through it all in my mind
@hatfieldmccoy0311 it can be really traumatic for people who have seen it. I know it's always in the back of my mind climbing up into my tree stand in the dark at 5:00am or when the sun sets and I have to walk in after dark. Thankfully there have been very few accounts of people being harmed by bigfoot so as long as you don't try to harm them you should be ok
Great video,,conservation is so important..I really like your approach to this subject mate..I have a few good friends who look for sasquatch in nth east ohio...Cheers mate👍👍🇦🇺
I’m from the northern panhandle in WV, when I and my ex had a boat and camper spent a lot of time at salt fork and never had the fortune of meeting big foot nor any cool experiences involving him. Of all the places I’ve ever been camping and or boating salt fork by far is my favorite place it is absolutely amazing and beautiful with plenty of serenity
Looking forward to seeing more of your videos. I'm convinced that I was visited by a Sasquatch a while back. I'm in Carroll county Ohio, about an hour and a half from salt fork.
John is a stand up guy. No B.S. We did a paranormal investigation with him at the Stone House (first in history) and we all witnessed some very strange happenings… Salt Fork is a local treasure to those who live here.
You're on crack. Go to rehab. There isn't anything "strange" in Saltfork or the Stone House. We been flathead fishing at the docks at the Stone House for decades and there's nothing there but....a Stone House. 😂
Ok. I have always been interested in the possibility of Bigfoot. Do I have my doubts? Yes. Especially in Salt FORK. I golf there. I fish there and my home is only fifteen minutes down the road. My driveway is .6 miles off a county road and I have no neighbors within shouting distance at all. I’m surrounded by woods, I mow many acres, cut wood etc etc. I’m a veteran. I was a diehard traditionalist in regards to bow hunting. I was in tree stands 20 ft etc..off the ground for days and days, year after year in this area…..I have watched foxes, bobcats, humans, raccoon’s, coyotes and many others go by my deer stands and I was camouflaged, wearing clothes that were left outside in leaves to lose scent from being indoors, rubber boots that were cleaned and sprayed to eliminate as much human odor as possible….no shampoo or soaps, when hunting until returning home….yes a very serious hunter who did all he could to vanish from a big bucks radar…….at times twenty out of thirty days per month in a tree stand somewhere for years. In this area. I do not discount or judge others but I personally……have never seen one or heard something to make me think it could be one. Has others spent even more time than myself in those woods? I am sure but…..not many. Not many at all. I have always been intrigued but…in my area of Salt Fork? I’m not sold. Just wanted to share another perspective of someone in the area that was in the woods far more than the average citizen and my work and effort in eliminating my presence in these woods and being in a tree from morning to dark….camouflaged….all but my eyes….that high in a tree for a novice that is also to help ( keep your smell above the ground) hide your scent and take you up and away from the target and their nose….I said, help. The big buck of the block? I s so very hard to hide from..even with those precautions. I have never seen or heard anything. Bummer. Probably scare me if I did…LOL. A little fear is good for your health and safety. It would be foolish to not be….
Now see, you pretty much live in there and ain't had no experiences. Technically you should of had the most of all people. I be Skeptical too, but ya never know. I have heard some things in the woods like a tree being tore apart and knocks. But that could be anything a bear or what not who knows.
Maybe they think you’re part of the family! 😜 … That’s cool that you’re a seasoned outdoorsman and able to be so close. Be sure to update us if you experience anything. 😎
I love Ohio. The woods are my home here. My dad was chief of the Ohio CCC in the early 90's. The had a project called treesouce. They planted millions of native pines in the early 90's. The first sightings were in the Akron area before it was developed. There are natural lakes ( summit, ann, Nesmith and portage) in the area. Lots of marsh too. Kenmore grassman.
I lived near newcomers town ohio. I remember the times reporter newspaper reporting a encounter of Bigfoot at a womans back door of their farm house. When the police got there it was damaged really bad. She claimed to have seen it close up ,and said it smelled putrid. That is very close to salt fork park
Mr Hickenbottom I have had 3 separate occasions I have encountered it from the time I was 13 till I was around 42 and this was in North West Ohio "Hancock/Wood county area!! I'm 56 now and it took me 10yrs before I could go hunting in the woods I had been in since I was 9yrs old!!
I owned property in Gallia county OH. My neighbor camp owner was scared out of there and he sold his property and left. He said something huge stomped down into our holler one night while him and a buddy had music blasting and partying around the fire. They went inside and listened to it stomp past the camp and continued up the other side of the holler. I had something throw things onto my camps tin roof one night but that is all. I ended up selling a couple years later and never did have any experiences other than that.
that is what they do, besides, I don`t know of any N. Amer. wild life that throw things of any kind, they only other thing is pine cones, unless there`s a storm its not that....thanks
I believe you. Back in 1977 after getting out of the service I was living in russells point oh and driving to my road construction job in Findlay oh. I believe it was route 234 it took me from russells point Ohio going through Ada Ohio to i-75. I believe it was the month of September as I made my way on the other side of Ada which there is nothing there or at least that's the way it was at the time . The sun was just starting to light the sky but it was still pretty dark . In the road ahead of me there was something that was blocking both lanes. There was 0 traffic. There were three objects in the road. As I approached I pulled my car over and seen they were dogs. I grab my work gloves to pull them off the road so I pass. There were two large dogs, a Shepard Shepard and a large black Lab, they were torn in halves. Both parts of the labrador were there but only the rear half of the Shepard was there. I looked for the other half of the shepherd on both sides of the road but it wasn't there. I noticed that the dogs seem to not have any of their inners. The lab had a little bit of intestine coming out of its mouth but that was it. There was no blood on the road. Those dogs were not killed there. After pulling the dogs to the side of the road I looked again to see if I could find the other half of the other dog and that's when I got the very eerie feeling I was being watched. Had the strong feeling also to get out of there. By the time I got to my car I just really felt there was something out there in them woods
@@bicentensol Wow. I am somewhat familiar with the area you speak of. This really sounds more like the work of a Dogman, however many a dog has fallen prey to a Bigfoot. However the great majority of dogs want nothing to do with a Bigfoot and run from them. I have seen this happen on a great Bigfoot trackway I found back in 2011, although it was in Michigan.
I've heard the "howl" right by Salt Fork's famous "Hosacks Cave"--I've told John in the video that, as well as my own encounter as a kid camping in Pa where one tried to reach in my cousin's & my tent & tried to grab one of us, namely me!--Police later found footprints in the area & an anthropologist was called in to make casts of same--So I'm Definitely a Believer!
That's Amazing!!! I'm also a True Believer in Bigfoot!! The Hocking Hills Bigfoot Festival is Great!! We went last August!! My wife doesn't believe but oh well!! I know the truth!!!
I lived in Ohio from 1942 - 1960, spending a lot of time in the woods trapping, hiking, exploring and hunting. Some of my fondest memories are just being out in the winter woods, rifle in hand with big fluffy snow flakes coming down on a foot of snow. But, in those, years I saw a total of 4 deer, almost no deer sign and certainly no sasquatch or their tracks. Guess I missed out. To me, big game was red fox.
I lived in the Blue Rock area south of Zanesville, and by my estimates there were 4 Bigfoot families nearby. I would come home and as I was getting out of my truck I would hear a noise, it could be a tree knock, a Barred Owl call, or something else. I would typically walk my dog's out back when I got home, and i believe that they were warning the other one's that i was coming. I did see two of them, staring at me in my camper, less than 20 feet away one morning. The weird thing's that happened around there was off the charts. My best advice; never go into the woods without a gun. They know if you have a gun, even if it is concealed.
YES they are real. We have them on footage. So Yes they are real. And they're not endangered. They avoid we humans as much as possible. But people do see them and it's not their imagination. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they're not there
Unlike the Finding Bigfoot attention seekers who see a Squatch at almost every encounter, this guy comes across as a straight shooter. He doesn't speak in absolutes but does admit that there are some things that can't be explained.
Ohio seems to have a lot of monster cryptids. Ive seen Monsters and Mysteries and Terror in the Woods enough to recognize a Grassman story in Salt Forks, and at least 3 bigfoot/dogman stories in Adams County, Ohio.
The crazy thing is where all they are probably at. I live close to Richland and Ashland County. Ashland County had two sightings about 2 years ago, and everyone laughed at all. From the experiences that I've had very close to Ashland County, I would say they probably were true experiences the people had. Big chunks of public land are very close to where these encounters happened, and they all connect into the corridor that runs south. Either there here all the time or just pass through.
I've had multiple experiences in central Ohio closer towards the Mohican area. Also down east of Woodbury. I don't know what they are, but there is definitely something out there. Great documentary, and I had to include that I don't think they're in danger. I think they're doing just fine on their own, and the sightings are going up because their population is going up. I find it fascinating because they probably are better stewards of the planet, compared to us. Something of that size could easily probably wipe an area out of resources.
@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot no problem. This might explain the look of disgust they give us that some state they see whem they run into them, and possibly why people vanish from time to time. Could you imagine what they see us do from poaching to littering.
Well it's a very long story but I shot one twice less than 40 yards away Holmes County Ohio 2019 every bit of 10 ft if not better 12 to 1700 lb maybe more there was two of them stalking me. Haven't been in the woods to hunt sense but maybe this year well that's what I keep telling myself
My grandparents owned the old Ashland on Freedom Rd. Parker Rd is my favorite area of SF. BF Is definitely out there I've seen & heard them several times. They are very common out here and locals are very used to their existence. We also know they are harmless to us. Unlike the ones out west they let you know they are around but no known disappearances of people no bull rushing, but I have been triangles and rocks thrown at me.
I've always been fascinated with Bigfoot stories and sightings. People are definitely seeing something. Not just here, but in different continents. I'd just think by now that bones would have been found somewhere.
Primate and prehuman fossils are particularly rare due to their habitat preferences and the specific conditions required for fossilization. These species often lived in forested or jungle environments where acidic soils and high humidity accelerate decomposition and impede the fossilization process. Additionally, the geological processes necessary for fossilization, such as rapid burial and mineralization, are less likely in these habitats. For prehuman fossils, the rarity is accentuated because of their specific evolutionary period and the limited opportunities for preservation over millions of years. The incomplete fossil record, influenced by these environmental and temporal factors, along with targeted paleontological resources, further contributes to the scarcity of primate and prehuman fossils.
@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot true, very good points. But I'd think a bone or something somewhere would have been found from one that died in the last 100 years.
Great video and a very knowledgeable host! We got them in SOUTHWESTERN OHIO also. Seen them and have had encounters here in Greene and Clark county and Champagne county Ohio.
@@bonniecarter2386 My phone is NOW working again! A road crossing on St. RT 68 while I was traveling south just south of Urbana. I had left a Buckles Motors Christmas party in December 1987.
@@bonniecarter2386 It's a weird incident that happened, kind of different from other road crossings I have heard. Maybe someone else has had a similar road crossing, I have not heard one like it though.
I was camping at Salt Fork in Nov. 2015 with a large compliment of my Scout Troop. Man it was cold for 2 nights. We saw nothing and heard really nothing. But I got so cold I got up to go sleep in my Truck. I thought I heard a grunt at 2:30 in the A.M. the next day I got a msg to head home as my son locked himself out of the house. So I left about 1: 00 P.M. and headed back to Cadiz. On my way I noticed a smear on the upper corner of my windshield out of the wiper path. I pulled over to clean it off at Moorefield. I looked at it before I started wiping and thought that's kinda weird oily looking. I studied it for a moment and was creeper out. It was a hand print near the roof approx. 10 in long with type of slide off to it. Like a Smear. Man I was very uneasy for several days after that.
There hands, fingers, are oily. My guess is that it may have braced itself a bit, being much taller than the truck, and bent down to look at you at you. This has happened to countless folks. I do believe window peeking is either a curiousity or entertainment (probably both) for them. There are thousands of stories about this from witnesses, and it scares the heck out these folks. Did you take a picture of the print?
In the 1980s we deer hunted salt fork I got lost got really dark and hering something and seeing what ever made it to route 55 got picked up by a game warden he found my buddy and we got the hell out of there and never went back 😮
I had an encounter east of there in Egypt valley. I was bowhunting, and I got up in my tree before daylight. A large creature came by while it was still dark. Stopped near my tree, and made a couple huffing sounds (definitely not a deer), like I've never heard before. Then it slowly moved away.
I've been to Salt Fork a few times but never saw Bigfoot there. I honestly believe it's possible it exists. When I was young our church youth group would go there every year. In the winter. They had a beautiful indoor pool with high windows. It seemed huge to me as a kid. Nice place
At Salt Fork State Park, the legend of a physical creature called Bigfoot is told only as a means to promote visitors to the park. Guernsey County Ohio has very little, other than a large lake for recreational use to attract visitors. Although plenty of outdoor sportsmen did come there, the park management wanted more reasons to draw those that would spend money in the lodge and gift shops. Thus was the birth of the legend of Bigfoot here in the 1980's when Newcomerstown resident Don Keating organized the Ohio Bigfoot Conference at the lodge. People came for the conference and told their own stories that centered around a mythical creature created by a short 1967 fictional film. I'm here to say that I've investigated Salt Fork for over 10 years and every alleged account and story told from there is always used to promote videos, and the selling of books on Bigfoot. I can honestly say that, yes there is something unknown at Salt Fork, but it's not a physical creature called Bigfoot. I have personal documentation of it. I've only ever shown pieces of that evidence public because I'm not in it for personal gain like so many others.
I live very close to stonelick lake and have had a few moments that made me realize im not the biggest in the woods at sunset/dark lol.also a man that works at meijer in milford parked at a church in front of my house and had great info, pics, and knowledge of the hairy man between eastfork and stonelick. Ive been put in my house many times by noises n things thrown at me at fire cooking n reaxing. I believe.
Good stuff, John's very knowledgeable and a good guy!!funny part is when he said u need to get a CAT scan haha!!in other words,bitch u hearing shit!!🤔🤣😂✌️🤘🍻
I believe there is such a being like bigfoot in America. We're from southeast Asia. Growing up, my grandmother, who was born in 1919 told stories of village men being scared by a hairy ape man like being and would not go hunt for days. We have a word in our language for bigfoot.
In the mountain, forested areas of China it is know as the Yeren. During the Vietnam War, many stories of them, which they labled as Rock Apes, as they would throw rocks at our troops, and probably the Vietnamese as well.
Why do I have to know there’s a big WILDMAN out running the mountains and waterways of North America! 😏 I can’t stop watching uploads about this topic. 👍
Found 3 massive Bigfoot tracks near hosacks cave. Found two nesting sights. And multiple “manufactured” chokepoints. 35+ yrs in the woods, I’ve never witnessed anything like those. As a marine I instantly recognized these “traps” on games trails. I’d love to meet and show an expert where these were, and hear their opinions. Side note, one set of tracks went straight up the side of hosacks cave. Literally impossible for a human to do that. Like 75/80 degree slope
I also have experiences in wv, no direct sightings myself. Although my son, 3 yrs old at the time, started yelling about a monkey in the tree. This was in salt fork. Mind you, he was just starting to talk and have never said the word monkey before that.
My cousin, who is a straight shooter as they come, swore to me he saw one, one night on the edge of his property not 20 minutes from Salt Fork. Said he was 50 yards away and it turned and walked right through a briar hedge like it was nothing. He didn’t follow it.
I have been morel mushroom hunting all over Salt Fork & have seen many of these caves and rock formations that they pictured on the video. I have never seen or heard a big foot, but my brother swears he did when hunting there.
Ive been all over Ohio and I would not be shocked if they have some over there. Especially with KY,IN (my state) and Appalachia all right there with tons of remote wilderness areas
My neighbor (timmyshore) was hiking in the park and was sexually assaulted by a gay bigfoot. He was so traumatized that he's been in denial ever since.
I live in Northern Kentucky and was interested in this story about Bigfoot 👣 sightings and encounters because I’m in Ohio riding my bicycle in remote areas from time to time. And, I’m terrified of Bigfoot 👣. It’s possible that I might see one while driving or biking 🚴♀️and I want to know what I’m looking at. I’m never going hiking 🥾 or backpacking in the wilderness. When alone I carry a 9mm Beretta for protection. I have a CCP. I would only use it if attacked. BTW I’ve never heard of anyone going squirrel 🐿️ hunting on a date. Maybe in Appalachian Kentucky. Thanks 🙏 for sharing story. Good job. 👍☮️🌞🌲🏕️👣🩵
My folks live literally 5 min from one of the entrances to Salt Fork and while I'll admit it can be creepy in places if alone (lots of old home foundations from the turn of the century, few mini cemeteries, the usual) the worse I've ever come across are the occasional still and a few guys growing weed. ALL who played up the bigfoot idea as much as they could. Horses get rocks chucked at them, running feet and growling, underbrush charges, hell. I got knocked down a hill and got a crack to the back of my head that had me seeing tweety birds flying around my skull for a few minutes. Just never come across a single thing that seemed beyond 'normal'. And if any of ya'll decide YOU want to rummage around down there? Just a small FYI - massive and growing meth issue, because it is near the junction of 70/77 it's a big hub for narcotic transport, MASSIVE amounts of coal mines and shafts that are now causing large sinkholes and it's a handy place for people who don't want to be found all mean, please, BE CAREFUL. I'm completely in a neutral area if cryptids are real or not, but I DO know for certain there are things in that park people can get really territorial over and there is a lot of water and abandon coal mines to tuck whatever/whoever they might not want found.
@@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot No worries, just wanted folks to know. Spent a lot of time there as a kid and it's kinda sad how risky some parts have become. Upside - wildlife is coming back: foxes, a couple wolf sightings, even a few bear. Things that got killed off and cleared out are coming back. But the folks tucked in there are fighting it. Back behind one of the bigger pond/lake areas has an old fallen down stone inn that used to be a great place to take a picnic. Now? I wouldn't go back there unless I was armed and had at least one other friend with me. And the number of idiot hunters... seriously. Just take care should you go again. A few years ago, some right twit in ALL new hunting kit (literally still had tags on some of it) stopped my dad dead while he (dad) was taking a walk and asked "Can you tell me where these go? I've been trying to put them in for the longest time and can't make them stay" while waving a gun fresh out of the box. He was literally trying to load a gun Daniel Boone black powder musket style and was dropping them down the barrel. Dad just sorta stared for a moment, was asked again "Can you load this thing? I am SO embracing my mountain man wild genes. So do you know?" before slowly nodding, telling him "yes, I do know how that gun is loaded. Reached into his wallet, pulled out a couple $20's, dropped the money onto the back gate of the jeep, pocketed the bullets and just told the stunned idiot "I do. You don't. And you don't need bullets for guns you can't load let alone fire" and walked on. It can be a lovely park, but there are quite a few places the game warden and the park staff don't go themselves these days. (And whatever you do. Please. Do not swim there after June. The bacteria levels get scary high and you would have to swim under about an inch of floating goose poop.) The lodge and the camping areas are lovely. Be careful on the backgrounds, please? I've nearly tumbled down a few dozen sink holes and cave opening over the years. Allow my bruised shins, broken toes and more than a few falls down with a wallop and a whimper to be the bad example you avoid! lol
My grandpa grew up in Galopolis and they had issues with a Bigfoot on their farm that liked to eat things like fruits and vegetables from the field. His grandfather carried a .44 magnum to deal with it in the 40s.
If you are at the group camp and have them stomping their foot along with howls and whoops then it is fun. It is not scary there. Stayed there many times for a whole weekend and never been scared. Been screamed at. Tree knocks and whoops are common.
I use to live in western Washington on the edge of the Cascade mountains. My property backed right up to the national forest. I had three fruit trees about 15 feet from the tree line. One day I went down to check on the fruit and just as I was reaching for an apple right inside the tree line I her a deep hhhuuufff. I don't know for sure what it was but I know what a bear sounds like. This was not a bear. I just said out loud you can have them and slowly walked back to my house.
You sized it up well! Been in Ohio most of my life. Now more wooded, abundant wildlife back in forest. Salt Fork is Ground Zero for Bigfoot in Ohio. Still lots of other sightings in state.
Thanks! The whitetail come back story in Ohio is really impressive. To think they didn't exist in the state a few decades ago and now are thriving is awesome!
I live in kimbolton right next to salt fork. If you want to find bigfoot go to the old train tunnel or up to the kimbolton water tower at night. There is noises at night you can't understand.
Plus i forgot to tell you that the game wardens find deer in the winter time with the legs broke and the back straps torn out and the liver go everything else was not disturbed. Everyone knows what there
For every report there are likely a half dozen or more which we never hear about. We would be better able to deal with these people of the forest if we had been taught the truth about them. The more you learn, the more you have to ask why the secrecy.
People have to think that we are also still finding new species on this planet..or how about the Panda, until about hundred years ago, people outsode of asia thought they were myths.. tazmanian tiger that someone recently caught on camera after thinking they were extinct. We have an interesting planet.
I have a Pal who bought acreage abutting Woodbury Wildlife Area. He built a cabin 30-plus years ago. He's an avid deer hunter so he's posted there throughout the hunting season. I asked him if he had ever seen 'anything' out of the norm. He said he had not seen anything but heard 'things' and when he gets the feeling like he's being watched he heads back to the safety of his cabin.
Are u admitting u believe in bigfoot
That's creepy!
We just went on a Bigfoot squatching excursion tonight with John!! It was awesome. He’s so intelligent, and so great and gracious as a tour guide. His knowledge is very extensive as a botanist and naturalist. We thoroughly enjoyed this excursion and even though we did not have a sighting, we did hear a weird whistle sound that could not be explained away by any other known creature in the woods here in Ohio.
That's great! John is an awesome guy!
I moved to Ohio twenty six years ago. The closest I've ever come to Salt Fork State Park is Uhrichsville, which I believe is around thirty miles north of it. REALLY beautiful country down there and I most definitely want to go and spend some time in the park. This was very interesting and the gentleman in this video is quite interesting and intelligent, and I love his perspective on the subject. Excellent video.
I lived in new Philadelphia Ohio. It is beautiful. Right next to Uhrichville.
I’ve seen and talked to this park ranger at the park. He’s a park treasure!!!
Used to go to salt fork quite often back in the 70s and 80s. Have had only two peculiar experiences there. One was when the time my brother and I were on Enduro m/c and rode into the woods and camped. It was getting dark when we arrived. We built a very small fire and had a few beers. We turned in to a small two man tent which I brought along. We were just about asleep when a a deep growl that turned into a scream came from right above somewhere. It was definitely a large cat of some sort. A few seconds later we heard something hit the ground. It sounded fairly of some weight, maybe a hundred pounds or so. I've seen a couple bobcats before but whatever it was had to be bigger than a bobcat. The other experience was my girlfriend and I we're camping at a campground near Salt Fork we were riding through the back roads in the park windows open when we came across a bad stench something like roadkill. We smelled it for about the length of 100 ft or so. We thought what in the world, something must be dead and it's got to be big. I managed to turn the car around in the road intro back to see if I could see what it was. We couldn't see anything. Anyway the next day we went back to that location in the morning and there was no smell. One place for sure that I KNOW where there's a creature of some sort is Burr Oak primitive campground. A little further south of Salt Fork. I have not gone camping since Burr Oak.
That's very creepy!
That's a well- told story! I will not be going to Burr Oak either and I don't even know what happened there.
I recently went on a Bigfoot hunt with Cliff from the show finding Bigfoot on animal planet. I asked him where the most Bigfoot activity was and was surprised to hear that Ohio was a very active area. More even than my home state of Michigan
Yep, Ohio is very active. Cliff is a cool dude. The narrator of the recent documentary was just on his podcast this week.
Hi Mr. Sixtringunderdog,(liked that cartoon as a kid in the 60s). I took a picture with Cliff and talked for several minutes, maybe 2014 or 15, at Salt Fork Lake Ohio Bigfoot Conference. However going on a Bigfoot Hunt with Cliff had to be fun and educational. Where did this take place? On the BFRO website Ohio recorded more sightings and encounters, however this is just a sliver of actually activity. Michigan though is still a very active area, with I believe, the most active areas in both the Manistee and Huron National Forest corridor. If I had to choose an area state that may have the largest population of Bigfoots, it would be Kentucky.
The western side of Michigan and the UP have alot of Bigfoot activities...🦧 Cliff and Matt Moneymaker were just in Oscoda in October this year..
because people here are just that bored! LOL. Living here I have heard my share of stories. Alas no one believes my "beauty and the beast love story" big foot stories.
The honesty and concern shown by our Ohio (dnr) officials makes me glad to be a life long Ohio resident.. keep up the excellent work!
This is really well put together - enjoyed watching. I’m a lifelong outdoorsman and have had weird unexplainable experiences in the woods in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin - who knows what they could have been. Keep up the great work, guys.
bear or coyote
😂@@laura-kn9qf
but have u seen a bigfoot?
@@shanehester5317 no they don’t exist
@@shanehester5317 Nope. Not yet 😉
Been binging your content u have put together a very high quality yt channel. No extra fluff. Good editing and background music. 👍
Thank you!
Enjoyed this video. Fella talking is easy to understand with practical truths.
Glad you liked it!
Very well told. Love the info and advice. I can tell you put a lot of effort into this.
Thanks!
I spent the first 70 years of my life having weird things happening to me but blaming anything and anybody but Bigfoot! I never once thought about them being here in the Eastern U.S.(if they existed at all !) Once I retired and moved back to live alone in the old family homestead in the mountains of WVa, I still was in denial. Until the Clan here decided to make me aware they had always been here and one older female who had grown up with me decided to step out of the tree shadows briefly and smile at me! That was about 7 years ago and i have learned so much since then. I'm a "knower" that they exist and I sense when they are around. But there is so very much i don't know about them. I'm just glad the Clan here are the more enlightened type and are really good neighbors!
Very cool!
I would love to encounter one
Hi Janet I assume. I'm close to 70 and grew up in central Michigan. Although most probably watched the Patterson/Gimlin film in 1967, 68 time frame, we were so clueless that they were all over the country. In the past few months I have become most aware of the Bigfoot population in West Virginia. Cliff and Bobo from Finding Bigfoot have a podcast and a few weeks ago they had the owners of the Sasquatch Museum in Sutton West Virginia on as guest. They opened this a few years ago and stated the number of locals and just West Virginians are off the charts in comming to talk about their experiences, and every year they have a festival that draws in a few thousand people. What a great experience to have seen that female Bigfoot show herself to you, and they treat female humans differently from us men, in a good way. I hope you have more experiences with them.
In winter/spring of 2021 John Hickenbottom did a 4 part series on youtube which was put out through the Ohio DNR on Bigfoot. One of the segments last I looked had garnered around 1 million view. Fact is Ohio probably has more Bigfoot sightings and encounters than any state east of the Rockies, several thousand have been documented in one form or another, although I think Kentucky probably has a higher population of Bigfoots, but has less human population. Everyone in the Daniel Boone National Forest area know they are there, but in the past few have been willing to talk about it. In the past 10 years or so, more and more folks have come out to talk or write about their experiences. I am not a believer, in fact I am a knower having seen one on opening day of deer season, 1976 in Roscommon County, MI where my relatives and Father have hunted since the 1920s. I have lived in Darke County, OH (western SW Oh county)) since Sept of 1996, and even though it is sparse on woods (but lots of rivers, creeks, and drainage ditches which they travel) they do show up around here also. Preble county just 5 miles south is better conducive to them with more woods and rolling hills and July 30, 2022 I found a huge 20.5 inch x 10 inch width track above Twin Creek on Enterprise Road parking area outside of Gratis, OH. Had to have been a huge male maybe 10 foot tall or so. However SE and Eastern, OH is the foothills of the Appalachian Mtns and hugely forested and this is where the Bigfoot population really resides, and Salt Fork Lake area has documented many hundreds of reports, maybe thousands in its history.
given all these numbers of sightings, reports, pictures, videos, samples of hair, dna, feces, dead bodies and alive(!), not only across north america but also in europe, scandinavia, russia/siberia, himalaya, china, australia, pacific islands etc etc ... isn´t it ridiculous to still talk about the "elusive bigfoot", the "legend" ...??!
it´s not a myth or lore but a flesh and blood creature, varying in types, colors and characters, tall, intelligent and incredibly strong, perfectly adapted to a life out in nature: our hairy nocturnal cousin - the sabe, woodwose, sasquatch, yeren, leshi, yeti, yowie and whatnot.
i saw one too, myself, at least three times, here in germany where they roam the woods, being depicted in medieval paintings, towns and sites named after them, noble families showing them in their coat of armor ... .
ghosts don´t leave footprints, i say!
all alleged sighting’s and experiences. it’s all fake 😂
I put it the same way. I’m not a believer…..I am a knower. May 28, 2010 @ 7:10 pm in the Allegheny National Forest in Pennsylvania.
@@Aquabob1 any proof ? 🙄
@@timmyshore3755 …proof for who…? I’m not here to prove anything to anyone, and I could give a crap who believes or not.
Loved watching. I didn't know Sàsquàtch was being spotted in Ohio!
he wasn’t
There's a channel on TH-cam called Buckeye Bigfoot I suggest you try if your really into sightings all over the US. There are more Ohio sightings than you can imagine.
@@SharonC225 Thanks for the tip Sharon. Another gentleman,Don Keating, started the Ohio Bigfoot Conference that takes place every spring at Salt Fork Lake, and maybe the largest Bigfoot Conference this side of the Pacific Northwest, drawing thousands every year and great speakers. He wrote a small book back in 1993 called The Buckeye Bigfoot documenting his work including much field work and his own experiences also in the 1980s and 90s.
@@cbrippee There's a lady who narrates Bigfoot encounters sent in by people who've experienced sightings. Her voice is so soothing it could put put you to sleep if the stories weren't so edge of your seat good. Thank you for putting me on to this guy!
@@SharonC225 I know of whom you write Sharon. My problem is that the stories are so far over the top, they probably, at least some, not true. This is just my opinion, but they seem to be written by a well schooled author. For me the best are audio and video interviews with witnesses of people pulling from memory and not rehearsed. Like the Sasqautch Chronicles that has now done 1000 episodes. When you hear the emotion in witnesses voices and them chocking up even though the event may have happened years before, it just seems real and natural.
Back in the late 1900's, I went to a friend's Grandmother's house in Marietta, Ohio. She lived in the country surrounded by forest and ravines. My friend Charlie and I (my name is also Charlie not important to the story but I always think it's funny.), went exploring around the property. We crossed over wooden and electric fences and ended up on top of a ravine overlooking the edge line of the forest below us. The place we were standing had lot's of dirt clumps from the cattle trails and tractor ruts that provided a couple of young boys ample supply of things we could throw down the hill into the ravine to watch them explode in a glorious fashion only young adolescents can appreciate. We were doing this for several minutes when we heard this "SCREAM". It was a noise that neither of us have ever heard before. The blood in our veins curdled and we RAN! I'm not sure how we LEAPED over and dove under these fences but we did. We got back to the house and told the grownups what we had heard and it was politely brushed off as a bobcat or some other wild animal. I asked if these wild animals always sounded like they were being mutilated? They laughed it off as our young imaginations. It wasn't till years later when the Interwebs was born, that I listened to a sound wav. someone had posted of a cry/howl of what they said was a Bigfoot. My body shivered and my blood curled again and I remember saying .....That was it!!!! THAT was the sound we heard!!! I have always been fascinated by Bigfoot but after that experience I was convinced.
That's so cool!
I am the very same way. Was born and raised in South Eastern Kentucky way back in the mountains, if it wasn't for school we would have never seen any one but our family in the holler. We were way out in the hills. I am at home in the woods, most women have just come to terms that they won't see much of me because I am always in the woods and most call me feral. I never thought I would ever say anything about a big foot, but I had a run in with something I have never seen, or heard in my entire life and has kept me from running wild in the woods at night like I used to and after what I saw that night I left the woods for the first time with head lamp on a flash light and gun light on while I ran fast as I could back home. I have seen bear, seen it all, but the sound, the size and the distance it covered as quickly as it did it can only be one thing. I try to convince myself almost everyday since that incident that it was something other then what I know it was but I keep coming back to the fact that I know exactly it was. I mean I used to make fun of anyone that would ever say they had an experience, I mean I would rip on them forever the second I heard someone say something about it. But I know what I saw and I feel crazy and can never say anything to any of my buddies because they will think I am lying, but I know what I saw and wish I would have never seen it
That's truly scary but you can't deny what you saw!
@@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot I would give anything to have not seen it, I don't night hunt coyotes anymore, I never feared a thing in the woods, bobcats, bear, mountain lions, I know they are there and to be aware, but when you see something like that, it has changed everything. Deer hunting this year, I have only been out about 3 or 4 times, squirrel hunting a couple times, it is going to take a while before I get back comfortable with things I reckon. Sorry for the long post and response, I just have not said anything to anyone because I know what they will think, so I have kept all this bottled up, and I still trying to work through it all in my mind
@hatfieldmccoy0311 it can be really traumatic for people who have seen it. I know it's always in the back of my mind climbing up into my tree stand in the dark at 5:00am or when the sun sets and I have to walk in after dark. Thankfully there have been very few accounts of people being harmed by bigfoot so as long as you don't try to harm them you should be ok
Great video,,conservation is so important..I really like your approach to this subject mate..I have a few good friends who look for sasquatch in nth east ohio...Cheers mate👍👍🇦🇺
Cheers!
I’m from the northern panhandle in WV, when I and my ex had a boat and camper spent a lot of time at salt fork and never had the fortune of meeting big foot nor any cool experiences involving him. Of all the places I’ve ever been camping and or boating salt fork by far is my favorite place it is absolutely amazing and beautiful with plenty of serenity
Glad you like it. It's a great place
@@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot thank you
Great job, John! 💜 Salt Fork rules. 🙂
Salt Fork does rule!
John is highly respected 🤓 great video
John is an awesome guy
Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.
I'm convinced that I was visited by a Sasquatch a while back. I'm in Carroll county Ohio, about an hour and a half from salt fork.
We are working on more right now!
John is a stand up guy. No B.S.
We did a paranormal investigation with him at the Stone House (first in history) and we all witnessed some very strange happenings… Salt Fork is a local treasure to those who live here.
You're on crack. Go to rehab. There isn't anything "strange" in Saltfork or the Stone House. We been flathead fishing at the docks at the Stone House for decades and there's nothing there but....a Stone House. 😂
Interesting presentation on the elusive subject of Bigfoot Encounters which is well filmed and narrated.
Thanks!
This is a voice of sanity for a topic that is rife with sensationalism. I always tell people I believe in the possibility of Bigfoot.
Let's bring some sanity back to bigfoot!
Ok. I have always been interested in the possibility of Bigfoot. Do I have my doubts? Yes. Especially in Salt FORK. I golf there. I fish there and my home is only fifteen minutes down the road. My driveway is .6 miles off a county road and I have no neighbors within shouting distance at all. I’m surrounded by woods, I mow many acres, cut wood etc etc. I’m a veteran. I was a diehard traditionalist in regards to bow hunting. I was in tree stands 20 ft etc..off the ground for days and days, year after year in this area…..I have watched foxes, bobcats, humans, raccoon’s, coyotes and many others go by my deer stands and I was camouflaged, wearing clothes that were left outside in leaves to lose scent from being indoors, rubber boots that were cleaned and sprayed to eliminate as much human odor as possible….no shampoo or soaps, when hunting until returning home….yes a very serious hunter who did all he could to vanish from a big bucks radar…….at times twenty out of thirty days per month in a tree stand somewhere for years. In this area. I do not discount or judge others but I personally……have never seen one or heard something to make me think it could be one. Has others spent even more time than myself in those woods? I am sure but…..not many. Not many at all. I have always been intrigued but…in my area of Salt Fork? I’m not sold. Just wanted to share another perspective of someone in the area that was in the woods far more than the average citizen and my work and effort in eliminating my presence in these woods and being in a tree from morning to dark….camouflaged….all but my eyes….that high in a tree for a novice that is also to help ( keep your smell above the ground) hide your scent and take you up and away from the target and their nose….I said, help. The big buck of the block? I s so very hard to hide from..even with those precautions. I have never seen or heard anything. Bummer. Probably scare me if I did…LOL. A little fear is good for your health and safety. It would be foolish to not be….
They knew you were there ....before YOU did ! 👍😜
Same here bro and thanks for your perspective in those woods. If only one person is telling the truth about these things though, well what then?
Now see, you pretty much live in there and ain't had no experiences. Technically you should of had the most of all people. I be Skeptical too, but ya never know. I have heard some things in the woods like a tree being tore apart and knocks. But that could be anything a bear or what not who knows.
Same here 50.miles south of salt fork. There's no bigfoot. I have seen black bear, bobcat one eastern mountain lion. No bigfoot.
Maybe they think you’re part of the family! 😜 … That’s cool that you’re a seasoned outdoorsman and able to be so close. Be sure to update us if you experience anything. 😎
i live just about an hour north of there, this makes me more excited about where i live and i love how common sense this guy is.
Awesome, glad to hear that!
We love Salt Fork and have met John a few times. He's extremely knowledgeable of the wildlife in the area and a trustworthy guy.
John is a very cool dude and yes Salt Fork Rules. Before we filmed this doc I hadn't been there since I was a kid. Such a beautiful place
Mr. Hickenbottom seems like a cool guy who would be interesting to have a beer with. Thanks for the video
He is definitely a cool dude. Thanks for watching!
great video. he sounds like bill bellicheck. lol
I love Ohio. The woods are my home here. My dad was chief of the Ohio CCC in the early 90's. The had a project called treesouce. They planted millions of native pines in the early 90's. The first sightings were in the Akron area before it was developed. There are natural lakes ( summit, ann, Nesmith and portage) in the area. Lots of marsh too. Kenmore grassman.
Awesome!
Great job John!
very well done video documentary, post production voice overs, clips, edits. surely you will grow subs
Thank you!
"If you're heading voices, you should readably get a cats can.," LOL
One of our favorite lines in the documentary 🤣
These videos are awesome Chester
Good balance of healthy skepticism with open-mindedness.
We're trying to keep it scientific and logical over here on this channel
Love the the references to Scott Carpenter 😂
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I lived near newcomers town ohio. I remember the times reporter newspaper reporting a encounter of Bigfoot at a womans back door of their farm house. When the police got there it was damaged really bad. She claimed to have seen it close up ,and said it smelled putrid. That is very close to salt fork park
Awesome!
Big date, Squirrel hunting 😅😂
Mr Hickenbottom I have had 3 separate occasions I have encountered it from the time I was 13 till I was around 42 and this was in North West Ohio "Hancock/Wood county area!! I'm 56 now and it took me 10yrs before I could go hunting in the woods I had been in since I was 9yrs old!!
Would you be interested in being interviewed about this?
I owned property in Gallia county OH. My neighbor camp owner was scared out of there and he sold his property and left. He said something huge stomped down into our holler one night while him and a buddy had music blasting and partying around the fire. They went inside and listened to it stomp past the camp and continued up the other side of the holler. I had something throw things onto my camps tin roof one night but that is all. I ended up selling a couple years later and never did have any experiences other than that.
could have been anything
that is what they do, besides, I don`t know of any N. Amer. wild life that throw things of any kind, they only other thing is pine cones, unless there`s a storm its not that....thanks
I believe you. Back in 1977 after getting out of the service I was living in russells point oh and driving to my road construction job in Findlay oh. I believe it was route 234 it took me from russells point Ohio going through Ada Ohio to i-75. I believe it was the month of September as I made my way on the other side of Ada which there is nothing there or at least that's the way it was at the time . The sun was just starting to light the sky but it was still pretty dark . In the road ahead of me there was something that was blocking both lanes. There was 0 traffic. There were three objects in the road. As I approached I pulled my car over and seen they were dogs. I grab my work gloves to pull them off the road so I pass. There were two large dogs, a Shepard Shepard and a large black Lab, they were torn in halves. Both parts of the labrador were there but only the rear half of the Shepard was there. I looked for the other half of the shepherd on both sides of the road but it wasn't there. I noticed that the dogs seem to not have any of their inners. The lab had a little bit of intestine coming out of its mouth but that was it. There was no blood on the road. Those dogs were not killed there. After pulling the dogs to the side of the road I looked again to see if I could find the other half of the other dog and that's when I got the very eerie feeling I was being watched. Had the strong feeling also to get out of there. By the time I got to my car I just really felt there was something out there in them woods
@@bicentensol Wow. I am somewhat familiar with the area you speak of. This really sounds more like the work of a Dogman, however many a dog has fallen prey to a Bigfoot. However the great majority of dogs want nothing to do with a Bigfoot and run from them. I have seen this happen on a great Bigfoot trackway I found back in 2011, although it was in Michigan.
I live in Ohio myself. I wannna go to salt fork. It’s about 3 hour drive. I know exactly where you speak of. I worked at Honda Anna plant.
I've heard the "howl" right by Salt Fork's famous "Hosacks Cave"--I've told John in the video that, as well as my own encounter as a kid camping in Pa where one tried to reach in my cousin's & my tent & tried to grab one of us, namely me!--Police later found footprints in the area & an anthropologist was called in to make casts of same--So I'm Definitely a Believer!
Very creepy! Thanks for watching
That's Amazing!!! I'm also a True Believer in Bigfoot!! The Hocking Hills Bigfoot Festival is Great!! We went last August!! My wife doesn't believe but oh well!! I know the truth!!!
Excellent video. 👍
Thank you!
I lived in Ohio from 1942 - 1960, spending a lot of time in the woods trapping, hiking, exploring and hunting. Some of my fondest memories are just being out in the winter woods, rifle in hand with big fluffy snow flakes coming down on a foot of snow. But, in those, years I saw a total of 4 deer, almost no deer sign and certainly no sasquatch or their tracks. Guess I missed out. To me, big game was red fox.
Deer were scarce back then. Now you can walk out your back door and kill one with your bare hands.
@@natehoover5266 Exactly. At this point in my life in Ohio, I've seen thousands of deer.
I lived in the Blue Rock area south of Zanesville, and by my estimates there were 4 Bigfoot families nearby. I would come home and as I was getting out of my truck I would hear a noise, it could be a tree knock, a Barred Owl call, or something else. I would typically walk my dog's out back when I got home, and i believe that they were warning the other one's that i was coming. I did see two of them, staring at me in my camper, less than 20 feet away one morning. The weird thing's that happened around there was off the charts.
My best advice; never go into the woods without a gun. They know if you have a gun, even if it is concealed.
That's wild!
John is interesting to listen to. I enjoyed this.
I fish a lot at AEP recreation land near Salt Fork. That part of Ohio is Wild to say the least.
YES they are real. We have them on footage. So Yes they are real. And they're not endangered. They avoid we humans as much as possible. But people do see them and it's not their imagination. Just because you don't see them doesn't mean they're not there
Unlike the Finding Bigfoot attention seekers who see a Squatch at almost every encounter, this guy comes across as a straight shooter. He doesn't speak in absolutes but does admit that there are some things that can't be explained.
Thank you. We try to keep it objective and not pretend we have an the answers
Personal experience is the only difference between those who know it is real, and those who don't.
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Ohio seems to have a lot of monster cryptids. Ive seen Monsters and Mysteries and Terror in the Woods enough to recognize a Grassman story in Salt Forks, and at least 3 bigfoot/dogman stories in Adams County, Ohio.
The crazy thing is where all they are probably at. I live close to Richland and Ashland County. Ashland County had two sightings about 2 years ago, and everyone laughed at all. From the experiences that I've had very close to Ashland County, I would say they probably were true experiences the people had. Big chunks of public land are very close to where these encounters happened, and they all connect into the corridor that runs south. Either there here all the time or just pass through.
There is "frogman" from Loveland, OH!
I've had multiple experiences in central Ohio closer towards the Mohican area. Also down east of Woodbury. I don't know what they are, but there is definitely something out there.
Great documentary, and I had to include that I don't think they're in danger. I think they're doing just fine on their own, and the sightings are going up because their population is going up. I find it fascinating because they probably are better stewards of the planet, compared to us. Something of that size could easily probably wipe an area out of resources.
Thanks, great point!
@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot no problem. This might explain the look of disgust they give us that some state they see whem they run into them, and possibly why people vanish from time to time. Could you imagine what they see us do from poaching to littering.
Well it's a very long story but I shot one twice less than 40 yards away Holmes County Ohio 2019 every bit of 10 ft if not better 12 to 1700 lb maybe more there was two of them stalking me. Haven't been in the woods to hunt sense but maybe this year well that's what I keep telling myself
@mitchelljones5481 if that's true, that's nuts.
ive been in saltfork all my life hunting this isnt the first time ive heard some of these storys
Yea, you never know what's out there!
Had my first Bigfoot sighting at Hosacks cave last year!!
Badass!
@@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot so bad ass!!
My grandparents owned the old Ashland on Freedom Rd. Parker Rd is my favorite area of SF. BF Is definitely out there I've seen & heard them several times. They are very common out here and locals are very used to their existence. We also know they are harmless to us. Unlike the ones out west they let you know they are around but no known disappearances of people no bull rushing, but I have been triangles and rocks thrown at me.
Holy shit, this dude absolutely rocks.
John is the man
He was great to listen to.....✨
I've always been fascinated with Bigfoot stories and sightings. People are definitely seeing something. Not just here, but in different continents. I'd just think by now that bones would have been found somewhere.
Primate and prehuman fossils are particularly rare due to their habitat preferences and the specific conditions required for fossilization. These species often lived in forested or jungle environments where acidic soils and high humidity accelerate decomposition and impede the fossilization process. Additionally, the geological processes necessary for fossilization, such as rapid burial and mineralization, are less likely in these habitats. For prehuman fossils, the rarity is accentuated because of their specific evolutionary period and the limited opportunities for preservation over millions of years. The incomplete fossil record, influenced by these environmental and temporal factors, along with targeted paleontological resources, further contributes to the scarcity of primate and prehuman fossils.
@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot true, very good points. But I'd think a bone or something somewhere would have been found from one that died in the last 100 years.
Great video and a very knowledgeable host! We got them in SOUTHWESTERN OHIO also. Seen them and have had encounters here in Greene and Clark county and Champagne county Ohio.
We're at in champagne county
@@bonniecarter2386 My phone is NOW working again! A road crossing on St. RT 68 while I was traveling south just south of Urbana. I had left a Buckles Motors Christmas party in December 1987.
@@bonniecarter2386 It's a weird incident that happened, kind of different from other road crossings I have heard. Maybe someone else has had a similar road crossing, I have not heard one like it though.
I was camping at Salt Fork in Nov. 2015 with a large compliment of my Scout Troop. Man it was cold for 2 nights. We saw nothing and heard really nothing. But I got so cold I got up to go sleep in my Truck. I thought I heard a grunt at 2:30 in the A.M. the next day I got a msg to head home as my son locked himself out of the house. So I left about 1: 00 P.M. and headed back to Cadiz. On my way I noticed a smear on the upper corner of my windshield out of the wiper path. I pulled over to clean it off at Moorefield. I looked at it before I started wiping and thought that's kinda weird oily looking. I studied it for a moment and was creeper out. It was a hand print near the roof approx. 10 in long with type of slide off to it. Like a Smear. Man I was very uneasy for several days after that.
Very creepy!
There hands, fingers, are oily. My guess is that it may have braced itself a bit, being much taller than the truck, and bent down to look at you at you. This has happened to countless folks. I do believe window peeking is either a curiousity or entertainment (probably both) for them. There are thousands of stories about this from witnesses, and it scares the heck out these folks. Did you take a picture of the print?
In the 1980s we deer hunted salt fork I got lost got really dark and hering something and seeing what ever made it to route 55 got picked up by a game warden he found my buddy and we got the hell out of there and never went back 😮
Chester Moore..... keep on representing SETX bud. Love to hear some Red wolf talk ❤
Chester is the man
I’m a city boy the only woods I been in is Vietnam. I learned to stay out of the woods. Thanks for sharing
I had an encounter east of there in Egypt valley. I was bowhunting, and I got up in my tree before daylight. A large creature came by while it was still dark. Stopped near my tree, and made a couple huffing sounds (definitely not a deer), like I've never heard before. Then it slowly moved away.
Creepy!
Had a very similar experience. Something is out there
Drugs are bad ....MMMMKAY
Didn’t kick your flashlight on to see what it was?
@BOWSMOKE It happened rather quickly, I didn't think of it.
I've been to Salt Fork a few times but never saw Bigfoot there. I honestly believe it's possible it exists. When I was young our church youth group would go there every year. In the winter. They had a beautiful indoor pool with high windows. It seemed huge to me as a kid. Nice place
Makes me think, I went to school in Ohio and walked everywhere?
p.s. Sthols’s beer, lots of Sthol’s beer! I need to go back.
I like how you put things when talking about this mystery
Thanks!
At Salt Fork State Park, the legend of a physical creature called Bigfoot is told only as a means to promote visitors to the park. Guernsey County Ohio has very little, other than a large lake for recreational use to attract visitors. Although plenty of outdoor sportsmen did come there, the park management wanted more reasons to draw those that would spend money in the lodge and gift shops. Thus was the birth of the legend of Bigfoot here in the 1980's when Newcomerstown resident Don Keating organized the Ohio Bigfoot Conference at the lodge. People came for the conference and told their own stories that centered around a mythical creature created by a short 1967 fictional film.
I'm here to say that I've investigated Salt Fork for over 10 years and every alleged account and story told from there is always used to promote videos, and the selling of books on Bigfoot.
I can honestly say that, yes there is something unknown at Salt Fork, but it's not a physical creature called Bigfoot. I have personal documentation of it. I've only ever shown pieces of that evidence public because I'm not in it for personal gain like so many others.
Southeast Ohio is where I had my 1st encounter!! ✌🐢
no you didn’t 😂
We have a psychic!
Where at?
I live very close to stonelick lake and have had a few moments that made me realize im not the biggest in the woods at sunset/dark lol.also a man that works at meijer in milford parked at a church in front of my house and had great info, pics, and knowledge of the hairy man between eastfork and stonelick. Ive been put in my house many times by noises n things thrown at me at fire cooking n reaxing. I believe.
Very creepy!
This is an active area for them, a good many stories from this part of Ohio.
This happened to me twice,,,rocks too big to throw
Salt Fork the Sweet Spot. We love living by salt fork. No big Foot yet 25 years later. BUT I HOP SOME DAY
It could happen at any moment!
Good stuff, John's very knowledgeable and a good guy!!funny part is when he said u need to get a CAT scan haha!!in other words,bitch u hearing shit!!🤔🤣😂✌️🤘🍻
We almost laughed during the interview when he said that
I believe there is such a being like bigfoot in America. We're from southeast Asia. Growing up, my grandmother, who was born in 1919 told stories of village men being scared by a hairy ape man like being and would not go hunt for days. We have a word in our language for bigfoot.
Awesome!
In the mountain, forested areas of China it is know as the Yeren. During the Vietnam War, many stories of them, which they labled as Rock Apes, as they would throw rocks at our troops, and probably the Vietnamese as well.
Why do I have to know there’s a big WILDMAN out running the mountains and waterways of North America! 😏 I can’t stop watching uploads about this topic. 👍
It's so interesting we can't stop making documentaries about it!
Found 3 massive Bigfoot tracks near hosacks cave. Found two nesting sights. And multiple “manufactured” chokepoints. 35+ yrs in the woods, I’ve never witnessed anything like those. As a marine I instantly recognized these “traps” on games trails. I’d love to meet and show an expert where these were, and hear their opinions. Side note, one set of tracks went straight up the side of hosacks cave. Literally impossible for a human to do that. Like 75/80 degree slope
I also have experiences in wv, no direct sightings myself. Although my son, 3 yrs old at the time, started yelling about a monkey in the tree. This was in salt fork. Mind you, he was just starting to talk and have never said the word monkey before that.
That's wild. John would be the man to tell about this stuff. He works for Salt Fork so you can likely find his info on their website
My cousin, who is a straight shooter as they come, swore to me he saw one, one night on the edge of his property not 20 minutes from Salt Fork. Said he was 50 yards away and it turned and walked right through a briar hedge like it was nothing. He didn’t follow it.
That's wild!
@@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot my cousin, wife and I are going hiking at Salt Fork next week. Wish me luck.
@@user-winstonsmith it's a beautiful place! Have fun!
I have been morel mushroom hunting all over Salt Fork & have seen many of these caves and rock formations that they pictured on the video. I have never seen or heard a big foot, but my brother swears he did when hunting there.
He could be out there
Ive been all over Ohio and I would not be shocked if they have some over there. Especially with KY,IN (my state) and Appalachia all right there with tons of remote wilderness areas
Most people don't realize how forested parts of Ohio are
I live about 30 miles away and this whole time i bever knew squirrel hunting was how we date in this region. That explains a lot.
My neighbor (timmyshore) was hiking in the park and was sexually assaulted by a gay bigfoot. He was so traumatized that he's been in denial ever since.
So, a BF’ing BF?
I live in Northern Kentucky and was interested in this story about Bigfoot 👣 sightings and encounters because I’m in Ohio riding my bicycle in remote areas from time to time. And, I’m terrified of Bigfoot 👣. It’s possible that I might see one while driving or biking 🚴♀️and I want to know what I’m looking at. I’m never going hiking 🥾 or backpacking in the wilderness. When alone I carry a 9mm Beretta for protection. I have a CCP. I would only use it if attacked. BTW I’ve never heard of anyone going squirrel 🐿️ hunting on a date. Maybe in Appalachian Kentucky. Thanks 🙏 for sharing story. Good job. 👍☮️🌞🌲🏕️👣🩵
I've backpacked thousands of miles and never had an issue. It will all be ok as long as you stay alert and keep your camp clean and free off food
Very cool stuff I live in the Cleveland area but have Deer hunted down there all my life
Great spot for deer hunting!
@@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot yes sir it sure is some of the best in the state
My folks live literally 5 min from one of the entrances to Salt Fork and while I'll admit it can be creepy in places if alone (lots of old home foundations from the turn of the century, few mini cemeteries, the usual) the worse I've ever come across are the occasional still and a few guys growing weed. ALL who played up the bigfoot idea as much as they could. Horses get rocks chucked at them, running feet and growling, underbrush charges, hell. I got knocked down a hill and got a crack to the back of my head that had me seeing tweety birds flying around my skull for a few minutes. Just never come across a single thing that seemed beyond 'normal'. And if any of ya'll decide YOU want to rummage around down there? Just a small FYI - massive and growing meth issue, because it is near the junction of 70/77 it's a big hub for narcotic transport, MASSIVE amounts of coal mines and shafts that are now causing large sinkholes and it's a handy place for people who don't want to be found all mean, please, BE CAREFUL. I'm completely in a neutral area if cryptids are real or not, but I DO know for certain there are things in that park people can get really territorial over and there is a lot of water and abandon coal mines to tuck whatever/whoever they might not want found.
Good to know thank you!
@@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot No worries, just wanted folks to know. Spent a lot of time there as a kid and it's kinda sad how risky some parts have become. Upside - wildlife is coming back: foxes, a couple wolf sightings, even a few bear. Things that got killed off and cleared out are coming back. But the folks tucked in there are fighting it. Back behind one of the bigger pond/lake areas has an old fallen down stone inn that used to be a great place to take a picnic. Now? I wouldn't go back there unless I was armed and had at least one other friend with me. And the number of idiot hunters... seriously. Just take care should you go again. A few years ago, some right twit in ALL new hunting kit (literally still had tags on some of it) stopped my dad dead while he (dad) was taking a walk and asked "Can you tell me where these go? I've been trying to put them in for the longest time and can't make them stay" while waving a gun fresh out of the box. He was literally trying to load a gun Daniel Boone black powder musket style and was dropping them down the barrel. Dad just sorta stared for a moment, was asked again "Can you load this thing? I am SO embracing my mountain man wild genes. So do you know?" before slowly nodding, telling him "yes, I do know how that gun is loaded. Reached into his wallet, pulled out a couple $20's, dropped the money onto the back gate of the jeep, pocketed the bullets and just told the stunned idiot "I do. You don't. And you don't need bullets for guns you can't load let alone fire" and walked on. It can be a lovely park, but there are quite a few places the game warden and the park staff don't go themselves these days. (And whatever you do. Please. Do not swim there after June. The bacteria levels get scary high and you would have to swim under about an inch of floating goose poop.) The lodge and the camping areas are lovely. Be careful on the backgrounds, please? I've nearly tumbled down a few dozen sink holes and cave opening over the years. Allow my bruised shins, broken toes and more than a few falls down with a wallop and a whimper to be the bad example you avoid! lol
Nice story.
Thanks
My grandpa grew up in Galopolis and they had issues with a Bigfoot on their farm that liked to eat things like fruits and vegetables from the field. His grandfather carried a .44 magnum to deal with it in the 40s.
I had an encounter in Tennessee back in 99. I would like to speak with this gentleman about what I experienced.
If you are at the group camp and have them stomping their foot along with howls and whoops then it is fun. It is not scary there. Stayed there many times for a whole weekend and never been scared. Been screamed at. Tree knocks and whoops are common.
That's awesome!
@wildmanofthewoodsbigfoot you should come next April. The third Thursday thru that Sunday. If you want I can let you know the dates in March.
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Salt fork is an awesome place. I hunt there all the time
Sure is!
I use to live in western Washington on the edge of the Cascade mountains. My property backed right up to the national forest. I had three fruit trees about 15 feet from the tree line. One day I went down to check on the fruit and just as I was reaching for an apple right inside the tree line I her a deep hhhuuufff. I don't know for sure what it was but I know what a bear sounds like. This was not a bear. I just said out loud you can have them and slowly walked back to my house.
Very creepy!
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You sized it up well! Been in Ohio most of my life. Now more wooded, abundant wildlife back in forest. Salt Fork is Ground Zero for Bigfoot in Ohio. Still lots of other sightings in state.
Thanks! The whitetail come back story in Ohio is really impressive. To think they didn't exist in the state a few decades ago and now are thriving is awesome!
I grew up there. We had a dock.i was born 1966.
I live in kimbolton right next to salt fork. If you want to find bigfoot go to the old train tunnel or up to the kimbolton water tower at night. There is noises at night you can't understand.
Plus i forgot to tell you that the game wardens find deer in the winter time with the legs broke and the back straps torn out and the liver go everything else was not disturbed. Everyone knows what there
Thanks for the info!
Do you mind giving me the coordinates of those two areas? I looked on google maps and could not find them. Appreciate it
Yep they are
Funny this guy looks very much like the ranger that hosts the Bigfoot Annual Conference at SF. js
I know about that squirrel hunting.
For every report there are likely a half dozen or more which we never hear about. We would be better able to deal with these people of the forest if we had been taught the truth about them. The more you learn, the more you have to ask why the secrecy.
My Grandad owned 2 IGA stores in the area.
Also the northeaster Georgia, tri-state area has a bunch of Bigfoots in the last 10- years
We'd love to do some documentaries down there someday!
This guy is a regular Ron Swanson.
People have to think that we are also still finding new species on this planet..or how about the Panda, until about hundred years ago, people outsode of asia thought they were myths.. tazmanian tiger that someone recently caught on camera after thinking they were extinct. We have an interesting planet.