RMSO Bigfoot: Appalachian Bigfoot Encounter in Foothills of Ohio

Tuesday, December 10, 2024

Appalachian Bigfoot Encounter in Foothills of Ohio

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Ohio Sasquatch Encounter on Hollow of Wayne Forest

Appalachian Bigfoot Encounter in Foothills of Ohio

Van Lester writes RMSO

Mine was in Wayne National Forest, in southeast Ohio, we saw him clearly at about 40 yds. at dusk dark, 8-footer.

It was late summer of 73 when a good friend and I were in route from Columbus to Portsmouth taking us past the Wayne National Forest. My friend was originally from down that way and knew of a place in the Forest that offered a great view of the sunset of the hills that cover this area of Ohio (foothills of the Appalachians) and we agreed that it would add to our trip.

The landscape was a pull off on a turn that faced directly west allowing for the promised Sunset, a beautiful location with the spot nestled between 2 hills and a hollar at our backs. The sun was nearing the horizon when my friend quickly shushed me several times and said that there was a deer somewhere on my side of the car.

I looked and saw nothing, and asked how he knew there was a deer over there, he replied that he could hear the twigs breaking in the underbrush that covers the area. So, we quietly waited for its appearance...

Suddenly this thing rounded the hill about 40 yards to the right of the car. We were stunned as we could see it clearly rounding the hill making its way towards the road. Neither of us had ever heard the term Bigfoot before and had no idea what we were seeing, we were really scared. We watched as it walked off of the hillside then crossed the road on which we had come to this spot.

It really scared us when as it crossed the road, it looked directly at us, then turned back to its path which took it submerging into the hollar behind us. At this time the sun had not yet set but the shadows were long in the woods. My friend was more scared than I and was determined to leave immediately as he asked repeatedly what the hell we had just seen. I, like most young boys was fascinated with dinosaurs and owned several books on the subject. But my favorite offered artists renderings of their creatures, and one of the paintings was that of a giant 3 toed sloth. I told Tom that it was that animal but without the tail.

I played football in HS on both sides of the ball, and as a defender I was really good at sizing up other players of large stature, this guy was between 8 and 8 1/2 feet tall. There were two other characteristics that I recall vividly, one being the length of his arms and legs. the other being the length of his coat. When we returned to Columbus, we told our friends about what we had witnessed and for the most part they were certain that we had seen a bear.

A couple of years later Tom and I were stationed at Grand Forks ND as policeman in the Air Force and we lived in different dorms. There was a blizzard that night leaving me nothing to do but watch TV. That was when I first saw the Patterson film, I was stunned. I immediately called Tom at his room and told him to turn to the appropriate channel explaining that the thing we saw in Ohio was on TV and that they called it a Bigfoot.

We talked excitedly while we watched whatever program it was on, and was absolutely certain they were the same creature, but with ours appearing a little taller and not as thick, but definitely related. Today whenever we see each other, Tom and I, we assure one another of the reality of the whole encounter, our story remains the same after all these years, and remember how scared we were when it acknowledged us as it crossed the road.

Our fear was such that we did not cross its traveled path when we left, Tom didn't know where the road led to, but we were not going back the way we came. The whole episode lasted what I would guess to have lasted approximately 30 + seconds and he was in clear view as the aforementioned underbrush was only thigh high on him and then the clear view across the road and he disappeared down the hill behind us. I hope this answers your inquest, it was an amazing event that is forever etched into both our minds.

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