I am going to tell you about something that personally happened to me in August of 2015. It was early evening around 7pm while I was relaxing in the rear deck of my house. I heard a strange noise that sounded like a wounded animal and the yelping and whimpering got closer and closer. I looked around and saw nothing so I decided to take a short walk to see what it was. I entered the cornfield next to my house and the loud whimpering/yelping was really close and loud but yet I could not tell exactly which direction because the sound seemed to be coming from two different directions from where I was positioned. I walked to the edge of the cornfield and stood at the tree line and the noise seemed to be coming from the left of me so I headed that way but the closer that I
got to it, it seemed to move to my right at a fast pace. I followed that tree line toward the noise and it brought me to an opening into another field and the sound kept moving to the left and back to the right, kind of in a zig zag pattern. I stepped into the field and the noise got louder and louder but I still could not see what was making it but it seemed as though it went deeper into the wooded area and it was almost like whatever it was wanted me to follow it. I stood there for a few minutes thinking it over but I had that feeling that it wasn't going to be a good idea to follow through. I just had that overwhelming feeling of something wasn't right with this occurrence and the hair seemed to stand up on the back of my neck. I recall saying to myself that something wasn't right so I did not continue to follow it.

I was discussing this with some colleagues of mine and they have experienced this same type of occurrence also and they didn't know what was making the same type of whimpering/yelping sounds either but they both told me that they retreated also because something just wasn't feeling right about the whole thing.

Could whatever this is be some of the reasons that people come up missing while out hiking? What could this be? I know that it quickly grabbed my attention and had me entering the woods in search of this sound. Could it have been an injured animal? Yes it could have been! Could this be the work of sasquatch? Also possible in my opinion. If you have experienced this type of occurrence yourself then you know the uneasy feeling that comes upon you and if you have please share it in the comments below. In my experience with this type of situation I advise that you do not follow it because you do not know what is out there and always be safe in your travels.

Written by Paul Hayes
The Genoskwa Project

Investigated and written by Julie Rench - The Genoskwa Project SW Ohio Division (Ongoing)

Investigated and written by Julie Rench - The Genoskwa Project (SW Division)

I received a report of a gentleman shooting at what he described was a sasquatch that was in his backyard. I contacted the gentleman and completed an investigation on his property located in SE Stark County Ohio. The investigation was completed June 8th 2015. Date of incident was the night of June 7th 2015. The couple would like to remain anonymous per their request.


On the night of June 7th the gentleman's wife was relaxing on the patio that was located on the south side of the residence in the late evening while the husband was in the house on the second level relaxing in the bedroom watching TV and he had received a text message from his wife that she heard loud noises coming from the side of the garage where the trash can was located and advised him to come see what it was.

The gentleman stated that he got his .44 caliber handgun from his gun safe and loaded it and headed down stairs and out the door to the side of the garage where the noises had come from. He stated when he got there the only thing he found was the trash can had been tampered with and he normally keeps a tire on the lid to keep out small rodents but he noticed the tire had been moved. He then walked to the rear of the garage to the backyard and to his left he heard loud foot steps and grunting and he also stated that he had seen a large silhouette.
 
The gentleman proceeded back to the driveway and got in his truck and drove north through the backyard to a small access road with a bridge to get to the rear portion of his backyard because the yard is divided by a small creek approximately eight feet wide. Once he crossed the bridge he immediately turned right heading south through his yard and once he got to the edge of the yard he turned left and aimed his headlights into the wooded area he saw what he described as a huge upright walking creature  approximately seven feet in height and covered in hair standing just inside of the tree line. He also stated that once the headlights of his truck shined on the subject he said it took a step to it's right and that's when he fired his gun possibly hitting it in the left shoulder. I did also ask him if the creature screamed or made any noise after he discharged his gun and he did say that he didn't know because after he discharged the weapon close to the cab of the truck his ears was ringing and could not hear anything. The creature ran off into the wooded area at a fast pace. 


I talked to the witness and asked him several questions concerning the incident. I do believe that he had a class A encounter on his property that night. I looked at the property and he did show me where the trash can is located and it cannot be seen from the patio area and there is no outside light on that part of the garage. The distance between the patio and the trash can is approximately 25 yards. I did look at the trash can and tire for hair samples or prints and I didn't find any. I also searched the area around the garage and didn't find any prints in the immediate area but the ground was hard and that area is covered with a car port.

I proceeded to the rear portion of the backyard to the area of where he said the creature was standing when he shot at it and we did find a print in the soil but it did not look fresh but it measured twelve inches long, six inches across the front of the foot and four inches across the heel. I also did check the area for any type of blood samples on the leaves and grass and found nothing but it did rain the next day before I could get there to investigate. We did look through the wooded area and did find vegetation that was bent over where something had went through. Approximately one hundred yards north of the shooting area a team mate found two prints in the soil and we measured them as well and came up with the same measurements (twelve by six by four). 

The witness did state that his intentions were not to kill it but scare it away from the property because of the safety of him and his family.

The weather that night was fairly warm and partly cloudy with little to no precipitation

So you're interested in having a sighting right?. Of course you are or you wouldn't be reading this. The first thing you need to ask yourself is 'why' and what will you gain from it. Many people all over the world have had some type of sighting or close encounter that they will live with for the rest of their lives. Having a sasquatch encounter can be a life changer for most people, I know this from having my own encounter back in September 2011 and also June 2013. I hear so many people say ' I want to see a sasquatch' well be careful what you wish for and you must be 100% sure that you want this to happen. Many people that have had an encounter do not talk about it or they are told to not talk about it. Your life will be completely turned in a totally different direction in a matter of a few seconds once you have this happen to you. So if you are ready, let's continue on

Hold on to your butt!



Do your homework

This takes time and be patient because this is important! The first thing that you need to do is find that hot spot in your area or state. You can do this by checking the BFRO sighting database, newspapers, search online forums and even attend some type of bigfoot meetings in your area and talk to some local people that live in the area and listen closely to what they have to say.  Once you have this general area of past bigfoot sightings then it's time to map out the area. Google map is an excellent source to look at a particular area and get a feel for it and see what is around and you want to look for things like water, farm land, types of food sources and is the area big enough to support such a large creature. Now that you have determined that this would be a good area it is time to find out if it's privately owned property or state. I personally prefer privately owned simply because there is usually less people in the area that can hinder your chances on having an encounter.

Once you find this area it is time to talk to people but be careful on your approach because it can quickly lead to getting shunned away and now you have to start over. The first thing you want to avoid is when talking to a land owner do not come right out and say ' I think there are bigfoot on your property can I take a look' 99% of the time the door will get slammed in your face and guess what? you are starting over. You want to introduce yourself and just let them know that people in the area are witnessing or hearing strange occurrences in the area and you are wondering if they have heard or seen anything unusual themselves, most of the time the answer you will get is a 'no' but that's ok! Just leave them your contact info and if anything happens they will contact you because now they are curious.

The phone call you have been waiting for.

The phone rings and it's the person that you had left your contact info with, they proceed to tell you that they have heard things that they cannot recognize and they offer for you to come take a look. This is great! but the first thing that you don't want to do is show up in their driveway with a big sign or logo on your car that says anything about crypto related anything. When people contact you, they are contacting you in confidentiality and most of the time they don't want neighbors being nosey so keep it on the down low. Talk to the person and ask what they have been seeing or hearing on their property but don't be pushy because they will not tell you everything, they need to get a feel for you also because the last thing they want is some gun slinging nutcase on their property. Now that you have talked to the person, ask them if there is any way that they can show you around the property or if you can investigate it yourself. Most of the time when the property owner is curious on what's  going on they will escort you around and show you things that they have noticed.

Establishing trust

Now that you have established trust with this person it's time to start your research. If you carry firearms with you make sure you ask the property owner if they mind and if they do, that is ok. Ask the property owner what kind of wildlife is in the area and if need be you can carry pepper spray and I also recommend a bright flashlight with strobe option because this can deter curious predators in the area. If you choose to carry a firearm with the owner's consent then please keep it hidden from view because sasquatch don't like them. Talk to the property owner and see if it's ok to bring one person with you, do not bring more than one person because it can be a bad thing and ruin it for everybody. Once everything is squared away and your foot is in the door 'so to speak' it's time for research.

Getting the feel

The first thing is getting the feel for the property, walk this property many times during the day to find property boundaries and make sure you don't step onto someone else's property because that can be a bad thing too. Scout the area and look for signs of activity  like structures, prints and also look for any signs of bedding areas. Now keep in mind that everything is not sasquatch related, there are many things that have been done by nature and you have to keep this in mind. Let's say you find some type of interesting stick anomalies in the area, look around you and determine if these branches are from the same tree or neighboring trees, if so it is probably natural. When finding foot prints or something that looks like a print, look at it real close and always take many pictures at different angles with some type of reference so it will help show the size and cast it if at all possible. I can't stress the point enough of walking the property during the day many times to get used to the area because once you start a night investigation the property has a totally different feel at night and you can get disoriented really easy and find yourself lost.

Conducting research

Now it's time to get the research underway, you and your partner and sometimes in many cases the land owner will be present. Get your camp setup and your gear prepped and ready to go. Do not set out trail cams, this will decrease your chances on having an encounter, sasquatch don't like these either. I do recommend setting out audio recorders in certain areas to try and capture some type of vocals and don't be discouraged if all you get is wildlife recordings because researching an area will take some time and you have to be patient. When researching an area I always recommend wearing the same colored clothing or wear something like a bracelet or anything that will let any sasquatch in the area know that it is you, they will notice this and you want to gain their trust so possibly they will come in closer. Don't feel pressured to think that you have to beat the trails constantly, you are there to observe and not interact. Set up camp, build a fire, cook some food and get that aroma in the area and be natural and act natural, if they are there, they will come. Sometimes when researching an area with possible sasquatch activity it can take months or even years to have a sighting but just because you don't see them doesn't mean they don't see you!.

Techniques

Many people have tried different methods to try and lure in sasquatch, many of these do not work such as food gifting. First of all you have to know that this is only my personal opinion and also methods that I have tried in the past. You see and hear of people gifting food to sasquatch and over night the food is missing but there is nothing to prove that sasquatch ate it. My guess is that you are feeding the wildlife in the area but if that is what you are into then I have no problem with that, I am just simply stating that I do not use this method. I will tell you of a method that has worked in the past for me but it might not work for you, We have conducted research during the day and had taken a break for dinner and then conducted more research in the early evening and then to stir things up a bit ATV's were ridden around the property and surrounding area late at night to stir things up a bit and it worked. It seemed almost every time that we did this we had some type of strange activity in the area such as vocals and team members have heard bipedal footsteps and also one sighting witnessed by the research team and the property owners. When it comes to sasquatch and you want to get their attention you have to think outside of the box, you are in their home and they are intelligent and will outsmart you.

I guess to sum it all up find that area and be natural, most sightings that have happened are usually by people being natural and conducting their lives the way they normally do. Shy away from trail cameras and if you carry firearms please keep them hidden. Get out and enjoy nature , make some noise to gain attention such as talking, laughing and being yourself. One thing to keep in mind is patience, this will take some time and do not get discouraged if nothing happens in months or even years, if they want you to see them let them make the choice.

Thanks for reading!

Spring of 2015 The Genoskwa Project Research Team will conduct an expedition in southern Ohio. TGP has picked a handful of researchers to help us explore and hopefully collect evidence in this area.

I have talked to several local people from this area and there has been several that said they have encountered strange howls at night for the past couple of years.  There also has been a person that almost hit one of these creatures with her car at about 11pm at night and watched it cross the road and into the cemetery.

This area seems to be rich in bigfoot activity.

I have made a few trips to this area to do a preliminary check for evidence and also talk to some of the local people in the area so I could get an approximate idea on land layout and also to see if this area would support such a large creature and from what I can see this area definitely has food sources, water and shelter. The Genoskwa Team will have to get to this area by boat and then we will be hiking into this area and also exploring the three caves that are here.

In this area we have found strange anomalies and in between the two arched trees we have found a print approximately 16in long and approximately 8in wide. We also have found limbs obstructing paths and I have also encountered what sounded like something walking through the heavy brush while I was there.

Stay tuned as we will keep you up to date on exact expedition time and dates and also we will release at a later date on who will be accompanying the TGP Research team.

Paul Hayes
Founder/Lead Researcher

A special Thank You to the editor of the Youngstown Vindicator  "Guy Dastolfo" for putting together a great article in the Vibe section of the newspaper. There was an awesome response to this article and people thought it was amazing.

The Fest started on Friday about 5pm with vendors getting set up by 3pm, we had people showing up early for this event.

I did receive a phone call today from the council man Kevin Siembida thanking us for helping out with Leetonia's first Festival and they also said that they came out ahead and they will be using the money to invest into the Leetonia Coke ovens to preserve them. Business owners in Leetonia also benefitted from the crowd because they was browsing the stores while they were there. People were showing up to the event in crowds and we had thousands of visitors show up and all of the vendors did really well with sales and said they are interested in next years event.

The Genoskwa Project would like to Thank the people from Leetonia for letting us have this festival in their town and we were glad we could help raise money for this small town.

Alan Fathom Frontiers was one of the vendors and they had a great time and also stated that they did very well at this years event. Alan also Thanked us for having them and said job well done.

They are also interested in next years event. We would like to Thank Alan Fathom Frontiers for donating prizes for the bigfoot howling contest for first, second and third place winners.

Thank You guys for supporting TGP and this event, you guys are great!

Marc Dewerth from the Ohio Bigfoot Conference was also present as a vendor for the Genoskwa Fest. He was also a speaker for the event and people enjoyed the presentation.

We also want to Thank Mark for his prize donations for the howling contest for first, second and third place winners. Mark had several items for sale including but not limited to foot casts, drawings and books.

TGP appreciates everything that you do for us Marc! You are a great friend and Thank You for supporting The Genoskwa Project.

As the Founder of TGP I would also like to Thank the TGP members for doing an awesome job on helping out with the preparation of the festival in the past months and also for doing an excellent job in setting up both of our booths at the festival. Dan and Sue Baker, Theresa Hayes, Thomas Hayes, Stephen Hayes, Angela Hayes, Mark Hudak, Jeanne Hudak, Nathan Hayes, Gary Double (photographer) for taking several pictures for the event.

We also want to Thank all the other people that offered their services and help for the festival. Everybody did a tremendous job! Thank You!
We also want to Thank all people from Leetonia for getting things situated per TGP's request.

Dr. Jeff Meldrum was a great asset to the Genoskwa Fest and we enjoyed his company and we Thank him for coming all the way from Idaho to attend this event.

Dr. Meldrum's presentation was a great success and we received a lot of good feed back about his presentation and people Thanked us for having him.

I did get an opportunity to speak to Dr. Meldrum one on one and he is a very knowledgeable guy and it was a pleasure. Thank You again Dr. Meldrum for your appearance in Leetonia. The mask that Dr. Meldrum is holding came from Monster Man Dan Studios, this mask has been featured on Monster Quest and was shipped to Dan Baker over night so Dan could have this for the event, Monster Man Dan is a very talented artist.

I personally had the privilege to speak with many people from different states, they had some really awesome sighting stories that they wanted to tell us about. Many of these stories were really interesting including a gentleman told us about his encounter about something that had thrown a tree (root first) at him, I found this story very interesting.

We also received some sighting information from people that wanted us to check out specific areas and a gentleman and his wife was glad to show us a print that he casted and some interesting artifacts. What a great experience to talk to these people.

The Festival gathered several thousands of visitors from Ohio and several different surrounding states,  New York, Illinois, Pennsylvania and many others. The Festival had a great turnout and Leetonia benefitted from the event.

Cobblestone Corner was a vendor at the festival and they had several statues including bigfoot and other related items.

The prices were reasonable and was good quality, I purchased one of the sasquatches for myself. Thank You for being at the festival Cobblestone.
They also told me that they will be having a sasquatch like these but 8ft tall.

6234 Market St.
Boardman, Ohio
(330) 758-2428

The Howling contest was an awesome event, children to adults entered the contest and they all did really well. The three judges for this event was Mark Hudak, Mark Maisel from the BFRO and myself.
 
We did have a hard time trying to pick first, second and third place because all contestants did an awesome job. Thank You everybody for participating in the contest!

Many people gathered around for this event, I think the spectators enjoyed this as much as TGP did.

This gentleman was the very first contestant to enter for the howling contest, he put together several different techniques into his bigfoot calling.

He started out with knocking and howling and whoops and then repeated his demonstration.

We thought he did an awesome job too and I am thinking that he has practiced this before. Thank You for joining in the fun, everybody seemed to enjoy it.

Keep up the good work and hope to see you next year!

The Bigfoot hike through the primitive trail behind the Leetonia Coke Ovens was a great event, people gathered for the event and we had seen very interesting evidence.

There has been several bigfoot sightings throughout the Coke Oven area

I want to Thank Dan Baker, Gary Double, Mark Hudak and Kevin Siembida for getting the trail cleared for the hike.

Thank You for all you do! You guys were a big help!!

I could go on about the festival and post more pictures but I will end this here and Thank You to all of the TGP members for your hard work and to all of the vendors for participating in the event. Many Thanks Leetonia for bringing this festival into your town. I also want to Thank Eric  and Kerrie Fargiorgio for donating the awesome painting to The Genoskwa Project....everybody was AWESOME!!!!!

Bigfoot! Theory or Fact?



By Paul H.


There seems to be some type of debate whether Bigfoot is theory or fact,well
it depends on how you look at it.


How did bigfoot “AKA Sasquatch” evolve on this planet,is he Primate or human?
Lets see if we can figure that out.


Bigfoot sightings


Bigfoot is a FACT when describing WHAT happened and a THEORY when describing
HOW things happened.

There is some confusion about evolution as a fact and evolution as a theory.
Often you can find critics claiming that evolution is “just a theory” rather
than a fact, as if this demonstrated that it shouldn’t be given serious
consideration. Such arguments are based upon a misunderstanding of both the
nature of science and the nature of evolution. 
In reality, evolution is both a fact and a theory. 
To understand how it can be both, it is necessary to understand that
evolution can be used in more than one way in biology. A common way to use the
term evolution is simply to describe the change in the gene pool of a population
over time; that this occurs is an indisputable fact. Such changes have been
observed in the laboratory and in nature. Even most (although not all,
unfortunately) creationists accept this aspect of evolution as a fact. 
Another way the term evolution is used in biology is to refer to the idea of
“common descent,” that all species alive today and which have ever existed
descend from a single ancestor which existed at some time in the past. Obviously
this process of descent has not been observed, but there exists so much
overwhelming evidence supporting it that most scientists (and probably all
scientists in the life sciences) consider it a fact as well. 
So, what does it mean to say that evolution is also a theory? For scientists,
evolutionary theory deals with how evolution occurs, not whether
it occurs — this is an important distinction lost upon creationists. There are
different theories of evolution which can contradict or compete with each other
in various ways and there can be strong and sometimes quite acrimonious
disagreement between evolutionary scientists regarding their ideas. 
 
The distinction between fact and theory in evolutionary studies is probably
best explained by Stephen Jay Gould: 

In the American vernacular, “theory” often means “imperfect fact” — part
of a hierarchy of confidence running downhill from fact to theory to hypothesis to guess. Thus the power of the
creationist argument: evolution is “only” a theory and intense debate now rages
about many aspects of the theory. If evolution is worse than a fact, and
scientists can’t even make up their minds about the theory, then what confidence
can we have in it? Indeed, President Reagan echoed this argument before an
evangelical group in Dallas when he said (in what I devoutly hope was campaign
rhetoric): “Well, it is a theory. It is a scientific theory only, and it has in
recent years been challenged in the world of science — that is, not believed in
the scientific community to be as infallible as it once was.

Well evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are
different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are
the world’s data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret
facts. Facts don’t go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain
them. Einstein’s theory of gravitation replaced Newton’s in this century, but
apples didn’t suspend

themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from
ape-like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin’s proposed mechanism or by some
other yet to be discovered.

Moreover, “fact” doesn’t mean “absolute certainty”; there ain’t no such
animal in an exciting and complex world. The final proofs of logic and
mathematics flow deductively from stated premises and achieve certainty only
because they are NOT about the empirical world. Evolutionists make no claim for
perpetual truth, though creationists often do (and then attack us falsely for a
style of argument that they themselves favor). In science “fact” can only mean
“confirmed to such a degree that it would be perverse to withhold provisional
consent.” I suppose that apples might start to rise tomorrow, but the
possibility does not merit equal time in physics classrooms.

Evolutionists have been very clear about this distinction of fact and
theory from the very beginning, if only because we have always acknowledged how
far we are from completely understanding the mechanisms (theory) by which
evolution (fact) occurred. Darwin continually emphasized the difference between
his two great and separate accomplishments: establishing the fact of evolution,
and proposing a theory — natural selection — to explain the mechanism of
evolution.

       
http://www.stephenjaygould.org/




       There are many different theories about
Bigfoot,some say bigfoot is hominid,some say primate and some say alien,well
these are all theories and not facts but also it depends on how you describe
it,here is an example:


If you see a beautiful woman and you say that “She is Hot” does that mean
that she has a high temperature? of course not,everybody knows what you mean,so
it’s all on how Theory and Fact is spoken.This debate on Theory and Fact will go
on forever and some people may never know the real meaning of both.



I think I am going to stop here before I confuse myself HAHA! So maybe we
have learned that it depends on how you say it or what words that you use or
what evidence will determine Theory or Fact.

By Paul Hayes
It was toward the end of summer in September of two thousand eleven that I
had my sighting of a tall hairy bipedal creature. I went to bed around 9:30pm on
September fifth and it was a warm summer night approximately seventy degrees
outside. I usually don’t get much sleep as I get older and it seems to get worse
the older I get. I had awaken at about two am. in the early morning of the
sixth,I had decided to go outside and smoke a cigarette because I don’t smoke in
my house.


I grabbed a cigarette from my pack and my lighter and proceeded to the living
room where the french doors are located to go out to the rear deck on my house that is positioned on the S.E. Corner of my house. Iwalked out on the rear deck and I stood there just in front of the french doors where the ashtray was sitting on the hand rail and I noticed that the moon was mostly full and set in place and that the temperature was rather warm and it hadn't been raining.


I was facing my back yard and enjoying the moon light and I might have been there for approximately two to three minutes when I heard a low guttural growl coming from my left from the cornfield. I live on a dead end street and the property that is located beside me is a corn field that belongs to a gentleman that lives up the street. There is a single line of large pine trees that divide my property from the corn field and as I looked over to my left after hearing the growl I couldn’t see anything even though the moon was shining in my direction. I still continued to stand there and about one minute later I heard this low guttural growl once again. I proceeded to extinguish my cigarette and walk back into the house not telling anyone about what happened.


The next night I went to bed approximately ten p.m. and again I couldn't sleep and had awaken about one a.m. and  I got up grabbed a cigarette and lighter and headed out to the rear deck totally dismissing what I had encountered the previous night. I was standing in the same area again enjoying the warm night and the moon was only showing at about sixty percent but it was still bright and very little clouds that night. The same thing occurred again,it must have been a few minutes as I stood there and I heard the low guttural growl coming from the same area from my left. This time it seemed to be a bit louder and I looked over between the pine trees but I couldn't see anything but darkness. I originally thought it might have been a bear but after checking bear
sightings I dismissed it because none  has been reported for my area.


At this time I am getting a little nervous because whatever this was it sounded extremely large and seemed to have a large set of lungs. I proceeded back into the house and just as I entered through the door way my wife had gotten up and she was headed to the door to go out to the rear deck. I stopped her and told her about the growls that I have been experiencing that night and
the previous night. She replies with “I know,I have heard them before” and with a look on my face I thanked her for not telling me.


I hadn't went outside at night for the rest of the week because I had no idea what was lurking in the shadows and I didn't know if it was still hanging around. The next day I had contacted my oldest son and told him what was going on around the house and he said he could come over on Friday the nineth after work and we could check things out.


Now it's Friday the nineth and I got home from work at about five thirty that day and my oldest son was already at my house waiting on me. We proceeded to walk through the the tree line that connects to the south eastern corner of my back yard and it runs along the edge of the corn field and as we were walking through we started to notice strange stick structures that doesn’t make sense and it seemed to  rule out something done by nature.



We finally got to the end of the tree line and it meets a large field with tall grass that gets five to six feet high and part of it seems to be swampy and has some cat tails growing on the one side. The temperature that day was warm and sunny with very little cloud cover and no rain but the ground of the field still seemed to be wet and muddy and definitely a paradise for ticks. My son and I made it partially through the field and we stopped to look across the field toward the wooded area and we were facing the south eastern direction over at some crab apple trees that was located on the tree line on the other side of the field.


We were standing side by side and out of my peripheral vision I noticed some movement out of the corner of my left eye at the edge of the tree line that was approximately two hundred feet from where we were standing. I asked my son if he had seen the movement as I pointed in the direction of the wooded area and he relied “No I didn't see it” I then said lets go investigate that and see what it could have been. It was about five fifty p.m. by that time and I didn't know if it was deer or anything else because I just saw the movement but couldn't tell shape or color of the subject in question.


We finally made it through the field to the tree line and there was a small creek about three foot wide with very little water flowing through it and we also noticed a trail where the deer had been crossing that creek in that same area and it was heavily traveled because the tree roots were showing. We both jumped across the narrow creek and started to walk the deer trail which followed the edge of the narrow creek and I told my son that I was going to check the creeks edge for any type of prints because I know I had seen something move over in that area. My son elected to wait up on the trail while I was searching the creeks edge.


I was looking on both sides of the creeks edge when my son alerted me and wanted me to come look at something that was odd to him so I proceeded up the small embankment and walked over to where he was standing. Stephen said “stand where I am and follow the creek down to a large tree on the creeks edge and tell me what that is”. I looked down to the tree which was about a good three hundred feet and I noticed something dark that seemed to be squatting behind that tree but I couldn't tell what it was but I know it wasn't moving so I dismissed it as a log or tree stump. I went back to the creeks edge to continue looking for any type of prints in the soft mud but came up empty handed.


I told Stephen we should go into the woods a little deeper just to see what else we can find and I walked back up to the deer trail and just for curiosity I went to the spot where I previously stood to look down to the large tree where we both seen that dark object and this time the area looked different. We walked the deer trail which followed the narrow creek and had noticed the narrow creek tees into a larger creek that was about fifteen foot wide but we didn’t see a good spot to cross until we followed it a little farther and we had found a shallow spot that we could cross.


Once we crossed the larger creek we split up and I headed south and Stephen headed north and I had been looking around for about five minutes and I heard Stephen call my name and wanted me to go to his location. I walked over to where he was and he was standing in a small clearing that had the greenest grass I had ever seen and this clearing was surrounded by thick brush in the shape of a U. Stephen has noticed an unbearable smell in that area and he asked me if I could smell it and I replied “Yes” but then I asked him what it was because we couldn't pinpoint what type of smell it was because it had a combined odor of rotten eggs and rotted flesh.


We both started searching that immediate area for a possible dead animal or anything that could have made that nasty odor.


We didn't come up with anything and it was starting to get about six thirty that night so I told him that we should go but we can come back another time and he agreed. We went back to the large creek and crossed over and walked along the deer trail until we got about twenty feet from the area that we had originally crossed the small creek that took us to the field with the tall grass and as
Stephen was walking in front of me he stopped and he was looking to his left and I asked what he was doing. He said “look” and as I looked over to my left I couldn't see what he was looking at so I asked him again what he was looking at and he pointed to his left and told me to look with a more stern voice but yet again I couldn't see because I had a tree and limb covered with leaves obstructing my view.


I hunched down about six to eight inches to look below the limb and about one hundred feet from us we saw a huge hairy creature standing in a bipedal fashion with a forward gate staring in our direction. There wasn't much between us and this creature but some brush and small saplings and as we stood there in amazement because of the size of this human looking creature I asked my son what it was doing and he replied “It's moving its upper body back and forth” at this time I really don't think that it had set in to our minds what we were exactly looking at but I can say that it seemed as though time stopped and I have no idea how long we actually viewed this thing.


We both just stood there and watched this thing and we never moved an inch because I think we were in shock from the massive size. This unexplained creature appeared to be at least seven and a half foot tall and had to weigh a minimum of six hundred pounds. The hair was a dark reddish brown and it had a matted and dirty look to it and most of the face was covered with hair but from what you could see it appeared to be of human trait. The ears was covered with hair and it was standing at an angle to us but I could see the legs were extremely muscular and large and the arms length seemed to go just slightly past the knees. I just couldn't help but to stare at this creature because I couldn't believe the size and just how big it was. I believe that as it was swaying it's upper body back and forth because I knew it that it knew that we were there but I don't think it knew what our exact location was and it was trying to find us
as we were kind of hidden behind some brush.


It seemed as Stephen and myself broke out of some type of hypnosis I looked at my son and said “we need to go”. He agreed and he said he was running but I told him not to run and that we would walk out but we can keep an eye and see if we were going to be followed. We finally made it to the small creek and jumped across and headed across the field with the tall grass as we kept looking behind us to see if we were being followed but didn't notice anything. We made it across the field and took a short cut through the corn field and as we both stepped into my back yard we turned around and looked in the direction of where we just came from and just slightly north of us in the wooded area we both heard two really loud tree knocks and my son looked at me and asked if I heard that
and I said “Yes I did”.


To this day I will never forget what I had seen that day and I will remember it like it was yesterday and nobody can convince me that it was anything else other than what we call bigfoot.


From that day I vowed to become a researcher in the bigfoot world and my goal is to get enough proof of this creature so it can be recognized to mainstream science and documented so we can protect this creature and it's habitat.