Years Before the Ohio Bigfoot Flap: Repeated Encounters in Mantua & Streetsboro

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So settle in because today you'll hear another account that just might change the way you see the woods forever. So stay with us. All right, welcome back to another episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. I've got the privilege of talking to individual, his name is Rob today. And Rob is a local to Portage County, Ohio. Contacted me after the events of March 6th through March 10th. So the events of the Ohio Bigfoot Flap is what we're calling it. But welcome to the show, Rob. How are you doing today, sir? I'm well. How are you Jeremiah? We're having a great time. You know, it's always a great day when I'm able to just, you know, sit back at the desk and talk to someone about their Bigfoot encounters. And it sounds like you have had some interesting things happen over the years. So I'm glad we can get you on the show and give you the space to, so you can share what you've experienced over the years in an incredibly active county as we've all found out really over the years and especially last week. So anything else that the listeners would need to know about you for context before you get started, Rob? Yeah, so I actually lived in the Portage County area. I've lived here for a good portion of my adult life after I graduated high school. Once you, a university around here, Kent State, and just lived here ever since I graduated. I love the area. Everybody's so friendly around here and it's a place that I love to, I can see myself living for the rest of my life. So this story that broke over the past week or so really resonated with me because the encounters I'm going to explain to you as we go on through this, it really hit home. I think it is great that we're getting some attention here and maybe we'll get some questions answered over time as researchers come out here or people that know far more than I do or anybody else in this area that can look into this, can maybe trigger some of this. Thank you for having me once again. Absolutely, yeah. And it's great to hear you have that viewpoint of things. For sure, I know there's been a lot of eyes on this area and there's been a lot of big foot researchers that have come to the area. And again, I've said this publicly multiple times. There is a local group and researcher, so Glenn Adkins from the Ohio Squatch Project I've been working with for doing boots on the ground investigations. So in case listeners haven't heard that before, that is another time that I will be saying that Glenn Adkins is helping out a ton with this. So thank you to Glenn. But Rob, let's make sure you have the time to share what you have experienced and it sounds like you have a few things that you've experienced over the years, yeah? Absolutely. So wherever the start is, quite a while back, actually about five or six years ago, I used to frequently drive through Manoway because I actually knew a few people, some of my really good friends over the years grew up in Manoway. A lot of them moved out, did their own things. One in particular lived right near, in between the Manoway Center and downtown Manoway area. So I'd always take the back roads there after work if I went over to his house, say during a weeknight or a weekend. And something that's important for the listeners to know is the Manoway area is very rural. And I guess maybe this isn't the most accurate representation. It's very swampy or it's a high water table. So everything's very, it's like a wetland basically in a lot of the areas. So no straight lights, very rural. It's probably, as many of you would imagine, a perfect area for this type of encounter. And my first encounter, probably around 2020, if I had to guess, late 2020, early 2021, that really stuck out to me was when I was driving to my friend's house in Manoway. When I say there's people there, or not that many people there, it's probably about a thousand or less. You have the whole area. It's very spread out, no lights. And it was just after a rainstorm. It wasn't raining anymore, but it was very moist. Wow, you could smell it in the air. And I was driving around the bends and right before I hit that intersection about a thousand feet before I hit it, there's these woods on the right hand side. What I thought was perhaps a bear, and I only say a bear because I just saw something with fur in the corner of my eye as I was driving late at night. I turned my head to look at it and I only got a glimpse of it for about two seconds or so in passing. But it was very clear this was not a bear standing on two legs. And it had its back to me. And when it turned, it turned to look at me because I was driving towards its direction. It turned, looked, I could see the glare in its eyes, and then it turned the scatter. And then all of them two or three seconds had occurred, but I got enough of a glimpse of it that I knew this was something that was not normal. We see bears sometimes around the area that's not super uncommon, unless if you're in the more populated areas, you're not really going to see them. Something like Manoway that wouldn't surprise me, but this was clearly a taller figure that had broad shoulders and had longer fur that was standing on two feet. I saw a bit of its face, but it wasn't detailed. And again, this was the first encounter. So I freaked out when I saw that and I told my friends when I arrived to his house. We all kind of freaked out about it. Thought it was weird. They were on the lookout for the following weeks. Nothing was made of it. And we just kind of moved on with our lives. That was my first encounter and that seems very light and mild and passing, but it's going to be important what I say next. Can I ask you a few questions about that real quick, sir? Oh, yeah, of course. Sorry, if I'm rambling. Thank you. Thank you. You're doing great. Can you, so what was the color that you had noticed? Okay, so again, understand this is the equivalent of you driving on the highway and passing something within a few seconds. So I guess details I could pick up on and somewhere a little bit more vague. The fur I noticed was a little bit more greasy and kind of like a brownish, you know, it maybe brownish black. But it was definitely thick enough. It wasn't like some mangy fur you would see on an animal that's that's fact or something. It wasn't like that. It was it was long and it kind of blew around. It was very noticeable. It wasn't something that stood out. So it was like a longer brownish fur that had some kind of, I don't know if it was oily or greasy. What would you estimate that the height of it to be if you could easily eat? I would say eight and a half feet. And I can't can I can't say 100% how tall it was. It might even have been taller because it was it seems like it was lurking forward like it was standing up but lurking forward a little bit. So absolutely. You said that it had kind of turned to look at you. Did it have a certain way of turning? Yeah. So when it turned to me, it just kind of turned this whole bond. It's almost like it pivoted around at me all at once. Like it freaked out or something. It didn't just like turn its head and look at me just swung around as if I startled it. I don't know what the case was, but obviously a car is coming at that direction. So it wouldn't surprise me. Okay. So 20 either 2020 or 2021. And what was the the time of year the month on this again? Oh, this was definitely later of the year, but it wasn't in winter at all. It was more so had to be I'm thinking it's late 2020 because it was not winter time. Okay. It's a fall time. And let's see. Oh, you had mentioned that this was near an intersection you said. Yeah. So far in a way of wrestling, if you look at Google Maps or anything, basically you have to take back roads to get a man away. There's no real other than the interstate. That's the only other way you can get there. One of the back roads pioneer trail, it cuts through. There's a few roads there. Dude, that's the one I would always cut through. It goes to Main Street, which is in between Manaway center, which was where one of those sightings was that you mentioned earlier in the week. And then downtown Manaway, which is south of that. So it cuts in between the two. Okay. So it's like you took pioneer trail over to 44 then? Yeah. If that's the main road, I always call it means 44. And so that intersection there, that area. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. Definitely feel free to resume. Thank you for answering those questions. Yeah, of course. And I know that one people could kind of dismiss as something that was inexplicable, but not big footers, watch or whatever. And I kind of dismissed it for a while too, as maybe I saw something and I wanted to believe it was something that it wasn't. I wasn't really sure. It was in Pakistan to be fair. And I was open minded yet doubting myself of what I saw. But I didn't see anything for a while. Nothing stood out until a year and a half or so later. And it's been a while. So forgive me if my dates aren't precise. It's about a year and a half or so. I was over at that same friend's house. I was already over there and he actually at the time, he doesn't anymore, but lived near a farm. They're always working a lot of nights or early mornings. Very common for farmers, obviously. And nothing was unusual. You would see people out there periodically in the night or sometimes teenagers would cut through the neighborhoods and run through the fields or whatever. And I've seen all of it. So nothing like that would stand out to me. But there was one night we were out late and about approximately 1.30 in the morning out on his deck. We were out late at night on the deck talking and just sitting out. It was a nice breezy night. It was crazy. And all of a sudden we heard a bunch of branches breaking along a tree line at the end of the farm. And we dismissed it as maybe it's the farmer out there or maybe it's kids walking through because once again, like I said, sometimes kids have to do that area or they goof around. They're teenagers. And that's kind of what we thought of it initially. About five minutes later, we heard a large snap and then something collapsed. Almost like a large branch off of a tree. It was very loud. So we looked at each other and thought, okay, well, that is unusual. But again, maybe they're working on trees late at night. Who knows? It would be weird because it's pitch black out, but I don't know what else to make of it. Suddenly, about three to five minutes after that, we heard a large or like a loud, excuse me, a loud sound. It wasn't even like a growling or anything. It was like a screech. That's the odd part. And that's what stood out to us. So when we looked over, there actually was moonlight kind of shining down on the farm. And I could see my friend and I could see the silhouette of a taller figure that almost identically represented the figure I saw a year and a half or two years prior. And we're standing there walking the tree lying and it ran through the tree line away from us, but I could see its back and it was clear that it was very defined, like it was muscular. I couldn't get a glimpse of its face or anything, but I could definitely see the tone of its body, some of the characteristics. Like the muscles on its back or arms. And the arms are definitely hanging a lot lower than the normal human being or something else. So it stood out to us. It freaked us out. We went inside and made us to say my friend is horrified of that hearing. Because he doesn't know what he saw that night neither do I, but I'm glad I'm validated to him at least because he saw what I saw a couple of years prior. Wow. Oh my goodness. Okay. So what was the distance away from where you guys were at on the porch to the tree line where you see this? Oh, I would say probably about a hundred and twenty five to a hundred and fifty yards. That would be my guess, maybe a hundred, but a hundred to a hundred and fifty would be my safe. It stood out from that far away. That's my point. I can see it clear as day from a hundred and a hundred fifty yards standing way taller than everything else growing around the area. What would you estimate the height was of what you guys saw? My estimation would be similar to the one I saw initially about an eight and a half feet, maybe even a little bit taller. But again, it was just far enough away where I couldn't get a pretty good approximation to that. I would say about eight and a half to ninety. It's a similar height to the one I saw initially. Yeah. And definitely not sure is a okay answer. I'd rather be safe to say I'm not an entire leecher because it was a fair distance, but it clearly stood out. It wasn't a normal height of a human being. Is this the first time that your friend had experienced things out of the ordinary and you don't have to get into detail because if you don't feel comfortable answering that, that's fine. But I'm just kind of curious about that. This is the first that he encountered. And what's funny about this, what's kind of slowly developed this feeling of I wish we can have a platform to explain some of this stuff to people was since he saw that, we've brought it up to other people and he has family that lives all around the area. How are we going to kind of know each other in that city? It's very tight net. And the more and more people that we've discussed that with over the those few years, it was we started to realize that we weren't alone. Other people had experiences that they just either didn't speak up about or, you know, I don't know if there was a stigma of like saying, Hey, I saw this and they didn't want people to believe them or whatever. I don't know the case might be, but I totally get what they were feeling because I felt the same thing. You know, how do you explain that to somebody who hasn't seen anything like that before and I, you know, expect them to treat you in a rational manner. So I get it, but we've had discussions with these people quite frequently about this stuff. And we realize we are not alone. It's just people haven't spoken up about it. Wow. Okay. So that's very interesting. So you got a small rural community where everyone seems to have something going on, but they don't talk about it. The reason why I reached out and I emphasized on this earlier, when this just started this podcast, when this report broke out, my eyes lit up because of the area all circling around exactly. I know every single area that was pointed out and it brought, I don't know. I don't know the accurate description of how I felt when I saw it. Part of me felt validated as an, okay, I'm not alone. There's others and they're spread out enough where I don't think this is like some organized effort or something in my opinion. But I also think, well, now is the time to come forward with, you know, people's experiences in this area. And I really think there's a lot more going on than people realize. This is the perfect type of perfect type of environment for some creature like that to roam in, I would think. Definitely definitely agree with you on that, Rob. It is a thing where I think things like this have happened in the area for years. And as we go, as things get weirder in the world, I think people feel more and more comfortable with stepping up and sharing what they have experienced and like it's okay to do so for some reason. So which is great. I think the truth needs to get out there. But you know, so you've got a few interests, really interesting things that have happened so far, some visual sightings. And so we are up to either 2021 or 2022 then. Yeah. Again, if it sounds sketchy on the dates, it's because it's been so many years, been four or five years, I don't know the exact date, but it was definitely around late 2021, twice my two-year range. Both occasions were not in the wintertime, so I know that much. Okay. Good to know. Late year or late in the year. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. All right. Okay. Well, yeah, feel free to continue with what you have experienced over the years. Yeah, of course. So I actually will give you, and I don't know if you may feel comfortable reaching out. I'll have to ask you about it. But one of my friends' relatives, when I explain this to them, they actually live, I won't give you exact areas, obviously, but they live in an area, not in that same area, but within a few miles away, where it's a lot of farmland, very open, wet. And when we explain this to them, I felt embarrassed almost explaining it because my friend had me explain it to them because he wanted me to kind of like back him up. And when I explained it, I thought I was going to get received a reaction where they thought I was nuts, that I was just making up some things just for entertainment or whatever case might be, which I've had, so I don't explain it enough to people. However, they countered that, and they said, you saw something, too. And then what they described, they've seen in their backyard, was very similar to what I've seen. So they didn't tell me height or anything, but when I explained the fur, the look, the bolt, the, see, not bolt, broad shoulders, and how it kind of had like a block, you know, a blocky test where there was, I don't even know if there was a neck, quite frankly. If there was, I couldn't really notice, it was just had on a block. That's what it kind of seemed like. So it was a very fit tone of this figure. And they were explaining the same stuff, and they had sightings in their backyard more than once because their dog, their dog would actually flip out when they'd go in the backyard. And when they'd go out to get their dog, that's when they'd have their preferences. Okay. Wow. So that is, there is definitely a lot going on in this town. What's the, what would you say the approximate population of Manoway is? Uh, yeah, don't quote me on this. I'm just kind of spitball. And so if somebody finds a different number, sorry, but I would say it's around 1000 people, maybe it might have changed a little bit over the past year or so. But I guess 1500. Okay. Okay. So now you're at the point where it's not just you and your buddies that has something happen. Now you have another, another individual outside of your buddy group where it's like, yeah, there's definitely stuff going on here, which that kind of changes things for you, I would think. Uh, yes, because then it turns, it turned my opinion from doubtful of my own experiences to now I need to know more. And the hard part is it's hard to learn more about what happened other than giving some of these experiences from locals over years. You might get a few if you're lucky, but having this kind of exposure in the area, not even just Manoway, but whether it's Ferrisboro, Arizona, um, St. Spurrow, any of those areas. I think it's really good for people to speak up because for those listening that have had experiences, just know that you aren't alone. There's just a lot of people that don't know the proper outlets to go to and be taken seriously. So I think this is really beneficial. I do have a question for you Jeremiah. So are there active researchers out in the area right now, or at least during this time period of this past week or so? Yeah, 100%. So the individual that reached out to me really quickly actually was an individual who, he's a big foot researcher named Glenn Adkins with the Ohio Squatch Project and local gentlemen. And so that individual who is okay with me putting that information out publicly, he is the one where, you know, he is able to talk to witnesses over the last week and follow up with them and go to areas. And so I've been, I've been partnering with Glenn and his team. So. Well, that's wonderful to hear this. I think I would emphasize too that if anybody does live nearby and they're curious and they want to go by the area or do whatever, please make sure that you're doing so under the premise of you're not bothering people or going against the permission and going on the property or doing anything like that. You know, if people reach out and they want you to come to their place or do something like that, that's one thing, but I don't want to promote that message. And I'm sure you kind of stand in the same frame as I do with that, but. Oh, I understand. So we have these, these encounters for myself over 2020 to 2021 and then 2022. I could tell you there's another area that people don't talk about a lot. So I noticed Tancre's Creek was mentioned as one of those sightings I was observe. True. Tancre's Creek is very common for a lot of wildlife because it's a nature preserve. So it has a lot of open, open land and it's not really tampered with too much. A lot of ponds or I think there's even a lake in there too. I actually go to Tancre's Creek or I used to actually, so I don't really do it anymore, but I used to go late at night to take long walks and just kind of decompress. And I really think there's, it does not start. I have never had an experience out there myself, but I've definitely, I've always wondered while walking out there, you know, what is going on out here? Like, if there is anything out here based on some of the stories that I've heard over the years, it definitely would be, it was not shocking for me to hear that Tancre's Creek was mentioned. The only thing that's weird about it is when I was looking at your map, that one stood out to me because it's actually northwest of Streetsboro, where it seems like the patterns that you're observing are traveling more east bounds, if I'm not mistaken. Yeah. And so that's interesting because the way that the witness described it to me is so they were actually driving down 303 from Streetsboro to Hudson. So the area there, even though they said Tancre's Creek, I think if you look at a map, they're talking about how it actually crosses 303. And you're right. There's also the Tancre's Creek State Nature Preserve, if you go further north, but they're talking about an area where it's like, where it crosses right next to that 303 on Streetsboro. Oh, the main road. Okay. That makes a lot more sense. Definitely. Yeah. So that area is of answers to me. I'd like to hear more about that. For me, I would, and again, urge people to be careful with this information. There's a lot of areas in North Streetsboro that are very swampy. That's where their high school is located at. So that means a lot of open areas. They're developing over the over the years, they've developed and build housing and stuff, but it's still very open and swampy terrain. And I have had some experience. I've had some unusual encounters. I have one in particular that I could bring up to you, but I've also had people that I know around the area that I've had encounters in because I actually go to that area. There's a lot of, there's a lot of walkways around. I used to go around the high school a lot. And then I also used to go through the woods as well and hike. And there's a lot of, there's a lot of activity in that area. I just want to say that's, that's a possible site to take answers to. The, so just to clarify, just to verify, so you're saying the actual nature preserve or the area I was talking about? Oh, no, my apologies. So say if you're looking at a map on the overhead, looking down on Streetsboro and you go on, I'm sorry, you go south and you go to the, the high school. And if you go to the high school, like not exactly to the high school, but that area next to it, it's all swampy terrain. And as up till a few years ago, there was nothing really around that. There were no houses. There was nothing. It just started developing over the past few years there. That area has had a lot of unusual experiences as well. That I think is worth, you know, at least noting or looking into, including myself. Yeah, that makes total sense when you have an area where it gets developed pretty quickly. Yeah, that can really lead to some interesting experiences as you've alluded to. I've explained the manaway experiences and that made me open mind into the discussion. And it wasn't until not that long ago, I had an experience that was unusual on Streetsboro, that I think means you put out there. So people, and again, it goes to that area where we discussed near the Streetsboro, kind of near the Streetboro High School behind it. It gets very swampy. So there's a neighborhood that was developed there recently. People walk through there all the time. It's not, it's not uncommon to walk through the woods or people walk through the neighborhood. And maybe other people have had experiences there. I don't know. Like I know of what I've been told of in the woods, but I don't know about the neighborhood. But those woods are very active of unusual experiences, such as sounds or sightings, something they can't explain. And in fact, I've even spotted things that I can't really explain there, and where animals act weird because something is nearby. So yeah, something with that, something with that Streetsboro area, I cannot explain, but I don't want to hitch onto it because I don't know enough about it. I only know my main experiences of Manoway, where I've had an up close, at least driving by, encounter where that really freaked me out, where I don't even take the road anymore, because I just don't want to encounter that. Sure. Something that I've noticed is when people explain something, they, like some experience they've had, and maybe you can tell me if you feel similar about this. I've noticed I have doubts when they are just kind of rolling off the tongue, like, oh yeah, it was, you know, it was really neat to see it or whatever. Like they kind of explained it like, oh, that was cool. Well, I could tell you firsthand that was not cool, and in fact, for years I can't take that road, I'm horrified of it, and I don't get rattled easily. So I don't know, they may be different to how they handle things, but I just know somebody seems a little more genuine when they seem a little bit more terrified of the experience. You can definitely tell that, and that's where it gets tricky too, because I mean, you have different, you have some people where like they are so stoic that they could have a T-Rex in their backyard, and they'd be like, yep, well, I saw a T-Rex, and I didn't know what to, like, but I get it. Usually, like when I've talked to people in Oregon face to face, it's like, man, they experienced something, and you know that they don't want to live with what they have to live with now, and they didn't choose to experience it, you know what I mean? So I do get what you're saying. Exactly, and forgive me for my lack of knowledge of this, it's just I'm still learning more over the past week or so as I become more familiar with your content. Did you have any experiences throughout your life that really put you into this passion of solving or like sticking out through sightings and tracking these people down as witnesses? Was there like a main event and that happened to you in particular or somebody you know? What led you to this? I would say, you know, the story for myself is it's more like, you know, I grew up watching a lot of weird stuff like Unsolved Mysteries, and then I discovered the joy of interviewing through a documentary I was involved with in Central Iowa, and then, you know, during the pandemic started a podcast, and then that transitioned over to being fully bigfoot focused, as I realized that the individuals that have had these experiences really need a solid outlet where they can be able to share their experiences and work through them and not have to worry about being made fun of and just be able to really get it off their chest. So I wouldn't say that there was a actual, maybe a few trigger experiences for me along the way, but you know, I have definitely, you know, the subject to me is fascinating as well, you know, I'm trying to figure it out for myself as I'm talking to individuals that I interview so that, you know, they and listeners can figure it out for themselves too. So that's kind of the way that I try to describe it. It's been an interesting journey along the way, I would say. Well, and I really am thankful along with a lot of your viewers that you do this because I wish I came across you a lot earlier. I wish you didn't take the mist to figure out about you and your work. And I think it is, I don't know, I think it's very satisfying to get it off my chest to explain to people that would understand me in a certain sense. And it feels refreshing for once where normally I feel very reserved about explaining any of those experiences because, like I said, the stigma that comes with it, oh yeah, I'm sure you saw something. Well, somebody has an experience that they're going to send to you full of it. So I am very glad that you gave me that opportunity. So I thank you once again for that. Yeah, absolutely. I'm glad that we were able to get you on as well. So talking, making sure, you know, we're talking about Streetsboro, you have had some really unusual occurrences when you've been walking around there. You've seen animals acting weird, heard weird things, things like that. Absolutely. So my encounters with Streetsboro were not clear sightings, so to say, where I could go and saw a tall, tone-defined figure with, you know, clear as day, it was nighttime usually because I used to go out late at night. I'm a night owl, so. But the experiences I've had of walking through those trails or in the woods or even in the neighborhoods, since they are developing, a lot of those areas, there's a lot of open areas of those developments where they just don't have houses and it's just not lit. It's very open. And I've had occurrences where I've seen I've seen animals such as deer just standing out in the middle of the road, just packs of them. And they look terrified. I've seen, I've been in the woods and I've seen, I've seen animals scattered in all directions. They heard weird noises and noises that are similar to what I heard in that farm. So for me, it stuck with me because I remember that experience of seeing my both occurrences in Manawai. I had similar experiences where I've heard the same things and to see animals freaking out like that is just inexplicable. I can't really explain it because, you know, if you come up to a deer, sometimes there's a family of deer sitting there and you come close, they might scatter and run away. And that's normal. It's not normal when they're running towards you because they're afraid of whatever's in the opposite direction. That's something that's unusual for me and I've had that happen. And I don't know if anybody else out there has had that experience. And please do tell because I would like to not be the only one that has dealt with something like that. But to see true fear in animals like that and you don't know what's around and you hear noises and they would rather run by you because they're more afraid of what's in the opposite direction. Then yes, that is, I would say that's in line with possible big-time activity. Now again, in the streets per area, I even really sound like I came face to face with one that saw it and I knew for sure the big one. But I heard noises that resembled the ones I've heard before. It's fascinating. It's, you know, as you go through this and you talk to individuals about certain areas and you just get, you keep on getting, you know, pieces of the puzzle and you put it together and try to figure things out and the more you hear about an area, the more it comes more clear into focus. And this has just been incredibly fascinating. I think you're the first individual that I've actually been able to get to come on the show from the area. So again, Rob, thank you so much for coming on the show and sharing what you've experienced over in Manoway and the Streetsboro area. Well, thank you. Once again, thank you for everything you do and thank you for having me, Jeremiah. It was a pleasure speaking with you and I hope more people, once again, I'll emphasize it again. I hope more people feel more comfortable, speak up and reach out to you with their real experiences. I'm sure you're kind of sifting through, you know, what is real, what isn't. It's pretty difficult. So understand that I'm speaking to the viewers here that, Jeremiah, I'm sure you're overwhelmed right now. So the rest assured, I'd say you're in good hands because she took the time out of his day to reach out to me and make me feel at a better place to explain this. So I really thank you. Thank you, Rob. Have you ever heard all the accounts of Bigfoot activity around Oak Ridge, Oregon, and you think to yourself, man, I would love to get out in those woods and experience it for myself? Well, guess what? This year you can. If this is interesting to you, stay tuned because it's pretty cool. Sasquatch Summer Fest is coming up July 10 through the 11th, 2026. It's going to be even better than the previous year's. Reason number one, I'll be one of the speakers. It's going to be wild. I'll probably, I'll say this, there may be stuff you haven't heard anywhere else because let's just say sometimes it's, well, you just got to be there. We'll leave it that. More about looking for Bigfoot in the Oak Ridge woods. Now check this out. You may know Jason Kenzie from his documentary series, Searching for Sasquatch. Well, this year you can not only go to the festival, but you can also sign up for a trek deep in the wild forest outside of Oak Ridge with Jason Kenzie to the Bigfoot spots to look for Bigfoot. There's only eight spots to sign up for this. And yes, this will also be filmed for the next chapter in his documentary series, which is Searching for Sasquatch. This is a once in a lifetime deal. It's just, trust me, it's going to be a wild, wild experience. To get a ticket head on over to SasquatchSummerFest.com and listeners can use the code BSP, like Bigfoot Society podcast, in order to get a two day pass for the price of a one day pass. So thanks to Priscilla for giving me that code so that you guys can get a little help with the cost there. Appreciate that, Priscilla. I hope to see you at the booth in Oak Ridge this year. We can talk about your encounter. I was able to talk to so many people last year and the year before. It is an incredible time. You're not going to want to miss it and I'll see you there. Before we wrap this episode, I want to say something directly to a very specific group of listeners. If you're in the military, any branch or forces, and if you've seen something that no one can explain, or if you're a national park ranger or forestry worker who's been told to stay quiet, or if you're a pilot who's seen something strange down on the ground, or if you're with the FBI, a federal agency, or working intelligence, and you stumbled upon something you're not allowed to talk about, and if you're a firefighter, paramedic, or search and rescue responder who's heard screams or found tracks that didn't make sense, if you're in the logging industry on a remote oil field or a trucker with government contracts and you've had something happen that you've never told a soul, and if you're a biologist, a wildlife specialist, or a field researcher under contract who has found evidence you're not allowed to report, if you're a pastor, a missionary, or someone on a spiritual retreat, and you saw something that shook your faith, or if you work in the shadows, CIA, NSA, or anything with clearance, and you've seen what the public hasn't, then I want to talk to you. Even if it's anonymous, you can reach me at BigfootSociety at gmail.com. The world needs to hear what you've been forced to carry alone, and you're not alone. You've got the story, we've got the mic. See you in the woods. Thank you for listening to this episode of the Bigfoot Society podcast. Every encounter we share reminds us that the world is bigger and stranger than we think, and that the truth is often hiding just beyond the treeline. If you enjoyed this episode, please be sure to subscribe to the channel on YouTube, hit the bell so you don't miss the next episode, and share this with a friend who's into mysteries, monsters, or the unexplained. And if you're listening to us on Spotify or Apple podcast, please follow the show there and leave us a five-star positive review, because all that helps more people discover the show. And remember, if you or someone you know has had a Bigfoot sighting, please, I'd love to hear from you. So email me at BigfootSociety at gmail.com, and let's start the conversation. If you haven't gotten a chance yet, check out our membership community over at www.BigfootSocietyPodcast.com, and that's where you can hear tomorrow's episode today early and ad-free and members-only episodes every week. Also, it's a place to connect with other people that are into the Bigfoot subject as much as you are. Thanks again for following along with the Bigfoot Society. Until next time, keep your eyes open, trust your gut, and never stop asking what else might be out there, and see you in the woods.