21-Year-Old Shares Multiple Bigfoot Encounters From His Life

If you've been searching for compelling witness testimony, there's a recent episode from The Cryptid Profiler that's worth carving out time for. Host Dano sits down with Josh, a 21-year-old who has accumulated three separate encounters across his young life, and the detail he provides is the kind of stuff that keeps researchers up at night. Josh's first run-in happened back in 2008 or 2009, when he was just eight years old in West Virginia. The setting alone is classic Sasquatch territory. The Appalachian region has long been associated with sightings, and locals often refer to the creature there as the Grassman, a name that pops up frequently in West Virginia folklore. Josh's mom's boyfriend told him about an old coal train tunnel about half a mile from the house, spinning a tale about miners' kids who supposedly died during construction. Being eight and curious, Josh waited until everyone was asleep, grabbed a flashlight, and went exploring. What he found at the end of that tunnel changed him. Around 30 to 40 feet in, he heard a strange dripping sound that didn't sit right with him. When he looked toward the exit, where moonlight was faintly visible, he saw a figure standing there. Roughly nine to ten feet tall and two to three feet wide, just watching him. He stared at it for about two minutes before his cousins came in looking for him. When he turned back, the figure was gone. His cousins heard and saw nothing. When Josh asked his uncle about it, he learned about the Grassman legends in the area. The second encounter involves his grandmother's campground in Ohio, which she ran for over 30 years. This one is actually her story. She was driving her golf cart down to check on a camper's trailer because something was reportedly wrong. When she arrived, the deck had been completely ripped up and the RV had been pushed off its concrete slabs. The camper refused to answer her, so she headed back to the office. On her way back, she watched a figure seven to eight feet tall hurdle a five-foot fence like it was nothing and sprint across a 20-acre field in under five minutes. Josh's brother also had an experience at the same lake on the property. He and his buddies were swimming at night when they heard a massive stick snap. The next day, they found a tree that had been completely uprooted, something that definitely wasn't there the day before. When his brother approached the tree, he heard distorted owl-like hooting that seemed to beckon him into the thicket. About ten minutes later, he came back out carrying a baby deer, claiming something had led him to it. Josh's own encounter at the campground happened around 2012 or 2013 when he was about 12. He was sitting on a swing at the playground, trying to escape a loud party at the pavilion, when a rock the size of his head was thrown at him out of nowhere. Only his grandmother and brother believed him when he told them. But the encounter that really stands out happened in 2016 at the county fairgrounds. Josh and his buddy had been working on a truck for about four weeks, trying to get it running. On the fourth week, his friend brought out throwing axes, and they set up targets on hay bales stacked in a row. Josh lost an axe that bounced off a target, and when he went searching through the thicket of six-foot round hay bales, he stumbled onto something that stopped him cold. A figure was kneeling beside a hay bale, resting one hand on it. Josh describes it as looking like a ghillie suit covered in mud, mossy green and caked with dirt. It was as tall as the hay bale while kneeling. What followed was a 30-minute staring contest. Josh noticed the hands were humanlike, with visible knuckles, hairless palms, and hair starting at the wrists. The chest had a triangular bald patch with what he describes as female characteristics that weren't covered in hair. The face was an elongated gorilla shape but with more human-like lips and nose. Right before his buddy came into the thicket looking for him, the figure stood up to its full height, somewhere around 10 to 11 feet. It did the head-shaking motion that bulls do when they're agitated, looked at Josh, looked toward where his friend was approaching, looked back at Josh, and then turned and walked away. Josh says he could see every muscle in its legs, back, and arms as it moved. The detail in this account is remarkable, particularly the 30-minute observation period and the specific anatomical features Josh was able to describe. For anyone interested in witness testimony, especially from younger witnesses who tend to describe encounters with unusual precision, this episode is a must-watch. The full interview goes deeper into Josh's experiences and includes some fascinating discussion about how time seems to stand still during these encounters.