Kentucky Cabin Roar and Florida Bigfoot Sighting Reported

Posted Monday, July 27, 2026

By Squatchable.com staff

So, I stumbled across this gem of a video the other night, and honestly, it gave me chills. The Bigfoot Society channel (run by Jeremiah Byron, who is currently battling cancer and could use some prayers and positive vibes) put together a compilation of witness accounts that are absolutely worth your time. The first story comes from a family who took a spring break trip to Red River Gorge in Kentucky a couple of years ago. They rented an Airbnb cabin that backed up to a holler, and the curator of the property casually warned them about Bigfoot in the area, which they thought was just a joke. That is, until they were sitting around a campfire as the sun was setting and heard a deep, roaring sound from the bottom of the holler. The father described it as lasting about five or six seconds and being incredibly deep, nothing like anything they'd ever heard in the woods. His son had a hammock set up to sleep outside that night, but that plan was quickly scrapped. The family didn't feel scared, just excited, and they never saw anything else during their stay. But here's the thing: Red River Gorge is a well-known hotspot. There's even a Red River Gorge Bigfoot Festival now that drew tens of thousands of people in its first year. The area has a long history of strange encounters, and this family just happened to stumble into one of the most active zones in the country. The second story is what really got me. A woman living at the edge of the Ocala National Forest in Florida (which, by the way, is one of the most underrated Sasquatch hotspots in the Southeast) shared a multi-part encounter that spans years. After a hurricane flooded her property, she was sitting on her porch in the dark around 5:15 in the morning when she heard something walking through the water. All her horses and goats were frozen, staring in the same direction. She grabbed a flashlight and saw a figure walking through the flooded paddock, stepping right over the fence line without breaking stride, completely unbothered. Her husband later found hair caught on the fence wire that didn't match any of their animals, and it was shaggy, about three to four inches long. But it doesn't stop there. Just a few weeks ago, she came outside and found massive footprints near her back porch, measuring about 14 inches long. Her husband's foot isn't that big, and he doesn't walk barefoot anyway. The neighbor, who has lived there two years longer, told her he's seen the figure at least three separate times. One time, it was standing in the doorway of his workshop, and he froze. He's a hunter, not easily scared, but he said the figure just looked at him. He even said out loud, "Are we good, buddy?" before it turned and walked away. The neighbor has never felt threatened, and the figure has never bothered any animals. The woman mentioned that nobody in her area will even entertain a conversation about this without making fun of them, which is why she reached out to the Bigfoot Society. Jeremiah recommended the Mid Florida Bigfoot Research Team, which operates around the Ocala area. These are the kinds of accounts that keep me up at night. Multiple witnesses, physical evidence in the form of hair and tracks, and a pattern of sightings over time. The Florida story especially has all the hallmarks of a credible encounter: the animals' reaction, the unhurried movement, the fence-stepping, and the neighbor's independent corroboration. Definitely check out the full video for all the details, because there's a lot more nuance in the witnesses' voices than I can capture here.