Kentucky Goat Farm Terrorized by Bigfoot Caught on Camera

A security camera in Eastern Kentucky allegedly captured something tall and upright crossing a gravel yard in the dead of night, and the story behind that footage is one of the most unsettling livestock encounter cases to surface in recent memory. The case comes from Perry County, Kentucky, back in April 2016. A woman named Ronda Combmes, 41 at the time, lived on five acres up a hollow road outside Hazard with her two sons, Wesley (15) and Dustin (11). She raised goats, and on the morning of April 4th, she went out in her housecoat and her husband's old barn boots to feed them and found one missing. No blood. No body. No hole in the fence. Just gone. Over the next nine days, three more goats disappeared, one at a time, always at night. The family tried to make sense of it. Neighbors said dogs. A sheriff's deputy came out twice and wrote "coyote" both times. But the evidence didn't line up with any ordinary predator. Wesley found the thing that changed everything. On the second morning, he walked the entire fence line and discovered that the wire had been lifted upward, not crushed down. The heavy staples holding the woven wire to the wooden posts had been pulled straight back out of the wood, four or five along the tops of two different posts, with the bent ends still bright and silver where they'd been buried an hour before. The top panel of the wire bowed outward and upward, the way a bedsheet bows when something stands up underneath it. There was a gap along the top a body could have stepped through, if the body were tall enough to lift its leg that high. Wesley, a seasoned young hunter who'd been field dressing his own deer since he was nine, stood there turning one of those bright staples over in his fingers and asked his mother a question that still haunts her: "Mom, what pulls staples out of a post going up?" Ronda had a security camera mounted on a wooden pole by the driveway, leftover from a bad stretch after her husband left. She climbed up on the tailgate of her truck, got it working again, and turned it to face the goat pen and the tree line. For two days, nothing happened. Ronda let herself believe it was over. She and Wesley reinforced the fence with fresh staples and a strand of hot electric wire along the top. The family had two ordinary suppers. She slept in her own bed both nights. Then on the Wednesday, it came back. The camera caught something crossing the open width of the gravel yard, upright, in just a few strides. Ronda described it as moving smooth and upright and high, the whole trunk held level, the way a person would walk fast across a room they knew well in the dark. It covered the whole open stretch in a handful of steps. A man would have needed twice as many to cross the same ground. By the morning of April 12th, Ronda had loaded everything the family could carry into a pickup truck and driven down the mountain to her sister's house in Viper. None of them ever spent another night on the land. She sold the property within two months and never set foot on it again. The footage and a cassette tape of Ronda telling the whole story in her own voice were eventually given to the local paper on a single disc with nothing written on the label. The paper never ran a word of it. The disc and tape sat in a cardboard box in the back of that office for years. This case has all the hallmarks that make a Sasquatch encounter report stand out: physical evidence that doesn't match any known predator, animal behavior that suggests something genuinely frightening was present (the surviving goats bunched in the corner and refused to come to the feed bucket), and a family that abandoned a paid-for house rather than stay another night. Perry County sits deep in Appalachian Kentucky, a region with a long history of "wild man" and "hairy man" folklore stretching back generations, long before the Sasquatch phenomenon had a name. Kentucky has produced its share of credible reports over the years, and livestock predation cases like this one are some of the most compelling because they leave behind physical traces that can't be explained away. The full account, including Ronda's own words on that cassette tape, is worth sitting down and listening to. The video does it justice in a way a written summary can't.