Kentucky Man Details Multiple Bigfoot Encounters on Family Property
Posted Thursday, June 18, 2026
By Squatchable.com staff
So there's this wild story coming out of Kentucky that I just had to share. A guy who grew up around Davis County, right near the Ohio River, has been sharing his encounters with what he believes is a Sasquatch, and the details are pretty intense.
The first encounter happened back in 2002. He was helping his uncle clear some land, driving a small tractor while his uncle pushed trees down with a bulldozer. The property had deep ravines, tall hills, and ran right into the river bottoms, basically perfect Sasquatch territory. While he was sitting on the tractor waiting for his uncle, he heard this massive roaring scream that cut right through the sound of the bulldozer running full blast. That's when he noticed deer, rabbits, and raccoons all fleeing from the area near an old abandoned barn at the mouth of a ravine.
About 10 minutes later, he looked back toward the barn and saw something leaning out of one of the door openings. It had its arm wrapped around the beam at the top of the doorway, just watching him. He said it stayed there for 15 to 20 minutes, occasionally leaning out to get a better look before ducking back inside. He mentioned he had been watching MonsterQuest on Discovery Channel at the time and thought, "These things aren't here, this is Kentucky, they're in the Pacific Northwest." But there it was, looking right at him.
Here's the part that really got me. He went back a few days later to check the barn. He's 6'3" and on his tiptoes could barely touch the beam across the door opening. That puts this creature at 8 to 8.5 feet tall, minimum.
The second encounter happened around 2007. He and a buddy were up on the property digging through shale piles looking for fossils when rocks started getting thrown back at them. That's when they decided it was time to leave. On the walk back to his truck, they heard footsteps in the ditch next to the road pacing them. They would stop, it would stop. They would walk, it would walk. When they got about 50 yards from his truck, they took off at a dead run. He jumped in, turned on his high beams, and this thing came out of the ditch and ran right in front of his truck before taking off straight up a steep hillside faster than anything he'd ever seen move. He said it was shaggy but clean, had a grayish tint (more gray than the first one which was black), and was just built, with muscular arms and legs. He said the way it moved was almost impossible to describe.
There's also the tree fort incident with his cousin. They built a fort on a ridge with ravines on either side and decided to camp out one night. Around midnight, after telling jokes and laughing, they heard the loudest whistle either of them had ever heard, so powerful they could feel it in their chests. They thought it was his dad messing with them, but when they went to check, he was actually asleep in bed.
Over the years, he's had rocks thrown at him, found tree structures, heard more whistles, and even heard this weird high-pitched chittering noise that sounded almost like monkey gibberish bouncing back and forth from one side of the woods to the other. A hunter also reached out to him about something stealing his deer from a stand.
Kentucky actually has a long history of Sasquatch reports, and the Ohio River valley area is known for having dense, remote woodlands that could easily support a population of these creatures. The terrain described, with deep ravines, tall hills, and river bottoms, is exactly the kind of habitat that researchers often point to when discussing where Sasquatch might thrive. It's not just the Pacific Northwest anymore, folks.
This is definitely worth checking out for anyone who loves a good witness testimony, especially from someone who's had multiple encounters over several years in the same area. The video title mentions "I Shot a Bigfoot that Day," which suggests there's even more to the story, so head over to the My Bigfoot Sighting channel and give it a watch.