Kentucky Man Recounts Multiple Bigfoot Encounters Since 2002

Posted Thursday, June 18, 2026

By Squatchable.com staff

If you've ever wondered whether Bigfoot could exist somewhere other than the Pacific Northwest, a recent video making the rounds might just change your mind. A witness out of Kentucky sat down to share not one, but multiple encounters he's had over the years, and the details are enough to make even the most skeptical researcher pause. The story begins back in 2002 on his uncle's property in Kentucky, a stretch of land loaded with tall hills, deep ravines, and dense woods that meet up with the river bottoms near the Ohio River. Plenty of game, plenty of cover, and apparently, plenty of something else lurking around. His uncle was clearing out a tree line with a bulldozer while the witness sat on a small tractor waiting his turn. With the bulldozer running full blast, he heard a roar so loud it cut right through the noise of the machinery. The kind of sound that makes the hair on your neck stand straight up. When he turned to look, every deer, rabbit, and raccoon in the area was hauling ass out of there. About ten minutes later, he glanced toward an old abandoned barn at the mouth of a ravine and saw something leaning out of the doorway, looking right at him. It had its arm wrapped around the beam at the top of the doorframe, just watching. For fifteen or twenty minutes, this thing stayed put, occasionally leaning out for a better look before ducking back in. Eventually it moved on, and the witness didn't tell a soul. What really got me about this part is what he did next. He went back a few days later to measure the barn. The guy is six foot three, and on his tiptoes he could barely touch that beam. That puts whatever was leaning on it at somewhere between eight and eight and a half feet tall. That's not a bear. That's not a person. That's something else entirely. The encounters didn't stop there. Around 2007, he and a buddy were up on the same property digging through shale piles looking for fossils, tossing pieces over the edge into a ravine. The rocks started coming back. Then, on the walk back to his truck, they heard footsteps pacing them through a ditch thick with cane and reeds. Whatever it was, it matched them step for step. When they finally reached the truck and hit the high beams, the creature burst out of the ditch, ran straight across the front of the vehicle, and shot up a steep hillside faster than anything that size has any right to move. He described it as shaggy but clean, with a grayish tint, and built like an absolute tank. The muscles in the arms and legs were on full display as it bolted up that hill. There's also the tree fort incident from when he was in middle school. He and his cousin built a fort on a ridge between two ravines and decided to camp out overnight. Around midnight, after a good laugh at a joke, they heard a whistle so powerful they could feel it in their chests. Solid, loud, and coming from straight down the hill below them. They thought it was his dad messing with them, but dad was asleep in bed. That one stuck with him. Over the years, he's had rocks thrown at him, found tree structures, heard more whistles, and even caught a bizarre high-pitched chittering sound that bounced from one side of the woods to the other, almost like monkey gibberish. A hunter in the area even reached out to him about something stealing deer from his stand. Kentucky isn't exactly the first place people think of when Bigfoot comes up in conversation, but the Ohio River Valley and the hill country throughout the state have a long history of sightings. The terrain described here, steep hills, deep ravines, dense woods, river bottoms, is exactly the kind of habitat researchers point to when discussing where these creatures could thrive outside the Pacific Northwest. Thick cover, plenty of water, abundant game, and remote enough that a large primate could easily move through without being noticed. The full account is worth checking out for yourself. The witness comes across as genuine and grounded, and the details he shares, especially the barn height comparison and the close encounter with the truck, paint a pretty compelling picture. Definitely one of those stories that sticks with you long after the video ends.