Kentucky Man Reports Multiple Bigfoot Encounters Near Ohio River

Posted Thursday, June 18, 2026

By Squatchable.com staff

A Kentucky witness with multiple encounters over more than two decades is sharing his story, and this one is a must-listen. Daviess County, sitting along the Ohio River with its rolling hills, deep ravines, and dense woodlands, sounds like classic Sasquatch territory, and this guy has the experiences to back that up. The first encounter happened back in 2002 while he was helping his uncle clear a tree line on the family property. He was sitting on a small tractor with the engine off, waiting for his uncle to finish knocking down trees with a bulldozer. The roar of that heavy machinery was loud, but something else cut right through it, a screaming roar from a ravine behind an old abandoned barn at the tree line. The hair on the back of his neck stood up instantly. Deer, rabbits, raccoons, everything in the area was fleeing fast. About ten minutes later, he turned to look again and caught movement at one of the barn door openings. Something was leaning out, looking right at him, with its arm wrapped around the top beam of the doorway. He watched it for 15 to 20 minutes as it leaned out, ducked back, and kept observing him. When he went back a few days later to measure the barn, he discovered just how tall this thing had to be. He's 6'3" and could barely touch that beam on his tiptoes. That puts the creature at a minimum of 8 to 8.5 feet tall. The second encounter came around 2007, and this one is the kind of close call that will make your skin crawl. He and a buddy were up in the hills on the same property, digging through shale piles looking for fossils and tossing pieces over the edge into a ravine. The rocks started coming back. Then, while walking back along a gravel road with a deep ditch full of cane and reeds running alongside, they realized something was pacing them in that ditch. Stop, it stopped. Walk, it walked. When they finally spotted his truck about 50 yards away, they ran. As he hit the high beams, the creature burst out of the ditch, ran straight across the front of his truck, and shot up a steep hillside faster than anything that size should be able to move. He got a clear look. Shaggy but clean, muscular arms and legs, a grayish tint compared to the darker one he'd seen years earlier in the barn. There's also the tree fort incident from his middle school days, when he and his cousin camped out on a ridge between two ravines. A whistle came from down below that was so powerful he could feel it in his chest. They thought it was his uncle messing with them, but he was asleep in bed. Over the years since, he's had rocks thrown at him in those woods, found tree structures, heard more whistles, and once tracked a high-pitched chittering sound that bounced from one side of the woods to the other like monkey gibberish. Once he started researching the subject seriously, other people started reaching out with their own stories, including a hunter dealing with something stealing his deer. Kentucky isn't typically the first place people think of when Sasquatch comes up, but the Ohio River Valley and the hill country along it have a long history of reports. The terrain here, with its steep ravines, dense cover, shale deposits, and proximity to water, checks a lot of boxes for habitat. And the witness's height estimate using the barn beam is the kind of physical evidence that's hard to argue with. When a 6'3" man can barely touch a doorway on tiptoes, and something was leaning out of that same doorway with its arm wrapped around the top, the math gets pretty straightforward. This episode is worth the full listen. The pacing encounter alone is enough to give anyone chills, and the barn measurement detail is the kind of thing that separates a good sighting story from a great one. Check it out and see what you think.