Ohio Camper Reports Bigfoot Attack in Terrifying 911 Call

Posted Monday, August 17, 2026

By Squatchable.com staff

So, I just spent the last hour going down a rabbit hole on a video that dropped recently, and honestly, this one is the kind of case that makes you sit up and pay attention. It's a deep dive into a 911 call from Knox County, Ohio, and the details are wild. The caller is a man named Jerry Klein, and he's parked in a camper down by the Kokosing River near Gambier. For those who don't know the area, Gambier is a small village in Central Ohio, home to Kenyon College, sitting on a ridge above the river. The Kokosing is a state scenic river, and there's a paved bike trail running right alongside it. This isn't some remote wilderness. It's a regular spot where people fish, pan for gold, hunt morels, and park their campers for the season. But on this particular night, something decided to pay Jerry a visit. The audio from the 911 call is genuinely unsettling. You can hear Jerry telling the dispatcher that something is outside, shaking his entire RV. He's yelling "Get out of here!" and "Oh my God, something is outside, it's shaking the whole RV!" His dog is hiding under the cot. He's not armed. And he stays on that line for almost half an hour while this thing keeps coming back. What really got me, though, is what Jerry describes seeing. He tells the dispatcher there were two of them. He mentions seeing things at his windows, and when the dispatcher asks about red eyes, Jerry confirms it. He says they were "all nude," which in this context means unclothed, not that they were being inappropriate, just that there was nothing covering them. Then comes the part that made me grab my notebook. When officers arrived, they found handprints on the trailer. One deputy literally tried to spread his own hands to match the prints and couldn't reach the top of the 8-foot cargo trailer. And there was a 17-inch track left behind. Let that sink in for a second. A 17-inch track. That's not a bear. That's not a person. That's consistent with what witnesses have been describing in Sasquatch encounters for decades. And the handprints that a grown man couldn't span? That's the kind of physical evidence that makes skeptics pause. Here's what really got under my skin, though. Six officers responded that night. Two cruisers. They even picked up a state wildlife officer on the way. And after all of that, there was never an official report written. Not sealed, not lost, just never written. That detail alone is worth chewing on. The video does a fantastic job breaking down the geography and the culture of the area. It explains why people are down in that river bottom constantly, fishing, panning for placer gold (which is a real thing in Ohio, by the way, left behind by glaciers), hunting mushrooms. The point being, whatever is in those woods has plenty of chances to be seen and mostly isn't. Which makes the nights when it does show up all the more significant. I've listened to a lot of 911 calls over the years, and this one stands out. The fear in Jerry's voice is real. The physical evidence, the handprints, the track, the multiple witnesses, it's all there. And the complete absence of any official documentation is exactly the kind of thing that makes you wonder what else has been swept under the rug. If you haven't seen the video yet, do yourself a favor and go watch it. The audio alone is worth your time, but the breakdown of the location and the context around it really ties everything together. It's one of those cases that stays with you long after the video ends. Ohio has a long history of Sasquatch sightings, and the Kokosing River valley has had reports going back decades. Cases like this remind us that these beings aren't just wandering the deep wilderness of the Pacific Northwest. They're showing up in river bottoms in Ohio, right next to paved bike trails and college campuses. And when they do, they leave behind handprints that no human can match and tracks that measure 17 inches. Definitely check out the full video. It's a good one.