Ohio's Rennick Creek Bigfoot Encounter: A Father's Story from 1960

Posted Saturday, January 27, 2024

By Squatchable.com staff

A fascinating account of a childhood encounter with a mysterious creature has recently emerged on YouTube, and it's one that Bigfoot believers won't want to miss. The video, posted by the YouTube channel Nonpeon Tales, features an interview with a man who, as a boy, claimed to have seen a hair-covered, four-foot-tall being near Rennick Creek in Logan County, Ohio. According to the man, he and his friend were camping along the railroad tracks beside the creek in 1960 when they heard a noise coming from upstream. As they looked in that direction, they saw the figure of a human-like creature, covered in brown hair except for its face and the inside of its hands. The creature was cupping water into its hand to drink from the creek. When the creature noticed the boys, it became startled and took off running through the brush. The boys followed it and saw it leave the woods, running across an open field towards another stretch of woods. At the time, the boys didn't know what to call the creature, so they referred to it as an "abominable snowman." People laughed at their story and dismissed it as an escaped monkey from a zoo or someone's pet. The man's friend, who also saw the creature, passed away earlier this year, but the man still maintains that what he saw was not a human being or a monkey. He insists that it was something else entirely. Interestingly, there were several reported Bigfoot sightings in the same area in the early 1980s, including one from a local named "Big" Dave Harper. Harper, who was 6'4" and 300 pounds, claimed to have seen the creature watching him while he was cutting trees. It scared him so badly that he left his expensive chainsaw and equipment behind. He described the creature as far larger than himself. Bigfoot sightings in Ohio are often referred to as "grass man" sightings. While the creature in this video wasn't fully grown, its description matches that of many other Bigfoot sightings. I encourage our readers to check out this intriguing video for themselves. It's always exciting to hear firsthand accounts of possible Bigfoot sightings, and this one is no exception. Whether or not you believe in Bigfoot, there's no denying that this is a compelling story that's worth a watch.