There has been a rise in Bigfoot sightings across Ohio, with eight being reported in just four days,
The uptick is sightings hasn’t been seen in the region in nearly 50 years.
According to Jeremiah Byron, an expert on the Bigfoot Society podcast, a sudden cluster of Sasquatch sightings within a short time span, may be unfolding across the state.
The Daily Mail reports: Each witness, Byron said, is a local familiar with rural Ohio wildlife, and all described similar beasts: large, black-haired creatures with long arms, walking upright and making ‘grunting noises.’
‘The current generation of Bigfoot enthusiasts, including myself, have never lived through a sighting flap like this, and we are extremely excited to potentially to get substantial evidence through this,’ Byron told Newsweek.
Although no physical evidence has been found and all sightings are based on eyewitness reports – there are no new photos or video shared so far – encounters have been reported in Mantua, Garrettsville, Streetsboro, Windham, Newton Township and Lake Milton.
‘I do have a local Bigfoot researcher, Glenn Adkins, and his research group, Ohio Sasquatch Project, following up on reports, and hopefully there will be something found eventually, such as tracks,’ he added.
Byron said the first sightings across northeast Ohio appear to have begun on the afternoon of March 6.
Shortly before 12.30pm, in Mantua, a researcher with the Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) said they saw a ‘9ft brown male Sasquatch in broad daylight.’
The researcher, who reported the sighting to The Bigfoot Mapping Project, said he was hiking when he spotted the large creature standing about 120 yards away – and that the beast appeared to know he was there.
He shared: ‘It started moving away. It left fast and I left just as fast.’
Byron stressed that Ohio’s surge in Bigfoot reports owes much to Scott Tompkins of the Bigfoot Mapping Project, designed to centralize reported sightings instead of leaving data scattered online.
‘His database captured the initial Bigfoot report on March 6, which made me aware of the area,’ he explained.
On March 7, in the same village, an individual identifying himself as Dylan Obney reported seeing an 8ft-tall brown figure just before 11pm in the forest.
He contacted the podcast host through TikTok, sharing an account in which he heard heavy, unhuman-like footsteps and deep, vibrating grunts nearby.
While walking along a trail near the edge of the woods, Obney said heavy footsteps deep in the trees caught his attention – something he initially thought was a deer or another person hiking.
‘But the steps were slow, spaced out, and much heavier than anything I’ve ever heard out there before,’ he said.
Minutes later, Obney said he noticed movement roughly 40 to 50 yards away – a ‘tall’ figure stepping between two trees.
The creature, he said, was easily 7ft to 8ft tall, covered in dark brown hair, with long arms dangling low at its sides.
Obney said that, much like the previous day’s sighting, the creature moved upright and slowly turned its head toward him as he lay motionless on the trail, seemingly aware of his presence.
‘The craziest part was the sound it made, a deep grunt that echoed through the woods before it stepped back behind the trees and disappeared after that,’ he said.
Within seconds, he said, the woods fell completely silent again, and he decided to investigate the area where he may have glimpsed Bigfoot.
He said he noticed ‘several large footprints pressed into the muddy ground,’ each far bigger than a normal boot could make.
‘I’m not saying 100 per cent what it was, but whatever I saw definitely wasn’t a person, definitely wasn’t a deer,’ Obney shared.