Ohio IBS Sighting Reports

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IBS Report #: 3156

Location: county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

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Day: 16
Month: AUG
Year: 1998
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Data Source: TR 80 AUG 1998
Credibility: 3
Locality: northeastern Ohio NR CANADA
Researcher: MATT
Witness: Matt and wife

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: WITNERSSES WATCHED BY BF, 4 CREATURES, 8 FT GRAY, BF SWATS DEER, WHISTLES, 17 IN TRACKS, 15 IN TRACKS OF 6.5 IN FEMALE AT GARBAGE CAN, ODOR

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TR 80 AUG 1998 * Sunday, 8/16 Matt and his wife were being watched by a Bigfoot a mile from their home in northeastern Ohio when they were in the woods engaging in coitus. The incident caught his interest and he has returned to study the creature. There’s a family of four, the Old Man, gray, and 8 foot, he came face to face with Sunday. It was human he said...no way an ape...there was no hair on its face. They were staring at each other, and so intent was the Bigfoot that a deer blundered into him, and he angrily swatted it away. The 8-point buck was knocked off balance. They had been whistling, but when two deer came by and one bumped the creature, it shrieked loudly. The gray creature left 17 inch tracks. Matt lives on 19 acres of wilderness towards Canada, and the area has peaches, plums, pears and paw-paws. A neighbor lady complained that a “Big Man” was in her garbage can. He measured tracks 15” by 7” near the garage. There was a young female, sort of pretty in the face, Matt said. Not that he’d want to date her...she was 6’5”, 400 pounds, and only ten yards away. She screeched three times, and he could see the mouth open. The creatures are associated with a god-awful smell of poop-sweat. He just bought a 35 mm camera and wants to take some photos.
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IBS Report #: 3544

Location: county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

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Day: 5
Month: DEC
Year: 1999
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Data Source: TR 93 JAN 2000
Credibility: 3
Locality: Extreme east-central Ohio
Researcher: OHPABFOOT
Witness: 4 PEOPLE

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: 9-10 FT DARK BF CROSS CLEARING

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TR 93 JAN 2000 * OHPABFOOT@aol.com report. Extreme east-central Ohio. Dec 5th, 1999, 4:30 PM, four people saw a Bigfoot at 620 yards, on the last day of deer season in Ohio. The one minute sighting without optical aids occurred while the hunters were resting at a power-line clearing. The wooded, rural area was near farms and it was good light but overcast in the mid-50’s. The creature walked across the clearing near the top of the next ridge to the east, traveling south. Few details were noted at that distance; it appeared dark in color, large and bulky, comparing to a tower crossbeam it was estimated at 9-10 feet
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IBS Report #: 4168

Location: Adams county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 3

Latitude: +038˚ 47' N
Longitude: 083˚ 32' W
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Month: SUMMER
Year: 1983
Time: 1:00 AM
Elevation: 951

Data Source: TR104 FEB 2001
Credibility: 3
Locality: NR West Union
Researcher: Rich LaMonica
Witness: Kevin

Sighting Type: 3
Summary: heavy footsteps, low growls, CAR STRUCK, SCREAM

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* Rich LaMonica posts the following: saskwatchr@email.msn.com, concerning a report from Adams County, Ohio. Kevin, in the summer of 1983, a very strange thing happened to me that I will never be able to forget. I was living with my parents, where they still reside, 2 miles outside of West Union, Ohio. I was 18 at the time. At about 1:00 AM, I pulled into the family driveway. I had a tape in my car stereo I wanted to bring into the house with me. As I ejected the tape from the stereo, it fell on the floor of the car. I turned on the interior light to pick it up, when I heard the sound of something coming out of the woods across from my house. We lived in a subdivision, laid out in circles with woods in-between and gravel roads. What I heard was the sound of footsteps. Not just footsteps, but heavy footsteps, crossing the gravel road, which was behind my car. My first impression was that a person or a large dog was approaching. What struck me as odd, was I only heard two footsteps on the gravel road. By this time I was scared and curious at the same time. I could see nothing out of my rearview mirror because of the dome light and frankly was too frozen with fear of what was going on outside of my car to turn it off. I heard very deep breathing accompanied by very low growls. It walked to the right hand side of my car, then back again, all the time breathing and growling. Not loudly, but not softly. Suddenly it struck the back of my car violently enough to physically move the car three inches on my parents driveway, and enough to wake my mother in their upstairs bedroom. At the time of this encounter there were no lights on at the house except the doorbell light. At the sound of it striking my car, my mother opened a balcony door and asked me what all the ruckus was. At this point, whatever it was bolted away from the car, crossed the road with one step (of this I am certain) and crashed into the woods like a herd of buffalo. My mother ran downstairs, turned on the outside lights and called to me, “what the hell was that?” It took her at least a couple of minutes to coax me out of the car and into the house. The whole time we could hear crashing in the woods. When I finally reached the front door of our house an odd scream rang from the distance. It was almost like a woman scram, not in pain but kind of like she was being tickled against her will. The next morning I looked across the road for some kind of tracks or something, but in the middle of summer everything was to dry. I tried to talk to my mother about it but she wouldn’t even broach the subject. I am now living in Wyoming, but four years ago I approached my mother about this on a visit. She did agree that something was out there that night, something that neither one of us could explain. Other than the tire marks from the shove and my undying memories of that night, I have nothing to substantiate my claim, but I have no doubts at all that what I encountered that night was something people know nothing about. Kevin
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IBS Report #: 916

Location: ADAMS county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +038˚ 46' N
Longitude: 083˚ 19' W
Day: 26
Month: APR
Year: 1999
Time: 7:30 PM
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Data Source: TR87
Credibility: 1
Locality: OFF SR 348, JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP
Researcher: Ron Schaffner
Witness: ANDRE AND JOE

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: TAIL SEEN, STRANGE MONSTER CHASES BOYS, CLAWS

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OH ADAMS 1999 TR#87 * Ron Schaffner reports, http://home.fuse. net/rschaffner On April 26, 1999, about 7:30 PM, off SR 348 in Adams County, Jefferson Township, Ohio, two boys, Andre and Joe, age ten,, reported that a few hundred feet from their tree-house, chicken hawks started squawking near a tree. The boys saw the tree shaking, followed by a long tail noted hanging from the tree. One boy, Joe, got scared and ran to a truck, and then they heard a crashing sound, turned, and a “monster looking thing” jumped from the tree and ran after them. The boys were shaking , one crying...said it had red eyes, long arms with claws on its hands, and funny looking feet. Strange tracks were also seen. In the area, man two months earlier saw what appeared to be deer fur scattered about, but no bones. Another man says he had seen something strange in the woods. The man gave the Dept. of Forestry a description and it appears to be the same thing the boys had seen
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IBS Report #: 917

Location: ADAMS county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: +038˚ 46' N
Longitude: 083˚ 19' W
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Year: 1999
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Elevation: 680

Data Source: TR87
Credibility: 2
Locality: BETWEEN WEST UNION AND BLUE CREEK AREA, SR 348,
Researcher: WITNESS
Witness: 3 BOYS

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: 6 INCH TRACKS, PLUS HOLES, LIKE BF HAD LOST A FOOT

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OH ADAMS 1999 TR#87 * Jan. 16, 1999, Adams County, Ohio, in the Blue Creek area, SR 348, three boys were in the woods, the eldest in the Marine Corps, were small game hunting in the woods. There were strange foot prints in the snow about six inches long plus three holes about the size of a quarter. There were two in front and one behind the track with three distinct prints. The creature had crossed the road to the woods. Apparently, from the holes, the Bigfoot had lost a foot or leg. The people live in the foothills of the Appalachian Mts., between Blue Creek and West Union, about 15 miles southeast of Pebbles off SR 32.
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Precip: PEEBLES 2.6 2.3 4.2 4.1 4.3 3.5 4.2 4.6 3.4 2.5 3.2 3.2 42.2
Temp: PEEBLES 30.6 34.0 44.8 54.0 63.0 70.7 74.5 73.0 66.9 55.6 45.5 35.2 54.0
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Ecology: SNOW ON GROUND

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IBS Report #: 3371

Location: ADAMS county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +038˚ 47' N
Longitude: 083˚ 19' W
Day: 26
Month: APR
Year: 1999
Time: 7:30 PM
Elevation: 640

Data Source: TR 87 MAY 1999
Credibility: 3
Locality: Jefferson TWP
Researcher: Ron Schaffner
Witness: Andre and Joe

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: "monster looking thing” jumped from the tree, chicken hawks squawking, TREE SHAKING, TAIL HANGING FROM TREE, RED EYES, TRACKS

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TR 87 MAY 1999 * Ron Schaffner reports, http://home.fuse. net/rschaffner On April 26, 1999, about 7:30 PM, off SR 348 in Adams County, Jefferson Township, Ohio, two boys, Andre and Joe, age ten,, reported that a few hundred feet from their tree-house, chicken hawks started squawking near a tree. The boys saw the tree shaking, followed by a long tail noted hanging from the tree. One boy, Joe, got scared and ran to a truck, and then they heard a crashing sound, turned, and a “monster looking thing” jumped from the tree and ran after them. The boys were shaking , one crying...said it had red eyes, long arms with claws on its hands, and funny looking feet. Strange tracks were also seen. In the area, man two months earlier saw what appeared to be deer fur scattered about, but no bones. Another man says he had seen something strange in the woods. The man gave the Dept. of Forestry a description and it appears to be the same thing the boys had seen.
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IBS Report #: 3372

Location: ADAMS county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 2

Latitude: +038˚ 46' N
Longitude: 083˚ 19' W
Day: 16
Month: JAN
Year: 1999
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Elevation: 682

Data Source: TR 87 MAY 1999
Credibility: 3
Locality: Blue Creek area
Researcher: BFRO
Witness: 3 BOYS

Sighting Type: 2
Summary: 6 IN TRACKS IN SNOW PLUS HOLES WHERE LEG LOST

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TR 87 MAY 1999 * Jan. 16, 1999, Adams County, Ohio, in the Blue Creek area, SR 348, three boys were in the woods, the eldest in the Marine Corps, were small game hunting in the woods. There were strange foot prints in the snow about six inches long plus three holes about the size of a quarter. There were two in front and one behind the track with three distinct prints. The creature had crossed the road to the woods. Apparently, from the holes, the Bigfoot had lost a foot or leg. The people live in the foothills of the Appalachian Mts., between Blue Creek and West Union, about 15 miles southeast of Pebbles off SR 32.
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IBS Report #: 608

Location: CHAMPAIGN county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +040˚ 06' N
Longitude: 083˚ 45' W
Day: SEPT
Month: 1996
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Elevation: 1050

Data Source: TR73
Credibility: 3
Locality: NEAR URBANA
Researcher: DON KEATING
Witness: Peggy Tillman

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: BF WITH POT BELLY SEEN AT ROADSIDE

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OH CHAMPAIGN 1996 TR#73 DON KEATING REPORT Note, Don is Director of the Eastern Ohio Bigfoot Investigation Center, PO Box 205, Newcomerstown, Ohio 43832-0205. He also publishes the groups newsletter, The Monthly Bigfoot Report, $10.00 annually, editor. This is a special write-up for Ray Crowe of the Western Bigfoot Society’s newsletter, The Track Record. This is for publication whenever space allows. The sooner the better. The Tri-State Bigfoot Study Group met Sat. , Dec. 6th, at 624 Heller Dr. in Newcomerstown, OH. Due to bad weather conditions in the northern third of Ohio, attendance was held to only 17 persons. However, the meeting became a memorable one and soon to be one of a kind, for sure. Organizer Don Keating thought it’d be a different idea to have members of the audience give their most memorable experiences while out in the field. ****** Peggy Tillman of London, OH, spoke about her sighting in Sept. of 1996 while she was driving her car near Urbana, OH. It was during the day and she spotted what she thought was a bush at the side of the road. Approaching closer though, she noticed this “bush” was moving and had what she described as a “pot belly” appearance. She considers this sighting to be one of he most memorable encounters since she has been researching the Sasquatch phenomenon.
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Precip: URBANA 2.1 2.1 3.2 3.4 4.2 3.8 4.3 3.5 3.1 2.7 3.2 2.8 38.4
Temp: URBANA 23.9 26.4 37.6 48.4 59.4 68.4 72.1 69.8 63.1 51.4 40.8 29.8 49.3
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IBS Report #: 2955

Location: Champaign county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 1

Latitude: +040˚ 06' N
Longitude: 083˚ 45' W
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Month: SEPT
Year: 1996
Time:
Elevation: 1050

Data Source: TR 73 JAN 98.
Credibility: 3
Locality: Urbana
Researcher: Peggy Tillman
Witness: Peggy Tillman

Sighting Type: 1
Summary: POT BELLY BF SEEN BESIDE ROAD

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TR 73 JAN 98. Peggy Tillman of London, OH, spoke about her sighting in Sept. of 1996 while she was driving her car near Urbana, OH. It was during the day and she spotted what she thought was a bush at the side of the road. Approaching closer though, she noticed this “bush” was moving and had what she described as a “pot belly” appearance. She considers this sighting to be one of he most memorable encounters since she has been researching the Sasquatch phenomenon.
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Precip: URBANA 2.7 2.1 3.2 3.5 4.0 4.0 4.3 3.4 2.9 2.5 2.9 2.5 38.1
Temp: URBANA 23.9 26.4 37.6 48.4 59.4 68.4 72.1 69.8 63.1 51.4 40.8 29.8 49.3
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IBS Report #: 4201

Location: Columbiana county, OH. UNITED STATES

Sighting Type: 3

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Month: WINTER
Year: 1997?
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Data Source: TR 106 April 2001
Credibility: 3
Locality: RAVINE
Researcher: Marc A. DeWerth
Witness: Marc A. DeWerth

Sighting Type: 3
Summary: DEAD DEER, CIRCULAR PATTERN

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* Very interesting! I was in Columbiana County, Ohio in the winter of 1997? doing an investigation. Would have to check my files for exact date! Anyway, we hiked down a very steep ravine where the property owners claimed that at least two Bigfoot creatures had lived during the warmer months of the year. Once down to the bottom, we found one dead deer fully intact (backbone crushed or twisted) and one mess of something in a circular pattern like you explained on your post. The hair scattered within this 12 foot wide circle was all over the place like something had squatted down and ate its kill in a voracious matter. The hair was from a deer but not the one fully intact. We looked for bones but found none! What ever ate this deer? literally tore it apart while eating it and left the other under some brush for a possible later meal? I have never seen anything like this ever since. Impressed the sh_t out of me!! LOL! Interesting post Mary! Marc A. DeWerth, Bigfoot Investigator
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