Thomas Shay is the founder of the Northern Kentucky Bigfoot Research Group. Tom has been investigating the Sasquatch phenomenon since 1987. That’s when he had his first Sasquatch-related experience. You see, in 1987, Tom was heading to see his girlfriend, in Carlton, Kentucky, on US 36, when he had his first sighting. It was 85 degrees out, that day, so Tom was surprised when he saw what he, at first, thought was a man in a fur coat, on the side of the highway. As he got closer, he slowed down t...
Oct 21, 2025•31 min
Dusty Ruth is the leader of BFRO expeditions in Ohio. He’s also an investigator for the Northern Kentucky Bigfoot Research Group. As you can imagine, Dusty has spent untold hours in the field, on Sasquatch investigations. Of all the experiences he’s had, in the field, the 3 sightings he’s had are, understandably, the most memorable ones. Dusty had his first sighting in 2019, while he was on an outing with the BFRO, in Ohio. That sighting was the first of two sightings he’s had through a thermal ...
Oct 17, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Gene Brock is an archaeologist who also has a degree in Anthropology. Gene decided to major in archaeology and minor in anthropology due to an experience he had when he was 13 or 14 years old. He was hunting, at the time, when it happened, with his father. Gene shared the details of that experience on Episode 501 and other Sasquatch-related experiences he’s had over the years. On tonight’s show, Gene is going to talk about Sasquatch physiology and why Sasquatch are built the way they are. He’s a...
Oct 13, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Tonight’s guest, Beth Duncan, is a Sasquatch eyewitness who became a Sasquatch investigator, due to her interest in learning all that she can about them. One of the many things Beth has going for her, as an investigator, is the fact that a Sasquatch clan lives on and around the 100-acre farm, in Southern West Virginia, where she lives. Her farm is where she had the sighting and not only is she going to share the details of that sighting on tonight’s show, she’s also going to share several other ...
Oct 08, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Tonight’s guest, Debbie Robinson, had the Sasquatch-related experiences she’s going to talk about on tonight’s show while she was staying at a remote cabin, in the Hocking Hills, of Ohio. Before she went to the cabin, to celebrate her birthday, her family and friends knew Debbie had always wanted to go to the Hocking Hills and rent a cabin. She had heard so much about the beautiful scenery in the Hocking Hills and all the caves there so, for the longest time, she wanted to go take it all in. To ...
Oct 04, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Tonight’s guest, Gene Brock, is a Sasquatch investigator who has a college degree in Anthropology and Archaeology. Gene chose to major in Anthropology and minor in Archaeology because of an experience he had, when he was a kid, involving two Sasquatch. You see, Gene was deer hunting, at the time, with his dad when the encounter happened. Some people would have been frightened out of the woods, for good, after experiencing what happened to Gene that day, but Gene still goes into the woods. A lot ...
Sep 26, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Tonight’s guest, Michael Bastin, lives about 25 miles from where he saw a group of Sasquatch when he was a kid. That’s a day he’ll never forget, for a lot of reasons. One of the biggest reasons why he’ll never forget what happened that day, at a place called Fort Ancient, in Southern Ohio, is due to the fact that one of the Sasquatch he saw was at least 15 feet tall! Not long after seeing the group of Sasquatch, Mike was running, as fast as he could, trying to get the heck out of the area with o...
Sep 25, 2025•57 min
Tonight’s guest, Tristan Yolton, is a Sasquatch investigator who is based in Washington State. That’s where he was born and raised. Tristan has been investigating the Sasquatch phenomenon for 10 years now, but he doesn’t think he’s had a confirmation sighting, as he puts it. I’d beg to differ. You see, Tristan has had two experiences where he’s seen subjects, in the woods, that he couldn’t conclusively identify. When he had his first experience, he saw a tall, dark figure that he could hear thum...
Sep 17, 2025•1 hr 8 min
Tonight’s guest, Zach, lives in Roanoke, Virginia and he’s been living there for most of his life. On tonight’s show, Zach is going to be talking about a Sasquatch sighting he had in his backyard in June of 2021, while he was doing yardwork. Before Zach had that experience, he was an open-minded skeptic, as he describes it. Back then, he thought that if Sasquatch were real, they didn’t come out during the daytime. Zach was about to find out how wrong he was about that. After having his sighting ...
Sep 15, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Tonight’s guests, Krista and Brandi, had a Bigfoot encounter in September of 2023, near Ava, Missouri, that is their most memorable Sasquatch-related experience. They’ve had other experiences where they think Sasquatch were near, but they didn’t see a Sasquatch on those occasions. When they were on that overnight investigation, near Ava, Missouri, however, Brandi clearly saw a Sasquatch. On tonight’s show, Krista and Brandi will be talking about what happened that night, what happened when they ...
Sep 11, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Tonight’s guest, Jonathan Downes, is the Director of The Center for Fortean Zoology, in Scottland. Jonathan founded The Center for Fortean Zoology 32 years ago, so this isn’t a new venture for him. When you consider all of the experience he has researching sightings and legends of unclassified creatures, how could there be a better eyewitness to come on the show to talk about a cryptid sighting he had? What Jonathan saw is called a woodwose. The term woodwose is in reference to what is believed ...
Sep 04, 2025•52 min
Tonight’s guest, Kirk Brandenburg, is a Sasquatch investigator who is based in Washington State. Kirk does most of his investigating in the Cascade Mountains but occasionally heads over to the Olympics or North Central Washington to look for evidence. Kirk has been interested in Sasquatch for as long as he can remember but what really set the hook in him was a conversation he had with a coworker, at a work-related party. You see, at that party, one of Kirk’s coworkers told him about a Sasquatch ...
Sep 03, 2025•1 hr 2 min
Tonight’s guest, Don Widner, has been hunting and tracking Sasquatch for 8 years now, in Western Kentucky. Due to his interest in Sasquatch, he is the founder and president of Western Kentucky Bigfoot and Paranormal Investigations LLC. Don had his first Sasquatch experience 8 years ago, while he was coyote hunting just off Highway 764, in Ohio County, Kentucky. That was his first experience with a Sasquatch, but it wasn’t his last one. We hope you’ll tune in and listen to him share the details o...
Aug 27, 2025•26 min
Tonight’s guest, Karl Sieling, had his Bigfoot sighting in 1976 while he was walking down a set of railroad tracks, in a heavily forested area, near Newtown, Connecticut. When his sighting happened, he was on the way to his buddy’s house. Sometimes, he would walk or bike about a mile and a half to his buddy’s house, using roads in the area. This day, he decided to walk on a set of train tracks that ran right past his house, through a forest and then right past his buddy’s house. If he walked the...
Aug 25, 2025•1 hr
Tonight’s guest, Chris Blaylock, is a Sasquatch investigator who is working on a doctorate’s degree in hominology and a bachelor’s degree in animal biology due to her interest in Sasquatch. That interest in them began at a young age too. You see, when Chris was a little girl, her grandmother used to tell her and her brother not to go out at night, never to whistle in the woods, and to be leery of the Wooley Boogers. Never, in her wildest dreams, did she ever think she’d actually go on to see one...
Aug 19, 2025•46 min
Tonight’s guests, Beth Kolasinski and Nolan Shelby, are mother and son. In late February, of 2018, the two of them were heading home from Nolan’s last high school basketball game, in Flint, Michigan. They live in Howell, Michigan, so they had a fairly long drive to get home. Beth doesn’t like driving on highways, so she prefers to take back roads, instead of driving on highways, so she took back roads home from the basketball game that night. When they were about 25 miles from home, they were in...
Aug 15, 2025•28 min
Tonight’s guest, Scot Violette, is the founder of Squatch America, which is a national Bigfoot research group. Squatch America has a self-named YouTube channel and a website where they collect sightings and reports. Scot and his wife live in an RV that they use to follow up on reports all over the U.S. Scot is also a Native American cultural anthropologist who has worked in that field for 25 years. On tonight’s show, Scot will be sharing the details from a sighting he had. He’s also going to tal...
Aug 14, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Tonight’s guest, Jim Powell, is the host of a podcast, on YouTube, called “The Night’s Watch.” Jim created his podcast so he could not only share his own paranormal experiences, publicly, but also to help other experiencers who’ve had their own encounters with paranormal beings and phenomena. In addition to the paranormal experiences Jim has had over the years, he’s also had several Sasquatch encounters. On tonight’s show, Jim will be sharing all of his Sasquatch experiences with you, including ...
Aug 07, 2025•1 hr 11 min
Tonight’s guest, Donna Copas, was featured on Episode 480, and on that show she told us about the first encounter she had with a Watcher. Her dad always called the Sasquatch around their property “Watchers.” On tonight’s show, Donna has come back to share more experiences she’s had with the Watchers with you. We hope you’ll listen to her do that. If you’ve had a Sasquatch sighting and would like to be a guest on the show, please go to BigfootEyewitness.com and let me know. I’d love to hear from ...
Aug 05, 2025•1 hr 9 min
When tonight’s guest, Curt, was a kid, he had a group of sightings on the outskirts of Yreka, California in July of 1983. His sightings happened one after the other, in the span of less than an hour’s time. The first sighting happened while he was playing a game of hide n seek with his brother, sister, and some friends at a school that was behind Curt’s Aunt’s apartment complex. The kids split up into two teams and Curt’s team was picked to be the team that would hide. His brother’s team was goi...
Aug 02, 2025•1 hr 9 min
Tonight’s guest, Sabrina Sparks, got an early start, when it came to her fascination with Sasquatch. That’s due, in large part, to her dad. You see, Sabrina’s dad used to tell her stories about Sasquatch and watch Bigfoot movies with her. Little did she know that, years down the road, she’d go on to actually see a Sasquatch with her own eyes. On tonight’s show, Sabrina’s going to talk about the details behind her sighting and share other Sasquatch related experiences she’s had. We hope you’ll tu...
Jul 22, 2025•1 hr 1 min
When tonight’s guest, Rusty, was 20, he and a friend of his went fishing, on a lake in the West Memphis area of Arkansas, one evening. It was an unseasonable hot night and they were fishing from a boat. All of a sudden, they heard a rustling noise coming from the shore, just a matter of yards away. They were using the boat’s trolling motor, so it would be easy for them to go undetected. What happened next is proof that you can sneak up on a Sasquatch, given certain circumstances. We hope you’ll ...
Jul 17, 2025•30 min
Tonight’s guest, John Stasko, has been a paranormal investigator for 60 years and has had 5 Sasquatch sightings over the years he’s been investigating. His first sighting happened in a place called McMurray, Pennsylvania. While he was there, he walked up to within 15 feet from a huge male Sasquatch. John describes himself as not fearing anything, but even he realized that he was really pushing it, when he got that close to the Sasquatch. We hope you’ll tune in and listen to John recount that exp...
Jul 09, 2025•1 hr 6 min
Tonight’s guest, Jimmy Williams, lives in the Ozarks and is known by locals as “The Bigfoot Guy.” Jimmy’s obsession with Sasquatch began 3 years ago, in 2022, when his dad decided to go out “Bigfoot Hunting,” as he put it, in the Kiamichi Mountains of Oklahoma. Since going on that trip to the Kiamichi Mountains, with his dad, he’s had numerous experiences with Sasquatch. We hope you’ll tune into tonight’s show and listen to Jimmy share some of those experiences with you. To visit Jimmy’s page, o...
Jul 02, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Tonight’s guest, Russell Wiitala, is a retired Postal worker who lives in Raymond, Washington. One day, in 2007, while he was going for a walk with a friend, his friend asked him if he had heard about a family seeing a Sasquatch close to where they were walking. Russ told him that he hadn’t heard about that and proceeded to ask his friend if he’d like to go looking for Bigfoot. As you’ll hear, if you listen to tonight’s show, the rest is history. Fast forward to present day and Russ has multiple...
Jul 01, 2025•1 hr 10 min
Tonight’s guest, Allan Ross, has been tracking Sasquatch, on Vancouver Island, for the past 45 years. Allan had his first Sasquatch-related experience when he was 15 or 16 years old and that experience really set the hook in him. Allan was deer hunting for the first time, when he had the experience and since then, he’s been fascinated by them. On tonight’s show, not only is Allan going to share experiences he’s had with them over the years, he’s also going to share some of the knowledge he’s ama...
Jun 25, 2025•59 min
Tonight’s guest, Donna Copas, has being interacting with Sasquatch since she was 6 years old. Donna doesn’t call them Sasquatch, however. She calls them the Watchers, due to her being of Shawnee descent. You see, when Donna was only 6 years old, her dad took her into the woods with him, to dig for yellow root. Her dad was always heading into the woods to harvest ginseng, yellow root, and other things. That day, after digging up some yellow root, her dad stood up, walked over to a nearby stump, a...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 3 min
Tonight’s guest, Titus, grew up in Southern Wisconsin and had his Sasquatch sighting about 20 years ago. He had his sighting while he was at a hobby farm a friend of his mother owned. Joining Titus and his mother was one of Titus’ siblings. Even though his mother and that sibling were merely 50 feet away from him, when he saw the Sasquatch, calling out to them never crossed his mind. He was so gob smacked, due to the experience, trying to bring their attention to the Sasquatch he was staring at ...
Jun 19, 2025•54 min
Tonight’s guest, Rob Effler, is from Western North Carolina. In 2023, he started North Carolina Investigates with co-founder George Lunsford. Prior to that, in 2007, he was the founder of GoDark Paranormal Investigations. In 2012, he started to receive reports of Sasquatch sightings in his area of North Carolina. That came as quite a surprise to him, because, up until then, he thought Sasquatch were only in the Pacific Northwest. Little did he know, it wouldn’t be long that he’d see, with his ow...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr 25 min
Around 1983, tonight’s guest, David Blalack, was abducted from his home in Trinity County, California. He was 12 or 13 at the time and is 53 now. Even though so much time has passed, since he was abducted, he can still remember it like it was yesterday. You’d think, after having such a profound experience, at such a young age, he would have been traumatized by it. He wasn’t, however. The 3 Sasquatch who were with him just might have been more traumatized by the experience than he was. We hope yo...
Jun 14, 2025•1 hr 3 min
