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SO EP:421 Bigfoot At Mammoth Cave

Jan 21, 202422 min
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This episode features a series of voice messages from Jenny in New York. She used our leave us a voicemail button and strung together some interesting experiences she had while camping in the Mammoth Cave area of Kentucky.

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Mammoth Cave, located in south-central Kentucky, is a world-renowned natural wonder and a significant historical and cultural site. It is the longest known cave system in the world, with over 400 miles of explored passageways. The cave is a part of the Mammoth Cave National Park, which was established in 1941 and designated as a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1981.

The history of Mammoth Cave dates back thousands of years. Native American tribes, including the Shawnee, Cherokee, and others, have long recognized the cave's significance. They used it for various purposes, such as shelter, burial grounds, and ceremonial rituals. Evidence of their presence, including artifacts and drawings, has been discovered within the cave.

European settlers began exploring Mammoth Cave in the late 18th century. In 1809, a slave named Stephen Bishop became one of the first guides to extensively explore and map the cave. Bishop's knowledge and expertise were instrumental in uncovering many of the cave's secrets.
During the 19th century, Mammoth Cave gained popularity as a tourist attraction. Visitors from all over the world flocked to the area to witness the awe-inspiring natural formations and learn about the cave's history. The cave's unique geological features, such as stalactites, stalagmites, and underground rivers, continue to captivate visitors to this day.

While Mammoth Cave is primarily known for its geological wonders, it has also been the site of numerous Sasquatch encounters. Sasquatch, also known as Bigfoot, is a legendary creature believed to inhabit remote wilderness areas. There have been several documented sightings and encounters with Sasquatch in the Mammoth Cave area.

Witnesses have reported seeing large, hairy creatures roaming the forested areas surrounding the cave. These sightings often occur in the early morning or late evening when the area is less crowded. Some witnesses have described hearing strange vocalizations or experiencing an eerie sense of being watched.

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Transcript

Now one of your pudding. I got a string going on here, something just cause my dog. Something killed your dog, my dog. We're flying through the air over the tree. I don't know how it did it, Okay, Damn, I'm really confused. All I saw was my dog coming over the fence and he was dead. And once you hit the ground like, I didn't see any cars. All I saw was my dog coming over the fence. Sat, what are you putting? We got some wonder or

something crawling around out here? Did you see what it was or was it was? Standing enough? I'm out here looking through the window now and I don't see anything. I don't want to go outside, Jesus quice, you better Hello, hit the boddy out here, Quinn on Melter, I thought of a bit just about tech forty nine. I don't know, ez Melter. Yeah, I'm bok right. Hey, thanks so much for joining me for the show. What you're about to hear is some submitted voicemails from Jen

from New York. She's been on the show before, and using the leave us a voicemail app on our website Paranormal World Productions dot com, Jen has left us about fifteen minutes worth of voicemails here and sharing some really interesting experiences that she had while camping out in the Mammoth Cave area in Kentucky. In addition, I found a really interesting article about some of the Bigfoot sightings in Kentucky that I've inserted in here that I think you might find interesting as well.

But without further ado, let's get into Jen's voicemails and her experiences in the Mammoth Cave area in Kentucky. Hi, this is Jenny from New York, and I am following up on a bestige bit I had left previously that I had a series of events, some overtly Sasquatch as I saw him, and then others that or i'd say venture into the Wu territory. But there are all brief events, and it's like when you're taken as the totality of

the events, it seems pretty obvious what has been interacting with me. So this message in particular is like middle in time of when I've had these events happen two summers ago, And specifically I thought Wayne would want to hear this because he had requested or mentioned if people had experiences up at Mammoth Park to leave a message. So I am jumping really forward in time to my experiences. And at this point in time, this was two summers ago, the

end of June, very hot in Kentucky. I think it was one hundred and four and Lovoll. Anyways, I was heading down for family reunion to Cincinnati, and so I took a week to go caving and just see as many caves as I could. I knew it was very unusual to get a reservation at Mammoth Caves so quickly, but I just decided to wing it and go for it. So anyways, I get down there, I get a campsite, and so I'm going to try to these specifics. The wing can

recreate the situation if you once to. So it was a campsite on the side on the Echo Pond river and there's a river down there side of the

campground. It's the campground that's very near the visitor center. So if you were driving from the visitors center, you'd go past this like general store looking place, and then it's a right term and then the campsite I had, you passed the bathrooms on the left, and then my campsite was like two or three campsites further on the right on the downhill side of the road, and there was a family in the camps bought next to me on the uphill

side of my site as the corner is being turned, and I tried to find one that was as woodsy as possible, and so there was like a whole lot of nothing beyond our site. So anyways, I check out my site and I had gotten there plus dusk, but I really wanted to go down and explore someplace to the boardwalk because I had heard that there was a

like a school group had a sighting down on a boardwalk years ago. And I found out that there was a boardwalk or some kind of walkway down by I believe it's called Echo Pond. And anyways, it was like the spring. That's what it was, Echo Spring. It was a spring down by the river. So I come out of the campground, turn right, and then I turn right again at the next intersection. I go down to the

boat launch in a park and I go hike around to this spring. Why, knowing that I have been having these interactions with these beings, I know that they like snickers, but I couldn't get snickers. I think I brought twigs or caramelos, maybe it was twigs. I hike out to the spring, and then as you reach the like where the trail starts turning back towards the boat launch, there's a two track or old jeep trail that goes from

that Echo Spring trail toward the campgrounds. And so I walked up that halfway that two track a little bit. I think I may have made like a little rock Cairn left the candy bars and said a little hey, just let you guys know, people know you're here. Be careful. Here's a little treat for you. Thank you for watching out for me all these years. And then I left, and I did feel like I was being watched like the whole time. Back to my car, I was doing the like turnaround

fast to try to catch something following me. I got real creeped out, and I just like I brought this on myself, and got in my car and relaxed, and then headed back to the campsite. Now it's gotten, you know, dark enough that I have to have my headlights on. It's Kentucky is gorgeous, the usual noises, bugs and whatnot. So I drive back to the campground. Now it's the campgrounds full of people and families, and I'm just going minimalists. My plan is to pull in, maybe read

and go to sleep. So I pull into my campsite and the family next to me, they can see down into my site. It's not very private at all. So I back in and open up my driver's site door to get some air, roll down the windows, make myself comfortable and just enjoy the happy laughter of families and a campground. And this family I can hear very well because they're so close, and there's nobody for the spots to the like in the direction of the bathroom, so it's relatively private. It's just

that family next to me are my only neighbors. So I haven't been in the camp spot more than oh gosh, maybe fifteen minutes, and all of a sudden it's okay. So the family next to me, they have I want to say, three or four kids, and they're not very old. I'd say the oldest was maybe like eight or nine, and a little girl I'd say probably four years old. She says in like the weird like I'll

try to imitate it. She says, look, daddy, there's a bear, and she points right toward my picnic table, like as if there's a bear standing in my little picnic area. But the way she said it had no fear, no concern, just wanted, Oh, I just want to show my daddy this full bear standing right there. And she's pointing, and then the dad gets dad. You can hear his voice is not having fun. He says, oh, where, honey, like really serious, and

she's still got her finger pointing at my camp spot. She goes right there, Daddy, he's right there. He's standing right there, and the dad by this moment, he's pulled out a spotlight. I got a spotlight, flashlight, and he's spotlighting me, my picnic table, my car. He's sweeping it all around my little camp area and he's honey, am I looking at him. She's like, yeah, daddy, he's right there. And we're all looking like the mom, all the kids, me, we are

looking. This is where I can't remember quite how close the trees were, but it's been like cleared out. Hey, it's like national forest. They've cleared the brush out. There's trees, like healthy trees, but not a lot of anything between them, and we are not seeing anything now. When I heard her talk I immediately started looking for a peeker, like something peeking from behind a tree. I could see nothing, just see that spotlight sweeping

around. And then the dad said, is he still there? And she goes, no, he's not there now, and that the dad says, okay, honey, tell me when he's if he comes back, okay, yeah, daddy. And then about another like ten fifty minutes goes by, and the little girl goes, Daddy, the bear's back, and we all freeze again, while dad is like grabbing the spotlight and doing the spotlight and he's is the light on it? Or did I find it? And she's,

yeah, Daddy, he's right there. Oh my gosh. And I think I remember something about the dad asking the other kids if they saw it and they all said no, And so he's sweeping the light around, and then I think he's asked again as he's still there, and she said and the little girl said no, and then that was that. The light gets packed up and that was it. Okay, So this is the third part, and this is not as concrete. Obviously, I wasn't sleeping that night.

I did not take any food out of my car. I made sure there was no scent, took every precaution for the bear. And before I had camped there, like before I set up, pulled in and looked around at my spot, I noticed that I didn't notice any bear trash receptacles, which normally I saw at national parks and such. And so I was like, while the little girl was saying bear, all indicators around me were not like one would notice as if there were regular bear problems in a place like

this. But I did proceed to consider that was that maybe there could be a bear. I closed my doors, I rolled my windows up. It was an awful sweltering night in a car with windows up not all the way if I didn't want anything to grab me. I was uneasy. But that

is what just is what it is. So anyways, I had planned initially, I had planned on walking over by the Big Cave entrance to the main Mammoth Cave entrance because the cold cave air keeps the whole area around it much cooler like it's air conditioning, and so I wanted to slip over there at night and with my bedroll and just sleep in the natural air conditioning outside the

cave on the walkway. But given as this incident, I didn't do it, but when I did have my tour the next day, given what I had known from my experiences with these beings in the past, one thing that struck me was that they could live in that cave and nobody would ever know, especially if they were sneaky. And then there's many entrances to the cave. I don't know. It was just really interesting. And then there's I don't want to spoil anything from the tour, but there's fish in the spring,

and I don't know. It just seemed like a good place to be a sasquatch, especially in hot, sweltering Kentucky. So anyways, I did also ask some rangers I think, the next day if there was any bears sighting in the park, and the answer I got know that there's no bears in that part of the park. I think they just I think in the park, but I don't think anybody said not in Kentucky, but it was

just not a concern there. So as I was listening to Jenny's voicemail, I looked for stories in and around the Mammoth Cave area in Kentucky, and I found this article that I thought was interesting, and I wanted to read it to you guys. Bigfoot sighting in Kentucky. Couple recounts bizarre tale at Mammoth Cave. Bigfoot is back, but did he really ever go away?

Brad Jen and Madeline Durant, a couple of Western Kentucky University students, said they were awakened in the middle of the night last weekend during a camping trip to Mammoth Cave by a gun toting man hill bent on tracking down the legendary creature. It was scary to know there was a man out there shooting a gun at nothing, Duran told The Courier Journal on Wednesday of the couple's weekend

adventure in the woods. Bigfoot sightings have been reported hundreds of times across Kentucky since the time of Daniel Boone. What makes Duran and Jen's story unforgettable, though, is the randomness of their tale. Neither says they actually saw a bigfoot. They weren't looking neither. The couple had been sleeping in their tent early Sunday morning when Durant woke Jen to tell him that a man and his

young son were approaching. When they got to the tent, the man said that he had his own campsite and the tin had been destroyed, and that they were in Bigfoot country. He then showed them the gun that he had in his back pocket, and he told them to run if they heard shots, Jen said. The man and his sun then left a few minutes later, we see their lights approaching again, Jen said, and as they got closer, we heard the man yell, oh my god, did you see

that? There? It is? Looking out from their tent, Durand and Jin watched as the man shot his gun into the darkness. Durand and Jen said they ran from their tent to the man to see what was happening. The man says that he saw a sasquatch emerge from the bush near our tent and started approaching him. Jen recounted. We're like, are you serious, Jen said, and the man said yes he was. The man told them that it's dangerous and he hoped that we had weapons, Jen said. The

man and his sun then left. The couple then called nine to one one and hiked the five mile back to their car. Molly Schrower, a spokeswoman from Mammoth Cave National Park, confirmed that law enforcement responded to an incident involving an individual with a firearm at around two am on Sunday, and said that no injuries occurred. She added that the incident is still being investigated by park

officials. Though possession of firearms within the park is legal as long as individuals follow Kentucky state laws and do not take them into any federal facility, cave tour tour buses, or any concessions, discharging a firearm in the park is strictly prohibited, she said. Kentucky and Mammoth Cave have had their share of bigfoot stories over the years. There have been close to four hundred bigfoot reports in Kentucky, according to the Kentucky Bigfoot dot com website ran by the Kentucky

Bigfoot Research Organization. Charlie Raymond, listed on the website as the organization's founder and lead investigator, did not respond to an email from The Courier Journal. According to the website, the Kentucky Bigfoot Research Organization was founded in nineteen ninety to document all credible bigfoot encounters in Kentucky. Four people have reported bigfoot sightings

at the park, according to the site. In one a man said his dad was working at Mammoth Cave National Park one summer in the early nineteen nineties, and he saw a large, hairy creature down on what he thought to be all fours. Walking fearing that he may have ran into a bear, he began to slow down when the creature raised up on two legs, standing somewhere around the eight foot mark. It stood there and looked at him for a moment, and then turned around and ran into the darkness on two legs.

In a footnote, the side administrator wrote, this account was brought to us by a friend. We spoke with the witness and verified the account. We believed this account to be true. Another user named Brent said that he and his daughter were camping at Mammoth Cave National Park in August of twenty fifteen when they encountered a bigfoot. He said that the activity began around one am when something stepped up onto their camper and continually hit and pulled on it.

They were also many other different strange vocalizations that they experienced. Some sounded like they were possibly feline, while others sounded like sasquatch growls, howls, and extended distant screams. Brent also posted an audio clip of his encounter. In a follow up known on the website, Raymond said that the area has been quite active with bigfoot interactions, but after listening to the audio, we believed

that the moans were feline in nature. Seth Breedlove, an Ohio filmmaker who has extensively researched the bigfoot legend, said that the rule and isolated nature of many portions of Kentucky might help explain why the Commonwealth has so many reported bigfoot sidings. If you believe that bigfoot is some sort of undiscovered animal, then that would be one of the places where you would go to find them. Breedlove said that bigfoot sidings occur more often in the present day, but sightings

in Kentucky go back to the eighteen hundreds. It's not a new phenomenon, he said. We either have an unidentified primate species living in our own backyard, or we have a myth on a national scale, he said. He also rebuked stereotypes of people who report encountering the beast, stating the idea that bigfoot witnesses or backwoods hill billy's drinking moonshine is preposterous once you look into the

subject. As for Jen and Durand. They said that their bizarre encounter over the weekend won't deter them from going back to the woods near Mammoth Cave. We love hiking in the outdoors too much not to return, Durand said, we'll be back, but will definitely be better prepared for an emergency next time. So ness the woo part, Oh no, probably like a month goes by or so. And I have a friend who's an intuitive. She can do some animal communication, like if she's got a good connection with something or

somebody, she can be very intuitive and enlightening and she does mediumship. And she grew up with a family of sasquatches by her land in Montana when she was a kid, so she's got lots of great stories. But anyways, so I was talking with her and I mentioned this incident and I was like, was that a bear? And she's, oh, no, it was not. I was like, I don't understand, like why would the sasquatch

come up there, like around the kids and everything. And she just said, he just wanted to let you know that he knew it was you that left the treats and that was it. And neither of us have any explanation at this point of why some people see them and some don't, And I will recount other instances and other recordings that this is not the first time it's happened to me. Where I'm with multiple people and one of us sees the Sasquatch and the others don't, or two of us see the Sasquatch and the

others don't. No explanation. I have some explanation for it. Whether that's the truth, I can't say. But anyways, that's the end. Thank you, and have a good day. They say you don't gotta go home, but you can't stay, and I don't want to be alone. We're all happened trying to try that, try everything. Call me right back, right back, Joy for me, Joy, stay right there, coming right

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