Ohio Bigfoot Expedition Releases Sound Recording: Hoax Or A Sasquatch In the Mists?

CINCINNATI (TDB) - The recording reportedly was made late last April at an undisclosed location in eastern Ohio, and there are a few noises that sound like grunts. It is up on Blogsquatcher for analysis and there is no claim that a humanoid actually was caught making the sounds, only that there have been sightings of a mysterious manlike creature the area where the expedition entered the woods and set up its microphones. The author of Blogsquatcher says it is even possible that somebody could have broadcast a call in the wild as a hoax. Another theory: It was just a wild hog rooting around in the brush.

Blogsquatcher didn't see what made the sounds. But he thinks it is possible a hairy giant is traipsing around rural Ohio. Still, the creature would have to be very cautious to avoid disclosing its presence in a densely populated Midwestern state inhabited by more than 11 million humans. Indeed, bigfoot seems to have pretty much succeeded in hiding itself like the weapons of mass destruction that were said to be stored in Iraq.

"One thing I consider as I think about what made this file is that there are bigfoot reports from the area where it was obtained, both recent accounts and going back years. I can't tell you that the sounds you can hear in this file or the one below are certainly from bigfoot. Since we didn't see what made the sounds, it could be from anything. But the characteristics of the calls, when you look at them with an 'interactive sound analysis tool' are very interesting to me. I'd like someone to give me a really good explanation for them. As I said above, there may well be an explanation known to science already, but I don't know it yet. I'd be just as happy to learn that these files come from a known animal as to learn that they actually are the voice of bigfoot. It's the truth I'm after."

Ohio Bigfoot Encounters: NEO's Portage County Leads The State

CINCINNATI (TDB) -- To the jaundiced and suspicious eye, the accounts might be written off as totally bogus. After all, it is hard to accept that some as yet unidentified branch of the humanoid family could be lurking out there in the endless distance. And why would they want to stay in Portage County, the home of Kent State University? No answers or explanations -- just the fact that the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization notes that the largest number of reports in any Ohio county originate from Portage.

Maybe somebody in Kent should open a juke joint called the Sasquatch. Or those spiritualists who used to gather on Brady Lake really did know something the rest of us didn't.

Thirteen of nearly 200 known Bigfoot encounters, or suspected encounters, have taken place in Portage County. Nearby Geauga County accounts for another 7, including this fairly fresh report of a brief glimpse of a "monkey man" standing erect upon very large feet last August:

"We moved to this location two years ago. We only lived here a few weeks and my four year old came running into the house and said he didn't want to play outside anymore. He seemed upset but not extremely frightened. When I asked him what was wrong he said he saw a monkey man looking at him through the trees. I went out and nothing was there."

Some time passed, and another son, 15, saw a Bigfoot out the living room window. Then again in the yard. No pictures.

Not solid enough for skeptics. The Ohio Bigfoot Organization, which appears to be based in Strongsville is soliciting eyewitness reports. The Bigfoot Field Research Organziation has compiled this list about Ohio, which is fun to read and wonder about. There are reports from other states, too.

There is nary a single sighting in Cleveland or Cincinnati, which spins an intriguing tale about hominids that can't be bothered with the practicalities of urban life, things like a diet of McDonalds. But they might get close to the bars on Water Street in Kent, especially the joints that serve Moosehead.