Lately, there has been a great deal of interest in attending a weekend investigation with our core group. The other members and I have been discussing the idea of having a group of folks come out and teaching them our methods of investigation and evidence collection. We were thinking along the lines of teaching how to track, casting footprints, audio recording, etc. As well as a brief talk on new avenues we are exploring in our current and future investigations. As of now Participants will need to provide their own food snacks and water along with camping equipment. Due to the nature of the investigations and casting material cost, A fee will have to be charged. Details regarding dates and fees will be forthcoming. I am now just gauging the level of interest in attending. 

Thomas Shay

 The Northern Kentucky research group returned to one of our research areas after a year. Myself with John Gregory Jurasevich, Dusty and Wesly Ruth, Jan Ehl, Richard and Ben Taylor and Laura Cutshaw Overton. Our general consensus was that it would be an ordinary weekend in the woods to our surprise that was not the case. Saturday morning 12:30 am to about 1:00 am Rich observed a hot spot at around 40 yards on the opposite hill south of base camp. Ben Taylor and I joined Rich in trying to identify the cause of the hot spot not being able to identify the hot spot I lit the area up with a red light at which time we observed a large head thru the vegetation, hair could be seen and some detail of the face. I continued to follow the individual with the red light as it descended the opposite hill until it disappeared into the creek bed also the appeared to be another individual slightly taller than the first following using the vegetation as concealment to hide itself. 

Saturday afternoon around 4:30 pm Dusty Ruth witnesses a large black creature east of base camp moving thru a clearing in the trees finding only one member of the group missing Wesly Ruth. Ben Taylor and I used the side by side to find Wesly who was further up the trail and at which time I noticed that Wesly was wearing light color clothing. After returning to base camp, we decided to re-enact the sighting to determine the height which was determined as around 8 foot tall. 

Rest of the weekend was uneventful with some movement in the under growth around basecamp and some possible objects being thrown. Dusty Ruth and Richard Taylors report is included.                                                                                                                                                                                                  Richard Taylors report.

Throughout the evening of Friday, September 16, there were a number of incidents around our

campsite indicating activity in the area. These included possible prints being left on cars and small

objects being thrown into the camp. There were also several instances of what we believed to be

bipedal walking around the outskirts of the camp. Between 12:30 and 1:00 a.m., in response to sounds

that we heard around the camp, I (Rich) started a sweep of the area around the campsite using a

thermal imager. During this sweep, I was able to detect and unexplained heat signature on a hillside

across a low holler containing a creek. The location of the “hit” was close to, but just slightly higher

than, the altitude of the campsite. Ben and Tom joined Rich and repeatedly tried to determine what

was causing the hot spot but to no avail. At that point, Tom illuminated the area with a red light and all

three of us immediately saw the large head of a creature staring back at us. All of us were able to clearly

see hair covering the head as well as a prominent brow ridge. Ben, being at a slightly different angle,

was also able to see clearly that the head was not flat on top, but rather had a crest.

We observed the creature for approximately 3 – 5 minutes. During this period of time, we noted the

following:

 The creature’s head was very large . . . much larger than one would expect a human head to be.

 The creature was slowly moving as it observed us. It moved both side-to-side as well as up and

down.

 As Tom moved the red light to keep up with the creature’s movement, we notice that behind it

there appeared to be a second animal looking out from being a tree. It’s eyes very clearly

reflected the red light. It also moved as it would peep out from behind the tree and then retreat

behind it again. Throughout the whole time, however, the first creature remained visible in the

front.

 As the creature’s swaying movements became more pronounced, we believed that we were

about to lose our ability to see the creature. Because of this, we shined a very bright white

flashlight on the animal. At that point animal continued raise and lower its head one more time

before disappearing from view. We believe that the creature moved down the hill toward the

series of creeks in the holler which are thought to offer a convenient path of travel.

 As the animal lowered its head and was disappearing from view, the second one behind the tree

peeking at us was lit up by the white light. At that point it very clearly shut its eyes and fully

retreated behind the tree and was not seen again.

Tom, Ben and I later used a range finder to determine that the creature was approximately 35 - 38 yards

from us in distance. Ben then stood at one end of the campsite while Tom and I placed ourselves 37

yards from him. We then used the red and white lights to look at Ben and compared his size to what we

saw. It was immediately evident at that distance that the creature we saw was much larger than Ben.

Ben is slightly over 5’11”, but the creature’s head was at least 50% larger and would have filled no less

than 75% of the distance between the tips of Ben’s shoulders.

There were no additional sightings that night, though objects continued to be thrown into the camp and

very clear bipedal walking was heard on a few occasions. The next day Dusty had a brief daylight

sighting of a large, dark creature walking into the woods down the hill from the camp. There was

nothing significant to report during the second evening.

Dusty Ruth's report.

9/18/2022

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 The NKBRG conducted a research investigation May 19th -20th 2022, Things started out on a good note nice warm weather, we setup basecamp up on a pasture on a high hilltop in the open so we would have a 360 view, but things got ugly between eight and nine pm severe thunderstorms moved into the area High winds dangerous lighting hail some the size of golf balls and heavy rains at time coming down sideways We were committed at this point to wait the storm out under our canopies at which time one canopy was uplifted into the area and slammed to the ground we three held down the remaining canopy until the stormed passed. We now had a chance to relax so we thought but after checking the weather we had only hours to prepare since a more powerful line of severe storm was approaching anchoring the remaining canopy down with ratchet straps attached to our side by sides and placing the sides on the canopy. at 2 am the storm came thru as powerful as the earlier storm lucky we weathered the storm without any other damage. But before the storms we did manage to collect some evidence first is what the property owner had found and preserved for us it was a robin's nest that had been knocked out of a tree. what makes the nest evidence is that some of the nest is made out of different types of hair consisting of reddish black, brown and gray. I also found hair in a thicket of thorn bushes. and a possible print that had been comprised by the weather earlier in the week.

The morning of May 20th, 2022. Jan Ele did a sweep of the area to see if something may had come close to base camp after the early morning storm and see did after calling me to check it out now this is the first time, I have ever seen a footprint in fresh cow dung. Jan wanted to cast the said track I assisted Jan only by observing and explaining what she needed to do next which was very little. after the print cured the dirty job came next releasing and lifting the print from the cow dung the smell made both of us gag. the day was filled with rest for the coming night we couldn't place any audio out due to the sustained winds of 15 to 20 miles an hour but around 11:30 pm the winds was almost clam and I decided to place my audio recorder out but before I could I received a vocal from the north with a return vocal from the southeast after that rest of the night was still. The morning of the 21st we packed up early and departed with the afternoon forecast of severe weather we will be back at the area soon for another weekend with better weather.

 Now from time to time there comes a Bigfoot that stands out from them all. And we call them by all kind of names they have been seen throughout the entire state of Kentucky but there is one here in Trimble County Kentucky that stands out is the one we named Goliath and what makes him special is that witness's report that he stands eight to nine feet tall over 800 pounds with reddish brown hair and with massive shoulders like a Bigfoot on steroids. With reports of seeing the creature running or crossing a road as quick as possible with its large stride Hes been seen here in Trimble County several times in the woods by hunters, also by motorists late at night standing beside the road.  I also witness him as he walked up on me as I was casting his prints There are a couple of reports of him being seen in Carroll County and also Henry County Kentucky. I've had casted several of his foot and hand tracks and collected hair that may be from him. In late February to early June, he frequents the rivers and along streams in the lower valleys due to the flooding when a river or stream overflows its banks and recedes quickly leaving trapped fish that was unable to escape contained in small pools with no escape or in some cases laying exposed on the ground making for an easy food source. In late June depending on if there is a late frost and if the crops are planted early to about mid-October, he will frequent corn and soybean fields, farmers gardens and orchards during the winter months late October to early February its possible he frequents local farms and helps himself to feed that's meant for livestock since during these months there's a rash of feed that comes up missing and maybe hunting local wildlife such as deer also. Goliath covers a 90 square mile area but he's spending quite a lot of time on the western part of the county mainly because of the many caves that dot the area and abandon buildings deep in the countryside.

 As you know on September 25, 2021 at 4:37 pm. I was contacted regarding two  Chewbacca type vocalizations coming from the woods on his property. This is not surprising since the area is my research area and the area is quite active. The next day the property owner and I conducted a search of the area for any evidence on our way back to the area where our basecamp is there was a fallen tree blocking our way. Upon examining the tree we noticed that it was dragged an wedged against two saplings.

 On July 16th 2021, The NKBRG was invited by the Bonpas Booger Research Organization based out of southern Illinois to take part in an investigation of possible bigfoot activity.  Friday our investigation was put on hold due to heavy rain, around 5:30 pm we were able to place four LDR's  on all 4 points of the property and we also placed a jar of  peanut butter and a jar of Nutella which was secured to saplings with industrial tape. We also placed 3 squeaky toys tied with string hanging from tree limbs. thru out the first night and early Saturday morning we received several knocks and whistles and a couple of growls and one squeak from one of the toys. Also several trees sounded like they where pushed over during this time. The next day we located the fallen trees--two were large limbs that where rain soaked became heavy and fell making the loud noises, but one long piece of dead fall had been on the ground for an extended amount of time except this one piece was moved and broken up. The next day was filled with investigating the area and preparing for the evening. We also hiked the ridge opposite of the house where we found several twist around 100 to 150 yards apart circling the ridge.

Saturday night started out slow early in the evening we had a couple of knocks and thing became quiet until 2AM Sunday morning while sitting on the back deck on the back of the house, twelve feet above the ground and sloping down hill into a small valley.  Rich Taylor and I got a hint of a foul smell which was like wet and sour garbage. Then a few minutes later something snapped like a large twig or limb. I immediately stood up looking down into the darkness and there were two eyes glowing dark red. This was not eyeshine because where this thing stood there was no light for the eyes to reflect. It stood there for a few minutes then I called out and pointed to where this thing stood. Keith Loftin was also witness the glowing eyes as well as Rich and Ben Taylor, who got a brief look at the eyes. It appeared to turn and drop to the ground and moved into the foliage. Another member of the team used his night vision and caught the figure. The huge figure was low to the ground then suddenly it stood up then it vanished into the foliage. The rest of the night was quiet and zero activity. We will return and continue with another investigation. In all the thirty plus years of investigations this is the first time I have witness eyes that glowed and there was no light source.  This actually shook me. It appeared as if  a demon was watching us. I only hope that this will happen again for research purposes. 

 On Friday March 26 2021 at approximately 05:57 am. A 8 to 8 1/2 foot grayish almost silver Sasquatch crossed state road 1226 in Trimble county KY. The creature sauntered crossed the road showing no fear of our presences. At first glance I believed it to be a deer as it came upon the road and as I continued closer it stepped on the road and I then realized that this was no deer. I watched it as it disappeared into the darkness not even looking back at me. I wasn't able to investigate for starters my wife dialysis treatment took precedence and after her treatment we was on a schedule to meet with friends in Illinois. If I had investigated it would be pointless as to the property's on both side of the road was private property and I didn't have permission. currently I'm in the process of contacting the property owners for permission to investigate.

 Our research expedition of the weekend September 11th -13th was to be a two night three day event but due to inclement weather moving in on the evening of September 12th. 

The day of September 11th was busy setting up basecamp and deploying equipment we did hear two knocks early in the evening but nothing conclusive it wasn't till around eleven pm that evening an incident occurred which I will not describe due to the information will jeopardize the location of the site.

Myself, Keith Loftin and the property owner headed up the trail to investigated the incident it was about a hundred yards up the trail when I heard a low growl at which time I began scan the area in front of me with a green light the low beam of light came upon a large bipedal creature at 60 feet at which time I called out there it is,  the property owner hit it the creature with a high lumens beam flashlight the creature run off up the hill. We was able to get a height by the vegetation in close proximity, we wasn't able to get a color due to the property owners high lumens flash light giving it a ashen gray look. following was out of the question due to the terrain being to rough to navigate in the dark. we then made our way back to base camp. the property owner was so shook up. nothing else occurred rest of the night. we stayed until 3pm Saturday afternoon at which time we packed up and exited the area with the rain coming in. we will be back at the site soon.        

    The E.M.F. pump in theory, suggest that certain energy would allow us to communicate and have sprits manifest. NO we are not going to prove bigfoot is a paranormal entity or if a portal will appear. The E.M.F. pump creates a low magnetic field in varying pulses and frequencies.

What we are looking for is how these E.M.F. Pulses and frequencies will effect Bigfoot activity in an area. Most animals in general, can see / hear/ sense things humans can not. There has been promising research done with infrasound today and in the past. raising the question that perhaps E.M.F. pluses and frequencies might yield results, perhaps leading to interaction with the creature.

It would be exciting to see if this generates any kind of Sasquatch activity. This research will have to be conducted several times in order to produce significant conclusions because we all know that if it isn't repeatable, it isn't science, its just an anomaly.