10 People Called Police to Report Bigfoot Sighting in Ohio (cnn.com)
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- News link: https://idle.slashdot.org/story/26/05/09/0351243/10-people-called-police-to-report-bigfoot-sighting-in-ohio
- Source link: https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/us/bigfoot-sightings-ohio
> "And it stopped just as quickly as it started," says Jeremiah Byron, host of the Bigfoot Society Podcast, which collected and mapped the reports .... Byron doesn't take every [2]report at face value, making sure he talks to people directly before publicizing their claims. Once word got out about the reports in Ohio, so did the obvious fakes. "I started to get a lot of AI-generated reports in my email. It got up to the point where I was probably getting about 1,000 emails a day," he says. But when Byron spoke by phone with people who made the initial reports, they convinced him they weren't making anything up. "It was obvious they weren't just wanting to get their name out there," says Byron. "They were just freaked out by what they experienced, and they didn't want anything else to do with it."
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> [...] Local law enforcement in Ohio also seem to be enjoying the publicity. Portage County Sheriff Bruce D. Zuchowski made a series of [3]gag [4]posts purporting to show the arrest of Bigfoot and his detention by Immigration and Customs Enforcement, only for the creature to escape from custody at the Canadian border...
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> Despite the levity, the sheriff's office really did get some calls from concerned residents, Zuchowski says. "Ten individual people were like, 'Yeah I was walking my dog at 4 a.m. and I saw this hairy figure and I smelled this musty odor and there was this big thing and all of a sudden it ran,'" the sheriff [5]told CNN affiliate WOIO in March.
[1] https://www.cnn.com/2026/05/08/us/bigfoot-sightings-ohio
[2] https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/31/us/alleged-bigfoot-sighting-kentucky-national-park
[3] https://www.facebook.com/PortageCountySheriff.OH/posts/pfbid0CpjAjp2PjnJ7mwZMSi6EAXFaZknUj3u8NexexeLZ2Bo7PzHU9auSV6otmUGEZSUYl
[4] https://www.facebook.com/PortageCountySheriff.OH/posts/pfbid02RH9mxULVK5oazzjob3CZPaxLnxnCX3K4xQAf3h2S1Rk5XGkVV83rKD3SZsMbdtNgl
[5] https://www.cleveland19.com/2026/03/12/portage-county-neighbors-have-an-eye-out-big-foot-following-flurry-social-media-claims/
Psychosis or some nudist (Score:2)
There was a rash of Bigfoot reports in Michigan in the 1970s. Turns out it was a group of streakers from a local hippie commune. This stuff happens.
Police (Score:2)
Better hope someone other than the police find him first. If he doesn't present ID despite doing no crime he likely get beat to death.
probably someone in a gorilla suit (Score:2)
Or it is Chewbacca parked his spaceship to get a burger & fries at the local DairyQueen
Re: (Score:2)
Don't underestimate the number of Chewbacca cosplayers there are out there. I know a few.
Statistical annomaly (Score:2)
Or fake. The number "10" is highly suspicious in this context.
Your not thinking in Binary. (Score:2)
Now it's just a couple.
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>> The number "10" is highly suspicious in this context.
> Now it's just a couple.
Ah, binary.
So 10 people (Score:2)
all shared the same batch of mushrooms!
You guys need to level up! (Score:3)
We are now in the robot age and simple 'Bigfoot' don't cut it anymore - we are not entertained - bring us Bionic Bigfoot or go home [1]https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]
Bionics also appeals to logic. Why have no bigfoot fossils ever been found? Bionics explains that easily, they never break down or get scavenged for parts by the other bigfoots.
[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O58g5JasjkM
And not one of them ... (Score:5, Insightful)
had a phone with a camera?
Re: (Score:2)
XKCD did a comic once where he charted sightings vs the growth of phonecams being carried by millions of people. We should be flooded with evidence by now.
A lot of Americans... (Score:2)
Are regressing back to superstition and pseudo-science. Bigfoot doesn't exist.
Wild man (Score:2)
In Germany there is the notion of the "wilder Mann", the wild man, also related to the wild hunt that transitions the souls to Valhalla.
I think big foot is just a hairy wild man.
the US can't be more of a joke (Score:2)
Aliens, UFOs, Bigfoot sightings are all distractions from either the Epstein files or the Iran war
Slow news day at CNN (Score:3)
I would say I expect more from CNN but who are we kidding. They'll publish anything that might get them clicks. No different then Fox or NBC.
Wow, quite the drama. (Score:2)
Did they get drunk in the same bar, too?
Re:Wow, quite the drama. (Score:4, Informative)
There's a reasonably good correlation between bigfoot sightings and bears being present. So don't just dismiss it as hallucinations, but consider misidentification.
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I was born and lived most of my life in Ohio. I can tell you, there are definitely men (and women) in Ohio that if placed in the woods at 4AM, would be misidentified as Bigfoot in a heart beat, smell and all.
Re: (Score:2)
I'd assume that people who live where bears appear regularly would know them.
I live in a city and I've only seen bears once or twice in the wild, never looked like a legendary monster.
I've also started a few pranks that ended their own newspaper article over drinks in a bar.
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> I live in a city and I've only seen bears once or twice in the wild, never looked like a legendary monster.
Most bigfoot sightings are bears with mange. They lose a bunch of weight and walk on their hind legs. Look up some images of bears with mange and you'll see that 1) it's an extremely sad sight and 2) they look like bigfoot.
Mange also explains the smell.