A look back at last year’s Sasquatch sightings; Bigfoot Basecamp Weekend’ coming to Pleasant Hill Lake Park; Remembering Robin Gay Rose
Sasquatch searchers beware: ‘Bigfoot Basecamp Weekend’ coming to Pleasant Hill Lake Park:
Second possible sasquatch sighting reported in Ashland County:
Bigfoot? Woman reports sasquatch encounter outside gym in Ashland:
A look back at the two Sasquatch sightings in Ashland county that happened last summer, and how they’ve inspired a new, all-things-Sasquatch festival.
On April 24th 2021 a 20-year-old woman walked out of the Warehouse 24-Hour Gym around midnight. She turned to the right and headed to her car in the well-lit parking lot. But apparently, she was not alone. She heard a twig snap and looked to see a creature, seven or eight feet tall and covered in gray fur, racing back into the woods about 30 yards away.
It was far too large, likely several hundred pounds, and moved too quickly to be a man. Shaken and in tears, she called her parents from a nearby restaurant, asking them to come and drive her home. She had likely encountered a sasquatch. At least according to nationally acclaimed Big Foot investigator Matthew Moneymaker. Moneymaker. You might know him already from the TV show, “Finding Bigfoot.”
Moneymaker, who founded the Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization in 1995, spoke to the Ashland woman after her encounter and quickly afterwards he posted Report #69065 on his website. He was already familiar with the area, and used maps to examine the surrounding area. Moneymaker later explained that the recent economic development on the eastern edge of the Ashland Community has likely encroached on areas that sasquatch have frequented — previously unseen.
In his report, the Bigfoot guru suggested those interested check the swampy zone directly north of the sighting. This marked the sixth sasquatch sighting in Ashland County, dating back to 1943 when a man recalled being picked up by a Bigfoot as a child. And the county’s seventh sasquatch sighting was not far behind. On June 9th 2021 – just months later, a man with more than two decades of work in law enforcement said he saw something that he couldn’t easily explain.
Here’s how he described it…
After a 90-minute summer afternoon rain, the man was aboard his riding lawn mower when he saw something near the tree line next to a recently planted soybean field, perhaps 250 yards away. A large, all-black figure, walking upright, emerged from the tree line, walking diagonally in a northeast direction, across the bean field, and then disappearing into another wooded area.
Stunned, the man stopped his mower and just watched. He had no way to record what he was seeing. Then, the dark figure crossed the field in about 90 seconds without any trouble, disappearing into chest-high weeds and then into the tree line.
He watched for several minutes to see if the figure would re-emerge, but it never did. The man initially wondered if it was a neighbor checking a nearby trail cam. Or perhaps a mushroom hunter. But subsequent checks with his neighbors found out neither was the case.
And four days after the sighting, the man tried to re-enact the moment, using the services of his 5-11, 235-pound teenage son. That’s when he realized the dark figure he saw initially was larger than his son. Once again, the sighting didn’t surprise Moneymaker, who reported this sighting on his website as well. And these sightings have even spurred a new local festival – on all-things-Sasquatch.
It’s coming to Pleasant Hill Lake Park in September. Keep listening for more details.
Guardians TV announcer is a former Ashland Arrow
Next, some local history. Did you know that Ashland native, Matt Underwood, is currently the television play-by-play announcer for the Cleveland Guardians?
Prior to joining the Indians broadcast team on a full-time basis in 2000, Underwood spent 10 years at WEWS-TV 5 in Cleveland.
Growing up in Ashland, he played all sorts of sports including baseball, football, track, and wrestling. His senior year, he was named starting quarterback and co-captain and graduated as the Arrows all-time leader in completion percentage.
After two injury-filled years at Baldwin-Wallace college, he turned his attention to broadcasting. He joined the Ashland County Sports Hall of Fame in 2010.
Sasquatch festival coming to Pleasant Hill
Next, An inaugural all-things-Sasquatch festival is coming to Pleasant Hill Lake Park in September.
The Muskingum Watershed Conservancy District has organized an event dubbed “Bigfoot Basecamp Weekend” featuring a VIP dinner and town hall event with a bonafide Bigfoot expert, a guided Bigfoot hike, an outdoor movie night and other activities.
It’s happening on Sept. 9th through the 11th.
And the weekend’s star is the one and only Matt Moneymaker! Moneymaker will probably speak about his own encounter with sasquatch, the sightings in Ohio.
After all, Ohio ranks fifth in the United States with more than 300 sightings, according to his website.
Robin Gay Rose
Finally, we’d like to take a moment to remember Robin Gay Rose. Robin was born in Mansfield in 1962. She retired from the Seminole County School system and had been living in Florida for the past 22 years.
She was an avid reader, a devout Christian, and a loving wife. She adored her family and always enjoyed being in the company of her nieces and nephews. Robin is survived by a sister, brother, in-laws, as well as nine nieces and nephews.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Russel, and brother.
