A Bigfoot researcher has shared incredible new audio of what he believes are sounds made by the mysterious beast as it roams the woods in Kentucky.
For more than thirty years, Florida native Charlie Raymond, 57, has painstakingly documented nearly 700 sightings of the elusive creatures in his new home state of Kentucky. He went on to found the Kentucky Bigfoot Research Organization after my studies and since then the calls have been pouring in.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, he said: ‘Sometimes I would spend two hours on the phone with people thanking me for listening because their own families didn’t believe them,’ he said. and ‘Then I realized something is going on.’
While Raymond focuses primarily on analyzing the Bigfoot reports of others, he has also collected his own recordings of mysterious sounds in the woods near where he lives in Pine Ridge.
In one clip, a loud screeching sound can be heard, which Raymond says is identical to known recordings made by researcher Ron Moorehead in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
‘It’s an exact match and not human. These whoops are almost 50 years apart and more than 4,000 miles away,” he said.
Charlie Raymond, 57, a dedicated Bigfoot researcher, has spent more than three decades researching these elusive creatures in Kentucky
Driven by childhood fascination and inspired by the Patterson-Gimlin film, Raymond has meticulously documented nearly 700 credible sightings
Raymond said he has been fascinated with Bigfoot since childhood, fueled by bedtime stories of the Skunk Ape and the iconic Patterson-Gimlin film – and now that has transformed into a decades-long career.
He said the biggest challenge in assessing the numerous eyewitness accounts is distinguishing between true sightings and false identifications, as well as verifying the credibility of the witnesses.
He described how he uses several techniques to eliminate bogus reports, including checking whether the report is consistent with their initial email or phone call, reviewing the history of sightings in the area and comparing the details with other witness descriptions.
“If I have any doubts, I throw it out,” he said. “As an investigative researcher, it is a death sentence to be associated with hoaxes or liars, so I am very cautious when I suspect it is not true,” Raymond said.
He also explained how he uses open-ended questions to gather detailed descriptions from witnesses, focusing on physical characteristics.
Specific physical details such as a flat face and broad shoulders help rule out bears or other wildlife, he said. The description that most intrigues Raymond is when a witness describes seeing something ‘human’.
Verified footprints, hair samples and tracks collected over the years provide compelling evidence supporting Bigfoot’s existence.
Casts of Bigfoot songs created by Tom Shea in Northern Kentucky have even been verified by experts like Dr. Jeff Meldruma leading academic in the search for Bigfoot at Idaho State University.
However, the lack of a definitive DNA comparison is a sticking point.
“We have no body and the world will not accept this until we have a body. And I don’t want to kill one of them,” he said.
In the photo: the research site in Kentucky where Raymond made a vocalization recording in 2013
Raymond’s system of cross-referencing consistent witness reports and tracking clusters of sightings on Google Maps has taken him on expeditions deep into the woods.
Based on his research, he paints a picture of Bigfoot measuring 8 to 8 feet tall with a broad build, long arms, a hooded nose and a prominent forehead.
He claimed they communicate through boom bumps, whistles, hand claps, mouth pops and whoops, claiming he recorded himself.
‘They don’t knock on our door. They knock against each other. Sometimes we’re just in the right place at the right time,” he said.
Raymond said he thinks he has deciphered some of the knocking patterns used by Bigfoot, suggesting they serve as signals to warn other Bigfoot of human presence.
‘One loud knock, we call that a ‘home run knock’. It seems like a warning that there are people around and everything becomes quiet,” Raymond said.
“Ten quick knocks, like really fast quick knocks, I call emergency knocks like ‘come quick, I need help.’
“I believe it’s a short, straight whistle, with one Bigfoot whistling on one side of the trails and the other whistling on the other side. They thus warn each other that people are present, as if saying: ‘stay down and be quiet.’ ‘
Despite efforts to decode Bigfoot language, Raymond said their communication methods are largely unpredictable.
‘I still don’t know what the three knocks mean. I got three strokes back. I got one hit back, and I did it again and got them back again. It is difficult to achieve consistency,” he said.
Unlike primates, he believes Bigfoot exhibits higher intelligence, indicating a closer bond with humans.
“I tell people if this was a gorilla, we’d have it in a cage right now,” he said.
Raymond also observes regional differences in Bigfoot temperament. “While some reports show aggressive behavior, Kentucky’s Bigfoot population appears generally friendly,” he claimed.
He shared the story of “Howdy,” a Kentucky Bigfoot known for waving, which he said may have been a learned behavior through human interaction.
“Howdy was seen in the 1960s, and he walked out of the tree line and raised his arm as if to wave, as if to say how, ‘howdy,’” he said.
The behavior of raising your arm as if waving has been observed by several people, including two teenagers in 2011 who had no prior knowledge of Bigfoot or Howdy.
In another case, a young boy told Raymond that he had seen a Bigfoot wave while camping with his Illinois father, suggesting that this behavior was not learned from local folklore or stories.
However, Raymond said he doesn’t believe it’s the same sasquatch.
“They don’t migrate,” Raymond said. ‘From my data we see the same physical descriptions, the same behavior over decades. And we believe that, because of the behavioral descriptions, Howdy will remain in those few counties in Kentucky.
“We do find large nests, usually pine needles, impressions, usually tucked under some trees or some down, but they don’t last long.”
Raymond’s passion for Bigfoot extends beyond data collection to personal encounters.
A chilling experience occurred while walking with a landowner in Kentucky, where he claimed they had distinct responses during a tree tapping experiment.
His friend noticed the reaction coming from further down the ravine, indicating a possible Bigfoot was following them.
“I find it hard to believe that some random person was out there in the woods and freezing rain was following us and decided to knock back at us,” he said.
Another encounter involved a fallen tree after someone tried to communicate with the Bigfoot, highlighting their territorial nature.
In the photo: the broken tree that fell in front of Raymond’s research group
‘One team member heard a growl and responded with a deep, menacing growl. Immediately a tree fell right in front of us,” said Raymond. “Yes, trees are falling, but there was no wind that night.”
“We went looking for the tree the next day, and it was green, which meant it was alive.”
For aspiring Bigfoot researchers, Raymond suggested thermal imaging cameras and high-sensitivity audio equipment. He emphasized natural behavior, like a regular camper, to avoid scaring them off.
‘They want to keep an eye on us. We are their television. We are in their living room. We are their entertainment,” Raymond said. “As long as we go out, we’re not threatening. We play music, we cook food, we camp, they come and observe us.
“Then we’ll try to communicate with them with the taps and whoops and whistles and stuff. But you can’t go out with camouflage, flashlights and guns. They know what fighters are doing and they will take off.”
But of all the forested areas in North America, why would Big Foot settle in Kentucky?
‘An observation requires two things. It takes a Bigfoot and it takes a witness,” he said. “In Kentucky, we live in their backyards. We live near them, side by side, in these hills and hills, so we tend to get a lot of reports.”
Ultimately, Raymond said he believes Bigfoot’s intelligence and adaptability are the key to their elusiveness.
Raymond emphasizes that he must act naturally, like a regular camper, when looking for Bigfoot, to avoid scaring them off
“They have adapted over thousands of years to avoid us, and they have much better senses than we do,” he said.
However, despite three decades of dedicated pursuit, Raymond has yet to see a Bigfoot – although this has in no way diminished his passion for the research.
“That’s what excites me, adding all these things up, and that’s why I’m a believer and not a knower,” he said. “It’s all speculation, based on years of experience I’ve gathered.”
