A Bigfoot researcher has shared incredible new audio of what he believes are sounds made by the mysterious beast as it wanders through the Kentucky woods.
For more than three decades, Florida native Charlie Raymond, 57, has meticulously documented nearly 700 sightings of these elusive creatures in his new home state of Kentucky. He went on to establish the Kentucky Bigfoot Research Organization after college and the calls have increased since then.
Speaking exclusively to DailyMail.com, he said: “Sometimes I would spend two hours on the phone and people would thank me for listening to them, because their own families didn’t believe them,” he said. and “That’s when I realized there was something to this.”
While Raymond predominantly focuses on analyzing other people’s reports of Bigfoot, 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 scream can be heard that Raymond says is identical to famous recordings captured by researcher Ron Moorehead in the Sierra Nevada mountains.
‘It is an exact coincidence and not human. “These screams occur almost 50 years apart and more than 4,000 miles apart,” he said.
Charlie Raymond, 57, a dedicated Bigfoot researcher, has spent more than three decades researching these elusive creatures in Kentucky.
Fueled by childhood fascination and inspired by the Patterson-Gimlin film, Raymond has meticulously documented nearly 700 credible sightings.
Raymond said he has been fascinated by Bigfoot since he was a child, fueled by bedtime stories about Skunk Ape and the iconic Patterson-Gimlin film, and now that has morphed into a decades-long career.
He said the biggest challenge in reviewing the numerous eyewitness accounts is distinguishing between real sightings and false identifications, as well as verifying the credibility of witnesses.
He described how he uses several techniques to eliminate false reports, including verifying that the report is consistent with his initial email or call, looking at the area’s sighting history and comparing the details with other witnesses’ descriptions.
“If I have doubts, I dismiss them,” he said. “As a researcher, being associated with deception or liars is a death sentence, so I am very cautious if 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 like 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-like.”
Verified footprints, hair samples, and footprints that have been collected over the years provide compelling evidence supporting the existence of Bigfoot.
In fact, casts of Bigfoot footprints made by Tom Shea in northern Kentucky have been verified by experts such as Dr. Jeff Meldruma leading scholar in the search for Bigfoot at Idaho State University.
However, the lack of a definitive DNA comparison is a sticking point.
‘We don’t have a body and the world is not going to accept this until we have a body. And I don’t want to kill any of them,’ he said.
Pictured: The research site in Kentucky where Raymond captured a vocalization recording in 2013.
Raymond’s system of collating consistent witness reports and tracking clusters of sightings on Google Maps has led him to expeditions deep into the forest.
Based on his research, he paints a picture of Bigfoot standing between 7 and 8 feet tall, with a broad build, long arms, a hooded nose, and a prominent eyebrow.
He claimed that they communicate through tree banging, whistling, clapping, mouth clicking and shouting, which he claimed to have recorded himself.
‘They are not knocking on our door. They are hitting each other. “Sometimes we’re just in the right place at the right time,” he said.
Raymond said he believes he has deciphered some of the knocking patterns used by Bigfoot, suggesting they serve as signals to alert other Bigfoot of human presence.
“A hard hit, we call it a ‘home run hit.'” “It appears to be a warning that people are present in the area and everything becomes quiet,” Raymond said.
‘Ten quick knocks, like very quick knocks that I call relief knocks like ‘come quick, I need help.’
“I think a short, straight-line whistle, where one Bigfoot whistles on one side of the trails and another whistles on the other side, is them alerting each other that humans are present, as if to say ‘stay low and shut up.'” . ‘
Despite attempts to decode Bigfoot language, Raymond said their communication methods are largely unpredictable.
‘I still don’t know what the three knocks mean. I received three hits. I took a hit, did it again and got them back again. It is difficult to achieve coherence,” he said.
Unlike primates, he said he believes Bigfoot exhibits greater intelligence, hinting at a closer connection to humans.
“I tell people, if this were a gorilla, we would have it in a cage by now,” he said.
Raymond also notes regional variations in Bigfoot’s temperament. “While some reports describe aggressive behavior, Kentucky’s Bigfoot population appears generally friendly,” he said.
He shared the story of ‘Howdy,’ a Kentucky Bigfoot known for waving, which he said was possibly a behavior learned from human interaction.
“Hello was seen in the ’60s, came out of the tree line and raised his arm as if to wave, as if to say, ‘Hello,'” he said.
The behavior of raising one arm as if in salute has been observed by several people, including two teenagers who had no prior knowledge of Bigfoot or Howdy in 2011.
In another case, a boy told Raymond that he saw a wave of Bigfoot while camping with his father in Illinois, suggesting that this behavior is not learned from folklore or local 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 behaviors for decades. And we believe that Howdy, because of the behavioral descriptions, stays in those two counties in Kentucky.
“We find nests that are large, usually pine needle impressions, usually hidden under some trees or under some, but they don’t stay long.”
Raymond’s passion for Bigfoot extends beyond data collection to personal encounters.
A chilling experience occurred during a hike with a landowner in Kentucky, where he claimed they received clear answers during a tree-tapping experiment.
His friend noted that the response originated further down the ravine, suggesting that a possible Bigfoot was following them.
“I find it hard to believe that a random person would be in the woods and in the freezing rain following us and deciding to hit us,” he said.
Another encounter involved a fallen tree after someone attempted to communicate with Bigfoot, highlighting its territorial nature.
Pictured: The broken tree that fell in front of Raymond’s research group.
‘A team member heard growling, so he responded with a deep, menacing growl. Immediately, a tree fell right in front of us,” Raymond said. “Yes, trees fall, but there was no wind that night.”
“We went and found the tree the next day, and it was green, which means it was alive.”
For aspiring Bigfoot researchers, Raymond suggested thermal imaging cameras and highly sensitive audio equipment. He made a point of acting naturally, like a casual camper, to avoid scaring them.
‘They want to watch us. We are your television. We are in his living room. We are their entertainment,” Raymond said. ‘As long as we go out, we won’t be a threat. We play music, we cook, we camp, they will come watch us.
‘Then we will try hitting, shouting, whistling and things like that to communicate with them. But you can’t go out with camouflage, flashlights and weapons. They know what hunters do and they will leave.
But of all the forested areas in North America, why would Big Foot settle in Kentucky?
‘You need two things to have a sighting. “You need a Bigfoot and a witness,” he said. ‘In Kentucky we live in their backyards. We live with them, side by side, in these hills and hollers, so we tend to get a lot of reports.’
Ultimately, Raymond said he believes Bigfoot’s intelligence and adaptability are key to his elusiveness.
Raymond emphasizes acting naturally, like a casual camper, when looking for Bigfoot to avoid scaring them.
“They’ve adapted for thousands of years to elude us, to evade us, and they have much better senses than we do,” he said.
However, despite three decades of dedication, Raymond has yet to see a Bigfoot, although this has in no way diminished his passion for research.
“That’s what excites me, is adding all these things together, and that’s why I’m a believer, not a connoisseur,” he said. “It’s all speculation based on years of experience I’ve accumulated.”