Bigfoot tried to grab boy off four-wheeler, now an adult, man still get nightmares

Thomas from The Crypto Hunters on Facebook told me a story about a group of boys in the 1980's four-wheeling near the Hutch & Colmar area of Bell County Kentucky. According to Thomas, the day was supposed to be a normal day of fun for them. "...Teenage boys were doing their normal thing for around here, teaming up and going 4 wheeler riding on the old strip mine roads and logging road. This is a normal thing around here and a fun thing to do on weekends," said Thomas.

This all changed after their encounter with a creature that terrified them so much, they can't hardly talk about it, even to this day. Thomas tells me one of the boys (now an adult) still breaks down in tears crying when he recalls the event.

Bell County Bigfoot, the close encounter AKA the story of Caleb

This is a story told to me by a good friend that i go to church with,I 100 percent know this is a true story.

I'll do my best to tell it best i can but as you read it, it will become clear why some of the facts are hard to find and get to.

I have spoken to my friend a few times about this at great length and the event is totally amazing to say the least.

This took place in the 1980's (best i know) in and around the Hutch & Colmar area of bell county Kentucky. This area has had many Bigfoot encounters/stories over the last 50 years.

Well as the story goes several teenage boys were doing their normal thing for around here,teaming up and going 4 wheeler riding on the old strip mine roads and logging road. This is a normal thing around here and a fun thing to do on weekends.

Some of the 4 wheelers had 2 boys per 4 wheeler..in total there were around 5-8 people in this riding party,maybe a few more or less. Well, as they are going up on of the strip mine roads they see what they at first think is a big stump on a ridge but as they get closer the stump is moving. The road they were on went towards this big thing, as they got closer it starting coming toward them and of course they hit the gas on the 4 wheelers and tried to hurry past the massive creature.

At this point the Bigfoot really starts chasing the four wheelers,the bigfoot cuts down the ridge to try and cut the boys off, the first few riders make it past the area where the bigfoot is coming to, but my friends brother who is on the back of a four wheeler with two people on it are at the end of the riding group line, well this bigfoot makes its to the cut off point at almost the same times as the last four wheeler with the 2 boys on it.

The bigfoot makes a grab for the boy on the back of the four wheeler,this is my friends brother,it either grabs him slightly or the four wheeler (not sure on this but one or the other) and almost rippes him off the four wheeler,but due to the speed they rip loose from the bigfoot.

Of course these boy are scared almost to death about this and now all these years later it is very hard to get them to even speak about it.I talked to my friend about maybe getting his brother to tell me even more details but he said he can't hardly talk about it without breaking down and crying as it was so terrorifing.

The other boys are also like this,they can't talk in great detail as it really bothers them to this day.

The Crypto Hunters say:
This is a truly amazing story and their is no way it is a made up story. This is coming from people i have known and went to school with many years of my life,even now we still are in church together sometimes.

Some Facts

• This took place in the Hutch & Colmer area of bell county, kentucky.
• There is a good water supply to support a bigfoot creature thanks to the Cranes creek river and many old strip mine ponds.
• There is a ample source of food for Elk,deers and bears,so it should be enough to support a bigfoot as well.
• Heavily wooded areas for easy hiding of a bigfoot creature.
• Several reports of bigfoot in and around this area dating back to the 50's.
• This event was seen by 5-8 people. (update: 6 boys total)
• Best as i know this story has never been told to any media people,nor the local newspaper or ever reported to any bigfoot researchers until now.

Other facts

Somehow over time,even before this event, this bigfoot was given a name and it is commonly call Caleb and some times Ol' Caleb.

I've heard people say "them boys seen Ol Caleb" so this means this is a known creature by some folks and there is a history of it.

Thanks to my friend and his family for sharing this amazing story with me.

Map

This is a google map of the Colmer and Hutch area of bell county Kentucky.

Colmer & Hutch,KY

UPDATE :

ok, I got to talk to my friend last night and i now know how many boys was in this 4 wheeling party.
There was a total of 6 boys  and the party have 3 four wheelers ..so 2 boys per 4 wheeler.All these boys still live around here as far as i know but it's hard to get them to talk about it.

Just recently another brother of my friends was deer scouting in this same area and found some very large tracks in the snow , it was around where he had  some corn out to bait deer...not sure if this was a bigfoot or not. I plan on taking a trip to this area in the next few months to look for some sign of bigfoot and my friend has agreed to take me to the known area of the sightings.