Tonight's Rhode Island Episode of Finding Bigfoot Featuring Bill Penning's Footprints of Bigfoot and Bigfoot Swinging From Tree Video

SENTINEL & ENTERPRISE / CONNOR GLEASON Bill and Julie Penning discuss finding what they believe to be a footprint of Bigfoot in the Leominster State Forrest in 2010.


In tonight's "BIG RHODEY" episode of Finding Bigfoot, the team will be investigating Bigfoot sightings in the small state of Rhode Island. The Animal Planet's website has an amateur video from Rhode Island purportedly showing "a Bigfoot swinging from a tree". Another investigation will focus on Bill Penning and the footprints he found in the Leominster State Forest. According to the Finding Bigfoot episode guide, this unexplored area has a wealth of sasquatch activity and they hope to prove that this small state is hiding Bigfoots.

Amateur video shot in East Greenwhich, Rhode Island. Is there a bigfoot swinging from a tree as the car drives by?

Here's Bill Penning's story via www.sentinelandenterprise.com:

LEOMINSTER -- After a close encounter on a sultry summer day in June 2010, Bill and Julie Penning are believers in one of the most mythical creatures of North America.

"I believe I found footprints of Bigfoot," Bill Penning said Friday.

Julie Penning is willing to debunk the Bigfoot legend, but she's found no credible evidence to disprove what she and her husband found in the Leominster State Forest.

"If somebody can scientifically tell me what it is, I'll listen," Julie Penning said.

The rest of the country will get to hear their tale on Animal Planet's "Finding Bigfoot" television show tonight at 10.

"I'm a little nervous about it," Julie Penning said. "I haven't told anyone at work."

With the help of their friend Ronny Le Blanc, they took a plaster casting of what they believe is a Bigfoot's footprint.
Julie Penning is a special education teacher at the Florence Sawyer School in Bolton, and Bill Penning is a facilities manager for Progress Software in Bedford.

In a city where the area around Jungle Road and Route 117 was once known as Monsterland and parents would scare their misbehaving children with stories of creatures walking on their hind legs in the woods, the thought of a Bigfoot roaming around at least fits, the couple said.

They each had the day off on June 27, 2010, and decided to a hike through the Leominster State Forest even though temperatures were soaring into the upper 90s because they figured it would be cooler than lying on the beach.

"We're not out there looking for anything weird, we're just hiking," Bill Penning said.

He is an outdoorsman who hunts and rides four-wheelers but the couple took a wrong path in the woods as they walked toward Notown Reservoir.

Suddenly there was a loud crashing of something going through the nearby underbrush.

"I assumed we spooked a deer and it would jump out in front of us," Bill Penning said.

But nothing came out on the trail and the couple kept going until reaching the power lines where they realized the underbrush blocked their way to the reservoir.

They sat down for lunch before doubling back.

When they reached the point at which they heard the noise earlier, there were large tracks of bare feet coming in and out of the brush line along with deer prints.

Neither set of prints had been there an hour earlier when they passed.

"They were so deep and so far apart it was shocking," Bill Penning said of the footprints. "Who would be up there randomly on a Tuesday afternoon running barefoot?"

It appeared whatever made the prints weighed several hundred pounds with strides were about 6 1/2 feet long.

"Right where the footprints ended, the deer prints ended so we figured he scooped it up," Bill Penning said.

The couple got so unnerved by the oddity of the sighting that Bill Penning picked up a rock for protection.

As they studied the tracks, the couple had the sense of being watched and left.

Bill Penning's brother Kevin introduced them to Bigfoot believer Ronny Le Blanc about 10 days later.

Le Blanc has been interested in Bigfoot since he was a child reading about unexplained mysteries at Leominster Public Library.

"I've always been fascinated (but) never in my wildest dreams, with Monsterland in my backyard, did I imagine," he said.

The three of them decided to go back to the area of the sighting to take pictures and get a plaster molding.

"Sure enough, the footprints are still there," Bill Penning said.

Within minutes young people on four-wheelers came by and would have torn up the prints if the small expedition were not there to protect them.

They mixed the plaster too thin so rather than waiting for it to set, they dug up the ground around the print and took the dirt and drying plaster home.

The print is not only about 11 inches long but is nearly six inches wide.

"And this thing is a good 2 1/2 inches deep," Le Blanc said.

Rather than being a static footprint, the print indicates whoever or whatever made it was pushing off as if in motion, Bill Penning said.

The print would indicate the Bigfoot is a female or adolescent.

Bigfoot researchers believe female prints are 10-14 inches and grown males are 17-19 inches, Bill Penning said.

He and Le Blanc took the casting to a town hall meeting of Bigfoot enthusiasts in Covington, R.I. that was arranged by Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization which is featured on the Animal Planet television show.

"I was the only one there with a footprint," Bill Penning said.

Producer Aaron Steele was excited by the cast of the footprint and decided to bring the cast and crew to Leominster to film a re-enactment Sept. 15.

About 20 people spent a rainy day filming the segment with the Pennings and Le Blanc.

"This has been quite an adventure for us," Bill Penning said.

Neither Steele nor the show's lead investigator Matt Moneymaker could be reached for comment.
Photo Courtesy of Bill Penning A photo of the cast that was made from what Bill and Julie Penning believe to be a footprint of Bigfoot they found while hiking in the Leominster State Forest in 2010.

Comments

  1. I'm stoked! I'll be curled up on the sofa with nothing on but a big fluffy blanket. Yeah, I'm a BF dork. Seriously, I never expect amazing finds and groundbreaking research. They're basically showing us glimpses of the woods, the interviews with witnesses and how a team might investigate a site. It's all broken down into these sponsor-things called "commercials" which means it's a "show" and not a research project. So, when people gripe about how fluffy F'ing Bigfoot show is, I just want to say, "do not get your education from TV? Because you will be with the lowest common denominator most shows are edited for." Please, open a book. If you want to see the world of BF hunting, the woods, the evidence, and follow a loveable team of enthusiasts, then please watch F'ing Bigfoot! They condense the field into about 45 minutes.

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  2. I don't see a thing in that video. Someone lend me a set of eyes

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  3. Where at in the video is there this supposed Bigfoot? I didn't see anything.

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  4. How fluffy is that blanket Autumn? For research purposes.

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  5. I'll be there too.. Glad the new season is out... Great entertainment and hey, just maybe some exciting action....

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  6. The blanket? Not as fluffy as me, but a close second.

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  7. Awesome fluffy blanket, fluffy women, watching people search for a fluffy animal. I love it!
    Anyone seen the Bigfoot in this video yet? I'm still stumped.

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  8. All I saw were rocks and trees.The foot print story sounds great.

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  9. That's not the video is it? Even Bobo and Moneymaker won't be able to find the squatch in those woods.

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  10. Ya I couldn't see anything in the video either? Maybe if I have a few cold ones, I will find many of them. Let you know in a couple hours!

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  11. Beer man beer me! I may need one for FB after this Pitt Den game

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  12. After Hawaii, Rhode Island is the last state in which I would expect to find a bigfoot.

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  13. Autumn, you seriously need to get laid. John

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  14. I agree with John, like, seriously....

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  15. Awe yes...The Rhode Island Cattle....I mean "Squatch" drive called "Giant Flush" ! This show gets more "stupider" every week, which also makes it one of the best comedy shows of all. These Morons out walking through the "Squatchy" woods in Rhode Island hooping and hollering things like "Giddyup" to drive a "Squatch" ? Really ? This is your plan ? And i wonder how well these Nimrods are appreciated carrying TORCHES out in the National and State Forests ! Maybe that's what they should do !!! Burn the Forests down so all the "Squatches" won't be able to hide from them ! Brilliant.
    This is by far the weirdest bunch of people i have ever seen on or off of T.V. and virtually everything they say has no evidence, NO EVIDENCE, to back it up. Like "Squatches" get grey or white hair as they get older just like people. It's a shame that this country has come to this, putting this kind of garbage on T.V., but at least i get my weekly belly laugh from watching these dips.

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  16. If you really wanna have fun get a bottle of whiskey or your drink of choice and take a shot every time they use the word "Squatchie". I counted 8 and 3 in a one minute span.

    This show was pretty bad! Why is Reane in blind with a light on and why don't they just all sit down for a couple hours and film what comes to them. Anybody who spends time in the woods knows animals will not approach loud noises they run or bed down in fear of predators.

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  17. I have a serious question for anyone who may know the answer. Why is it that Matt Moneymaker, the producer of a show airing on national television, and the star and the president of the BFRO spends so much time feuding with internet personalities?

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  18. Because he feels that whatever he days is right in the Bigfoot community and if you don't think he is he will let you know. Since he has the successful TV show he is the big dog and wants to stay there.

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  19. I'm glad that there was a consensus that the video was unusable as evidence. But every time I hear a knock in the woods, i'm thinking pileated woodpecker, not exclusively a Bigfoot.

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  20. I didn't see the show, but knew of the Leominster State Forest sighting and others in that region of Mass. Did they mention that Leominster is only 10 miles east of Wachusetts Mountain State Reservation, home of some old growth forest?


    "Wachusett Mountain is part of an extensive greenway area, including Leominster State Forest, Massachusetts Audubon's Wachusett Meadow Wildlife Sanctuary and Minns Wildlife Sanctuary. It is also the location of the largest known area of Old Growth Forest east of the Connecticut River in Massachusetts, with trees dating over 350 years old. Evidence of the glacial activity which shaped the mountain can be seen at Balance Rock; two large boulders were stacked one on top of the other by moving glaciers thousands of years ago."
    http://www.mass.gov/dcr/parks/central/wach.htm

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  21. To Anon above. Thanks for the history of the Wachusett area. I had the pleasure of skiing Wachusett Mountain a few years ago at the very end of March. I was quite impressed, and fell in love with the area. I do not remember the show making any mention of your question. Hard to believe trees that are 350 years old and survived the ax man, especially considering how long ago it was settled. Nobel indeed!

    Chuck in Ohio

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  22. I watched the ten oclock show and on the show nothing was said about swinging in a tree. I think it was the video above that two ladies took from a car driving by. It was a shape (look at 5-7second mark) and Renae proved she could duplicate the stride so she was doubtful and the others suspected it was possibly a juvenile.

    I enjoyed the show tonight. It seems they are showing more of the personalities of the investigators. Renae is certainly coming off softer, nicer and more open to the possibility of Bigfoot. I really thought Cliff was humorous.Keeping in mind it's for entertainment I like it a lot better this year. I would love it if a huge Bigfoot would jump out just once. I'd love to see that filmed. I like the changes they've made.

    I love the part about the Barred Owl. Cliff was very entertaining.

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  23. I watched the show last night and again tonight because the first time I thought I saw something and this time I recorded it and did see a young woman or a girl in the first 15 minutes of the show appears between Ranae and Cliff in the night tracking right after the knocks. So tell me is she from the show or is she a ghost?

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  24. Thank you for posting my article from Sunday's paper. After watching the show we were a little disappointed with how they started off the show. I can not see any type of figure that looks like a bigfoot. I wish they would have used some of my pictures in the show, they flashed pictures during my story but they were not mine! Great expierence with the folks from AP, enjoyed the entire film crew, wish more of my story made the show. We hope to be posting some new info shortly. Thanks for reading my article- Bill

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