New Bigfoot Photos and Videos From Ohio?

There is a website out on the internet called Our Bigfoot. There are photos and videos posted on the site that are purported to be of Bigfoot. Digging into the website, I found some interesting things.

Lewis DuPlatt has been studying and documenting Bigfoot for decades, following in the "big foot" steps of his father. Maybe, we should back track a bit. His father, Ron DuPlatt was hunting white tail deer and wandering through an Ohio woods in 1956, when he stumbled upon a Bigfoot creature drinking water from a stream. At that time, Bigfoot was not a commonly known animal, as he is today. Later that day, as Ron began to search library materials for any other accounts of other Bigfoot sightings, he was amazed that Bigfoot actually had a history in many cultures. Ron’s life had changed…or as he called it, "I’m ruined." This was Ron’s way of describing his total consuming interest in finding and documenting this amazing animal of the North American woodlands.

Ron DuPlatt began searching the area of the first Bigfoot sighting for tracks, fur, feces, animal kills and anything else that might help him locate the Bigfoot, again. Eventually, he pieced together a trail which led him to a cave nearby. It was in 1958 that Ron’s obsession with the elusive creature turned into a full time job of observing Bigfoot. His brother Richard owned a construction company of considerable size, and this allowed him to finance Ron’s ambitions. Eventually in the 1960’s, Ron was able to capture his first video of the creature. This presented a huge problem: the responsibility of how to release this invaluable documentation to the public. Ron couldn’t come to terms with sharing this incredible creature to the world, as he was concerned about the Bigfoot’s survival. In his mind, they had become almost "friends." Could he betray his secret friends? Ron DuPlatt died in 1985, at age 74, having never released his evidence.

Ron’s son, Lewis DuPlatt, began going with him into the Ohio wilderness as a youngster in the late 1960’s. After his father’s death, Lewis continued to observe the Bigfoot animals with his own children — even to this day. He, too, has struggled as to whether or not the release of the Bigfoot evidence would help or harm the creatures. Lewis did not only want to protect the Bigfoot, but he also wanted to honor his father’s wishes.

In 2005, Lewis DuPlatt had a dream which changed his mind regarding the Bigfoot evidence. In Lewis’ dream, his father (Ron) was speaking to him. Ron urged his son to share the information; and that he had been wrong not to do so! Lewis says the dream was so vivid, that he had no doubt his deceased father visited him from the spirit world to frantically make a plea to release the Bigfoot evidence…at least some of it. This website will attempt to do so…

The domain, ourbigfoot.com, however, is registered to a Louis Duplain. Hmmm, Lewis DuPlatt and Louis Duplain…very similar.

Next are some links to some photographs of Bigfoot, ostensibly taken by the founders of the site. Here is one that is rather interesting.

The above bigfoot pictures were taken in 2002, near Delroy, Ohio. This bigfoot hunt scared us to death! My sons and I were charged, and rocks were thrown at us from this very bigfoot in the pictures above. The bigfoot appeared very frightened and annoyed that we were following her. We believe this to have been a female, perhaps protecting its young. After the above photographs, we felt it best to leave the area, due to its aggressiveness.

So what do the readers of Cryptomundo think? Did they get a really nicely focused photo of a Bigfoot peering around a tree? Or is it just one in a long line of hoaxed photos?

For updates on the real story behind OurBigfoot.com, check out these updates here on Cryptomundo.

About Craig Woolheater
Co-founder of Cryptomundo in 2005. I have appeared in or contributed to the following TV programs, documentaries and films: OLN's Mysterious Encounters: "Caddo Critter", Southern Fried Bigfoot, Travel Channel's Weird Travels: "Bigfoot", History Channel's MonsterQuest: "Swamp Stalker", The Wild Man of the Navidad, Destination America's Monsters and Mysteries in America: Texas Terror - Lake Worth Monster, Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot: Return to Boggy Creek and Beast of the Bayou.

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