A man in Bainbridge Township, Ohio, reportedly fired two warning shots to frighten off a Bigfoot he thought was attempting to break into his home in the early morning hours of October 22nd.

According to the Cleveland.com police blotter:

After hearing gunshots at 4:26 a.m. Oct. 22nd, a resident called police. Officers arrived and questioned a man, who admitted to firing warning shots at a 7-foot-tall “Bigfoot” creature or bear, who he said had tried to open his front door and get his dogs. He said the creature visits his home every night at about 8 p.m. The subject was not intoxicated. Officers could not find any creature footprints or signs of an animal visit. The man was advised to call police if it returns and advised against firing shots into the air.

Police officers responded to the 60-year-old man’s residence on Lorain Street, where he admitted to firing the warning shots in his backyard to scare away an animal, reported 19 News.

When asked by an officer if the animal might have been a bear, the man responded, “"It ain’t no f****** bear, because it was jiggling my doorknob."

The man also reportedly told officers that the creature repeatedly returns to his home because his neighbors feed it bananas.

This story out of Ohio is reminiscent of two relatively recent incidents involving Bigfoot and firearms; one in which a man out target shooting on public land near Helena, Washington, was shot at by another man who "mistook him for Bigfoot" on December 17th, 2018, and another on July 28th, 2019, in which a couple visiting Kentucky’s Mammoth Cave National Park called emergency services after a man and his son opened fire in the woods following a cryptic warning about being in "Bigfoot country."

In addition, a New Hampshire man wrote to The Conway Daily Sun in a letter published August 19th, 2019, to posit that a recent string of break-ins being blamed on bears in the region is actually the work of Sasquatch.