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undated

This must have been over a year ago. But it's happened three times, a little differently each time. I'm lying in bed, and I feel a presence. The first time I felt something on my left. I knew it was a swirling dark figure, though…

a dark figure · the feeling of being watched · sleep event · touched

undated

I was driving to an apointment and. decided to take a quieter more rural route than usual. At a particularity unpopulated strecth of thr road I saw ahead of me an unuasually large completey black bird. It was croutched over some r…

a triangle shape

undated

My Dad has sworn up and down he has seen Bigfoot twice since I was a kid. Both times were in the outskirts of the Pittsburgh area, specifically Armstrong County. I never asked him to describe his accounts accurately until a few da…

a foul smell

undated

I saw my step father who fell to his death unexpectedly get up for work the next morning, make breakfast and get his clothes ready. The part of him on auto pilot still got ready for work the next day. He was around for months.. pp…

undated

Standing in the yard after midnight I heard three slow knocks come from the treeline, then something answered from the other side of the field. The dogs would not go out.

knocking

undated

This trip was, in actuality, an expedition my brothers and myself had planned into the mountains of Siskiyou county. Our rationale came from an obscure Californian document called which records one of the earli…

knocking · wood knocking · three knocks

undated

As a young person I vaguely remember hearing something about a creature called "Bigfoot". I suppose I thought he was something the Indians had conjured up. That is how others seemed to think. Then approximately…

buzzing · footsteps · a very tall figure

1972-08-01

Lake Milton, Ohio: Summer 1972 About the time my siblings and I were entering that turbulent period known as our "teens", my family had the great good fortune of having moved into a house flanked on either side…

voices · a triangle shape · vanishing suddenly

1979-10-01

My Big Foot Sightings over the years. My first introduction to Big Foot was about 1965. A series of articles appeared in the Portland Oregonian, the Salem-Statesman Journal, the San Francisco Chronical, and at…

growling · boom · a very tall figure

1991-08-15

August 1991 Stark County, East Canton OH near to US Route 30 It's hard to say where these stories come from. When I was younger I had always read about them with a grain of salt. I mean you never really take an…

screaming or howling · whooping · silence

2007-08-18

It happened close to midnight on August 18, 2007, on the last official night of a private expedition, east of Mt. Rainier in the Wenatchee National Forest, of Washington State. Out of respect for our WA-BFRO cr…

knocking · screaming or howling · growling

2009-03-25

In November 1996 just a couple of days before thanksgiving my best friend and I were camping and deer hunting on Weyerhaeuser forestry land in SE Oklahoma the nearest town would be Smithville but even at that i…

undated

REPORT OF A FIELD INVESTIGATION by Richard D. McCuistion, Sr., Chilton Williamson, and Keith Foster Between 4 and 7 August 1998 we began a long term study in a drainage thought to be the summer range of the Sas…

screaming or howling · glowing eyes · footprints

2012-01-15

I want to start out by saying that I have never discussed this with anyone except for one other person. I have not discussed it with my wife, my best friend, or any other person close to me in my life. I was fo…

a very tall figure · hooded · residue

2003-08-15

this all started when we were asked to be night watchmen for a logging company to watch the big equipment during the summer months of july and august. it was last week of july when we got there . first incedent…

knocking · screaming or howling · whooping

1972-07-01

BIGFOOT SIGHTING By: Jim Kiser Sighting Early July, 1972 Sighting location: Wallowa Mountains, Eastern Oregon Report prepared: June, 2012 to June, 2013 Report printed: June 14, 2013 On a family vacation in the…

something walking upright · humanoid · dogs reacting

undated

"The Zoobies" -- 1992 interview with Sgt. Doug Huse, San Diego County Sheriffs Department MONEYMAKER: Okay, just go ahead and tell me about yourself, when you started working there and so on. HUSE: I started wo…

knocking · growling · voices

1972-08-15

This is the second in a set of chronological reports that I am submitting regarding a series of encounters I had between 1970 and 1983 in Nevada, California, and Washington States. I grew up several miles North…

screaming or howling · voices · a very tall figure

undated

The Backpack trip Draft 9-8-2014 Background: Biologist at a major biotech company. No previous experience with Sasquatch or similar, but have seen a couple shows on television (1 episode of finding BF, and one…

knocking · buzzing · screaming or howling

1976-09-18

[ Note: The first names of the witnesses has been changed. ] Preface: This information is based on witnessed facts, and is as close to the events as I can recall. I am blessed with a near photographic memory. F…

a low hum · screaming or howling · growling

2004-08-14

This is a compilation of experiences over a period of years in the same area (1988- 2009) - feeling of being watched, wildlife silenced, tree breaks, strong smell once, numerous late night vocalizations, rock k…

knocking · screaming or howling · whooping

1997-09-15

I think it was early September of 1997 when I received an email from Matt Moneymaker asking if I would be interested in investigating a possible recent “bigfoot hotspot” in northern California. I was living and…

screaming or howling · silence · a very tall figure

1982-01-11

My encounter with ???????? The area and time: My encounter occurred during the November rifle deer hunt of 1982. I was 14 years old, hunting deer with my father, grandfather, neighbor, and his son (same age as…

knocking · screaming or howling · boom

1972-08-25

This is the third in a set of chronological reports that I am submitting regarding a series of encounters I had between 1970 and 1983 in Nevada, California, and Washington States. This third encounter occurred…

knocking · growling · a very tall figure

2010-06-05

I have debated whether or not to report my encounter to the BFRO or any organization. I don't know why, but I guess I wanted to keep this experience to myself for a few years and then it just didn't seem to mat…

a dark figure · dread · rocks being thrown

2022-09-09

On September 8, 2022 my son and I packed up to go kayak-camping the Lower Buffalo River. We planned a three night trip as we would take our time as we were fishing. We drove for about 6 or 7 hours and finally a…

knocking · wood knocking · rocks being thrown

1995-07-01

The first incident dates back to around the summer of 1995. It has been a while, so I can't be completely sure of the exact dates. One of my older sisters, and her three young duaghters were out looking for a p…

footsteps · something walking upright · rocks being thrown

1973-05-13

As a fifty-six year-old man, I am sincerely bewildered when harkening back to my youth and pondering my former naivety. The saying goes, “I may be dumb, but I’m not stupid”. What concerns me is that I was stupi…

knocking · something walking upright · humanoid

undated

November 15-19. Witness: James Scott. HUNTING. Heard: During the night (whole trip) -Heard what appeared to be loud squirrel barks and trees being knocked down during the middle of the night. -Something running…

knocking · wood knocking · whooping

2011-09-09

It was toward the end of summer in September 2011 that I had my sighting of a tall hairy bipedal creature. I went to bed around 9:30pm on September 5th and it was a warm summer night approximately 70 degrees ou…

knocking · wood knocking · growling

2004-10-11

Upon request of Chris Bradley (BFRO investigator) I am submitting this report of what I believe to have been an encounter with a Bigfoot or Sasquatch. I Rodney Frank Williams (Rod) DOB 12/19/42 residing at P.O.…

growling · voices · moving in formation

1978-05-15

April-May 1978 Hope, Arkansas. Hempstead county Sighting was at a farm house (no longer there) on hwy 73 between hwy 278 and hwy 195. My family lived on a farm with all of your typical farm animals, and we all…

screaming or howling · footsteps · red lights

undated

I want to start with tonight, while it is fresh in my mind. My girlfriend and I let the dogs out to the bathroom around 1am. She instantly said she thought she heard something in the valley below our home, and…

screaming or howling · vanishing suddenly · a very tall figure

undated

Hi, my name is Joe, I'm 20 years old. I recently had an encounter that was definitely unexplainable. First, let me start out by telling you the story from the very beginning. I am from Albuquerque, NM and the c…

knocking · voices · a very tall figure

2005-08-11

I am new to this stuff, so I won't even try to cover everything related to this trip. That's for others to talk about. I can tell about what I observed and heard. There were about twenty five people at the BFRO…

a low hum · screaming or howling · growling

2008-04-12

Incounter happened on 7th of November 2006. I voted in the Idaho election at 8:00 a.m. Then I went straight home and loaded my two horses to go elk hunting for 3 days in the Big Hole Mountains east of where I l…

screaming or howling · a very tall figure · paralysis

undated

My name is [TH], and I have lived in an old Mining Camp, in Northern California for the past two years. During that first fall I would hear a strange whistling call that would come from a Sequoia tree that stan…

growling · boom · a very tall figure

2011-06-23

I was just outside and my 3 yearold lab was spooked by somethig like I've never seen. Barking--in a fear sound-- and running in circles! Wind is in the west and that is the direction of her concern. Only other…

screaming or howling · voices · the feeling of being watched

2013-03-01

It was in the summer of 2012 around 7 pm. It was very hot outside and we had been in a long drought. The nearest town is Makanda IL. The nearest road is Progress Lane which is off of Water V vcalley road. I bel…

voices · a very tall figure · glowing eyes

undated

In Feb. 1977, a friend, his two older brothers, and his younger cousin and I went backpacking in the Trinity Alps area near Shasta Ca. I was 17 at the time, and would regularly take time off from high school wi…

screaming or howling · dogs reacting · footprints

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