Colorado

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

About five years ago, in late Spring, I took my kids camping in the Lost Creek Wilderness area. They were 8 and 10 years old at the time. We go there quite a bit because it's far enough away to avoid the Denver…

screaming or howling · whooping · footsteps

Monday August 31 2009 was the 3rd day of Colorado’s archery elk season. The day before I was hunting a familiar ridge and noticed a remote looking hanging valley across from the ridge I was hunting and decided…

knocking · buzzing · footsteps

After an unsuccessful days elk hunting trek of many miles around the heavy timbered area near the Rabbit Ears pass region, my Uncle Bill, Cousin Charles and myself, decided to call it a day and head back to our…

a very tall figure · something walking upright

My boyfriend and I were on the last night of a week-long vacation/road trip. In the past few days, we were just driving through SW Colorado, driving through areas we had not seen before. We had driven over Spri…

growling · footprints

I had gone backpacking/training trip with four pack animals in preparation for an extended backpacking trip into the Wemineuch Wilderness. Two of my goats are experienced packers and two were new. After several…

growling · rumbling · a very tall figure

Possible footprint observation, FR 578 near Hermosa Peak, Dolores County Colorado, Friday, June 20, 2003 We were staying in a cabin northeast of Vallecitos on Middle Mountain, just off of FR 724. I arrived in t…

humanoid · footprints

Let me begin this with a brief bit of information about the area. The South San Juan Wilderness (in the San Juan Mountains of southwestern Colorado) is considered to be Colorado’s wildest corner. It was in the…

screaming or howling

This story is a story that my mom told me. She says it happened when she was young, back in the late 60s, maybe early 70s, I would guess. I will confirm this with her. My family used to have a cabin near and No…

dogs reacting

We camped in the mountains a lot on the weekends as I was growing up. My dad liked to rough it compared to most. Sleep under the stars or in an old military tent and take only a few pots and a couple of fishing…

sleep event

I want to share an experience my family and I had near Lake City, CO on June 12, 2021. We have visited Lake City for several years in a row, spending a week there each summer. One of our favorite places is Deer…

knocking · wood knocking · moving in formation

The BFRO Colorado Expedition was conducted in a remote area in the same part of Colorado as some major ski areas -- Vail, Ski Cooper, and Breckenridge. The area was heavily forested and had plenty of water. The…

knocking · wood knocking · whooping

Preface: The following is an excerpt from a true story my brother wrote several years ago for a hunting magazine. I’ve edited it down to just the relevant portion of the story where he has an encounter with…som…

footsteps · dead animals

This incident happend in southwest Colorado in early spring/late winter 1989. I worked at the Gladstone mine North of Silverton Colorado and lived in Montrose Colorado. I usually car pooled with another individ…

moving in formation · something walking upright

In late July of 1998 my youngest son (who was 18 then)and I lived in Western Arkansas and took a week-long camping trip to the Wet Mountains in Colorado west of Pueblo. I had done most of the driving to get the…

an orange orb · red lights · something walking upright

Two friends and I went camping in the San Juan National Forest just east of Lake Vallecito on 6-1-04. DC and I were from out of state but JG was a regular camper there. We went 12 miles up the forest service rd…

screaming or howling · boom · repeated event

My name is Jeff [D.] and I live in Colorado Springs, CO. I have been a big game guide for several years and I am in the process of opening my on outfit. I must admit I have always been skeptical about bigfoot u…

a very tall figure · something walking upright

Visual Incident: I was spending the evening at a 2 bedroom cabin at the YMCA in Estes Park. It had been a cold, snowy day, and I had gone to bed rather early (around 8 pm.). I awakened at 2:30 and got up to loo…

screaming or howling · growling · a dark figure

This sighting took place in the summer of 1996 at Lost Lake which is about five miles north of Rabbit Ears Pass by a four- wheel drive road and trail in northwest Colorado. It was late June and I was on a fishi…

a very tall figure · something walking upright · footprints

I was about 19 at this time and I was a youth group leader for a bible study in the mountains at a place called "Twin Peaks Bible Camp". At night we all played games like glow in the dark dodgeball or went insi…

A friend and I were hunting on the Grand Mesa on the Lands End side. We had hiked down Kanna Creek Trail to look for game. We had spent most of the day on stand and hiking. We made our way back to my truck. We…

screaming or howling · taking off impossibly fast · hair static

On approximately December of 1982, two friends and myself were returning to Colorado from Texas, by car. At just before midnight, on a dark stretch of Interstate 25, heading North towards Denver (just 100 some…

A co-worker and I were finishing up our shift at a donut shop when the incident occurred. At about 2:45 am, I had stepped outside after seeing a speeding car go by. When I did, I heard dogs barking and howling…

screaming or howling · a very tall figure · dogs reacting

My husband and I were camping in the Eagle Nest Wilderness CO early June 2013. While hiking on the trail we had encountered a larger then normal amount of snow due to the late snow storms. We were a few miles u…

knocking · growling · something walking upright

I believe it was in September of 1995 or 1996 and a friend and myself were up elk hunting during archery season. The area we were in was a few miles north of Colorado Highway 14 and a few miles west of Cameron…

We pulled into camp on a rainy night about midnight. Cows were in the camp, so as they were leaving we heard - at least what I told my nephews - a bull really upset with us. It was a throaty, gutteral huffing n…

growling · the feeling of being watched · dogs reacting

I was determined to summit Mt. Elbert, the highest peak in Colorado. I had made 2 previous attempts in 2001 and 2000 and on both attempts I was turned back at 13,000 ft. by weather. I have always gone solo. On…

screaming or howling · growling · a very tall figure

This incident occurred after my husband, myself and our 3 children and I had moved up to some land purchased on Sugar Loaf mountain west of Boulder. My husband managed a tavern at the time and had purchased the…

screaming or howling · whooping · glowing eyes

This story was related to me by my Aunt last My Aunt and her husband are both Romany Gypsies living here in the UK, but once a year travel to Fairplay, Colorado to visit extended family - decendents of family…

screaming or howling

I lived in Colorado for 29 years. Eighteen of those I spent working at ski resorts. Over the years I've seen hundreds of deer and elk as well as dozens of bear, everything from cubs to large 400 pound males. In…

In the fall of 1994 I was hunting deer with friends north of Hotchkiss, CO. This area was called Wolf Park. I had never hunted this area before but my friend had grown up in the area. It was the September muzzl…

In the first week of June, 1994, my 2 sons and I were fishing in a beaver pond on the Lake Fork of the Conejos about 1 mile upstream from where the Lake Fork of the Conejos meets with the Conejos River. It was…

screaming or howling

My family (5) and I go on vacation every year. One year we decided to go to Colorado on a camping trip. We also would always our dog and this year my brother took his rat. After a long trip across Kansas, we fi…

repeated event

During an elk hunt Aug.28th to Sept. 4th we were camped in the Snow Mass Wilderness area. The first two days were normal with no activity. We were just glassing for elk and fishing. After the first day of elk s…

whooping

I lived for about 7 years in Leadville back in the 1970’s and that town has a long history of Bigfoot reports. While living there I was involved in several related situations. One of my foster sons was employed…

footsteps · a very tall figure · footprints

The following is a report of unusual noises. First, I would like to qualify myself as a competent woodsman...certainly no 19th century mountain man, but one who knows his way around the outdoors. I was camping…

screaming or howling

(Job title edited at witness request for privacy). I am currently on a contract in Rifle Colorado. My home is 5 1/2 hrs south of Rifle so I stay in my camper 5 days a week. This morning, I left my home at 0245…

photographed

I was riding in a car full of fellow teenagers out in the country just laughing, talking, and goofing around. It was a moonlit night, and we were foolishly driving without headlights, sometimes stopping, and th…

screaming or howling · growling · a very tall figure

My name is Leona H. My son, his wife, a friend, and I saw a Sasquatch on August 10th or 11th ? (on a Sunday) of l990, 11:00 am, on a bright, sunny day, in Larimer County, Roosevelt National Forest, about twenty…

a very tall figure

My father and I were elk hunting in October 2005 in the White River National Forest near the Flat Tops Wilderness. This area is in Rio Blanco county outside of Buford, CO. My father has hunted there most years…

knocking · whooping