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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

2008-06-14

My name is Pam Lovins. I am a BFRO investigator in West Virginia. Earlier this summer I got a call from another BFRO investigator about a situation in eastern Kentucky, not too far away from my location. I was…

moving in formation · glowing eyes

1973-08-01

It was about 1972 or '73 in Berea, KY.and I must have been 15 or so. My brother, a friend of mine, and I were sleeping out in our "tent" made of plastic tossed over one of those umbrella type clothes lines. The…

growling · a very tall figure · dread

1978-08-17

In 1977 my husband and I bought a small hobby farm in Taylor County, Kentucky.....just outside the town of Campbellsville. Our farm was surrounded by neighboring farms, but no one lived on the land bordering ou…

screaming or howling

1978-08-15

The year was 1978 when my family and I took a summer camping trip to the Natural Bridge State Park. The park is located deep in the Daniel Boone National forest, about 52 miles southeast of Lexington, and about…

something walking upright · a dark figure · footprints

1983-01-15

This was about 1980-1983, I lived in Carter County in a small community named Rush. I lived in a small hollow with a partically graveled lane that dead ended at my driveway. The land is hills with pine oak and…

footprints

2007-09-15

We have three episodes at the same location. Four years ago in mid September 2007, we decided to camp on our property which is located in Doe Valley Community. The community is very special...it is nestled agai…

screaming or howling · footsteps

1990-10-15

I have two incidents. One is a vocalization and the other a sighting. I was about 15 at the time. Vocalization: My Dad, his best friend, and myself were bow hunting on the Heckley mine property. We arrived abou…

knocking · screaming or howling · growling

1978-11-15

Myself and two buddies were bow hunting a tract of land we had used for quite a few years. This is about a 500 acre patch of hardwoods that borders the Kentucky Turnpike. We always camped in an old abandoned ba…

screaming or howling

1990-04-15

(Please excuse the old story, was not aware a site like this exsisted to record information, also, haven't told too many people...guess you can just imagine why...) April, 1990, rural Marshall County, I was att…

knocking · screaming or howling · growling

1983-08-01

I am an emt-b and a former firefighter from the greenup county ky area. I have had 2 encounters in my lifetime with, what i believe to be, bigfoot/sasquatch. I have told people i have had the encounters, but i…

2010-04-13

I live in the very wooded hills of eastern kentucky. I noticed that some of my garbage behind my house had been ripped up, not reallly chewed up. Then one night about 2a.m. I let my dog out for the night and I…

screaming or howling · footprints

1980-10-07

Subject: Large White, "Ape-like" Creature Reported October 7, 1980 @ 9:30 PM Witness: C.F. Location: Mayslick, Kentucky (Mason County) Investigators: Ron Schaffner and Earl Jones ------------------------------…

a very tall figure · humanoid · footprints

2008-10-15

In October 2008 we went on a 4 wheeler trip to Harlan county, in eastern Kentucky near the Big Black Mountain area, we do this several times each year. My friend, (Ricky) also brought along 2 of his friends who…

footprints

1980-10-11

Unidentified Intruder or Unexplained Hominid Witness: J.L.Tumey Location: Fairview, Kentucky (Fleming County) Investigators: Ron Schaffner (Ron@bfro.net), John Dailey and Doug McGill Case Data: Mr. Tumey was si…

humanoid

2000-08-15

This incident occured in late July early August 2000,My wife had been fishing with me on a couple of occasions earlier that season , but was wanting to go where the weeds werent so high ,I had found a place tha…

screaming or howling · the feeling of being watched

undated

In June of 2005 my family had a strange occurance. My son and a couple of his friends wanted to camp out down in the woods. My husband and one of the other boys' dad went down to check on them before we went to…

screaming or howling · glowing eyes · footprints

2000-08-15

Myself and a friend were bored one afternoon,so we decided to take his dad's small john boat and look around some creeks just a couple miles from his house.After putting in a time or two,we found one that kept…

multiple witnesses

1977-07-01

I was young about 12 or 13 and I had gone to spend a few weeks with my uncle and cousins, they lived in a secluded area. Only our family lived in this holler and the houses were fairly spread apart. Well my unc…

screaming or howling · a very tall figure

1975-08-09

When I was around 10, 11 or 12 (1975-77) Sorry, I don't remember exactly -- it's been a while. When I was a kid, My grandparents had a little bitty camper at a campsite at Nolin Lake. I couldn't tell you precis…

1994-10-15

We were racoon hunting we had turned our dogs out and let them get a head start on us...we gave them a half-hour or so to let them get far enough ahead of us..we then got in the truck and started out the road,…

a very tall figure · footprints

2006-12-09

It was the opening morning of Kentucky black powder deer hunt. I had found a saddle on a map that was almost 3 miles back into the hills. I went into the saddle 2 days before and found a big rock over looking t…

a very tall figure

1990-09-09

When I was 14, I had gotten up early one Saturday morning to go squirrel hunting on a small piece of property by my parents house. This stretch of woods is located in Greenup County Kentucky in Northeastern KY.…

knocking · growling

undated

In December of 2010 (I think it was the around the 15th, whatever the 2nd muzzle loading season fell on during that year.) I was going deer hunting on private family property very close to Elkhorn City, Kentuck…

a very tall figure

2018-10-18

My husband and I are visiting family in Sandy Hook. On the evening of the 18th, at about 7:30, we got in the car to make a quick run to Sandy Hook. It was very cold, (it was already dark as well), so he started…

screaming or howling · growling · a very tall figure

2011-11-15

OK, let me start by saying I have always been fascinated by "Big Foot." I don't think it makes me biased because until recently I was always still skeptical but very curious. I recently had a sighting and was l…

glowing eyes

1971-08-01

There is not a lot to this incident, other than it occurred several (two or three) times over a summer. I was around 10 years old, and had all but forgotten these incidents in the following quarter century. Lis…

screaming or howling

2003-08-16

While looking through reports for Kentucky I came across report #11966 in Lawrence county, KY. I had a sighting/experience around the same time period and same area near Blaine, KY. I have never told anyone of…

knocking

2015-10-21

This is a follow-up report. It is about the 50 lb. dog food a week, and the x tree marker I found by my deer stand in early fall of 2015. First the dog food. I moved my game cam to see if I can figure out why s…

2017-06-28

This is my Facebook post. Copied and pasted. Occurrence was inside Land Between the Lakes National Forest, Hillman Ferry Campground at Campsite B 43. Well. I made sure we secured the most backcountry spot where…

screaming or howling · whooping · boom

1967-01-15

I have two experiences about 30 years apart at the same location - my parents home in Pike County, Kentucky - that I have always wanted to talk about. The first occurred around 1966 or 1967. It was sometime dur…

voices · something walking upright

2014-09-22

This was around the end of September 2014, I recently made friends with the guy I purchased my four wheeler from. He called me to see if I would be interested in riding on his friends property on four wheelers,…

2010-01-14

On Jan 14th, 2010, I was taking my son to school on Hwy. 36, outside of Sanders. We were following a Ford Ranger and were probably 30-40 foot behind it. I noticed something run quickly in front of that truck. I…

vanishing suddenly · a dark figure

2009-08-31

(night before) me and my boyfriend went riding around out near the farm its just a old country road. i got to thinking and ask him if we locked the gate back at the farm, we went earlier to feed the cattle. he…

growling · dogs reacting · missing time

2005-02-02

I saw something along Interstate 75 South in Kentucky, maybe 30-40 miles south of Cincinnati. I don't recall exactly where along that highway I was at the time, somewhere after three lanes had been reduced to t…

something walking upright · hair static

1976-08-01

This might be a little late to report but at the time and considering our ages people didn't believe us. So it was forgotten until I started to check out some Bigfoot info once I moved to Seattle Washington. An…

screaming or howling · footprints

2005-02-05

I am sending you the information I have on two seperate sightings that occurred in the same area but on different days by my grandfather and my father. My grandpa drove a school bus and at about 5;30-6;00 one m…

screaming or howling

2009-10-13

I was home alone one mid-October evening. My husband and I have a cabin located in rural Lee County, KY. It’s a primitive cabin, no electricity, no phone, hand pumped water, no neighbors, etc. My husband was vi…

knocking · moving in formation

1991-04-15

the first time i ever saw a sasquatch was in 1991. where i live is pretty rugged terrain so you would believe anything could be out there. i have figured out that if we do have sasquatch occasionally they do no…

footprints

2005-07-20

In 2005 while fourwheeling with my girlfriend in some bottomland near where I live I was following the laurel river as it snakes its way through these dense bottoms. it was getting dusk dark and we where on the…

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