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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

2004-11-19

Overview: Dates - Oct. 17 -20, 2002 Location - Douglas County, MO near Dora, MO - Mark Twain National Forest Campground off CC Highway, North Fork, Campsite #20 (Pine loop). Evidence - Loud calls, rock/boulder…

screaming or howling · whooping · boom

2005-08-25

My four year old son and I were visiting my parents who lived in Lonedell, Missouri. My mother was napping, my father was at work (he helped farm there on the land--they lived in a trailer on the about 350 acre…

something walking upright · dogs reacting · multiple witnesses

2018-02-12

Dual track line - MANY photos taken and measured - immediately after heavy 6" snowfall on the night of Monday 15 Jan 2018. The night of Monday 15 Jan 2018, was dark - the night of the new (dark) moon. The overn…

voices · a very tall figure · footprints

undated

Location: Taney County – 3 miles north of Forsyth – under-developed area comprising multiple 10-acre lots, heavily forested, served by a dirt/gravel road. Late summer (July/August) 1998 Time: 8:30-ish pm My wi…

screaming or howling · a beam of light · vanishing suddenly

1971-11-17

Hi, my name is Kevin, I'm 52 now. I went hunting with my dad in Dent County near what now is called Lake 117 east of Salem Missouri in Mark Twin National forest. I was approx. 1/4 mile from the old farmhouse up…

growling · a triangle shape · footprints

undated

At the time of this report, I lived in a home located a couple hundred yards from the shores of Tablerock Lake in Stone County, Missouri. Our house was situated at the back of a long cove and uphill from the la…

screaming or howling · whooping · footprints

undated

November 24, 2017 Two of us were coyote hunting at night on our property. My friend was sitting at the end of the field in a hunting blind and I was going to walk the edge of the woods toward him to try and kic…

footsteps · a very tall figure · footprints

undated

I am a Missouri resident. Back in 91 or 92 (can't remember which year) I was coming home and coming around a curve when I noticed eyeshine. As I got closer I could see a creature standing on the side of the roa…

knocking · wood knocking · growling

1967-07-30

Many times I have tried to write about this major event in my life, but I find it difficult to tell it just like it happened. It seems as though I have missed many details. I do not like to relive the event. Si…

screaming or howling

2005-04-15

I don't know what to think. I have visited this website many, many times and was impressed by what I have read and the research you do. I have to add what I have experienced. First a little background on me: I…

screaming or howling · dogs reacting · footprints

1980-10-27

I was out early in the morning just after daylight looking for buck sign and squirrel hunting.Mainly looking for rubs and scrapes for deer hunting the upcoming season.I was on a hillside overlooking a steep can…

a very tall figure · something walking upright

1979-08-01

I was visiting my Father and Grandparents during a summer school break. I was about 11 years old at the time. (It has been many years since my sighting; about 34 yrs. ago to be exact, but I remember it vividly…

humanoid · the feeling of being watched · sleep event

1982-05-15

I was going through Army basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, MO. Our platoon was on the last leg of our training and one of our final training events was guard duty at different locations throughout the post.…

screaming or howling

1982-11-15

It was a Tuesday evening at approximately 6:30 p.m. There were three of us in our deer camp, and three others had gone into town for camping supplies. It was the second week in November, and I was deer hunting…

footsteps

2020-08-08

Several times a week I go fishing at the James Reed Memorial Wildlife Area just south of Lee's Summit, MO. It's about 900 acres plus 10 lakes to choose from for fishing and a area with walking trails. Each lake…

whooping · growling

2009-09-24

Went for a weekend hiking and camping trip with 4 family members. We hiked about a mile and a half down an established trail before making a turn into the brush to find our camping spot just after sunset on the…

the feeling of being watched · sleep event

1994-11-11

[Editor's note: The initial report was submitted by a friend and co-worker of the witness. The BFRO investigator eventually spoke with the witness by phone (see investigator's notes below). The witness never ty…

glowing eyes

2004-12-05

This happened about 1982, in the area of Steelville Missouri. We were camping on the Meremac River. The group consisted of myself, my wife, my son, my daughter and a friend and his wife. The place we camped was…

screaming or howling

1986-08-14

I was staying all night at my friend's house located off of KK Highway in Douglas County, Missouri. This particular friend just lived a couple of miles from my home. She had told me about how she had heard loud…

knocking · screaming or howling · footsteps

2014-10-01

I am a Soldier stationed at Fort Leonardwood, MO. Every morning we do physical exercises such as running. That morning we did a 3.8 mile run on the "Engineer Trail". The Engineer trail is a giant 3.8 mile track…

knocking · whooping · a foul smell

1973-06-13

I'm submitting this because I just read a report from someone near Prairie Home in Missouri and wanted to share what happened to us. My younger sister, my Mom and myself were visiting my Uncle and Aunt who live…

screaming or howling · a very tall figure

1982-07-15

In the summer of 1982, I was 12 years old and went to my first Scout summer camp, near Osceola, Missouri. The entire region is part of the "Ozarks" with thousands of square miles of wilderness. One afternoon My…

something walking upright

2002-08-09

The events of that I am about to relate to you happened on August 9, 2002. just outside of Springfield Missouri. It was about 2:00am. My son and I had driven out into the country to get away from the city light…

screaming or howling · growling · rumbling

2004-12-05

I was just a kid when I saw it. I was sitting in the back of an old Chevy Citation at the time it was pretty new, my uncle was driving and my aunt was in the passenger seat and my little cousin who was around 4…

screaming or howling · a very tall figure

2004-11-21

It was July, 1978. My family had just moved from Illinois to Cape Fair, Missouri a few weeks before. Our parents went back to Illinois for a funeral and my sisters (ages 16 & 14) and I (12 years old at the time…

growling · dogs reacting

1991-11-15

After reading the FAQ section, I have finally decided to tell someone of my "sighting". I am not saying for sure it was a bigfoot, but after reading the article you posted about the young bigfoot caught on a ga…

1983-05-15

This wasn't experienced by me, it was experienced by my father. He related the story to me either later that night or the next day, I don't remember. He and his best friend, Gordon Johnson, often went fishing a…

screaming or howling · nausea

2004-12-05

I grew up on a dairy farm, and would bring in the cows for the evening milking. This was often done on horse back for both pleasure and convenience. Since I was only ten years old at the time I didn't have to a…

screaming or howling · something walking upright · humanoid

undated

When I was just a small boy, my mother and father would tell us kids a story which they had truly experienced when they were a young couple just starting out in life. They were married in the year 1932. Shortly…

screaming or howling · humanoid

1972-07-15

It was a moon lit night just about dusk a friend and I had gone to a party but it was a bust. When we got to the place out of town. I took off by myself down the road towards the East back to Route 70 to wait.…

screaming or howling · dogs reacting · a foul smell

1973-07-01

One summer while I was in college, (1973) I was living at the Lake of the Ozarks with my high school friend at a house his father owned near Purvis Point. We were both from Kansas City, so it was a second home…

rocks being thrown

2013-02-12

Hello BFRO I have something I would like to share with you I believe I have see what people and myself call bigfoot . The first time was on a night time coon hunt. I hunt coons with traps and dogs yet I don't k…

knocking · wood knocking

undated

My husband and I were watching a movie in his brother's barn, where we have set up a movie projector and screen. It was during the last half of the second movie, when we started hearing loud splashing noises co…

the feeling of being watched · footprints

undated

Me, my uncle and son was bow hunting for deer and had set us a camp alongside of a food plot that the state park had planted for the wildlife. The day was October the 17, 2014 at approximately 10 pm. We were at…

screaming or howling · growling

1988-06-01

On a real nice night in June about 9:30p.m. myself and some other guys were talking after a softball game on what we wanted to do. So one of the guys suggested that we go to the "old resort" to see if anybody w…

dead animals

2004-12-06

On November 18, 2004 at approximately 6:45 pm, I was traveling south on a winding, dirt road less than 5 miles from my home on C Hwy between McDowell and East Purdy, Mo. As I drove along, I noticed ahead in the…

screaming or howling · dogs reacting

2002-10-09

I was living with my daughter and son-in-law while my new home was being built. They live just down the road from me. A friend of mine had asked me to drive her to Montana at that time, so we left and I was gon…

growling

2003-04-11

On 4-11-03 my son came running to the house screaming let me in..let me in. He was shaking and very upset. He said the woods monster was going to get him. I asumed his older brother had scared him. I confronted…

screaming or howling

2007-01-09

My parents had just settled on a new house for our family the day before Christmas. We were so excited that we couldn't wait, so we moved in on Christmas Day. There were only two bedrooms in the back of the hou…

screaming or howling · footprints

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