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People who described something walking upright

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screaming or howling 1280a very tall figure 1104footprints 597growling 440knocking 419something walking upright 389whooping 237the feeling of being watched 216dogs reacting 212voices 187a dark figure 184footsteps 179wood knocking 164glowing eyes 144humanoid 136multiple witnesses 130

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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

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

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

1978-08-21

INVESTIGATORS: Ron Schaffner (Ron@bfro.net), Earl Jones, Jim Carnes Jim Rastetter, Iona Boyce, Barbara Mudrak,(Akron Beacon-Journal) and James Shannon (Stark County Deputy Sheriff) CASE DATA: All of our intervi…

a very tall figure · something walking upright · glowing eyes

2001-10-02

The BFRO sponsored an expedition to investigate a series of reports of bigfoot related activity in Le Flore County, Oklahoma. I was part of the BFRO team undertaking the investigation. While walking down a remo…

something walking upright · rocks being thrown

1979-10-15

The story I have to tell is not a single sighting but three events that took place during the fall of 1979 and the winter of the same or the year of 1980. During this time I was working, living as a resident of…

screaming or howling · something walking upright · hooded

2006-01-01

These incidents have occurred over a period of approximately 7 years. The occurrences have not been limited to a particular time of year. I have never, nor has any in our group, sighted a creature. Most have ex…

knocking · screaming or howling · something walking upright

1995-11-14

First let me begin by saying that I began going hunting with my Dad when I was about 5 years old. I have spent a great deal of time in the forest. I have been fortunate to have seen almost every species of anim…

something walking upright · footprints

2021-06-09

The incident occurred on June 9, 2021 at approximately 5:15pm. It started raining around 3:30pm and ended around 5pm. I had to get the grass mowed because it was already too long. Usually, when I mow, I have my…

something walking upright · a dark figure · hooded

undated

Ok, I feel as if I need to qualify this statement. First of all, it was the discovery of this website and report submission form which inspired me to come forward and reveal my sighting incident. I have held of…

screaming or howling · growling · something walking upright

undated

My brother and I were spending the night in our grandparents' camp trailer, which sat about 20 yards away from our parents' house. We were staying there because our other set of grandparents were borrowing our…

something walking upright · a dark figure · paralysis

undated

It was late October of 2008, unsure of the exact date. At approximately 2:30 am, my oldest son called me on his cell phone. I was upstairs doing some research on the computer & he was downstairs on the back por…

voices · a beam of light · something walking upright

2010-08-06

Bigfoot Sighting Early August 2010 Time: Approx. 8-8:30 am Place: Cascade Lakes, NY (near Keene) Weather: Clear with a few clouds I spend most of the summers camping in and around the Adirondacks in my Dodge C…

a very tall figure · something walking upright · cold spot

undated

My cousin and I were on a camping trip to the Bohemia Mine area like we do at least two times a year. This was in 1992 or 1993 I belive in August.We setup camp anf then hiked around until evening then came back…

footsteps · something walking upright

1993-09-15

On Labor Day weekend 1993, some friends and I went camping for the weekend at a KOA campground near Fort Stevens, OR. In the late afternoon on the second day we were there, a group of five or six of us decided…

screaming or howling · a very tall figure · something walking upright

1974-09-20

While attending U.R.I in the Fall of 1974,I would stay at my girlfriends mother's house on weekends because I only had a five day mealbook plan. It was Sunday evening about 10:00pm when I decided to head back t…

something walking upright

1976-07-15

Visual Incident approx mid-seveties in Oregon State Park special campsite area called "Howard's Creek". It was the habit of my family and several other families to reserve this campsite for a weekend in the sum…

a very tall figure · something walking upright

2014-09-15

September 14 My adult son, daughter and her son and I all hiked into Twin Sisters Lakes from the Deep Creek Campground around 1 1/2 to 2 miles. My son and were planning to spend 2 nights and daughter and her so…

knocking · wood knocking · whooping

1971-06-30

This particular incident occured when I was young, approximately 27 years ago. Due to the age of this report, I doubt it will be of much research value however do not dismiss this as a child's fantasy. I was 7-…

a triangle shape · a very tall figure · something walking upright

2020-02-15

My husband and I have been hiking a local trail system in our area nearly every day since we got our dog in 2013. Over the years we have experienced several instances of wood knocking and did not think much of…

knocking · wood knocking · screaming or howling

2014-02-15

On February 15th, 2014 at approximately 4 pm my wife, 2 children and I were driving into Geneva State Park. It had been frigid cold and we wanted to see how frozen over the lake and marina were. At the corner o…

knocking · wood knocking · screaming or howling

1976-08-01

In the summer of 1976, I (Laurie) was playing along the shores of Aurora Lake when I came upon a very large set of human like footprints. There was two very clear footprints in clay and a lot more less recogniz…

a very tall figure · something walking upright · footprints

undated

I live in a fairly remote part of Adams county, Pennsylvania and the event in question occurred near my house in the Michaux state forest near Tick Tock and Pine Ridge Lane. The forest here is mainly white pine…

screaming or howling · a very tall figure · something walking upright

2007-07-15

My sister and her two children, my wife and I and our two dogs went to Nuclear lake in Dutchess county for an overnight camping trip. We set up camp in a field next to the lake a few hundred feet off the applic…

growling · something walking upright

2022-08-02

On Tuesday, August 2, 2022 my brother, sister, and I were visiting the Lighthouse at South Carolina’s Hunting Island State Park. We were leaving the Lighthouse parking lot at approximately 12:00 noon and drivin…

something walking upright · multiple witnesses

1984-08-17

On the afternoon of August 17, 1984, about 3 or 4 pm, my (now ex)wife and I were leisurely riding our Vespa motor scooter in the woods on Fairview Mtn. Road, near Yachats on the Central Oregon Coast. We had bee…

a very tall figure · something walking upright

2005-07-01

it was july 1 2005 i drive a tri axle dump my boss ask me to deliver some stone to a remote camp he took me to the location first by pick up it was a very remote camp the next day i took aload of stone to the c…

screaming or howling · whooping · something walking upright

2004-09-15

Three strange things in three days: I woke up one morning and went into the trailer to get a cup of coffee and we had two dogs and I let them out and the little dog took off somewhere. I decided to go and look…

screaming or howling · footsteps · a very tall figure

undated

My husband and I are avid fisherman and hunters and our favorite time to fish is in the late evening and at night. On this particular night, my husband was out of town working and I decided to go fishing at a l…

a very tall figure · something walking upright

1994-11-05

It was a couple of weeks before the 1994 deer "gun season", which started the week after Thanksgiving. My uncle and I were out checking game trails and picking out places to sit for hunting season so we would k…

a very tall figure · something walking upright · multiple witnesses

undated

I have had two occasions to observe an unkown creature in the wood's of western pennsylvania. The first was in the fall of 1986 as a teenager I was parking in a desolate location called Hell's Hollow about 1/2m…

a very tall figure · something walking upright

1974-11-15

My brother, myself, and two other men were working at a cable logging site decking logs on Forest Service land N.N.E. of Brookings, OR. My brother (riggin' slinger) and one of the other fellows (hook tender) we…

footsteps · something walking upright · the feeling of being watched

undated

It was in the afternoon on a snowy winter day.1985. My friend and I decided to go for a winter drive(which was very common for me when it snows).We ended up at the entrance to "Ice Cave Mountain". Of course the…

voices · something walking upright · footprints

undated

After a 7" snowfall the previous day (March 16, 2004) and couple more inches overnight (March 17, 2004), I noticed out the side window of the house large tracks about 4 feet from the side of the house. The trac…

something walking upright · footprints

2000-11-24

Late Nov 2000, in Clark County, during the Ohio deer gun season, after Thanksgiving, an overcast rainy turn to snow day, early morning hours about 45 minutes before legal deer gun season hours, on a friends far…

something walking upright

2002-09-21

I witnessed a Sasquatch at about 225 yards distance for approximately 15 seconds, while it traveled around 75 yards along the back of a stone quarry near Middleport, NY in the Fall of 2002/September. I stop the…

something walking upright

2005-06-15

I recently moved into this house in May of 2004 and when exploring found different animal trails. Thinking they were deer, I occasionally follow them. After seeing that deer like to feed in the lawn area, I sta…

something walking upright · the feeling of being watched · a foul smell

2005-10-08

My family and I went to Ludlow, Vermont for Columbus Day weekend since we enjoy the northeastern woods. We all enjoy observing the local flora and fauna in their natural settings and we often drive and/or walk…

a very tall figure · something walking upright

2001-03-05

I called the professor at WSU and left a message but he never contacted me. I had a pretty close encounter in September, 1994(I believe) near tolgate, OR during elk bow season.I had been in the woods for severa…

something walking upright

undated

At approximately midnight I was traveling home from my parents, I got about 3 or 4 tenths of a mile, going slowly up a steep grade, I saw something out of the corner of my eye, assuming it was a deer about to c…

something walking upright · footprints

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