120 accounts mention this.
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
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
1963-07-15
I have been reading your site for the last couple of years, and thought I'd share some experiences I've had over the years. Nothing particularly groundbreaking, but it may add to your database. I have been inte…
screaming or howling · whooping · footsteps
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
2004-01-30
In October 2000, I began hunting on my wife's family land.The land had sat idle for at least ten years. When I began hunting the land, the deer and hog population was quite high. I took quite a few animals with…
screaming or howling · growling · footsteps
undated
It was October,1970. I was 14 yrs. old. My parents had bought a home on 224th. At that time, our home sat on 5 acres of heavily treed acres. There was a lot of dense brush, trees, and virgin wooded areas every…
screaming or howling · footsteps · silence
2000-10-01
My name is Rooster, obviously my nickname. I am currently on Active Duty Army for 20+ years now. I have been contemplating for the last several years on whether I should write to you all or not. I started watch…
screaming or howling · something walking upright · a foul smell
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
1971-12-15
This happened summertime early 70's (I think 71, 72?). Me, my husband at the time, and my two brothers hiked into Lilly Pad and Crater Lakes, Stillwater County, Montana. It borders Custer National Forest, north…
knocking · wood knocking · footprints
undated
Hello, So last night I had a rather odd, run-in with something I could not explain. I feel like I need to say something. Last night I was on the way home from my friend's house around 1 am, and as I was nearing…
a very tall figure · a foul smell
undated
While reading sightings on your website, I noticed that there was one for Custer, SD. I and my boyfriend had experienced some strange things happen while were working at a Native American Youth camp outside Cus…
knocking · screaming or howling · sleep event
1992-11-19
My father and I were deer hunting the WI gun deer season on 80 acres of land owned by my father's friend. The land was in the middle of the cedar swamp already mentioned. We had several encounters that before a…
screaming or howling · footsteps · something walking upright
1999-10-15
This happened during hunting season in 1999 in the hills above Greyland, WA. When you drive down the highway there are signs directing people to drive up in the nearby hills in case of tidal waves. It was up th…
screaming or howling · silence · taking off impossibly fast
undated
Last night i went to let my dogs back into the house and i heard down the hill what sounded like someone walking in the woods and making alot of noise. it sounded like they were dragging their feet. i did not k…
a foul smell
2004-06-03
My wife and I were crossing the Trinity River on Highway 105 just before sunset on May 29, 2004 after having been to a Cardinals-Astros baseball game. The west bank of the Trinity was a long sand bar, and there…
voices · something walking upright · faceless
2005-01-22
These are my husband and his family's accounts. The first sighting was in 1953. The Tippecanoe River runs beside a cluster of cottages near the little town of Winamac, in northern Indiana. A long suspension bri…
screaming or howling · growling · a very tall figure
2003-12-15
Our daughter told us this at Christmas following the event in October of 2001. She had been afraid of ridicule and did not mention it until we decided we needed to tell her about its existence. We had become ac…
screaming or howling · moving in formation · dogs reacting
1999-04-20
My older brother and his son decided to try and get a picture of this creature. They took their 4 wheeler back to the second field that is just behind the one it has been seen in. The waited for it to walk in.…
knocking · screaming or howling · footsteps
2005-11-03
The year was 1993. I was employed with the US Forest Service in Skykomish, WA on the Mt. Baker Snoqualmie NF. I was part of a wildland firefighting crew on the Skykomish Ranger dist. I should point out that I g…
a very tall figure · something walking upright · a foul smell
1983-07-23
The following phone interview was conducted by Stan Courtney on the 13th of June, 2005. The witness does not have a computer or internet access so the information was entered with his permission. The first name…
something walking upright · a dark figure · a foul smell
2008-05-12
First of all thank you for taking my story. I watch your program often and find them very enjoyable. I was born in Clay County Kentucky and have lived in several states since: Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Tenne…
a very tall figure · a foul smell
1985-06-15
It was summer in the mid 80's. (Sorry I can't be more specific.) Some friends and I had taken to exploring the woods that surrounded our town. We were constantly in the woods for one reason or another. On this…
a foul smell
1990-08-08
I grew up in the outskirts of a small town of Wellsburg, in the northern part of West Virginia. In the northern panhandle, ever since I was little we would ride our dirt bikes in the old strip mine, that was ca…
growling · footsteps · something walking upright
1969-03-09
On Sunday, March 9, 1969 my husband John and I had nothingto do and thought it might be interesting to drive up to our vacation property on Bear Creek, about 6 miles Northwest of Carson, WA. We called another c…
footprints · a foul smell
2005-01-06
The following occured in 1975 when I was 14 years old. My family lived in Bellevue, Nebraska (near Offutt Air Force Base) where my father had recently retired from the U.S. Air Force after 24 years of active du…
a very tall figure · a foul smell
1965-10-02
I would love to talk to you about things that happen to me back in the 60's south of Oregon, IL. along Rock River. I do believe it was maybe a Bigfoot. I was raised in the Oregon, Illinois area. We had a place…
screaming or howling · growling · the feeling of being watched
1985-10-01
During the autumn bowhunting season, in the fall of 1985, my friend, K, his cousin, T, and myself, A, went to K's parent's cabin (along with his parents). We were all 15 to 16 at the time. The cabin is located…
voices · an orange orb · a dark figure
2003-12-15
I live in Northeast Texas close to the town of Commerce. I was witness to several incidents when I lived just outside Commerce. At the time I was employed for the Delta County Sheriffs Dept as a deputy. It was…
footprints · a foul smell
1958-11-01
I was fifteen or sixteen at the time, 1958, and running a trapline on a creek west and south of Adario, Ohio. It was my third or fourth year of trapping. My dog, Smokey, always went with me and usually chased r…
growling · a very tall figure · a foul smell
2010-07-16
Yesterday,I ,my dad,my son,and his Friend, went up to our farm in Wilson County to do some bush hogging and prepare our deer stands for the up coming season..The kids asked if they could walk the logging road t…
a very tall figure · dogs reacting · a foul smell
1978-07-01
In the late 70s I used to walk to my friends house via a swampy area. One night around 10 PM, I started walking to his house. About halfway there I heard this very strange sound. It was like a low pitched growl…
knocking · screaming or howling · growling
2000-08-01
Let me start by saying I'm a non believer in Bigfoot, but what my Uncle and I heard and smelled one camping night I can't explain. My uncle and I spent 12 years exploring the back country of Challis, Salmon, an…
screaming or howling · a foul smell · dead animals
2003-07-01
From 1997~ 2003 I lived in Snohomish, Washington, located near the top of Cathcart Hill which I think is about 350 ft above sea level, maybe higher. It also was all forested west of there for 5 square miles unt…
screaming or howling · glowing eyes · a foul smell
1972-07-15
1. Strange howling scream. 2. Foul stench. Shortly after moon set, the lake wind had died down and the night was calm. Our dog started getting nervous & ran whimpering under the car. A few minutes later the air…
screaming or howling · growling · a foul smell
1998-04-01
It was in mid-late April 1994 when my 7 year old son and I went to find a fishing lake we had heard about in the mountains north of Gold Bar. Being a new residence to Washington at the time I had no knowledge o…
screaming or howling · a foul smell
1983-05-07
In May of 1983 (during the first week of May of that year), while camping in the Santa Fe National Forest in northern New Mexico, I experienced a most peculiar visitation. I was 30 years old at the time and a t…
screaming or howling · a very tall figure · a foul smell
undated
Something very unusual just happened to me this Thanksgiving. I went with my wife to see her father. The area is western Oklahoma. It is wheat country. The land is flat and laid off into square sections of land…
knocking · wood knocking · screaming or howling
2003-11-29
My family resides close to Norman, Oklahoma, and from 1976 to the present, there have been numerous incidents revolving around Bigfoot, including two sightings in 1976 and one in January 2003, footprints in bot…
a very tall figure · footprints · a foul smell
2004-01-22
I arrived at site during fall thunderstorm and after it passed around 9 pm, set up to fish under bridge as the water was running and the catfish had swam upstream from Spence to feed. Observed one identifiable…
screaming or howling · voices · humanoid
2007-07-15
On Sunday night July 15 (about midnight) I walked out of my garage and I smelled something musky, like a buck in rut or wet dog and I commented to my father about that, but just shrugged it off. It was overcast…
dogs reacting · footprints · a foul smell