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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

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

2013-05-27

I have two things to report: 1) I think I saw a bigfoot 2) A few weeks later, I think I heard it Where do you start making a report about this? All I can say is that after what I saw and heard, I have to suppor…

knocking · wood knocking · screaming or howling

2015-12-01

Location, Nashport, Ohio, Near Dillon State Park. This is an account of events that transpired during mine and my friends 5 day hunting trip on a 40 acre tract in Nashport, Ohio, in Muskingum County. This land…

knocking · wood knocking · screaming or howling

1978-08-01

I grew up in Stark County Ohio in Paris Township from 1973 until I went away for school (1990) and then got married. The famous "Minerva Flap" happened in my back yard. The strip mine that was behind the Cayton…

knocking · screaming or howling · footprints

2005-10-01

My unusual experience occurred during the first week of October 2005. I was scouting for deer in a very isolated and limited access area in upstate New York accessible by a 4 x 4 trail. I had scouted another ar…

knocking · growling

1983-10-01

Friday, September 30, 1983 The night before opening day of bow season, I arrived in the camp at approximately 4:30 pm. I began clearing an area to set up base camp for a total of three hunters who were joining…

knocking · wood knocking · whooping

undated

The main river in this area and the surrounding county can be a double-edged sword, a vast wilderness smack up against a major population–Portland Oregon. With numerous rock quarries used to create the logging…

knocking · buzzing · boom

2009-02-11

I drove up Mill Creek Road to Tiger Creek Road (also called Tiger Canyon Road) and stopped at Skyline Campground (formerly squaw springs campground). I live in western Washington but grew up in Walla Walla and…

knocking · wood knocking · growling

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

2003-04-07

The first incident for me happened in late winter 2003 around the end of February or early March. I had an exchange student living with me and my family and she had a snow day so we headed outside that day. Sin…

knocking · growling · a very tall figure

1972-01-17

In the winter December to January 1971-1972 my wife and I had quite an experience. I was hunting for deer in an area in southern Ohio, close to the Bob Evan Farm Area off route 35 before you come to Centerville…

knocking · wood knocking · silence

2003-11-09

This account happened on the night of the lunar eclipse back in 2003. I was camping with my friend Pete in NY up behind his cabin (about 1/4 mile up the hill). It was about 11pm and we were both in our bags in…

knocking · growling · the feeling of being watched

2008-08-10

Near the end of August, this year 2008 a couple of friends and I went camping/Bigfoot hunting around the upper Collawash River in the Oregon Cascade Range east of Estacada with the intensions of finding a spot…

knocking · wood knocking · a very tall figure

2018-01-21

In mid September 2017 at approximately 1:00 am while taking a small dog out I heard a scream that sounded as if a woman was in some kind of trouble. It was very loud and blood curdling. At the same time, I had…

knocking · three knocks · screaming or howling

1996-11-01

I will begin by saying that I am an avid extreme hunter and outdoorsman as is my companion on this trip. We have hunted together for many years through all sorts of terrain and conditions, and have developed a…

knocking · screaming or howling

2002-10-12

My girlfriend and I left Akron about 1:00 PM to head south for the afternoon. My room mate had given us directions to a waterfall in a little-known back road park on the edge of Tuscawaras and Stark Counties. H…

knocking · three knocks

undated

Never saw anything but 4 years ago my friend, his son and I went camping up near Mount Adams ( A very remote campground) and we were hearing strange screams right before nightfall. Shortly after dark we could h…

knocking · wood knocking · screaming or howling

2007-08-18

My friend and I were hiking on a trail called Five Mile Mtn. We were at the top of the Mtn when I had this eary feeling about the woods ahead. I have never felt like that before in the woods during daylight. We…

knocking · rocks being thrown

2012-09-15

We went to LeFlore County to trail ride and during the trip there my husband and I joked about the possibility of seeing one. I even went to Honobia, OK with my daughter to the Bigfoot Festival in 2011 and lear…

knocking · wood knocking · screaming or howling

1972-10-28

When I was 11 years old I was living with my mother and step-father in upstate New York. Our home was on the shores of Oneida Lake and bordered the southern boundary of Verona Beach State Park. One evening shor…

knocking · screaming or howling · a very tall figure

2005-06-21

On June 21, 2005, I started a solo bicycle tour from Salem, Oregon that would take me east up into the Mount Hood National Forest, Warm Springs Indian Reservation, Old Mckenzie Pass Hwy just west of Sisters, an…

knocking · wood knocking · screaming or howling

1998-11-19

My "encounter" was completely audio related and contained no visual input. It was late November 1998 and I had travelled to the home of my brother-in-law in Southeastern Ohio for Thanksgiving and the opening da…

knocking

undated

This incident happened a couple years ago during a snowstorm. I can't say for sure that is was a Bigfoot, but here goes. It was winter, but I dont' remember exactly what month, but it was 1995 or so. We had a v…

knocking · screaming or howling · glowing eyes

undated

On November 7th and 8th I re-visited my family property to investigate wood knocking I recalled hearing there since childhood. The impetus for this investigation stems from my own sighting in the area in the 19…

knocking · wood knocking

1998-10-01

A couple of my college roomates and I decided to go trout fishing on the Thompson River in Oconee Co., SC. I grew up close to here and had fished the White Water River extensively so I was pretty familiar with…

knocking · voices

2009-02-06

My sighting first took place on my property in February of 2009. I had numerous contacts along with various evidence found and seen on the ten heavily wooded acres where I reside. 1st sighting. Feb 6th approxim…

knocking · a very tall figure · footprints

1991-02-24

It was an unusually warm February that year and me and 3 other friends of mine decided to go out and spend the night in the strip mines to kind of get away from things and shoot guns and just have a little fun…

knocking · screaming or howling · a very tall figure

undated

I am reporting a second incident which occurred in the same location as Report #3533 from 1998. This incident occurred in 99 or 2000. After the wood knocking incident from 1998 I made a decision to be as prepar…

knocking · wood knocking · screaming or howling

undated

we had been coon hunting there were 4 of us we were running 3 black&tan coon hounds. it was a full moon in the late fall of the year.we had just been running the dogs in a 40 acre section one of the largest sec…

knocking · screaming or howling · dead animals

undated

My partner and I were bow hunting for elk just outside of the major power lines running down the North Fork of the Siuslaw River. He set up to call elk under the power lines just in the brush from the open fiel…

knocking

undated

I am on the mailing list for the Bigfoot reports and recently I read about there being a sighting in Ticonderoga. I have always been interested in Bigfoot and thought I would take a trip up there and see if I c…

knocking · whooping · a triangle shape

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

1979-05-01

In 1979, my family and I lived on a farm in Haydenville, Ohio just outside of Logan, Ohio. My dad had just painted our front porch so we had to go out the back door to feed our dog named Wolf (he was tied up in…

knocking · screaming or howling · a very tall figure

undated

I am 25, and have 2 younger brothers, 9 and 14. I wanted to take them camping, just a simple outing so we chose that spot even though there are no trails as it is not too far from home and was easy to get into.…

knocking

undated

I was among a group that spent the summer and fall on the side of mountain several thousand feet up opening old gold mines closed down due to WWII. Phone reception was poor, and I was asked by Steve to run him…

knocking · growling · a very tall figure

2012-08-18

My adult daughters where out camping the weekend of 10AUG2012 in a slightly remote camp in the Tillamook forest. For 2 nights in a row they heard possible big foot calls that went on for 20min the first night a…

knocking · screaming or howling · whooping

2004-06-20

On June 20, 2004, at 2 AM, I was lounging in my recliner watching TV. I noticed something like a large dark shadow looking in my window. We have four full length windows with no curtains because our family room…

knocking · screaming or howling · a very tall figure

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

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