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As a young person I vaguely remember hearing something about a creature called "Bigfoot". I suppose I thought he was something the Indians had conjured up. That is how others seemed to think. Then app…
People who described heavy footsteps
181 accounts in the record mention this, spread across 1960s to 2020s. It is one of the rarer things people report, which makes it worth more when two accounts share it.
0.42%
of every account in the record mentions heavy footsteps. When two strangers both do, the engine weighs that heavily.
What else those witnesses noticed
screaming or howling 66a very tall figure 46something walking upright 35footprints 32growling 30knocking 22
Where it comes up most
Shasta County, California (6) · Pierce County, Washington (4) · Manistee County, Michigan (3) · Douglas County, Oregon (2) · Curry County, Oregon (2) · Shenandoah County, Virginia (2)
When people reported it
| 1960s | 4 | |
| 1970s | 18 | |
| 1980s | 25 | |
| 1990s | 18 | |
| 2000s | 55 | |
| 2010s | 20 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
Counts follow reporting, not necessarily the world. More accounts in a decade can simply mean more people writing them down.
The accounts
1995-07-01
The first incident dates back to around the summer of 1995. It has been a while, so I can't be completely sure of the exact dates. One of my older sisters, and her three young duaghters were out looki…
1978-05-15
April-May 1978 Hope, Arkansas. Hempstead county Sighting was at a farm house (no longer there) on hwy 73 between hwy 278 and hwy 195. My family lived on a farm with all of your typical farm animals, a…
2005-08-11
I am new to this stuff, so I won't even try to cover everything related to this trip. That's for others to talk about. I can tell about what I observed and heard. There were about twenty five people a…
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…
2005-08-20
I used to live in Camino, CA and would go up into Desolation Wilderness as often as I could. The trout fishing was really incredible and it left a wonderful lasting memory with me. Since moving from t…
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 an…
2022-07-19
This happened mid July 2022. My name is John. I am a 66 year old man. My wife and I are finally retired and planned on going camping for a week at a time. We have been wanting to go up to north Battle…
2014-06-12
About five years ago, in late Spring, I took my kids camping in the Lost Creek Wilderness area. They were 8 and 10 years old at the time. We go there quite a bit because it's far enough away to avoid…
1977-07-01
This was summer, 1977, and I lived in Arcata, California working as a volunteer Botanist for Six Rivers National Forest. I was helping out a graduate student at Humboldt State University with his Mast…
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