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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 a dark figure
202 accounts in the record mention this, spread across 1940s to 2020s. It is one of the rarer things people report, which makes it worth more when two accounts share it.
0.46%
of every account in the record mentions a dark figure. When two strangers both do, the engine weighs that heavily.
What else those witnesses noticed
a very tall figure 52screaming or howling 38something walking upright 24footprints 19knocking 16growling 16
Where it comes up most
Montgomery County, Texas (3) · Siskiyou County, California (3) · Summit County, Ohio (2) · Fairfield County, Ohio (2) · Ashland County, Ohio (2) · Le Flore County, Oklahoma (2)
When people reported it
| 1940s | 1 | |
| 1960s | 2 | |
| 1970s | 19 | |
| 1980s | 12 | |
| 1990s | 26 | |
| 2000s | 57 | |
| 2010s | 41 | |
| 2020s | 10 |
Counts follow reporting, not necessarily the world. More accounts in a decade can simply mean more people writing them down.
The accounts
1972-08-01
Lake Milton, Ohio: Summer 1972 About the time my siblings and I were entering that turbulent period known as our "teens", my family had the great good fortune of having moved into a house flanked on e…
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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…
1982-01-11
My encounter with ???????? The area and time: My encounter occurred during the November rifle deer hunt of 1982. I was 14 years old, hunting deer with my father, grandfather, neighbor, and his son (sa…
2010-06-05
I have debated whether or not to report my encounter to the BFRO or any organization. I don't know why, but I guess I wanted to keep this experience to myself for a few years and then it just didn't s…
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My name is [TH], and I have lived in an old Mining Camp, in Northern California for the past two years. During that first fall I would hear a strange whistling call that would come from a Sequoia tree…
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…
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…
1978-12-18
I just wrote a long report then lost it by clicking on the "why we need location" line and could not get back to my report to submit it. The report was recounted in detail to W.H.F. and his written re…
2006-11-09
[Investigators's interview notes begin here. The witness did not write up the story himself.] On November 9th, 2006, the local media in southeastern Wisconsin ran a story about a possible sighting nea…
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