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Strange accounts from Virginia

736 people here wrote down something they could not explain, between 1940s to 2020s.


What people here tend to describe

hovering 61a triangle shape 53red lights 26moving in formation 24an orange orb 22a very tall figure 18screaming or howling 18a dark figure 10

The accounts

1970-05-16

From the late 60's to about 1990, my Dad took us camping many weekends in the summer to the John H Kerr Reservoir (hereafter know localy as Buggs Island Lake)wich stradles the Virginia, North Carolina…

1993-07-01

I would like to say up- front , that this is a different thing for me to do by far : I reside in Virginia & am originally from the upper New England area of Vermont. I have been a woods person in my n…

undated

I'm an experienced outdoorsman, for what has been most all of my life. I was always 100% confident while in the woods, even at night. It was mid August of 1985, myself and a good friend went camping i…

2003-11-13

I have grown up in the outdoors and been hunting and fishing my entire life. From a childhood spent in North Georgia to stints in West Virginia and now (for the past 16 years) in Virginia, I have spen…

2005-05-28

I put off sharing this story publicly for some time. When the incident occurred, I was working in Law Enforcement at a Regional Jail in Virginia. Stories of Bigfoot always intrigued me, and because I…

1990-08-11

My girlfriend had come to town for the weekend, and we had gone up to the abandoned fire tower on Butt Mountain to go hiking and camping for the weekend. We arrived there early on a Saturday morning,…

1995-11-18

In college, my social club would go camping twice a year for a bonding event w/ our new members. We would go in Late November after the Thanksgiving Holiday and in Early April. A group of about 40-50…

1988-11-01

Deer hunting from a tree stand approx. 15 feet high. Arrived way too early, maybe an hour or more before daylight. I climbed into my tree stand and reversed the batteries in my flashlight to keep it f…

2000-07-21

After finally getting my twelve campers to sleep I left them with my co-counselor and took the short walk to the showers. The time was 11:00 pm and everyone was asleep or at least in their cabins. It…

2011-04-16

While on a training exercise in Ft. Pickett, VA., I was positioned in an observation point overlooking a camp. I was lying low in our hide providing over watch while my team member attempted to move i…

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