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I had arrived on Amtrak from Kissimmee to Deland an hour late which made it 3:40 pm. I waited ten minutes for my luggage, then left the station to take CR42 West to Lady Lake. It was between 4 and 4:30 pm while I was driving that I noticed something running on someone's farm land. There were cows gathered in a pasture near the house. The creature was running in their direction but at a long even stride. I was probably about 150 yds away on the highway. It was brown/black in color and was the same all over. The stride was long, maybe about 3 1/2 to 4 ft. between steps. The creature looked at least 6' ft tall. It was the first thing I thought of as it was on two legs and all the other animals were on four. It looked out of place. No one else was around as far as I could see. The creature was running along the fence line. Which should be mentioned is that CR42 runs the southern edge of the Ocala National Forest where sightings have been seen. On Sept. 4th I had to pick up tickets in Deland for a trip. I took the same road but passed the farm because of traffic behind me. I wanted to photograph the area but couldn't.","I was going west of 42 after coming off Hwy 44 over the St. John's River Bridge.","Lake County","Florida","Summer","Report 46604: Driver notices \"Something out of Place\" along Hwy. 42 near Paisley",29.97454,-81.55172,"2014-08-15",46604.0,"Class B","djq480xy75",86.27,79.725,73.18,74.47,0.89,0.29,0.68,0.0019,0.6,"rain",1016.07,"Humid throughout the day and partly cloudy until evening.",9.0,9.74,210.0,0.97,"RES.SEASON"], [45,2372,"My girlfriend and I were standing in a graveyard on a ridge top in Eagle Rock, VA. on Dec 24. It was rainy overcast day at approximately 4:50 pm. We were paying respect to my families graves when all of a sudden we heard a guttural call sound come from about, what I estimate, 100-150 yards away, if that far up the mountain from us. It was low and lasted several seconds. There were 3 distinct calls in the initial call. My girlfriend looked at me and said, \"what was that?\" I started to answer her with an \"I am not sure\" response when it called out again, 3 distinct calls. She said, \"is that Bigfoot\". I said \"I am not sure, I grew up in the woods and Had never heard anything guttural like that before and I have heard a lot\". I could see the fear in her eyes. I looked around and told her, I am not sure what it is but look at all the dogs, they know exactly what it is. There was a very large dog about 100 yards away over the ridge, that was frozen in place and staring in the direction of the sound. There were 2 other dogs, one on a chain on the porch of a house and a hunting dog on a chain about 75 yards away from us. Both of those dogs were frozen in place looking in the direction of the sound. Not one of the dogs barked. The hunting dog was the closest to the sound and it was still and quiet. My girlfriend said what do we do now? Before those words were finished coming out of her mouth, I was trying to make the same sound back at whatever it was but I only did one guttural call instead of 3. She said oh my God Ernie. It was quiet for 5 -10 seconds after my call and then it responded with another single call like I had just done. I thought I heard something moving. When it responded, a rooster crowed right behind us and then the rooster and chickens with it ran off the hillside behind us. My girlfriend wanted to leave and go to my grandfathers and that sounded like a good Idea, however; I wanted to see if I could get close enough to see what it was. I convinced her we were safe in the car. So we got on the gravel road that went up to the water tank farther up the mountain, very close to where the sound had come from. On the way up we passed the dogs, They were standing still and looking up the mountain. When we got to the water tank I wanted to get out but my girlfriend asked me not to. I listened to her and frankly happy that I did, since I didn't have anything for protection. I had the windows down hoping to hear it again. There was silence and then the dogs started barking at us. That told me whatever had scared them must have been gone then, so we left. The hunting dog that was standing still when we went passed it on the way up the hill was spinning around and flipping he was going so fast to try to get at our car. I didn't see anything but heard much.","Directions from Route 220. Cross the James River on James St. Take right onto route 43 (Church Street) into Eagle Rock. You will pass the Eagle Rock Fire Station on your left. The next road to the left is Indian Lane. Go up Indian Lane to the top and the graveyard will be on right, and gravel road to the water tank is on the left side of Indian Lane.","Botetourt County","Virginia","Winter","Report 38619: Couple hear possible moan howls one afternoon at Eagle Rock Cemetery",37.64224,-79.79759,"2012-12-24",38619.0,"Class B","dnxq0ht1vq",38.04,37.545,37.05,33.5,0.85,0.77,0.39,0.0149,1.0,"snow",1014.15,"Mixed precipitation (1–2 in. of snow) until afternoon.",2.0,4.2,115.0,0.23,"RES.SEASON"], [46,2194,"I live in Frisco Texas, and me a friend go kayaking at the greenbelt quite often, Denton county, it connects lakes Lewisville and lake Rayroberts together, We started kayking and probably went about 2 miles when we came upon a log jam we could not get around. So we had to get off the water and go around it on the shore. When we were about to put our boats back in the water my friend yells for me to look at something and we came upon a series of unusual footsteps that looked non human but bigger then any other animal that is in this area. I did some research and noticed that there hasnt been any sightings in this area but these are very unusual human like animal tracks. I do have pictures.","it was about 2 miles up river on the greenbelt not too far after you go under the railroad track off of 380.","Denton County","Texas","Spring","Report 23578: Possible tracks found along the Greenbelt Corridor outside Denton",33.27303,-97.03784,"2008-04-08",23578.0,"Class B","9vfvrc5jqq",78.28,65.17,52.06,59.24,0.67,0.68,0.1,0.0002,0.45,"rain",1008.82,"Rain overnight.",6.0,9.74,187.0,2.47,"RES.SEASON"], [48,2855,"This happened during the October 2004 Washington BFRO Expedition on the Olympic Penninsula. It was the first night of the expedition and my brother and I had been asked (as well as two other team members) to go to a location that had a recent sighting reported by [a local law enforcement officer]. The objective for the night was to walk a portion of the mountain road while making occasional wood knocks with hopes of attracting a sasquatch. By the time we arrived at the location and prepared all of our gear it had become completely dark. We started walking down the mountain road. After about 5 minutes of walking we heard two short grunting sounds that came from the woods to our left (south of the road). The grunting noises were very deep sounding, had some power behind them. There were a few moments of silence and blank stares between us. We continued down the road, wondering if the thing would make more noise. We continued doing wood knocks as we walked. A few hours passed as we continued to walk up and down the 3/4 mile stretch of the road, knocking every 20-30 minutes. Then we were contacted by radio from another team that was positioned approximately 3-5 miles from us along the banks of [a river]. The river team had apparently been hearing wood knocks coming from somewhere between their location and our location. They wanted to check if it was our wood knocks they were hearing. To see whether the river team could hear our wood knocks, we made some loud knocks and asked if the river team could hear us. The river team asked us to repeat the knocks a few times. After a few tries they said they were not able to hear our knocks at all, so whatever they were hearing was closer to them. We continued back up the road. Not longer after climbing back up the road we heard what I could only describe as a scream that came from the southwest of us, approximately 250 - 300 yards in the woods. The \"scream\" started as a low, deep moan and went into a very high pitched screech lasting at least a few seconds. It was very unlike anything we had ever heard. We were shocked because we had hunted in the Pacific Northwest for years and knew every kind of large animal sound. Several minutes of silence went by and we decided to proceed up the road further to where the truck was parked. After reaching the truck we unloaded some of our equipment. We were ready to start heading back down the road again when we heard the second scream. This time the scream was much closer, within 50 yards of us and on the opposite side of the road from the first scream. The scream again started as a low moan and reached a very high pitched screech. The volume and power of the scream was amazing, it made every hair stand on end. The scream probably lasted a few seconds, but was so loud that I was expecting this animal to come through the trees at any moment. All four stood there in complete shock at what we had just heard. We eventually gathered ourselves and continued walking up and down the road for a period of time, wondering what was going to happen next. Nothing further happened that evening. My brother and I are experienced outdoorsmen. We have spent most of our lives in the woods in and around the Pacific Northwest. We both are very familiar with the calls and sounds of all of the known animal species in the area, especially elk, deer and bear. The screams we experienced were not any animal that either of us, or any of the others in our team, had ever heard before. If any of us had heard something like this before we sure would not have forgotten it. We'll definitely remember what we heard on this trip.","[Details removed]","Jefferson County","Washington","Fall","Report 11040: Vocalizations heard by expeditioners on Olympic Peninsula.",47.5532,-124.3324,"2004-10-21",11040.0,"Class B","c0rwd8zcmn",52.9,50.965,49.03,43.66,0.78,0.72,0.28,0.0003,0.82,"rain",1009.48,"Light rain overnight.",2.0,9.12,209.0,3.09,"RES.SEASON"], [54,4183,"Went on a afternoon hike and decided to stop at the clear cut where big powers lines are to see if I could see a deer or something. I jumped up numerous turkey and deer while hiking. So I parked the car, rolled down the windows, shut the car off and just listened and watched. Not even 10 mins go by and this large black thing just starts walking across the open all the way to the other side. I get out of the car to get closer to see it, soon as I do that it see’s me then steps into the tree line . I hurried back to my car and watched from the cab. I called an individual and on the phone with them while I’m still watching it. At first before I started recording I noticed it and for a second I thought a hiker or hunter. But it’s posture and how it moved didn’t look right. To me it looked hunched over or like it’s shoulders we’re rolled forward. I showed a buddy and he agrees with me so idk. Found a dismantled deer very close by. Head was missing and front legs were ripped off. Their was a document sighting on BFRO about 1 mile or so from here. I have a video of the subject and photo’s of the deer. I was very close to the shoal river. Thick tye dye swamp very close by.","Investigator Notes: Click for a Google Maps link to the location. Coordinates: 30.684406, -86.556365","Okaloosa County","Florida","Winter","Report 67590: Possible sighting with video last THURSDAY on Eglin AFB just south Crestview",30.68441,-86.55637,"2021-01-28",67590.0,"Class B","dj6qw3gtdk",57.44,44.57,31.7,34.16,0.62,0.07,0.51,0.0005,0.06,"rain",1028.9,"Clear throughout the day.",5.0,10.0,356.0,10.5,"RES.SEASON"], [64,1935,"There were six of driving toward shelby forest one night just after dark. We had probably driven 5 or 6 miles from Highway 51 when I was something run accross the road in front of the car just inside for the headlight range. At the same time I saw this the driver of the car stopped immediately and looked around at everyone in the car. Apparently he could tell by my look I saw it too and then asked me directly if I saw \"it\". I said yes and then we drove in reverse until there was a turnaround between the divided highway and got out of there. To this day I am not sure what it was that I saw but it was on two feet and very fast. Watkins extended is divided and it crossed 4 traffic lanes and the median in just a couple of seconds. It was very big black and looked like it was covered with fur. It was hard to tell exactly since it was just inside the headlight range and happened very quicky. It ran with a slight forward tilt and with very little arm bend. No one else in the car saw it besides myself and the driver.","Turned off US Highway 51 towards shelby forest down Watkins extended. Traveled several miles","Shelby County","Tennessee","Spring","Report 15003: Brief sighting by motorsist near Shelby Forest.",35.226,-89.94,"1985-04-15",15003.0,"Class B","dn203kewq4",65.09,57.290000000000006,49.49,51.44,0.8,0.68,0.86,0.0018,1.0,"rain",1009.61,"Light rain in the afternoon.",5.0,6.39,119.0,0.89,"RES.SEASON"], [75,2454,"One summer night in 2008, I was sitting on the back deck with our dog Icy at about 1 in the morning, because it was too hot to sleep. It was totally silent -- which it normally is around here at night -- and as I sat there on the wooden steps, with Icy sitting on the deck about 3 feet away from me, I heard what at first sounded like a distant siren, seemingly from the north-north-east. (The only thing in that direction from our house is Dow Mountain, with no roads except for dirt logging roads). Icy's response to sirens is invariably the same: he lifts up his head, pricks his ears, listens intently, and then begins howling, usually in the moment just after the siren becomes inaudible to my human ears. That night, though, his response was completely different. He came quickly to my side and pressed himself against me, sort of hunching himself into an extension of my body. As I listened, I viscerally \"knew\" that what I was hearing was NOT a siren, although it did seem very, very similar to a siren sound.  I remember I was holding my breath -- and my impression was that I didn't start breathing again until the sound had completely stopped -- and I can only hold my breath for about 50 seconds, so that's the amount of time I would guess the sound went on. The same instinct that told me that I was not listening to a siren also told me that I had never heard this sound before.  Another -- to me -- validating aspect was that my own response to it was out of character, just as Icy's was. Normally I would have sat there for another hour or so, hoping to hear it again. It was so amazing -- and I usually can't get enough of that kind of interesting mysterious stuff. But when the howling ended and I started breathing again, my first impulse was to get inside the house, quietly and fast. I went online and Googled every kind of indigenous Pacific Northwest animal I could think of: elk, fox, coyote, deer, bear, rabbit, moose, cougar, various owls, other birds -- even wolf, which we purportedly do not have in this area -- and couldn't find any WAV file that even came close. On a chance, I looked up Sasquatch WAV files, and listened to the ones that I could find -- I think there were five -- and one of them, the \"Ohio Howl\", was a dead ringer. When I heard it coming through the headphones, chills started running up my back. That was the sound I'd heard.","Approximately 300 feet from Highway 119, and approximately 1.5 miles northwest of the Foothills Park area.","Mason County","Washington","Summer","Report 28487: Possible vocalization heard near Lake Cushman and Dow Mountain",47.41995,-123.2005,"2011-01-11",28487.0,"Class B","c22mu881hr",33.99,31.925,29.86,24.42,0.81,0.43,0.23,0.0008,0.37,"snow",1020.38,"Foggy starting in the evening.",1.0,7.96,35.0,0.28,"RES.SEASON"], [84,1506,"November 20th, 2006 @ 12:00pm while deer hunting in the Manistee National forest. My brother and I found a pair of tracks that are longer and wider than my 9 1/2 reebok's tennis shoes. The stride was about 6 feet long. We only found 1 set of tracks so I am not sure if what we found are bigfoot tracks. I came back 4 day's later and took pictures of them.","[Edited out]","Mason County","Michigan","Fall","Report 19223: Possible footprints found near Manistee",44.091,-86.42896,"2006-11-20",19223.0,"Class B","dpfdc682eq",41.58,34.614999999999995,27.65,26.04,0.75,0.34,0.98,0.0012,0.82,"snow",1026.27,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",2.0,9.85,349.0,1.88,"RES.SEASON"], [88,1241,"Either December 25 or 26, 2002. Franklin County Alabama Pine Forest/Hardwood Forest/Open field Between 4:00 and 5:00pm. I was hunting along a fenceline late that afternoon when some deer came running out of a pine thicket, down the netwire fence row, and jumped over to where I was. I was roughly 75ft from the fence when this occurred. My jack russell dog saw them and took aften them. He often follows me hunting as this place is next to my house. After chasing them for about 10 mins he comes back towards me when he suddenly stops, looks towards the pine thicket, lets out a weird yelp and takes off towards the house visibly something wrong. I stood there and heard a noise and the deer that had ran by came back by as if something had spooked them again. As they came back up the hill I heard what appeared to be a large animal coming from the thicket. I thought it was another deer that had separated from the herd and was coming back to join up. As I watched something on two legs appeared roughly 100ft from my position from out of the thicket. It came down the fence line and went over the fence in the direction of the deer. I could clearly see that it was on two feet and did not pay me any attention. I watched it for less than a minute before it disappeared down the hill from me. Numerous hunters have reported seeing something of this nature around here before. I sent in a follow up the other day to tack on to this story but was notified that you never received this story. My other account happened last week. It goes as follows. July 1, 2006 that around the hours of 11pm to 12am I walked out on my front porch to encounter weird noises that closely resemble those on your website. The sounds came from directly in front of my house down in a hollow on my neighbors land. They lasted for roughly 3 or 4 minutes. My three dogs became agitated and seemed quite frightened when the noise started. I myself became somewhat afraid and proceeded back inside. I would also like to inform you on a change in email addresses. As you can see my address now is [removed by editor]. Thank you for your time.","Northwest Alabama on Mississippi state line.","Franklin County","Alabama","Winter","Report 15102: Daylight sighting by hunter near the Alabama / Mississippi border",31.00002,-86.99782,"2006-07-06",15102.0,"Class A","djd0k76h5y",84.82,77.8,70.78,71.25,0.8,0.57,0.35,0.0018,1.0,"rain",1016.47,"Light rain in the afternoon.",6.0,7.42,183.0,0.84,"RES.SEASON"], [89,1109,"My experience with Bigfoot occured when I was about ten years old during the fall of 1977. I was always exploring the wooded area between route 5 and route 20 in northwestern PA, west of Crayton road. One cool, wet evening just before dusk, I walked north into the woods via the main trail from our house. At the fork in the trail, running north and east, was a small sand pit which I crouched into because I saw someone or something in the distance. I peered over the rough, looking slightly northeastward. I watched this thing for nearly five minutes. It was over 7 feet tall and weighted about 500 - 700 pounds from as far as I could tell. It was black from head to toe. Even its face was black. It was tearing off tree limbs and pushing over rotted trees. Playing as such as I had done several days earlier at the exact same spot. It must have been watching me. It amazed me because there were really no rotted trees left to push over or rotted tree branches to break. It's strength was incredible. I could hear the sounds of trees crackling and smashing to the ground. I grew extremely scared by bigfoots size and strength and what it might do to me if it saw me. The hair on my body stood straight up and without looking back I turned and ran as fast as I could. I ran approximately 50 yards back along the trail and another 100 yards through the field to my parents house. I never returned to explore the woods for another six months.","I-20 west from Erie, PA to West Springfield, PA. Goto Crayton Road. Head north less than 1/4 mile on the west side of the road.","Erie County","Pennsylvania","Fall","Report 11506: Youth watches while bipedal creature pushes down trees",41.91826,-80.54177,"1977-10-15",11506.0,"Class A","dpqwrnzr8d",61.99,51.99,41.99,41.58,0.83,0.52,0.1,0.0025,1.0,"rain",1010.79,"Overcast starting in the afternoon.",4.0,7.0,225.0,7.55,"RES.SEASON"], [92,2938,"I was deer hunting near Ellensburg, specifically GMU 328 Naneum unit last October 2020. On the 5th day of my hunt I was looking over an open area that butted up to woods and I saw a shape at the tree line that was standing upright and appeared to be a person in a Ghille suit. I thought that was odd because it is required to wear hunter orange during this hunt. I then looked down to retrieve my binoculars that were resting on my chest and I raised them up to scan the area and the person or thing was gone. I scanned the area with my eyes and binoculars and did not see it again. The person or thing I saw was approximately 300 yards away from me and there weren’t very many hunters out on this day. I then moved on via foot to an area I haven’t hunted yet and after about a ten minute walk I saw a track on the ground that looked like a human bare foot mark in the dirt. I took a photo of it and looked around the area for more tracks but could not locate any. The area was mostly a logged area with short field type grass and just a little bit of dirt in the area. The size of the print was only about a size 11 size foot. I then continued my hunt and left the next morning.","Naneum Game Management Unit 328 US Forest Service Land","Kittitas County","Washington","Fall","Report 67451: Possible sighting and track in the GMU 328 Naneum Unit near Ellensburg",47.18806,-120.554,"2021-01-13",67451.0,"Class B","c26k2wr625",31.07,27.54,24.01,23.72,0.81,0.6,0.04,0.0107,0.85,"snow",1022.2,"Snow (< 1 in.) and dangerously windy in the morning.",1.0,8.964,274.0,13.02,"RES.SEASON"], [101,3308,"Around 5pm I was driving down hwy 258 to go to the store. We have had some recent flooding so I was driving slower than normal and watching for deer. Along the way I seen 2 different area of deer, one had 3 I could see the other there was at least 6. So on the way back from the store I knew to slow down in those areas just in case. In one area it is a rather sharp curve and I had seen the most deer there. As I came up on the curve I slowed down and suddenly something jumped out in front of the car!!! I'll call it a \"he from here out.\" He seem to have been running from the pine tree line and took a, what I would call a leap, out onto the road then he was gone. It was only 1 maybe two steps on the road it's self to clear it! I had slammed on the brakes and just sit there in awe wondering if I really seen what I had. He was standing on two legs, lots of fur and what I would assume Is at least 8 foot tall. When he jumped in front of the car he was about a car length in front of me. He looked to have had a large fish in his hand. I know how that sounds but I swear it was a long fish. My husband said it may have been a stick but I'm a country girl and I know my fish! His \"fur\" was longer than what bear fur would be and although he was dark brown it had a reddish hue to it, the headlights gave s good look at the color as it leaped across. There is a lake back behind where he was running from but he also jumped across to the right where those 6 plus deer were standing. We are going back at first light to see if he left foot prints. It's so muddy I'm hoping to see some. We hear sounds out here almost nightly of what we describe as big foot sounds but I've honestly never thought they was out here. It is just sounds you can't describe, so we call it bigfoot sounds. I've had several friends and family hear them and one of them will not stay outside long out here because she's heard it so much. When I got home my husband came to the door to help bring stuff in and ask what was wrong, I said the deer are out bad and he asked if I hit one, I said no and he asked why was I shaking. I didn't realize my whole body was still shaking! LoL I started telling him and I had tears rolling down, heart pounding and still shaking so bad. It really shook me up so much. Not sure what else to say. It was one of the most amazing yet scariest things I've ever seen. I know I will not sleep tonight due to thinking about it and what exactly happened.","Going north on 67/167 take the second Bald Knob exit, turn left and go under over pass, then turn left onto Hwy 258, about two miles down in the curve.","White County","Arkansas","Winter","Report 50541: Motorist has a close sighting at dusk on AR-258 outside Bald Knob",35.34737,-91.60007,"2015-12-28",50541.0,"Class A","9yqc5dfc7e",50.92,43.935,36.95,39.7,0.81,0.95,0.61,0.0557,1.0,"rain",1004.71,"Heavy rain in the morning and breezy in the afternoon.",2.0,9.49,248.0,4.79,"RES.SEASON"], [105,4014,"Hey guys and Lady, My name is xxx and I have never seen a Bigfoot or Sasquatch. I do however believe that something could be out there. May 23rd (2013) at around 11:30 pm I was on my way to the Orlando Airport to pick up my son-in-law. I was on the Beach Line or 528 toll road. I had slowed down due to his flight being delayed and it had been raining when I saw something moving from the side of the road toward the fence and pasture land. It is not unusual to see deer, wild turkeys and from time to time hogs even on this busy road, however this was none of the above. What I saw was very large, hunched over, and moving quickly toward the wire fence and was a greyish color and the hair was longer, so it was not a loose cow or large hog. I was close enough to see the size and it was big, I cannot tell you how tall it was only a guess. I have heard about The Skunk Ape but again never seen anything and I don't go out looking for one, I just know what I saw. There is a lot of wet land and swamp land close to the Orlando International Airport and The Beach Line is a major toll road that connects the east cost of our area to I-4 in Orlando. Thank you, XXX","I saw it on the side of the road just before you enter the first toll plaza.","Orange County","Florida","Spring","Report 41275: Possible nighttime road crossing on HWY 528 outside Orlando",28.45247,-81.01299,"2013-05-23",41275.0,"Class B","djn3ue85ss",87.56,78.545,69.53,70.11,0.81,0.23,0.44,0.0031,0.68,"rain",1015.09,"Light rain in the evening.",9.0,9.79,351.0,0.17,"RES.SEASON"], [108,3142,"Since October I have had many howls, wood knocks, eyeshine instances. I believe they have always frequented the hardwoods across the street, but since the recent logging of thousands of acres of pine in the area they have taken up full time residency across the street. There is a large swamp that butts up to the hardwoods. The night of January 21st, 2017 was the most incidental of all so far. After making some calls on my front porch I got a wood knock from the woods across the street. My dog ran toward the activity and barked for a long time. When I heard his collar stop jingling and the barking stopped I got worried and went into the woods with a large limb. I beat against a large oak and yelled \"I want my Dog!\". I heard a woodknock close by then a chest beat and a bluff charge through the brush. Then a tree push down. I yell roared \"I want my Dog!\" and beat hard against the tree. I saw eyeshine ahead I I told him to back away so my dog will come to me and we will go home. He did and my dog came out and we went home.","Take Hwy.471 to Dartigo Rd. to the Church of God. Woods behind the Church.","Grant Parish","Louisiana","Winter","Report 56576: Homeowner describes ongoing activity from a neighboring swamp and takes interesting photos outside Colfax",31.368,-92.422,"2017-01-21",56576.0,"Class B","9vw62yk7g7",71.05,62.44,53.83,61.19,0.91,0.51,0.8,0.0106,0.8,"rain",1001.69,"Mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",4.0,8.11,156.0,2.22,"RES.SEASON"], [109,498,"My brother, dad and I had spent the day hunting behind our home. A ravine ran through the deep woods where we were fox hunting. The pelts brought a good price in those days. I was about 11 years old. While we hunted I had noticed large tracks in the snow. I tried to report it to dad but he was a very intense hunter and ignored me. As my brother and I drove the ravine I had this strange feeling of being watched. We had no luck that day and headed back home. We usually unloaded our rifles in the back yard before going inside. It was at this time that my brother yelled, \"look.\" He was pointing to the back of the pasture behind the house. I saw something that I cannot explain. At first we thought we were looking at a bear lumbering on all fours but then it stood up. It was very tall and it was covered in a brownish fur. The fur on its arms was rather long. I could see the fur hanging from its arms as it reached out to touch the pasture fence in a posture more like a man. Then it stepped over a five foot fence and walked off into the heavy thicket completely out of sight. The pasture was owned by Jay Baker who is now deceased. My brother always called this the, \"Freak of Nature Bear.\" I have never seen anything like this since. There was a creek that ran through the part of the pasture where the creature was sighted. This was also where I first had spotted the tracks. I have told this story many times since to various friends.","This incident took place two miles east of Fulton, Ohio about 200 yards north of County Road 25.","Morrow County","Ohio","Winter","Report 3293: Three fox hunters witness a \"Freak of nature bear\" step over a fence and walk into a thicket.",40.4764,-82.80257,"1978-01-01",3293.0,"Class A","dpjn7b9007",35.6,24.635,13.67,24.44,0.79,0.94,0.73,0.0079,1.0,"snow",1008.61,"Snow (1–2 in.) until evening and breezy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",1.0,3.21,239.0,8.69,"RES.SEASON"], [110,4392,"I am now 33 years old. At the time that I encountered this creature, I was 13. I will write it as it happeded. Me and my family lived in a rural community on the outskirts of Riverdale Ga. Behind our house there was many acres of woods. At that time that area belonged to a man named Mr. Jackson. There was a huge lake there also, it was called Jackson's Lake. Mr. Jackson was a cattle farmer. His cattle were on the other side of the lake. There were many trails in those woods and me and my friend Daniel played in them many, many times. It was very easy to loose yourself out there all day. My encounter happened when I walked through these woods to a trailer park that was called Chatue Manner. The trailer park still exists today but is under a different name. I went to visit a friend. I started to notice that it was getting late, and my father had told me that he did not want me in those woods after dark. This struck me and mother as strange, because we would always be in the woods. My mom would even go in those woods to pick blackberrys. At any rate I decided to obey my father - as I did not want to hear his mouth. I walked to the back of the trailer park and there you have to cross a big raveen. It is like 10-15 ft. down and then up again. I was covered in vegetation and that Georgia red clay. Down in the raveen was a creek, so you would get a little scuffed up. After I crossed that I went up a trail that went up hill by the lake and that curved around and led to my house. After passing the lake, and turing the curve I encountered my father. He said \"What are you doing out here?\" I said I was just coming back from Pam's house. He said \"Well hurry up and get home\". I left him standing there and started for home. I turned back to see what he was doing and he was walking toward the lake. I just kept walking toward my house - when on my right side I heard rustling in the foliage beside me. The foliage was mostly dense tall pine trees with all kinds of honey suckles and black berry vines and muscidine vines. That was the place where me and mom would come to pick blackberrys. I tured and looked and I saw this creature. This thing was massive. I could see him. He was only a few feet away from me. He stood parallel to me. I was heading north to my house. He too was faced north. I was on a heavily walked clear trail, whereas he was in the shrubs. These little pine trees were taller than him. He was at least 7-8 feet tall. His arms were huge, like the size of thighs, they were very long. His chest was massive as well. This was no skinny creature. I looked at him. He looked at me, and off, off, off, I went running up the trail. I was so scared!!! When I started to run, he did too. He ran right beside me in the shrubs. I would look to my right and see him and the thing would make a loud sound. It's like he would exhale and let out a very deep grunt/roar. I kept running and he kept running beside me in the shrubs. This thing was completly hairy and it's face was dark but I could tell it was human-like because its head was like that of a human head but hair all over - but not on the face. When I had reached the part of the trail that forked off into an open field of tall grass/wheat like stuff, that is where he stopped. He would not come out of the shrubery. I looked back and seen him crouched there staring at me as I ran and he just was there in the shrubbery. When I made it home I ran in the house shaking like a leaf, and my mom was making supper. I told her what had happened and what I had seen. And she went to look out the dinning glass window. It was a sliding glass window and she said she did'nt see anything. She asked where my father was and I told her. Then she sat down with me at the dining room table and told me that was the reason that he did not want me in those woods. She said that he had told her that he had hemmed it up in a tree one night and that he just stood there in front of it and screamed at it and it would'nt come out of the tree. I never told anyone other than my mother and Daniel and now my 4 boys about that. But there was something in those woods and me and my father werent the only ones that knew it. One day I was watching TV after school (this was before any of this happened) and my father come in and told me to come and help him. I said why? Me and my father DO NOT get along very well. He said because Benji, our dog had got caught in a bear trap on the other side of the lake. I said \"WHAT?\" He said yes. So we went and tried to free benji and my father had took a macheti. He said he could not open the trap, so he was going to cut his foot off. I said NO!! So I pulled the trap w/ all my might and my father got benji out. Now why had someone set a Bear Trap in the woods? There are no bears in Georgia. The biggest animal besides that Thing I had seen were deer and cows. And the cows were on the other side of the lake, they could not come across one side because of trees and the other side because of a big steel fence. And other times before I had ever encountered this being, Me and my family would go walking in the woods and sometimes we would cross the steel gate over to Mr. Jackson's land and treck about a mile to a very sandy clear creek. That was the side where the cows were. On many different occasions we would come upon a cow laying on the ground dead with its whole stomach torn out. That was very weird to me, but because I was young and did'nt know much and since my parents did'nt say much I never put 2+2 together until my later 20's. There was something in those woods but it's probly long gone by now. There are houses all around that lake and Mr. Jackson no longer lives in his house. The creek where these things happened is called Camp Creek. The lake was called Jackson's Lake. It was private to him. Although me and Daniel would always play around the woods and the lake. The name of the street was and is Lyle Dr. The town Riverdale Ga. I will never forget when that creature chased me but when I got to that opening I knew that he didnt want to hurt me. Because I know by his massive size and that massive sound that he could have just ripped me apart had he wanted to. Needless to say that I did'nt go in the woods much after that. You are the first people that I have ever told besides my mom and my friend and my kids.","If you are in Atlanta - you go 75 south to Ga. Hwy 85 and you follow it into Riverdale. Hwy 85 eventually intersections Hwy 138. At that light make a right. Go straight to the 3rd street on the left and that is Lyle Dr.","Clayton County","Georgia","Summer","Report 9712: Early evening encounter near Riverdale",33.32442,-84.2532,"1984-07-15",9712.0,"Class A","djujdf88y4",85.72,79.225,72.73,69.17,0.72,0.53,0.58,0.007,1.0,"rain",1019.4,"Light rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",9.0,9.46,225.0,4.4,"RES.SEASON"], [120,4704,"On December 27th, 2014, I was traveling home at approximately 11:45pm. I was near a wildlife area when I observed a large figure standing next to the treeline approximately 15-20 feet from the road. This figure was very large, broad shoulders and standing on two legs. I believe that I observed the backside of this figure as it was walking into the treeline since I could not see eyes in my headlights. I quickly stopped my vehicle to look at what I just saw but at that point my headlights were past the figure and I couldn't see anything. The location of this sighting was about a quarter mile north of the Creek bottoms. I quickly left the area to continue my trip home since I was alone.","I was traveling southbound on County Hwy 6 between the Chesterfield Rd and the town of Plainview at approximately 11:45pm. In the area of Beaver Dam State Park and it was approximately one quarter mile north of the Macoupin Creek Bottoms","Macoupin County","Illinois","Winter","Report 47412: Motorist has possible night time sighting near Plainview",39.2038,-89.9758,"2014-12-27",47412.0,"Class B","dnbp08cdey",47.35,38.665,29.98,39.54,0.93,1.0,0.21,0.0074,1.0,"rain",1020.38,"Mixed precipitation starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",2.0,4.05,260.0,2.11,"RES.SEASON"], [125,3107,"On a hot summer evening between July-August 2006, I had the window of the bedroom open. I heard \"very close\" moaning or howling from our open bedroom window of our home around 3:45 in the morning. The howling and noise woke me from a sound sleep. I could not get my husband awake who was sound asleep at this time, I tried quietly. The howling or moaning at first sounded like that of another type of animal in pain (more like a large pig or cow at first) but changed to sound like something \"very large\" in size and getting very upset (VERY deep, angry tone growls). I did some research before contacting you and I have heard what bear sound like on various recordings. As well as, other type of animal recordings. This animal in no way sounded like that of a bear or anything else I have heard in the past. Finding your web site and listening to the recordings of moaning and such brought chills up my back!!! They sound so familiar to that night but I still cannot be certain. We have a small spaniel mix dog that sleeps in our basement garage area located under our home. Upon hearing the howling outside that night, the dog moved to the garage door area located directly under the bedroom window and barked like being startled from sleep three times. I could tell, the creature I had heard moaning and howling moved to the garage door under our open bedroom window (which is two stories high) and growled \"very deep\" at our barking dog while \"striking or smacking\" above the garage door. The dog STOPPED barking! Then I heard nothing out of our dog or from the animal outside the window again that night. I was too frightened to move and look outside. For a long time prior to this I had a strange unexplained feeling of \"being watched\" while being outside on our homes patio. This patio faces pretty dense wooded area on three angles back there. Something just made me feel uncomfortable even in daylight hours out there that I had not felt before since moving here. Although a bit odd, I no longer have this same feeling. On two different nights prior, I couldn't sleep and heard what sounded like small rocks hitting the brick outside of our home close to our bedroom area. I assumed it was just the home settling while the temperature was cooling down in the late evenings. We live in a pretty dark (not much light in this area at all) heavily wooded and somewhat quiet area just outside of town. We have several deer, turkey, rabbits, squirrel and other small game that roam throughout our woods and property.","Southern Mercer county WV, not far from VA state line. Between US460 and I-77.","Mercer County","West Virginia","Summer","Report 16890: Repeat visitations described near rural home outside Princeton",37.32091,-81.1271,"2006-07-15",16890.0,"Class A","dnwk3fj419",82.06,73.15,64.24,66.82,0.83,0.47,0.67,0.0008,1.0,"rain",1017.56,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",7.0,6.81,286.0,2.63,"RES.SEASON"], [134,4124,"Late at night as my family and I were setting off fireworks, we heard something growl loud enough for all of us to hear. My daughters boyfriend, a policeman said he thought it was a \"bear\" just in the treeline off to our left which was very close. Since we do have black bears, I picked up my grandbaby and we all stepped back as my husband and daughter's boyfriend had a look around. Something crashed away into the woods and was gone. The crazy thing is that the sound was nothing like we had ever heard before and we've been here a long time. I might add that we recently completely fenced the area which makes it even more odd. Accessing the yard would be hard for a bear now. Our dogs did not bark but, we had been setting off fireworks, so, I kind of let them off the hook! This occurred again about a month later in August. I had stepped out on the back porch to get a soda from the refrigerator. I felt the hair on my neck stand up and about that time, I heard the same low growling noise straight in front of me that we had heard in July. Then, I heard rustling and what sounded like someone running into or hitting the side of our wooden shed out back very loudly. I yelled to my husband and ran out behind the shed with a spotlight. I saw nothing, and there was no noise of something running away. The woods are thick there so, someone or something would only have to stand a few feet away to disappear. The dogs finally decided to bark when I yelled at my husband, but then, they are kind of lazy and could have been sleeping. Amazingly enough, they are always manage to be awake long enough to eat.","From Deland, FL go W on SR 44 across the St. Johns River. Take first right on CR 42. Travel 3 miles to Lake Mack and turn left. Turn right on Bear Lake.","Lake County","Florida","Summer","Report 31153: Ongoing activity on a family farm near Paisley",28.98491,-81.43248,"2011-07-04",31153.0,"Class B","djnhfuw9md",91.52,82.395,73.27,71.69,0.76,0.25,0.12,0.0002,0.26,"rain",1016.03,"Humid throughout the day and partly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",10.0,9.83,122.0,1.15,"RES.SEASON"], [139,3057,"I used to work as a bartender in Canaan Valley WV and lived at the base of Dolly Sods Wilderness Area. On a mid-summer night around probably 3am, I had driven home, which was about a half hour drive. We had no neighbors and there were no lights on as I pulled up. I parked with the left side of my vehicle facing towards the wilderness line which was about 100 feet uphill. I got out of my car and closed the door. Immediately after my car door closed I had the loudest, most intense scream I have ever heard in my life call out from near the wood line. I ran for the door of the house and once inside I grabbed a shotgun, floodlight, and went back to look outside for it, from inside the screen door of course. I never saw a thing or found a sign of anything. This was the first of three times this happened to me, my mother who lived there as well and also worked late had it scream at her several times(she said 4 or 5) as well, and my brother had it scream at him once.","The actual encounter was at the base of Mount Port Crayon in a temperate deciduous forest. Pine forests dominate the highlands above the encounter area. And I believe these animals use a specific stream that feeds into Red Creek. All of our encounters have happened in the summer.","Randolph County","West Virginia","Summer","Report 39812: Family hears possible vocals on summer nights at their home near Dolly Sods Wilderness Area",38.9706,-79.4123,"2000-07-15",39812.0,"Class B","dnzt8ymspq",72.15,62.395,52.64,59.48,0.89,0.64,0.47,0.0029,1.0,"rain",1008.35,"Light rain in the evening.",7.0,9.68,317.0,2.08,"RES.SEASON"], [147,1361,"I was driving down Williard Rd around 5pm as i came around the last right hand corner looking toward the straight away to the junction with cook- underwood road. i saw a black object in the road....i thought its was a bear and the largest bear i have ever seen...it took up the whole left lane of the road...and it was huge...it looked like the butt was raised up...i .figured it could be a 6 hundred lb bear ( in my mind)...then i saw this commotion going on like something moving up and down.....all black ...a bear will run or lumber across the road.....at the time i thought i have never seen a bear do this...i thought this could be several deer or elk walking in the road......i was confused about all of the motion going on....then as it approached the creature and the creature approached the edge of the bank...it popped up...i yelled out “its a man!” “what is a man doing out here in the woods this time of nite”...it stepped onto the bank and walked into the woods...as my mind was trying to figure out what i saw....i saw the whole body and the head ... the right leg stepped onto the bank ... left arm back...no hat no coat no clothes, there was no snout or ears like a bear...yes a conical head, tall, arms longer...legs bulky...my headlights lit it up....by the time i passed it it had disappeared into the woods and by the time i reached cook-underwood road about 600 feet...i knew what i saw but was still trying to process it...i went back on sunday to see if i could see prints but it had rained hard all nite and i saw no prints...i still see the creature in my mind.... later as my mind was processing what i saw i knew it had to be arms and legs going up and down as it crossed the road and also it was actually crawling....then stood up by the bank but it was so fast it like popped up.....still hard for me to believe what i saw but i believe it was a Sasquatch...i also now believe as i approached it when my headlights came upon it...it turned back towards the headlights and scrunched its face because the headlights were in its eyes.. then turned and faced into the woods and walked off..","near the town of willard wa....willard road almost to the junction of cook underwood rd","Skamania County","Washington","Winter","Report 65295: Road crossing sighting 3mi north of Columbia Gorge, south of Willard",45.75957,-121.6267,"2020-01-04",65295.0,"Class A","c21s2660u6",45.68,40.81,35.94,38.53,0.89,0.61,0.31,0.0164,0.94,"rain",1024.9,"Light rain until afternoon, starting again overnight.",1.0,8.869,254.0,8.68,"RES.SEASON"], [155,4781,"Saturday night I was driving at 10:30 PM in Central Illinois heading from Cass County to Tazewell County. A car was probably 3/4 mile ahead of me and I could see their tail lights. I saw a large animal jump into the road about 40 yards ahead. When it hit the road I could see very large legs spread wide in a dead run with large swinging hairy arms. The arms switched back and forth close to the ground as its body was leaning forward. It leaped across the road in two jumps. When it hit the shoulder it looked back at me. I said to myself out loud \"f***ng Bigfoot!\" It was a about 2 seconds before it vanished in the darkness altogether but I could see it clearly. It was very large and even though it was hunched over nearly horizontal it still was close to being wider than my car and nearly to the top of my windshield. It blocked out the lights of the car ahead. It had shinny black hair. I could not see eyes or mouth but saw its head turn towards me before it jumped into the dark field.","Heading north on Route 78 just across the Sangamon River leaving Chandlerville, IL. [Investigator (MM) Notes: Rough location coordinates: 40.068315, -90.152173 ]","Cass County","Illinois","Fall","Report 71920: SATURDAY NIGHT 10:30 : Motorist sighting of a sasquatch crossing Route 78 near Sangamon River",40.06831,-90.15218,"2021-11-27",71920.0,"Class A","9zpguw1nvf",50.9,39.81,28.72,33.16,0.79,0.41,0.77,0.0001,0.05,"rain",1012.7,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",2.0,10.0,224.0,8.13,"RES.SEASON"], [160,2699,"First of all I don't know if this incident is a big deal or not, but I been a outdoorsman for many years and it kind of caught my attention. I was Elk hunting in the Bumping river area of Yakima County. I was walking up the American ridge trail in the am Hours. I had reached a portion of the the trail that was flat and had soft dirt. I noticed a foot print on the trail. My first thought was why would someone walk barefooted up on the mountain. The track was not large. It looked like a slender womans foot print. I followed the track up the trail for about six to eight feet and I then lost sight of the track. I continued walking and I heard a wierd whistling sound. It wasn't real loud, but I definetly didn't recognize it. I started to put things together in my mind (Track/Whistle) and the hair on the back of my neck stood up. I continued up the trail and eventually sat down to watch a draw for any elk that may be crossing. I again heard the whistling sound. I have been hunting in this exact area since about 1977 including other places and I don't recall hearing a similair sound. Looking back now, It seems even more strange that if the foot print was in fact a person that had taken off their shoes to fix their socks or whatever, why would they walk up the trail, especially in late October?","On the Bumping Lake Rd, 3/4 of a mile up the trail to American Ridge, near Cougar Flats.","Yakima County","Washington","Winter","Report 1438: Barefoot tracks and whistling heard while hunting",46.93333,-121.2692,"2000-10-28",1438.0,"Class B","c23fbryqqy",38.19,34.69,31.19,32.1,0.95,0.79,0.05,0.0074,1.0,"snow",1000.2,"Heavy snow (1–2 in.) in the morning.",2.0,7.99,120.0,4.47,"RES.SEASON"], [171,1948,"Saw a large brown/black mostly black animal in the middle of the woods and it stood about 7-7 1/2 ft tall and we did not hear it but it just sneaked up on us and made me feel like the prey insted of the hunter. As it got within 75 yards it stopped and turned forty five degrees to the left and went through a hollow and walking out of sight. We were amazed and tried to track it.","Do not remember, but a pull off close to 27 at a pull off near the south end of the county.","Morgan County","Tennessee","Winter","Report 27522: Daylight sighting of a large bipedal animal near Sunbright",36.19746,-84.66167,"2009-12-14",27522.0,"Class A","dn7vcmx32p",60.94,55.095,49.25,49.63,0.91,0.93,0.94,0.0001,0.13,"rain",1017.24,"Foggy in the morning.",2.0,5.15,197.0,3.24,"RES.SEASON"], [176,432,"I WAS DRIVING ON RT 271 NORTH OVER BY BOSTON MILLS SKI RESORT WHEN I SPOTTED SOMETHING WALKING INTO THE WOODS IN AN UP RIGHT POSTION I NEW IT WASN'T A MAN OR BEAR IT WAS AT THE TOP OF THE HILL ON SOUTH SIDE OF 271","NORTH SIDE OF INTERSTATE 271 GOING OVER THE NATIONAL PARK BY BOSTON MILLS SKI RESORT","Summit County","Ohio","Summer","Report 25715: Man recalls early evening sighting near Brandywine Ski Resort",41.2584,-81.56255,"2005-09-14",25715.0,"Class A","dpmfxyzgwg",82.4,73.34,64.28,61.39,0.68,0.49,0.37,0.0008,0.36,"rain",1013.73,"Foggy overnight.",5.0,4.58,202.0,1.84,"RES.SEASON"], [177,129,"This happened around 2014 in the Thickety Creek community of Montgomery County, south of the county seat of Troy. A friend at church asked me if I could come down and check his creek for gold. He knew I liked to do some gold panning as a hobby. We never settled on a day or time, I just told him I would come by one day when I got a chance. I ended up getting off work early one day and decided to run down and wash some rocks. So, I parked at his gate and grabbed my backpack at gear and walked about 200 yards from the road. To my left is the creek with about 4ft banks and a steep mountain to my right. I walked down looking for a place to easily get down into the creek without lots of brush. This area is well known for huge Timber Rattlers. So I find a spot next to a huge flat rock that I end up using as a work station. After a couple hours of panning I stopped to take a break. I always freeze a 2 liter bottle of water and drink it as it melts. I’m standing there drinking the water and I hear something fly through the trees above my head. My first thought was “I’ve never heard a bird fly through the trees and hit limbs and leaves like that! Why is it doing that?” So as I stand there puzzled and confused I hear more commotion coming through the tree tops! This time my eyes focus on the sound and I see a rock about the size of a Jr sized football flying over my head and on the bank on the other side of the creek! As I stand there stunned, racking my brain try to make sense of it, I unsnap my 9mm and shout in that direction “You stay over there and I’ll stay over here!” Needless to say I packed up and left, feeling like I’m being watched the whole time! I threw my stuff in the back of my truck and hauled buggy out of there! I don’t know of any animal in the woods that can throw a rock that big that far! I was so effected that I gave up gold panning and hunting for the most part! I never told the land owner or anybody else for that matter for a few years. I still don’t tell many folks. I feel like I have to keep inside or people will think I’m crazy.","200 yards off Thickety Creek Road","Montgomery County","North Carolina","Spring","Report 67540: Gold panner reports rocks thrown in frequent sighting zone within Uwharrie National Forest",35.25048,-79.86721,"2014-04-15",67540.0,"Class B","dnr0w94kzj",71.95,51.67,31.39,57.89,0.86,0.87,0.52,0.0562,1.0,"rain",1008.0,"Heavy rain until evening.",5.0,9.33,221.0,5.01,"RES.SEASON"], [180,457,"[see investigator comments]","Hamlin Trail in Allegany State Park, cabin next to cliff","Cattaraugus County","New York","Summer","Report 63279: Couple observes a Bigfoot outside cabin window in Allegany State Park",42.06832,-78.7492,"2013-07-23",63279.0,"Class A","dr2p2429dx",79.57,68.08,56.59,64.65,0.89,0.8,0.55,0.0305,0.97,"rain",1006.5,"Rain until morning, starting again in the evening.",7.0,7.41,283.0,2.45,"RES.SEASON"], [184,4576,"This was circa 1978. As my friend and I were walking from his house along his 1/4 mile driveway that meandered through the woods along side of the creek we had heard some odd noises that caught our attention. At this point, we had been running through the woods for a few years together, felt extremely comfortable in them and knew many sounds and sign. Neither of us could identify these sounds. I do not recall the sounds exactly, but, it seemed to be some tapping noise, somewhat subtle and not alarming, yet it seemed clearly something out of the ordinary. So we decided to hop the old overgrown fence which paralleled the driveway, penetrate the overgrowth and go into the woods to investigate. Heading in the direction from which the sounds had been coming we soon noticed that some of the patches of grass that had managed to grow under the canopy of trees was matted down. The matting looked quite fresh as all the blades were still quite green and showing no signs of atrophy or recovery. While clearly other patches of grass nearby were exactly as one would expect, not matted down. We then spread out a little bit as we normally did when investigating the woods. Shortly after this I spotted a footprint, classic human shape with five toes, in some dried mud. Clear as day, there it was. Unlike the fresh appearance of the matted grass, this had been here awhile as the \"mud\" which had originally received the print was now thoroughly dry. I called my friend over while I looked at it thinking, this doesn't make any sense, who else would be back here and why would they be barefooted? We again spread out and now I was head down and focused on finding more foot prints. Shortly thereafter, I heard a crash in the trees and my friend yelled, \"Run, run for your life!\" And maybe it was this comment that etched the memory of that day firmly onto the memory banks. I could tell in my close friends voice that he was dead serious. For that matter, he was never a BSer anyway. I lit out of there, running through the underbrush, past trees and hopped the old fence at a faster pace before or probably since. Reaching the relatively safety of the clearing the driveway offered and turned and yelled encouragements for my friend to get out of there. I could see him now, emerging from the underbrush, the expressions on his face said this was no joke. Just as I saw him begin to emerge and before he hopped the fence a large crash of breaking timber happened from directly behind him. Although overgrowth was relatively dense, I could see he wasn't causing the sounds of the smashing logs. Something had apparently broken a good sized tree or log directly behind him. There was no mistaking the sound of it, or the movement in the undergrowth behind him and to his right, but, what it was remained shrouded by the forest growth. He made it across the fence and upon reaching where I was apprehensively standing, snapped back around and we stood shoulder to shoulder peering into the forest both uncertain of what exactly had just happened. I do know these to be certain: Fact: Unidentified sounds were coming from the woods. Fact: The grass had the appearance of being freshly matted Fact: There was what looked to be a human footprint completely intact and showed the entire outline of a foot with five toes. It seemed only 10-12 inches long Fact: Something or somebody was smashing up some decent sized logs and it wasn't us. Fact: Somebody who doesn't scare easy was sure spooked that day. Fact: An Illinois State Trooper came out that day to investigate our story. The trooper seemed to lose interest when my friend said that whatever he saw was about 7' tall. The Unknown: Was it a hippy, hillbilly or prankster who simply liked to walk barefooted around woods that had old rusty barbed wire among other occasional rusty or sharp artifacts? Or was it a Bigfoot? This remains the unknown.","Coming from Pawnee. Go North on Pawnee Rd. Turn east onto Delay Rd and follow until it ends. Go north 1/10 of a mile and turn right/east onto Lost 40 Road. Follow about a 1/2 mile and just before a bridge across \"Horse Creek\". There should be a driveway just to the west of the bridge and on the north side of Lost 40 Rd. This driveway leads back onto the old Lost 40 property which was some years ago bought out by the city of Springfield for the Lake 2 project. As such, this may be public land now. The area of the sighting occured about 100 -150 yards up the driveway/north of Lost 40 Road just to the east of the driveway and west of the creek.","Sangamon County","Illinois","Summer","Report 28370: Memory told of a possible encounter and footprint found along Horse Creek north of Pawnee",39.65749,-89.56981,"1978-08-01",28370.0,"Class B","dp039g3m85",79.08,74.57499999999999,70.07,65.51,0.79,0.87,0.93,0.0192,1.0,"rain",1015.99,"Heavy rain overnight.",5.0,7.79,181.0,4.16,"RES.SEASON"], [189,2020,"This sighting has stayed with me for a long time. I didn't want to submit it at first, but based on the number of sightings identified I am now forwarding on what I saw. My son and I were driving down county road 200 in Liberty Hill, TX. We came to the end and made a right turn on county road 236. We were heading towards Killeen, TX at the time and it was in the morning. At the time, the car I was driving had two little plastic pieces on the front of it that were designed to create sound to scare away deer. I got them because my car was a small car and I didn't know if they would help, but as this is an area with a lot of deer, it was worth a try. I am not sure if this is what scared what I saw. Just after we made the right on county road 236 I saw what I thought was a gorilla on the left side of the road. It seemed agitated and as we got closer it ran across the road and climbed into a tree on the other side. At that point I saw the tree move wildly with the leaves and branches swaying like it was extremely angry, or like a strong wind had hit it. As the day was calm the only thing that could have caused this was whatever jumped into the tree. I didn't look up and I didn't stop due to my son being with me, but that sighting has always remained with me as it was so unusual. I have seen gorillas in the zoo and it looked similar. I would say that it was relatively tall and was standing on its hind legs as I got closer to it and as it raced across the street in front of us. It didn't seem as tall as I would have imagined... maybe 6ft. It was hard to tell height from where I was in correlation to what I saw. After this event I checked to see if a gorilla had escaped anywhere near me and didn't find anything. To many this will sound like a tall tale, but to me it was very vivid.","This is a back road just north of Liberty Hill that anyone can get to, but it's a road that didn't have a high amount of traffic at the time. [Investigator (MM) Notes: Location coordinates: 30.775319, -97.937187 Map link to location:","Williamson County","Texas","Summer","Report 69015: Motorist daylight sighting 35 miles north of Austin",30.77532,-97.93719,"2017-06-24",69015.0,"Class A","9v6r56kr4p",83.03,76.64500000000001,70.26,70.8,0.81,0.48,0.04,0.0155,0.76,"rain",1016.8,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",8.0,9.165,65.0,3.76,"RES.SEASON"], [194,4508,"JUNE 28TH, 2006. I HAVE EARLIER REPORTED A BIGFOOT SIGHTING SEVERAL YRS AGO. THIS HAPPENED TO BE IN IOWA, DECATUR CO. AND SO HAS THIS OCCURENCE. IF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN AT LEAST A PART TIME SPORTSMAN AND FOUND YOURSELF LOVING THE NATURE AROUND YOU, THEN YOU MAY KNOW WHAT I AM SPEAKING OF. THERE ARE CERTAIN SOUNDS THAT GOES ALONG WITH ANY GIVEN AREA, SOUNDS THAT BIRDS AND OTHER FAMILIAR CREATURES MAKE. EVEN THE NUTHATCH AND THE POPPING MOREL MUSHROOM MAKE A SOUND IF YOU ARE IN THEIR WORLD LONG ENOUGH TO HEAR THEM IN REPETITION. EVEN THE TREES AND THE GROUND HAVE MADE NOISES THAT MOST SPORTSMEN SIMILARLY IGNORE. IT WASN'T UNTIL TODAY, 6/24/08, THAT I PUT IT TOGETHER. A SOUND WAS RECOGNIZED BY MYSELF WHICH I BELIEVE TO BE A BIGFOOT. I WILL EXPLAIN AS BEST I CAN. I RETURNED TO THE PARSAL OF LAND WHICH I HAD MY 1ST VISUAL EXPERIENCE OF THE CREATURE. HE SORTA SCARED ME OFF. I BROUGHT A FRIEND WITH ME TO SHOOT SOME GUNS AS IT IS A VERY SAFE PLACE TO DO SO. WE HADN'T PUT TOO MANY ROUNDS DOWN RANGE INTO A STEEP VERTICLE BANK WHICH IS PROBABLY 50 FT HIGH. WE WERE LESS THAN 200 YDS FROM THE SIGHTING LOCATION AND I COULD HEAR TWO HUGE ROCKS BEING SMACKED TOGETHER. IT WAS NO COINCIDENCE. I HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE WHILE IN THE WOODS, BUT ONLY AT 2 LOCATIONS. IT WAS QUITE RHYTHMIC AND THE NUMBER OF SMACKS WERE LIKE ALWAYS EQUALING 4-6 IN THE COUNT. I EVEN MENTIONED TO THE MAN WHO WAS WITH ME, BUT THE NOISE HAD STOPPED BY THE TIME HE HEARD ME OVER HIS EAR PROTECTION. I ALSO HAD EAR PLUGS IN, BUT HAD NO PROBLEM HEARING THE SOUNDS. I KIND OF THINK THIS ROCK SMACKING IS TO LET ALL OTHERS OF THEIR KIND KNOW ABOUT HUMANS ARE AROUND. I'M ALSO THINKING THAT IT IS TO GIVE AN \" ALL CLEAR\" MESSAGE AS IT IS HAPPENING AT A SPECIFIC TIME, EACH TIME. I ALSO THINK THEY USE THE CALLS OF NATURE'S WILDLIFE TO COMMUNICATE. PARTICULARLY THAT OF A GREAT HORNED OWL AND A CROW. THIS IS DUE TO THE FREQUENCY AND TIMES OF OCCURRENCE WHICH I CAN'T QUITE EXPLAIN. IT IS SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO EXPERIENCE FOR YOURSELF.","THE WEST END OF DEKALB PUBLIC HUNTING AREA. AROUND THE ABANDONED QUERRY PIT.","Decatur County","Iowa","Spring","Report 24056: Hunter describes combination of rock clacking and bird-like vocals in public hunting area near Van Wert",40.8348,-93.85965,"2008-05-28",24056.0,"Class B","9zm221trzw",64.73,60.43000000000001,56.13,46.48,0.71,0.97,0.77,0.0022,0.81,"rain",1024.87,"Overcast throughout the day.",5.0,10.0,86.0,6.5,"RES.SEASON"], [209,2585,"We moved to Clear Lake Washington in March 2018. About a week ago, now April 6 2018, I heard loud vocalizations, 1 then a silence and 2 min later 5 to 7 in a row. The next night my husband heard loud what he said sounded like tree knocks. That same night, I was in our travel trailer alone in bed when I heard a voice outside the window. Nobody was around and then the trailer started moving. No wind or anything organic to make it move. We live across the road from a clear cut logging area and there is woods all around, we live on a lake and have a creek running through the property.","We live on Old Day Creek Road in Clear Lake Wa all sounds and experiences have been right here at home","Skagit County","Washington","Spring","Report 59279: Couple has possible ongoing activity including their house trailer moved one night near Clear Lake",48.48157,-122.1845,"2018-04-06",59279.0,"Class B","c295g9gcwg",60.99,55.55,50.11,49.77,0.89,0.88,0.71,0.0003,0.29,"rain",1007.7,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,7.05,111.0,1.14,"RES.SEASON"], [210,1395,"I am a 44 yr. old woman, I am submitting this in request of my husband & grown son. As an avid 'birder' (loves bird watching), I was taking an early morning walk (6:45 a.m.) around Oxbow Lake to see what birds were 'out & about'. Almost as soon as I started the short trail around the lake, I noticed that there was no activity.....none, no birds, no deer, no squirrels, nothing. This seemed VERY odd to me, because it was a beautiful spring morning, the sun was shining and there wasn't even the smallest breeze in the air. Then I noticed that the birds weren't even singing, I could not hear one bird song or call, which is very unusual because there is ALWAYS a lot of bird activity here, especially in the early morning. Then, I noticed that not even the frogs, or the peepers were making any sound...it was complete silence. When I reached the part of the trail where I usually see deer, there was nothing. It was just about in this area where I started to smell this terrible odor....hard to explain, a strong musky smell, not like a dog or a skunk but a definite heavy odor of musk, one I have never smelled before and I have spent a lot of time in the woods. While I was standing quietly trying to figure out what/where the odor was coming from, a live tree 30-40 ft. high (unknown species) fell about 100-150 ft. from me, it just fell, and there was not even a small breeze that day! I have spent my childhood in the deep woods of Adirondack Mountains. and this just went against every natural law I could think of.....and believe me I tried to rationalize this! I then had this intense feeling that I was being watched...no more like being stared at, and then I got the sense that perhaps the tree had been pushed, like a warning. I decided I should start making my way back towards my car, still not hearing or seeing ANY wildlife. Just before getting back in my car I went to an overlook and all of a sudden I heard from the opposite side of the lake a loud howling, it echoed thru the marsh area. After 3-4 deep, loud howls, again silence. I walked back to my car and drove home.","Oxbow Lake Nature Preserve","Anne Arundel County","Maryland","Spring","Report 24952: Bird watcher experiences unusual activity while hiking in the Oxbow Lake Nature Preserve",39.11378,-76.811,"2008-05-01",24952.0,"Class B","dqcqs07ymc",66.18,59.60000000000001,53.02,45.0,0.72,0.38,0.86,0.0004,0.59,"rain",1019.33,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",5.0,6.04,157.0,1.42,"RES.SEASON"], [216,100,"I saw a bigfoot and I have pictures of its foot prints","Take rte 421, east of Wilkesboro, N.C. to rte 115 South, Take 2504 South to Cherry grove Rd.","Wilkes County","North Carolina","Winter","Report 67749: Deer hunter sees tree shaking, then see the large shaker, outside Wilkesboro",36.0055,-81.08335,"2019-11-18",67749.0,"Class A","dnqkffsgjp",46.25,42.13,38.01,42.19,0.94,0.98,0.72,0.0021,0.88,"rain",1008.8,"Light rain in the morning and afternoon.",2.0,7.854,207.0,1.24,"RES.SEASON"], [220,395,"During bow season I and my brother were hunting. We got into the woods before daybreak. As daylight was approaching the woods never got active. No animals or birds were heard or were visible. About 2 hours into the hunt, all was quiet. It was then that I heard a very loud wood knock. Startled the hell out of me. It was northeast of me in the swamp. My first thought was, \"You can't be serious.\" A wood knock here? I stayed put for another hour, hour and a half. Then made my way back to my vehicle. My brother was already there. His first words were, \"Did you hear that wood knock?\" We discussed it and came to the conclusion that something weird was going on. About 3 weeks later during gun season the same damn thing happened in the same area.","It was on Public Hunting grounds. In the swamp of the West River. [Investigator Notes: For Google Maps pin of location of witness when he heard the sound click ]","Ontario County","New York","Fall","Report 68896: Two hunters hear definite sasquatch wood knock on West River 2 miles SW of Middlesex",42.67993,-77.29334,"2020-10-15",68896.0,"Class B","dr94c1sswe",75.68,60.955,46.23,47.01,0.58,0.63,0.97,0.0052,0.75,"rain",1008.9,"Rain in the evening and overnight.",4.0,9.994,217.0,12.41,"RES.SEASON"], [224,2259,"So I am an avid hunter and I used to hunt the Corps of Engineers land on the Texas side of the Red River. I was going to get my trail camera and check the pictures for any sign of wild hogs moving along the river and eating at the bait I had set up. When I pulled up to the parking area, I was the only truck there. It’s hot in the summer and in those woods there is little breeze. It’s about a 20 min walk through the woods to the camera. So I had navigated my way through the brush and had come around the old piece of original bridge supports and turned slightly north west and something yelled at me about 100 yards away, through the woods. It’s hard to describe the noise. It didn’t taper off, just a blast. I froze, and I don’t know why, but my instinct was to “whoop” at it. I “whooped” and it remained frozen too. I knew where it was but I couldn’t see it through the trees. I raised my rifle to locate whatever it was through the scope. I systematically started searching, and all of a sudden, it tore off through the woods. I saw a glimpse of it through the scope as it took off. What I saw is difficult to explain but you know how a skiers legs look them they are crouched, it was like that, like a spring compressing the knees to unleash power. The sun shone through the trees and I could see the legs had reddish brown fur but was shaggier than a deer. Almost like course hog hair but was soft. Everything about this makes me want to say it was a deer. The fur color, the legs bent, I would even entertain a deer having shaggier fur. But the yell is what makes me know it was something else. It’s yell was intimidating and demanding. It knew I was there and was letting me know it was there. After it ran off, I was filled with a sense of dread and had to talk myself out of not going back to the truck and leaving the camera.","You can park by the bridge crossing the Red River and walk down into the Corps of Engineers land.","Clay County","Texas","Summer","Report 63492: Hunter describes a vocalization and brief sighting along the Red River",34.125,-98.105,"2018-07-30",63492.0,"Class B","9y44ps60ec",89.28,78.3,67.32,68.77,0.68,0.43,0.6,0.0126,0.83,"rain",1014.5,"Rain in the morning.",8.0,9.768,20.0,10.09,"RES.SEASON"], [243,4641,"When the sighting happened we had come down into a bottom near a stream. The main thing we first noticed was that the entire woods had gone silent. Before we had heard bird calls and insects throughout the woods. The silence was really unsettling and we felt like we were being watched. We got a little unnerved and began to walk quicker towards where we had parked the car. As we walked the road back we could hear something about 20-30 feet behind and off to the side of us moving through the brush and undergrowth. Then at one point we had a rather nasty smell blow through the area, similar to a skunk or fox when they musk or spray. At one point we know it crossed the road behind us and rather quickly because the noises changed which side of the road they were coming from. At one point we were certain it was going to walk out into the open right in front of us but then all the sound stopped for a short period of time until we went down the next hill. When we got ready to go around the last bend to where we had parked I took a look back and saw \"something\" squatting on a point next to a dead blackened tree which stood around three to four feet tall. The top of it came to right around the top of the dead tree and it was fairly wide. The only thing I could misidentify it as was a black bear and they haven't been seen in our area for well over 50-100 years. I caught a quick glance at it and then turned back around told my friend I saw something and to just keep walking quickly straight ahead and for the car. Once we got around the bend we ran for the car, jumped in and took off. Since then we've never really talked about it.","The following sighting occurred at Argyle Lake State Park","McDonough County","Illinois","Summer","Report 40995: Possible sighting of animal playing peek-a-boo at Argyle Lake State Park.",40.45428,-90.78947,"2009-07-15",40995.0,"Class B","9zpqnh3pk0",85.95,75.03999999999999,64.13,67.55,0.77,0.4,0.76,0.0228,1.0,"rain",1013.89,"Heavy rain in the morning.",10.0,9.58,242.0,3.25,"RES.SEASON"], [244,2670,"a group of friend and i took 3 different trucks up blacksnake ridge at 12pm to look for evidence of Sasquatch activity. once we made it to the top of blacksnake we 4x4 in the snow a bit before heading back down. once we were heading down i was in the back following the 2 other trucks. i was far enough behind to lose sight of them and was looking for tracks along the road when i came apon a series of tracks that warrented investigation. i came to a stop and got out and video the tracks which came out of the woods, crossed the road and went over a slash pile and back across and into the woods again. my friend had turned back to see if i might have gotten stuck and were shocked by the tracks i pointed out to them. We followed them back into the woods till they faded out due to the wind and snow. We got back into our trucks and headed home when i got a flat tire and another truck ran out of gas. I headed back to town in the # 3 truck while the other friend who ran out of gas waited in his truck with his girlfriend for us to return with a spare and gas. while we were heading down blacksnake back to town we saw another set of fresh track coming ut og the woods, walking down the road a bit then off into the woods again. we got out to look these over and it took two steps of my friend to match one step of the Sasquatch tracks. we made video of the tracks and wen into town to get our supplys. apon coming back u blacsnake the tracks were gone due to weather. We repaired the trucks and went home","mill creek road to blue creek follow to five points and head up blacksnake","Walla Walla County","Washington","Winter","Report 1917: BFRO field investigator finds sasquatch tracks in the snow",46.0675,-118.0519,"2000-03-06",1917.0,"Class B","c2hn1dm4xk",35.45,30.495,25.54,28.46,0.97,0.93,0.02,0.0287,1.0,"snow",1008.06,"Heavy snow (1–3 in.) until afternoon.",3.0,6.68,175.0,8.77,"RES.SEASON"], [245,3039,"I always said I did not believe in bigfoot. I would say, I would have to see it to believe it. I love the woods and hunting. I spend as much time in these woods as possible and always have. I have never seen ANYTHING until now. I still have a hard time calling it a bigfoot. I have tried to rationalize it every way possible in my own mind. I can only come up with one conclusion; I saw and heard a \"Bigfoot\" It took me a long time to tell anyone other than my parents and wife. I know I have to report the sighting, so here goes. It was Saturday night at 11:30 pm, on January the 13th. It was raining, at times hard. I was driving south on route 55, coming up on Seneca Rocks, towing a U-Haul trailer driving about 45 mph. I had passed the gas station on the right, then the school on the left. Next on the left there is a brick house the government owns but never seems to use. This is just before the entrance to the park and the intersection to head to Harman, the direction I was headed. Passing the house is where I saw it. At first I thought it was a man in a special forces outfit, some type of sniper gear. My first thought was what is he doing out there on a night like tonight dressed like that. It was not really running more like a swaggering lope. It had long hair, what at first looked liked shredded material with clumps in it, hanging all off of its body. As I passed it I quickly noticed that it had this \"covering\" right up over its head. It seemed to have no neck, just a large head. I also realized it was very tall, and had very wide shoulders and its arms hung very low almost to its knees, if not below. It was walking or sort of trotting on hind legs like a man, but with a movement like an ape. It was only 20 feet or so from me. I realized it wasn't a man or anything else I had ever seen. I got a very good look at it. The whole thing still seems to have been in slow motion, It still plays in my head that way. In any case it hit me, what the Hell was that? I turned my truck trailer and all around within 50 yards right in the middle of the road. I pulled into the driveway and shined my headlights behind the house into the woods. I saw nothing. I pulled back onto the road and into the grass where I saw it. I stopped and shined my mag lite into the woods. It really got spooky. I heard it going through the brush. It made the noise you would expect a large creature to make. Then it seemed to be trying to scare me or get a reaction out of me, the way a deer will stomp its feet at you when it can't wind you. It made a type of laughing/squealing noise and a grunting noise. It pounded wood together, not a small piece hitting another piece. It was more of a large piece of wood being pounded on another large piece. This went on for 3 to 5 minutes then nothing. I was amazed. The next day I went back and combed the area. All I found was what appears to be footprints I took and still have pictures of them. What amazed me was, when I did go on the Internet on a friends advice, some other reported sightings were the similar including the sounds I heard. All this from people I do not know and from other areas of the country.","Read above","Pendleton County","West Virginia","Winter","Report 19841: Road crossing sighting by motorist on Hwy 55 north of Seneca Rocks area.",38.835,-79.3762,"2007-01-13",19841.0,"Class A","dnzscv8n22",58.47,56.75,55.03,47.29,0.73,0.79,0.82,0.007,0.91,"rain",1025.34,"Light rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",2.0,9.43,234.0,3.94,"RES.SEASON"], [259,800,"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 love the Blue Mountains. I’m an avid hiker and love to enjoy the outdoors. When I get the time I like to make a hiking trip. I hadn’t been to this particular site before but I had heard some of the Sasquatch stories coming out of the Tiger Canyon area. I had driven up Tiger Canyon a couple times before, including a few weeks prior in late June when the road was still blocked by snow. I thought this campground would be the perfect place to stay the night and hike the area. A friend of mine had been with on the trip when the road was blocked, but he too was busy this week so I went alone to scout out the area alone, stay the night and drive back to western Washington the next day. I had first been intrigued by the idea of Sasquatch when I found some info online while searching for hiking sites. As a kid some local friends had told me stories, but I’d never been sure what to make of it. I also had read a book about Blue Mountain Bigfoot that Vance Orchard had wrote. I wasn’t totally convinced that these creatures existed and did not think I would find anything about them because I figured that if there were encounters, they were very rare. I arrived at the campground at about one o’clock. An older couple was there reading, enjoying the campground. I picked an area and began set up my tent. As I was pounding the stakes in I felt something hit the ground behind me. I turned around and I didn’t see anything. I looked over at the couple and they were still sitting at their campsite. Whatever it was had caused a very strong vibration in the ground behind me and it couldn’t have been anyone at the camp. A little bit later I started to hear a weird noise. At first I thought it was the antifreeze bubbling in my car because it was a hot day and my car was steaming a little. My car overheats a lot. The sounds were like a low rumbling growl. It was a sustained sound that lasted for just a couple seconds. However I seemed to hear it in regular intervals. The sound also seemed to kind of echo like the sound of something hollow or the sound of water down a drain which is why at the time I thought it was my car. I decided to explore the area; I walked by the two other campers and said hi. They had a poodle that barked at me little. I wanted to see if I could look over Tiger Canyon at the valley from where we were so I crossed over to the other side if Kendall Skyline Road. I couldn’t see much through all the trees so I decided to head the other way. I brought a GPS device with me that had topography maps loaded on it. It showed a trail into the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness that I wanted to follow. As I started in that direction I noticed a very large track just to the right of a pool of water in some soft mud. It didn’t really look to me as something authentically Bigfoot because the foot seemed thin. I told myself it couldn’t be a footprint of a Sasquatch because I had read some stories a few weeks earlier and thought I could just be imagining it. I came back and looked around the area behind the camp where I had felt the thump. I had heard something knocking on a tree so I tried to make noise like I had done when I was hammering the tent posts. I had a little pattern of sorts that I thumped onto the ground with a rock. It seemed like at one point whatever it was mimicked the pattern of my thumps. I explored the area I thought it was coming from, but only saw a deer, so I figured maybe it was just my imagination getting the best of me. The noises stopped and I felt relieved. “It was all just in my head” I thought. It was now somewhere between 1:30 pm and 2 pm, and I started down towards Squaw Spring. I noticed some more prints as I walked but I still didn’t believe what I was seeing. I found some that seemed to continue on further but I did not follow them since I had planned to go a few miles into the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness and didn’t want to waste time. It also looked like there was a foot impression on a log that had fallen across the spring. This all seemed too surreal to me because there were lots of prints everywhere even some that appeared smaller, possibly a juvenile animal, but they were just thin outlines. I had never seen prints like these in person so I was unsure what I was even looking at. I kept walking and came to a clearing on the side of a grade where I found a print that was about 3 inches deep and well defined. I could see the big flat foot, the toes and heel. Suddenly I thought wow these prints are for real. I now had a feeling one of these creatures could be around any corner. I got to the top of one of the mountains to get a nice view of the wilderness area and then made my way back to camp. When I got back I was pretty tired from hiking. The two other people at the campground left in their pickup shortly after I got there and I went to relax in my tent. I was the only one at the campground now. About an hour later I heard the same low rumbling growl sound from earlier. I realized that my car had now been off for 3 or 4 hours, and there was really no way it could be the car. I was hearing more knocking and like I had earlier. It sounded like someone was smacking a branch against a tree. I realized whatever creature this was; it must be the same one that came by before because the knocking and the low growl started at the same time after being silent for so long. It sounded like it was in the same area behind my campsite where I had heard the thump earlier. It was now about 7 pm, about 2 hours until dark. Being there by myself made me very nervous, especially with the growling noise and tree knocking apparently being directed toward me and my campsite. I got out of there as fast as I could. I got back to town and felt very paranoid. I spent time walking downtown Walla Walla calming myself down and recounting the events. I had never been so scared of the outdoors. People noticed I looked visibly shaken though I had not mentioned the incident. It was hard to even tell anyone in fear of them thinking I was crazy.","I set up camp at Skyline Campground (formerly Squaw Springs Campground)It is along Kendall Skyline Road. Take Mill Creek Road to Tiger Creek Rd and it is 2 or 3 miles south of where Tiger Creek Rd intersects Kendall Skyline Rd. I hiked approximately 2 miles into the Wenaha-Tucannon Wilderness. I also brought along a Garmin GPS and kept a log of my hike if someone wants to investigate the area further.","Wallowa County","Oregon","Summer","Report 24371: Young male hiker experiences strange events and finds possible tracks at a campground in the Blue Mountains",45.91665,-117.925,"2009-02-11",24371.0,"Class B","c2hjhwceu7",25.06,21.215,17.37,21.22,1.0,1.0,0.58,0.0021,0.57,"snow",1019.59,"Snow (< 1 in.) in the morning and afternoon.",2.0,5.59,216.0,1.04,"RES.SEASON"], [263,1286,"For the past four years my family has seen a creature unidentifiable to us; these sightings have been at our home seven miles north of Porcupine, South Dakota. The creature appears to be seven to nine feet tall and has left a couple of footprints that measured 18 inches long and 7 inches wide. It stands up straight and has a slight hunch when walking. We have also found hair; possible saliva mixed with grass, and dried blood stains on cactus. There have been small trees broken on the property; they look snapped which would take such strength. It has often been seen running at high speed, too quickly to follow. I and most family members have seen this creature continuously – not just once; sometimes days pass between sightings. ","This location is near the junction of Bureau of Indian Affairs ( BIA) Highway 27 and 14 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation. The closest town is called Porcupine which is 35 miles Northeast of Pine Ridge, SD.","Shannon County","South Dakota","Fall","Report 5173: Large bipedal animal frequently observed by a South Dakota family",43.35851,-102.3971,"2002-12-04",5173.0,"Class A","9xxntvhtws",16.79,10.739999999999998,4.69,11.73,0.94,1.0,0.02,0.0029,1.0,"snow",1032.26,"Snow (< 1 in.) starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",1.0,7.86,25.0,2.14,"RES.SEASON"], [266,653,"Somehow I was fortunate enough to stumble onto this website. I can only give you sketchy details about this incident. My brother lived on a dairy farm between Calcutta and East Liverpool. He was sitting in his home with his infant son shortly after dark when his Doberman began to bark and whine. He went to investigate. The dog would not come out of the doghouse and continued to cry out. My brother got a gun and turned out the lights in the mobile home. He sat listening and waiting, thinking there was a prowler on the property. He waited for while. Then a tall figure approached the window of the trailer. It was breathing heavily. My brother was so stunned he froze in his chair. Eventually the thing walked away. The following morning my brother found what seemed to be paths of broken down brush leading toward the creek bottom.","On a dairy farm [ between Calcutta (Ohio) and East Liverpool]","Columbiana County","Ohio","Spring","Report 12220: Possible approach to a dwelling between Calcutta and East Liverpool",40.69334,-80.57396,"1980-06-15",12220.0,"Class B","dpnxqrzzfs",77.67,66.695,55.72,62.76,0.79,0.86,0.1,0.0282,1.0,"rain",1008.72,"Heavy rain starting in the afternoon.",5.0,4.44,238.0,4.85,"RES.SEASON"], [274,3899,"My wife and I were elk hunting. We went up to our favorite area Beaver Meadows. We had decided to try a different area the next week. We went back up Beaver Meadows road and went off on Bear Creek road. We went down an old logging road. My wife and I had gone about 100 yards when my wife said do you smell that. I smelled the air and said no. I left her on a stump and I went a ways further. I found a place for myself. Looking over a meadow I started to smell this fowl wet musty odor. Then I heard a loud crack, not a gun shot, not an ax, but more like a log hitting another. I walked back to my wife and explained the smell and she said that was what she smelled. We started back toward the truck when my wife tripped. I looked down to see what she tripped on. To my surprise a huge track, not a bear, it was about 16 inches long and 6 inches wide no claw marks. There were two tracks. I am six foot tall and could not even match the stride. My wife was so excited about this she wants to go back this spring to see if we can get picture of the creature.","The location was up Beaver Meadows off of Bear Creek road, east of Bayfield north of Hwy 160","La Plata County","Colorado","Fall","Report 25511: Couple finds large human-shaped footprints while elk hunting near Bear Creek",37.33815,-107.501,"2008-10-12",25511.0,"Class B","9wes3v0nmp",42.82,30.185,17.55,10.16,0.39,0.25,0.42,0.0001,0.04,"snow",1013.24,"Overcast in the morning.",6.0,10.0,233.0,2.47,"RES.SEASON"], [285,565,"It was a nice day out, so i decided to walk my dog. I took him on the bike path for a small walk. We went past a turn and then my dog started to bark. I looked in that direction and noticed a big, bulky, hairy creature. I stood and watched for about 5 seconds and it just walked across to the other side into the brush. I couldn't tape it because I didn't have my I-pod with me. So we ran home, I got my I-pod and went back, this time with my other dog. I walked down to where the creature was and noticed a footprint. I took one picture of it on my I-pod.","The newer bike path beside the graveyard.","Greene County","Ohio","Winter","Report 40619: Possible daylight sighting while walking a dog on a bikeway near Jamestown",39.6543,-83.7278,"2013-03-16",40619.0,"Class B","dph3wdz70c",53.45,42.575,31.7,38.8,0.86,0.72,0.16,0.0037,0.76,"rain",1008.89,"Foggy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",4.0,2.24,311.0,1.74,"RES.SEASON"], [289,3006,"My experience happened in early fall of 2011. It was warm that year and this happened right before Halloween. I was out walking at Douglas County Park with my boyfriend, his friend and my youngest son who was 3 at the time. We walked back past the corn field and worked our way to the bridge that crossed a creek just before you hit the heavy wooded area. I was tossing leaves in the creek on one side of the bridge and Ethan would run to the other side to look for it floating down stream. I heard a series of loud knocks from the woods, I looked at my friends and they heard it too. It was suggested that it was probably just other people out walking. So I shrugged it off. We started back towards our car because it was starting to get dark and I heard a loud scream. It was nothing I had heard before, too clear to be human.. and too loud for coyote. It did give me the creeps, my friends acted as if it was nothing and we kept walking. A few minutes later I heard a loud scream again only this time it was closer. At that point I picked up my son looked behind me and all I could see was tall grass. Nothing there, my friends made a joke about it being a bigfoot and we worked our way back to the car. I have never heard a yell like that before and could not point it to any animal that I know of. For the record it sounded nothing like the screams on “Finding Bigfoot” It was loud, higher pitched almost like a female scream but there was no strain to it. I believe what I heard was a Sasquatch.","Donald county park has Deer Creek running through it and there is a large area of water shed land. The entrance to the park opens to a large corn field, however if you take the trail to the left and keep going toward the high ground where the woods are, is where this happened.","Dane County","Wisconsin","Fall","Report 40718: Hikers hear possible wood knocks and loud screams near Mount Horeb",42.95915,-89.6816,"2011-10-28",40718.0,"Class B","dp8hrhrz5m",54.13,43.55,32.97,31.35,0.72,0.35,0.07,0.0002,0.42,"rain",1019.11,"Mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",3.0,9.33,205.0,1.7,"RES.SEASON"], [305,2910,"My Boss and I work in forestry, were in the field allmost every day. We were working in this remote part of a Indian Reservation forested allotment. we were resurveying property lines and getting ready for a timber harvest. well this day we were resurveying the south side of this allotment heading east we were measuring every 100ft for a distance of 1320 ft. at approximate 11:00 a.m we kept hearing something following us eather behind us or our left or right it stayed approximate 100 to 250ft away from us. there was this stench real heavy oder that we kept smelling near us. I kept blamming my boss that he had crapped in his pants and he kept accusing me of doing the same he said theres only two of us out here and I know I didnt do it. well anyway we were taking a break from hacking through the brush with our machete and we were leaning against this 200 plus old growth blowdown fir tree. I took a cigarette out and lit up, and then there was this branch or twigs breaking like something large walking through the underbrush about a 120ft away. I could not find any rocks to throw in that direction but found a u shaped piece of wood that I throw near the spot where we heard the sounds. ( take note of piece of u shaped wood because in another encounter a few years later and only a couple of months ago I had that same piece thrown at me) it got quite like I said it was cloudy and kinda dark under the tree canopy. the noise came from the other side of this large salmonberry bushes then all of a sudden the clouds broke open and aloud some daylight through behind the bushes about 10ft so that the four creatures that were watching us you could see their shadow. I told my boss mike to take a look in that direction but because of his bad eye sight he could not see that well. there were two realy big adult males one skinny tall female with shoulder lenght hair and she had a bad hump on her back her breast were like a realy old women and she kept ringing her hands together as she was speaking to the other males. there was a child to her left that stood about 6ft tall but was dwarft by the three larger adult creatures. the two males stood still motionless they watched me and did not talk much to the female that was doing most of the talking in her own dialect the males seamed to motion to her to keep quite then the clouds had covered up the rays of light and it got dark again. my boss mike kinda had seen the shadows but tried to convince me it was his boss ken and some secretarys that he brought out into the woods that sometimes he does. right after that they kept following us and my boss mike got spooked and said lets get out of here and come back next week to finnish our survey. AnimalSeen : the animals were almost 8ft except the child was 6ft tall.they were covered in fir or hair except for around there eyes and nose parts of there cheeks. one thing i did notice was i did knot see any ears on there head. the two large males were realy huge large broad shoulders, the female was tall thin with large hump on back between her shoulder blades,her breast saged near her waist.","township26North Range02East,Section#11,willamette Meridian, Kitsap county Washington","Kitsap County","Washington","Summer","Report 7441: Forest worker has many encounters with bigfoot",47.763,-122.5344,"2004-11-16",7441.0,"Class A","c22zewvpts",52.65,46.605,40.56,44.86,0.88,0.91,0.16,0.0014,1.0,"rain",1022.14,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",1.0,8.83,183.0,2.98,"RES.SEASON"], [312,452,"I was on the Little Miami Bike Trail heading back to Morrow from Oregonia...mile marker 23.5. It was Sunday, April 12, around 5:00 in the afternoon. Since the Covid restrictions were enacted a week or two prior, the trail had became so crowded every day of the week. However a cold front came in and it was a cool, cloudy day and very few people on the trail...maybe 15 to 20 riders encountered from Oregonia to Kings Mill...well, maybe more, but not bad. I'm retired and ride this route nearly day, weather permitting. So, after passing under the former Jeremiah Morrow Bridge (I-71 over Little Miami river) there's a long gentle arc in the trail. I haven't seen a soul since I turned around at Wilmington Rd. I'm cruising, it's nice and quiet, when suddenly I heard a loud knock...so distinct I instantly said in my head...that was a knock! It came from atop the hill to the east. I pondered all the conditions, i.e; kids playing..not!, cold, remote, and they don't play in woods anymore,..adult messing...maybe, but how would they know I was there?... natural, very doubtful, I'm nearly 68 and never heard anything so crisp, clearly, like a Louisville slugger full speed against a barkless solid ash tree (I imagined). There...that's what happened. I look online to see if any Bigfoot sightings had been reported in this area and found none. I stored the incident away until last weekend when I was talking to my son. He's 46 in May, I raised him near Morrow (abutting the former Frisch's Farm on the 3-C highway). Our school district includes the Maineville area. One of his good friends lived on a hillside, at a 90 degree curve on Sibcy Rd. His friend, Chris Flick's older brother told Nick, 20 years ago, he and his dad both saw a Bigfoot walking through the woods on the opposing (their house) hillside...two different times. Nick said he never related this until he told me...because of my knock story. He said he'll never forget it...and because of his story, I tell you my story...There! Thanks for reading, and hopefully you consider. Dan","just east of the bike trail, which was the rail line, which was the trail used by the Shawnee heading to Yellow Springs (which was their main camp, I think the home of Tecumseh). Anyhow, the trail the same.","Warren County","Ohio","Spring","Report 65393: Possible knock heard from Little Miami Bike Trail near Ft. Ancient",39.42606,-84.10463,"2020-04-12",65393.0,"Class B","dph0q1kckn",64.65,59.18000000000001,53.71,45.38,0.72,0.72,0.69,0.0226,0.9,"rain",1008.3,"Rain in the evening and overnight.",6.0,9.417,163.0,9.75,"RES.SEASON"], [313,1100,"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 experienced hearing knocks, LOUD branch breaks, hearing bi-pedal footsteps emanating from a creature much larger than a human would make, smelled noxious odors, and had that inexplicable feeling of being watched. The place is a cabin which has been in my son-in-law’s family for 4 generations. It is located on the edge of the Allegheny National Forest, off the summit of a mountain. Across the lane from the cabin is a large meadow, belonging to a local doctor. This is sometimes planted in grain crops, other times allowed to remain fallow. There are other cabins scattered along the lane; none within eye-sight of the other. My first trip was in October of 2006. There was no other activity at the other camps. My son-in-law (Eric) and I arrived about 8-8:30 at night in the darkness. Upon exiting the Jeep, I had an immediate feeling of being watched. I have spent a good deal of time in the woods, hunting, fishing, and hiking. I am not easily spooked. After dinner, cleaning up, and sitting up a bit talking we turned in about midnight. Around 2 A.M. I was awakened by the sound of the old wooden table and chairs being pushed about on the deck. We determined it must be a bear, and went back to sleep. Approximately 2 hours later we heard something rustling about the fire pit. We did NOT cook any food outdoors, we brought in all our empty bottles and such when we came in to discourage bears and other critters. In the morning, we found the table and chairs had been moved about, which a bear or even a large raccoon could have done. However, the fire pit had been scattered about, some of the smoldering logs rolled aside. Another time, we were hunting in the forest behind the cabin. The topography is typical Appalachian mountain; rugged, steep slopes, ravines, small streams and bogs. Here and there are small oil seeps as well. We had just descended into a fairly open area which promised grouse. This was early November, crisp but not cold. We were each carrying shotguns loaded with upland game shells. We were walking approximately 50 yards apart when we stopped, looked at one another and asked “What is that smell?” From out of no-where came the most putrid, overpowering smell. It was not the oil-seeps, which have their own sulfur like smell. This was horrid! It was like a skunk on steroids, with a good measure of open septic tank, and some rotten garbage added for good measure. We continued on our way, the smell dissipated after about 100 feet. We tried to tell one another it was a dead deer or something; but we both knew better. I worked in a funeral home while in college; and have never experienced anything that nauseating. We also had an unnerving feeling of being watched the entire time we were there. Upon relating the above to my daughter, Eric’s wife, she stated she has smelled awful odors for no apparent reason as well and felt like she was being watched several times. We have heard howls, far in the distance, and others within a quarter mile or so of the cabin. There are coyotes in the area, yet these are much longer in duration, and have more range. Some start low, and rise toward nearly a falsetto pitch. Others have been more monotone yet will waver somewhat. Others will start low, and culminate in a scream. This is not a bob-cat, not a coyote, and all members of our party are accounted for. In March of 2014, a group of us went for Spring Opening. There were 5 of us there. As darkness set in, I decided to venture out to the open meadow to observe the Winter constellations. This is about 100 yards from the cabin. The cabin is situated on the downward slope from the summit, which is the meadow. The area behind and on both sides of the cabin is a fairly steep slope. It is heavily grown with second growth trees, brush, and scrub. There are also a lot of blow-down branches which makes walking even in daylight difficult. At night, it is an invitation for a sprained ankle at best. As I was observing the stars and enjoying the silence, I heard footsteps. Not in the trail, not in the meadow, but coming UP the slope to the south of the cabin. My initial thought was a bear. As I listened, it was apparent the foot falls were from a biped. I called out if it was any of our group and received no reply. Then the steps would start again. I called again, louder, and the steps stopped for a moment. Then, they began again, finally stopping by the edge of the lane. There were no lights showing, the moon was in the final phase of its final quarter, and just a sliver. I started to return to the cabin. I was about 20 yards from where I heard the steps stop along the edge of the lane. As I drew parallel to that area, I heard shuffling of the underbrush, as if whatever it was had turned it’s entire body sideways to watch me pass. When I entered the cabin, everyone was where I had left them. There were no new leafs, mud or debris in the doorway. When I asked if they heard anything, they all said no, as they were watching Planes, Trains and Automobiles on VHS. Finally, this past Spring, a group of us went up for a weekend. While sitting about the rear deck, enjoying a fire and talking, a member of our party was encouraged to do their howl. They did. Then about 30 seconds later, the sound of a very large tree limb snapping came from down the slope behind the cabin. Could it have been a bear stepping on a branch? Perhaps, but that would be very coincidental to step on a limb just after a howl. I KNOW there is something in those mountains. I can’t prove it physically; it one of those things that you know that you know. Please keep this location undisclosed. We would hate to see a bunch of people go hunting for these creatures. They don’t deserve to be pursued and bothered. I have been needing to share this with someone who won't think I am off my rocker. Thank you.","Witness requested location be kept confidential.","McKean County","Pennsylvania","Unknown","Report 49903: Several possible incidents over the years in the Allegheny National Forest",41.73315,-78.93985,"2006-01-01",49903.0,"Class B","dprv7tmc0p",33.37,31.565,29.76,27.75,0.86,0.97,0.06,0.0008,1.0,"snow",1015.84,"Overcast throughout the day.",1.0,7.93,250.0,3.42,"RES.SEASON"], [316,1210,"I had noted on my Limestone, Alabama Spring 1978 sighting report that I would eventually submit other sightings that involved myself, others I know or did know or had learned from talking with others. I did not know it would be this long to submit them, but I have since married, had a child, lived in three different locations, had five different jobs among other things since I last submitted that Limestone, Alabama sighting. This sighting/encounter below involved myself, and two freinds, it unexpectdly and without intent being my second. The event I relate here happened to me and two friends in April of 1994 while I was attending Troy State University, Troy. I was undertaking graduate studies at the time. I lived in a campus dorm and had become friends with several people in the dorm and about campus. One of these friends stayed in a room a few doors down. He dated a young woman that stayed in the International House across campus. I had been studying on that paticular night I write of and had become bored with it. My friend knocked on the door and came in. I for the most part had an \"open door policy\". The door may be open, but knock before you enter so I'll know you are there. As Kevin and I talked we agreed to go pick up his girlfriend, Donna and go to \"Lookout Mountain\". I had been out to the place once before during the day about a month earlier so I offered to drive. We left campus around 11 pm or so. We headed up Hyw. 231 north. About 8 miles from the Campus we turned west/northwest (left) onto Co. Rd. 17 As we got closer to the so-called Lookout Mountian we noticed fewer and fewer houses. After about 15 minutes of driving we had found it and proceeded to park just off the road. We got out of my vehicle and then walked up to the top of this large hill. The hill is about 100 feet high from what I remember. It is supposedly the highest point in Pike County. The place seemed to be a well known and well used spot with open areas about the path to the top, besides one could see for several miles to the west, south and east from atop this hill. I recall seeing the rotating beacon that night at the Troy Airport several miles to the south. I knew we were not the first people to walk to the top and hang out nor were we going to be the last. Everything seemed cool. After about 15 to 20 minutes we three decided to head downhill toward the car and find something else to get into. I think we had decided we were going to go to Subway for a late night snack. Now here is where it got weird. Just after we started downhill I began getting a funny feeling and the hairs started to rise on the back of my neck, like something was there and we were being watched. Seeing how we were out at night in the country plus having a lady with us, Kevin and I had decided not to be foolish. We had both brought along weapons. I had a Colt .38 stuffed in the back of my pants in its holster and a few extra rounds in my pocket plus a good sharp replica Samurai sword. (Yes, a sword). My friend had a Glock 9mm and an extra magazine of rounds. My friend was in the National Guard at the time. I pulled out the .38 before we got even midway downhill. I had looked over to where Kevin and Donna were to my right. He had already taken out his 9mm so I knew he also sensed something by then as well. It was also about this time that we started hearing rather heavy footsteps. As we moved along I notcied the steps were on both sides of us. By the time we had arrived midway downhill we were aware that there were five maybe six...somebodys or somethings out not far from us. I recall that there were two and I'm pretty sure a third distinct grouping of footfalls to my left and two off to my right. Kevin was closest to the ones on my right so I'm sure he had heard them much better. Also by this time our Donna had become almost hysterical. I'm sure her few screams did not help matters much. Kevin said that it might be some other people messing with us like Frat boys. We stopped breifly. He shouted a few warnings that whomever was there had better leave us alone or speak up, he was ready to open fire. No answers. Nothing. I remained quiet, listening. Now any person in their right mind (perhaps even in a drunken state of mind) would have said something in order to keep from being shot at, I would think, yet there were no answers, no response of any sort. Just slience. We then continued to move downhill toward my vehicle but whatever they were kept back a bit and out of our sight and also to our sides yet they kept moving down along with us, not trying to hide their footfalls. As we approached the bottom of the hill we ran for it, got into the my car as fast as we could, cranked it up quickly, backed up, and took off back the way we had came. I am not sure if whatever they were moved out into the dirt road behind us or not as we drove off. I looked back but, it was really too dark to tell. Aside from that the road was narrow and had trees along each side of it and I was being as careful as I possibly could so as not to run off this road. I don't recommend under such cirmstances trying to drive out of such a place and look back at the same time. It took several minutes after we got back onto Hwy. 231 for Donna to calm down. I was shaken up but not too bad. I suppose the driving had something to do with it. I'm not sure how Kevin felt. I assume that his military training had taken over for a time back on that hill. We never saw what they were. Except for the footsteps they were otherwise quiet. At first I was not sure what they may have been however after considering the strange activites I felt they could very well have been bigfoots. I still feel that is what they were though I can never be 100% sure. Even so, what they did while we were on Lookout Mountain would seem much like reported and researched bigfoot behavior. After a few months and leaving Grad school I eventually lost contact with those two friends. I've not been back to Lookout Mountain since even though I have traveled up and down that part of 231 near there many times. I'm sure with a little driving about those dirt roads off Co. Rd. 17 I can find that hill again. I'm just not too sure I'd want to find it once again at night. ","The place of the sighting is in North/Northwestern Pike County at a place known by the name \"Lookout Mountain\". It is not a mountain at all, just a big hill. It is supposed to be the highest point in Pike County, at approx. 100 feet high. Go north on Hwy. 231 out of Troy. Turn left (west/northwest) onto Co. Rd. 17. The \"mountain\" is a few miles back. Somewhere down Co. Rd. 17 the pavement ends and it becomes a dirt road (if that dirt section has not since been paved) from what I recall. There are other dirt roads going off Co. Rd. 17. Lookout Mountain is just off one of those dirt roads on the left. I may have actually made a right turn somewhere off Co. Rd. 17 to get to Lookout Mountain. I don't really remember. Besides it was only the second, and last time I had gone out to this place.","Pike County","Alabama","Spring","Report 15473: Possible stalking on mountain outside Troy",31.85,-85.925,"2007-08-26",15473.0,"Class B","djdvhwp7dq",91.03,82.00999999999999,72.99,70.17,0.8,0.09,0.44,0.021,1.0,"rain",1014.17,"Heavy rain in the evening.",10.0,7.5,284.0,0.56,"RES.SEASON"], [341,3058,"It was January 2005 and I was living in Job, WV with my daughter who was five years old at the time. I was renting the house which was a little ways from the road. It was about 3:30pm and I was walking down the long drive way to meet my daughter to get off the school bus. It had been snowing the night before and it was cold out with a few flurries. Well as I got to the end of the drive way the bus came and stopped and I went across the street to get my little girl off the bus and I turned around and at first was talking to my daughter I didn't look straight ahead in front of me but when I looked up I noticed a very large brown figure standing below my porch which was second story and as I walked up holding my daughter's hand it just stood there staring at first I couldn't figure out what it was I have been in WV all my life and had seen many bear, bobcats and even a cougar. So I knew this was not any of these and it was standing at least eight foot tall with man like features it had kind of a flat nose its eyes were shaped like an owls and it blinked several times it didn't move the whole time we were walking to the other side of my porch to go up the steps. In fact we even looked down on it from the upstairs porch. My daughter threw some pebbles down and it still didn't move we didn't stay outside to see when it walked off but I will never forget what I saw I haven't seen anything else like it since.","I'am not good with directions but it was on the Job road going to Harman","Randolph County","West Virginia","Winter","Report 47460: Woman and daughter recall their close daytime encounter at their home east of Elkins",38.8609,-79.55928,"2005-01-13",47460.0,"Class A","dnzmjd6tnk",62.65,47.23,31.81,48.86,0.75,0.61,0.12,0.0096,1.0,"rain",1012.9,"Rain starting in the evening.",2.0,8.4,185.0,5.33,"RES.SEASON"], [345,2540,"I was heading to my home in So. Calif after vacationing in the Bella Coola region of British Columbia. It was getting late around 11:00 PM so I decided to pitch my tent just for the night off a Forest Service Rd. heading south from State Highway 410. I was wide awake reading a magazine inside my tent when I heard a distinct animal vocalization essentially identical to the recordings on the BFRO website listed as the Puyallup and Snohomish recordings. The call consisted of a 20 to 30 second duration \"shriek/howl\" and multiple \"bark/grunts\" of short duration lasting about 90 seconds. My Golden Retriever was sound asleep for most of the vocalization but woke up for the last 15 seconds and immediately bacame alert peering out into the darkness. I was surprised at his reaction due to the fact I could barely hear the grunts near the end of the incident and I thought my dog was pretty hard of hearing as he is 11 years old.","The vocalization sounded at least a mile away due west from my location on Mt. Baker Snoqualmie National Forest Route 7160 approximately .6 miles from Washington Highway 410","Pierce County","Washington","Fall","Report 6990: Scream heard while staying overnight near Greenwater",47.0228,-121.5497,"2003-12-09",6990.0,"Class B","c23ed04pwt",32.04,30.445,28.85,26.58,0.88,1.0,0.53,0.0003,0.77,"snow",1017.39,"Foggy throughout the day.",1.0,1.06,82.0,1.56,"RES.SEASON"], [353,3667,"My friend and I were backpacking in the Redwood National Park, north of Eureka, on [a particular trail in the National Park]. We started hiking at about 3 in the afternoon, and hiked for a few hours. Then we walked off the trail up into a small canyon for about half a mile and made camp. Found bear tracks, started to get worried, so we hung our food from a tree. About this time (7 o'clock) we heard the first scream. It was short, and didn't repeat. We started to get a little freaked out, so we started a fire, and heard nothing for the next 3 or 4 hours. Then at about 10:30 11:00 p.m. the screaming started again, this time lasting for about 10 minutes. It sounded like it was about half a mile away on one of the surrounding ridges, a very eerie wail. It didn't sound human. I know what elk, coyote, and wolf calls sound like, and this was nowhere near... very similar to recordings I have heard of supposed bigfoot calls. We went to bed at about 2 a.m., and left the next morning without incident.","[Editors' Note: Location details removed. We know this particular area well, but this report submission pre-dates any of our own experiences there. ]","Humboldt County","California","Summer","Report 369: Possible vocalizations heard by backcountry hikers in Redwoods National Park",41.16,-123.9,"2006-05-31",369.0,"Class B","9prfhsfy2s",65.92,59.010000000000005,52.1,50.49,0.94,0.47,0.15,0.0021,0.73,"rain",1018.42,"Overcast starting in the afternoon.",7.0,8.68,313.0,0.43,"RES.SEASON"], [366,3932,"On Sept. 4, 2001, I climbed Mt. Massive, southwest of Leadville. The route I took starts at the Mt. Massive trailhead, in the wooded valley where the Colorado Trail crosses Halfmoon Creek. The elevation of this area is just over 10,000 feet. Near the end of this long hike, at about 6:30 PM, I was approaching the trailhead parking lot, maybe several hundred yards ahead, when I heard an animal walking through the trees to my right. The trees in this area are dense, so I couldn't see anything moving. But I could clearly hear loud footsteps crunching through the underbrush, about 100 to 150 feet away. I was not particularly worried, because the animal was rapidly moving in the opposite direction I was headed. After about 10 or 20 seconds, the animal made a loud, deep, resonant bark, like a combined dog bark and foghorn. The crunching footsteps continued moving away, when after 20 or 30 seconds, the animal made another loud bark, exactly like the first. I didn't hear anything else. I never saw anything. No one else was in the area. I immediately presumed this animal was a black bear. This explanation seemed satisfactory until a few months ago, when I found out that black bears don't make any sound similar to the bark I heard. Also, the footsteps sounded as if made by a bipedal animal, but bears don't walk on two legs.","On the Colorado Trail, a few hundred yards east of the Mt. Massive trailhead","Lake County","Colorado","Summer","Report 24194: Hiker describes possible near encounter on the Colorado Trail near Mt. Massive",39.15735,-106.4213,"2001-09-04",24194.0,"Class B","9wuqf26k5g",68.34,51.77,35.2,34.39,0.55,0.34,0.56,0.0006,1.0,"rain",1016.36,"Light precipitation in the morning.",8.0,10.0,113.0,1.9,"RES.SEASON"], [378,4349,"Last year during the summer my wife and I were leaving work. We were riding together in my car leaving the Cedartown Ga airport where we skydive. It was about 7:00 7:30 in the evening the sun was starting to set, not dark but getting there. We were driving down Old Rockmart Rd headed to Rome Ga where we live. Old Rockmart Rd is the back way home about 15 miles long surrounded by woods, trees, fields, and pastures. My wife and I were talking back and forth about the day just driving home. Its starting to get dark and as we come to a straight away about a half a mile long with pastures on both sides of us fenced in, I see something big and black in front of us about 10 to 20 yards in my lane of the road I thought it was a cow so i slammed on the brakes at that time this figure (BIGFOOT) stood up from a crouched position standing about 8ft tall with long black hair turned and looked at us. I think the brakes squealing scared it, but it looked at us, the lights shined right on him. He covered his face from the head lights, he took about 2 steps into the side of the road where there was a fence post about 5 to 6 feet tall, put his left hand on the fence post and easily hopped over the fence and took off. Our windows were down, it made no sound plus couldn't hear over the sound of the car. But I could smell something dead or garbage, it smelled bad. He was about 8 feet tall and way bigger than a cow. But this was not a cow, I know what I saw, he was on two feet walking and hopped a fence and ran toward the woods. I was shocked at what I saw and so was my wife. This is my second sighting of bigfoot in the same state about 40 miles from my first sighting. My wife and i were speechless for about 15min. I could see his face looked human but wasn`t, he was all black but face and hands looked like dark grey, his hair was all black long and matted, had dark eyes and very strong massive arms and legs.","Old Rockmart Rd between Rome and Cedartown Ga off of Hwy 101 and Hwy 278.","Polk County","Georgia","Summer","Report 38873: Dusk sighting in the middle of the road by a husband and wife while driving outside Cedartown",34.05198,-85.16238,"2012-07-15",38873.0,"Class A","dn53wnfxht",86.5,78.675,70.85,71.62,0.82,0.27,0.89,0.0002,0.12,"rain",1019.9,"Humid throughout the day and mostly cloudy until afternoon.",7.0,10.0,140.0,0.8,"RES.SEASON"], [380,2331,"My two boys, ex-husband, and I were heading back to our hotel from dinner in Williamsburg, on the evening of October 22, 2020. I took a left turn onto E Rochambeau Dr., which parallels interstate 64. It was a clear night, dark and around 8:55pm. I know that it was after 8:50 pm and before 9:00pm, because I was hoping to get back to watch the 9 pm debate. My son made a comment about my speed, and I pointed out a 55 mph speed limit sign, as we passed it. I rounded a corner and saw a brief small glitter, which lead my eye to see movement. I quickly could tell that it was an upright, bi-pedal figure. As it walked quickly from right to left, I immediately could see that it walked like a human, but it was extremely broad and huge. The arms and upper thighs were so big that I could see the outline of muscles. The figure was blacker than black, almost looking like an enormous shadow figure, but solid. My lights only revealed blackness, no clothes, just one solid figure. I could see from the middle of the face and most of the legs. I saw no features, as it was walking, only showing it's side to me. It moved smoothly and quickly. I could not see it's feet, or the top of the head. It happened so quickly that I didn't have time to say look, to my family who was with me. As soon as it stepped of the side, I immediately said, \"What was that?!\". I was curious to where it went, and as I passed the area, I could see that it went into the woods. There were no cars, people or anyone else on the road. There was one house a little further down the road that had a front porch light on. I keep trying to understand the distance from my car to the area it walked in the woods, trying to understand the height. What I saw was huge, no way could any human be as huge, tall, and broad as this. Again it was black, so black, and my lights didn't reveal details which is odd. My children were completely freaked out, so I did not stop. I've returned twice to the area to look at the road and surroundings.","[Copy and paste these coordinates into Google Maps: 37.332257,-76.709259] [ You can also copy and paste this long link into a browser to see the exact location of the incident: https://earth.google.com/earth/rpc/cc/drive?state=%7B%22ids%22%3A%5B%221CPRdZeVLNSGjDPzp0mpdzqkwxsL-sYuk%22%5D%2C%22action%22%3A%22open%22%2C%22userId%22%3A%22116282724240842335884%22%2C%22resourceKeys%22%3A%7B%7D%7D&usp=sharing","James City County","Virginia","Fall","Report 67232: Night time sighting by motorist outside Williamsburg near I-64",37.33226,-76.70926,"2020-10-22",67232.0,"Class A","dq9kqknh0t",79.0,69.01,59.02,63.76,0.87,0.75,0.23,0.0005,0.08,"rain",1023.0,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,9.865,117.0,2.39,"RES.SEASON"], [384,4746,"I seen a big harry figure standing in the shallow creek. I was in my truck as I approached this creature. I shut my truck off and watched this thing. I then heard a loud deep roar from the other side of the creek. When I looked to where that sound came from I couldnt see anything. I turned back to where I had seen the creature and it was gone.","On a secondary road at a creek crossing.","Henderson County","Illinois","Spring","Report 43619: Motorist has twilight sighting south of Oquawka.",40.9119,-90.928,"2014-05-12",43619.0,"Class A","9zr2dzu304",86.74,69.35499999999999,51.97,67.27,0.77,0.53,0.43,0.0298,1.0,"rain",1008.43,"Heavy rain starting in the evening.",7.0,9.14,191.0,8.01,"RES.SEASON"], [387,4970,"I was deer hunting, watching a clearing between two thickets. It was between 7:30 and 8:00 in the morning in November, the temperature was below freezing and there was a thin layer of snow on the ground. The thickets were cedar thickets. I was sitting on an old road, in the head of the hollow, about a hundred yards from the trail crossing the clearing. The clearing was about 50 or 60 yards across. I heard, from the top of the thicket to my left, crashing, brush and limbs breaking, very loudly, like large limbs. It lasted maybe ten seconds or so. About five minutes later, I heard the same noise, maybe fifty or seventy five feet down the hill in the direction of the clearing. Brush and limbs thrashing, breaking, hitting together. Then about five minutes later, the same noise closer down the hill. The last time, it happened about 20 yards into the thicket from the clearing. Then, out of the thicket stepped something, walking on two legs, black from head to toe, with it's arms swinging by it's sides it walked across the clearing in probably no more than five or six seconds. I was too scared to move, but I took my gun and eased out of there, too busy watching the clearing to really look for tracks, but the grass was so thick I couldn't have seen any anyway. When I got to the truck, I waited on my hunting partner, worried that something might have happened to him, I walked partway back into the area and met him coming out, he asked if I had seen a large pile of feces in the road through the clearing on my way out. I had walked down that road about 30 minutes earlier and it wasn't there then. He said it was in the area where I saw this thing cross. He described the feces as loose, with grass and long, black hairs in it. I then told him what I saw and he said he was sure it was a bear and my imagination added to it. He never did believe me and no one else has, either. But it's true, I am a minister and have no reason to lie.","About four miles from Blaine. I can't remember the road number, but I could take someone back to the exact spot.","Lawrence County","Kentucky","Fall","Report 7023: Deer hunter has early morning sighting near Blaine",38.02825,-82.83425,"2005-02-09",7023.0,"Class A","dnv074cfw5",55.32,43.72,32.12,47.27,0.89,0.98,0.03,0.0066,1.0,"rain",1012.75,"Light rain in the evening.",3.0,3.9,270.0,2.89,"RES.SEASON"], [392,4834,"it was the winter of 97. shotgun season for deer. i gotten into the woods half hour before sunrise. i decided to sit up against a tree in a little ravine. . i was facing east towards a half destroyed bridge. i sat there for a few and i nodded off. i heard a twig snapped i slowly raised my head thinking it was a deer. but instead there was something walking along a trail that goes to the wash out bridge. at my guess it seem to be at least 9ft tall i say i was about 100yds away. i saw outline figure very well. i just froze got goose bumps all over and the back of my hair stood up. it had a very long stride walk and slumped over as it walked. when it aproach the bridge it didnt miss a step when got across. ive been on that bridge and i know i have to jump across and still i wouldnt make it across. when it disappeared i thought it was another hunter so i just let it go. until i got to my truck and i realized that i was the only hunter there and that figure i saw wasnt wearing hunter orange during shotgun season. thats when it hit me","i was at a huntington reservoir state park east of i 69","Huntington County","Indiana","Fall","Report 28803: Hunter has possible encounter near Huntington Reservoir",40.8179,-85.3532,"1997-11-01",28803.0,"Class A","dp721wxtw2",54.01,47.525,41.04,48.73,0.92,1.0,0.04,0.016,1.0,"rain",1000.57,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",2.0,5.4,209.0,5.59,"RES.SEASON"], [395,3004,"Initial report received as the associated media article linked below. I spoke with James Hughes tonight and he sounded very credible. Mr. Hughes told me that on the morning of March 28th at approximately 5:15 a.m.,he was driving on County Highway H, approximately 11/2 miles from his home, in Clark County, York Township, when he saw a large dark figure up ahead in the road. As he got within approximately 35 ft. of it, he saw this creature step down into a ditch on the side of the road. When he was almost up to it, approximately 200 to 300 yds. away, he said it was carrying something that looked like a goat or a sheep. When he got up to where it was, he slowed down to get a better look, and it turned and looked right at him. Mr. Hughes said that it was covered with fur, even the face area, except for two darker spots that were where the eyes would have been. It had large, honey colored patches of fur all over it. This area is aproximately 9 miles N.E. of the city of Neillsville and mostly farm land with some wooded areas. Mr. Hughes got out of there as fast as he could and did not report this to the Clark County Sheriffs Dept. until the next day for fear that people would say he was crazy. The Sheriffs Dept. sent a Deputy to check the area out but he did not find any footprints or other evidence. Mr. Hughes said that there is a very large hayfield where he saw this creature and that the ground is very hard sod which would not show footprints. He thinks that this creature must have come across this hayfield.","1 1/2 miles from Granton on County Highway H. York Township. 9 miles NE of the City of Neillsville.","Clark County","Wisconsin","Spring","Report 2215: Newspaper deliveryman sees large gray colored creature that was walking on two legs and carrying dead animal. (Newspaper account, follow-up by the BFRO and Sheriff's documents included.)",44.6543,-90.0411,"2000-03-28",2215.0,"Class A","9zzyp1444k",42.72,35.6,28.48,25.75,0.68,1.0,0.77,0.0004,1.0,"snow",1004.14,"Light precipitation and breezy in the morning.",4.0,9.99,341.0,14.28,"RES.SEASON"], [408,890,"I stepped outside to empty the trash when I heard at first what sounded like a siren. It could best be described as sounding similar to the whoops posted on this site. There were 4 or 5 loud whoops that had more emphasis towards the end of the sound. Immediately following the first sound and continuing throughout the sounds I could here a pack of coyotes going absolutely nuts. There are a lot of coyotes that frequent the area so I know their sounds really well. Sometimes they get worked up but never anything like this. After the sounds ended everything went quiet, even the coyotes stopped howling.","Near the long lake area south of hwy 140 w, just before Running Y Resort, on the south side of Hwy. 140","Klamath County","Oregon","Winter","Report 13597: Possible vocals heard near Klamath Lake",42.23865,-121.9446,"2006-01-16",13597.0,"Class B","9r923169uz",34.15,33.41,32.67,26.89,0.88,0.99,0.58,0.0033,0.53,"snow",1027.09,"Snow (< 1 in.) in the morning.",2.0,6.99,151.0,1.15,"RES.SEASON"], [414,3082,"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, Tennessee and now in West Virginia. My story takes place while living on the Kentucky and West Virginia border in 2008. The Coal industry is a very important part of the economy in that area. Underground mining requires battery operated equipment due to the exhaust of internal combustion engines. I was working for a company that rebuilt the batteries that ran the equipment. These batteries weighed one hundred to one hundred and fifty pounds each. I picked up some batteries for one of the mines in our area and started on my route. I went to Charleston West Virginia and turned down route #5, which led me into a very rural area. The road went from black top to gravel and then to dirt. It was about 5:00 P.M. and being in the fall of the year the day began to wane and evening began to fall. I had my head lights on as I made my way along the dirt road. I was traveling at about fifteen miles per hour and was going along a small river that ran along on my left. I rounded a turn and found a low water bridge crossing the stream. A low water bridge is made of some pipe that allows the water to flow through them and concrete is poured over them to make a roadway. These are always one lane wide and usually close to the water. Lining up with the bridge I noticed three of four deer off to my right along with some birds and on the left side of the bridge was a bear. I have seen many bear down where I worked but only black bears, some three to four hundred pounds. This one however was brown and very shaggy! I thought, how odd, I’ve never seen a brown bear in that area and certainly not one that big. It was sitting on its haunches looking down into the water. I had the window about half way down on my drivers side as I approached it. As I got closer I thought, “That's not a bear!” When I got to within about five yards of it, it stood up and turned to look at me. It must have been at least eight feet tall and four feet wide at the shoulders and no neck that I could see. I have never been this close to an animal that size in my life. It was a brindle color, brown, black and gray all mingled together. It’s head was kind of pointed and no hair on its face which looked almost human. It didn’t look angry or threatening, just kind of interested in my being there. The hair, several inches long, hung down from its arms and it’s hands were almost to its knees. Bears don’t have front legs like that, I should know, I’ve seen enough of them fairly close up and they sure don’t have hands! As I drove by, it looked down at me in my pick up and I realized just how large it was. I was within five feet of it and I was maybe going three to five miles per hour as I passed it. There was no foul smell that I can remember and I have heard that that seems to come with them. Approaching the end of the bridge I looked in my outside mirror and it turned and stepped off the bridge into what must have been four feet of water which didn’t even come to its waist. I remember saying to myself, “That wasn’t a bear!” I watched as it crossed the stream and climbed up the opposite bank with a hand over hand motion, holding onto trees as it went. Coming back that way after my delivery, it was dark and I saw no sign of it anywhere. Several years have gone by and I am now 71 years old. I had not told anyone about what I saw until recently. I shared my story with my father in law and told him I would understand if he didn’t believe me. But to my surprise he had worked in that area and said, “There’s something down there people claimed to have seen for years.” ____________________________________ Note from Matt Moneymaker: I discussed the bridge location with Russ Jones. The Google Maps pin at beginning of report is the only spot where it could have been but the road is all paved now. It is the only place where the creek passes under the road, necessitating the culverts described by the witness.","119 S to East on Route 3 [Investigator (MM) Note: Google Maps pin: https://goo.gl/maps/ZxxQn4hewFjVsRfm7","Lincoln County","West Virginia","Spring","Report 70692: Delivery driver has close up encounter with a Bigfoot near bridge 18 miles SW of Charleston",38.10263,-81.8075,"2008-05-12",70692.0,"Class A","dnvbf2megj",55.53,49.81,44.09,47.4,0.87,1.0,0.28,0.0177,1.0,"rain",1007.2,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",5.0,7.082,277.0,5.61,"RES.SEASON"], [428,952,"I was with a group of bow hunters in a canyon above Pilot Rock, Oregon. My 12 year old daughter and I were sitting in the brush waiting for the rest of the party to push the elk to us. We had been sitting in the dense trees since early in the morning (about 6 am) and it for about three hours, as my daughter wasn't keen on hiking through the canyon. We had been bugling during the entire time. Because it was early fall, it was quite foggy up in the high areas. My daughter and I had been hearing what sounded like a branch thumping against the trees from down below us, but steadily approaching our hiding spot. I thought nothing of the sound because one of the party was carrying antlers to \"rattle\" the elk. Eventually, the two of us began to hear distinct rustling noises near us with a grunting and growling sound. The stench was unbelievable. It smelled like a combination of wet mop and wet dog hair that had moldered for awhile. I have been around a bear carcass and it did not smell like this. I was, quite frankly, spooked! My daughter was likewise wanting to get out of the woods. We immediately climbed up the canyon wall to where the four wheelers were. The crashing sounds followed us. When the rest of the party caught up with us they said that they had seen me walking along the hill. Where they said they had spotted me was in no where close to where my daughter and I had been as it was straight down a pretty ragged elk trail that I would not have tried with my kid along. I have never been comfortable in that area again and refuse to hunt without someone with me. I have tried telling many people about this but even my daughter who was with me scoff and say it was a bear.","This took place off of an old logging road that I had only been on the one time. It was near the indian reservation.","Umatilla County","Oregon","Fall","Report 31488: Woman describes possible encounter while elk hunting near Pilot Rock",45.48318,-118.83,"1998-10-15",31488.0,"Class B","c256xzywsr",51.72,41.885,32.05,35.12,0.69,0.61,0.86,0.0012,0.4,"rain",1015.79,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",3.0,9.77,244.0,6.42,"RES.SEASON"], [432,3211,"My son and I was driving home from the emergency room. It was late summer around 2:45 - 3:00 A.M. in the morning . On a black-top county road-two lane. in a very wooded hilly area.I was going about 35 mph. at an instant a extremely tall with it's back slightly curved foreward ,very long arms and legs,lanky bodystyle , long hair covery it's body from head to it's feet came up from side of the road .One foot hit edge of the blacktop.it took no more than two and 1/2 steps till it was on the other side of the road going into the woods. when i saw itstep out of the woods onto the edge of the blacktop i put on my brakes almost hiting it with my left front of the car .i still wonder to this day if i did not at least brush against it with my car .what was very interesting to me is all the pictures i see of bigfoot does not look like the one i saw . it did not appear as mscular... very loose in motion with it's top part of it's curved foreward.it threw it' legs very far in front of it as it took it's step across the road. Also another concern of the picture i've seen of bigfoot... is it's hair. It's hair was extremely dark not the length of a ape look but it was longer and very stringy looking. in places i would say guessing, atleast 8 to 12 inches long . This night my son and I will never forget. i have encountered bigfoot in my area several times since then.","(edited)","Boyd County","Kentucky","Summer","Report 3253: Mother and her son see a tall, hairy, bipedal creature cross the road in two steps",38.42968,-82.64877,"1998-08-15",3253.0,"Class A","dnv4x7cj05",81.26,75.33000000000001,69.4,63.46,0.75,0.67,0.78,0.0005,1.0,"rain",1013.02,"Foggy in the morning.",7.0,2.68,103.0,0.86,"RES.SEASON"], [461,510,"10 of us rented a cabin in the woods Thursday Oct 29th thru Sunday Nov 1st. It was located in Logan Ohio part of Hocking Hills area. Everything was normal till Friday. We all started smelling a nasty smell couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Didn't smell it in the cabin just outside. Late Friday night after midnight 2 people were on the deck and everyone else went to bed. They started hearing loud noises like branches breaking and felt like they were being watched. Sometimes it sounded like something was being thrown they thought it was one of us pranking them. Then came a loud bang near them so they ran in the cabin from the upper deck. The one guy came into my room and told me what was going on. So me and another girl went down to the kitchen area and we all started looking out the windows. I turned all the lights out. Within minutes the one girl yelled there it is. I went to the kitchen window and in the field right in front of me there stood a large black figure walking on two feet towards the cabin. We all started yelling what is that. It then all of a sudden turned and went back into the woods it came out of like it heard us. We then got everyone up we all went out on the deck and heard weird howling sounds that none of us have heard before. And loud noises like branches breaking. Then we heard the loud sounds in front of the cabin to the left. We all moved to the front and heard walking and branches breaking and seeing something moving around. That is where a footprint was found.","It was in Hocking Hills area in Logan Ohio. We rented a cabin in the woods. [Cabin address: 9001 State Route 312, Logan, Ohio] [Long / Latitude: 39.596072, -82.352913]","Perry County","Ohio","Fall","Report 67239: Cabin renters have sighting outside Logan in Wayne National Forest",39.59607,-82.35291,"2020-10-31",67239.0,"Class A","dpj3q00ry4",55.94,49.145,42.35,31.64,0.7,0.03,0.51,0.0007,0.11,"rain",1027.7,"Clear throughout the day.",4.0,10.0,134.0,3.94,"RES.SEASON"], [468,556,"It was in 1978 or around then that my brother and I saw Bigfoot. It was the year we got hit with so much snow that year. We were coming back from our friends house as young boys (10 and 8 years old). The snow was very deep as we had to lift up our legs very high to get through the snow. As we were finally getting through the thick woods behind our house and walking into our property, there stood a Bigfoot staring the other way. My brother and I were shocked to see him, just standing out in the middle of our yard looking the other way. We heard about it before and our very first thought was that he might attack us. I told my brother to start reaching for a stick under the deep snow so we can defend ourselves. The Bigfoot was probably about 30 feet away from us. It stood nearly straight up, but with a little hunch. Its height was around 6 1/2 feet tall with a build similar to a human frame. The Bigfoot long brown hair on him, but not too thick as it was possible to see some skin under his fur. As were trying to pull out the stick from the snow, the Bigfoot heard the noise and quickly turned around and looked at us in the eyes. At that time, I was very scared. Our hearts were racing and we were shaking. For about five seconds or so he stared at us and we at him. His facial feature looked like a mix between a human and an ape. He didn't have more of a flatter face but slightly darker colored and thick skinned like an ape. After the stare down, it suddenly turned around and with super human abilities ran around the house in a just a few seconds at the most. The snow was deep, but it ran down our property and took a left turn around the house. It was like the snow never existed as he moved so quickly. I was totally amazed how lighting quick he was. It took huge long steps....that convinced us we saw a Bigfoot. Even if someone was playing a trick on us, there is no one in this world that can run through deep snow in a matter of seconds. This was the convincing point for us. But it's not over. After my brother and I made it back to the house, we yelled for our parents, but of course they didn't believe us at all. Two boys watching monster movies, yeah right... who would believe us! But later that night we heard him again. But this time he was walking on the porch around our house. I heard the snow smashing down as it walked on our porch....crunch, crunch, crunch.. and so on until it stopped right behind my window. We had bunk beds and I was on the top and my brother on the bottom. There was a small push window immediately behind my head, I could feel its presence behind me. I think (but are not sure), it was looking in the window at me. I had sooo many goose bumps on my body, I just jumped out of my bed as quickly as possible thinking he was going to ram his hand through the window to drag me out. As I ran out my brother also followed me and we raced into the living room where our dad always falls a sleep at night on the couch. We yelled that Bigfoot was out there again and of course Dad told us to go back to bed and quit fooling around, it was past our bed time. We kept yelling to him that we were serious, so he got up and looked out the sliding doors. He couldn't see anything outside and told us to go back to bed. We were too scared so we sleep in the living room on the floor. My brother and I never thought about going back outside that same day we saw Bigfoot and look for footprints. Everybody asks us that, but it just never dawned on us to do that. As the years roll by the images and details get more sketchier in my mind. But I am 100% convinced we saw him that day. The solid evidence for me is that he ran through that deep snow in just a few seconds. I'm a fairly serious runner and I know for a fact, that is totally impossible to run through the snow that quick. Bigfoot reminds me of a Heron Bird, you can never get too close to it and it quickly takes off to hide. With the woods and parks by the house and Nelson ledges somewhat close by, I think he maybe hiding in at Nelson Ledges in the caves in the ground. But that's just a hunch. Personally, I have a hard time believing myself at times, because I do not believe in evolution, but at the same time I am absolutely positive I saw him. I don't think we are going to ever find him unless we directly go out looking for him. So many people tell me they don't believe in it because no one has ever found a dead Bigfoot in the forest. But I say that it's just like the many animals in the world, we don't see them laying all around the yard either. If we found Bigfoot though, it sure would be the catch of the century! The world would change dramatically if we were able to study them closely. Good Luck, I think your website will help pinpoint there locations.","Aproximately 1/4 mile up Pond Road just off of State Route 44 in Newbury, Ohio. We spotted him in our backyard at that time. We no longer live at that place now.","Geauga County","Ohio","Winter","Report 8836: Brothers have sighting in their backyard during the \"Blizzard of 1978.\"",41.44442,-81.20629,"1978-02-05",8836.0,"Class A","dpq7b0erhr",17.57,8.83,0.09,8.17,0.81,1.0,0.93,0.0039,1.0,"snow",1023.94,"Snow (1–2 in.) in the morning and afternoon.",2.0,4.2,357.0,2.97,"RES.SEASON"], [469,4559,"I was archery hunting in Idaho not far from Headquarters Idaho, actually between Township Saddle and Township butte, when I encountered something that I have never experienced before in the mountains. I heard something heavy running ahead of me to my left as I was walking up on old railroad grade that has been used by 4-wheelers. My first impression was it may have been an elk, but I didn't see what was making the sound. I had walked about 1/4 mile from my partner and was closing in on an area where we had seen elk earlier in the week and thought I would try to push ahead to get into the area I had seen the elk. I was walking very quietly when I heard a sound that I thought was a bird flying overhead. I looked up since the sound came from in front of me, when I heard something hit a tree and then the ground behind me. As I turned around, I noticed a branch on a small tree behind me that was moving as if something had hit it. Before I could walk back to the tree which was only about 15 feet behind me, the branch had stopped moving. There was no wind and it was very calm, and very silent. When I got to the tree, the only think that I found was a large chunk of bark that was laying on the ground. I found this to be unusual since it came off a large tree such as a ponderosa pine as the bark was about 14 inches long, about 6 inches across and about 2 1/2 inches thick. This area has been logged in the last 40 years and there were no trees in the area with a girth which would have produced bark of this size. At this point, it was getting late in the evening so I decided to head back to the 4-wheeler and my hunting partner. I called him on the radio to see where he was. He said he was waiting for me at the 4-wheeler, still about a 1/4 mile away from me. I found nothing else on the trail which would have produced this sound and was wondering if this could fall into the phenomena of others who have experienced similar situations. I was a bit cautious as I walked back down the trail but heard or seen no other anomalies.","Ridge between Township Saddle and Township Butte","Clearwater County","Idaho","Fall","Report 61107: Archery hunter describes possible stalking incident outside the town of Headquarters",46.75905,-115.8545,"2021-11-08",61107.0,"Class B","c2md58jr4q",44.01,37.26,30.51,26.71,0.77,0.28,0.17,0.0005,0.09,"snow",1022.4,"Clear throughout the day.",2.0,10.0,96.0,3.41,"RES.SEASON"], [494,1990,"I live in a retirement community known as Fairfield Glade on the Cumberland Plateau in East Tennessee. Knoxville is the nearest large city and is 65 miles east. Our little community is surrounded on almost three sides by a state forest and the Catoosa Wildlife Refuge. We have an over abundance of \"protected\" wildlife of all kinds (including too many deer, in my opinion) that venture, at will, into our community. Always the bold tomboy, I preferred to get my exercise by hiking the heavily forested back roads and trails near our home instead of playing golf as my husband did. I never hiked more than 6 miles from home, and always in the early morning. One morning, I was approximately 4 miles from my home when I came upon an unexpected sunny clearing that seemed to have been an old road or path at one time because it was grassy and void of underbrush or trees. On my hikes I am normally under a full canopy of very tall trees. So the sunlight was an unexpected pleasure. As I rounded a curve and my eyes caught the filtered sunlight from the clearing, I observed a large ape-like creature jump from the woods and pounce at something on the ground. I abruptly froze. In a flash, the creature stood back up holding a long snake by the head. Just as quick as this happened, the creature disappeared back into the cover of the woods alongside the clearing. I remained still for a moment contemplating whether the animal had seen me and how best to protect myself. I literally heard my heart beating. I quickly ruled out tree climbing and decided the only alternative was to turn in the opposite direction and run as fast as my legs would carry me. I ran nearly all the way home. I was so disturbed by what I had seen, I decided that no one would believe it, so I never told anyone. That was about 5 or 6 years ago, and my husband has since died. Over the years, I have tried to convince myself that I really didn't see the thing that has so frightened me that morning in the woods. I tried to convince myself that I had somehow imagined it; however, the vivid memory persists. To this day, I have never set foot in any woods again, essentially breaking a very longstanding and much revered habit that day. I am still fearful of seeing that creature again. I have always been a sober-minded individual, not at all given to making up fantasies or stretching the truth as I know it. I was completely caught off guard and stunned the other day when an ad spot for your show came across my TV screen. After watching your show, I am now convinced that I actually did see what I thought I saw that day on my last hike. Your show also brought to mind the night a few years ago. This happened well after my experience in the woods. My husband and I were sitting on our deck looking up at the stars, so clearly visible up here on a clear night in the dark woods of the Cumberland Plateau. We were quietly listening for the Whipoorwill who nests every year in the woods across our street. He calls relentlessly for a mate every night during season. Piercing through the peace and tranquility we heard the most horrific deep bellowing scream from what seemed like some distance away. We had both been leaning way back in our lawn chairs admiring the night sky, and almost fell out of our chairs in shock. I remember my husband abruptly stood up and said we should go inside and he added that he had never seen a mountain lion big enough to scream like that. I did not make the mental connection to the scream we heard and the creature I had seen a few years prior until I saw your show and heard your team members calling out to bigfoot. Oh my gosh! That was the same sound! I must confess that I am a reluctant convert!","It was within a few miles of the community stables and Dorcester Golf Course, roughly between Fairfield Glade (Peavine Rd), I-40, and the village of Crab Orchard, but beyond the FFG subdivisions.","Cumberland County","Tennessee","Summer","Report 31005: Early morning walker witnesses a sasquatch pouncing on a snake east of Crossville",35.97231,-84.88466,"2005-06-01",31005.0,"Class A","dn7sskscuh",68.05,62.92,57.79,59.29,0.86,0.79,0.83,0.0119,1.0,"rain",1012.4,"Rain in the morning and evening.",5.0,6.6,95.0,6.27,"RES.SEASON"], [495,4263,"I went down to Florida with my family while my dad was working there. We didn't want to stay in a hotel because we had just bought a camper so we decided to go camping. So we stayed at the Hillsborough River State Park. One day I took my bike out around 2 in the afternoon. The camp had a few trails to ride on so I decided to take one. As I was riding my bike, I stopped and looked over the ledge at a few alligators I spotted. I heard a rustle in the trees and thought maybe it was a gator so i got steady on my bike and got ready to take off. As I was looking around I noticed a tall dark brown hairy figure just standing there looking at me. I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me so I looked harder at it and It took off running. I would also like to note that it was running on two feet, not four. I rode my bike back to my camper as fast as I could and elaborately told my mother and my sister that I just saw Bigfoot. They both claimed I was crazy and told me it was a black bear because the camp guide told us not to leave food out because they had some of them in the area. But I am most certain that this was not a bear. this \"Thing\" stood at least 7 1/2 feet tall and ran upwards on two feet. I know what I saw,and ever since then I've been fascinated with this creature. I know its out there!","It was at the Hillsborough River State Park on one of the bike trails","Hillsborough County","Florida","Winter","Report 26377: Young man has a close daylight encounter while riding his bike along the Hillsborough River",28.14617,-82.24487,"2001-01-13",26377.0,"Class A","djj807z57d",62.39,54.415,46.44,45.51,0.85,0.38,0.64,0.0002,0.38,"rain",1020.83,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",3.0,8.95,0.0,5.28,"RES.SEASON"], [503,2918,"I was driving to work this morning and came around a right hand corner and less than 100 ft in front of me was a large upright dark hairy object/animal/person in the roadway walking briskly from the left to the right. It was standing on two legs. I observed long arms swinging with the hands bent backwards like if you were swimming, as it walked quickly to the base of the bank next to the road. By the time I was parallel with where it crossed it was gone. It did not look at me. My husband and I drove back by it later this afternoon and didn't stop due to traffic at that time of day but noticed areas on both sides of the road where something has been using the spot to go across. I didn't see it out of the corner of my eye. I saw it dead on in front of me. My thoughts were whatever I saw didn't belong there. It was very dark and very tall and my headlights were right on it.","The location is very rural no homes. I'd have to say its 400 to 1000 ft from the powerlines leaving Gorst going towards Belfair on the left. [Investigator (MM) Notes: Location Coordinates: 47.528769, -122.719718 Click here for Google Maps pin: ]","Kitsap County","Washington","Summer","Report 69614: Close-range 5:30am road crossing sighting by communting motorist five miles west of Bremerton",47.52877,-122.7197,"2021-08-27",69614.0,"Class A","c22wrkq5ps",70.95,60.22,49.49,56.19,0.83,0.68,0.69,0.0022,0.37,"rain",1019.9,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,10.0,59.0,3.9,"RES.SEASON"], [508,2433,"I found some interesting tracks in the snow that were weeks old. They are where no humans have been in months and where they came into and out of the road is not where a person would travel. The stride is approximately 3 ft and the offset from left to right is about 1 ft. I have picts and video of what I seen.","It was by Vanson Lake in Washington","Lewis County","Washington","Spring","Report 65388: Sasquatch snow tracks found at first seasonal entry onto Weyerhaeuser land near Vanson Lake",46.4125,-122.182,"2020-04-24",65388.0,"Class B","c23059ju3j",47.69,44.77,41.85,39.38,0.91,0.78,0.06,0.0031,0.4,"rain",1022.4,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,9.889,164.0,3.77,"RES.SEASON"], [511,965,"The sighting ocurred in the late seventies. I was with my dog at the North jetty, in Ft. Stevens State Park. It was a very stormy day and the surf was high, crashing over the rocks on the jetty and pounding the beach. From the viewing tower I saw a man-like figure walk down off the grassy area onto the beach. At first I did not think too much of this \"person\" out on the sands. Then I watched as the figure neared the edge of the water. It was waving its arms up and down facing the surf and the tower. There was another person on the tower with his daughter and they too saw the figure; we looked at each other with a \"what the hell is that\" look but said nothing and continued to watch this figure standing on the beach. At this point I noticed a pick up truck with its lights on approaching up the beach from the south. Then the scale of the figure really struck me; it had to be a good 8 feet tall or more. The figure quickly turned and moved very fast off the beach before the truck was in range. It did not run but rather \"strode\" the 30 or so yards to the dunes edge, then took one or two steps up the embankment and was gone. I was all excited and scared on what I has just seen. I decided to go to the nearest parking lot near where the figure came down on the beach and see if I could get another look at it. As I approached the beach I became even more afraid, the wind was so strong I could hear nothing but the roar of the surf and the howl of the wind through my coat's hood. My dog was anxious and stayed close to me. I went to the beach and found where it came down the sand hill, the sand was all torn up from its passage. But when I discovered the hill was an easy 10 foot high, I really became fearful and decided to return to my car and leave instead of following the tracks into the grass. The vivid picture of a sandy colored figure standing near the surf waving its arms still stays with me today nearly thirty years later.","It was at the beach area off the North Jetty at Ft. Stevens State Park, South of the Jetty on the ocean side. Clearly viewable from the observation tower right where the jetty and the beach meet.","Clatsop County","Oregon","Winter","Report 11147: Storm watchers on tower observe animal on beach.",46.2262,-124.0133,"1978-02-15",11147.0,"Class A","c0pyfp0r0s",49.74,41.870000000000005,34.0,36.04,0.86,0.65,0.28,0.0039,1.0,"rain",1023.91,"Light rain in the morning.",2.0,10.0,113.0,0.73,"RES.SEASON"], [512,2527,"4 close friends and myself were camping at the base of Corral Pass. 2 of us have been believers for quite some time, the other 3 are staunch skeptics. On the 2nd day of the outing all 5 of us decided to go check out Corral Pass. We all packed into my 4-Runner and off we went. By the time we got near the top, it was quite cold and snow-covered. We got out and plotted our hike. I immediately began looking for tracks and within 15 min., we found some. They were bare (not bear) feet prints, about 16-18inches long X 8-10inches wide, and the tracks were about 45-60feet long, (which trailed off into an unsnowed on area). We've always been outdoorsmen, and seen various animal tracks before, and we even considered that maybe these were possibly tracks from huge boots, which melted outward some, then re-froze, but then we noticed something that convinced all 5 of us. On the top of each print were a huge set of TOES, (but absolutely no claws). As I pointed this out to my buddies they were speechless. We observed them individually, and in silence as we were all really convinced, staring at each other with flat-affects and big eyes. We continued on our trek, quitely, and didn't speak of it the rest of the trip. We've actually been squatch'n for about 10 years and this has been our first visual of evidence..., when you least expect it, I guess!!","Corral Pass, (just before Crystal Mt. Ski Resort), near the top of the pass.","Pierce County","Washington","Fall","Report 1594: Footprints found with huge Toes on each print",47.01278,-121.4642,"1997-11-28",1594.0,"Class A","c23ekn2mr1",30.9,29.99,29.08,28.49,1.0,0.98,0.95,0.0226,1.0,"snow",1012.94,"Snow (1–3 in.) until afternoon.",1.0,1.36,91.0,3.2,"RES.SEASON"], [519,1032,"I wasn't going to report this incident, but I believe it is of major importance to the Bigfoot research community. I will try to keep it simple. I had recently purchased a used vehicle and we decided to take it for a test drive to Laverne Park, which is just a short drive into the mountains from where we live. I was with my girlfriend, her 14 year old daughter, and my dog. After passing the park, we drove on further to see the country. We found a right turn and followed the rural road up into the forest. I later found out that we were traveling up Moon Creek. Not long after heading up the road, my car started overheating. I didn't have water on me so I decided to stop at the first water source, which was a bridge of the creek. I pulled over and we got out. While stepping out of the truck by girlfriend said, \" hey, there is something walking on the hill above us\". We stopped and listened for a moment but it was quiet. I then looked for a place to collect some water from the creek but it turned out that the edge of the water was too steep to step down and get water from. So, I had come up with a quick plan to connect some string to a cup and \"fish\" the water from the bridge. While we were trying to get the cup to fill, a small stone was thrown at us and bounced on the concrete of the bridge we were on. I looked up and noticed a steep hillside above us wondering what the hell could throw a rock at us. I noticed my dog was sitting in my truck, which she never does while I'm out of it in the wilderness. I was getting a little spooked so I tried to speed up the process of getting the water in the cup. Then, another stone bounced on the bridge next to us. I literally watched it skip along the cement. I mentioned that we better hurry, and then, from somewhere up the hill, came a very large rock, about the size of a softball of larger. It smashed against a huge rock in the creek and busted into pieces. I stood up on the bridge, looked at my girlfriends daughter and said, \"let's go now!\" My girlfriend and dog were already in the truck when I slammed the hood down and dove inside. We drove down the mountain and pulled over. I had left so fast that I didn't put the radiator cap back on. I considered returning after getting water to try to get pictures, but my girlfriend wouldn't let us go back. Now, either somebody was on that steep hill in the middle of the forest screwing with us and throwing rocks, or something else was. If it was a person, they are mighty brave in a forest full of hunters and guns. I don't know, seems awful strange.","Drive past the Lavern Park, take first right over bridge up Moon Creek. Approximately a mile up to the first cement bridge. Pull over spot to park in.","Coos County","Oregon","Spring","Report 67380: During day trip to mountains, couple hear branch breaks, rocks thrown while repairing vehicle, near Coquille.",43.27402,-123.9834,"2020-04-15",67380.0,"Class B","9pxy4ty13q",59.74,52.825,45.91,47.4,0.86,0.74,0.79,0.0006,0.11,"rain",1024.2,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,8.425,336.0,4.16,"RES.SEASON"], [521,2572,"My wife and 10 year old son just returned from a weekend cub scout camp out at Joemma Beach State Park on the Longbranch Peninsula in Puget Sound. Early this morning, probably about 2 am, several of the scouts and their parents were awoken by a series of what they described as whoops. My wife described three whoops as being VERY close and a short time later, maybe a few minutes, another series of whoops farther away as if the animal was moving away. She said it was unnerving to the point that she wasn't going to leave the tent the rest of the night. She described the sound as nothing she has ever heard before. Many of the parents and boys that heard the sounds were discussing it this morning and the possibility that it was a sasquatch did come up.","The incident happened at Joemma Beach State Park campground.","Pierce County","Washington","Fall","Report 61038: Mother camping with her kids hears loud vocalizations from outside their tent at Joemma Beach State Park campground",47.2255,-121.805,"2018-09-30",61038.0,"Class B","c23ksm0k3z",54.04,50.99,47.94,43.79,0.79,0.95,0.7,0.0004,0.16,"rain",1011.6,"Overcast throughout the day.",3.0,2.973,138.0,4.34,"RES.SEASON"], [534,2705,"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 crew's primary Central Washington State research area, I've purposely withheld the exact location and am using \"Chinook Pass,\" which covers a broad general area. The event was both a weekend social gathering as well as a field expedition with one main base camp and several satellite camps over a 10-mile area. The area (which I initially felt was very dry aside from several marshy areas nearby, contained a tremendous amount of elk sign) has been used for a previous BFRO expedition as well as other private outings. It's been a consistent “hot zone” for our WA crew, who, lacking sophisticated heat-sensing equipment, have experienced a lot of curious activity over the years including purported vocalizations, wood-knocking, powerful footfalls, branch breaking, persons being paralleled, etc. and several documented sightings nearby within the BFRO database. In attendance were various members of both WABFR (Washington Bigfoot Field Research Group) & a majority of WA-BFRO researchers. A few of us CA-BFRO members were invited and held the furthest base camp from the main camp & shared that particular site with various WA bigfooters. A matter of fact, on any given night our camp held about 14-15 people with many walking back and forth only on the primary dirt road to the closest adjacent camp about one mile away. During the first two nights, there was no activity to report from my perspective other then some of the best barred owl vocalizations I've ever heard in my years in the field. For most of that Saturday, August 18th, I spent the day in Seattle with my friend Jamie J, picking up his son and we returned to the camp location around 5:30 PM. At around 11:00 PM our site held about 13-14 people (most of them researchers) who were consolidated in one small area. Everyone was congregated into this section of the camp that was bordered by vegetation on the backside in which there was a berm and trail running parallel right behind that vegetative border. Being a little antsy and not much in a socializing mood, I took a walk down that back pathway about 100 yds, (which was pitch black on a dark night with plenty of tree cover) to relieve myself. 30-40 yards further down that pathway the trail led to a swampy marsh & was broken up by denser vegetation & ponderosa pine (see map picture for camp layout). In the middle of urinating I was facing towards camp and heard a very close step-branch break at my eight-a-clock, 6-7 yds from me that did not give me the immediate impression a large subject was responsible. Casually walking back to camp and not hearing anything further, I asked one of my best friends & research partner, former BFRO researcher Cliff B., if I could borrow his X200xp handheld thermal imaging unit to scout around camp & see if I could see the subject responsible for the branch break on the pathway I'd just returned from. He immediately obliged and we walked to his truck, which was located about 30 yds behind the current congregated area in the opposite direction of that same pathway. When I received it, I immediately walked to the front of that pathway near where our tent was placed perpendicular to the trail and my companions congregation area was to my left about 20 yds in front of me down a small berm. As I could hear Cliff reshuffling equipment around the back of his truck, I put the imager to my eye to tune it and while doing so caught a glimpse of a small wood rat running 10 yds in front of me to the right. Straight ahead, I caught the heat signature of what I initially thought was a person standing behind a tree, beyond my party where it was pitch black. My initial impression did not change for about 20 seconds with the combination of only seeing about 10-15% of the subject. (partial legs, arms, knee & head were contrasted behind that biggest tree in view: see re-creation pic # 2) The subject then began to move its head right to left behind the tree repeatedly as if to possibly discern me or my presence more clearly. It then stepped out in plain view and dropped to \"all fours\" positioning, (see re-creation pic #3) looking over its left shoulder rotating its head in my direction as if to \"lock-in\" with arms fully extended and knees down. The second when it stepped out before dropping, the realization of what the subject was hit me and my reaction was a \"surreal\" shock considering the unexpected circumstances. When on the ground, the subject transitioned very rapidly to where it appeared it was now full body down favoring its right shoulder, rapidly moving and appeared to actually be inching up away from the tree it was initially behind & into a bit of a clearing from my perspective view. Knowing that the thermal unit I had was not self-recordable like a camcorder (at that time, to record video, our set-up was a back-pack attached to your front side containing a mini-DVR, connecting battery with plug-ins and helmet mount for the imager) I began snapping my fingers whispering loud \"Cliff,\" \"Cliff\" as I could hear Cliff repacking his truck about 30-35 yards behind me at a seven-a-clock position- back left. As I did that, the subject, who was grounded, still leaning off the right shoulder, began an almost unnerved & panicked, full-body convulsive movement obviously reactionary to the sound of my snapping fingers and voice (see re-creation pic #5). Oddly enough, it would pause-freeze in between those intervals and I was blown away that it appeared to react to my minimal sound, while my party (almost halfway between our line of site) was making a considerable amount of noise with conversing & acoustic guitar-playing. Cliff never responded in my cautious 5-6 attempts to get his attention and the subject further transitioned on the ground into what appeared to be a \"breaststroke\" uniformed-like motion (see re-creation pics #6 & #7). \"It\" was on its knees, head straight, facing toward a nine-o-clock position from my point of view, slightly down, back straight with clear space in between front torso and ground and violently swinging back what appeared to be both arms in a stroke-like motion. The hand positioning from my view (looking at the left arm) appeared to be positioned as if having four fingers held tight together and a thumb spaced away or extended, but I'm not absolutely certain. I could clearly see the subject repeat this movement 3-4 times and it appeared as if the large upper-body was being held up by the subject's abdominal muscles by the positioning and vertical space between the upper torso and ground. From this position, the subject got back down completely on the ground on its right shoulder and held an open hand above its face (facing me) as if \"blocking the sun from its eyes.\" (see re-creation pics #8 & #9) I could even make out pretty clearly, five spread digits on the left hand up by its face. From this positioning the very agile subject appeared to \"pop-up\" from the ground clearly using no arms and quickly backed behind the initial tree I first witnessed it from. Again it looked at me right to left with its alternating head on both sides of the tree before dropping right back to the ground behind that same tree. It immediately came back up with what appeared to be the benefit of one arm which I believe was its right (am not certain because of how quickly it got up). Within seconds, it had quickly moved a few feet further back in the clear with its back clearly to me and what looked like the left leg slightly forward (see re-creation pics #10 & #11) and remained completely motionless for the next 40-45 seconds or so. Now I could clearly see the full profile of the subject (estimate about 90%) from about just below the calves up. Remarkably, I do not recall actually seeing its feet from my vantage point during the entire encounter. I can remember just repeating to myself under my breath, over and over, \"Oh my god, oh my god, I can't believe it's really happening, right now.\" Its appearance (even with a white thermal profile) was absolutely remarkable & distinct with uneven weight distribution. The subject appeared to clearly possess about 2/3rds of its body weight in the upper extremities. It was obvious that the subject was predominantly bipedal by its build, though its movements on the ground just prior appeared agile, fluid and effortless. The subject's legs were fairly long but not particularly bulky in relationship to the massive torso above the waist as the bulk appeared from the waist up into just these massive shoulders & traps with no visible neck and what appeared to be from behind-- a smallish-rounder head (no discernable sagittal crest). The arm length was astonishing in that they looked \"exaggerated\" and appeared to hang as low as the subjects knees and possibly even further. A matter of fact, my guess would have its fingertips if completely extended (large hands seemed almost fisted) reach mid-to top calves. That impression was slightly thrown off a bit by the discovery the next day in daylight where it appeared the left foot had stepped over a small foot deep berm (while subject's back to me) just beyond the 10-15 yard window the subject stayed in during the whole encounter. The physical impression beyond that small berm, visually appeared to match the distance the subject was from me the night before and was also in wet thick pine-needle duff after raining all night. After about 40-45 seconds of just staring at this basically, glowing live \"statue,\" I had an extremely difficult decision to make--either continue watching the subject until it departs or attempt to document it by taking the imager from my eye, run back and notify Cliff to set-up for recording capability while praying the subject wouldn't leave in the process. I chose the latter, and it was one of the most difficult but unregrettable things I've done in my life. The last image I have of this subject was seeing it in that \"departing\" position (never saw it leave or even move again, just stood there glowing through the imager). I immediately ran towards Cliff, who was still at the back of his truck and was just screaming at him words I don't recall but must have been obvious as he moved very quickly in what I needed him to do. To my chagrin, looking back from where I came, the guitar playing had stopped and I could here a variety of scattering voices from my party and movement, including two people with headlamps on totally oblivious to what was happening, while walking up the small berm and into the line of sight between where I stood opposed to the subject during the encounter. In a panic, and without much of an explanation other then \"I just saw one, get back,\" I attempted to pull everybody back into the congregation area and continue with what they were doing minutes earlier. I had to physically pull some people back who began curiously looking down that pathway behind the congregation area. I knew Cliff was moving quickly and within minutes, saw him fully geared, running quickly back down the path towards where I last witnessed the subject standing. For the few minutes he was back there, my heart was racing from adrenalin & I was still cautiously optimistic Cliff would maybe catch the subject loitering or even departing. Unfortunately, after about 5 minutes he came back & looked at me shaking his head. About an hour later, close to 1:00 AM, Paul G. (WA-BFRO), walked back to the spot so we could interpret actual distance of the subject from my positioning during the encounter. As I saw him walk back to the initial tree it was behind, I yelled, \"stop,\" and he estimated the distance using his own steps at about 150 ft (50 yds). (After returning to this exact area the weekend of September 17-20th 2009, through exact measurement we determined that I first witnessed the subject at around 50 yds with a slight right to left angle, but worked my way up to only 33 yds from the subject with a line of sight from right to left-opposite ends of pathway). Seeing him stand there made my jaw drop as I know Paul is 6'3 & 170lbs, and it was a shock to see him \"fully clothed\" & realize the size discrepancy between both he and the subject. I'd estimate the subject at 4-7 inches taller, but even conservatively estimating its size in comparison, it was about 3 times the total body mass of Paul G. Even with the depth perception issue of this particular proprietary unit I was experienced with, I knew the subject was big once it was in the clear with its back to me, but was shocked how much thicker and oddly proportioned it was compared to Paul. I've always been great estimating people's height and poor estimating people's weight, but by comparing Paul within one hour after and the encounter so fresh in my mind, I'd estimate the subject I saw as being close to 7 ft (maybe 6'9 or 6'8) and between 475, to as much as 575 lbs. As I said earlier, the next day in daylight, what looked like a foot impression dug into heavy, wet duff was first noticed by Jamie J. and looked to be about where the subject had its back to me and left leg slightly forward. Except for the placement, it was unimpressive. Although there was heavy overnight rain, Jamie also found where the ground had been disturbed in several places where the subject had been transitioning on the ground. All of this surface was non-conducive substrate for any kind of attempted casting however and made up of wet, rain-soaked, pine needles. (to see the type of ground cover & me reenacting the subject's movements see second to last picture) It should also be mentioned that 10-15 minutes after the encounter, a female WA-BFRO member thought she was paralleled while walking away from our camp with her boyfriend on the primary vehicle road. Another CA member later heard heavy footfalls several hours later about 30 yds from where I witnessed the subject, and in the early morning hours of about 3:30-4 AM, in a heavy rain, two of us in separate tents heard large (powerful) bipedal footfalls outside our tents (confirmed next day) followed by what sounded like guttural \"doe-like\" grunts. Outside of my tent was a stationed 250D Raytheon thermal imager facing down the pathway of the encounter, but the subject never came close to breaching that pathway (was well behind opposite side of tent) & would've made little difference if it had as the battery life for that unit does not exceed 2 to 2 1/2 hours. Six of us also stayed in the camp one more night (August 19, 2009) and the night was uneventful around camp. But undetermined vocalizations (possibly barred owl) came from the ridge behind us (several miles away) well into the morning. \"RE-CREATION\" picture links in sequence below: (Note)--All \"Re-Creations\" were done taking a digital color picture of the immediate sighting location & the roughly 15-yard window the subject remained in the whole encounter, making it black & white to give a generic \"thermal effect.\" The subject was colored in using whiteout and should not be gaged by recurring size in each individual re-creation as my artwork has limitations. The idea was to give the reader/viewer a general impressionist view focusing on the various subject positioning I recall & a general idea of how the subject visually appeared to me. All re-creations were completed by me within two to three weeks after the encounter (late August to early September 2007) Link to Canadian artist Brian Cundle's poster rendition of the sighting event: http://northamericanbigfoot.blogspot.com/2010/09/brian-cundle.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- More details, potential insight & subjective interpretations from my perspective regarding the subject during the encounter. --At no time did I hear or see the subject vocalizing in any manner ---From the time I first saw the subject behind the tree until I took that imager off my eye while it was in a \"frozen\" but \"departing\" position, the subject remained within about a 10-15-yard window during the whole estimated two-plus minutes of the encounter. --Although it's probable based on time and location, I'm not 100% certain that the \"step, branch break,\" down the trail 5-10 minutes before the encounter can be attributed to the subject I actually witnessed. --I'm certain that without using the thermal imager out of curiosity and boredom, myself nor anyone else in my party would've ever known one of these animals was there. Considering the circumference of the actual camp and where I witnessed the subject, it was strategically positioned far enough back to having no chance of being noticed on a quarter moon night under heavy tree cover. (see camp layout map) --With the unnerved reaction by the subject to my loud whispers and finger-snapping with noisy companions between our line of sight, I believe I saw obvious visual evidence of acute & possibly directional hearing ability of the subject. Furthermore, I believe and it's just my opinion, that the subject never could clearly see me (by never seeming to lock-in visually) but knew my exact presence at all times, maybe either through sound or my likely subconscious, nervous footsteps trying to position myself for better views. -- For as much as I could see, I'm certain I missed a lot when the subject was \"grounded.\" Some of the transitioning was so rapid that it was indiscernible during brief intervals in the encounter & can't properly be described. Much of what couldn't be made out in the rapid transitional movements (like when the subject appeared unnerved) was in-between the subject's distinct positioning I clearly recall. Furthermore, during some other brief intervals, partial ground vegetation blockage was also a factor. --At no time was the encounter a scary experience. If anything, it was very intensely \"surreal\" watching \"one\" through an imager as I have so many other humans & Pacific Northwest animals. Part of the absent fear likely also stemmed from the clear visual distance contrast from the subject and myself and being psychologically comforted that so many of my companions were nearby. --Although you can't interpret actual hair from 30-50 yards with this thermal unit, there did seem to be some hair shade (as have some other large mammals I've seen from a similar distance on certain nights) and the subject was undoubtedly void of any clothing. From 50 yds that night while doing the comparison and measuring the subject's distance from me, Paul G's clothing could be easily discerned through the unit as he wore a winter wardrobe with a checkered flannel, vest and beanie. (Note Paul G was measured and compared from roughly 50 yards when he stood at subject's initial positioning and his clothing was easily discernible, the majority of where I watched the subject was about 33 yards). --I saw nothing indicating the subject witnessed was a female (not extremely wide hips, no discernible breasts etc…) and based on size/behavior, it's my opinion the subject was likely a young adult male. ---Based on the agile, effortless movements of the subject both on the ground and standing up behind the tree in the beginning of the encounter, coupled with its profile appearance, I fully believe I saw a more \"ape-like animal\" being then my preconceived notion of what a sasquatch might appear like or actually be. --One month after the sighting, a local friend informed me that a boy scout master he knew personally & his troop had had a late afternoon sighting around 4:00 PM on August 19th (the day after my encounter) about 3-5 miles as the crow flies up-country from our camp location near a small lake. Coincidentally, our camp experienced nothing unusual our last night (August 19th). Several months later, the same friend also stated that he'd driven by our camp location and saw several hunters butchering and skinning elk right in broad daylight. Not uncommon during hunting season in that location I've been told. --The area continues to be a hot area as one of our WA-BFRO researchers had an almost identical but more brief & distant thermal sighting with the same X200xp unit, 1/4 of a mile from this location about 10 months later. On that expedition, several people reported much of the stealth & dexterous behavior I'd witnessed the previous August and emailed or called to inform me upon returning home.","Withheld","Yakima County","Washington","Summer","Report 26065: California BFRO researcher has sighting with a thermal imaging unit in Wenatchee National Forest",46.85,-121.25,"2007-08-18",26065.0,"Class A","c23f8bu3n0",52.71,45.46,38.21,40.86,0.87,0.62,0.19,0.0015,0.77,"rain",1012.78,"Light rain overnight.",8.0,5.93,263.0,2.19,"RES.SEASON"], [536,2878,"K and C worked at a store in Factoria store and told J and his friend E about the great fishing spot on Rattlesnake Lake. (see report #1478). K didn't tell them until after their strange event that two years before they thought they were chased onto Crib dam by something on the lake bank. Turned out that it just ran off into the woods, but it was hairy and ran upright on two legs. K now is a fishing guide in Port Angeles.","Park at Rattlesnake Lake and walk north across the street to the Seattle watershed road. Except its a no trespass. Its the Chester Morise watershed.","King County","Washington","Summer","Report 1841: Fishing guides thought they were chased onto a dam",47.41,-121.725,"1994-09-10",1841.0,"Class B","c23mwndx3b",61.27,54.985,48.7,50.78,0.88,0.8,0.18,0.0021,1.0,"rain",1016.94,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,9.9,220.0,2.76,"RES.SEASON"], [544,1293,"It was a picture captured on a trail camera. I had never noticed it before until now. It appears to be hiding behind a small fur tree and shows no other signs of it self. I have just one picture but it is very clear and detailed. It appears to be younger.","This was taken near my property at our hunting camp. In Burnham Maine.","Waldo County","Maine","Fall","Report 51005: Trail camera captures unknown creature on hunting property near Burnham",44.6908,-69.3614,"2016-01-30",51005.0,"Class B","drywjxswf0",36.03,33.83,31.63,25.51,0.8,0.74,0.71,0.0003,0.57,"snow",1012.48,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",2.0,9.62,251.0,1.48,"RES.SEASON"], [569,4737,"I was just out snake hunting the roads and I saw a spot and thought I would go up and look for some snakes. I heard like a rustling, kind of like something was futher in front of me. There was a tree line there and it breaks off into an opening. Right outside of the tree line I saw the back half from the waist up of this bigfoot. It turned ever so slightly, it didn't face me, but it turned towards my direction a little bit kind of like it acknowledged me there and then continued to walk off.","This is on private land.","Grundy County","Illinois","Summer","Report 11831: Snake hunter has daytime sighting near Seneca.",41.3368,-88.562,"2005-06-02",11831.0,"Class A","dp350tph7f",75.83,68.935,62.04,55.81,0.7,0.36,0.86,0.0037,1.0,"rain",1013.62,"Light rain in the evening.",10.0,9.05,91.0,6.82,"RES.SEASON"], [576,3060,"Before I say anything more I would like to say that at the time I never considered that Sasquatch were real. I considered it all to be a hoax. I am a student studying wildlife biology. The following happen in West Virgina, Pocahontas County, near the Monongahela National Forest. MeadWestVaco owns and operates 3413 hectares in the Allegheny Mountain range for logging and ecological reseach. It is gated and not open to the public see website. I was participating in a study project studying the distribution and breeding success of songbirds in forest cutting sites. The study was headed by West Virgina University. My job was to search for bird nest of particular species and track their progress from egg to fledge. I was familiar with every kind of bird in the area by call, as it was one of my job requirements and hobbies. I was just coming down from the top of this ridge in a clear cut area with many downed trees, slash and new growth only about waist high. I heard the strangest sound coming from above on a ridge or rock outcropping about 100 yards above. It was a \"whooping\" sound. It was very loud vocalization. Its sound was resonating through the whole valley below and carrying very far. The only sound I could match it to was a monkey call in a tropical forest (which I have never experienced). It was a very alarming call, and I assumed it was some kind of bird that I have never seen or heard before. I scanned the trees, bushes and rocky outcrop for a silhouette of a bird with my binoculars but did not spot anything. The call lasted for about 3 to 4 minutes. The \"whooping\" was repetitive, about 15 \"whoops\" and then a pause, and then 10 to 15 more about 4 sets in all. It felt like it lasted a long time. The entire time I was scanning the vegetation looking for a bird. It was so loud and deep I often thought it couldn't be a bird but it was my only conclusion. When it stopped I made my way up to the spot where It was coming from. It took me about 10 minutes to walk along logging trails and through vegetation to get there. Once I got to the summit of this ridge it flatted out. I remember seeing many game trails and beaten paths. This was common in some areas due to heavy use by deer. I started walking around looking into the trees which consisted of Eastern Hemlock and mixed hardwoods. I heard nothing. It was strangely quiet, like everything was scared off from the call. I traversed the slope very excited that I may see possibly an invasive species of bird, but when I got to the top of that ridge I felt very uneasy. I cant explain it. I never wanted to go back up to that spot after this incident. I wrote down exactly what I heard. When I went back to camp that evening, I told the ornithologists what I had heard and they said the only bird that makes such a loud and similar sound as that was a Yellow-billed Cuckoo. I listened to sound recordings of the Yellow-Billed Cuckoo that night and quickly realized that was not the sound I heard. I also called my father, an avid birdwatcher and told him about it. Then last month I watched a program on the Discovery Channel about Sasquatch.To reiterate, I was not a believer at that time and am still borderline. Watching the program peaked my interest to search online. I came across this website. I noticed that an expedition was done in almost the same spot where I had worked, just further north. I also listened to the audio recordings from the Berry-Morehead Expeditions in the 1970's from the Sierra Nevada Mountains. When I listened to the \"Whoops and Knocks\" audio clip it was the exact call I had heard but in a different sequence. I was, and still am floored and in awe. The only thing that stops me from believing it was a Sasquatch is not knowing anything about the authenticity of that recording, but I am certain it was that same kind of \"whoop\".","Private property. Edited out at the request of the witness.","Randolph County","West Virginia","Summer","Report 18793: Possible whoops heard in logging area outside the Monongahela National Forest",38.8762,-79.95695,"2007-05-20",18793.0,"Class B","dnzjht1nk0",62.82,58.8,54.78,45.23,0.69,0.71,0.14,0.0008,1.0,"rain",1018.81,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,9.74,274.0,5.59,"RES.SEASON"], [578,1596,"It was too dark for visual. We had rocks thrown at our boat from shore. Shore is all forest and swamp. Man can not access it . It ran away from us after we started the boat to get the hell out of there. Incident #2. 2 miles farther down road. Looking at stars 2 am. Tree violently shaking then snapped in two. Growling. No sign of bear in the area. #3 2011. Turkey hunting. 10 miles north of the other 2 incidents. Off M-22. Bass Otter Lake. Started raining. Air was clean. Crisp. When it started raining. The stench in air was worse than a bear. Cannot describe it other than bad body order coupled with feces and rotting meat all balled up into 1 bad funk. At the time all wildlife and woods were unbelievably silent. Heard snapping sticks and someone walking. But it was not on 4 legs. Could tell by the sound. I got freaked out like I was being watched. Got the hell out of there. Have not been back since. Won't go back unless I'm armed.","Was at Loon Lake. Which the Platt River runs through it. Dumps out into Lake Michigan. It is surrounded by thick dense forest. Only a public access for boats. The entire shore line is forest. Its all part of Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes national lake shore.","Benzie County","Michigan","Summer","Report 37797: Description of several strange encounters along Sleeping Bear Dunes National Shoreline",44.73109,-86.11156,"2010-08-01",37797.0,"Class B","dpfy2rp3rp",76.77,71.57499999999999,66.38,63.86,0.83,0.44,0.7,0.0004,0.63,"rain",1013.63,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",7.0,7.16,241.0,0.93,"RES.SEASON"], [590,2301,"It was early bow season around oct 5, 2004 approx 6:30 pm. It was pretty cold and the wind was blowing in all directions. I was sitting in my tree stand on top of a ridge over looking a creek bottom with minimal vegation spaced along it. this area is pretty remote and is a traveling place for our deer. Well it was about dusk when I heard some crows in the tree tops above the creek started to make alot of noise. I then saw three deer running full out down the creek bed, I heard a scream and the a loud thump. two of the deer I saw head in another direction, but the one remained down in the vegatation thrashing around. I thought perhaps it had been wounded by another hunter, and decided to go down there and investigate. As I went down the hill to the creek bed, the wind shifted blowing right in my face, the smell what would i asume was nasty body odor, was so strong it made me feel kinda sick.As I looked around for the deer, a uneasy feeling kinda came over me,I got scared, i then heard what I could only describe as sticks being tapped together or up against down logs or even trees,coming from two diffrent directions, kinda like it was in a circling manner. I then heard some type of weird scream, at that moment I decide to get the heck out of dodge, I turned back up the hillside and proceeded back up towards my tree stand, the next thing I know a white acorn bounced off the top of my head, I dismissed it as pherhaps falling from a tree, but when the next one flew by my head, I relazied something was throwing objects at me, I then got real scared and decided to run, as I got alittle ways away I paused to catch my breath, as I was resting I heard whistling and jabberish popping and clicking sounds, once again in two diffrent directions, I heard leaves crunch and out of the corner of my I eye I saw something very big trying to blend in with the trees and bushes observing me I guess.when I heard the whistling again from behind me I just took off, and never returned. It was like black and tan mix whatever it was and very big. That is the most ever I have been scared in my life, to my knowledge this area is very remote and I have never seen anyone back there and I have been hunting that for years, whatever it was it was after that deer,and for the sounds ihave never heard those types of noises made by any animal organic to that area.","scott co. va near dungannon","Scott County","Virginia","Fall","Report 12727: Bow hunter is escorted from woods by foul-smelling, acorn-throwing bipeds",36.8778,-82.4179,"2004-10-16",12727.0,"Class B","dnt3u93hg8",56.18,45.145,34.11,36.55,0.7,0.59,0.09,0.0036,1.0,"rain",1008.47,"Light rain in the morning.",4.0,9.58,248.0,5.99,"RES.SEASON"], [593,1189,"I was driving home from work in the afternoon and completely preoccupied with thoughts of my struggles. When my eyes caught something. However my mind was still not focused other than I was waiting for movement of sorts. It’s second nature to keep a eye out for deer in this area. When I finally noticed that I was looking at something unusual. I saw a tall hairy animal walking off into the woods (on two feet) from the road. It had long blonde to light brown hair all over. I never saw the face. I kept my eyes focused on the woods where it walked into. When I reached that spot I was completely shocked at the size that creature was. It had to be at least 9 - 10 feet tall. The only thing I could think of was Bigfoot. Note: I have never been a believer of Bigfoot before but what I saw that day is something I can’t stop thinking about.","This location is just north of the “Y.” This is the intersection of Hwy 45 and Hwy 17. It is a wooded area with only an older house that has been vacant as long as I can remember sitting just north of the sighting. There are no other buildings that I know of in the area.","Washington County","Alabama","Spring","Report 65679: Afternoon sighting of a bigfoot by motorist on Hwy 17 just north of Deer Park",31.24305,-88.31126,"2020-04-16",65679.0,"Class A","dj91wrteyq",75.58,61.13,46.68,36.82,0.48,0.07,0.82,0.0008,0.01,"rain",1022.4,"Clear throughout the day.",10.0,10.0,53.0,5.2,"RES.SEASON"], [594,1130,"A friend and I were sitting down on a pipeline right of way. We heard a noise that sounded like something that a large bird might make. A little while later, we heard something that sounded like someone knocking on a tree with a piece of wood or something. These sounds continued alternating, off and on for about 20 minutes or so. I remember that my friend and I were talking about how the sounds were a little strange, and getting louder. At one point, I realized that the sounds were coming from a point very close to us, and they seemed to be coming from the same place, so we stood up to see if we could see anything. It was then that we saw the animal. It looked at us, we looked at it, and we all took off running. Before running, I noticed that what I was looking at was about 7 feet tall, relatively the same proportions as a normal human, except for longer arms, and it was covered with shaggy (2-4\" long) grey hair. The face was not clear to me. I have slight astigmatism and I could not make out the features at the distance of about 20-30 yards. The animal crashed through the woods as it ran away- just breaking down everything in it's way. I kept looking back as I ran, and it just seemed to be going in a straight path up the hill towards Sample Road. Some years later I visited a wax museum in Niagara Falls and at the end of the exhibit was somebody's idea of a bigfoot. It looked very much like the one that I saw, except for the facial features. This one had big pointy teeth and looked pretty angry. I could not clearly see the face of the one I saw, but I don't think it had big pointy teeth and an angry expression.","There is a gas (I think) pipeline between Bryant Road and Sample Road. This should not be hard to locate since Bryant Road is not very long. The Sample Road end Starts at a point not far from the intersection of Sample Rd. and Hemlock Drive. The Bryant Rd. end starts about 1/3 of the way down Bryant Rd. coming from Duncan Avenue. The sighting occurred about halfway up the pipeline. This location is, I believe, completely within the boundaries of Hampton Township.","Allegheny County","Pennsylvania","Fall","Report 14707: Man recalls childhood sighting near Allison Park",40.6166,-80.0107,"2008-01-27",14707.0,"Class A","dppp561bze",33.0,25.655,18.31,25.26,0.85,1.0,0.67,0.0002,0.25,"snow",1019.92,"Foggy in the morning.",2.0,3.96,255.0,1.31,"RES.SEASON"], [597,4026,"We were in an open field when we heard the creature first. It made sort of a howling/growling type of noise.We went towards the tree line where the sound came from. It was crouched down slightly and then stood up as we got close.It was about 8 feet tall. It then ran off, extremely fast, towards the swamp. We were all armed, but decided it would not be a good idea to follow it into the swamp. When we reached the spot it was at, we noticed it had shreaded the bark off the tree it was behind.","north central pasco county near crews lake.approx. 10 miles south of Pasco/Hernando county line. West of Hwy 41, north of SR 52.","Pasco County","Florida","Summer","Report 737: creature seen in an open field by witness.",28.3836,-82.6053,"1984-06-15",737.0,"Class A","djj32r0dky",87.97,81.925,75.88,70.76,0.79,0.52,0.57,0.0005,1.0,"rain",1018.77,"Humid and mostly cloudy throughout the day.",8.0,9.46,107.0,4.96,"RES.SEASON"], [600,1198,"This incident happened last night just after 11pm. My daughter was home alone. She lives with a relative, who was out of town. She called me at 11:22 pm; she was terrified. She said she could hear something walking back and forth by her bedroom window. She also said she looked out the window when she first heard it, and saw \"something\" big and black, really big. She described the \"thing\" to have been about 3-4 feet above the bottom of the window. When I went down to look behind the house this morning, I stood by the window. I am 5'4\" and my eyes just reach the bottom of the window, so I figure this \"thing\" must have been 7-8 feet tall. We live in a small village of less than 500 population. There are a lot of bushes and trees in between the houses. Their house is close to the beach, and there is forest surrounding the town. Now, I've never known my daughter to afraid of anything, but last night when I went to pick her up, she was shaking like a leaf, she was hysterical, it took me almost an hour to calm her down. I questioned her about what happened. She called me about 5 minutes after she first saw it. She was too scared to move. When I got down there, I would not look behind the house, but she was hiding in my relative's closet. She said it was walking back and forth right behind the house. She described the footsteps as a sound that someone very large walking on two feet, kind of like a \"stomping\". My daughter is very down-to-earth, not one prone to dramatics. When I first went down there, I didn't really know what was going on, just that my daughter was scared spitless, but I would not look behind the house. When I went up to the house, my hair felt like it was standing on end, and I had goosebumps really bad. I was scared and didnt know why.","At the edge of town.","Prince of Wales County","Alaska","Winter","Report 7963: Sasquatch walks past window of house at night",55.2035,-132.8202,"2004-02-09",7963.0,"Class A","c1cd197r9n",44.5,43.49,42.48,41.51,0.92,0.98,0.62,0.033,1.0,"rain",1025.88,"Rain in the morning and afternoon and breezy in the morning.",1.0,6.29,138.0,17.42,"RES.SEASON"], [602,4619,"My mother and I had a possible sighting back in about 1974. We used to watch for my step dad to come back from deer hunting. Depending on the moon light, we could see him coming down from the woods. One night my mom said that he was coming. We went outside and we both thought we seen him walking to the house. Mom walked out to meet him. I stayed on the back porch and watched. It was probably 9pm or so. What ever it was just stopped and stood there. Then it went back into the woods fast. Mom ran back inside the house with me by the wrist. She locked the doors and loaded a shotgun. My step dad eventually got home. Whatever that was walked on 2 legs. It was not my step dad. We live just outside Sparland, Illinois.","Family still lives on farm near Sparland","Marshall County","Illinois","Fall","Report 55386: Witness recalls possible nighttime sighting near Sparland",41.02524,-89.45454,"2016-08-16",55386.0,"Class B","dp23kkmjq5",85.38,76.66499999999999,67.95,69.21,0.81,0.47,0.44,0.0015,0.85,"rain",1017.22,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",7.0,7.75,310.0,0.74,"RES.SEASON"], [603,1304,"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 to see if they could see any deer or turkeys while me and my dad bush hogged the fields. About 20 minutes went by and I see my son and his friend running towards the tractor out of breath..\"Dad,i don't care if you believe me or not but what we just saw...I never want to see again!\"..His friend said she saw it first. This is the story they have repeatedly told me all afternoon yesterday and this morning- They were walking the logging Rd,and my son started hearing these loud crashes in front of them to the right coming towards them,He said he stopped and felt \"Very uneasy\" about going any further,to which he told his friend \"he wasn't going any farther and she could if she wanted\"..She walked around the bend of the road,come walking fast back to him and says \"There was this thing looking at me behind a tree,swaying left to right,as if to see what she was..It leaned as if to be curious..So, She,not wanting to show it any harm by running or sudden movement,afraid it would chase her,just turned and walked fast back to my son,and told him \"There is something huge and black standing around the corner\"...My son started walking with her and turned back to see if he could see anything and it had came around the corner and was staring at them..He said it was between 7-8ft tall,had blackish/brown,almost like a turkeys feather color when the sun is not shining on its feathers, and had HUGE muscles showing through the fur,he especially notice how broad the shoulders were and how muscular the arms were.At that time they started running as fast as they could until they got to the field i was cutting.. I eventually got in my truck and drove to the spot/area they said this all happened..The woods were a \"dead quiet\"..No Tracks were found,i did not smell any foul odor,as i have heard this animal has, plus a storm was approaching so i had to get back and put the tractor up. My son,who is sitting beside me as i type this,says \"I just don't feel it meant any harm,it was puzzled as why we were there.\" There were men cutting hay on the next farm over which had not been done in quite a while.There is no hunting,no more cattle,that place is not disturbed at all,so maybe it came from there?? What makes me believe even more is that my son LOVES hunting and that farm,but now says he is not coming up unless he has protection(Gun)and will not walk the place alone.Whatever this was or whatever happened to them has changed them.The friend,which said she doesn't believe in Bigfoot,now is a firm believer. My son's words-\"It wasn't scared of us,but we sure were of it!\"","Rural Wilson County Tennessee","Wilson County","Tennessee","Summer","Report 28005: Two witnesses recount a close daytime encounter with a very curious creature near Lebanon",36.25466,-86.15759,"2010-07-16",28005.0,"Class A","dn6wprvyww",94.98,83.86,72.74,73.56,0.77,0.23,0.18,0.0012,0.47,"rain",1014.56,"Humid throughout the day and mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",9.0,9.87,192.0,0.74,"RES.SEASON"], [608,4672,"Around 11:23pm on june 20th 2006 my girlfriend, myself, and the dog stepped outside on the back porch so my girlfriend could smoke and to let the dog out to go to the bathroom. The porch faces a wooded tree line area that runs in the backyard and runs through the whole subdivison. So we open the sliding glass door to step out and we all step on to the porch the dog was still. Then she ran barking straight to the back fence, that is just in front of the tree line area, my girlfriend tells her to be quiet and to stop barking. She doesn't, then after 5 minutes she stops and we were on our way in, so to see the dog because we couldn't see her I decide to use the display of my cell phone to see if I could see her, because it is a bright display. I see her coming to it but to joke around with her I start waving it around in circles. Then from the back tree line my girlfriend and I both hear this strange 'coo' sound with breaks in it. I freak out and push my girlfriend aside and run in the house; as we were inside and I locked the door. Then I say did you her that and she was like yes what was that, I though it had to have been a bigfoot...It was like nothing I have ever heard in my life. [Edited]","Near Rt. 47 & Rt. 71 (Behind house in tree-lined wooded area)","Kendall County","Illinois","Summer","Report 15019: Possible vocalizations heard near Yorkville",41.625,-88.4375,"2006-06-21",15019.0,"Class B","dp3hg99g0y",85.62,77.30000000000001,68.98,68.85,0.77,0.25,0.87,0.0042,1.0,"rain",1011.95,"Light rain in the morning.",10.0,9.06,240.0,3.77,"RES.SEASON"], [615,224,"I was fishing from the south boat ramp at Monksville Reservoir in Ringwood, New Jersey in August 2000. It was about 2:00 AM - 2:30 AM. I was fishing from shore when I heard a scream-wail from behind me, on the far side of the gravel parking lot. It sounded kind of like an elk bugle, but not really. When I found this website, listened to the Washington state recordings, it was almost exactly as I remember it. I ran to my truck, threw my pole in the bed and bolted. When I spoke about what happened the next day to one of the road foremen, who is a 'Ramapough Indian', he immediately said it was probably Old Red Eye.","Ringwood Ave, south boat ramp to Monksville Reservior, just norht of the dam. Easy to locate on Google Earth.","Passaic County","New Jersey","Summer","Report 16248: Possible vocalization heard by fisherman at Monksville Reservoir",41.1445,-74.29085,"2007-01-15",16248.0,"Class B","dr74j6ph1d",41.18,39.33,37.48,38.32,1.0,0.98,0.88,0.0034,0.8,"rain",1014.76,"Foggy until evening.",2.0,2.51,55.0,0.48,"RES.SEASON"], [630,2672,"While driving Blacksnake Ridge doing field work I came across large bipedal footprint going across Blacksnake ridge. i got out to investigate the tracks. From heel to heel to prints were 4 1/2 feet apart, tracks were approx 16 inches long. one tracks still had toe impressions in it. I counted about 20 good tracks and there were others that were fading out. I shot video of the tracks and went home. The next day I went back up to look for more in that location and found more across the road but they were badly weatherd.","Mill Creek rd to Blue Creek rd, go left and follow to Fivepoints, go right on Blacksnake ridge","Walla Walla County","Washington","Spring","Report 2196: BFRO investigator finds tracks in snow 2001",46.0675,-118.0519,"2001-03-08",2196.0,"Class A","c2hn1dm4xk",43.55,35.545,27.54,38.73,0.98,0.84,0.47,0.0366,1.0,"rain",1018.97,"Rain until afternoon.",3.0,8.86,187.0,9.41,"RES.SEASON"], [638,2553,"I and my friends were hiking at the eatonville waterfalls when we smelt a wet dog musky sweet smell. We figured it was elk or a bear. When we turned the corner by the middle fall there was a huge black creature crouching over like a human drinking from the river. My buddy gave a suprised yelp and it looked up stared at us for a minute then moved lightning quick into the trees.","go over the train tracks and up the trail to the righ. pass through the field sticking to the right. Go down the hill with the metal cable attached to the tree. You'll get to the spot about 1/4 mile down","Pierce County","Washington","Spring","Report 27803: Hikers near Eatonville surprise a sasquatch drinking from the river",46.84748,-122.2719,"2010-05-22",27803.0,"Class A","c23498k665",53.25,47.0,40.75,41.71,0.87,0.74,0.32,0.0017,0.49,"rain",1013.29,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",7.0,10.0,205.0,1.17,"RES.SEASON"], [643,4431,"I live in Des Moines, Iowa, but almost every weekend I take my wife and daughter down to the country just outside of Earlham to visit with my parents. The incident happened during the later weeks of November. Maybe the 17th or the 22nd? It hadn't quite started snowing yet, but it was getting colder. We were driving back from my parent's house on Hogback bridge road at about 11:30 PM or so and I will admit to being fairly drowsy at the time, but I have driven that road countless times, tired or not, and have never encountered something like this. My wife and daughter had already fallen asleep by the time we reached the intersection. On the left side of the road I thought I saw something crouched in front of the intersection sign. As we neared the sign, whatever it was stood up and acted like it was going to try to cross the road. My heart skipped several beats at the sheer size of this thing. It was easily 7-8 feet tall, was very skinny/lanky, and was covered with shaggy, matted brown hair. It's eyes reflected yellow in my headlights like a cat's. I recall saying \"Oh God.\" as I swerved a bit in terror but kept driving. After I had passed it and the realization set in of what I just saw I turned and woke my wife up and told her. She acted as concerned as someone who was just woken up could be, but wasn't able to fall asleep again until we got home. I was so scared that I called my mother who lives only a couple of miles away and told her to lock her doors. She agreed to do it, but didn't believe that I had seen anything, of course. I've been researching the possibility of sasquatches ever since then and came across this site. One thing that was odd, is that several of the other Iowan sitings were in November as well. Perhaps this could indicate a migratory behavior?","The sighting occurred on Hogback Bridge Rd. Coming south on 169 out of De Soto, you'd want to take a right on G14 and a left on Hogback Bridge. The sighting ocurred just after the T intersection about half a mile down the road.","Madison County","Iowa","Fall","Report 23489: Nighttime sighting near Goeldner Woods County Park",41.461,-94.045,"2007-11-22",23489.0,"Class A","9zm5ggwxbd",28.82,21.93,15.04,21.59,0.82,1.0,0.43,0.0003,0.27,"snow",1030.69,"Overcast throughout the day.",2.0,9.5,316.0,6.23,"RES.SEASON"], [644,4047,"Today me, my mother and my son were coming back from a doctors appointment for my son. We were driving along a road that we have been many times. It's a nice little stretch of road with a great view. The land is beautiful with lots of natural Florida woods with swamp areas. There are also many orange groves in this area. It's not uncommon to see turkeys, hogs and occasional deer. The pasture land has cows on it from time to time. When this sighting happened there were no cows around. It was about 12:15 pm. The weather was over cast and it was going to rain at any minute. No other cars around. We passed one after the sighting down the road when we turned around to go back. We have had a ton of rain in this area lately. As we were traveling down the road we came up on this swampy area in a very large oak hammock. My 17 yr old son was the first to ask if me and my mother saw that? My 72 year old mother said yes but what was it? I said I saw it too...we keep driving for about 2 minutes we said nothing then my mother said turn around and go back. We all saw something and we need to go back and look. So I turned around and went back. But it was not there as far as we could see. We pulled up to the area and just sat there. All of us trying to figure out what we saw. We all saw a human like figure standing out in the middle of the marshy swampy area up to it's waist in water. The figured appeared to be a dull brown color. It was wide across the shoulders with hair and looked like moss hanging from it. It was standing up with it's long limbs away from it's body. The head was kinda down. The shape of the head was different. My oldest son described the head as different from a human. We are not sure what exactly it was doing. In the past we have seen cows out in this marshy swampy area. My Mother was trying to justify what she saw hating to admit that it was beyond strange. But she did admit at how very strange it was. I turned the truck around and we headed home. We talked about it a little more and then just let it die. We had a very stressful morning after coming from an appointment to see if my son had cancer. He did not and we were all so dazed seeing that was over kill. Very emotional day.","Old Lake Wales Road and 653 runs into Thompson Nursery Road.","Polk County","Florida","Summer","Report 57991: Large brown figure seen standing in water near Lake Wales",27.93991,-81.67247,"2017-08-02",57991.0,"Class B","dhvyvqrcv8",87.0,80.2,73.4,74.2,0.9,0.32,0.34,0.0069,0.79,"rain",1018.64,"Rain in the afternoon.",9.0,9.97,194.0,1.66,"RES.SEASON"], [648,3363,"Although I have had very good class B encounters, this Class A sighting was something that I will treasure. On Feb. 1, 2007 I took my husband to Show Low AZ to drop him off for 10 days with friends. The weather had been bad that day and progressively worsened so that I did not take my normal route back to N.M. which is through the White Mt. Apache Res. I went down U.S. Hiway 60, it runs between Show Low and Springerville AZ. Past a small town called Vernon, the terrain loses almost all of the juniper trees and is mostly rolling grassy hills. I have learned a type of defensive driving in Elk country, wherein you keep alert to the peripheal vision movement. Something drew my attention to the left hand side of the road and I applied brake anticipating an animal (elk, deer, pronghorn etc.). What I saw made me turn and pay attention. It was bipedal and running dead at the road. I slowed as fast as possible and watched in open mouthed awe as the creature placed one hand on the t-post (metal pole used in barbed wire fencing) and vaulted over the fence, slowing very little and continued running. It crossed the road (2 lane black top) in maybe two full strides and kept going into a narrow canyon and beyond my sight. I pulled to the side of the road and called my husband. He could not believe what I was saying. He finally asked me to get out of the car and look for tracks or hair or solid evidence (once a cop always a cop). In very unladylike words I told him no. I was alone, unarmed and unwilling to meet something that big on a road that I had seen fewer cars in two hours than I had fingers on my hands. The creature was dark brown and had longish hair. I never saw its face full on, it had to be close to seven feet tall or more. It never seemed to be afraid or running dead out. More like a lope or steady jog. The weather was cold and heavily cloudy, mix of precip. off and on all day. No standing snow. It was around 1530-1600.","Near a place where they are putting a new bridge, and a foresty raod intersects a little past that.","Apache County","Arizona","Winter","Report 17804: Late afternoon road crossing sighting by motorist west of Springerville.",34.6,-109.44,"2007-02-01",17804.0,"Class A","9w4hvdspx5",34.33,23.535,12.74,25.06,0.75,0.93,0.49,0.0031,1.0,"snow",1007.24,"Light snow (< 1 in.) in the morning and evening.",3.0,6.9,287.0,8.78,"RES.SEASON"], [653,2750,"My name is Niels Nelson. I stay/live in a travel trailer at Thousand Trails Leavenworth, WA. However the resort is 18 miles away from Leavenworth outside of Plain, WA. I was awakened by a sound... No clue what woke me but with it being Memorial Day weekend and many in the campground I just assumed it was someone being loud and and it woke me. I didn't really hear what woke me so laid my head back down on the pillow and about 3 minutes later I heard something but I was awake and sat up in bed and listened. My first thought it was a bigfoot howl or yell, as it seemed so distant but so filling of the entire forest/valley. I said to myself nah it must be some humans partying or yelling at a cabin on a hill, or in another section of the campground. Then within another 30 seconds another one while I was still sitting up, head by the open window, and complete darkness, no other human noise, quiet time and all are sleeping, and no human could make this noise as we simply cannot transmit what I will call depth and broadness of that kind of distance. It felt like it was coming from miles away but it wasn't directional. This howl could pentrate walls or obstructions it felt like. This was beyond weird, unsettling, while still kinda exciting. Anyhow, that is what I heard.","Leavenworth Thousand Trails Plain Valley on 1 side and Lake Wenatchee and the SnowPark surrounding on the other.","Chelan County","Washington","Spring","Report 69270: Possible Sasquatch howls north of Leavenworth, east of Lake Wenatchee",47.79538,-120.6295,"2021-05-31",69270.0,"Class B","c26pzhbk2b",80.69,67.89,55.09,52.72,0.63,0.36,0.71,0.002,0.14,"rain",1019.9,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",7.0,10.0,301.0,5.81,"RES.SEASON"], [657,2449,"My brother and I went up to the Lake Cushman area to look at a house for sale. The house was vacant and it was very quiet. We drove up to the manufactured home got out of the car and was looking into the windows of the house when I heard a high pitched screech yell that seemed to echo from the north side of the hills. I asked my brother if he heard that and he replied no. I said \"listen\", and the same high pitched screech yell occured. It happened again and that is when my brother heard it. It seemed to be far away. There was a small \"A\" cabin next to the property that was vacant and it was very quiet at the time we heard the sounds. No one was around and the sounds seemed to echo. In total there was four of them every 5 seconds or so. Then it suddenly stopped. The time was around 3:15pm and it was overcast. It was very calm and quiet. It was not an elk or a dog. This was a sound we have never heard before. After finding your website it does sound like many of your recordings but from a further distance.","It was off of 119 near the foot hills park wilderness area. 4 miles west of foot hills park.","Mason County","Washington","Fall","Report 16416: Possible vocalizations heard near Lake Cushman",47.396,-123.1976,"2006-11-03",16416.0,"Class B","c22mss4jxy",55.83,54.355,52.88,51.65,0.92,1.0,0.44,0.0512,1.0,"rain",1006.57,"Rain until afternoon, starting again in the evening.",2.0,9.74,179.0,4.27,"RES.SEASON"], [658,4680,"I work nights, and was riding my motorcycle home (Marseilles, IL) from work. At about 1 am I turned from Illinois Rt 71 south onto Marseilles road. Immediately after the turn there are 2 sharp curves in the road. I down shifted into 2nd gear as I approached the first curve. When down shifting my pipes become quite loud and often pop. As I began the turn in an instant I saw a large figure standing near the edge of the corn along side the road (to my right). Quickly it leaned slightly forward and made a loud higher pitched sound, almost like a scream, or a call. Looking back I would consider that perhaps my pipes scared it. This scream was incredibly loud and echoed, it was so close I honestly hit the throttle and started screaming myself. I came to the second curve, too scared to look in my mirror I took the curve a bit quick and briefly heard the scream again. In all honesty I hit the throttle and didn't look back.","From Yorkville take Illinois Rt 71 west, after you pass Norway go down the hill to Marseilles road (County Highway 15), which you can only turn left (south). It took place at the height of the first curve.","La Salle County","Illinois","Summer","Report 30003: Late night encounter by a motorcyclist outside of Marseilles",41.42396,-88.71103,"2011-07-18",30003.0,"Class A","dp2gtm4851",88.59,83.32,78.05,75.26,0.81,0.11,0.62,0.004,1.0,"rain",1015.63,"Light rain until afternoon.",10.0,7.15,245.0,3.25,"RES.SEASON"], [664,1244,"I was assigned to Ft Rucker, AL from Oct 1991 until Jan 1997 as a fire fighter. As military firefighters we would often be assigned to small airfields (stagefields) around Ft Rucker. At the time this happened I was assigned to Tabernacle stagefield. Tabernacle was on the north west end of a large impact area used for aerial gunnery by pilots in training. During a typical duty day we would have several down time periods where aircraft were not flying. These down time periods would typically take place around noon and evening lasting 2.5 to 3 hours. When I was assigned to Ft Rucker, I had met some other Soldiers that introduced me to Indian “relic” hunting. This consisted mostly of lots of walking through tilled fields, creek washouts, and recently cleared timber tracts looking for arrowheads and anything else related to the old Indian tribes that formally lived in the south east Alabama region. I had found that the down times when aircraft were not flying often granted me the chance to get out in the woods to hunt for arrowheads. Often I was able to get several miles away from the stage field during the down times and was usually by myself for several hours. My typical hiking outfit was to put on a pair of cargo shorts, an old pair of army boots, a belt with a canteen, a pouch (for any finds), a large survival knife, ball cap and a walking stick. I usually would not wear a shirt hoping to get a tan while out walking. This day in particular was in I left my stage field around 1100 AM or so. I headed East, North East for about 1.5 miles on an improved asphalt road that bordered the impact area. I then head north down a dirt road (path was more like it) that was seldom traveled. The road went up and down some gentle hills and was bordered on both sides by heavy vegetation and thick woods. I believe I had walked maybe ¾ of a mile when I was approaching a small creek crossing which was not unusual. I was maybe within 50 feet of the creek when off to my left side I heard a lot of movement approximately 150-200 feet into the woods appearing to come from the creek bank. I heard what I can only describe as a grunt and my first though was a wild pig. That thought was quickly erased though, as I immediately got instant chills…goosebumps running my entire body…and had the heavy feeling that I was not alone. I heard another grunt and peered into the woods from where the sound came from and saw a large “shadow”…easily 6 to 7 foot tall stand from the creek bed. Because of the thick woods I got no clear view of it but my first thought was that it was a large very dirty man but it definitely had the appearance of a man shape. I only saw this thing for a few seconds as it appeared to see me…and me watching it and it turned and went crashing into the woods away from me. I wasted no time turning my walk into a trot away from what I had just seen. Whatever it was it scared me and as I headed back to my airfield I tried to make sense of it. The only thing I could conceive it being was that maybe it might have been a stray horse back in the woods. I know this sounds very unlikely but I really didn’t want to believe I might have seen something I could not explain…a horse in the woods I could almost believe. I never went back into that area of the woods again, and seldom ventured into thick woods period after that. I never gave it much thought after that as I had chalked it up as being a horse, which seemed to make sense to me. I did bring my strange experience up a couple of times to some folks but they thought I was kidding them and none of them had ever heard of anything like that in Alabama before. Two things led me to revise my thinking of what I saw that day. The first being this. In 2000…I was and am still living in Kansas and serving in the Army Reserve. We had a new Soldier join my unit. He was a former Ranger Sniper team leader having been assigned to the Ranger battalion at Ft Lewis, WA. He was a good old country boy from Kansas living in a small town. He and I became very good friends and later served in Iraq together. We would often talk about events in our lives at length. During one conversation I related my story about what I saw in the woods assuming he would think I was nuts. But…he believed me. As a matter of fact he said if I saw something I found hard to believe he said that I should just go with what my gut told me. He then informed me about his experiences. He told me about his time up at Ft Lewis and as a sniper he would often be in the woods alone for days at a time in hide sites during training missions. He told me that at night in the deep woods he would often feel as if he was being watched and would hear the sounds of something large moving through the woods. Now this fellow was an experienced woodsman and was used to the sounds and smells of the woods. On occasion he was able to see something quite large in the shape of a man moving around his hide site through his night vision goggle. He said it would never come too close…just kind of checking him out. He said he never felt threatened by it and on the occasion it would make some sounds (grunts or whistles) as if it was agitated and he would talk calmly too it. He said that he wood talk in a slow, low voice telling it “I’m not here to hurt you, just calm down, I don’t mean no trouble for you”. He said that usually after he spoke towards it, it would just move away from him and would leave him alone. He said this happened numerous times as he was often in the same area. He told me he had no doubts at all that “Bigfoot” was around but he would never do anything to harm it and he felt that if left alone it would not harm anyone. So that got me to thinking, maybe that afternoon in the woods I really did see a Bigfoot. The second reason I feel that I didn’t see what I convinced myself was a horse is that after culling the BFRO website I found that I am not the only one to have seen something in Alabama. So…I am not alone and I am now convinced that what I saw was real…and not something else. I haven’t shared this story with very many people…but maybe this is the time to do it.","I have looked at some satellite images of the area and cannot pinpoint the exact spot just the area within a few hundred yards. Lot of rural homes within a few miles of the area","Dale County","Alabama","Spring","Report 22899: Possible daylight encounter on Fort Rucker Army Base",31.35,-85.7075,"2008-01-19",22899.0,"Class B","dje43ejdyr",42.11,34.35,26.59,37.73,0.9,0.89,0.4,0.0577,1.0,"rain",1019.39,"Heavy rain until afternoon.",3.0,6.19,355.0,6.6,"RES.SEASON"], [674,1138,"While fishing on Lake Arthur at Moraine State Park I heard wood knocks and rock clacks. It seemed that they were answering each other. I would hear 2 wood knocks then maybe 10 seconds later, to the west about 200-300 yards I would hear 3 rock clacks. This sequence continued for about 8-10 minutes. The sounds stopped when a boat went past mine. I do believe in Bigfoot, I always have. However this is the first time that anything like this has happened to me. It disturbed me so much that I started up my boat and moved to another part of the lake.","I was actually on my boat on the lake at the time. If needed I can give almost exact locations using Google Earth or another map.","Butler County","Pennsylvania","Spring","Report 48575: Fisherman on Lake Arthur startled by series of possible wood knocks and rock clacks",40.94997,-80.07443,"2015-05-01",48575.0,"Class B","dpr0cyewfe",66.74,52.995,39.25,43.38,0.7,0.51,0.42,0.0011,0.95,"rain",1017.12,"Foggy in the morning.",8.0,6.99,342.0,1.59,"RES.SEASON"], [700,304,"My family had moved from the city of Rochester to Wolcott, a small town about 50 miles east of Rochester in July 2003. We were living in an old farmhouse on approx. 77 acres of woods & creeks near Lake Ontario. This incident happened sometime between the 18th-20th of September. My sister's birthday is the 20th and I recall a small group of family and friends were visiting the house for that occasion. My future-stepfather took a small group, including his brother, my four sisters, and a few other friends out for a \"tour\" of the property. I was not present, I had stayed behind at the house. As the group returned to the house, my stepfather lingered behind in an area of the property where a strip of woods runs between two fields. My stepfather was in the field closer to the house, we'll refer to it as field #1. He noticed to his left something in the woods and turned to see a tall, white, hair covered creature standing just off the path in the woods. He ran ahead and told his brother, but did not tell the rest of the group. His brother rushed into the house to get me, telling me that something was in the woods and I should come see. I followed him outside where my stepfather relayed the story to me and the three of us walked back to the area of his sighting. As my stepfather showed me the spot where the creature had been standing, we all noticed that the creature was still present, but had moved further back, to field #2. At this point, the three of us were standing in field 1 and looking through a small strip of trees at the creature in field 2, maybe 200 yards away or so. My observations of the creature are as follows: It was approximately 7' tall, covered in hair, white but with a dark area on the face, think and lanky, with a head that came to a slight conic shape. It was too far to distinctly see its face but there was a definite darker colored area where the face would have been. The creature was clearly observing us, as it paced back and forth, looking around trees, standing up taller, ducking down, etc. to get a better look at us. After approximately 45 seconds, the creature retreated to an area where we couldn't see it clearly. I walked through the trees into field 2 to get a better look at it, but it had disappeared. The area where it had been walking was matted down, but there were no distinct prints. Judging by nearby trees, I estimated its height to be 6.5 - 7 feet.","East on Route 104, near town of Huron.","Wayne County","New York","Fall","Report 26566: Man observes tall, white hair-covered creature during a family gathering near Lake Ontario",43.27314,-76.89331,"2003-09-20",26566.0,"Class A","dr9q4m8h21",70.3,60.38,50.46,52.06,0.67,0.35,0.81,0.0007,1.0,"rain",1020.92,"Overcast in the morning.",5.0,10.0,286.0,1.64,"RES.SEASON"], [705,4247,"In the spring of 1994, my wife, two children and I were returning home to Fernandina Beach from Jacksonville traveling north on A1A. It was late, the kids were sleeping in the back seats, I was driving with wife in passenger seat. Living on Amelia Island (Fernandina Beach) with relatives in Jacksonville, we frequently made this 45 min to an hour drive 2 or 3 times a week. Although a scenic trip during the day, at night its just a boring two lane road cutting through intracoastal type pine tree, dune-filled land. With no traffic heading south, I had my bright lights on and was just listening to the radio and staring straight ahead. My wife was sitting quietly, and, I actually thought she had fallen alsleep as it was approaching midnight. I had just rounded a curve and began on a straight-away north to northwest toward the entrance to Little Talbot Island State Park, which is on the right side of the road, when, in the distance about 150-200 yds ahead on me, I caught glimpse of a bipedal figure standing on the West side of the road just off the right-of-way, not moving. My very first thought was it was a park ranger closing gates and whatnot, but the second that I thought that, the figure began to walk East across the road (A1A), and driving 50 to 60 mph and closing fast on the creature, I began to slow down, all the while concentrating on just what I was seeing. The creature just walked right out in front of my car, never stopping, walking with purpose, swinging both arms, and I really don't recall the creature ever turning its head to look toward me. I would say that it was between 6.5 to 7.5 feet tall, muscular but rather skinny, long, shaggy hair about its entire body, with a tan to reddish brown appearance. As I approached closer and slowed even more, the creature was just about to step off the road and back onto the sandy, grassy right-of-way when my wife, who I thought was asleep, said \"What is that?!\". I instantly said nervously \"You see that...Oh my God, what the hell was that?!\" The creature just walked right into the dune pine area just as we were passing (slowly) by. For an instant, I thought about stopping and turning around to shine my headlights on the area of the dunes that it went in, but looking in my rear view mirror it was black as black can get outside (no streetlights of any kind), so I just continued driving north. Both me and my wife were very shakened and I looked at her and just said \"Did we just see a Bigfoot?!\" She answered back \"I think so, I really think so!\" For the rest on the drive we were a little freaked out, and when we got home, put the kids in their beds, we sat up the rest of the night going over and over again on just what we had just witnessed.","Incident occurred while driving north on A1A or Heckscher Drive about 900 to 1000 feet south of the North entrance to Little Talbot Island State Park","Duval County","Florida","Spring","Report 8514: Husband and wife have nighttime road-crossing sighting",30.4544,-81.4189,"1994-03-01",8514.0,"Class A","djqj7209dp",70.08,67.15,64.22,56.74,0.82,0.81,0.63,0.003,1.0,"rain",1018.37,"Breezy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening, and rain overnight.",4.0,6.97,147.0,10.25,"RES.SEASON"], [723,2569,"We were going fishing, on May 29, 2016. We turned right at the Roy Y Going south. It was 5:15am. We were going south. We observed and exclaimed, \"that looks like an ape sitting on the side of the road. The animal was about three feet high in a sitting, crouched position. We were going south from left to right. We saw its left arm shoulder to elbow, left leg hip to knee, lower leg obscured. The head was larger with a sagital crest. Lantern shaped jaw that protruded slightly forward. The nose looked wide. And it had a protruding eyebrow like a Neanderthal. Its ears were covered in black hair tight to the head. No visible neck. Still going left to right, we can clearly see, shiny black hair. The animal leaned forward head going low, could see top of both black haired ears. Our distance at this point is between 22 to 25 feet. The animal extends its right arm from the shoulder parallel to the ground and drops some trash from its hands. The arm had black hair all the way to the knuckles. The arm was to long to be human. When it dropped the trash, a thumb and four fingers were clearly visible.The animal moved its right arm back in front of its torso, ninety degrees of angle. Not a bear. It did this action twice. Still going left to right, the right arm from shoulder to elbow is visible, below the right arm, between right arm and right leg, right leg visible from top of buttocks to hip to knee, partially covered by green plastic garbage bag. We estimate its overall height to be between five foot six inches to six feet tall. We said moma-squatch would not leave baby that close to the road. As we lost sight of it we knew it was a juvenile Bigfoot.","Right alongside joint base lewis,McCord boundry sign.","Pierce County","Washington","Spring","Report 51994: Man and girlfriend have sighting on Joint Base Lewis-McChord road near Spanaway",47.07405,-122.4428,"2016-05-29",51994.0,"Class A","c22gv9xf5y",63.31,53.275000000000006,43.24,49.53,0.78,0.73,0.76,0.0002,0.22,"rain",1020.32,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",5.0,9.96,282.0,0.53,"RES.SEASON"], [726,1398,"In mid spring of this year, I was hiking through the woods with a friend in the middle of the night. Making our way up onto a trail, we stumbled upon a picnic table and decided to sit down and rest. We were startled to find the whole ground glowing green around us. Using my headlamp, we attempted to spot whatever was causing these little glowing green dots. At the time we had no clue what was causing this to happen, but we later realized that firefly larvae were lighting up the forest floor. Seeing the glows coming more intensely from a nearby hillside deeper in the woods, we decided to scan the the hillside with our headlamp. As soon as we shined the headlamp, we caught a pair or grapefruit sized bright green (with a slight hint of gold) eye reflections peering over the crest of the hill. We stood in shock, never removing the light from those eyes. \"Maybe its a deer,\" she said. A few moments later the eyes raise up to be about 5 off the ground and rotate slightly more towards us. \"See,\" I say, \"It is just a deer.\" As soon as that last word leaves my mouth the eye reflections stand up another 4 feet to be standing at a towering 9 feet. It slowly occurred to be that I had never seen eye reflections of this color and that the closest thing might be a bear. Suddenly I hear a slight rustling behind me. Swinging the light around we caught the reflections of two more sets of eyes. They too were grapefruit sized and green, but were spookily sneaking up on us from behind. I get caught in a frenzy of shinning the light back and forth between all three sets of eyes until they just quietly disappear. we hurried out of the area, terrified, and made our way south to a different hiking area to take the whole situation in. Again we noticed firefly larvae, but when we began to approach the woods (which in fact are connected to the last area by water system) a bunch of creatures began running around in the woods, breaking branches and shaking bushes and trees. Later, upon watching one of your videos and discussing the experience with some knowledgable peers, I realized that I had experienced a sasquatch encounter. Returning to the same spot some 2 or 3 months later with a few buddies, we were able to catch the same eye reflections for a very short period of time.","I don't want to include directions in this report.","Baltimore County","Maryland","Spring","Report 30634: Night hikers possibly stalked near Bee Tree Preserve",39.6946,-76.6691,"2011-05-14",30634.0,"Class B","dr13z65mb3",60.29,59.71,59.13,57.37,0.95,1.0,0.4,0.0023,1.0,"rain",1008.06,"Rain overnight.",5.0,1.92,141.0,1.17,"RES.SEASON"], [745,2539,"April? 2003 Washington state. A friend and I drove from Seattle towards Mount Rainier. Heading south on the 164/410 we pulled off onto one of many dirt roads just a few miles south of Enumclaw. I drove a few miles and parked. We hiked in the forest for a few hours and when we tried to get back to the freeway someone had locked some yellow gates on all the access roads. We had to spend the night in the car and right after dark we began hearing what sounded like hard wood beating on soft wood(like someone hitting a tree with a baseball bat) very close, maybe within 100 ft. We were terrified and drove around the access roads for a few miles and within minutes of shutting the car off it started again very close. This was not just a loud noise echoing all throughout the woods, even from inside the car I could definately tell this was within throwing distance and directed at us. We left and drove several miles again and again minutes after the car stopped the noise started again. We drove until we found a road that was seperated by just a ten foot ravine from the freeway and still it started, this time more distant in the forest. It lasted for the next couple of hours until the sun rose. I swear to god this is the truth, I have no reason to lie.","Maybe 5-10 miles south of Enumclaw on the 410. The forest was recently taken by Wyerhouser? unsure of spelling. We made a right on a dirt road that had a small yellow bar-gate, open at the time, and just followed it over a small bridge that crosses over White river. There were a few dirt roads before this one off the 410 and they all connect. At the time it looked like they had just begun logging the area.","Pierce County","Washington","Spring","Report 9447: Unusual sounds heard near Enumclaw",47.16145,-121.8943,"2003-04-05",9447.0,"Class B","c23k61rr2g",40.65,38.57,36.49,35.0,0.92,0.95,0.12,0.0064,1.0,"rain",1014.25,"Mixed precipitation starting in the evening.",4.0,8.8,180.0,3.12,"RES.SEASON"], [757,1139," It had to be the summer of 2015, 16 or 17. I was camping with my sons’ troop in Moraine State Park in Butler County, PA. I woke up in the middle of the night. I want to say it was around midnight, but cannot be sure. This would have been a Friday night into Saturday morning. I was taken back by how quiet the woods were. Being a seasoned tent camper, this struck me as odd. Our tent was the closest to the shore line, maybe 30 or 40 yards of woods in between us and the shore. The deep woods were on the other side of a trail road from our tent site. Up the shore line I heard what sounded like a tree or rock knock. The knock continued for a little bit and was eventually answered by other tree knocks coming from two distinct locations in the deep woods. The answered calls seemed pretty far in the distance but still auditable. The original knock came from our side of the shore and was closer than the other two. This happened for a little while, the answering calls never changed, but the knock on our side kept getting closer to our tent site. I was actually astonished at how fast the knocks where moving down the shore line. By that I mean, the knock source closest to us was coming toward our camp site, working its way down the shore line. Whatever was making the knocks was moving at a good speed for being in the woods at night. Then the knocks stopped right when it felt like the source was directly behind us. The following night was Saturday. I woke up again, but this time the woods were their normal sounding self and there was boat life on the lake. I did hear another knock, fairly distance in the woods, but that was the only one.","Muskrat Cove grouping tenting site at Moraine State Park","Butler County","Pennsylvania","Summer","Report 70716: Knocks and responses heard near Muskrat Cove campground, Moraine State Park",40.92895,-80.07216,"2016-08-15",70716.0,"Class B","dpr0cfvhrm",80.08,74.11,68.14,71.02,0.94,0.64,0.42,0.0081,0.97,"rain",1023.5,"Rain in the afternoon.",5.0,7.104,154.0,0.66,"RES.SEASON"], [760,3981,"We normally walk our dog off lead but entering the start of the hike at the west entrance my wife and dog were immediately on high alert. My wife wanted our dog on lead as she was spooked. After approx 1/4 mile I noticed animal droppings that appeared large human shaped under the uphill undergrowth, spaced every 10-20ft. I commented on the size and shape of the droppings with my wife and agreed they couldn’t be human as there were too many and under the branches of the uphill side We discussed how they appeared to be marking a territory. The droppings continued for maybe 150ft. We continue down/East on the trail. At about the 1/2 mile marrk a deer startled us running from the uphill side across the trail and down the other side. My wife was spooked and we turned around to go back. As we neared the spot where the droppings were I spotted a single foot print on the uphill side partly hidden by branches. I took pictures using my water bottle and shoe(size 10) for comparison. I wanted to spend more time but my wife and dog were very agitated. I spent 5 minutes searching for a rock or log or anything that would fit in the form of the print thinking it must have been a rock to have left such a deep, clear impression. No luck. We left in a hurry.","The western side of the Railroad Grade Trail above Chalk Lake. CR 162 parallels the trail approx 300 ft below the trail.","Chaffee County","Colorado","Spring","Report 67551: Hikers find large footprint and unidentified droppings",38.71954,-106.2384,"2020-05-01",67551.0,"Class B","9wukq2xt9v",62.16,49.125,36.09,19.93,0.33,0.06,0.3,0.0005,0.01,"rain",1010.2,"Clear throughout the day.",11.0,10.0,258.0,10.27,"RES.SEASON"], [762,1850,"This is the second report I have submitted. The first was of screams in Arizona where I am living now. This one took place in Jackson County Mississippi in 1973. My father was living in Ocean Springs and working for Littons Ship Systems in Pascagoula. I had joined him there from Arizona when I decided to try my hand at pipefitting instead of Mining. I had bought an acre of land and put a trailer house on it before I had my wife join me. We were on the south side of town in an area of bayous. One night we were at my Dads place playing dominoes when we ran out of diapers for my baby daughter. It was only about a half mile from Dads to my house, so the wife and I jumped in the pick-up and went to the house for more diapers. I had two Red Bone hounds penned in the back of the house and when we got there they were barking as if they had something treed. I was curious as to what they were barking at, as they seldom barked while penned. When I got out of the truck, I noticed a rancid smell coming from the back of the house. I ask my wife what she had given the hounds and she said nothing that smelled that bad. I left the truck running and we went into the house and gathered the new diapers then back to the truck and left. We didn't give it anymore thought that night. I didn't pay much attention when we got back home later, but didn't remember smelling anything then. The next night we were back at my Dads playing dominoes again, and listening to the news from the TV. We heard a report from Pas Christian that a woman had called the police and reported a hairy ape looking man outside her backyard, looking in her kitchen window. She said it was looking over her back fence, which was six foot tall, and she could see it's head and shoulders above the fence. Also, the kicker was that it was accompanied by a rancid smell like rotting meat. The same smell I encountered around my house the night before. Wow, was that weird. I looked around the next morning, but couldn't find any tracks or anything around the house. And there was no smell of rotting meat to be detected. I think we had a close encounter.","South of town, near the gulf about half mile from the ocean.","Jackson County","Mississippi","Fall","Report 2376: Young couple encounter a rancid smell",30.38345,-88.72985,"2001-09-08",2376.0,"Class B","dj2uughukt",84.31,78.345,72.38,74.25,0.87,0.41,0.68,0.185,1.0,"rain",1013.34,"Heavy rain in the morning and afternoon.",5.0,8.75,100.0,0.76,"RES.SEASON"], [766,3022,"It was the summer of 1975, and I was about to enter the eighth grade at Stratton Jr. High School. My best friend had moved away from our neighbor hood in Beckley to Stanaford Acres in the spring. He had invited me to come out and spend the weekend with him in hopes of planning a fishing adventure down to Piney Creek. On Saturday morning, he and a common school friend of ours, and myself ,left out on foot at approx. 7:00am. With fishing gear,lunches and other necessities in hand, we made our way through the woods, past Kliningsmiths Pond, and over to the branch that would lead us to down to Piney Creek which was about a 3 mile hike. After spending the day fishing and doing things that teenage boys do we began to head back up the mountain. As we walked and talked, moving along the rail road that snakes its way through the gorge, it became apparent to us that we may not have been alone. Eerily we all had the feeling that someone, or something, was watching us, and following us from a distance. Paranoia began to set in, and we began to pick up the pace. By the time we reached the branch that we we're to follow back up the mountain,time was slipping away, and the thought of getting caught in the dark became apparent.After an hour or so of hiking up the branch, the sun had lazily rolled over the mountain top, and although it was still early, it was begining to get a little dusky in the hollow. We had just stopped to take a breather when we heard rustling on an old logging road about 300' feet above us. I had an old Red Rider BB gun with me, like it would have done any good, and it was rattling in my hands has they trembled. Maybe someone was watching us. Just in a matter of minutes, large boulders, the size of a washer or drier, came down, one after the other, headed right for us. We froze like stone statues, scared to death. After regaining our composure, we let up that hill side as though our feet were not even touching the ground. Thats when, against my better judgement, I turned to look back, just in time to see a large black shape disapear over the hillside. We ran all the way to Sams house, which was still a good mile and a half away. As the years went by, we looked back on that day and laughed at one another, joking about how scared each one of us were, and tried to come up with a reasonable explaination. I don't know if what I saw was a Big Foot, or a figment of my imagination. But to this day, any time I'm hunting or fishing, on or around the New River Gorge National River,you better beleive that I'm looking over my shoulder.","Approx. 2 miles east of the intersection on Ragland Road and State Route 41. Following a branch which empties in Piney Creek, which in turn empties into the New River.","Raleigh County","West Virginia","Summer","Report 4237: Three youths have a menacing encounter near Beckley",37.80531,-81.14714,"1975-07-04",4237.0,"Class B","dnwr16nrys",71.21,64.735,58.26,60.87,0.82,0.81,0.84,0.0501,1.0,"rain",1013.8,"Heavy rain in the afternoon.",6.0,5.57,303.0,1.54,"RES.SEASON"], [773,4315,"Forgive me for not knowing the exact year. It was around 1980 or 1981. My brother, I and a friend were hiking in an old cow pasture that was very overgrown. Back around 1980, Davie still had lots of woods and overgrown orange groves. Sure, I had heard of the skunk ape, but was never concerned. Being a boy, I was adventurous. Anyways, we were in the pasture hiking when we found an old tractor trailer. The trailers doors were missing, the were off and lying rotten on the ground, (with trees growing in them). We noticed that the trailer smelled real bad. We decided to climb in and look around. All we found was stench, like an animal lived in there. We were too far from the road for a bum to wander in and there wasn't any sign that anyone \"kept the place up\". We lost interest in the trailer and started to hike some more. We came upon a canal that forked with another one. To make a long story shorter, I saw something looking at us from across the canal. We were still about fifty yards from the edge of the canal at this point. Whatever it was didn't take notice of us right away, but as we got closer it looked up and raised its \"arms\" above its head as if it was waving at us. This area was very overgrown and all of my previous trips, I had not seen anyone out there. Whatever this was scared us all so bad, we ran all the way home, locked the doors and didn't return to the area until a few years later! My brother, now, says that we were imagining it. I have thought that it was a snake bird (you know, the ones that sit on a post and spread their wings to dry). However, I keep replaying the incident in my mind and I don't see a snake bird. There was a humanoid head and the colors were all wrong. Snake birds are usually blackish..what I saw was more brown...","Davie, Broward County, 1 mile north of Orange Drive, and about 1 mile east of Hiatus Road. Sighting occured from a cow pasture, viewed \"something\" from across canal, near pumping house at the edge of an orange grove.","Broward County","Florida","Summer","Report 594: a sighting by a group of boys along a canal, a mile or so north of South New River.",26.08285,-80.21025,"1980-07-15",594.0,"Class A","dhwuqu0xte",92.33,83.715,75.1,74.98,0.8,0.9,0.11,0.0425,1.0,"rain",1016.69,"Heavy rain in the afternoon.",5.0,6.7,261.0,3.4,"RES.SEASON"], [776,610,"On July 9th at approximately 10:00 A.M. I noticed my five chickens were missing. The chicken coop was full of feathers but no bodies or blood. I did a perimeter check and came across an extremely large footprint. I went back to the house and brought down a tape measure to the footprint and measured it and took pictures with the tape measure beside it. The foot print measured Length: 18\" Width: 9\"-10\". On the 23rd of July, Jim Thompson BFRO Investigator of Ohio had contacted me and came out to investigate. During Jim's first visit he found four more footprints near the original footprint. Jim stated that the other footprints were about four feet spread apart from each other. On July 24th at approximately 12:38 A.M. I heard a sort of yelping noise coming from one end of my property and heard a quick response (same type of noise) come from the other end of my property. At night time every now and then on my property I get an eerie feeling that something is watching me.","Right off of the Bloomingdale exit of Route 22 [Investigator MM Note: Link to location pin on Google Maps: https://goo.gl/maps/UMfDkZDwyZ32PJUk7","Jefferson County","Ohio","Summer","Report 69490: Missing chickens lead to discovery of large footprints by chicken coop near Bloomingdale",40.36887,-80.81801,"2021-07-24",69490.0,"Class B","dpnt8uyjey",85.96,77.905,69.85,65.09,0.76,0.47,0.53,0.0002,0.04,"rain",1017.4,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",7.0,10.0,204.0,3.67,"RES.SEASON"], [780,2567,"Hello, My husband was driving home last night on Key Peninsula highway in Pierce county in Washington State. It is a very forested area that does eventually connect with the Olympic rain forest, however, it is also a populated area. He witnessed a 7-8 foot creature, walk from the side of the road into the forest. He stated it was not thin, as thick as a tree trunk, but, what is even more puzzling, is that he has stated that it was a light grey or whitish color and Very Very \"hairy.\"","Key Peninsula Highway -","Pierce County","Washington","Fall","Report 50214: Man returning home late at night sees gray biped near Key Center",47.34805,-122.741,"2015-11-11",50214.0,"Class A","c22tqgqwrk",51.97,46.735,41.5,41.66,0.82,0.45,0.01,0.004,0.98,"rain",1024.52,"Partly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",2.0,10.0,204.0,2.64,"RES.SEASON"], [781,2842,"My sighting happened over 40 years ago & until this time I’ve never written or reported anything about it. Except for relaying my experience to a few family members & friends, this is the first time I’ve told my story. I am 69 years old & I believe it’s time to tell my story. I’m sorry to say that time has invaded my memory & I don’t recall all the exact details. I believe it was fall of 1977. My boyfriend & I were on our way to Kalaloch Lodge from Seattle for the weekend. I believe we left after work on a Friday, took the ferry to Kingston & then traveled south along highway 101. The incident occurred somewhere between Forks & Kalaloch. It was very late, very dark, a clear night and with few cars on the road. My boyfriend was driving & we were quiet, each in our own thoughts. I love animals and I’m always on the lookout for animal sighting. I happened to notice something that looked like an animal coming up ahead on the right side of the road in the shoulder. I didn’t mention it to my boyfriend, instead I was concentrating on the approaching animal & trying to figure out what it was. As the creature came into focus, I noticed it was about 4’ tall, standing perfectly upright, long arms, long legs, very thin with long brown hair covering his entire body & face. He was standing still but waving his arms across his face. As we passed him, I looked out the side passenger window directly into his face & he looked directly into mine. I gasped with surprise & disbelief! Unfortunately, my boyfriend did not see the creature & asked me what was wrong. I can’t put into words what happened at that moment. I saw something that didn’t fit into my realm of knowledge, beliefs or experiences. I was scared to death & scared into utter silence. I was afraid to look back … did it jump onto the car? Was it running behind the car? Immediately, the description that came to my mind was a “monkey man”. It wasn’t until we arrived at Kalaloch Lodge that I told my boyfriend what I saw. Once I’d had more time to calm down and think about the experience, I wondered if it was the headlights on bright that could have caused the creature to freeze & wave his arms in an attempt to block the lights from his eyes. For years after this experience, whenever I re-told my story to friends or family, I always referred to the creature as a “monkey man”. It was not until years later when I first viewed the Patterson-Gimlin video of the Sasquatch that I thought … this is what I saw, only smaller. I do believe what I saw was a young Sasquatch. I cannot be certain what I saw that night, but what I know for absolute certainty is that what I saw was not any known Pacific NW animal.","South on Hwy. 101","Jefferson County","Washington","Fall","Report 65807: Late night sighting on Highway 101 in between Forks and Kalaloch",47.72142,-124.3985,"1977-10-15",65807.0,"Class A","c0rx3prv2v",62.07,52.175,42.28,46.25,0.88,0.57,0.13,0.0162,1.0,"rain",1020.7,"Rain in the afternoon and evening.",2.0,6.287,188.0,5.02,"RES.SEASON"], [790,1786,"Several times a week I go fishing at the James Reed Memorial Wildlife Area just south of Lee's Summit, MO. It's about 900 acres plus 10 lakes to choose from for fishing and a area with walking trails. Each lake has a level, mowed area about 20 feet wide all the way round it. It is wooded and brushy between lakes plus there are also open meadow/fields scattered around. Animal life is deer (lots of them), fox, possums, rabbit, racoon, squirrel, turkey, geese, golden eagles, cranes, vultures and many smaller birds. During the week there aren't many people there fishing so sometimes I'm the only one. I prefer fishing at the lake that is farthest from the main entrance. I think Google Maps shows it as #9 but it has a name. The first week of August, 2020, I was there fishing for bass and had worked my way half way around the lake when I came upon a very large pile of scat in the mowed walking area. It was well formed and shaped like human feces. I estimated its size as 16 X 14 inches and about 5 inches high. My first thought was an obese person had somehow managed to completely empty their guts. There are horse riders allowed in the area but I've never once seen their hoofprints around the lake in that area not any horse scat. The pile did not resemble in any way what a horse does. The last week of August, 2020, I was the only person there and there were no other cars in the parking lot. I was near where I'd seen the scat. When I fish I move slowly and quietly. I was on the southwest side of the lake when I heard what I thought was a hoot owl. It hooted three times with no space between hoots. I've never hear an owl do that. I walked and fished for another 100 feet or so and was facing the water when in the trees/brush behind me I heard a deep HumphGrrrr sound. Both sounds were ran together and I could feel it vibrate in my chest. I immediately turned completely around thinking that there was a huge dog nearby and I wanted to make sure it wasn't sneaking up on me. The sound lasted about 3 seconds and even after I couldn't hear it I still felt it vibrate in my chest for a few more seconds. I looked as far back into the trees/brush as I could and saw nothing. I wasn't scared but I felt that I needed to leave so I left and went home. I was there fishing on Sept 8 or 9, 2020 (can't remember which day this happened). Same lake, same time, about 11 AM. I was on the northwest side of the lake casting for bass and I was the only one there. Earlier there was a young man fishing but he left about 10 AM. Except for the occasional bird and locust it was quiet. Suddenly in the brush behind me I heard what I can only describe as a small chimp making sounds like Cheetah the Chimp. I would guess the source of it to be closer than 50 feet. I heard it for perhaps a second or two then it stopped suddenly like someone had flipped a switch. I turned completely around and looked as far back into the trees/brush as I could. I even looked up into the trees on both sides of me and saw nothing. I moved a little faster and quickly worked my way around the lake to the parking lot then went home. That was as weird as the owl and growl I'd heard. This place is about one half mile outside of a city which is a suburb of Kansas City, MO. I do not have any mental illness, I do not drink, do drugs or smoke. I am a retired University teacher. Do you or anyone else have a possible explanation of what I saw and heard? I am really curious and want to know. Now when I go fishing there I'm looking into the brush around me and up into the trees as I walk.","James Reed Memorial Wildlife Area","Jackson County","Missouri","Summer","Report 66063: Fisherman describes large animal sounds in James Reed Memorial Wildlife Area",38.521,-94.188,"2020-08-08",66063.0,"Class B","9yv50sw3hd",88.23,81.42500000000001,74.62,74.42,0.86,0.42,0.67,0.0467,0.75,"rain",1014.7,"Heavy rain in the morning.",9.0,9.634,173.0,9.52,"RES.SEASON"], [797,1023,"On Friday morning, August 1, 2008 at about 2:35 AM, I was awakened from sleep in my rented 19 ft travel trailer to what initially sounded like a man yelling for his dog. My family and I were vacationing in Seaside, OR and we were staying at Circle Creek RV Park, located on Highway 101 about one mile south of the popular destination town. After being woken up, I listened for some time before getting up and asking my wife if she had heard what I was hearing. She had been sleeping with our two young sons at the opposite end of the trailer. What we both heard for the subsequent 25 minutes was a deeper voice calling, as if searching for someone. We could not make out what the person was saying, and it seemed odd to both of us that the vocalizations were exact replicas of each other, that is, each call sounded identical to the other. It was almost as if someone was walking around with a tape-recorded selection repeating plays in uneven short intervals. The vocalizations seemed to rapidly circle the RV park along a bordering creek and hedge-row. This movement of the sounds would have required the individual to be constantly running. My wife and I both observed out the windows in the trailer, looking for a flashlight or some other indication of someone searching. The security lighting in the RV park made it difficult to notice forms outside the perimeter. The tone and timbre, and completely unintelligible nature of the vocalization seemed similar to the \"samurai chatter\" recordings on the BFRO website. At one point the vocalizations became so close to our trailer and so loud that my wife became profoundly afraid. I began wondering if any of the other guests in the park had been awakened, and if they were shaken up as we were. At about 3 AM a car drove up from the highway and three passengers with flashlights exited the vehicle, and proceeded to their campsite. The car drove away. This activity brought silence to our unintelligible visitor, and we were not disturbed for the rest of the night. At 7 AM I asked the RV park manager if he had heard “all of the commotion” the previous night, and he said that he had not heard a thing. I was disappointed to be heading back to Portland that day, as I had hoped to talk with other park guests about the incident.","West on 26 out of Portland, north on 101, 3 miles, west side of highway.","Clatsop County","Oregon","Summer","Report 24328: Possible vocalizations heard at a campground near Seaside",46.03193,-123.4573,"2008-08-01",24328.0,"Class B","c20jyev5km",62.43,57.23,52.03,52.97,0.85,0.91,0.02,0.0019,0.71,"rain",1014.92,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,8.54,224.0,1.82,"RES.SEASON"], [824,4589,"I'm 51 yrs old. My sighting happened twenty odd years ago but I need to tell someone about it. I've finally come to grips with it and now it's time just to tell someone...who won't think I'm a nut-case. Here goes. At one time, I lived in a house surrounding a small pond in the woods in Columbia. I fished all the time. The pond was down a small hill right in my back yard. I thought I was in heaven. I usually fished at night when my kids (at that time) were asleep. I used lighted bobbers. Often I felt I was not alone but thought it was my imagination. One evening, I thought I heard a huff-growl and glanced around behind me. There it was. Just standing there looking at me. I squinted my eyes and rubbed them in case my eyes weren't seeing correctly. I still saw it. I didn't feel panicked til it moved. The thought that it wasn't a human scared me so much I dropped my pole, and high-tailed it all the way up the hill til I was safe in the house. I never went fishing at night or alone again. Thank you for reading this. I feel better getting it out.","Not wonderful with directions, but I can show you. Its off of Illinois Route 157.","St. Clair County","Illinois","Fall","Report 33638: Woman recalls her night time sighting while fishing behind her home near Columbia",38.51689,-90.16501,"1991-11-16",33638.0,"Class A","9yzgh5zc4u",48.79,48.175,47.56,46.97,0.95,1.0,0.32,0.005,0.56,"rain",1023.24,"Foggy starting in the evening.",2.0,1.87,37.0,6.46,"RES.SEASON"], [827,3190,"I was driving near the town dump about 1:00 in the afternoon around the end of June last year, it was raining very hard, a large figure came out of nowhere, I hit my brakes but was far enough back that I would not have hit it, there was a car coming at me the other way, it almost ran into the back end of that car, it turned a little sideways to avoid the car, that's when I knew it was not a person or a bear, when it turned it flung its arm up and back a little to miss the car, it was a little hunched over, its shoulders were extremely wide, I couldn't make out any facial features, it was covered in dark brown hair and appeared to have hardly any neck, it was about 6\" taller than the mini van it almost ran into, if it was standing straight up I would guess it was about 6 to 6 and a half feet tall. The whole thing only took about 2 or 3 seconds but it really shook me up. I have always hiked in the woods around here and done a lot of tracking animals of all kinds, I have never seen anything that would resemble a bigfoot track, I have always had doubts about people seeing these, but now I will never doubt it again. It won't keep me from the woods but I'll keep an eye peeled from now on.","I haven't even told anyone about this because I didn't want this guy harassed or bothered. It crossed the road in front of me within 100 yards of the town dump entrance on route 27, close to the Bridgewater town line.","Plymouth County","Massachusetts","Summer","Report 44263: Road crossing and a close call with a vehicle during the day outside Hanson",42.09091,-71.42092,"2013-06-25",44263.0,"Class A","drmpqy2v7f",89.78,79.89500000000001,70.01,68.03,0.74,0.19,0.58,0.0003,0.25,"rain",1010.8,"Partly cloudy starting in the evening.",10.0,9.87,245.0,1.48,"RES.SEASON"], [828,3103,"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. After some time of sitting they started to smell a horrible stench. My brother stood up to look in the woods behind them and he saw the creature squatting down behind a tree. My brother then moved to get a better look at it when it stood up and left. He then went to look for it and saw it foot imprint on some leaves on the ground, he said they weren't very good but he could see that its foot prints where about 5 feet apart. My older brother, his wife and 6 year old son were riding on their 4 wheeler back in old 93 hollow. It was between 7:00pm - 8:00pm when they saw what they thought to be a black bear walking on its hind legs. They stopped the 4 wheeler and turned off the engine to watch it. When they did this the creature also stopped and was watching them. My brother and His wife saw the creature and they looked at each other over a distance of around 200 feet for about 2 minutes. My sister-in-law described it to me this way. When it turned to face us, I could see through its legs. Its legs were not touching together. Its arms hung down its side just above its knees, and its shoulder and mid drift were real broad. It had fur from head to toe. Two minutes later the creature took off into a stride across the field with its arms swinging at its side and a slight bend to its form. At the end of the field it turned and went into the woods. At that distance they could see it as it walked through the woods. They figured it to be about 8 - 9 feet tall. They said it could not have been a bear walking on its hind legs covering the distance it covered in the short time it covered it. They watched it enter into the woods and then went home. When they got home their son, scared from what he had just seen, started crying. He swore to his mom he was never going to ride his bike or motor bike in that hollow ever again. The next day my brother took my younger brother and my uncle back in the hollow with him to see if they could find any tracks this creature had made. They searched but did not find any, it was over grass and it rained most of the night. So my older brother gave up and went home leaving my younger brother and my uncle in the hollow. Shortly after my younger brother and uncle saw the creature. They were in the same location as my other brother was the night before. They watched it come out of the wooded area about 400 yards below them and cross the road. It went down the a hill into a valley where they couldn't see it. Then suddenly it came up on the other side of the hill and walked along side the edge of the field and entered the wooded area where it did (or another) the night before. My brother got to see it through his binocular and said it looked like a pro basket ball player but much more muscular with fur from head to toe. He said all he could see was its back side and it wasn't anything he had ever seen before. My brother also said he yelled at it but it didn't faze the creature at all. Two days later, in the morning my older brother and his wife went to the same area to go mushroom hunting. They were in the power lines when they heard a loud knocking on one side in the woods, like someone hitting something on a tree. Across on the other side, where one old dilapidated house was, they heard something screaming. My brother described it as a high pitch hunting dog scream. They said this went on continuously. My brother started to walk down toward the house to see what it was. The closer he got the more it spooked him, so he went back and got on his 4 wheeler leaving his wife on top of the power lines. His wife said when he started up his 4 wheeler and headed down the road toward the house the knocking got louder and the screaming got louder and more intense. She said the one that was in the woods knocking started crashing through the woods in the direction that she was in, then stopped when it heard the 4 wheeler turning back. My brother, who turned around because the screaming was so loud he heard it over his loud 4 wheeler, then got his wife and left the area shaken up a little. They didn't think the creature would be there in the morning, they thought they slept during the day or something. They and other people have gone back to the same area in the two days since the last encounter and nothing was found or heard.","Marion County West Virginia. (near the border of Monongalia County, along the Monongalia River) Near the small towns of Rivesville and Jordan. The nearest road would be Rt. 19. (Exact location is being kept confidential per witnesses' request.)","Marion County","West Virginia","Spring","Report 1202: Series of accounts under investigation by the curators regarding reports of a large creature.",39.54114,-80.11329,"1999-04-20",1202.0,"Class A","dpp0byprc4",53.77,47.605,41.44,39.33,0.72,0.78,0.17,0.0171,1.0,"rain",1015.14,"Rain in the morning.",5.0,9.14,317.0,2.75,"RES.SEASON"], [830,4058,"The witness does not have a computer, so I asked the witness to fill out our report form by hand. This following is what she wrote: I was driving home toward Arcadia on HWY 72 around 8:30 pm. I thought I first saw a deer to my right, but then I realized it wasn't a deer. It was a bigfoot and it was huge! I had to hit the brakes, it was so close to the car. It ran across the street and looked at me! It crossed in two steps. It had long dark brown hair. The hair was not shaggy, but smooth like a dog. It ran so close to my car, at my car, it seemed as if it was trying to purposely cross before me. Once I passed by it, I stopped the car and got out. I didn't see anything, but smelled a musky smell. I called my kids while I stood there on the road.","Just over the bridge","Sarasota County","Florida","Fall","Report 47021: Bigfoot crosses SR-72 directly in front a vehicle west of Arcadia and just outside Myakka River State Park",27.19995,-81.98468,"2014-09-09",47021.0,"Class A","dhvdwrse4q",89.77,81.32,72.87,73.73,0.84,0.24,0.52,0.005,0.7,"rain",1016.39,"Rain in the evening.",10.0,9.87,113.0,1.49,"RES.SEASON"], [839,2821,"I've been debating whether to report this to you guys for about a month. Sorry for the delay but what I saw doesn't seem explainable other than a sasquatch. I was staying at a place called Mariner Village about 5 miles south of Ocean Shores. It's about 1/4 mile from the north jetty at Browns Pt. The time is about 1:30am (I knew this because I had just left my room at 1:20 am to return to my fire on the beach). My back was to the ocean watching the fire. I turned to look at the ocean (which was about 30 yards away) and saw what I thought was a person walking south along the water line down the beach. The moon was full and when I first saw it, it was directly west of me. What I could see was a dark figure from about mid-torso up because the beach slopes down quite a bit in that area. It appeared to be just a person out for a late night/early morning stroll on the beach. So I decide to follow them, maybe go talk to them and start walking at an angle down the beach to cut them off. Seeing that I wasn't catching up to them I start running down the beach still at an angle in there direction. It was hard to make out detail while running so I stopped to get a better look. That's when I realized the following, with the full moonlight I could see only it's upper body and it was all black, it had no neck, looked like it was wearing a hooded sweatshirt. I start running again as fast as I could. This thing was fast, it must have covered the 1/4 mile from where I first saw it down to about 50 yards from the jetty in about a minute and a half. I stop running and I could see it way down the beach about 200 yards away. It stopped about 50 yards from the jetty turned and faced the ocean. It was at an area on the beach that I saw it's feet turn towards the incoming waves. It's movements seemed very unnatural and overexagerated. When it turned towards the ocean it flexed it's back like it was leaning backwards. It seemed like it was looking back to see where I was. I know it saw me standing by the fire, I had a white t-shirt on and a shaved head, and probably saw me go after it, that's why it got down the beach so fast. It moved off and when it got near the shadow of the jetty I lost sight of it. That's when I decided to turn around and go back. Tried to find tracks but it was moving along the water line at high tide, the waves would have covered them up. The next day I took my friend told him to go stand down by the water and stood in the spot I first saw it, I could barely see the top of his head. Like I said I didn't report this for awhile because it's hard to fathom this happening in such a populated area. But considering the surrounding area, Oyhut State Game Refuge is very close and only 6 miles away is thick forested area to the north,one of these creatures could travel that distance easily in the cover of darkness. Once it got to that jetty it leads to the game refuge. If you have the book \"Meet The Sasquatch\" on page 213 that's the shape of what it looked like when I first saw it.","On beach in front of Mariner Village (condos) about 1/4 to 1/3 mile north of the north jetty","Grays Harbor County","Washington","Summer","Report 12594: Possible beach sighting at night by a tourist near Point Brown",46.92694,-124.1736,"2005-10-29",12594.0,"Class B","c0rdyqg91r",55.65,51.93,48.21,47.46,0.89,0.5,0.89,0.0079,1.0,"rain",1020.73,"Mostly cloudy in the morning.",2.0,9.58,174.0,2.29,"RES.SEASON"], [840,324,"I was having a small camp fire last night alone with my small dog who at the time was sleeping. First there was something moving through the wooded area to my left. Sounded like it was on two feet and moving towards some neighbors houses. Wasn’t alarmed by this, although it was dark and there was no flashlight the neighbors do walk through there from time to time. My dog wasn’t alerted at all. This part of the incident may be just coincidental but it’s what happened next that I’m curious about. About five to ten minutes later to the left of me way off in the distance there was an obvious wood knock then immediately to the right of me in the distance but in that direction is the Great Croton Swamp was a reply wood knock and then immediately after that another from the left. Then nothing. I’ve never heard anything like that before. It was about 11pm and the neighborhood was quiet and in my opinion it was an obvious call and response. Are wood knocks usually so instantaneous or do they usually have some time in between?","Across from Patterson Rec Center and access to the Great Croton Swamp","Putnam County","New York","Spring","Report 65469: Knocks heard from Great Croton Swamp south of Pawling",41.49887,-73.59659,"2020-05-17",65469.0,"Class B","dr7sj68s7n",70.25,61.15,52.05,48.73,0.69,0.64,0.86,0.0005,0.1,"rain",1024.3,"Possible light rain overnight.",7.0,10.0,152.0,6.21,"RES.SEASON"], [851,1430,"Driving down road 7am light fog large figure. Looked like a ghillie suit. In road seen my car lights step in ditch then woods.","One mile north of town","Ogemaw County","Michigan","Summer","Report 55541: Motorist has a possible daylight sighting just north of South Branch",44.48875,-83.88607,"2016-09-06",55541.0,"Class B","dpum54ujbb",88.06,78.89500000000001,69.73,69.14,0.82,0.24,0.17,0.0008,0.62,"rain",1017.05,"Mostly cloudy in the morning.",6.0,9.93,218.0,3.79,"RES.SEASON"], [854,2625,"I was out riding my bike and came to the logging road and started walking because you don't ride bikes where cougars dwell. So I hiked for a while enjoying the sights and the trail forks in a y-shape and I took a left and walked up the hill. After I got to the top of the hill I walked down a little further and at my 2 o'clock I heard a large branch snap like how a twig snaps under a man's foot and the brush crashed and I heard what sounded like a baseball bat hit a tree. When I looked at where the noise came from and I saw to my horror a rock come towards me from out of the bushes and my eyes caught the hand throwing the rock, and when I noticed the hand I saw it jump in the air and do a 180 spin so it would be faced away from me when it landed and I swear to god it threw the rock so freakin hard that the entire rock didn't spin at all when it was being chucked. It bonked the stump on the side of the trail and I kept staring at it because I thought at first it was a ghost or mabye somebody behind the stump that I just saw do a ninja move. Then I realized that it was facing away from me towards the swampy brush because the stump I was looking had a muscley buttocks and I could see on the top of the stump what looked like a v shape tuft of hair similar to Howard the Duck. I was yellin and shoutin at it but it just stood their and kept looking away from me, and I knew that this thing is not going to move unless I go over there and at that point I left the forest by going back where I came from.","Removed at the request of the witness.","Snohomish County","Washington","Spring","Report 37885: Daylight encounter while hiking on the Tulalip Indian Reservation",48.10255,-122.2763,"2010-06-10",37885.0,"Class A","c2919sc1et",61.73,56.485,51.24,50.08,0.84,0.96,0.94,0.0008,0.5,"rain",1017.13,"Overcast throughout the day.",5.0,9.79,248.0,0.47,"RES.SEASON"], [858,4634,"I was driving along Scott-Troy Road after work one night. It was around 8:15 pm when I was driving through some wooded parts of Scott-Troy. I saw something large, black and hairy take two-three giant bounds across the road before it disappeared on the other side. I slowed for a bit, trying to see what it was, but it was too dark to see what it was or where had it gone.","The road winds and has small hills. Passes through a lot of hilly areas. If you're on I-64 heading west, get off at 19 B exit and keep heading straight.","Madison County","Illinois","Fall","Report 56168: Possible nighttime sighting along Scott-Troy Road south of Troy",38.66736,-89.87602,"2017-01-20",56168.0,"Class B","dnb5fz4m8y",54.7,52.115,49.53,48.39,0.93,0.83,0.77,0.0033,1.0,"rain",1002.68,"Overcast until evening.",2.0,7.54,158.0,1.99,"RES.SEASON"], [874,424,"One morning between 6 & 7am in Feb./March 1995, I was driving west on Baum road in Stark County, Ohio. Just past where (.....edited.....), there's a small pond. At that time, there were large bushes growing on the east side of the pond. I travel that road a lot and it became habit to glance down at the pond to look for deer. On this particular morning, I saw what, without a doubt, was a large fur covered creature. He was squatting in front of the bushes at the edge of the pond and was using his right hand to drink...dipping into the water. A friend was in the car with me, we were going to breakfast, she saw the exact same thing. We didn't talk about it or even acknowledge that we'd seen anything. Frankly, I thought I couldn't possibly have seen what I saw. Finally, I asked her if she'd seen anything at the pond. She described the same scene. We were too stunned/awed to go back to turn around for a second look.","The pond is clearly visible from the road but on private property. The only change to the pond is that the owner tore the bushes out about 2yrs ago. The pond is usually covered with algae in summer.","Stark County","Ohio","Winter","Report 2850: Two friends witness tall, hairy creature drinking from a pond",40.74065,-81.35575,"1995-02-15",2850.0,"Class A","dpnpu8we3x",42.38,37.36,32.34,27.43,0.78,1.0,0.49,0.0133,1.0,"rain",1014.44,"Mixed precipitation in the morning and afternoon.",3.0,5.52,168.0,9.42,"RES.SEASON"], [885,4169,"I am a 39 yr. old professional in Miami, Fl. I had an experience 24 yrs. ago that I will never forget. When it first happened, I shared the details with family and a few close friends but no one believed me. It became a topic of such ridicule that I just stopped talking about it (what was the point). I've always had a casual interest in the bigfoot dilema. When I moved (in 1974) to south florida, neighborhood kids would tell me stories of a bigfoot-like creature (they called it a \"skunk-ape\") roaming the fringes of the everglades with the occasional sighting. They said it was large (about 9'), smelly and a very swift runner. This all seemed too bizarre and I really didn't believe them. Then when I was 15 yrs. old I had my experience. I'm not about to say that what I saw was a skunk-ape, but I can say that (since my experience) I absolutely believe that animals (even large ones) can co-exist around us without our knowledge of their presence. Here's my story .... I was with my family on a summer camping trip at Johnathan Dickinson State Park (just north of Jupiter, Fl). There was an observation tower (about 30 ft high) along the same road that leads to the campground. About 5:30 or 6:00 pm I jogged from the campground to the tower alone (it was probably 2 to 3 miles). When I got there, the fence around the tower was locked. Since this was an un-manned tower setback from a road that had very little traffic (in-fact the entire time I was gone from camp, there were no cars), I decided I would hop the fence. I'm not one for blatantly breaking rules, so I was very careful not to make too much noise climbing the fence. When I got to the top of the tower, there was a built-in wood bench that wrapped along the perimeter of the deck (about 12'X 12'). I spent about 5-10 minutes looking in all directions (but there wasn't much to see). The skys were clear and there was about 45 minutes to an hour of sunlight left. There was a clearing of low-lying brush (about 3-4 ft high) that extended out from the tower for about 30-50 yds. in all directions. At that point it became pretty densely wooded. It was peaceful up there and I was tired so I rested for about 20-30 minutes by laying down on the bench. When I got up, I noticed the sunlight was beginning to fade so I figured I'd better get moving. I remember being upset with myself for staying so long because I would not make it back to camp until nightfall and I didn't want my parents to worry. When I got to the base of the tower, I climbed the 8' high fence at a point that was perpendicular to the road. Once on the other side, I could walk the 100' or so along the fenceline to the road. Unfortunately, I slipped at the top of the fence so I instinctively pushed off the fence and dropped to the ground on the other side. When I came down, I landed in a bush which made a lot of noise (I had been deliberately very quiet up til that moment. The position of my body was slouched over and facing away from the fence towards the woods beyond the low brush. It seemed as soon as I hit the ground, making all that noise, something popped its head up from under the brush (about 25 yds. away) and I saw it immediately because I just happened to be looking in that direction. I saw just its head at first and we just stared at each other for a few seconds. At first, I was not sure whether I was looking at an animal's head or a person's head. I remember it was rounded at the bottom and more elongated towards the top. It seemed a little bigger than mine and was covered with short silvery-gray hair. Its face seemed human with a flat nose, its eyes were small and dark. It made no sound. After a few seconds of silent starring, it turned towards the road and began moving quickly. It seemed to be running on all fours at first; but after about 10 yds. it stood up on just two legs and continued to scamper until it crossed the road and then disappeared into the woods. I would guess that it was about 6-7' tall. It's frame was very large from the hips up and it was covered with shaggy silvery-gray hair. After it was out of sight, I stood there for a moment trying to rationalize what I had seen. I saw it clear enough to know what it wasn't. It wasn't a man - it was definitely an animal. It wasn't a bear, deer or panther. Not even close. Surprise had turned to confusion and was now becoming fear. I didn't want to hang around (defenseless) against an animal larger, stronger and faster than myself. I ran back to camp, checking behind me as I ran. By the way it had reacted, I assumed it was probably as scared of me as I was of it. When I reached camp, I tried to tell my family, but they just laughed it off and said it was probably a dog or a homeless man. Of course, I knew this was not the case, so I became upset. Not wanting to continue the conversation, my father became stern and so I dropped the subject. The next day we went home and I've never been back. Until recently, I've pretty much kept this story to myself over the past 24 yrs. When I found your site (and some others)on the internet and read of other encounters it motivated me to share my experience. I sent info about my experience to a web-site dedicated to finding \"skunk-apes\", but I really found much of their material to be uncredible. I wanted to share my experience on this site because I feel your opinions and observations are genuine, thoughtful and reserved. P.S. I remember watching the local news one night (around 1977) about a supposed skunk-ape sighting by not less than 14 people during an air-boat ride thru the everglades. They interviewed the driver and a couple of riders who stated seeing a large hair-covered animal walking upright near the edge of an island in the swamp. I thought having so many witnesses would have made this a more credible and compelling sighting. Although I have read of many sightings in Florida which matched the stories my neighbors told me when I was younger, I have never seen or read anything (on the internet) about the airboat sighting. Have you or any of your readers ever heard of this sighting. Perhaps it was proven later to be a hoax or a mis-identification.","The entrance to the park is off US 1. The observation tower is along the road to the campground. Note: It's been 24 yrs. and a lot has changed in the area. I'm not even sure the park is the same.","Martin County","Florida","Summer","Report 5369: Man recalls childhood evening encounter in Johnathon Dickenson State Park",27.0099,-80.13215,"2004-08-02",5369.0,"Class A","dhz18t181d",85.02,79.405,73.79,72.97,0.86,0.82,0.57,0.0138,1.0,"rain",1014.83,"Rain starting in the afternoon.",6.0,9.83,223.0,5.28,"RES.SEASON"], [888,1004,"Before I go any further, I'd like to emphasize that I am not sure that I actually heard a bigfoot sound. I am mainly putting it on here because I have thought about it in depth (that's why the delay in reporting), and the only thing in my memory that has any resemblance at all to what I've heard is the past audio recordings of bigfoot (although what I heard had better audio!). I still wonder if this was a bigfoot, how or why it would have been near a town, but I have no other explanations. I was in Sandy, Oregon with my family during the weekend of July 21-23, 2000. We were staying at the Sandy Inn, which is just west of the main part of town. It was hard to sleep the night of the 21st; it was very humid and some thunderstorms did move through about midnight or so. I was up several times during the night; either to shut the window, open the window, turn on the air conditioning, etc. I got up once around 3 or so in the morning on the 22nd after the storms passed. I was sticking my head out of our 2nd story window, enjoying some cool air and kind of looking off into the woods toward the north. There was not a sound anywhere (that I could hear). No cars on the highway, nothing. Then I heard a very indescribable sound. I thought at first it was tires screeching but as the seconds passed I realized a car would have to be burning rubber for a long ways. Then as I kinda cleared my head, I thought it sounded like a man screaming, or better yet, wailing. But I've n ever heard a human do a sound like that either. It was not a moan or howling with an \"o\" sound, it was more like \"eye-eeee--ah-eye-eee\". Very high pitched. It won't do me much good to try to interpret the sound in letters. But the way the pitch of the sound went up and down so fast, I've never heard any animal or human do that, and I've heard quite a lot of animals. If a a human did what I heard, they'd bust their vocal chords. It went on for about 20 seconds-maybe a little longer, but not sure of that. It did seem to kind of trail off at one point then come back. I know it was long enough for me to get a good listen. It was not close by, either. The window faced toward the north, so it's possible that's where it came from but I can't be sure of that. It seemed like it was off in the distance somewhere. When it started, it was rather quiet, and ended trailing off in the same manner it started. Even though I was a bit groggy, it was wierd enough to wake me up and even scare me a bit. I didn't think too much of it at the time but the next morning I was thinking to myself, \"What was that?\" I didn't report it or consider that until now because I wasn't sure and after a while I honestly had forgotten about it until something in my mind triggered it again. All I can say is, if it wasn't a bigfoot, fine. But please tell me what it was","I was looking out a second story window in the Sandy Inn Hotel in Sandy. I was facing the north, toward the woods and the columbia river beyond.","Clackamas County","Oregon","Summer","Report 187: Unusual vocalization heard near Sandy",45.40023,-122.2777,"2000-07-22",187.0,"Class B","c21438b5e0",67.02,60.67,54.32,56.02,0.84,0.94,0.7,0.0025,1.0,"rain",1019.7,"Light rain in the morning.",4.0,9.93,202.0,3.13,"RES.SEASON"], [890,4470,"While mule deer hunting in Idaho, I road my atv to the snow line on road 255 southwest of Atlanta. I passed a truck with Alaska plates. It was parked on the side of the road with no one around just where the snow started. I was forced to turn around due to deep snow about a mile from the truck up hill from it. I observed many large elk tracks in the snow so I decided to move down in elevation to glass the timber strips. Elk season started in 3 days so I want to see if any were in this area. Once at the location about a half mile down hill past the truck, I parked on the side of the road. About 5 minutes into my search I heard a knock to my right about level with me about 300 yards away (guess). Very loud and solid. I first thought it was two trees hitting each other from wind. The wind was light though. About 5 minutes later it happened again but the knock sounded different and a bit lower. Within 10 minutes the Alaska truck drove by me with just a driver. He headed down elevation from me. I continued to glass this area without a sound for a good 5 minutes. I heard a vehicle coming up the hill and that person stopped to talk to me. He was a friend of mine from my old home town in California. Small world. I knew he liked this area and was happy to see him. We started to compare our hunting apps on our phones. Come to find out he was camped about 1.5 miles from my camp. We talked for a few minutes and then a loud knock like I heard before. A bit closer and near level to us. He stopped mid sentence for a second and turned to the direction of the sound but kept talking. A truck came by with a family in it and stopped to talk. I told him the snow situation and he headed up. He returned within 5 minutes and headed down the road to lower elevation. We heard 1 more knock lower and like further away (not as loud) after the truck passed us. My friend said, \"What the hell is that??\" I joked, \"Bigfoot!\" He immediately said it is someone splitting wood. When we heard 3 more in the next 20 minutes I told him that wood cutter sure takes his time between splits. Then it happened....a knock behind us with a different tone and it seemed farther away.. Then another below and to our right but not as loud as the other knocks. Things went quiet for 10 minutes. We said see you later. He headed up the road toward the snow line. It didn't take long and he was back and drove by me with a wave. I have not talked to him since then. Within 5 minutes of him driving by me I heard 3 distinct quick clacks or knocks directly behind me up the hill. Like rock not wood. Then 1 faint wood knock below me. I stayed for about 15 minutes in silence, then left. ","43.71597, -115.39289. It is 2.5 hours from the nearest gas station in Idaho City so very remote.","Elmore County","Idaho","Fall","Report 71863: Elk hunters hear loud wood knocks from multiple directions in remote forest 40 miles east of Boise",43.71597,-115.3929,"2021-10-29",71863.0,"Class B","9rvbwnjryx",53.07,44.99,36.91,38.75,0.83,0.5,0.79,0.0001,0.07,"rain",1016.5,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,10.0,161.0,5.99,"RES.SEASON"], [893,4294,"I was sitting on my couch watching tv with my small dogs around me. My male Yorkie saw it when I did out our back door. It was sitll daylight. I thought it was a man at first, but it was too large, too dark, and fleeting. The dog jumped up and ran to the back door but I moved slowly over there, being a little frightened. When I looked out the door it was gone. My first impression of it being a man was because of the general shape, but the dark figure wasn't wearing clothes and had to be over 10ft. tall to see it through the dorway like I did. I was able to see the upper body from where I was sitting. The porch drops off with a stairway to the patio around the pool. That's where it was walking rappidly next to the house. By the time I got to the door to look out it was over the fence and gone. My instinct was to check the gate and I saw it was still latched and locked, never having been opened. It wasn't a human it was too large. It wasn't a bear it was running upright. I can't come up with any other thing that could be that tall and that could do what it did. And having seen what I sawe in 1999 I don't take this lightly.","my backyard","White County","Georgia","Fall","Report 9465: Witness watches tall biped cross her backyard",34.68319,-83.69085,"2005-07-14",9465.0,"Class A","dnhmr9fhjz",85.1,77.9,70.7,69.34,0.81,0.71,0.25,0.002,0.67,"rain",1013.72,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",9.0,3.57,211.0,1.06,"RES.SEASON"], [895,1603,"I am from northern lower Michigan and two years ago was driving on I-75 just north of Wolverine, Michigan. It was in the middle of summer and I was driving alone to see my family on Mullet Lake. In the distance I could see brake lights and was curious as to why so many cars were stopping because there is NEVER any traffic in that area. So I stopped behind a few cars but it was visible as to what everyone was stopped for. Ahead to my right a massive figure was stepping out of the woods and at first I thought it was a huge bear but it was walking on its hind legs. It was covered in dark hair and was taller then any bear i have ever seen. So then I thought it was a gorilla, because its hands were curled under as if it had been walking on them previously. The creature crossed the highway and then proceeded into the woods on the left of me. I thought i was dreaming, so i looked over to the car on my right and their faces were just as shocked as mine were. I made it up to our cottage and told my family but everyone just laughed and to this day when I tell the story of how I have seen big foot nobody believes me. But there is absolutely no way this was a bear or gorilla. In northern michigan a bear is possible but it was walking like a human.","On I-75 just north of Wolverine, Michigan","Cheboygan County","Michigan","Summer","Report 29091: Motorist is shocked by sighting on I-75 between Wolverine & Indian River",45.35665,-84.605,"2009-07-17",29091.0,"Class A","f05f4bbt8s",61.37,57.375,53.38,52.3,0.86,0.89,0.83,0.0039,1.0,"rain",1008.4,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,9.92,330.0,1.51,"RES.SEASON"], [903,377,"My sister and her two children, my wife and I and our two dogs went to Nuclear lake in Dutchess county for an overnight camping trip. We set up camp in a field next to the lake a few hundred feet off the applician trail. We had two tents and went in them to sleep around 11:00p.m. My sister was feeling uneasy so I sent my male dog to her tent to sleep with her and the kids. My older dog, my wife, and myself were in my tent. I turned the opening of my tent to face my sisters tent door so she felt less stressed. An hour went by and the kids my old dog and wife were sleeping. Suddenly I heard foot steps coming from the woods heading toward us. It was a very dark night but I saw no flashlight shine. Then my young dog in my sisters tent started to make this whine/growl and I could clearly hear a person walk behind my sisters tent, but still no flashlight shine! All the while my sister was awake and my young dog freaking out almost crying and he is a pitbull not afraid of any critter. I KNEW it was a bigfoot and told my sister not to worry because she hates the woods and couldnt sleep. The next morning she looked very tired and we only spoke about it a month later on the phone. She said she knew it was a biped and couldnt sleep all night. My wife, my two dogs and I are trail runners and twice a week do 6 mile runs on this section of the Appalacian trail. It is remote and rugged and I have Moose dropping on my fireplace mantle from that area and bear sightings are common. A few miles up the trail is a large beautiful swamp also. This is not my first time I had the feeling bigfoot was around. My wife and I are in the woods more then anyone I know. We hike and back pack all summer and log 25 miles a week in the woods trail running. I made a report a few years ago when we were hiking up Buck mountain when a bigfoot was smashing trees and making that loud click noise like I can do with my tounge but 10 times louder. I know a woman who had a daytime visual in st. lawrence county n.y. and I also know a man who had a visual in penn. when he was hunting deer. What is the real story on bigfoot. Are they so slick that no one can get a good picture or do they just scare people so much that the powers that be dont want the cat out of the bag. I wont go in the deep woods alone anymore and I was never afraid but now I am and hate that feeling. I'll give my name and number and I sure wish someone would call me. thanks.","Nuclear lake right off the appalacian trail","Dutchess County","New York","Summer","Report 23856: Campers hear and see possible bigfoot pass by tents on Nuclear Lake",41.59773,-73.64642,"2007-07-15",23856.0,"Class B","dr7sshsk64",83.67,72.55,61.43,64.6,0.81,0.3,0.04,0.0026,0.76,"rain",1009.29,"Light rain in the evening.",8.0,8.34,205.0,1.46,"RES.SEASON"], [905,1209,"1981--My first encounter (Sept.): My girlfriend, her father and I were parked on the bank of the Chattahoochee river. My girlfriend's father was sitting on the hood of the car with his fishing pole in front of him. He was night cat-fishing. While we sat there, with the car lights shining across the river, my girlfriend and I were sitting in the front seat just making small-talk (honest), when all of a sudden I heard the most horribly incredible scream coming from my right side. To set the scene: Our car was parked about two feet from the water, on the bank. Off to my right about 60 feet was where the foliage began. Very swampy, very thick, and very hard to walk through. About 40 feet further up the bank (which can't be seen from our car because of the foliage) is a huge oak tree. I'd have to guess that the tree had about a 15 foot circumference - massive! About 10 feet up the tree is a huge branch that went about 20 feet out over the river. My friends and I would climb the tree and jump/dive into the river at least once every couple of weeks or so. During one occasion, there were about 9 of us standing on this branch attempting to make it move - we barely made it do anything, let alone shake! Anyway, back to the car. As I heard the scream, my body instantly went into what I think was shock. As I turned to my right s.l.o.w.l.y.. with all my hair standing straight-up, we heard the next sound~~~> a chuuu..chuuu..chuuu..chuuuuuuu... (my feeble attempt to describe the sound of that huge branch I mentioned earlier that was shaking due to something GIGANTIC jumping off it into the water. The splash that came next was equally as horrific. All we did was just sit there in shock...waiting (I don't know why), staring at this point - straight ahead at the water. My guess is that we were waiting for the thing to float into our headlights. We waited and waited and waited and all of a sudden an object - black - long - I would guess at least 9-10 feet, floated into our headlights and stopped. Please keep in mind that this action was deliberate, because it was floating downstream. We stared at it forever it seemed.until it opened it's eyes - two huge balls of red (reflecting off the headlights of our car I imagine) light and looked at us. My girlfriend's father at this point put the car into reverse, and we sped off.. extremely terrified. 1982--My second encounter (April): My girfriend and I were driving back from our senior prom (Georgia - chattahoochee river border area). Our high school was 37 miles down-river \"way-out\" in the boon docks. Anyway, as we were driving back home, we came to a flat 2-mile section of road that had a \"slippery-when-wet\" sign. Because we were tired, \"sober\", with road-hypnosis, the sign reflection caught our attention (she told me after). As we came closer to the sign, something moved or reflected as we came closer - getting our attention. About 100 feet away, with our car lights fully shining on the it, we saw this massive, black creature leaning on the sign. The top of the sign I guessed to be about 10 feet. Whatever this creature was, all we could see was the top of the chest and down (about 10' of the creature!) we couldn't see the head. It just stood there - we could see the massive muscles - most in rippling detail, shiny-black fur, standing with intelligence if you can understand that term, etc. We sped-up all the while screaming at each other - scared to death. A mile down the road, my left-rear tire blew out. I drove 7 miles to the first house with a light and called my father to come out and help us. While at this home, we talked with a few of the people that were there (they were having a party). We were told a couple of stories about a missing hunter, animals found gutted or with their head missing. A lot of strange screams in the night, etc. First, I must say beyond a shadow of any doubt that this was no hoax - the costume alone would have cost thousands and thousands of dollars to create. Second, the people that live in the area are extremely poor. As a matter of fact, the home that we drove-up to after our tire blew, had light seeping through the cracks in the siding of the house, while it sat on cinder blocks - very poor people!","1981--Bank of the Chattahoochee River 1982--Highway 431N. Roughly, the sighting occurred at Michael Tigner Dr., about 3-4 miles North of Seale, AL. Shouldn't be too hard to find, since it was the only \"yield\" or \"slippery when wet\" sign on the right-hand side (heading North)","Russell County","Alabama","Fall","Report 179: Man and witnesses have two seperate sighting, 1st while fishing, 2nd while driving",32.31435,-85.16235,"1981-09-15",179.0,"Class A","djery4dstr",87.57,78.455,69.34,69.27,0.89,0.71,0.55,0.0364,1.0,"rain",1013.77,"Heavy rain in the afternoon.",7.0,5.56,230.0,1.89,"RES.SEASON"], [910,4668,"It was right around the time of my birthday. I was on vacation visiting with my cousin at his girlfriend's house. We had ran into Jerseyville for cigarettes and were on our way back to her house off of Otterville Blacktop. I was driving about 55 mph around the s-curves just before Shiloh Hollow Road when I caught something running across the field heading for the road in the headlights. At first I thought it was a man in a trench coat. It ran up the embankment and onto the road in front of the car. I barely missed it. It just made it in front of the car as I passed and half turned towards me at the center line of the road. Within four foot from my side of the car. I realized that it wasn't a man in a trench coat. It was covered in hair and his face look flattened with a wide nose and large nostrils, and huge eyes. I continued to watch this thing run up a twenty foot embankment on the other side of the road without ever losing its pace. In shock I turned to look at my cousin, his eyes were as big as mine and we found ourselves asking, \"What the hell was that\"? He agreed It wasn't human.","3 1/2 miles west of Jerseyville on IL Rt 16 and 5 3/4 south on Country Rd 9","Jersey County","Illinois","Spring","Report 29265: Motorists have sighting at night near Otterville",39.02341,-90.40184,"2008-05-23",29265.0,"Class A","9yztyzgru6",73.41,65.295,57.18,54.17,0.74,0.73,0.61,0.0093,0.95,"rain",1013.57,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",8.0,10.0,73.0,5.16,"RES.SEASON"], [918,490,"The whole thing was sparked because I had found an unusual barefoot track while out fishing with a friend. While fishing at night we have heard some very strange sounds. We went out hoping to hear something or find another track. We were sitting by the lake originally with nothing happening. After it being cool and a bit rainy, we decided to leave the area. We were going up the road when XXX made the suggestion to pull over by the archery field to see if we could see any deer on the way out. When we pulled over to the field we caught a glimpse of eyes. We stepped out of our vehicle using a large mag-light and we glassed the area where we saw the eyes and caught the eyes moving over the grass line. The thing that made me think this was strange was the distance between the eyes. They were about a foot apart and shined green when the light hit them. Then, it moved left to right and appeared to be just above the grass line which was roughly about four foot high. When it moved to the right is when it got interesting... It stood up straight and looked toward us. The eyes where clearly another 4 foot above the grass line. It then turned to its left and walked across the field into the wood line. We were all stunned. We decided to leave the area kind of in a state of shock...as we were kind of freaked out. We pulled out and headed out towards the road when XXXXXX said we should go back and get a size comparison. He said we watched it leave so we should go back for a more accurate comparison. It needs to be stated at this time that I am an avid hunter and was a Nuisance animal control specialist with the ODNR for three years. What we had seen at that point was nothing that should have been in this area. Not a deer, not a coyote, not a bear...this was much larger. We turned the truck around and pulled back into the archery area and made a general plan. XXX would keep the truck running as I would walk to the edge of the field with the mag-light. XXXXXX wanted to walk across towards the tree line to where we saw it go into the woods so we would get a height comparison. The truck lights were on....as XXXXXX started across the field, I was trying to glass the edge of the field with the light showing him which way to go. About 30 yards in or so the eyes reappeared in the same location it entered into the woods...low to the ground just above the grass line. I hollered to XXXXXX that it was back and he needed to go to the right. Once he started moving to the right, he looked back at the truck and said he could not see the eyes. He was looking back into the truck lights off and on. This thing stood straight up and looked down at XXXXXX. He was probably just about 30 maybe at most 40 yards from this thing. Jeremy is 6 foot and this thing just dwarfed him in size. I hollered for him to freeze! XXXXXX turned and looked at us, and I told him to move back to us slowly. XXX and I were honestly rattled. XXX was asking me what it is..what is it??…. as I was trying to rationalize what we were seeing. I had to answer him with a, I don't know??? As XXXXXX was walking back towards us slowly....facing away from us...all I could think was if it wanted him, we could never had made it to him in time. It stared at him till he was more than half way back and once again turned left and went into the woods. XXXXXX never saw the eyes. He said he did hear something moving into the woods...but it was faint at that point. We are guessing that it was around 8 foot tall.","The location of the sighting was near Spencer, Ohio. I would prefer if the location was not disclosed. I do not want anyone trying to shoot at or accidentally get shot....looking for these creatures.","Medina County","Ohio","Spring","Report 42022: Possible nighttime encounter near Spencer leaves three men startled",41.11417,-82.07824,"2013-04-13",42022.0,"Class B","dpm9uk87qk",43.19,37.785,32.38,33.73,0.77,0.92,0.11,0.0001,0.17,"rain",1013.66,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,3.35,243.0,5.7,"RES.SEASON"], [919,298,"On June 20th at approximately 6:40 pm I was travelling on Route 563 south of Chatsworth near the Franklin Parker Preserve speedwell entrance. I was looking to see what the parking situation was there for a future hike so my eyes were on the right side of the road when out of the periphery I saw what I thought was a ground hog on the left. It was very large and I realized that it would have to be a huge ground hog so I looked fully to the left and I saw an approximate 3 to 3.5' tall creature stand up on two legs as I passed by. I did not get a good look at the face and I almost continued but I decided to turn around about 150 yards up on a dirt road that's on the right. I pulled in and turned around and headed back to the location. There is a bend in the road there. It bends around to the right on the way back as I made it past the bend, approximately 30 yards in front of me the creature was still there. It was now fully turned towards me and I could see that it looked like a cross between Curious George and the character Chaka from the land of the lost. It's face and hands as well as the tops of it's feet were hairless and a light tan in color. The fur it was covered with was a golden brown a little darker than a golden retriever, very much like the color of a groundhog. I could not see the nose. Wen I locked eyes with it I could not see whites just big dark brown eyes. It stood there for a second or two when I rounded the bend and then took off running back into the swampy area. It ducked behind a short bush and when I drove past it I could no longer see it. I turned the car around again and when I went by again it was gone. I waited there a bit to see if I could see anything moving in the field. I couldn't so I took off. It was a couple days before I shared the experience with my family and friends. In that period of time I thought for sure someone was going to report a missing kid in a Halloween costume. When the thing took off running it was fast! I would describe it as the fastest kid on the 10-12 baseball team. We had really bad storms that night and my commute was a disaster. It poured all through that area and I thought it was odd that the thing I saw appeared to be dry, at least the fur was. ","Franklin Parker Preserve, Speedwell Entrance. this all took place within a couple hundred yards of the parking area and gate.","Burlington County","New Jersey","Summer","Report 63235: Motorist spots juvenile sasquatch near Speedwell entrance to Franklin Parker Preserve",39.7784,-74.54086,"2019-06-20",63235.0,"Class A","dr4frc3jbp",85.53,77.185,68.84,72.68,0.91,0.78,0.62,0.0334,0.88,"rain",1001.4,"Rain and humid throughout the day.",6.0,7.005,202.0,4.13,"RES.SEASON"], [923,3673,"This is to document my experience on Sunday, June 6, 2021. Something woke me up from dreaming. I was dreaming I was trying to sleep but there was noise outside so in my dream I got out of bed and went to my window and pulled back the curtain. I started tapping on the window to let whoever was outside know they were being noisy and disrupting my effort to try to sleep. After my third tap on the window, I woke up from my dream and realized I had to go to the bathroom. I got up and made my way to the toilet. My bedroom window was open and my bathroom window was open. Just before I flushed, I heard a faint noise, and I started to think it was a motorcycle coming around the bend on the highway, and in that second I thought to myself “Who would be riding a motorcycle this early in the morning?”. Then, the noise got louder and drawn out, and had a deep vibrating howl, and then it stopped. I realized then that it was something I have never heard before and it was not human. It sounded like it was on one of the mountains behind my house. Afterwards, I noticed there were no dogs barking, not even my dogs, and there weren’t even any crickets. It was dead silence outside. I was telling myself, oh my god, did I just hear what I think I heard? I headed back to bed and noticed the clock said 3:33am. I asked my husband if he was awake. He had been snoring when I was in the bathroom. I told him I had just heard something. I explained the sound to him and I said I think it was a Bigfoot. I could not believe what I had heard. I could not sleep for over an hour, and we laid in bed waiting for more howling but there was none. The next day when I told everyone in the house, nobody had heard it. Later Sunday morning, I used my cell phone to google different animal sounds to try to find the same howl I heard. I tried Mountain lion, Wolf, Fisher, Fox, and none of them are in the least bit similar. Then, I googled Bigfoot howls. Oh my god! The 1994 Ohio Moaning Howl is almost exactly what I heard. I got chills when I listened to it. I played the recording to my household, and my oldest adult son recognized the sound also. He as well as a few of his friends have had a few experiences too, including a rock being thrown at him. He has the rock in his bedroom. I phoned my other family members and told them what I experienced and my mom told me that there was a post on facebook about a week earlier from someone that lives a few blocks away from me. She was returning home late at night near the local dump (between Hoopa and Willow Creek, California). Apparently, she thought she saw something near the highway and so did the car behind her as the other car turned around and drove back. This location is only a couple of mountains away from where my home is located. I figure the Bigfoot traveled to Hoopa from the dump site. I have lived in this area (Weitchpec and Hoopa, CA) almost my entire life and I have never, ever heard such a howl. I think about the experience daily, but I actually feel fortunate to have witnessed this rare creature howling. Debbie Bailey","Hoopa, CA: Heard from Shoemaker Road","Humboldt County","California","Spring","Report 69315: Possible \"Ohio howls\" heard on Hoopa Indian Reservation",41.0312,-123.669,"2021-06-06",69315.0,"Class B","9r213vdbp6",66.99,55.69499999999999,44.4,47.15,0.78,0.5,0.9,0.0002,0.03,"rain",1015.3,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",7.0,9.981,301.0,5.63,"RES.SEASON"], [924,2929,"I saw the story about the BFRO on animal planet's Animal X show and the tape recorded \"calls\" you were using to attract Sasquatch was exactly what I heard about while camping on Lake Cle Elum in central Washington state. My Mom and i had gone camping for the weekend and Saturday morning she claimed she heard the most terrible screaming sound the night before that lasted a few hours.I'm a heavy sleeper so I told her to wake me up if the sound continued that night as well. Around four in the morning she woke me up and told me to listen. It wasn't long before I heard the screaming that sounded like nothing either of us had heard before. It was also very very loud. We left the tent and everyone around us in all the other campsites was awake too.The sound was exactly what I heard on your recording. A chill still runs down my spine when I hear it.","from Cle Elum, drive ten miles northwest on highway 903, then turn west on forest service road 112","Kittitas County","Washington","Summer","Report 1996: Screams wake campers on consecutive nights at Cle Elum Lake",47.2842,-121.0777,"2004-10-16",1996.0,"Class B","c23uuzcfmj",53.42,49.855,46.29,46.86,0.88,0.98,0.09,0.012,1.0,"rain",1002.24,"Light rain in the morning and overnight.",2.0,1.99,261.0,1.57,"RES.SEASON"], [928,2655,"Friday Oct 22, 9:40 pm I had just left our local school homecoming football game in Springdale Washington, with 2 of my children and a friend of theirs (2 High School freshman and a mid schooler). We were driving south on Highway 231 and as we approached Sanctuary Way (47.9763678, -117.7323568) just off the highway in the ditch I noticed a very large black \"thing\" in the tall yellow, uncut grass. I initially thought it may be a black wolf, so i slowed down and stared at it as we approached. By the time we drove to it, we were traveling about 35-40 MPH. As we reached it I was in shock and amazement as it was an ape like figure hunched down in the ditch staring right at me. From the crouched position he/she took two steps away from the road. It was almost as it was slow motion as it felt our eyes were locked and its head was on a swivel as we rolled by. I wished I had slammed on the brakes but we had 2 cars behind us and I was literally shocked. We turned at the first turnout available 60 yards up the road) let the cars go by and returned to the location but did not see or hear anything at all. I am still perplexed at this sighting as I clearly seen everything from Face, Head, Arms, Legs etc. They were all very well defined and covered with short hair/fur (with the exception of the lower forehead, eyes and nose.","Highway 231 and Sanctuary Way Intersection Google Maps pin (copy and paste into browser): https://goo.gl/maps/iRUy4Uj95DTs91sd8","Stevens County","Washington","Fall","Report 71773: Nighttime motorist sighting 25 miles NW of Spokane",47.97637,-117.7324,"2021-10-22",71773.0,"Class A","c2s2bvvfs5",52.96,47.195,41.43,47.16,0.92,0.97,0.58,0.0141,0.94,"rain",1007.7,"Light rain throughout the day.",2.0,9.247,159.0,5.14,"RES.SEASON"], [934,4640,"To be honest, I’m very reluctant to submit this report but the pictures and details are simply too compelling to ignore. Two months ago my wife and I purchased five acres of rural, wooded property here in Massac County, Illinois. I mow approximately two acres of this ground, with the rest of it being heavily wooded. I know nothing about Botany, so I can’t describe the vegetation on the property outside of an Oak and/or Silver Maple trees. Just take my word for it – it’s thick with trees and underbrush. On May 3rd at 6:15p.m., my wife, myself, and my two boys sons went out to this new property to have a picnic at the cabin. I was half-way down the hill toward the cabin when my wife yelled, “Oh my gosh! Look at this - look at this!” She was up the slope close to our parked trucks, staring at the ground. I walked back up to her position and she was staring at this print on the ground (pictures attached). I had, evidently, walked right over the track without noticing. I then searched the radial area around the track and found two more partial impressions. Growing more suspicious caused me to search the “bottoms” behind the cabin. I found a strange tree structure and photographed that, as well. Listen, I’ve got a BS in Management Communication and am pursuing a Masters in Theology. I am also a local minister, so my credibility is at stake. I would never consider fabricating a story, much less a story like this one. Now, we’ve got to use a little critical thinking, but this is where logic and reality seem to be in opposition. What makes a print like the one we’ve found on our property? There’s two plausible possibilities; (1) A very large, very heavy man or woman – with a 14+ inch foot - is walking around out in the cool spring air with no shoes, trespassing on private property, out in a rural part of the country, risking arrest or a bullet. Or (2), ? I asked a good friend of mine, and member of the church, to take photos of the print using his 10 mega-pixal camera – the photos are truly incredible. He took several photos, including a “foot-in” and “foot-out” to show scale, two with a tape measure, one showing depth, and photos of the area via Google earth.","(please do not post location online)","Massac County","Illinois","Spring","Report 29227: Possible footprints found near Metropolis",37.2276,-88.7584,"2011-05-03",29227.0,"Class B","dn8gu3047r",64.77,50.875,36.98,41.71,0.68,0.5,0.01,0.0127,1.0,"rain",1022.73,"Light rain in the morning.",9.0,9.38,332.0,4.34,"RES.SEASON"], [944,516,"I was walking home from a friends house. I decided to walk the road home instead of cutting through the \"dark scary\" woods. I was about 100 yds from my friends house when I got that strange hair raising feeling. I looked up on the hill to my right and I saw the silhouette of what looked like a man standing in the scrub-brush. Now I've hunted this scrub brush many many times and very rarely could I see over the top of it. What I saw was what looked like a man standing in the brush with his top half protruding above the top of the brush. This as you may have guessed scared the hell out of me. Ironically I think it was just as scared as I was, because at just about the same time we both took off in opposite directions.","Relatively undeveloped country setting. Near intersection of Sunnybrook Rd and Saxe Road.","Portage County","Ohio","Summer","Report 4969: Silhouette seen protruding above brushline near Mogadore Reservoir.",41.06499,-81.3741,"1983-07-31",4969.0,"Class B","dpq1s79hyh",82.39,75.375,68.36,68.27,0.8,0.86,0.71,0.0663,1.0,"rain",1018.24,"Heavy rain until afternoon, starting again in the evening.",4.0,3.96,191.0,6.2,"RES.SEASON"], [956,336,"I submitted this report, I thing back in october(i think) and did not see anything posted or had any contact and omitted my phone number as no one in my household has been told of this story but will resubmit fully. I'm unsure of exact year but I had returned to the area in june of 2000 and I think it happened the following fall of 2000 or 2001. Me and a buddy(him driving) were out driving backroads spotting deer as it was near hunting season if I recall correctly. We often drove the backroads out here doing just that......spotting wildlife. It was roughly around 1AM. We were heading south on Foster Valley Road in Tioga county New York and approaching one of the main country roads(Day Hollow Road) and were within 1/2 mile of it......or there abouts, traveling about 30mph. As we were approaching the S's we could see the approaching lights of an oncoming car. Their headlights would have shined away to the uphill side (east side) of the road and they might not have even seen the creature due to location, light direction and visible location in the turns. We passed the car at about the same time we passed the creature and the headlights kind of obsured my vision of the creature but my buddy was focused on it and says he was not so bad and he probably got a more vivid look than I did as i lost good clear vision due to eye adjusting to the oncoming glare. The road is a bit windy and as your approaching Day Hollow there is a couple of slight switch back \" S \" turns. When heading south, right along that section there is a very steap bank at road edge to your right side with no guardrail and bank at it's highest might be 15 feet and drops down to a slightly tree'd slightly open flat so to speak. A person could easily jump from the road and land in the flat it is that steap. The S turns are just about as perfectly inbetween the two closest houses to the area. There are NO street lights in that section and a very dark section it is. Due to the direction we were traveling and location of the headlights. Well we could see \"something/someone\" standing right on the edge of the road but on the bank. This bank is extemely short and steap. I would think it be a challenge for any person to stand or climb that bank but here is what we thought of as a person standing right there. It was DIRECTLY infront of us and we could see that it was looking at the other approaching car even though it's headlights were not even close to being fixed on it. We spotted this \"person\" probably around 50 yards away so we had some time to try and focus. Even though the encounter actually happened within a short time frame I can look back on it as if it was slow motion and is permanently engrained in my mind. As we approached this creature we didn't realize what it was or how big it really was till just after passing it. The comments inside the truck were kinda humorous and no offense is intended towards anyone peron inparticular but kind of go along with the sighting. Now the location of this thing in relation to the road and time of occurance was quite quite a dangerous spot for a \"person\" and most people would have probably stepped back away from the road but keeping in mind one step back is about 6 feet down easy. The comments as we approached were with some explitives and without being offensive here something like..... Holy cow, what kind of idiot would be standing there dressed in all black hooded sweatshirt. I don't know but they better step back. Damn it looks like one BIG woman(torso completely visible and appeared large chested with what I'd figure as breasts) Ya and why she all dressed in dark with a hooded sweatshirt on(looking back on it now I'd give a smoked charcol dark grey) Damn they better step back if they don't wanna get hit(we actually slowed a bit due to oncoming car and passing at location of creature so we needed the full road and edge of shoulder to pass the car) The creature seemed to be looking more at the other vehicle and didn't turn to look at us till we were just about to hit/pass. She wasn't maybe five feet from the side of the truck and I looked her in the face out the side window as passing. At that moment we both got a decent look at her face. When she turned to look at us she kind of turned her torso and body with the head to do so. She was obviously big and even though she was standing on the bank, i'd have to say that we saw about 5 feet of the creature from about waist to high upper upper on up and looking back on it now and knowing the bank that she probably had about 4 feet we couldn't see below the bank edge. Her arms wer almost to the level of the road. As we passed and got a glimps of her face the comments continued and were something like....... OH MY GOD is she butt ugly. Ya she is, she had a pig face, did you see that snout of a nose(there was no snout at all but a large very wide open nostraled slightly upturned nose). Man is she ugly, she looks like she got beat with a couple ugly sticks out here in the woods. Ya she sure as hell has one hell of an ape face. At that moment, with the ape face comment. both of us turned to each other to see the expression on each others faces as the realization of what we may have just passed WAS. We did not turn around. we did not go back to look ...... I honestly didn't want to. The reason I say hooded sweat shirt is..... well we've all seen people with one on and we all know how they kind of have a pointed head where the hood is sown together. well she had the same kind of coned head. We didn't realize we were looking at hair and not a sweat shirt. She had a humanish face but man for a human she was very very hampered in the looks department. She was definitely what I would call breasted and large roundish belly and large torso and had to be all of 8 feet if not bigger.","Go out Day hollow Rd from Endicott NY about 10 to 15 minutes and foster valley is a right hand turn off of day hollow. the sighting occured about 1/4 mile from day hollow.","Tioga County","New York","Fall","Report 10136: Close roadside observation of female upright animal along country road",42.1174,-75.64853,"2001-10-22",10136.0,"Class A","dr6pwe4rtk",54.17,49.21,44.25,44.82,0.77,0.75,0.2,0.0038,1.0,"rain",1019.12,"Light rain in the afternoon.",3.0,9.16,339.0,1.84,"RES.SEASON"], [958,2061,"While predator calling this date, I was targeting bobcats with an electronic call. (I mention this because with this particular call, only a bobcat would be expected to respond. A fox, coyote, coon, etc. would not respond to this call.) After about 10 minutes of calling, I heard a sound from behind me that I could not identify. I was using a varmint light, which has a red filter. This light is not normally readily seen by predators. I shined the light toward the sound, and saw what I thought was a bear. It was dark in color, but everything was either light or dark because of the red filter. I have hunted in the West several times, and seen many bears. I initially thought that's what this was. But as stated earlier, a predator does not respond (normally) to this light. But this animal did. It stood up and moved away very rapidly on it's two \"hind\" legs. While on all fours, it appeared to be a bear. Upright, it appeared to be around 5-foot tall with a fairly large stride. I wasn't able to notice any other details because of the light source and because of how quickly it moved off. Bears do not move great distances on their hind legs, and especially not rapidly. It made this sound continuously as it moved away, gradually decreasing in volume until I couldn't hear it any longer. I'm not sure what this was, but I'm quite certain what it was not, and it was not a bear, a hog, or any other animal native to this area. After a recent conversation with Daryl Colyer, he and Craig Woolheater encouraged me to make this report. I did not do so earlier because I simply had no idea there was a possiblilty this could have been a bigfoot-type animal. Should there be any follow-up, I'd like to request Daryl Colyer as the investigator.","Creeks and ponds in the area.","San Jacinto County","Texas","Winter","Report 10591: Predator caller has night time encounter in Sam Houston National Forest",30.63333,-95.3,"2004-01-08",10591.0,"Class A","9vknr2ssj4",55.45,49.89,44.33,47.35,0.95,1.0,0.53,0.0104,1.0,"rain",1021.92,"Rain until afternoon.",3.0,4.46,98.0,0.89,"RES.SEASON"], [960,4028,"my sighting happend in Land O Lakes Florida in July of 2006, It was around 10:30 at night and there was another car infront of us we were driving down parkway it has wooded areas on both sides one side being a 30k acre nature preserve. the other side bieng a 500 acre orange grove. we were following the car down the road to the nieghborhood 3miles away whenall of a sudden the car infront of us slammed on its breaks and we pulled up behind. and inour healights about 25yards infront of the truck there was manlike object walking acorss the two lane road it was about 8-9 feet tall and its arms went down to is kneecaps it was really dark but we could see almost all of its side. It also had a really strong musk we could even smell it after it was gone the bigfoot walked acorss the road and put its hand on a bob wire fence pole and broke off the top of the pole and walked over the fence and disappeared, we went back the following day and saw the fence post broke the bob wire fence bent like it may have been stepped on and and all the brush was broken down going into the woodline we didnt go any further thenthat.","about 2 miles before pine view middle school facing ehren cutoff","Pasco County","Florida","Summer","Report 15361: Nighttime sighting by motorist near Land O'Lakes",28.252,-82.44749,"2006-07-27",15361.0,"Class A","djj2ez5ef4",91.09,81.985,72.88,73.15,0.79,0.35,0.08,0.0103,0.58,"rain",1018.66,"Rain in the evening.",9.0,9.38,104.0,0.77,"RES.SEASON"], [975,480,"I had fed deer out on our property for about 2 years. One day my girlfriend and I were back along the gas well road that brings you about 2000 feet off the main road. I was checking to see if the deer had been eating the cracked corn I left them. Most of the corn had been eaten. I turned around to look back towards my truck and next to the gas well road was a large tree that was about 30 feet off the road. Next to the tree was a very tall, wide shouldered, very built, dark brown, hairy creature standing next to it. The creature had pushed a fairly large branch away from its face so that he could watch us. All I could do was stand there for a few seconds which seemed like hours staring back at the creature. My girlfriend finally asked what are you looking at which made me quit staring. All I could say was get in the truck.","Near the Intersection of Route 45 and Gladstone Road","Mahoning County","Ohio","Spring","Report 25724: Possible sighting at dusk on family property outside Youngstown",41.12884,-80.85832,"2006-04-01",25724.0,"Class B","dpq9bp2bbe",53.04,46.8,40.56,45.03,0.75,1.0,0.12,0.001,1.0,"rain",1013.39,"Overcast throughout the day.",4.0,8.65,266.0,5.59,"RES.SEASON"], [981,4146,"September 11, 2016 at approximately 11:20AM My sister and I were traveling on CR 347 north of Cedar Key, a little north of SW 61st St. We were coming out of curve when we both saw something in the road ahead. It was a large creature, approximately 7 1/2, 8 feet tall covered with grayish black hair walking across the highway. It turned to look at us then quickly disappeared into the woods. There were no other cars around or houses nearby and the area was very wooded and swampy. If this was a hoax it was a great one! We called and made a report with Levy County Sheriff as soon as we got cell service.","Two lane county road","Levy County","Florida","Fall","Report 55574: Daytime road crossing seen by twin sisters near Cedar Key",29.23723,-83.00198,"2016-09-11",55574.0,"Class A","djhyr4rz1w",88.82,83.12,77.42,75.24,0.8,0.26,0.32,0.0012,0.47,"rain",1018.24,"Humid throughout the day and mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",8.0,9.73,134.0,2.1,"RES.SEASON"], [986,4945,"(Please excuse the old story, was not aware a site like this exsisted to record information, also, haven't told too many people...guess you can just imagine why...) April, 1990, rural Marshall County, I was attempting to make a residential delivery. While walking up the gravel drive I noticed a flock of birds flying overhead coming from the direction of a thick grouping of trees in the back of a field to my left. They were chattering loudly and flying wildly in what seemed to be a race. As they got closer I noticed that there were different speices flying together...Blue Jays, Caridnals, Black Birds, Finches, etc...This struck me as odd for a moment. When I reached the steps to the porch of the home I heard the thunder of hooves hitting the ground and turned and saw many horses that were in the field come running from the edge of the forest towards the house, they too where whinnying and making alot of commotion. Before I could really think anything about it, I saw several deer leeping from the thick trees and running thru the fields away from the same spot, and behind the horses. My first thought then was that there was a fire! I hurried to the residence door and knocked very hard and repeatedly, while scanning the sky for any signs of smoke. No one answered. Having delivered here before I thought the occupant might be around back in the barn so I left the porch and turned to walk in that direction, that's when I heard the most terrifying sound in my entire life that I knew could not have been human or from any known animal in this area. The sound came from the thick group of trees and echoed over the fields in thick vibrations. It was a mixture of a deep lions growl that hightened into a scream containing the same low, deep, loud rhythym. I stood stunned, half scarred and half curious. From the area of the trees where the sound traveled from was the figure of something very tall, very large in width and very strong, as some of the smaller pine trees about 10 to 15 feet in height were being shaken back and forth vigorously and violently. The figure itself was not totally visible but hidden mostly behind the shadows of the larger trees behind and around it. It was dark in color, guessing dark brown or black, with a thick furry outline. It looked to have stood well over 7 feet in height. It began moving along the edge of the trees towards the house, just keeping inside the safety of the shadows. The horses in the pasture where on the far right hand side now, rising up and hitting the fence with their hooves. This was too much excitement for me, and I turned to run to my truck. That hideous sound came thru the air again, but this time it was much closer than before, I quickly made it into the truck, started the engine and left very rapidly.(Half way expecting the engine to be flooded or the battery dead, like in some lame horror movie.) This event left me pretty shaken, but it was also my duty as a courier to return to the home the next day to reattempt the delivery. Upon reaching said home, I briefly explained to the occupant what occured the day before, expecting him to start laughing. To my surprize, he only agreed that there had been some strange sounds coming from 'those neck of the woods' lately, and that his horses were frequently 'spooked' by something in the area. He also stated that a friend of his had took his hunting dog back there a few weeks prior to this incident and that the dog took out after something, disappeared from sight, let out curdling yelping sounds, then went quiet. He said his buddy found what was left of the dog, it's head was not to be found, and that there had been a fowl ordor around the area at the time. He further insisted it was probably a 'bobcat' or something and never suggested anything else, except not to 'go in them there woods' by myself. Not to worry, I had no intentions of it.","Go west of Benton, Ky on Mayfield Hwy, also called Hwy 58, about 2 miles from the new 4 lane Hwy 641, turn right on Houser Rd, go another mile and turn left on Cole Cemetery Rd. The incident happened within 1/2 mile up rd. on the right hand side at a residence with a log cabin.","Marshall County","Kentucky","Spring","Report 317: Sighting by a courier near Benton, across from a log cabin on Cole Cemetery Road",36.8207,-88.41175,"1990-04-15",317.0,"Class A","dn91kph80g",54.15,48.2,42.25,43.41,0.89,0.74,0.67,0.003,1.0,"rain",1018.15,"Light rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",4.0,6.83,114.0,2.44,"RES.SEASON"], [988,3256,"This was years ago, probably 1994 or 95 but I lived in Arbor Glen Estates in Richwood, Kentucky. Back then it was a relatively new subdivision and our home backed up to a wooded area. My sighting was in the middle of the day. I was walking my dog, Charlie in the backyard and all of a sudden she stopped. I looked around and took note of the fence line right where she was looking and growling. It was straight in front of us. The bigfoot was about 50 feet in front of me on the other side of the fence line. We starred at each other for a few minutes. I had such a hold on Charlie's leash. After a few minutes of looking at one another, he turned an ran away. As soon as he turned, I turned, grabbed the dog and made a run for the house. I looked back just as I was almost in the house and he was gone. I distinctly remember the creature. He was tall. Well over 6ft high. He was an off white color with with fur that dangled a little bit (maybe 3-5 inches in spots). The face was a mix between human and primate. Not an ape, not a human dressed up. My father has also seen it. Off of Shady Lane in Crittenden, Ky. near a creek bed. Later that night I overheard him telling my mother about it. Crazy thing is, we seem to have seen the same type of creature. Both of our sightings were tall creatures and off white.","It was Arbor Glen Estates. Towards the back of the subdivision. I can't remember the exact house number. It is a ranch style house, and it used to have an above ground pool. There was a small creek that ran along the fence line.","Boone County","Kentucky","Summer","Report 24800: Woman remembers a shaggy white-haired creature watching her while she walked her dog outside Richwood",38.90649,-84.67017,"1994-07-15",24800.0,"Class A","dngv369ndp",79.08,71.695,64.31,71.09,0.93,0.74,0.24,0.0542,1.0,"rain",1017.7,"Heavy rain in the afternoon.",5.0,4.49,203.0,5.34,"RES.SEASON"], [1001,4070,"hi my name is eric and i felt i needed to write this.me and 3 friends were camping in richlom wild life management area on labor day weekend we were just sitting around the fire when all of the sudden i noticed it got very quiet and all the bugs disappered then we haerd what sounded like a tree being up rooted so we grabbed the spotlight and started searching what it was we found a good sized pine tree half pushed over then we sat back down and as soon as we did we haerd a very very odd growl then we stood back up and started panning the spotlight when we saw a very hairy 11ft object we stood motionless as we looked at it then it darted off and then thats when i left camp site and went home my number is *** *** **** if you have any questions thank you.","take hwy 50 west till baylake on left drive till you hit the woods drive till you hit the 4 way take a right follow till 2nd camp on left.","Sumter County","Florida","Summer","Report 28237: Weekend camping trip in the Green Swamp is interrupted by a hairy, bipedal intruder",28.50566,-81.97483,"2010-09-05",28237.0,"Class A","djjdnt7c80",89.21,82.3,75.39,74.45,0.83,0.49,0.9,0.0015,0.36,"rain",1015.01,"Humid and mostly cloudy throughout the day.",8.0,9.32,304.0,0.46,"RES.SEASON"], [1003,2371,"On September 9, 2015, I was driving down 43 (W) outside of Bedford, Virginia at 11:38PM when I saw to the right side of the road, walking away from the road, a Bigfoot with child. It was next to the mail box for 4472 on 43, where there is a gravel poured drive. At first I thought it was a deer, about same coloring, but as I got closer I noticed it was not a deer at all, it was much taller, about 6 ft., from the hips down. As I got closer it appeared the Mom (I assume that since there was a baby with it) put the baby down and was bending over for rocks? At that time the baby looked right at me and it looked just like the Wukie (?, the furry, hairy creature) on Star Wars and it had a brown looking nose. The baby seemed as surprised to see me as I was them, I guess WE look like aliens to them. The baby was about 3 ft., it hit the mom at mid thigh. I painted circles around the footprints I found the next day, 3 prints, with about a 36” stride. The first print you come upon is the best, prints are difficult to produce in gravel, but the first one is in fine gravel. There are two circles next to each other where it appeared the mom put the baby down. They were headed into the woods and although there are deer around, there was a path worn in that direction. I reported this to the local Police dept and it was ignored, basically, they did not bother to even look at the prints. The guy who took my report said, \"In ten years, I have never heard of such around these parts.\"","It was on the mailbox side of address 4472 on Route 43, the prints are still there in the gravel drive, next to the mailbox.","Bedford County","Virginia","Fall","Report 49746: Motorist observes an adult Bigfoot with a baby cross the road at night North of Bedford",37.38661,-79.55045,"2015-09-09",49746.0,"Class A","dnxkty10u1",86.23,78.2,70.17,68.74,0.8,0.34,0.89,0.0002,0.24,"rain",1014.02,"Partly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",6.0,9.93,228.0,0.1,"RES.SEASON"], [1007,1386,"Had a sighting yesterday. Oxford County, Maine. Was in the power lines clearing that runs through a friends land cutting a downed tree out of the atv trail. Was with 2 friends who asked me how far the land goes and if anyone lives down there. They had a sort of 1000 yard stare down the power lines. I look up to see what they were looking at and about 200 yards down the powerlines we see a massive bipedal creature walking towards us. It stopped when it noticed us and took a fast left turn into the woods. From the power lines to the road is roughly 400 ft of woods and has a trail about 30 feet behind where we saw the creature that goes straight to the road. I jumped on the 4 wheeler and made a straight shot down that trail to the road to try and get a closer view. It was completely gone. Made 400 ft through the woods and across the road out of sight in less than 2 minutes. While investigating the sand on the side of the road for prints we heard a short howl followed by 2 sets of 3 tree knocks.","[ 44.348740, -70.618439 ]","Oxford County","Maine","Fall","Report 66109: Multi-witness daylight sighting along powerlines south of Bryant Pond",44.34113,-70.61507,"2020-09-26",66109.0,"Class A","drvu3059v9",77.86,67.355,56.85,52.63,0.76,0.16,0.35,0.0007,0.07,"rain",1018.3,"Clear throughout the day.",5.0,9.951,176.0,4.28,"RES.SEASON"], [1009,585,"I was at the back waters of Clendening lake near Cadiz, Ohio with my friend Cj and we heard a man-like scream. I know what coyotes, hoot owls, cows, raccoons, opossum, fox and most local animals sound like. We heard this scream about 3-4 times from multiple ranges. The first was within 100 yards and the next two were fairly distant. Cj answered the scream and the nearest location returned the call. After about five minutes of silence we returned to fishing. About five minutes later we heard a loud splash that resembled a dense object landing in the water. I've heard ducks landing and beaver tails slapping on the water and these did not resemble that. It happened about four more times, so we decided to pack up and leave. On our way out we stopped where the path to the fishing area met the road. My truck was 15 feet in front of me and a rock hit the water five feet from my truck which was parked next to the opposite side of the creek we were fishing. I yelled \"Who's out there?\" After about three minutes of listening we got to my truck and left.","[See graphic below with Long/Lat Coordinates]","Harrison County","Ohio","Spring","Report 34664: Fishermen describe nightime encounter at Clendening Lake near Buckeye Trail",40.24786,-81.15179,"2012-03-19",34664.0,"Class B","dpnkcqghf0",79.17,68.225,57.28,56.15,0.74,0.49,0.92,0.0182,0.9,"rain",1020.0,"Possible light rain in the morning.",6.0,2.105,190.0,1.42,"RES.SEASON"], [1029,922,"Nov 13th, 2006: 9:00 pm, dark, rainy and cold. My husband and I had just put our oldest son to bed, and were settling down to watch TV in our living room. My husband heard \"someone\" screaming \"bizarrely\", very loud far off across our lake, so he opened our back sliding door to get a better listen. That was when we both heard a, maybe 3 at a time, organized pattern of what can only be described as roaring screams. We knew immediately they were not human. I had heard the Klamath audio before and this made my hair stand on end because it was exactly the same. This animal was closer, just across a 6 acre or so lake/pond. We heard probably a total of 4, 3-at-a-time, scream patterns. The individual screams were alarmed, but not frantic. It seemed to be almost 'responding' to dogs barking. The 'runs' were all about .5 - 1 second apart. The interval in between patterns was probably 1 minute or so. All was quiet for about 3 minutes and somewhere in the dark across the lake we heard something very, very large and strong tussle successfully with a dog. At the end of the tussle the dog let out a sharp yelp and we heard a thud. At that point we (I flipped out) shut the door, locked all the doors, sawed a serious dowel for our back slider, turned on our kids white noise machines and went to listen from another part of the house. We heard a few more screams but it sounded farther away at this point and then seemed to go away. Whatever tangled with that dog was extremely fast, extremely large and very strong. Based on what we heard, it sounded like the creature must have either approached or walked past a tied up dog. We heard a quiet small scuffle probably as the dog tried to bite it. Then an enormous amount of thudding, bushes rustling, and a loud pained yelp and a thud. All was quiet after that and we heard some quiet splashing in the lake. The splashing could have been disturbed waterfowl, however. It was pitch black and we were looking out our back sliding doorway into the blackness basically just trying to listen when this occurred. The tangle with the dog occurred about 3 minutes after we heard the vocalization pattern. In total, the vocal pattern seemed to be moving slowly from the northwest end of the lake to the northeast end, where we believe the dog incident occured. I have a BS in zoology from the University of Washington and a considerable amount of outdoors experience. I have heard all different types of animal calls, screams, etc... I'm even quite good at discerning the subtle differences between a Beluga whale click and a porpoise call. I have perfect pitch and a well trained ear from years of classical voice training. This was most certainly a primate type call, almost with a Siamang type quality to it. It was most definitely not human, and I'm certain it was not any other animal common around our area (coyote, deer screaming in pain, rabbit, fox, racoon, other). It was extremely similar to the Klamath falls recording only louder and closer, and it scared me more than anything I've ever encountered. My husband and I discussed our observations at length. There is honestly no other explanation for this type of call and activity, though we understand how rare and extraordinary this must be because we live in a settled area near freeways and quite honestly we've never really considered \"bigfoot\" before much more than \"what a neat theory!\" Let me just state again that this was not human. Not even close. Even a human trying to imitate something like that would have had a 'narrower', more nasal sound as a human just doesn't have the head/throat size to accomplish such volume and tone. Further, it had a squeal and roar quality at the same time, like nothing I've ever heard except the various recordings, in particular the Klamath. Also a human scream would have had some identifiable emotion to it (drunk, scared, angry etc...) as humans we're quite good at picking up on tones of other humans. This had none of that. It was entirely foreign to us. Update: this morning as I look through my binoculars across the lake, exactly where we heard the dog tussle incident, the neighbor's canoe dock is destroyed. It looks to just be made of plywood but it's cracked and half-sunk as far as I can tell ","We are a quiet, rural neighborhood located south of Aurora, OR. Our neighborhood is rural/semi-rural surrounded by a lot of orchards and farms that stretch all the way down to Silver Falls to the south, the Cascades to the east and to the Coast Range to the west. We live on a small lake. The scream was coming from an area just on the north shore of the lake.","Marion County","Oregon","Fall","Report 16624: Couple south of Aurora hears repeated screams, encounter with dog.",45.11259,-122.7875,"2006-11-13",16624.0,"Class B","c208tukzgu",50.69,44.915,39.14,43.73,0.83,0.82,0.78,0.0079,0.86,"rain",1005.08,"Light rain in the afternoon and evening.",2.0,9.87,212.0,3.23,"RES.SEASON"], [1034,609,"I have had 2 experiences the first was in hunting season of 1995. While hunting with my friend out of a double tree stand my friend and I was waiting for our dad's to drive out the woods to us. At the same time a friend of ours was coming from around the opposite side of the hill. When he got to us we started to talk while waiting for our dad's to come through the woods. While we were talking we heard a very loud powerful scream come from the woods across the field from us. We had no idea what this could have been. Out of the three of us that witnessed this none of us had heard anything like that or wanted to go investigate what it was. We were scared even being armed with shotguns. Later we heard the ohio bigfoot recording howls and we agreed that it sounded identical. So we believe that we heard bigfoot years later. The second incident happened in the fall of 2002. My best friend and I were working on his wife's car and needed parts and it was getting late close to closing time for the parts store. So we took the back road to save time. While going down the road we came around a turn near the old coal mine scales and the headlights hit a bigfoot standing on the shoulder of the road. I slammed on the brakes and slide past it on the gravel road. I put the truck in reverse and looked at my friend and said did you see that? He looked at me wide eyed and said yes please keep going. I put the truck back in drive and drove off. We were quite shook up from the experience.","1995: Near Weems road train station 2003: Near Mingo sportsman's club","Jefferson County","Ohio","Fall","Report 49653: Two incidents, years apart, one auditory, one visual, near Smithfield",40.29771,-80.75612,"2020-08-14",49653.0,"Class A","dpnt4rgpnj",89.08,78.735,68.39,66.96,0.7,0.38,0.86,0.0006,0.19,"rain",1014.9,"Clear throughout the day.",9.0,10.0,88.0,4.96,"RES.SEASON"], [1035,4921,"This occurred in July 2006. I was on my way to work, it was approx, 4:30 AM in the morning. I was riding my motorcycle. I have a extra bright headlight on my motorcycle and I approached an area with a saw mill, I notice something squating beside the road. I slowed and passed this thing and was no more than 4 feet away. I looked right into its eyes and face. The hair was about 2.5 to 3 inches long, black and shiny. I know it was not any animal I had ever seen before. No Bear No Dog nothing. The height if this thing had it stood up would be at least 6.5 feet tall. I continue to ask myself did I just see what I thought I saw. I was to shook up to stop and double check of what I saw. I still to this day wish I had stopped and verified what I saw. Anyhow I still look for it whenever I am night riding.","about midway between calhoun, Ky and Beech Grove, Ky. On HWY 136, 3 miles SE of Beech Grove","McLean County","Kentucky","Summer","Report 22981: Motorcyclist has up-close sighting near Beech Grove",37.6095,-87.344,"2006-07-12",22981.0,"Class A","dn9vuqw51q",82.37,77.965,73.56,73.34,0.92,0.6,0.56,0.0324,1.0,"rain",1016.21,"Rain until afternoon, starting again in the evening.",6.0,8.4,202.0,4.53,"RES.SEASON"], [1048,361,"This is a follow up to my original message as I wanted to add some significant insight to an incident that occurred to me in 1960 at age 14. As I stated previously stated I was a caddy at the time and the foursome I was with was just walking off the green of hole 13 on the private course Club in Syracuse, New York. As I was walking across the green to replace the pin I heard something falling through a tree directly across from me. You could hear it pass through the tree as the boulder made its descent to the ground. The large rock almost hitting one of the golfers. There was much consternation over this and it was automatically assumed that it came as a result of blasting at General Crushed Stone located behind the golf course on Rock Cut Road. I never heard a blast but there could be no other explanation as large rocks don't just fall out of the sky. However, the rock being hurled into the air by a dynamite blast at the quarry just doesn't hold up in many ways. First off my friend's father worked at the quarry at the time and he said blasting was not large enough to propel a single rock that far as the charges used to quarry the limestone were not that great. Plus this was a single large boulder if it was a blast there would be a shotgun type of pattern of smaller rocks with it, not just one rock sailing into the air. Secondly, the rock that I saw was not a freshly quarried rock which would be gray in color this rock was a surficial rock that was stained from the soil it did not come from a blast site. The boulder was at least 20 pounds in weight and 4\" by 8\" and 3\" thick. It was flat on the top and bottom and stained a yellow brown color as is common of rocks on the surface in that area. However, this rock came down out of the sky vertically as you could tell by the sound of it falling through the entire tree, cutting branches and leaves as it fell it had to have been lifted quite high into the air to come down vertically like it did. It did not smash into the tree on a horizontal trajectory and bounce off the tree. As I stated previously at the end of the game I met up with my friend who lived on Rock Cut Road at the time as we were going swimming in the spring fed wash ponds at the quarry. The way to get there was to go back to hole 13 and cross the fence into General Crushed Stone property. We were trespassing which at the time we didn't acknowledge. We stopped and I showed my friend the rock that came out of the sky and both of us believed that it had to have been a blast at the quarry. We walked on down a grade on a path and that is when we heard a guttural growl off to our left. It was a fearsome growl and I for one shot off down the hill as fast as I could go. We assumed it was an animal. However, what animal growls at a human when the human is not confronting it or even knows it is there? I don't know of any and I certainly don't know what type of animal living in Central New York would or could make itself know in a threatening manner. Normally animals of all type will shun and form of human contact or confrontation. This occurred no more than 100 feet from where the rock had landed under the tree. Plus if you were to place a clock face over the tree that the rock fell through and draw a line out from where the rock had landed which was between the 3 and the 5 those two lines would encompass the vicinity of where the growl came from. As I have stated I never saw anything out of the ordinary and was certainly not aware of \"Bigfoot\" or anything like it being seen in New York State. I had heard of the \"Abominable Snowman\" but that was worlds away. I can't say this is a \"Bigfoot\" encounter, however, two events occurred that is very similar to what others have experienced in Bigfoot sightings. The large rock being hurled at individuals and done so to scare more than injury plus the deep growl the likes of which I had never heard before or since and couldn't to this day equate it to one particular animal. The only thing I am sure of is two events separated in time by only a couple of hours still stand out in my mind these many years later as if they occurred today.","On the border of a Country Club and General Crushed Stone behind hole 13 of the gold course.","Onondaga County","New York","Summer","Report 57998: Strange occurrences remembered that happened at a golf course in Syracuse",43.00972,-76.10047,"2017-10-06",57998.0,"Class B","dr9usm9mf8",66.18,63.83,61.48,55.94,0.88,0.91,0.53,0.002,0.95,"rain",1018.13,"Light rain in the morning.",3.0,9.85,218.0,0.17,"RES.SEASON"], [1075,4445,"I took my son Myles fishing behind Sundown Mountain ski resort. We turned west off of Asbury road on to Twin Springs Drive, where there is access to the stream. I had been promising my son some night fishing. We sat on a couple of buckets facing south, to the rock out cropping and wooded area across the creek. We were fishing in the deeper water across the creek near the rocks. We heard sticks breaking and rustling which I assumed were coons, as this is a good coon area. Then we noticed something larger coming toward the other side of the creek from a distance. Thinking that this is one of many deer that we often see, thought nothing of it until we caught sight of it in the back-light of the city or moon from the other side of the hill we were facing. This was a large bipedal animal, very unlikely to be a person, this time of night without a light (although we were fishing without a light source also). It came up to the top of the rock out cropping direct across from us and stood between two trees. It then squatted down and just sat there watching us. My son was scared, and I was intrigued. Within 10 minutes another came to join the first to his right and stayed just across a ravine. No more than 6 minutes later another came from the south, just to the left of the one squatting across from us. As this one got close, it let out a piercing shriek. Nothing like the calls that are heard on the TV shows. This was high pitched and frightening. The other two took notice and began to move toward the shrieking Squatch. At this point we had had enough and grabbed our fishing gear and ran back to the truck. The GPS location is as follows: 42.514765,-90.842826","Public access area, secluded, running water, and wooded","Dubuque County","Iowa","Fall","Report 36514: Father and son are approached by three large bipeds while fishing at dusk west of Asbury",42.50969,-90.84215,"2012-09-21",36514.0,"Class B","9zx3ufdubk",55.29,47.64,39.99,46.03,0.83,0.82,0.21,0.0094,1.0,"rain",1012.15,"Light rain until afternoon.",4.0,9.5,86.0,0.12,"RES.SEASON"], [1077,2895,"I was lying in bed, trying to go to sleep, when I heard an unusual sound from outside through my partly-opened window. It sounded like a cross between a person moaning, a dog howling, and a cat growling (the timbre was human-like and in human vocal range, it was a high-to-low pitch sound like a howl, and there was a hint of growliness underneath that sounded like an angry cat, but much larger). It sounded almost like someone moaning \"booooooo\". The \"b\" sound was faint, but definitely present. Each vocalization was about 5-6 seconds in length, with about 5 seconds between each. It didn't seem very loud, but it also was not faint. I listened for several seconds, then got out of bed to peek out the window. My front yard is well-lit by a streetlight, but I didn't see anything. I have very bad eyesight, though, so after looking and listening for a minute and seeing nothing obvious, I went to get my glasses. I noticed my cat was staring at the window very intently, not moving. Normally when he hears a noise outside he will ignore it, glance over casually, or watch intently with his tail switching. He didn't move a muscle. I looked out the window, through the blinds, with my glasses on but still saw nothing. Being very familiar with the noises of dogs, cats, and coyotes (howling, fighting, mating, growling, etc.), I was spooked when I could not place the sound. The next day I also looked up sounds for different types of owls, bears, and large cats--no matches. I went to my parents' bedroom to wake up my mom. My bedroom is at the front of the house, and theirs is at the back (both on the 2nd floor). I was shocked to hear the noise just as clearly from their room, echoing around the neighborhood. From my room it just didn't seem that loud. This makes me wonder if whatever was making the noise was really at the front of the house, or if it was elsewhere in the neighborhood and the sound carried. By the time I awakened my mom I had been hearing the sound for about 4-5 minutes, at fairly regular intervals of no more than 10 seconds. When she got up I told her to listen to the noise and asked her to come to my room (since I still thought the creature might be visible from my window). She went to the window and quickly pulled up the blinds and opened the window (which made quite a bit of racket). We saw nothing, and the noise immediately stopped. I never heard it again that night, or any night after. It was somewhat simliar to the Mississippi recording. If my neighborhood were in a more sparsely populated area, I would probably be much more certain of the possibility that it was a sasquatch.","Neighborhood is near Marymoor Park (640 acre county park), which is linked by sparsely populated, wooded areas to the Cascade foothills about 10 miles away.","King County","Washington","Fall","Report 17847: Possible late night vocalizations heard outside Redmond",47.6597,-122.105,"2005-10-12",17847.0,"Class B","c23pjkjvgk",57.53,54.685,51.84,47.54,0.79,0.74,0.33,0.0019,1.0,"rain",1019.24,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",2.0,10.0,160.0,2.08,"RES.SEASON"], [1089,210,"It was about three or four months (April or May) ago in the late afternoon, about 5-ish when my brother and I and a few friends were hanging out on our back deck. My brother saw it first. I saw nothing until my brother gave me a better point of reference, then I saw it. It was sitting on a large rock on the hill side, a grey ape-like creature. My brother went and grabbed his BB gun. He took a shot in the general direction of it. It was seated in profile to and turned its body to look at us. It then got up and climbed a large rock face (about six to ten feet high) behind it. It was climbing hand over hand like a man or ape would. Once it reached the top it walked off over the ridge and out of sight. It walked with a bit of a hunch, not completely upright like a man but not like any other animal I’ve ever seen. It was no bear nor a coyote.","(edited out - home residence)","Morris County","New Jersey","Spring","Report 12065: Group observes animal in daylight, one mile from Federal Hill near Riverdale",40.9934,-74.3249,"2005-12-10",12065.0,"Class A","dr71hww7b7",33.37,27.0,20.63,17.88,0.68,0.07,0.33,0.0001,0.13,"snow",1016.27,"Partly cloudy overnight.",2.0,9.52,229.0,1.71,"RES.SEASON"], [1095,4363,"My father died when I was three years of age. I was the oldest of four children. Our mother decided after the funeral that it would be best to move back home with her parents. This was in 1959. Years later in the early 60's, in the fall of the year all four of us were playing in the backyard. We had our first encounter with what we believed to have been a gorilla. It was underneath and inside the house's unfinished basement. I remember tossing rocks at it, but the very large animal only smiled. Being frighten half to death as kids we ran for our Mom. After returning to the scene there was no trace of a very large gorilla. Also later on through the years family members would come across very large foot prints and sometimes big red eyes looking in windows at night.","Near the intersection of Campbellton Rd. and County Line Rd.","Fulton County","Georgia","Fall","Report 6097: Man describes childhood sighting at rural property on the outskirts of Atlanta",33.70037,-84.53352,"1961-09-01",6097.0,"Class A","djgzsquwfh",87.26,78.05000000000001,68.84,70.23,0.81,0.84,0.73,0.0033,1.0,"rain",1018.23,"Rain overnight.",6.0,8.2,173.0,8.6,"RES.SEASON"], [1100,4244,"As told to the Investigator by the witness: \"I was driving south on Hwy 27 in Dade county. It was after 10:00pm, but before midnight. I saw a \"hairy man\" crawl from the water, stand up and walk across the road. He looked very human, in a distorted way, and was very large.\"","Highway 27 (Krome Ave) south of Tamiami Trail, but before Homestead.","Dade County","Florida","Spring","Report 49084: Memory told of a 'Hairy Man' crossing Hwy. 27 north of Homestead",25.54494,-80.47805,"1975-06-20",49084.0,"Class A","dhwc2dmdj9",82.06,77.32,72.58,72.87,0.85,0.77,0.4,0.0044,1.0,"rain",1017.89,"Rain in the afternoon.",5.0,7.63,128.0,1.53,"RES.SEASON"], [1106,2353,"This report was originally submitted by email and later investigated by telephone. \"I am a former United States Marine who in 2008 had a very compelling sighting of what can only be discribed as a Bigfoot. I am willing to tell my story once I am contacted and also I have two other US Marines that saw the same being. I can assure you that I am 100 percent honest with what I saw and that I can provide proof of my credentials and location.\"","Military Installation, during a training operation no one outside of the military had access to this location.","Caroline County","Virginia","Fall","Report 34337: Large man-like figure seen in the trees by a Marine training at Fort A. P. Hill",38.0735,-77.2265,"2008-11-15",34337.0,"Class B","dqc0dej6hn",73.87,56.585,39.3,58.67,0.85,0.92,0.59,0.028,1.0,"rain",1002.17,"Rain in the morning.",2.0,8.23,197.0,4.42,"RES.SEASON"], [1110,3699,"I left my parents house on my way back to NAS Lemoore, Ca. As my buddy and I were heading towards Gorman on 138 (Lancaster Road)between 200th street west and 280th street west, we both saw something to our right running through the desert. It had to have been 7 plus feet tall, thin and long stringy hair hanging off its body. Arms seemed long with a long stride. I didn't believe what I saw, about a minute later my buddy asked if I had seen something, I said yes. He then described exactly what I saw. It was dark and it really spooked us. We took off quick, to this day I know I saw something and it puts a chill down both our spines when we talk about it. Friends and family think I'm crazy, I know what I saw. Being much older now, I wish I would have gone back for proof, foot prints or something.","Area located between Highway 14 and Highway 5 on Highway 138 at the northwest end of the Antelope Valley in Los Angeles, County.","Los Angeles County","California","Unknown","Report 27177: Man remembers sighting while driving on a lonely dark two-lane road near Gorman",34.76666,-118.5834,"2010-01-22",27177.0,"Class A","9q5tv944qx",40.38,36.36,32.34,33.58,0.87,0.82,0.23,0.0056,0.86,"rain",997.54,"Light rain in the afternoon.",3.0,7.87,223.0,2.79,"RES.SEASON"], [1116,4300,"I am subitting this true report for my Cousin who I am very close to and keep in touch with regularly that lives outside of Gainsville, Florida, in Ocala County. She has told me this amazing story several times before, and she is a very trustworthy person. I strongly felt that this amazing encounter of hers should be reported, and she agreed. As she told me, it was a very clear morning. My Cousin was driving her and her younger Son to town on a narrow stretch of road near Gainsville, Florida, early one morning around 7:00 AM. She may have been taking her Son to school but I cannot remember. The narrow road she was on had swamps on both sides of it and looked messy. As she was driving along all of a sudden a hairy upright creature walked right up out of the swamp on one side of the road and continued walking out in front of her car, and then it just stopped. She immediately stopped the car just a few feet away from this thing not wanting to hit it, and just stared in shock at what she and her Son were seeing. The \"manlike\" creature had stopped in the middle of the road and was turned around looking directly at them, and they got a very good look at the whole body of the creature. The creature walked upright like a human with a gait and looked like a \"caveman,\" is the way she put it to me. The creature had hair all over its body except for around the eyes, nose, and mouth of its face. The most astonishing feature that she noticed though was that the creature was wearing some kind of \"animal skin\" for protection or something. She was in shock. This creature had to be intelligent to create and wear its own hand-made animal skin. The creature showed no aggressive behavior, and after a couple of minutes or so just casually walked back into the swamp on the other side of the road. The thing looked half human and half ape! The creature was about 7-8 feet tall as well. When she got home she told her Husband what had happened, and at first he didn't believe her. For further reference I can give you my telephone number so you can contact her in Florida. I am a true mystery writer, and just had to share this amazing story with you. I do know that these amazing creatures really do exist!","Very swampy area.","Alachua County","Florida","Summer","Report 27076: Woman has close daylight sighting while driving through Payne's Prairie outside Gainesville",29.58358,-82.33316,"2000-06-13",27076.0,"Class A","djm2q3wbf7",94.23,82.86500000000001,71.5,69.92,0.77,0.36,0.4,0.0032,1.0,"rain",1020.04,"Rain starting in the evening.",9.0,8.63,179.0,0.61,"RES.SEASON"], [1134,5001,"My sister and I, while traveling home through Wickliffe bottoms in Kentucky at night (apx. 2:30 am), observed a large object on the side of the road. As the headlights shined on the object and it became closer, we were both stunned at what we saw before us. My sister was driving and I was in the passenger seat. The creature was on my side and as the car passed it, I couldn't have been more than 2 to 3 feet from it's body. There was a large manlike creature with long, shiny dark hair covering it's entire body. With very distinctive muscle tone definition in it's legs and arms, this thing looked very strong. It's face was what startled me the most because it had human like features especially the eyes..not like any animals' eyes i'd ever seen before (and I've been a hunter all of my life). It was at least 8 foot tall because as we passed it, it's upper torso towered well above the top of the vechicle which was a Ford Escort. The creature was standing half in the ditch and half on the road as if it was trying to cross. And when it looked at us, it's eyes followed us as we passed. At this point, my sister and I remained silent for at least 3 to 4 minutes after we first laid eyes upon it, as if we were seeing something we shouldn't be seeing. Then I looked at my sister and she looked at me, simutaneously we said \"What the hell was that?\". As we got home, we spoke about it for the next 15 or 20 miles and decided how rediculous this must sound but we had thought we had just witnessed the wolfman. But make no mistake, it had the face of a man covered with hair, not the snout of a wolf. It was a frightening experience, yet an intriguing one that my sister and I will never forget and still talk about to this day.","Hwy. 121 heading toward Mayfield KY. Coming out of Wickliffe KY. What they call the Bottoms area in Ballard Co. Kentucky, approx. 20 miles distance to either Mayfield, or Wickliffe Ky.","Ballard County","Kentucky","Winter","Report 2363: Late night sighting by motorists along Highway 121",36.9372,-88.9949,"1993-01-20",2363.0,"Class A","dn8dnu5yu9",50.16,49.175,48.19,41.82,0.84,1.0,0.94,0.0197,1.0,"rain",1023.15,"Heavy rain in the afternoon and evening and breezy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",2.0,5.13,119.0,12.09,"RES.SEASON"], [1153,811,"It was dark. I was driving my truck going South on hwy.219 out of Hillsboro. I had the truck's bright lights on. I was scanning the countryside for wildlife as is my practice. I've seen hundreds of deer and a number of elk over the years.(Not necessarily in this location.) But, what I saw that night, made my mouth drop open. I saw a very tall, shaggy golden brown animal with two very long legs. Its' arms were hugging its' sides. It was standing as still as a tree as the headlights hit him. My first impression was \"THAT is the biggest deer I have ever seen in my life!\" But, even though it was looking directly into the headlights, the eyes were not reflective. It had no antlers, and as I got closer I saw that it didn't have hind legs or a horizontal body attached. It was taller than an elk and much, much taller than a white tail deer. I would estimate that it stood approx. 8' tall. It had a good build (well proportioned)The hair seemed to be about four inches long and covered all the body except for the eyes. The head was round on top with little or no neck. The face appeared flat and the nose was small enough not to be noticed. The hair had a slight wave to it. It did not lay flat. To tell the truth, it looked a lot like Chewbaca (sp?) from Star Wars. It was standing in a field about 2-3 pickup lengths from the road,facing the road at an angle in such a way that my headlights hit him straight on as I approached, and I could see him from the side as I passed him. I was going 55 MPH so I saw him for only seconds. But the image is etched in my brain! I've thought about this since the day it happened and can figure out nothing else that it could be other than a sasquatch. I finally decided to report it.","From Hillsboro, take hwy. 219 south. Jackson Bottom Slough is just a little ways past the railroad tracks. From the Jackson Bottom Slough sign, continue on hwy. 219 for exactly 1.5 miles to a field that is just opposite where Tongue Rd. intersects with 219. It is in that field that I saw what I believe was a sasquatch.","Washington County","Oregon","Fall","Report 1829: Motorist witnesses two-legged man-like creature in field just off Hillsboro highway",45.48204,-122.9903,"2000-10-15",1829.0,"Class A","c20d9rc0n6",57.19,53.49,49.79,43.69,0.88,0.61,0.58,0.0006,0.73,"rain",1019.22,"Light precipitation overnight.",2.0,6.17,98.0,0.43,"RES.SEASON"], [1173,4821,"hey i just happened to stumble upon this website. last year october 24 2009, me, my friend, and his dad where waterfowl hunting on monroe lake, in monroe county, we were set up on a peninsula on the farthest point with two small bays behind us to our right and left. we have gone to the peninsula before multiple times to waterfowl hunt.and we went out early morning when it was still dark. everything was normal. no birds flying though. so we were just stitting on our colapsable chairs facing the water looking by this time it was about 5 mins. after sunrise so still pretty dark. it was my friend on my right and his dad on my left, since we were shooting shot guns they were loud so i had ear plugs in. and then this extremely loud roar/ moan comes from the right bay. the moment i heard it i though it was a dog.. but it kept going and got even louder and then dropped to a very low moan/ growl . the roar / moan lasted about 8 to 10 seconds, keep in mind i had ear plugs in and i still heard that noise crystal clear. we all three stood up and just stood facing the other side of the right bay and didnt see anything ( only a beaver in the middle of the bay. the bay was about 60 yards across. me and my friend were terrified and had no idea what made that noise. not paying attention to hunting we stood there scared to death. now i need to ephasize the loudness of the roar it was extrememly extremely loud. and i looked over to my friend about 2 mins after the first noise. and i said man i wish we could hear it again. what do you know . we hear it again but it sounded much farther away. and sounded the exact same as the first noise. we were shocked . now us being hunters we knew just about any indiana wildlife there is to know about and all the noises they make. and what we heard that day was nothing like i have ever heard in my life. so then not hunting any longer we remainded standing there facing the right bay listening. we dont hear anything else. we didnt see and birds flying that whole morning so about 12 noon we pack up and start to walk back to where our car was parked about a 5 min walk with the gear so about 300 yards away. the path we took that morning was on the bank of the right bay... as you would think we kept our shot guns loaded on our walk back to the car.we pack up and get on our way. the spot we where in was not very populated at all there was a dnr check station about a mile down the road and some houses on the windie road back to bloomington. now if you know any thing about monroe are is how hilly it is and the questions we kept asking our selves was , what was that noise...? and how could if have traveled so quick to hear agian so far away? our gueses we made where - bared owl?, mule deer? dog? some sort of bear..? but we all quickly ruled out of the those. the closest was the dog. but the roar/ moan was so loud and the last 3 sec dropped to a low low growl/ mumble and no dog could make that loud of a howl of any sort. it wasnt till about half way through the 2 hour drive home to indianapolis. that my friends dad said it could have been some college kids joking around since it was around halloweenwith a mega phone. but then we said why would college kids be up at 630 go deep into monroe forest find 3 hunters in complete camoflauge and make that noise. just none of our guesses were making sinse with that noise we heard. its not till we got back to my friends house and got on the computer and immedialely started looking up moans and roars. none matched we tried every animal noise in indiana and then we were on youtube and a video popped up . the title said bigfoot noises and pictures . thats when me and my friend look at each other and said oh my god . quickly clicking on the video a picture of so called \"big foot' showed up and then a audio started. the noise on the video was EXACTILY the same noise we hear that morning hunting. then we go to another bigfoot recording . it was very similiar to what we heard, and another and another and all the videos we listnend to matched up just right with what we heard or very close to what we heard. now before this incedent we would always make fun of the bigfoot tv shows and the people who believe in big foot. but i do not make fun of that any more. me and my friend still talk about it today about what we heard on october 22 2009. me and my friend are both believers of big foot. or not big foot but some unknown creature that is out there and no one can seem to pin point what it is so they use the name \"bigfoot\" we never did go back to the peninsula on monroe lake that hunting year. but we did go back in october again this year to the same exact spot. we didnt hear anything but that time we didnt go back to the spot across the right bay to where we heard it and found no sign of anything out of the ordianry. it still remains a mystery of could have made that noise but as of now me and my friend both say what we heard was bigfoot. all i have said is completely true. i hope this was worth reading if you have any questions or comments on this my email is [removed] ( i would actually like if you did respond to this so i can hear what you guys have to say about my story) thanks","back on windie roads if not fimiliar with the area it will be very dificult to find.","Monroe County","Indiana","Fall","Report 28861: Loud, early morning vocalizations heard by duck hunters near Lake Monroe",39.02502,-86.49139,"2009-10-22",28861.0,"Class B","dnfqpb6chw",67.45,63.17,58.89,51.86,0.79,0.3,0.15,0.001,0.83,"rain",1014.28,"Rain overnight.",4.0,9.65,140.0,1.02,"RES.SEASON"], [1189,3268,"I've had two possible bigfoot encounters. The first occured in 1975 when I seven. My family lived at Little Rock AFB. At the time there were woods behind our house and a small lake as well. After school one day I was playing in my backyard. I looked up toward the woods and saw something squatting down next to a tree looking at me. It was covered in black hair except on its face and had as I remember a flattened nose and pointed head. I was stunned. I turned and ran into my house where I told my mom that I had just seen a gorilla. I knew that it wasn't a gorilla but that was the only thing I could think of to describe it. My mom thought I was playing around and didn't really believe me. When I looked back there again it was gone.","The incident was in Pulaski County. Even though it happened at a military installation there were plenty of woods behind our house.","Pulaski County","Arkansas","Summer","Report 10919: Youth has sighting from his backyard on Air Force Base",34.87,-92.12,"1975-09-15",10919.0,"Class A","9ynqrgbk2r",63.25,61.635000000000005,60.02,56.39,0.86,0.97,0.35,0.0246,1.0,"rain",1021.99,"Rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",4.0,6.19,17.0,3.96,"RES.SEASON"], [1201,642,"In late Aug or early Sep 1993, about 1000 to 1100 pm, an unidentified large furry head (filled roughly 75% of the window measuring 20\" by 30\", so estimate the head size at about 12\" by 18\") looked in the back door of my wife's sister's house. My wife, her sister, me, my daughter, and sister-in-law's daughter, all saw it. We hadn't realized what we had seen at first. When we saw it, we quickly let out their big dog and went outside where I immediately stepped into a big pile of fresh scat (looked and had texture similar to bear scat) and the area smelled sort of like a skunk was around the area. The night was warm and no jackets were needed. I don't remember much moon-light because it was very dark outside the glow of the small porch light. The animal head we saw looked sort of like a primates, a large head with 4-6 inches of long silvery or gray hair but I don't recall much detail of the nose or mouth at the time, only a huge head that filled the window of the door. It looked in for only about three seconds, until we all had looked back at it and it apparently left. It would have had to bend over to look in the window, since it was on the porch and the window is at the standard height. I didn't think to look into the trees, but the odor was still very present. We looked around, the girls yelling as if to scare away the intruder saying they would call the police. I knew, after stepping in the scat, it was an animal and after gathering my thoughts, felt it better to get the family inside. Also because the scat pile was fairly large, 6-7 inches diameter and about 3 inches high, thought it was a large animal but also knew from the head it was large. My father in law is 225 lbs., 5' 10\" and his head was only half as big as this. We didn't see or hear anything else. I didn't think to get a sample of the scat or look for footprints.","Donnels Creek runs north and south, paralleling North Hampton Rd. (edited)","Clark County","Ohio","Summer","Report 1750: Large furry head about 12\" by 18\" looked in the back door.",39.92104,-83.95184,"1993-09-15",1750.0,"Class A","dph71ekhum",70.17,59.995000000000005,49.82,56.51,0.74,0.86,0.98,0.01,1.0,"rain",1018.01,"Rain in the morning.",5.0,7.8,333.0,3.78,"RES.SEASON"], [1213,4201,"My husband and I have lived in Charlotte County FL our entire lives. We have camped with our families for over 40 years up the peace river (only accessable by boat) into Desoto county...After Hurrician Charley, We had gone early to set camp and meet friends. Later that evening, we heard an undescribable screem/yell/growl from somethin very big. Because of the number of alligators there, I at first thought an animal was getting bitten and dragged into the water as we heard water splashing and the yell continued and went from sounding hurt and suprised to angry and mad (I had heard for a long time that there was a big foot in that area, but have never heard, smelled, or seen anything...well into our 40's we never thought we would.) The yell lasted approx 5 seconds, going from something sounding like it was hurt fighting and then angry. It made our hair stand strait up. My husband immediately retrieved his gun, and we were very uncomfortable all evening. We have never heard anything like this before...until...we watched a special on bigfoot and the gentleman from florida stated he had audio. When we heard the audio, we both jumped to our feet in shock, as it was the same type of yell we had heard up river...It is a sound you would never forget.","Very primitive..swampy area with a fresh water river, only accessable by boat...We can take you to the place where it happened.","Charlotte County","Florida","Fall","Report 27587: Couple hears an unusual scream while camping overnight on the Peace River",27.07842,-81.99105,"2005-10-20",27587.0,"Class B","dhvdn1rznp",87.83,81.72,75.61,72.3,0.81,0.25,0.61,0.0001,0.72,"rain",1013.64,"Foggy in the morning and humid throughout the day.",7.0,8.5,92.0,3.34,"RES.SEASON"], [1215,2893,"Hello, I grew up in the Sierra Nevada mountains (Lake Tahoe). I am an avid outdoorsman that has hiked from Mexico to Canada. I have always believed that there is bigfoots running around. I now live in Seattle and go to the Cascades to fly fish on a very regular basis. A couple years ago I was fishing a little creek that is a trib to the Middle fork of the Snoqualmie. As I approached the creek I saw a large footprint. The hair on my neck stood up. I looked at the other side of the creek and their was another large track. Not bear, not lion- like nothing I have seen before or since. I got a little spooked because the tracks looked quite fresh. As I broke back through the alder on the way back to the car I sensed something looking at me. Very scary, like I was being followed. I got within 30 feet of my ride and heard breathing coming behind me but no footsteps. I jumped in and sped away. I was very spooked. I would be willing to show an expert where I saw the prints. I will not go back their on my own. Not that it would hurt me, but more that it was an ominous presence. Please respond to me, I am not lying to you.","Swamp Creek, just before Taylor River","King County","Washington","Summer","Report 23062: Angler finds tracks, hears knocks and senses ominous presence east of North Bend",47.55477,-121.5354,"2005-07-16",23062.0,"Class B","c23wd3hdeg",65.84,58.83,51.82,52.83,0.79,0.8,0.33,0.0003,0.31,"rain",1017.72,"Foggy until afternoon.",5.0,6.22,270.0,0.48,"RES.SEASON"], [1222,1082,"One night me and my friends went catfishing in a local spot near my town. We had set up at about 8:30 p.m. and we're having a good time. At about 9:00 p.m. we had our first bite and ended up being a 15 minute fight to end up being a turtle. Shortly after at approximately 9:30 p.m. we heard what sounded like our first wood knock. Personally I didn't believe or didn't want to believe what I had just heard. But within minutes we all heard the 2nd knock and were all speechless in what we had just heard. After talking about it for a couple minutes we heard another but this time it came from the other side of the river, speechless yet again we all just looked at each other and within seconds we heard another but this time it was right being us and close. That's when we knew we had to leave. As we were packing our fishing poles in the car we heard 4 loud aggressive knocks within 30 yards of were we parked. We immediately showed the poles in the car and left. After getting several miles down the road we stopped and said let's go back and try and get it on video because know one would believe us. So that's what we did and we got 3 knocks on video.","Turn off route 522 onto Auggwick Mills Road and there's a pull off about a mile down the road once off the bridge.","Huntingdon County","Pennsylvania","Summer","Report 69564: Witnesses hear multiple wood knocks while night fishing near Mt. Union",40.33498,-77.85934,"2021-08-12",69564.0,"Class B","dr0tkqb83c",98.15,83.81,69.47,73.61,0.76,0.28,0.16,0.0021,0.17,"rain",1016.2,"Humid throughout the day.",8.0,10.0,240.0,5.73,"RES.SEASON"], [1225,559,"This is the second time I've seen one. The first was at a campground about 20 years ago by Mohican state park (Ohio). I left the campfire to check on the kids. We were camping with a few other families and the tents were basically in a circle. As I passed the tent next to mine there was what i take to be a young bigfoot (about my height, which is 5'7\") I would call it grayish brown, not like an ape, the facial features were flatter, more like a person's (not the big jaw an ape has). I stopped dead in my tracks and it stared at me and I stared at it. It frightened me since I didn't expect to see it but it never moved, giving me the impression it was just as scared. I went back to the fire and it disappeared. The second time was two nights ago. It has been very hot the last few days so I was staying up later to do wash and put it in the dryer. It was about 11:45 pm I was loading the dryer and glanced up at the open window to see a head and shoulders and the top of the back walking past the window. The window is about 6 feet off the ground so I guess it was roughly 7 feet tall. It evidently bumped into something on the way because it knocked into the house. Personally I hate seeing it. It scares me even if they are supposed to be harmless. The second one was the same color, grayish brown, hairy, straight hair but obviously fur rather than human hair, more coarse looking. I don't tell people because they think you are nuts. However a friend of mine has seen them a number of times looking in her windows (she lives 5 -10 miles from me but due east) she lives in Windsor in Ashtabula county, I live in Geauga county in Claridon (Ohio)","I don't remember the exact directions to the camp ground or even the name, it was way back. My house on the other hand is right on state rt 322 with an open field and woods behind it. They recently began building in some of the woods but it would still be somewhat small town, bordering on rural","Geauga County","Ohio","Summer","Report 4762: Woman has two evening encounters twenty years apart",41.5325,-81.1351,"2002-08-04",4762.0,"Class A","dpqk38z0r5",88.6,80.83,73.06,65.72,0.7,0.42,0.85,0.0002,0.58,"rain",1020.98,"Humid and mostly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,7.29,248.0,2.62,"RES.SEASON"], [1235,3278,"12/4/2012 19:34 Marion County Arkansas US. 62/412 Near Snow Arkansas. Night, dark clear, road traffic was light. I was traveling west bound, headlight on bright. Three creatures, two were adults and a young one. I saw them traveling from left to right, the adults were near the yellow line in the hwy, the smaller one was about three steps behind the large ones. The two large one went right over the fence to my left with very little extra effort, like a large high stride. the smaller one, use the right hand on the fence post and jumped the fence. I was about 5 car lengths away from the smaller one.","12/4/2012 19:34 Marion County Arkansas US. 62/412 Near Snow Arkansas. Night, dark clear, road traffic was light. I was traveling west bound, headlight on bright. Three creatures, two were adults and a young one. I saw them traveling from left to right, the adults were near the yellow line in the hwy, the smaller one was about three steps behind the large ones. The two large one went right over the fence to my left with very little extra effort, like a large high stride. the smaller one, use the right hand on the fence post and jumped the fence. I was about 5 car lengths away from the smaller one.","Marion County","Arkansas","Winter","Report 38015: Motorist observes three bigfoots crossing before him at night east of Harrison",36.14065,-92.52505,"2012-12-04",38015.0,"Class A","9yqjwe1qd1",57.99,44.845,31.7,50.42,0.87,0.52,0.69,0.0207,1.0,"rain",1020.12,"Rain in the morning.",2.0,9.3,330.0,0.88,"RES.SEASON"], [1237,4544,"I was hunting for deer when I came across foot prints with toe impressions. Its not a place you want to be bare foot.","Above Lionhead Park boundary, left side bridge, left side road just below the rocks","Bonner County","Idaho","Fall","Report 42647: Hunter finds possible footprints and knuckle prints near Priest Lake",48.74915,-116.8415,"2013-11-02",42647.0,"Class B","c2svm4w87s",42.54,38.57,34.6,36.17,0.86,0.85,0.97,0.0251,1.0,"rain",1007.13,"Rain until evening.",1.0,1.23,164.0,1.22,"RES.SEASON"], [1238,2038,"I have multiple reports to make. Bigfoot is living in the Angelina National Forest, no doubts. My husband grew up hunting there, but I have only been hunting in there for the past 4-5 years. Geography, it is on Sam Rayburn lake, piney woods with thick yaupon brush and a public hunting area that is very secluded. We typically hunt between a dirt road and the lake, there are 'fingers' or peninsulas of land. I grew up very close to the Big Thicket & spent my life in the woods but I began to feel uncomfortable in there, unlike hunting or hiking anywhere else. My husband also noticed this feeling of being watched or hunted, as did guest we brought with us. The 1st experience, my husband was sitting on the ground hunting for deer. He saw some movement far up in a pine tree. There are large birds (eagles/hawks/woodpeckers etc) so that's what he expected it to be. But a head and shoulders peeked around, looked at him, out stretched an arm and then it jumped to the next tree over. Then it proceeded to jump from tree to tree approaching towards him. It was small woman/large child sized and too far away to make out much other than its shape. But it clearly was ape-like. He left before it got any closer & we left out of there for the day. No other experiences that year (2016). I dubbed this general area bigfoot's backyard, jokingly. At this point I knew he saw something but I wasn't REALLY ready to call it Bigfoot. We no longer camped out there after that. The next year I was in Bigfoot's backyard walking very slow & quiet listening for squirrels. I was squirrel hunting dressed in camo and was closer to the dirt road than the lake. It was in October and almost dark when I heard this growl (if you can call it that!). It came from the thick brush about 50' behind me. It was the deepest most guttural GRR-UMPH. We don't really have bear here but I fully expected to turn around to a grizzly bear as loud & deep as the growl was, but I didn't see anything. We left immediately. Later in Nov. my husband was hunting a few hundred yards from that spot and something growled & growled at him until he left. Deep deep guttural growling. This was (2017) and we no longer waited until after dark to leave our hunting spots. A couple of acquaintances of my husband, a father & son, was looking for a public land spot to hunt deer. He gave them a tour of the spots off of that dirt road. These guys moved here from bear country, so let that be known. They had tree climbing stands, so no visible ladder from the ground. They go out there by themselves, they pick bigfoots backyard to hunt in. The son arrives 1st and and climbs 30' up a tree. It is the exact spot I was growled at before. A little later the dad arrives. He comes in, crosses a little creek right by the son & goes down toward the lake. It gets quiet then the son heard something walking, he naturally thinks it's a deer. He watched a huge dark hairy creature walking upright on two legs, not just walk in the direction of where his dad went, but walk the exact trail he took. There isn't phone signal in that spot. He told me he wasn't about to move in case it saw him. The dad was never aware he was stalked by bigfoot, climbed up in the tree and didn't see anything out of the ordinary. They never went back. I think that was in 2017, November or December. This year my husband went out there first and hunted bigfoot's backyard and told me it felt comfortable in there. This lulled me into going back out there. I didn't feel comfortable at all. I heard strange whistling and sniffing noises, and the next time, loud repetitive whoop whoop whoop. I declared the woods still had bigfoot & few deer and I wasn't returning anymore. So husband goes a few times by himself. One evening, he sits in a lean-to stand that is maybe 1/8 of a mile from bigfoot's backyard. It has a ladder and is 12' off the ground. This is a new hunting spot and unfortunately a bigfoot hunting party stumbles onto my husband. He is facing a draw with a small creek that runs down to the lake (to his left). The dirt road is through some thick yaupon brush to his right. Behind him and across the draw is thick yaupon brush also. They clear cut timber company land a few hundred yards ahead of him, although it's not visible from the stand. It's a Monday and he is the only human out there hunting, 5:15pm November 18, 2019. He see the back end of a deer go into the woods. It had crossed the draw, had come in down wind and was heading towards the clear cut area. My husband was dressed in full camo, didn't spray scent killer and had in fact gotten scented candle on himself. He hears a strange deep HUM-Phhh from the youpon behind and to his left. At first he thought it could have been a deer, although a strange noise for a deer. It makes a low growing noise and starts moving back & forth in the brush. Its obviously big & heavy. Then it starts UMPH UMPH UMPH very loudly. This makes my husband VERY uncomfortable. Then it does a howl, like a wolf, but cuts it short. Like a 2 second extremely loud howl that just abruptly ends. Hair raising howls. Another abrupt howl answers him from down the draw towards the lake followed by three loud knocks, loud as gunshots. We assume they were tree knocks. Then the one closest starts talking in gibberish. Hearable but not loudly. My husband announces that if it a person playing a joke they are about to get shot at. The gibberish stops and is replaced by even louder growling and it advances towards him. He fires a shot from his rifle towards the growling because at this point he is fearful of being attacked. They start charging towards him. He could see the tops of the youpon parting way. The loud growling and brush was breaking so loud. He shimmied down the ladder and ran for his truck pushing his way through the brush. The two growling creatures stayed just a little bit behind him all the while growling, breaking over small trees & just ripping brush up. They chased him to the road, but never stepped out. He ran to his truck and left. Based on these experiences there are some facts that I truly believe. Bigfoot is a real animal not a mythical creature. It is smart, hunts in pairs or groups and is definitely a meat eating predator, and in this area deer & wild hog are plentiful. It has communicative skills, although primitive. It has a VERY good sense of smell that would rival that of a dog/hog/deer. Their young spend alot of time in the trees. They drive their prey into areas where it is easier to catch, like close to water. They most likely have \"scouts\" when humans are in the area & their family unit is close by. They do not like humans to surprise them and will do their best to scare the humans out of their territory if they deem them too close or dangerous.","National Forest public hunting land at Sam Rayburn lake","San Augustine County","Texas","Fall","Report 63665: Multiple incidents reported by multiple hunters near Sam Rayburn Lake",31.1659,-94.1679,"2019-11-18",63665.0,"Class A","9vt131t48b",72.64,57.675,42.71,42.78,0.68,0.01,0.72,0.0008,0.06,"rain",1013.9,"Clear throughout the day.",5.0,10.0,316.0,2.64,"RES.SEASON"], [1240,4485,"In February of 2011 I was traveling down Highway 95 between Potlatch, Idaho, and Tensed, Idaho between 12:00 a.m. and 2:00 a.m. It was wooded pasture off to the right side of the highway and open grass pasture and creek on the left (drivers side) of the highway. I was driving into a curve before Wiegand Private Road when approximately 40-50 ft in front of me I saw a very large, dark form walk straight across the highway, right to left. I assumed it was a human so I slowed to full stop in the middle of the highway, which was empty both directions except for me. It was at this point that I realized that I could not see this person off the side of the highway or out in the grass pasture to my left. I had my high beams on and the area was very well lit from that. I developed an awful sense of dread and immediately hit the gas and headed for home, which was about 5-6 miles away. I was so bothered by this event that I continually checked my rear view mirror, fully expecting to see something horrible or have something horrible happen to me. Once I got home I bolted into the house, turned all the lights on, and woke my family up. They kind of laughed it off but my dog crawled up into my lap and whined/cried at me and wouldn't leave my side. I definitely didn't sleep that night and started avoiding driving that highway so late at night. It wasn't until later that I really started to process the details of what happened. I realized that I saw someone, very distinctly bipedal, walk across the highway. I remember the walking motion of the legs and the slight swinging motion of the arms. I also realized that while I had my high beams on the figure was completely black. No reflection from clothes, shoes, or even a shadow thrown onto the highway. The other thing that very much bothered me was that I never took my eyes off of what happened but somewhere between the figure walking across the highway and walking off the side, it disappeared. I definitely should have been able to see something walking down the side of the ditch or into the pasture, but it was completely empty. It took me quite some time to come to terms with what happened and even longer before I admitted to myself that it may have been a Sasquatch related sighting. I've recently been compelled to report this specific sighting due to the fact that recently a woman claimed to have seen a Sasquatch right before hitting a deer in almost the exact same area and a similar time frame but she's been made into a joke in the local news. I don't know if she actually saw Sasquatch, but I find it a very, very odd coincidence that it happened in that area of the highway and in the same time frame.","The last curve in the highway before Wiegand Private Road.","Latah County","Idaho","Winter","Report 57248: Late night road crossing sighting near Potlatch on Hwy 95 spooks woman",46.97822,-116.923,"2011-02-15",57248.0,"Class A","c2kg7257bw",37.31,34.28,31.25,33.28,0.93,0.99,0.42,0.0241,1.0,"rain",1005.6,"Snow (2–4 in.) throughout the day.",2.0,1.218,184.0,1.75,"RES.SEASON"], [1244,3578,"Hello. My family and I took a trip to the Sequoia National Forest and were walking a trail near the Bear Hill Trail. I was taking pictures and videos of my children when I noticed a couple of footprints up the side of the hill. The toes and heel indentations were very noticeable, very large and very deep into the dirt. The stride between the prints were approximately 6 feet apart. I also took photos and videos of the prints and with my foot next to them. What was very intimidating was that I am 6'6\" and weigh 380 lbs., so I'm no small guy at all. I wear shoe size 13 extra wide. These prints made my foot look childish. I tried my hardest to dig my foot into the dirt as deep as the prints were, but to no avail. Whatever made these prints had to be a considerably large animal. I then went back to the entrance of the Bear Hill Trail and walked up that trail and matched the area where I found the original prints, but higher up. It was there I found a third print and took a couple of pictures of that print as well, with one being my foot next to it to get the size. I have always been an avid believer in the Sasquatch animal, but I never thought that I would ever find anything like this.","It was about 50 yards north-west of the Giant Forest Museum and about 20 yards north of the Bear Hill Trail.","Tulare County","California","Summer","Report 65943: Possible tracks found close to Giant Forest Museum in Sequoia National Park",36.56304,-118.7729,"2020-08-15",65943.0,"Class B","9qe81205nu",85.44,77.655,69.87,46.07,0.36,0.36,0.89,0.0017,0.09,"rain",1014.0,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",9.0,10.0,100.0,4.92,"RES.SEASON"], [1262,4584,"I look for deer all the time when I drive anywhere. I was on my way home after school from LLCC. On the UIS soccer fields there was something at the edge of the field at the tree line. I glanced away and back and it was gone. It was a human shape but the shape from the head to the body was flowing with long hair all over. It was about 8 feet tall brown in color but was in the shade of the trees. Later that day is when the youth soccer league plays games there in the fields.","North side of the fields by the Frisbee golf course.","Sangamon County","Illinois","Fall","Report 39098: Possible sighting near University of Illinois Springfield soccer fields.",39.73333,-89.61281,"2012-10-04",39098.0,"Class B","dp060c1zqj",80.34,62.41,44.48,52.99,0.7,0.38,0.64,0.0006,0.37,"rain",1019.17,"Rain overnight.",5.0,10.0,235.0,4.54,"RES.SEASON"], [1282,245,"Well it was a few weeks ago in Loudon, NH. Me and my wife had just settled into a house nestled next to a farm. It was night time no real overcast or anything. From inside the house we heard what we thought was barking constantly. We own several dogs so we were used to it. this continued for about an hour or two then quieted down. Later on that evening about 2am or so we heard the most bloodcurdling sound ever. The only way i can describe it is like about 20 dogs all screaming and yaulping at once in a shrill chorused scream. We haven't heard it again but it came from across the farmer's field in the woods across from The speedway. I'd have to say the date was around January 10th or so. We have heard other things too and seen plenty of deer...but never heading across the field. We don't know what it was and did not see it at all. We have seen shadows move down the dirt road we live on but figured it was just someone walking up the road. Maybe we're just paranoid...but i've lived in the woods here a long time and never heard anything like that before.","It happened in the woods across from the NH International Speedway in the areas between Loudon and Chichester or so...big patch of woods out there very rural all the way to winnepesaukee.","Merrimack County","New Hampshire","Winter","Report 1975: Couples hears late night scream in Loudon",43.28556,-71.46778,"2001-01-10",1975.0,"Class B","drtnjxyu8j",21.08,14.84,8.6,1.84,0.55,0.12,0.53,0.0001,1.0,"snow",1011.39,"Breezy in the morning and mostly cloudy overnight.",2.0,10.0,313.0,9.19,"RES.SEASON"], [1283,2615,"I heard a series of low pitched, long howls while on a ladder cleaning the gutter of my two story house located about 2 miles NE of Granite Falls, WA. It was about 9:30 AM on a Saturday morning. Dogs began to bark once the howling started. The sound was nearly identical to the long howls heard in Ohio provided on this website on the audio clips page. My wife has heard these calls as well coming from the large ridge next to our house when we first moved out here.","The howls seemed to come from the vicinity of the ridge adjacent to the Canyon formed by Canyon Creek, a tributary of the South Fork of the Stillaguamish. There had been a recent clear-cut, as I had observed log trucks traversing along the ridge road earlier in the month.","Snohomish County","Washington","Spring","Report 23170: Possible \"Ohio\" Howls heard near Granite Falls",48.11509,-121.9677,"2005-03-01",23170.0,"Class B","c2938x1fdw",58.43,51.885000000000005,45.34,41.9,0.75,0.5,0.68,0.0027,1.0,"rain",1016.34,"Drizzle in the evening.",3.0,9.97,123.0,1.18,"RES.SEASON"], [1290,3924,"I want to share an experience my family and I had near Lake City, CO on June 12, 2021. We have visited Lake City for several years in a row, spending a week there each summer. One of our favorite places is Deer Lakes, about 15 miles southeast of Lake City off Hwy 149. We always spend several evenings out there fishing, cooking out, watching wildlife. Also found in that area are two ponds known as the Upper Mill Pond, nearest Hwy 149, and the Lower Mill Pond another mile or two down the road. On our way to Deer Lakes this visit, we stopped at the Upper Mill Pond to fish, but we saw a cow moose and two calves just below the pond eating in the runoff creek. (We almost always see moose near Deer Lakes) While we were watching the moose from the cab of our truck, we heard the undisputable sound of a wood knock. At first, none of us thought much about it, until we heard another one. I was in the driver seat, furthest away from the pond and moose. My daughter was in the backseat on the driver's side while my wife was in the front passenger seat nearest the pond and moose. The girls thought the sound came from the direction of the pond but I thought it came from the other direction. The pond, and road to Deer Lakes, sits in a valley between two ridges. The tree line on the east, or pond side, is only about a hundred yards away from the road while the tree line to the west, or opposite the pond, varies, in some places a few hundred yards from the road and other places not far off at all. My daughter and I got out of the cab of the truck to listen after we all heard the second knock. Then she and I both believed the sounds were coming from the west tree line. We waited, listening, and heard another knock, this time seemingly from a different position from the first two knocks. In a bit, another vehicle stopped to watch the moose. When they arrived, we heard another knock. A third vehicle drove past and we heard still another knock as it went by. In all, we heard what I would guess to be 8-10 knocks, from at least three different positions, but all on the west side of the road. My family and I talked about it. It was possible that there were a few guys in the woods making the sounds. Maybe one guy knocked on a tree, then another heard it and knocked back. That's possible. However, what sealed it as a bigfoot for me happened later that night. After we heard the knocks by the Upper Mill Pond while watching the moose, we went on to Deer Lakes where we planned to fish, but our lines were too tangled. We did get to cook out though. As the sun went down, we left Deer Lakes but drove further away from the highway, waiting until it got very dark before we went back to town so we could se the stars really well. Just off Hwy 149 on the road to Deer Lakes is a staging area for people to park trailers to unload their ATVs. There is also a forest department bathroom there. That is where we parked to stargaze. As soon as we got out of the truck and shut the doors, we heard a knock from the east ridge of mountains. This tree line is several hundred yards from the road. It was not yet pitch dark. We could still make out the silhouette of the mountain against the backdrop of the sky, but it was too dark to make out any individual trees. I can't imagine any reason any person would be up on that ridge, at that time of night, in the dark, in the cold, just waiting for the possible chance that someone would stop at that staging area and get out of their vehicle so they could hoax them with a wood knock. I believed, for sure, at that time that bigfoot were in the area. In full disclosure, I am a bigfoot enthusiast. I watch all the tv shows, I watch videos on youtube, I have been a member of forums. But I live near Amarillo, TX where it is flat, dry farmland. There is no bigfoot hunting around here. I do always keep my eyes open when we visit the mountains or wooded areas, but this is my first experience of anything that I would contribute in any way to bigfoot. On a related note, a few years ago on an earlier trip to Lake City and Deer Lakes, my family and I were getting ready to leave Deer Lakes. I had to visit the men's room before we drove back to town, so my wife and daughter were walking up the path from the lakes to the parking lot. They heard what they described as an incredible crash, very loud and sudden. An adult male moose was in the upper lake eating when the crash occurred. This moose was frightened so much that he raced out of the water and into the woods, scaring my family terribly. When I came out of the restroom they were at the truck and asked me if I heard the crash. I had not heard anything somehow. They told me what happened and I instantly thought of bigfoot pushing over a tree in the woods up from the lake. There was no way for us to know for sure. The girls certainly didn't want to go into the woods to investigate. So we could possibly have had two bigfoot encounters at or near Deer Lakes. I am almost positive we heard them knocking on June 12, 2021. Thanks for your time. Sorry for rambling on so long about something probably insignificant to most people. But it was my first encounter and I was pretty excited about it. Let me know if you have any follow up questions. Tyler Allison","Near the Deer Lakes campground area [More location details in report]","Hinsdale County","Colorado","Summer","Report 69394: Family hears loud wood knocks at Deer Lakes outside Lake City",38.02372,-107.193,"2021-06-12",69394.0,"Class B","9wgb2f02np",75.32,59.46,43.6,9.18,0.15,0.12,0.08,0.0004,0.08,"rain",1014.9,"Clear throughout the day.",12.0,10.0,220.0,5.34,"RES.SEASON"], [1302,105,"I was spending the night at a friends house, after a day's hunting in the nearby woodlands and swamps. It was about 3:00am in the morning, when I awoke to a 'howling', or 'wailing' sound just outside the house, coming from the direction of the woods. This lasted for probably 30 seconds to a minute. My buddy, sleeping on the floor a few feet away, was not awakened by the sound. I was frightened, so I did not get up to investigate. It took my at least an hour to fall back asleep. I never associated this sound with 'bigfoot', until now. I downloaded the \"Howl.wav\" (http://BFRO.net/AVEVID/MJM/ohsket.htm) file from your web site. It has a eerie howling sound, with dogs obviously reacting to the noise. I had chills when I heard this, because it was very similar, if not identical to the sound I had heard that early morning. I have played it over and over again. I am a hunter and outdoors man, and I had never heard an animal make this sound before. It was definitely 'organic' in origin. I never thought about Bigfoot living in this part of the state, because the surrounding areas are somewhat populated. There are, however, lots of rural swamp lands and forest areas. Although I have no further evidence to back up my claims, I thought this would be worthy to report. I'd be interested to know if Bigfoot really could exist in a coastal woodlands area, rather than the mountainous regions that the creature is normally associated with.","Near Hampstead, Pender County, North Carolina. North of Wilmington, NC, on the south-east part of the state. Nearest major road is Highway 17 (Market Street).","Pender County","North Carolina","Spring","Report 3336: Person awakes to a 'howling' or 'wailing' sound just outside the house; he compares the sound to a recorded howl of a bigfoot",34.3924,-77.7485,"1998-03-31",3336.0,"Class B","dq0ewucq28",79.89,73.78999999999999,67.69,62.1,0.75,0.36,0.14,0.0005,1.0,"rain",1018.2,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",7.0,9.53,182.0,10.51,"RES.SEASON"], [1303,1912,"I was camping with my stepdaughter and one of her friends at the Big Bay Access Area on the Broad River. Upon arrival at the campsite at 12:30 AM, as is our custom, my stepdaughter did a 2-3 second howl and I did a heavy growl. Immediately thereafter, we heard creature chatter from across the parking lot (100-150 yards away), followed seconds later by a wood knock from the same direction but further away. I found a large stick and answered with two wood knocks, but got no response.","Big Bay Access Area, at the end of Sarratt Road on the Broad River. Coordinates: 35.148116618689365, -81.60891823376281","Cherokee County","South Carolina","Fall","Report 71792: Chatter and knock heard on the Broad River, 5 miles NE of Gaffney",35.14947,-81.60892,"2021-10-30",71792.0,"Class B","dnjzyyy0w2",64.19,55.28,46.37,50.45,0.86,0.77,0.82,0.0012,0.46,"rain",1002.5,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,10.0,226.0,6.01,"RES.SEASON"], [1307,4769,"July 10, 2010. Four miles South of Lafayette, Indiana and nine miles West. On the East bank of the Wabash river. Approximately 1:30am. Two friends and I heard Unfamiliar vocalization coming from within approximately 1000 ft of our campfire.We were looking for a lost 4 week old kitten at the time. This vocalization set off a series of responses from other wildlife up and down the river for the next three or four minutes. We are all familiar with MOST of the wildlife in that area and could not place that deep voice from anything familiar. Apparently what ever it is, it answers to \"Kitty Kitty\". We didn't call kitty kitty anymore that night.","Going West on 200 South from Lafayette. To the Wabash River. Go to the end of the road and Turn Left down the gated Mud path 2.25 miles South","Tippecanoe County","Indiana","Summer","Report 27976: Strange vocalization heard while calling for a kitten on the Wabash River",40.38335,-87.0796,"2010-07-10",27976.0,"Class B","dp4jdrwd46",86.75,75.365,63.98,62.34,0.7,0.04,0.96,0.0004,1.0,"rain",1015.37,"Clear throughout the day.",10.0,8.76,353.0,0.67,"RES.SEASON"], [1308,3298,"Sitting in tree during deer season. Saw a dark figure in deep brush, as i watch it moved into an open spot. I didn't Know what it was so i looked through the scope of my gun, not having binoculars on me, and saw it standing next to a cedar tree, with its hand on the tree. It turned profile to me and noticed that it wasn't any person in a custom as i thought it was at first. it was about 7'5\" tall deep brown color, had hair from nose down, the face was deep wrinkled and the eyes had no whites, they were colored kind of. Scared i clicked the safety of my gun off, and the creature let out a deep grunt, way too deep to be any bear. It ran into the thick brush. A little while later i walked down to where it was to see if i could figure out what it was. I saw an imprint in the bark like a thumb and two long scratches that were as far apart as my pointer and pinkie streched.","Winona wildlife area","Saline County","Arkansas","Fall","Report 29417: Deer hunter has a late afternoon sighting through his rifle scope in the Winona Wildlife Management Area",34.73147,-92.75093,"2010-11-18",29417.0,"Class A","9ynj96sv6x",51.18,45.225,39.27,44.47,0.88,0.9,0.4,0.0001,0.33,"rain",1025.52,"Foggy in the morning.",2.0,7.5,325.0,1.29,"RES.SEASON"], [1310,2861,"My name is Tim. My wife Nan and I live between Newberg and Wilsonville, OR. On February 24, 2016 we decided to take a couple of days off and drive up to the Olympic Peninsula. We drove up to Olympia, WA and took Hwy 101 route along the Hood Canal to through Port Angeles to Forks, where we stayed the night at the Forks Motel. Early on the morning of February 25th (a Thursday) we drove south on Hwy 101 to Upper Hoh Road and east to the Hoh Rain Forest. It was a beautiful clear and dry day, which was unusual for February on the Peninsula. After an enjoyable walk through the Rain Forest we headed back west on Upper Hoh Road. There was very little traffic in either direction and we pretty much had the road to ourselves. Approximately halfway back to Hwy 101, where the road once again comes close to the Hoh River, we had just cleared a corner and were at the beginning of a straight stretch of road which I estimate to be about 1/4-mile long before there was a left-hand corner. At the end of that straight stretch we both saw a very large bipedal creature walk out of the woods on the north side of the road, stride across the road in three strides, and disappear into the woods on the south side of the road. It appeared to be 7-8' tall and covered in dark hair. We both looked at each other in astonishment with that \"Did you see what I just saw?\" look on our faces. Without making comment of my own I asked Nan to describe what she had just seen, and her description was exactly the same as mine. When we got to that spot where we had seen the creature appear from the woods we stopped and examined the site. The road was in an area that was still within the Olympic National Forest, and the woods were so thick on each side of the road that it was difficult to see more than a few feet into the woods to the north. The trees were just as thick on the south side of the road, but we could tell that we were very close to the Hoh River. There was no trail whatsoever coming out of the woods or going into the woods on the south side of the road. Under the circumstances we could only surmise that we had just seen a Bigfoot that was apparently going across the road to reach the river. Even though I never doubted the existence of Bigfoot, I always considered myself a \"Professional Skeptic\". Yes it most certainly could exist, especially here in the Pacific Northwest where there are still enormous tracts of land that are virtually unexplored, but I would prefer to see proof of it myself prior to confirmation. I am now a confirmed believer, as is Nan. We never told anyone about it, and it wasn't until last night when we were watching a rerun of your show where you did an investigation in the Olympic Rainforest that we were reminded of the event. After the show we decided that I should send an email to you to apprise you of our sighting.","The sighting occurred approximately 6.7 miles east of Hwy 101 (according to Streets 'n Trips).","Jefferson County","Washington","Winter","Report 57781: Couple visiting the Hoh River rainforest see a sasquatch cross the road near Bogachiel",47.82243,-124.195,"2017-02-25",57781.0,"Class A","c0x8jcgcye",41.62,37.805,33.99,29.02,0.76,0.59,0.97,0.0016,0.52,"rain",1021.53,"Foggy overnight.",2.0,9.95,201.0,1.01,"RES.SEASON"], [1320,3010,"On Tuesday November 26th, 2013 I was driving south on Hwy 151 from Madison, WI going back to Iowa after seeing a concert at the Red Zone which ended around 11:30 PM. My wife was laying down and trying to get some sleep in the back seat of the car since she had to work the next morning. I normally work night shift so I had no problem staying awake to drive home. The oncoming traffic on the highway was spaced about one car every 3/4 of a mile to a mile with some farther apart so I couldn't use my high beams. I'm a former Iowa police officer so I have a habit of periodically looking at the mile markers along the road so that if I have to call for help I can give a better idea of where we're at. I would say about a half mile or so after coming around the large curve southwest of Mineral Point, which I believe would be about mile marker 36, I was in the outside lane and I passed a large black figure standing upright on two legs where the grass meets the gravel on the inside shoulder of the median on my left. The headlights never hit it directly as I approached but the outside area of the light field lit it up as I passed it. I'm 6'02\" and I was able to see the body from the ground up to the shoulder. I would estimate the shoulder height to be around 6'06\" to 6'08\". With the angle of the light beam and how low the car sits to the ground it looked like the head was shadowed by the shoulder so I wasn't able to see its face. The distance between us was about fifteen feet when I passed by. I was able to see it's hand hanging down along the thigh and it was a lighter color and not midnight black like the color of it's body. The thickness of it's body looking from the side, it's back to it's chest, was about two feet thick. The fur or hair was hard to see do to the distance, the light conditions, and the speed of the car (cruise was set at 65mph) but it was short. I thought to myself, \"What was that?\" even though I know what it was and \"I didn't just see that.\" My immediate physical reaction was extreme anxiety. My chest tightened and I made excuses to myself to not stop and look at it. From what I saw I had no desire to stop. A couple miles passed while I tried to overcome the fear then I realized I need more facts on the conditions of the sighting. I also felt that it was trying to cross the highway from the south that's why I didn't see it up ahead of me in the headlights. Until this event I was always open to the possibility that they exist but never was a big believer in them. My tune has now changed and I don't care to ever see one again.","Around mile marker 36 on Hwy 151 southbound.","Iowa County","Wisconsin","Fall","Report 43122: Driver startled to see a tall figure next to U.S. Hwy. 151 near Mineral Point",42.82445,-90.24295,"2013-12-27",43122.0,"Class B","9zxgd7zndb",34.9,30.905,26.91,21.39,0.84,0.52,0.83,0.0001,0.1,"snow",1020.75,"Foggy in the morning.",1.0,5.89,209.0,3.16,"RES.SEASON"], [1322,166,"the morning of april, 24, 2007. it was around 330-345 am. i was getting ready for work. after getting dressed, i took the dog out for his morning walk. it was a very still morning, no wind or any other noises to notice. it was unseasonably cool. the dog always has his normal routine, walk out the door, go to the edge of the driveway and use the bathroom. about the time he was making his way toward the end of the driveway he starts growling towards the treeline in front of the house. i was very attentive to him as he had never done this before. i stood there for about a minute trying to see into the darkness of the trees. as i was starting back to the house with the dog by my side. i heard a bone chilling howl and something that sounded like wood being hit on the trees. the sounds were, or it seemed only a matter of feet away. i quickly turned in the direction that i thought the sounds to be coming from and for a moment thought i caught a glimpse of something standing beside a tall tree along the treeline. i stood there for just a minute, but never noticed any more movement. after going back inside, i finished getting ready for work, went outside, as i was walking to my suv i could here twigs breaking from the footsteps. after getting into my vehicle, i put it into reverse and i could have sworn i saw something huge walk around the fenceline, up the adjoining driveway, around a pond that connects the two properties. at lunch when i returned, i noticed what looked like distured leaves on the ground in the area where i had seen and heard the thing. my dog to this day still will not go to the edge of the driveway without me. the howls sounded just like the ohio howl.","Edit","Davidson County","North Carolina","Spring","Report 18943: Possible pre-dawn approach to property outside Winston-Salem",35.95815,-80.2084,"2007-05-03",18943.0,"Class B","dnquwcfp2u",69.11,60.41,51.71,56.24,0.78,0.69,0.54,0.0004,0.56,"rain",1018.93,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,8.57,40.0,4.39,"RES.SEASON"], [1324,2665,"This is how it all started i was walking home from my boyfriends house i would have to walk [past a] creak it was about 10:00 p.m. something kept throwning stuff at me like sticks and rocks i would turn around and look but i could not see anything then i would have to go across a Bridge it would not stop follow[ing] me it would hide when cars go by it had this really bad smell to it i did[n't] like the smell so i started running i knew it was a something so i just ran [and] stood on the bridge [and] it ran when i ran then it ran into the bushes and started throwing sticks and rocks on the bridge where i was i could[n't] see it really good but it was the scarys thing in my life","nope","Thurston County","Washington","Spring","Report 11137: Young Girl Experiences Rock and Stick Throwing",46.8434,-123.2383,"2005-03-31",11137.0,"Class B","c2267xsde6",53.84,49.400000000000006,44.96,40.62,0.79,0.87,0.71,0.0093,1.0,"rain",1024.53,"Rain starting in the evening.",4.0,8.48,106.0,1.36,"RES.SEASON"], [1338,4417,"I heard the deer coming toward me over to my left. I was going down the trail and the deer was coming in the opposite direction about a hundred feet over to my left. He kept looking over his right shoulder at something. I wondered what he was looking at and I lifted my head a little and that is when I saw the thing. At first I thought it was a human being. I mean it had a head, shoulders, arms and legs, chest. It saw me at a distance of about three hundred feet and when it saw me it kind of hunkered down. I have seen deer do the same sort of thing when they are preparing to take flight. After hunkering down, it made a 90 degree turn and leaped and bounded through the air. Both feet were off the ground. It made another 90 degree left turn and disappeared among the trees. I could see the blackness disappearing behind and among the trees as it left. The total viewing time was no more than 3 seconds. It left in a big hurry. It was tall, about 6 feet or a little taller, black, slim and quick. I mean it was quicker than a deer. Imagine an Olympic class sprinter cooking off a hundred yard dash. Multiply that quickness by a factor of 2 or 3. It was incredibly quick, quicker than a deer.","On the bike trail that goes between Birdland Marina on the south end and Big Creek on the north end. Between Euclid Avenue and Birdland Marina within the city limits of Des Moines. Very rugged land close to the Des Moines River, ravines, many tree branches down on the ground. Not like a smooth football field.","Polk County","Iowa","Winter","Report 1271: Six foot tall or taller, black creature was observed leaping into the air and disappearing into the trees on a bike trail near the Des Moines River",41.62183,-93.63804,"2000-02-15",1271.0,"Class A","9zmkv1nbex",58.43,38.455,18.48,27.73,0.68,0.47,0.36,0.0003,0.5,"snow",1011.4,"Breezy throughout the day and mostly cloudy starting in the evening.",3.0,6.27,259.0,5.38,"RES.SEASON"], [1340,68,"It has been awhile since this incident happened (1989), but I remember it well. The incident occured during the summer of 1989. I was working in my father's woodshop when my older brother (19 at the time) burst through the door. He was nearly out of breath and very distraught looking. He immediately demanded that I come outside right now. I asked him what was wrong but he just said, \"Come out here right now! Quick!.\" I hurriedly followed him outside. It was late afternoon and the sun was just beginning to wane in the deeper parts of the forest. I asked him what was the matter. He told me to sush, and said \"listen!\" I could here that our grandparent's dog was going berserk. I could also recognize the bark of our dog in the distance as well. I asked my brother what was going on with the dogs and if they were fighting again. He said, \"SHHH! Not the dogs, listen!\" We were both silent, I didn't here anything. I asked him what I was supposed to be listening for. He said he heard something really weird, really freaky. I asked him what it sounded like. He said he could'nt really explain it, just that it sounded really weird. I told him that maybe he heard a mountain lion, as I had heard them on several occasions. They make a really strange sound like an inhuman woman screaming bloody murder. He said it didn't sound like a scream. He took off running down the road towards our grandparent's house calling for me to follow. I ran after him. Halfway to our grandparent's house I heard the sound. We both stopped in out tracks. I yelled to him \"What the hell was that?\" He excitedly replied, \"That's the sound I heard, that's it!\" I had heard a lot of strang sounds growing up in the deep woods over the years (elk mating calls, ruffed grouse beating their wings, coyotes, etc.), but never anything like this. I can't really describe the sound except that it was a high-pitched tone from a living thing that was very resonant, powerful, and well controlled in its execution. It made the hair stand up on the back of my neck. Soon, whatever it was out there in the woods ahead of us made the sound again, this time for a shorter duration and slightly broken. Another period of silence (other than the dogs going nuts). We continued running towards our grandparent's house. We soon arrived where the dogs were. Our dog was standing next to our grandparent's dog which was tied up. They were both looking and barking into the forest in the direction we had heard the sound coming from. I had never seen them bark like this, not even at bears. All of sudden, we heard a similar sound come from a completely different direction of the woods on the opposite side of us. Immediately the call was answered by another loud report where we originally heard the first sound. Whatever was out there, there seemed to be two of them and they seemed to be communicating. We continued to listen. Nothing for a minute or two. Then we heard two more distinct calls, this time from the same general direction in the woods, yet seperated. They were now coming from a farther distance. Again they seemed to be replying or communicating to one another. We continued to listen for several minutes, but the sounds did not occur again. We told our family members about it but no one really paid much attention as they had not heard the sounds and since we lived right in the middle of an area used by bears and other animals to travel through the wilderness regularly (the tribe caught 7 bears in one summer using live bear traps near our house!) they probably assumed it was just some animal out in the woods. In any case, I have never forgotten the incident and often think of the surreal event every time I go back to the wilderness.","It was in Montana on the Flathead Indian Reservation,near an area known as Evaro. This is about 20 miles northwest of Missoula, MT. It occured near our residence, which was located about 4 miles deep into the woods from the nearest main roadway (Highway 93). The only way to get to our residence was by following an old dirt road that winds its way through the forest.","Missoula County","Montana","Summer","Report 1649: Witnesses hear two powerful vocalizations near their property on the Flathead Reservation",47.03222,-114.0906,"1989-07-13",1649.0,"Class C","c2qgeccy83",78.24,65.735,53.23,59.1,0.81,0.58,0.33,0.0105,1.0,"rain",1019.68,"Rain in the morning.",8.0,9.13,349.0,7.85,"RES.SEASON"], [1360,4197,"My mom was driving down the road going to my grandmother and aunt's house, when she saw it. It ran out into the road, stopped in the headlights for a second, and then continued to run out to the other side of the road....like crossing the street. It looked tall, according to her about 6 feet. And it was a bit skinny, with hair all over it's body.","It happened in the continental U.S., in Florida. In Clay County, in Green Cove Springs. On state road 209.","Clay County","Florida","Unknown","Report 606: witness observed creature running across the road",30.05705,-81.75165,"1986-08-15",606.0,"Class A","djmfgxwr02",89.39,81.535,73.68,72.55,0.8,0.54,0.35,0.0016,1.0,"rain",1015.26,"Humid and mostly cloudy throughout the day.",8.0,6.53,263.0,4.6,"RES.SEASON"], [1365,1528,"I am writing this for my neighbor Bill (not his real name). I interviewed Bill on December 25, 2010, and for additional details two times again. Bill said that when he was a teenager he went with a group of 11 relatives and neighbors from Detroit camping in the upper Lower Peninsula of Michigan. They camped west of Twin Lakes in northern Kalkaska County. The group was made up of several men, about 7 boys (ages 7 to 12 years), and Bill. They arrived on a Friday morning and set up camp about 50 ft from the road and in a spot where no one else had camped. They cleared away the underbrush and built two rings of rocks for their campfires. The two rock rings were about 30 ft apart. It was early Spring because Bill recalled there were still patches of snow on the ground under the trees during this trip. In the early evening, they roasted marshmallows and hotdogs –the children sitting around one campfire and the adults around the other. From behind where Bill was sitting, a rock was thrown into the campsite. About 15 to 20 minutes later, two more rocks were thrown into the camp in quick succession. The rocks were about the size of cantaloupes. Each rock landed and rolled only a few feet, suggesting the rocks had been lobbed upwards rather than thrown directly into the camp. The rocks had been thrown from beyond their camp clearing. The edge of the clearing was at least 30 ft away from where the rocks landed. With the first rock thrown, everyone thought someone from their group had thrown the rock as a prank (perhaps while taking a leak in the forest). But when they looked around and saw that everyone was at the campfires, they realized someone else was throwing the rocks. I asked Bill what their reactions were to the rocks landing in their campsite. Bill said that they were surprised and thought it was weird that someone would or could throw such large rocks but no one was alarmed. Bill said that one of the adults had a firearm in his tent, but did not get up to get it. Early the following morning, Bill got up and drove west towards State Highway 66 in order to buy some supplies. He recalls that he was driving with a learner’s permit, so one of the adults rode with him. The road they were on was a narrow hard dirt road without a maintained, clear shoulder. It was like a fire road or logging road. Bill had driven about 10 miles west of the campsite when he saw a large animal come out of the forest on the north side of the road. It emerged from the forest on all four limbs until it reached the road. On the road’s edge, it stood up and walked across the road in two steps, the first step was in the middle of the road, the second on the other side. Because the forest edge along the south side of the road was dense, the animal immediately vanished from sight as it reentered the forest. When Bill saw the animal, the sun was behind him and still very low, the trees cast long shadows, and he was about 50 yards from where it crossed the road. So he recalls only that it was bigger than a bear, its hair was darker red than a deer, and he was impressed by the strength or force of its stride. When Bill got to the spot where he had seen the figure cross, he stopped briefly but didn’t get out of the truck because the adult he was with told him to drive on. (The adult had been sleeping when the figure crossed the road and awoke when he stopped the truck.) Because he was driving with a learner’s permit, he was 15 years old. As such, the year was 1962. He thought about what he had seen during the rest of his trip to the store. He thought what he had seen matched descriptions he had heard or read about sasquatch, but thought sasquatch was only seen in the Pacific Northwest. He had not heard of sightings in Michigan. So when he got to the store, he asked the store owner whether he had heard of any local sasquatch sightings.","west of Twin Lakes in Kalkaska County, probably on Twin Lakes Road NE (based on the Google Earth May 12, 1994 image), east of State Highway 66","Kalkaska County","Michigan","Spring","Report 28668: Man recalls encounter he had as a teenager near Kalkaska",44.76665,-85.00165,"2011-05-23",28668.0,"Class A","dpgw9tx8tu",70.87,55.965,41.06,57.54,0.82,0.87,0.71,0.0127,1.0,"rain",999.34,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,9.95,232.0,3.83,"RES.SEASON"], [1366,362,"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 shortly before Halloween I had gone to bed late about 10pm. The window in my bedroom was directly behind the head board of my bed, and one of only three street lamps beamed light through this window. The height of the bottom of the window frame was approximately 6 feet above the ground. My bedroom window was also the only window in the house that faced our neighbor's house. The neighbors house was about 8 to 10 feet away with no french between the properties. On this particular night the light from the street light shown brightly into my bedroom and lit the entire room well enough to almost be able to read by its light. A few minutes after going to bed a \"figure\" moved into the light and cast a huge shadow on the opposing wall of my room. I amassed that this figure had to be standing with in only a few feet of my bedroom window do to the sharpness and size of the shadow. Also, considering the size of the shadow and the height of my window above the ground the figure had to stand at least 7 to 8 feet tall to cast such a shadow. I froze in my bed (and embarrsingly enough, I had wet myself in fright). I could not muster the strength to look out the window, I simply froze. the shadow remained for all of about 20 to 30 seconds, then it was gone. About three to four minutes later heard a very loud crash of wood and metal as someone or something had ripped off the door to our back storage room. I heard someone or something moving items, then I heard the big freezer chest open (and the toys I had left on the freezer fall to the ground). Again, I was still frozen with fear and in my bed, and could not moved. There were some loud bumps and bangs as if something was throwing bricks around the storage room (our storage room was approximately 16 feet by 32 feet and attached to the back side or lake side of the house). After the banging stopped the freezer lid slammed shut and all banging stopped. Later that night my step dad and mom had come home from work around 3am (they owned the restaurant a few blocks away) and started screaming and my mom was very very panicked. My mom called one of her friends that was also a good customer and was a State Trooper. I don't know what was said between them. The next morning my step dad and two of his friends were trying the fix the door to the back room. This is when I first saw the damage done. The room looked as if it were turned upside down, then right side up. My step dads large roll-away tool box was on its side and on the other side of the room, and packages of frozen meet were all over the place. A car transmission had been tossed as if a toy. The freezer had some faint scratches on the side and on the lid, but no tool marks or pry bar marks (my parents normally kept the freezer locked). These same scratches were located on the side of the house and the removed door. Missing were packages of my mom's frozen strawberries, and two frozen turkey's. None of the prepackage streaks or hamburgers, or lobsters were taken (they used this freezer as a back up to the freezer at the restaurant). The State Trooper friend of my Mom's said that it looked like three or four people had to of done this, but could not offer an explanation to the faint scratch marks. When I told my mom of the shadow figure my mom would only start to cry and hug me, saying we were so lucky that God had protected me from this situation. Of note was the conversation between my step dad and our neighbor. Our neighbor told my step dad that he too had seen some kind of shadowy figure moving between the houses. Our neighbor said he had tried to let his dog out to investigate, but the dog would not go outside. But as soon as the figure appeared, it had gone away, and he had gone back to watching tv. Our neighbor did not hear any of the knocking or bangs in our back room. At this age I had not ever heard of Bigfoot. But later, (the next spring) the other boys were talking about a \"monster\" called bigfoot that had been on TV, and for the first time (since that night)I froze again in fear (for a few seconds this time) and somehow knew what they were talking about, and what they were describing.","This occurred along the shore of eastern Lake Oneida area adjacent to the southern boundary of Verona Beach State Park.","Oneida County","New York","Fall","Report 27035: Man recounts childhood incident at his home on Oneida Lake",43.1546,-75.73906,"1972-10-28",27035.0,"Class B","drdjs803zb",58.78,55.065,51.35,46.11,0.82,0.98,0.72,0.0103,1.0,"rain",1015.71,"Foggy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",2.0,5.18,119.0,3.08,"RES.SEASON"], [1377,462,"It was on October 28th, a Saturday afternoon about 4:30pm. It was a clear sunny day when my wife and I were on our way down south driving on state route 19 South near Fremont, Ohio. As we came around a corner to a long straight away, we saw a tall brownish hairy creature walking from a field going east to west crossing the road. As I pointed it out to my wife we were probably about a quarter mile from it. As we watched while approaching it, its arms were long and swaying as it walked across the road in long strides. We watched it non-stop as we got closer to where it had just crossed the road. When we got to where it crossed the road, there was a guard rail and beyond the guard rail was a drastic slope into a heavily wooded area. We stopped and looked around but did not see anything around. It was hard to believe what we had seen, we were totally in awe and just could not explain nothing else to what it was except a BIGFOOT!","About three miles south on St Rt 19 from St Rt 20","Sandusky County","Ohio","Fall","Report 58458: Daytime road crossing on State Route 19 just outside of Fremont",41.29247,-83.05098,"2017-10-28",58458.0,"Class A","dpkfyjh45f",41.51,40.045,38.58,34.9,0.84,0.95,0.28,0.0323,0.85,"rain",1011.36,"Rain in the morning.",2.0,0.78,227.0,3.71,"RES.SEASON"], [1382,1070,"While collecting mushrooms i came across a huge footprint. The area was thick with brush', and knowing i didn't believe i saw what i saw. my hair still stands with the thought ...my friend and i will never forget. the print was indented and around 18 inches long and 8 inches wide","off hwy 138 w half mile south of elkton turnwest across umpqua river proceed a mile turn right on camp cr road up in the hills","Douglas County","Oregon","Fall","Report 25533: Two men mushroom picking find large footprint and snapped tree near Elkton",43.61538,-123.5036,"2006-11-15",25533.0,"Class B","9rb0jegqj8",53.11,48.01,42.91,42.16,0.82,0.54,0.84,0.031,1.0,"rain",1011.35,"Rain starting in the afternoon.",2.0,6.82,177.0,5.37,"RES.SEASON"], [1389,666,"I live in Defiance, Ohio along the Auglaize River. I was going upriver in my rowboat (with a motor) while the river was flooded. I like to go out to see if I can spot deer. I got a mile or so upriver and was rounding a bend in the river where there are lots of trees piled up from floods. I saw a glimpse of what looked like a small Bigfoot, three or four feet in height. It walked up a log and disappeared over the pile of trees, just then I looked to my right and saw three deer standing there looking at me. I jokingly said to the deer, did you see that? Just when I started to speak I heard a scream that would curdle milk. I just sat there fighting the current watching the deer. They started looking around trying to see what made the noise. For the heck of it I started talking to see if it would happen again. It did, only louder and longer than before. The deer took off and I did to. I have lived on the river my whole life and have never heard that before. Since then I have spotted what seems to be the same creature watching me while I was sitting in a lagoon off the river. It's a good spot to see wildlife. The creature I've seen is small, only three to four feet tall, and is always in the shadows where I can't get a good look at it.","It's the first small island west of the State Route 66 bridge.","Defiance County","Ohio","Spring","Report 2902: Man in boat spotting deer witnesses a three to four foot tall biped walking on a log followed by a scream",41.2625,-84.38103,"1998-05-24",2902.0,"Class A","dp7fxzee7r",69.89,62.69,55.49,52.28,0.77,0.7,0.96,0.0527,1.0,"rain",1012.67,"Rain in the morning.",8.0,8.68,84.0,6.24,"RES.SEASON"], [1392,4287,"Two friends of mine and myself were pushing a cave lead in Cornfield Sink on the east side of Pigeon Mountain. We came out of the lead at about 3:00AM and started gathering our caving gear together for the 1/2 mile walk to the car. As we are about to leave the strangest call I have ever heard came from the opposite side of the sink from us. Distance would have been about 900'. The three of us have been woodsmen all our lives but none of us had ever heard a call like that. It sounded like four different animals in one. All powered by what must have been an enormous set of lungs! Hearing the vocalization the three of us looked at each other saucer eyed not saying a word. Each of us was hoping the others would pipe up with a logical explanation for what we had heard. Needless to say since we had been planning to leave anyway we beat a hasty retreat to the vehicles.","Cornfield sink 2000' SSW of the Blue Hole 3 miles NE of Rocky Lane","Walker County","Georgia","Winter","Report 11030: Cavers hears possilble vocalization on Pigeon Mountain",34.69895,-85.34145,"2007-01-16",11030.0,"Class B","dn5m6hb201",38.28,32.88,27.48,32.01,0.83,0.98,0.91,0.0004,0.92,"snow",1026.91,"Overcast throughout the day.",2.0,10.0,337.0,7.05,"RES.SEASON"], [1412,2547,"I have been researching bf for the last few months. I read a report that I thought lead me to the area but Im having trouble finding it. My girlfriend and I decided on the spur of the moment to go check it out. I drove my 4x4(4x4 needed to get there) up into the woods, we set up camp at about 11am aug 23 2008. I didnt do anything out of the ordinary for a camping trip except through out 2 or 3 whoops during the day just kinda trying to practice making a sound that sounded some what believable. We gathered some wood, made a fire, BBQ some burgers, it was a pretty uneventful day. We decided to hit the hey relatively early at about ten to ten thirty. We werent sleeping very soundly we were both waking throughout the night. At about 3am I woke up and noticed the fire was about to go out, I hoped out of the truck turned some logs on the fire, took a leak and crawled back in bed. No sooner then I got comfortable a very loud whoopish sound that turned into a bird sound at the end, it was all one breath no pause, much to loud to be a bird, and it was within 25 yards of my camp. Within 30 seconds another one answered back from what I would guess to be a mile away atleast. I grabed the flashlight and the rifle(just in case)I shined the light in the tree line. As soon as I turned the light on it got spooked, it got out of there but it wasnt a full run more of a jog. It was so close could hear the thuds of its feet on the ground. I was tired and fell back to sleep within a hour or so my girlfriend couldnt sleep and said she heard another vocalization more distant then the first two. I tried to look for prints in the mourning but the underbrush was so thick I could hardly move around, the brush was up to my waist everywhere and up to my chest in places and im 6 foot. Unfortunatley I couldnt come up with any clear path it had taken.","old baldy mountain","Pierce County","Washington","Summer","Report 24612: Couple camping NW of Mt. Rainier hear loud vocals and footsteps",47.00008,-121.9563,"2008-08-24",24612.0,"Class B","c2372u45k1",68.37,59.09,49.81,56.77,0.93,0.69,0.78,0.0089,1.0,"rain",1011.57,"Light rain starting in the evening.",5.0,8.64,252.0,0.28,"RES.SEASON"], [1417,4657,"Way back in 1975 I was outside at my grandparents farm just outside Pinckneyville (Perry County) located next to a state park when I heard the most hair raising sound ever. I was so petrified that I couldn't move for a few seconds then I bolted for the shed my dad and grandfather were working in. They didn't hear it but all the horses ran up to the fence and were very agitated. The horses were stamping and blowing like when they are scared. It was very dark outside and about 10pm. It carried over from the other side of the lake so it was at least 100 yards away. There was a pig farm about a mile away but it definitely not a pig. The closest thing I have heard is similar to a peacock but sound bites of Bigfoot screams are pretty much dead on. I hope I never hear that again in real life!","There was a home for about every 300 acres","Perry County","Illinois","Fall","Report 18584: Possible vocalization heard near Pyramid State Park.",38.0985,-89.4205,"2007-10-15",18584.0,"Class B","dnb2tptgz7",74.27,66.9,59.53,54.39,0.76,0.33,0.14,0.0066,1.0,"rain",1013.98,"Rain in the evening.",5.0,8.72,172.0,2.55,"RES.SEASON"], [1431,4184,"I was driving south east on US Hwy 441 North between Ft. Drum and Okeechobee, Florida on Jan. 18, 2004. It was almost dusk, approx. 5:30 PM. There was only one other car on the road and it was several miles away in the west bound lane coming at me ( two lane road). I took this opprotunity to remove my sun glasses. A spring type clip on which I need both hands to remove. I turned my head and dropped them in my purse on the seat next to me. As I looked up toward my rear view mirror a flash of movement caught my attention. It happened so fast all I saw was the last few steps of a small hominid running across the road in front of me. It wasn't close but I'm not sure how far away. It stopped on the edge of the road for a split second and made a leap over the roadside ditch and a barbed wire fence. I tired to reason I had seen a limpkin or a sandhill crane but knew it wasn't. I braked as soon as I saw the first movement and slowed to 20 mph by the time I thought I was where it had leaped into the bushes. I couldn't see any bushes moving or water movement. I was so intent on looking at the side of the road I didn't think to look into the pasture on the other side of the barbed wire. If I had been sure in my mind I had seen a wading bird I wouldn't have slowed as I see them all the time. I knew in my heart it was something different from what I'd ever seen before. I have reported this to the Mysterious Encounters web site and have thought more on it and will now revise my estimates of it's size. I judge it to be 3 1/2 to 4 feet tall and between 75 and a 100 pounds. It had a very round head on an upright body no neck to speak of. The hair was long and silky not matted or tangled. It was a brownish red, more light brown than red. I'm sure it had it's head turned away from me and I was seeing the back of it's head as I didn't see any facial features. I remembered seeing it's foot later. It was like a person of color whose skin is darker than the sides of their feet. The hair hung lightly over the sides of the edges of it's foot. I saw one arm and it reached almost to the knee. When it leaped it didn't swing it's arms out or bend it's knees to jump it just leaped flat footed, pushing off. The distance it leaped was approx. 20 to 25 feet. Seeing it bothered me and then I saw the Redwood Giant episode of Mysterious Encounters, Jan. 24, on OLN. A man on the show said a three foot tall hominid ran in front of his car in NC. It hit me like a shot, I knew what I had seen then. That's when I filled out the report form on their web site. I did a Google search tonight and found your site. The more I've thought about it and talked with my family ( after they stopped laughing) we have come up with other times we could have been in the presence of these hominds over the years. Once two years ago my son and I were on the Kissimmee River, the western boundry between Okeechobee County and Highlands County, Florida. We heard a call...scream.. yell, from a distance. After discussing it my son said it must have been a big bellied redneck out hunting or a skunk ape, we laughed it off but kept a watch around us the rest of the day. It was very disturbing. A year a go a friend and I were on the board walk of the Grassy Waters Preserve on North Lake Blvd in northern Palm Beach County, Fl. It was early morning and we were walking to the end to go into the little nature museum and looked out across the water and sawgrass toward a cypress head. Standing in plain sight was a BIG dark figure. It would bend over and do something in the water at the base of a cypress tree, then stand up and act like it was eating something. This went on for quite a while, bend over- stand up. The woman who was in charge of the museum came out with a pair of binoculars but they were so badly fogged we couldn't make out details. Just a big homind figure. There are many more times and incidents I could relate but they go back to the mid 1970's. So I will stick with the present.","The hominid ran across hwy 441, the location was maybe a 1/3 the distance between Ft. Drum and Okeechobee. I would rather not put the location on the site for fear the locals will go and try to hunt it. There have been reports of a panther and somet took to the woods with guns. Several years ago an escaped or released python was sited and some people wouldn't rest until the had killed it. That's the mentality around here.","Okeechobee County","Florida","Winter","Report 7904: Woman observes small bipedal creature cross 441 near Ft. Drum",27.3973,-80.8044,"2004-01-18",7904.0,"Class A","dhyec780c4",70.8,66.41499999999999,62.03,61.24,0.91,0.57,0.88,0.0341,1.0,"rain",1011.3,"Heavy rain until afternoon.",3.0,7.97,212.0,3.46,"RES.SEASON"], [1438,4249,"I am a security officer in Jacksonville, FL. I was on duty in an area know as Deerwood Park. Located in a quickly developing area that was once owned by Skinners Dairy. The area is still heavily wooded. Two weeks ago I was on duty in a building and went outside to smoke a cigarette. I was outside for 5 minutes. I heard a noise like something moving through the tree line. I turned my head toward the noise and the noise stopped. I called on of our vehicle patrols in the area and we moved to the tree line to investigate. We could hear the movement of something very large making very suttle movement. The officer with me and myself felt very uneasy. Laying on the ground 8-10 feet from the tree line was a branch from a pine tree. The needles on the branch were still green.There were no burn marks at the break to indicate lightning had struck. The branch was approximatly 3 inches in diameter and appears to have been broken and then ripped from the tree.What ever it was,sounded as though it moved away from us through the marsh land. This whole incident really creeped me out.On Fri/9-1-00 at about the same time 2:30A.M. The same patrol officer and myself were again standing outside the building I guard. We heard a sonic alarm coming from the building to the north of our location. The patrol officer I was talking to walked back to his car to drive over and investigate. The alarm stopped as though it reset or was deactivated. I informed the patrol officer that it was probably the cleaning crew. As we continued talking about what we were going to do in the gym that mourning. The officer I was talking to turned his head and his eyes got real big. He replyed.\" Look at that\". I turned around and looked toward the tree line and observed nothing. The patrol officer I was talking to sped off in his vehicle in the direction of the trees and I followed on foot. We searched the area and found nothing. The officer told me that he observed heavly built individual who's estimated height was between 7-8 feet in height. The individual appeared all black. The officer I was talking to said when he told me to look, the subject had crossed out of my line of site around another building 100 feet to the south of our location. This officer appeared to be very serious about what he saw. On Sun/9-3-00. I was talking to the other officer who works the same area. He told me of a resident he talked to six months ago,who lives 1 mile to the east of my post. This resident inquired if we did foot patrols through his community? Which was at the time was sparsley populated. When the officer said, \"no\". The resident continued that a few nights before around dusk he heard a splash in the lake behind his house. What he saw climb out of the lake and walk toward the south and into the trees was exactly what the other officer told me he saw. The resident further stated that this was a regular occurance.","Off I-95. The area sits between Southside Blvd. to the west. J.Turner Butler Blvd. to the north. Gate Parkway to the east and 9-A St. Johns Bluff Road to south.","Duval County","Florida","Summer","Report 446: Security Guards have sighting while on duty near Jacksonville",30.2333,-81.52915,"2000-09-22",446.0,"Class A","djq5bzb39p",82.09,78.67500000000001,75.26,76.81,0.91,0.33,0.81,0.0162,1.0,"rain",1016.23,"Rain until evening.",5.0,8.52,140.0,5.03,"RES.SEASON"], [1441,581,"Me and my wife picked my mother up from work in Lima, OH at 2 AM. We were traveling down 117S/E and turned left on Philips rd. We were on our way home and drove across the second bridge when a dark shape on the south side of the road caught my attention, and apparently my wife and mother also. I had not said anything until they said they saw something, my suspicions were now confirmed. I stopped the car and backed up. Whatever it was appeared to have been laying in the ditch that goes under the bridge and when I backed the car up it appeared to get up and lean over as if shielding itself and seemed as if it realized we could see it. The creature stood up and rushed at our car. It seemed that it covered about 30 feet effortlessly, it was very fast I think we were all shocked. I floored the car without thinking. I asked them if it was still behind us. They said it had come out into the road behind us. I got the feeling that it had wanted to scare us off. I questioned my wife and mother about what they had seen. We all saw the same thing. I just seen the immense size of it and it looked like it had very coarse looking hair. My mother and wife said it had a very large belly and was of a very thick build. My wife said it had a round head and no neck.","Hardin/ Allen County line, near Rt.117/235","Hardin County","Ohio","Spring","Report 8446: Three motorists have early morning road sighting near Hardin/Allen county line",40.6559,-83.9374,"2004-03-25",8446.0,"Class A","dphr3cntuc",65.4,60.895,56.39,45.66,0.64,0.95,0.15,0.002,1.0,"rain",1026.41,"Light rain in the morning.",4.0,9.99,201.0,9.24,"RES.SEASON"], [1446,1462,"While driving home with my mother at 01:12 hours, on Tuesday, August 07, 2001, in Washtenaw County, Michigan. My Mother and I observed a large hairy creature kneeling on the north side of Geddes Road, (edited). The creature was not a bear and closely resembled an ape like human form, covered with dark brown hair, but lighter in the facial area, with broad shoulders. The head seemed to be part of the shoulder area with no neck. The area around the head had longer hair in the back. After passing the creature, my Mom turned the car around and headed back westbound on Geddes Road, but the creature had fled north into the wooded area.","(edited)","Washtenaw County","Michigan","Summer","Report 2953: 2 witnesses see a BF at night in the headlights",42.30472,-83.60472,"2001-08-07",2953.0,"Class A","dps89t2fug",94.51,83.17500000000001,71.84,71.31,0.69,0.18,0.6,0.0009,1.0,"rain",1017.55,"Humid throughout the day and partly cloudy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",8.0,9.73,268.0,7.89,"RES.SEASON"], [1449,2726,"Hello, I am reluctant to place this report; for two reasons, one the siting was from my son when he was about six or seven, and it happened in a populated area. At the time I lived with my grandmother in Menomonee Falls Wisconsin, I had lived here also throughout my life, this is a suburb of Milwaukee. The thing is, behind us was a swamp and around us it was pretty wooded. Through my life strange things would happen by our house; strange bangings on the side of our house, really bad stench (always dismissed as skunks), items being eaten in my grandmothers garden, and walnuts being all over the place. These things could have happened with other animals. My neighbor had a stange event once. Anyway, my grandmothers house was a 100 year old farm house. It had a porch and a couple of large windows facing it, in the inside of this part of the house was a little front room with a couch, then the main living room was on the inside of the house next to this room. My son and I had slept on the first floor because it was so hot upstairs, (my grandmother didn't want air), well my son woke me up and said something strange was looking at him, he was really frightned, so he slept next to me on the floor. Well I was on this website and I showed my son one of your pictures, and he said that is what he saw. I am really not sure if he had seen anything or not, my son is very honest. What I am trying to find out mainly is there other reports in this area? It would explain some things, but I don't want to jump to conclusions. I have been trying to find information about Bigfoot in Wisconsin, your site has been helpful; it just seems odd to have a sighting in Menomonee Falls. There is a heavy deer population there and in the surrounding area, it is heavly wooded. I live in Sussex now, and when I first moved here the local paper had an article about how Bigfoot was seen here in the 1950's. I am just trying to find out if there have been reports in this area. Trying to confirm sons story.","My Grandmother does not own the house anymore. Don't want to cause a disturbance with the guy who purchased house.","Waukesha County","Wisconsin","Summer","Report 9295: Possible sighting by child, and other incidents near Menomonee Falls",43.1575,-88.1255,"1997-08-15",9295.0,"Class B","dp9md8sfxj",80.33,75.145,69.96,66.67,0.83,0.55,0.4,0.0112,1.0,"rain",1000.83,"Rain in the morning and breezy until afternoon.",7.0,8.36,223.0,9.02,"RES.SEASON"], [1450,21,"It was August of 1977 and I had missed my ride home from Hacketstown NJ to Byram NJ. The road to get back to Byram is Waterloo Rd. It was about 9:30-10:00 PM so I decided to hitch hike it on Waterloo hoping that someone would give me a lift back to HWY-206. It was very dark and as I was walking past Stephens State Park and then the old Saxton Falls area, I could hear something that sounded like it was on 2 feet stalking me in the woods on the ridge side of Waterloo Rd. It got very interesting when I started sprinting, it also started sprinting keeping up with me for what seemed like at least a mile. When I would walk, it would walk. It was loud as it went thru the woods as I stayed on the road hoping for a car to pick me up. Eventually I did get a ride near a few houses after passing an old Tavern on the river side of Waterloo Rd.","Waterloo Road, near the Sussex - Warren County border.","Warren County","New Jersey","Summer","Report 49883: Recollection of a possible late night stalking on Waterloo Road in Allamuchy",40.89452,-74.79077,"2015-10-02",49883.0,"Class B","dr6bdhe5be",49.06,46.650000000000006,44.24,44.41,0.87,0.93,0.67,0.0092,0.99,"rain",1022.92,"Light rain starting in the afternoon.",3.0,9.16,45.0,2.87,"RES.SEASON"], [1462,408,"Late in the evening I was pulling my car around the apartment complex when I saw what I thought was a bear. The next day after seeing the tracks near the garbage dumpster area I was convinced it was a Bigfoot. I called the police to show them the footprints and the police laughed at me. I took pictures of them because we had a light snow fall the day before. My father who was from the West Virginia Mountains and knows animal tracks said the tracks couldn't be a bears because of the way the prints were deeper in front and so far apart. As long as eight feet apart he said. At one point my father said it looked like it was reaching for something. The police said that years ago there was a bear in the area, but what I saw the night before and what we saw the next morning was not anything close to a bear. But I will say I felt at peace when I saw him the night before. I wasn't frightened at all. Its face wasn't scary, it was more like a lost and lonely puppy. For years many people in the apartment building and police department made fun of me. But I know what I saw and for being the biggest cowered around I honestly wasn't scared.","Off of State Route 62 on Logangate Road in Liberty Township.","Trumbull County","Ohio","Winter","Report 5262: Woman see's a large bear like thing standing next to dumpster. The next day she finds large human like five toed tracks where it was standing heading into the woods",41.1462,-80.62124,"1997-11-01",5262.0,"Class B","dpqdj6mmuz",55.85,49.895,43.94,47.87,0.85,0.92,0.04,0.0139,1.0,"rain",1003.05,"Rain until evening, starting again overnight.",2.0,5.95,134.0,7.76,"RES.SEASON"], [1478,318,"The town of Albion is small, there are woods, fields & streams just on the outskirts of town. With the time being around 2:00am in the morning, there were no sounds of any traffic or industrial sounds. The weather was excellent; no clouds, not the slightest breeze. My girlfriend and I had turned in for bed at around 1:30-1:45 am. We were talking to each other, just little chit chat when we both heard a far off howl/moan! At that time of night and that there was no wind to disturb the trees and hamper what we heard, it sounded like it came from the south maybe a mile or a mile and a half. The sound started low and kept going up in pitch for about 5 seconds. We both looked at each other and said \"What the hell was that?!\" Now what really freaked us out is that it did it again, only at around 6-7 seconds! It was like, \"Ooooaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh-----\" Now I consider myself an excellent observer with a very keen ear. I can hear things that most people either don't, or just overlook. What we heard was NOT anything mechanical nor was it a whistle. It sounded like it traveled over some distance; not like it was down the street. I am very fimiliar with all kinds of traffic noises that are associated with small towns. Even before we had heard it, we both had noticed how silent it was for quite some time. After the howl/moan, there was an echo. The sound went up in scale and didn't go down like a siren or anything like that. It wasn't a cry for help or a wolf nor any coyote (I have heard a coyote three times, once from only 200 yards)","The incident took place right in town, but being so early in the morning it was dead quiet; no traffic noise, no wind, nothing.","Orleans County","New York","Summer","Report 7939: Powerful vocalizations heard near town of Albion, NY",43.2265,-78.1946,"2002-08-22",7939.0,"Class B","dr8muthktg",82.25,74.14500000000001,66.04,64.99,0.79,0.74,0.49,0.0008,1.0,"rain",1016.09,"Overcast throughout the day.",4.0,8.33,239.0,4.76,"RES.SEASON"], [1482,3077,"I was 11 yrs old and we often visited my dads family during the summer break. We arrived about 11pm and were all sitting around talking (4 men, 3 women & 5 kids). I noticed my grandmother kept looking over her right shoulder towards the large kitchen window. She suddenly grabbed my grandfathers leg and whispered \"Benny, there’s something in that window\". My grandfather looked at the window and calmly went into his bedroom. He called my father and uncles in after him. I got up and went in also as my granddad was taking guns off the rack and he said, \"There is something at that back window; we got to run it off\". My dad and his brothers smiled at each other, thinking it was a joke until granddad loaded his double barrel 12ga (paw-paw did NOT play with guns). My dad & uncles took the guns and ammo handed them and started for the front door. I being the oldest grandson tagged along at the rear (with an unloaded .22 rifle) feeling like I was one of the men. I remember feeling scared but also brave going out in the dark to deal with this bear or whatever it was. Granddad and uncle got to the rear of the house, turned the corner and froze in their tracks. My uncle said \"Daddy what the hell?\" My grandad fired both barrels one after the other. I dropped my gun spun around, heading back to the front door which was locked tight! I was pounding on the door and screaming, “Let me in!” I looked to my left and where the roof meets the wall of the house I saw the outline of one shoulder and a head and two small greenish yellow eyes reflect in the porch light. During this time the men were at the rear of the house, the women and kid's were inside screaming because of the shotgun blasts, and I was pounding on the front door all, within about 5 seconds of the shots. My dad came around from the right side looking for me. I pointed to it and he put me behind him, yelling for them to open the door. In about 30 minutes we were all back in the house and pretty well freaked out. None of us slept well that night. I do remember my granddad talking to himself saying, \"Wonder where them dogs got off to?\" A couple Years later, I asked my granddad what is was he saw that night and he said it was not a bear that’s for sure. By the way, the kitchen window is about 8 feet off the ground due to the slope of the mountain.","about 8 miles from town limits.","Mercer County","West Virginia","Summer","Report 24061: Family gathering interrupted by 8-foot tall visitor at the kitchen window",37.445,-80.17,"1979-08-10",24061.0,"Class A","dnwvp8tuzt",85.25,75.25999999999999,65.27,68.23,0.84,0.23,0.59,0.013,1.0,"rain",1015.91,"Partly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",9.0,5.88,264.0,5.42,"RES.SEASON"], [1486,586,"I had two experience's with what I believe to be the Grassman in 2007. The first encounter happened on a strip pond. We took a boat back to a spot along the high wall to where there was a flat spot to camp. We set up camp, fished, cooked, and then went to bed around 11 PM. At approximately 4 AM, I was awaken to heavy footsteps walking down over the near vertical high wall. It approached the tent and I heard heavy raspy breathing. After a few seconds, I cleared my throat. Then to my amazement, it cleared its throat mimicking me. At that point I started screaming I had a gun. My friend would not wake up for some reason. I finally calmed down some and could hear it walk down to the water. Once there, I could hear it sipping water out of its hands. After that, it walked back to the tent, sat for a minute then walked back up the hill. The next morning we found 18 inch tracks right on the edge of the reeds. About two weeks later, we were walking to a boat that was on a pond about a quarter mile away. Then, I saw what looked to be a ten foot stump with two eyes watching us. I told my friend and he blew it off as just a tree. So we went out on the pond and after a while we smelled a strong wet dog and feces smell. After that, we started to get scared so we went back to the spot where the boat was kept. We looked for the giant stump that we had seen earlier but could not find it.","16 road outside of Harrisville","Harrison County","Ohio","Summer","Report 63140: Multiple encounters near an old strip mine just outside of Harrisville.",40.16912,-80.62003,"2020-02-06",63140.0,"Class B","dpnst2w614",41.47,34.73,27.99,34.78,0.91,1.0,0.42,0.0315,0.98,"rain",998.0,"Rain throughout the day.",2.0,6.644,346.0,4.44,"RES.SEASON"], [1487,3186,"Hiking the Seven Sisters Trail from Mt Holyoke to the Notch in the Hadley / Amherst area of Massachusetts. My hiking partner and I got to Taylor's Notch and could hear the wind ripping through making eerie noises. We both heard a lot of whistling and breaking branches which I initially attributed to the wind going through the rocky ledges of Taylor's Notch. We hiked over one large hill and the wind was lessening but we realized the whistling was closer and then there were whooping noises and calls along with the whistles. The calls were going back and forth and I realized we were surrounded. We kept talking loudly hoping to scare off any animals and kept my bear spray in hand for the next mile or so. Not sure what it was but highly unusual and did not sound like a grown or baby bear,canine, coyote, mountain lion, or fox. I frequently hike and spend time outdoors. I am at a loss as to what was with us that day. I am going back soon to see if I can find more.","The Seven Sisters is a group of Peaks within the Holyoke Mountain Range.","Hampshire County","Massachusetts","Summer","Report 65996: Hikers report Sasquatch stalking south of Amherst",42.30283,-72.53766,"2020-08-26",65996.0,"Class B","drs2tkgxy5",73.69,65.32,56.95,45.96,0.53,0.19,0.3,0.0003,0.09,"rain",1012.0,"Clear throughout the day.",7.0,10.0,310.0,7.25,"RES.SEASON"], [1498,2881,"I found two unknown animal footprints, one I stepped on and destroyed, the other an obvious right foot. The print seemed a week or more old.","Bandera Airstrip. 3/4 mile from end of USFS Road off I-90. The site is 100 yards to the east (upriver) from the western end of the airstrip, within sight of I-90.","King County","Washington","Spring","Report 1386: Two unsusual man-like tracks discovered",47.3958,-121.5356,"1998-05-18",1386.0,"Class B","c23tdkhkx3",52.18,47.69,43.2,31.55,0.59,0.85,0.74,0.0055,1.0,"rain",1021.94,"Light rain until afternoon.",4.0,6.02,256.0,7.96,"RES.SEASON"], [1509,2411,"this all started when we were asked to be night watchmen for a logging company to watch the big equipment during the summer months of july and august. it was last week of july when we got there . first incedent we went fishing at the pond there and as we were there for about 1 hour and all of sudden we heard a strange short scream with a deep tone off to one side then behind us was another short scream witch sounded like a responce to the first scream. the sound of these screams startled us to as what this could be. my boyfriend has been a hunter and has lived in around these areas for years never have he or i heard a sound like that. then about 15 min or so another scream back and forth to eachother while we are in the middle then about 7 ducks come out of the bush right at us as more screams were let out by this thing. we emediatly ran to the car and went to drive back to our trailor. another duck came threw the trees and flew directly into the windshield as i kept driving. about two days latter as i was checking the equipment and making sure they were all locked up as i was walking back down the hill the sun was on the back side of this thing. it looked as though something was down in the water drinking i could here the snorkling as i was standing there thinking posible elks but because the fur seemed to be dark and long kind of a burnt red color. as i stood watching this looked to be a huge log standing up with lots of fur. i couldnt move i just froze. i couldnt scream i simply couldnt move. this thing turned and took one huge step over the top of a log on the ground i thought it was coming after me. then i finally started running down the hill to my boyfriend screams coming out of me and then screams coming out of this thing i yelled as loud as i could for him to run to the trailor. we got over by the door of the trailor. my boyfriend was still over by the car he then heard this thing screaming as it was headed toward the trees then the branches were breaking as screams and then screams down behind us we both went into the trailor. i was so scarred i couldnt leave the trailor. my boyfriend went back out side and listened it sounded as though it was done. he came back into the trailor and asked me what i saw i told him this thing it just came out of the ground. he said a bear i said no taller than a bear like andre the giant just stepping over the rope thats how big this thing was 8 or 9 foot tall easy the following morning we went out to look for some kind of foot prints saw a couple about 4 foot split between them. the trees were up rooted some were twisted bend down twisted broken off about 7 foot up the tree . we desided to stay. maybe we could comunicate .... we got comunication by screaming threw the construction cone witch worked almost right away. my boyfriend would scream threw the cone then about 5 min this thing would scream possably 10 yards into the tree line or just very loud. eather way it was the same screams and noises as down at the pond. as days and nights went by my boyf would keep in contact with this thing it would answer all the time when it was close. the twigs and branches we placed in the ground scinny side pushed into the ground the trees were not the branches of the trees around pushed into the ground. we then saw stumps that were completely surrounded by branches and branches weeved into trees and looked to beds we found hand prints where the beds were we found hair trapped into the ground like a straw bed. other things were happening also but i would like to talk to someone about this ordeal i still have nightmares about this please if you read my story contact me thank you Investigators Addition The following is a narrative based on an interview with the witnesses at their home on 3/15/08. The witnesses arrived at the logging site on July 20th 2003. Their job was night watchmen over the logging equipment. It was their responsibility. They were on duty all night. They were off duty during the daylight hours while the equipment was being used. First Site: The first location is where most of the activity occurred. From the gate the pond is three miles up the road on what they call the Main Line. The trailer was parked a mile further down the road beyond the pond. A large clear cut was on the north side of the trailer site. A road ran north through the clear cut, bending to the east about in the middle. A spur road extended north from the bend in the road and ended at the tree line. First encounter – The pond. Date: August 1st Time: Dusk Moon: New The couple was fishing at the pond in the late afternoon. They had been fishing for about an hour when suddenly the first creature screamed, then in a few seconds the second creature screamed. It was just getting dark. The witnesses could not see what they were, but said that the creatures were only about 40 yards to each side of them. The first creature was across the pond to the right side, and the second creature was on their side to their left. The second creature was just beyond where they parked their car. Not knowing what it was that was screaming, they became afraid and decided to leave. As they were rapidly trying to get to the car, a flock of ducks was flushed from the brush at the end of the pond where the first creature screamed from. The ducks were very spooked. The witnesses jumped into their car and began to head towards their trailer when two very frightened ducks rocketed through the timber between the pond and the road and one actually collided with the driver’s side mirror of their car. Second Encounter – Eyes in the clear cut. Date: August 2nd Time: 12:00-1:00AM Moon: New Location: Up in the clear cut, near the logging equipment, which was parked about halfway between the road and the tree line along the right side of the spur road. Later that night, (after the encounter at the pond) they walked up the road into the clear-cut to check on the equipment. They took a laser light pen with them. After checking the equipment to make sure it was locked up, they were looking to see what might be out in the clear cut (like deer, elk, bear, etc.), when they saw three sets of red colored eyes close to the ground, in the open, just to the left of the spur road. The eyes moved from the left of the road up, onto the road. When the witnesses shined the laser light on the creatures, the eyes seemed to bob and weave trying to duck away from the laser light. The creatures stayed close to the ground, with one set almost on the ground, and the other two higher up. When the laser light hit the creatures, they could see hair about four inches long. Then one set of eyes rose up to be about six feet above the road. They assumed it stood up. Then all three creatures turned and walked away, up the spur road to the tree line. At the tree line, they turned left and headed down through the trees. The witnesses said that they could hear branches breaking as they walked. They could also hear vocalizations periodically. It sounded like two people who were very annoyed, and complaining. The screams were short vocalizations, like shouts, and were exactly the same as they heard near the pond. That ended the second encounter. Third Encounter - Whistling, Date: August 2nd Moon: New Time: Late afternoon to dusk Location: Halfway between the pond and their trailer, on the north side of the main-line road. The next day, the witnesses decided to take a walk. It was late afternoon. They walked from their trailer back towards the pond and then went up a cat road for a distance. They then turned around because it was getting dark. The boyfriend was getting an uneasy feeling about the situation. As they were walking out, they began to hear a flute like whistle. When they would stop to listen, the whistle would stop. When they started to walk again, the whistle would start up again. What was making the whistling sound followed them all the way back to the main road. They could not identify what was making the sound. Fourth Encounter – The little one Date: August 6th Time: 11:30 PM Moon: ½ full Location: At the creek which ran down from the clear cut and past the trailer. The female witness went to get water from the creek. She was up in the clear cut a short distance, at a place on the creek where it was easy to fill up the water jugs. She was crouching down filling up her water jugs when she looked up and saw two yellowish looking eyes framed by black, shiny skin. She could see the eyes, nose, cheeks, and forehead. It was five feet away,but down on the ground, looking up at her. She said softly, “You stay right there.”, and backed away. She went to get her boyfriend. When they came back a few minutes later the creature was gone. Fifth Encounter – The big one Date: August 7th Time: Dusk, 10:00 PM Moon: A little more than ½ full Location: In the clear cut, at the head of the little stream that flowed out of the clear cut and past the trailer. The next night, just at dusk, they could still see well enough to work on their car, which was having problems. It was about 10:00 PM. There were big black bees that kept them inside the trailer during the day, so they went back out after the bees went away to work on the car. The female witness walked up the road leading into to clear cut to check on the logging equipment and make sure that the doors were all closed and locked. Having done that, she was walking back towards the trailer, when she heard this “snorkeling sound” over by the creek. She walked over to take a look at what might be there and saw this big, fur covered butt about 60-70 feet away. At first she thought it might be a bear or an elk. It was on its knees, bending forward, drinking from the creek. Then it stood up as if in slow motion. She said that it looked like a big stump just growing out of the ground. Then it stepped over a 3 foot high stump. She said the creature was 8-9 feet tall, and moved like Andre the Giant stepping into a wrestling ring. She said the hair was a burnt red color with gray tips. She then ran in fear down towards the trailer, screaming as she ran. She stated that she didn’t know if it was chasing her or not, but she could hear it screaming also. Her boyfriend, hearing her, walked across the road to see what was going on. He said that the creature was moving away, screaming. He said that it threw a fit up in the trees. It was yelling and screaming, breaking trees and branches. The screaming was the same sound as they heard down by the pond. This was the first time they realized what they were encountering. Sixth Encounter – Tree breaking Date: August 8th Time: Approximately midnight Moon: A little more than half full Location: 40 yards from the trailer. The same night they saw the big one in the clear cut, they went out to get water from the creek, but stayed close to the trailer, within 40 yards. They wanted to be close enough to run to safety if necessary. While getting water, they heard a creature walking in the woods close by. The boyfriend threw some rocks in the direction of the sounds. The creature reacted to the rock throwing by violently shaking a small tree. It shook the tree so hard that it fell over. This scared the witness, so he fired his one shot into the air to scare the creature away, and yelled, “Stay away!” At this, the creature went silent and walked away. After the shot, the male creature made a call from above and behind them in the clear cut. By this time, they could identify the two individuals by the sound of their voices. The male makes a louder, deeper call. The female voice is higher pitched, not as loud as the male, and has a distinctive short howling sound she makes at the end of her vocalizations. After the 5th and 6th encounters, they started walking in the woods during the day, looking for tracks. They found impressions in the moss which were quite large. The interesting thing about the impressions is that there would be a deep heel print, then an undisturbed space, then the front of the foot. The stride was 4 ½ feet. At one muddy bank, the found a track where the sasquatch tried to step up the bank, but it’s foot slipped and made a long five toed slide mark in the mud. They began to find stick structures in the shape of tripods and tee-pees. There were large ones and very small ones. The interesting thing is that the structures were made with the tips of the poles inserted into the ground and the root end up in the air. They found lines of single poles stuck in the ground, tip end down, like trail markers. They found lean-to type structures made against a large tree, and there was what appeared to be a sleeping nest under it. Inside they found hair, which looks like elk hair, and a full hand print. The hand print was close to human proportions but dinner-plate large. They found a log laying on the ground that had sticks arranged leaning on the log at even intervals. The couple constructed their own tee-pee near where they found the stick structures and the sleeping nest. The idea was to make a structure as a blind, and then hide out in it at night to see what might show up. They leaned poles up against the side of a big stump and lodged the lower ends into the stump roots. Then they wove sticks horizontally. They spent several hours that night inside this blind. After a few hours, with nothing happening, they decided to go back to the trailer. They said, “I wonder what the sasquatches will think of our structure.” As they were walking away, they heard one of the sasquatches hoot at them. They were being watched the whole time. The next day, they went back to check on their structure, and found it disassembled, and the sticks neatly stacked in three piles. Later, they decided to try to mimic the calls they were hearing. They used a construction cone as a megaphone, and by making a call while sucking in air, the male witness was able to imitate the calls. When he called, the creatures would almost always answer. This interaction continued intermittently until the end of August. The creatures seemed curious about them and hung around at each of the three locations where they camped. They would hear vocalizations from time to time. They said that it would be what they called the “squawk” call, and sometimes there would be wood-knocks or rock-clacking. They heard both the male and female. The couple was stationed at the first logging site for about one month before being moved to the next logging site about a mile away. This move happened around the first of September. Second site. The couple stayed at the second site for about three weeks. During this time, they would hear heavy, raspy, breathing from time to time as one of the creatures walked by their trailer. There was a lot of human activity at this time. The sasquatches curious about them, but left them alone. Third site. They stayed at the third site for two weeks. At this site, they explored the woods around the area. They found stick structures, impressions, and the beds. The end. The third week of September, they told the logging crew boss about what they had seen and experienced. He was not surprised, but said, “Don’t tell anybody!”. He said that they were afraid that if it was proven that there really were sasquatches then the woods would be closed to logging. The next day, the witnesses were fired. They were told that their services were no longer required. This was supposed to be a six month job. Three days later, while they were in town, the logging company pulled their trailer out of the woods and left it by the highway.","Between the town of Morton and Riffe Lake.","Lewis County","Washington","Summer","Report 22475: Night watchmen at logging camp near Morton describes multiple incidents",46.52352,-122.3045,"2003-08-15",22475.0,"Class A","c2308vke4s",67.7,60.745000000000005,53.79,51.42,0.65,1.0,0.62,0.0003,0.31,"rain",1019.88,"Overcast until evening.",4.0,10.0,255.0,0.87,"RES.SEASON"], [1515,1436,"My boyfriend was driving me and some friends through a wooded area near Mio, Michigan. It is some dirt roads to the left of 33(This was my first time to this part so I am not certain, exactly where I was). We were cruising along looking at the woods that had been recently burned down. Down the road right after this hill, my boyfriend and I both saw a white figure crossing the road. Jokingly he says \"there is sasquatch\", we both just assumed it was a human since it was walking upright across the road. I was unsure how how big it was since we were far down the road. When we got over the hill, I made a reference to seeing something and figuring it was a human wondering why there wasnt a car in sight. We then began talking about how strange this whole thing was. We went back to the area we saw him crossing the road and looked for footprints but the road didnt show prints. We speculated on the reasons for someone being in the deserted woods. Needless to say, we drove around in circles for an hour looking. I had the weirdest feeling in my stomach knowing I saw something different. I did not really think I saw a sasquatch until I came home and did a little research.","I am unsure, but I can get them from my friend if needed","Oscoda County","Michigan","Summer","Report 15150: Possible daylight sighting by backwoods motorist couple near Huron National Forest",44.53665,-84.16389,"2006-07-09",15150.0,"Class B","dpujkg9sz1",84.04,69.12,54.2,60.6,0.69,0.5,0.44,0.0183,1.0,"rain",1011.61,"Rain starting in the evening.",9.0,9.41,232.0,4.94,"RES.SEASON"], [1519,214,"On April 15, 2011 my sons and I were camping at Mahlon Dickerson Reservation near Jefferson Township, NJ. The temperature was approximately 52 degrees and the day was overcast. At around 3 PM the three of us struck out from our campsite directly into the timber. There was no overgrowth and the trees were still bare. This is the reason we didn’t take any of the marked trails in the area. The terrain is very rocky and over the next hour we hiked and climbed. Circling back into the camp area we emerged at the far end and headed toward the road that runs the length of the campsite. From our position on the road, immediately to our right would be the beginning of a two-way trail. The lower trail heads off and skirts the bottom of the mountain while the upper trail heads up it. As we got to the road I looked over my right shoulder (Why I did this I still do not know. In other words, there was no noise that I heard or any other reason I can think of that made me turn around). There, at the beginning of the upper trail was a tall bulky black figure. It moved from right to left. Its arms were long and swung in large motions as it walked. The head was dome shaped and very close to the shoulders. In fact, it seemed that it would have had to turn its entire body to look in any direction other than straight ahead. It walked out of site rather quickly. I was completely caught off guard when I saw it. My very first thought was why is this guy walking up the trail wearing black from head to toe? That’s when it hit me that no one would. Sure there are hikers and mountain bikers on the trails but not at this time of year during a work day. In fact, we had spent the previous night here and were the only campers on the grounds. There had been no visitors to the grounds the entire day save one woman who came to walk her small dog. The next thought that ran through my mind was how big it was. It did not appear to be exceptionally tall (not eight feet tall anyway) but the sheer girth of the thing was impressive. It seemed to me that it could have wrestled a bear and easily won. I have to admit that it took me a few seconds to gather my wits once it had moved out of sight. Once I did I told the boys to stay behind me and we moved up to where I had seen it. Once we reached the area I looked to the right where I had first seen it come into view and got another small surprise. I had thought it was walking along the upper trail when I first spotted it. However, that trail began where I had first seen it. The direction it came from was an off trail wooded area. We did follow the trail for about ten minutes but I decided to abandon it and head back to camp when the kids got spooked. On the way back I had my 12 year old, 155lbs, 5’6” son stand at the top of the trail where I had first seen the thing while I went back to my original spot where I first saw it. Whatever I saw that day was an easy 12” taller and three times bigger around than my son. Those are the facts. Now, I have to add that my impression of this thing was one of curiosity. I had been having a feeling, not an overwhelming feeling but a feeling none the less, that as we hiked off trail that day we were being watched. I never felt threatened or perceived any danger or I certainly would have moved my boys right out of there. It seems to me that it had been watching us and once we had left its area and gotten back to ours it was more than happy to move on its way.","Mahlon Dickerson Reservation","Morris County","New Jersey","Spring","Report 29139: Afternoon sighting while hiking at Mahlon Dickerson Reservation",41.01941,-74.57013,"2013-02-15",29139.0,"Class A","dr6cr57eqh",49.84,39.27,28.7,28.78,0.74,0.32,0.19,0.0001,0.39,"rain",1014.84,"Light snow overnight.",4.0,3.03,245.0,1.27,"RES.SEASON"], [1539,1449,"On August 1st, 2020, my 3 sons and I were out for a day-trip drive along the Lake Huron shoreline, north of Lexington, MI. There's many stretches of wooded areas on the lake side of the road, and rural farmland on the west side, along this route. At approximately 12:50 PM, 1 and a half to 2 miles south of Port Sanilac, MI, we were driving northbound on M-25, and my oldest son (15 yrs), seated next to me in the front, said \"Oh my God\" and stared straight ahead. I was still driving, and asked him what was wrong. He didn't initially answer and his 13 year old brother (seated behind him in the backseat) also asked him what was the matter. He finally spurted out \"I just saw a bigfoot!\". I thought he was joking at first, as he's always been a notable skeptic of my interest in Sasquatch research. But he adamantly insisted he wasn't kidding and described what he saw in the woods on the east side (Lakeside) of the road. He said he saw a large dark figure walking south through the woods. He says it was too a dark in the canopy of the woods to see a face, but the reason he noticed it at all was that it was moving exactly like the figure \"in that old grainy footage that everyone always talks about\" (the Patterson footage). He says the arms were longer than its torso and that he could tell it had fur much in the same way you can tell a dog has fur from a distance, that it wasn't skin that he was seeing. It was definitely walking, not standing still, and it's arms were swinging. He guesses that it was around 100 yards or less away. He estimates that it was around 8 feet tall (he said his impression of it made him feel short. My son is 6' 2\"). He says it had very broad shoulders. He was able to watch it for approximately 5 seconds as we traveled in the opposite direction that it was headed. As soon as he told me what he'd seen, I turned around and drove back to the location. Traffic was moderately steady, being a summer Saturday afternoon, so it took a couple minutes to return to the exact spot and then find a safe spot nearby to pull off. We didn't see anything at that point, but I pinned the area on my GPS. The exact coordinates are 43.391164, -82.539186","Location on Map: 43.391164, -82.539186","Sanilac County","Michigan","Summer","Report 65867: Daylight sighting along Lake Huron north of Lexington",43.39116,-82.53918,"2020-08-01",65867.0,"Class A","dptqcg0gcd",77.95,73.80000000000001,69.65,67.06,0.8,0.42,0.45,0.0017,0.28,"rain",1012.1,"Possible light rain overnight.",7.0,9.995,52.0,8.18,"RES.SEASON"], [1545,2434,"Our family was on an excursion to Summit Creek Campground, located off of Highway 12 in Yakima County. In the early afternoon we hiked up the north side of Laurel Mountain to a series of caves. On the way up I observed 1 foot print and my son-in-law observed another one. I took photographs of the foot prints with a water bottle and my foot for reference. No other unusual activity was observed or heard.","Near Summit Creek Campground on Laurel Mountain underneath the caves.","Lewis County","Washington","Spring","Report 65538: Tracks Reported 5/24/2020 Lewis County Washington",46.71444,-121.5406,"2020-05-24",65538.0,"Class B","c239f20g6f",61.4,53.120000000000005,44.84,43.47,0.79,0.98,0.08,0.0012,0.28,"rain",1019.5,"Foggy in the evening and overnight.",4.0,7.104,251.0,1.87,"RES.SEASON"], [1552,4658,"It was midsummer of 1990, I was living alone in a mobile home in the woods adjoining Shawnee National Forest. I decided to go for a walk in the woods because I was bored and was thinking about shooting my rifle a bit. Nothing special, just what I normally did as a youth (since I'm not much of a people person I spent a lot of my youth in the woods). I was walking up a field road that passed thru a patch of woods that led to a larger feild on top of a hill a few hundred feet away. As I got halfway up the hill, I was suddenly shocked by a very loud whistle that was quickly followed by a scream that I had heard many times before as a kid. I knew from previous experience that I didn't want to hang around even though I was \"armed to the teeth\". I was 19 going on 20 at the time and I've spent the majority of my youth spending time alone in the woods, hunted almost everything in the area that could be legally hunted, so I know what the normal sounds of the woods are, and no, it wasn't a swine, bear , coon, or any other such creature. The scream I heard instantly filled me with fear even though I had an 8mm Hakim Mauser, 12 ga. shotgun, and a 22 cal. pistol. I always went hunting heavily armed because I have stumbled across sasquatch a few times before and decided that next time I'd be more prepared. I was about halfway up the hill when I heard the scream a few ridges over (1/2-3/4mi away from me). I quickly turned and decided to call it a night, as I was walking down the hill, I heard another scream at the top of the hill I was walking down (either they can run like hell or there were two). Before I got to the bottom of the hill, I then decided that although I had a lot of weapons and ammo, this wasn't anything that I wanted to shoot alone at night with only a maglite taped to my barrel. I figured running for the road would take too long and a more direct route would be better, so I cut across the field and jumped the creek behind my house. I guess I didn't notice till after I had crossed the creek, but it had followed me home (which wasn't far, maybe a few hundred yards). I can tell you that to keep up with a terrified 20yr old running faster than ever before, that thing had to be extremely fast. I stood by the back porch and could hear its heavy breathing and growling. It sounded kinda like a horse that had just run till it was winded, but the breathing wasn't labored. It was breathing in a normal rhythmic tone, not labored. I was terrified because even after firing a few rounds in it's direction I could still \"feel\" it's presence and hear it, so I unloaded in that direction. I fired over 100 shells thru the Hakim, a full box of shells from the 12ga. and every shell I had for my 22 before I ran in the house to grab more ammo and turn some more lights on. I must've shot around 150 or more shells, I figured that I had shot at it enough and wanted to save what ammo I had left in case it decided to try to come in for a visit durring the night, so I went in the house and stayed awake all night. The next day(about noon) I decided to go see what I hit. When I crossed the creek I could plainly see where I had fired because of the holes in the trees and the saplings that were broken from bullets. Found no blood, no footprints(it was dry) but I did find something I didnt expect...it had laid down when I began shooting and must've been there for a while because there was a flattened area that looked like a deer bed. Although deer do frequent the area, I sincerely doubt it was deer, because there was no scat, and deer scat alot in and around their beds, as well as it was a good 1/4 mi. from the nearest deer trail. I'm an experinced woodsman, and I have never run across a creature that was smart enough to lay down and stay put while bullets were flying over it's head...animals just don't have the reasoning it would take to exert that type of behavior. Like I said, I never saw it, I just heard it and heard it's foot falls, it was absolutely two legged, it was huge, and I don't think it wanted to say hello. Not sure what it wanted, but it was definately very intelligent. That was the only event of this nature during the time I lived there(6yrs.)...oh yeah, I don't remember smelling it's body funk till after I had started shooting, maybe it wasn't close enough for me to smell it or I was just to scared, either way, I hope this info helps your investigation.","My place was on the left side of the road, there was only one trailor there at the time, and the feild I was in is across the treeline on the same side of the road as my house, north east of my home was the two fields, the one closest to the road was at the bottom of the hill, the creek snakes across the back of my yard and the area is definately thick brush. I have given you all the info I have, complete with a pic of the area.","Pulaski County","Illinois","Summer","Report 5742: Young man hears nighttime vocalizations and is followed in woods near Mounds.",37.1142,-89.1979,"2004-11-27",5742.0,"Class B","dn8e4k2jfk",48.29,40.41,32.53,41.17,0.82,1.0,0.53,0.0204,1.0,"rain",1008.32,"Rain until afternoon.",2.0,9.08,188.0,6.46,"RES.SEASON"], [1558,3213,"We were sitting in the blind it was very misty out. I had fell asleep and my son said I was snoring.he then shook me a little and said dad something is coming I woke and immediatley heard something big moving through the brush and fast. It came up behind the blind and screamed I immediatley knew it was nothing I have ever heard before my son was almost in tears. It then started stomping so hard it was shaking the ground,and started snapping limbs and grunting and growling. It did not want us there it made that known.as quick as it was there it was gone and so were we.","Thousands of acres.absolutely tons of deer coyotes foxes coons just too much wildlife too mention. Plenty of water sources and tons of mountains.","Whitley County","Kentucky","Fall","Report 32377: Father and son have possible encounter in a deer blind near Woodbine",36.8817,-84.0821,"2010-11-14",32377.0,"Class B","dns1ydj73p",51.46,43.765,36.07,41.81,0.81,0.94,0.28,0.0029,0.96,"rain",1016.52,"Light rain until afternoon.",2.0,7.69,250.0,0.7,"RES.SEASON"], [1559,4997,"This was about 1980-1983, I lived in Carter County in a small community named Rush. I lived in a small hollow with a partically graveled lane that dead ended at my driveway. The land is hills with pine oak and other common eastern Kentucky trees and brush growth. Land has strip mines with several ponds scattered through it, there are houses, and small farms, (just family type farms). In 1980 we - my wife and 5 children - moved to the undeveloped 50 + acres. That was my wife's father's until his death in 1973. We had lived there for about two or three months when I started hearing things that made me a little uncomfortable but not frightened. There were nights the dogs would bark and carry on but would not go after what ever it was they were barking at. And we would even run and hide when it would come to close to the house. I asked a couple of the neighbors and they would not discuss it saying it is just a deer or a bear. Yes there were deer and even a bear killed within a mile or so of the area, but any type of hunter would know that this was very unlikely, but not impossible. I hunted and walked in the woods a lot just to enjoy the cooler tempatures of the forest and to just be out alone. While I was hunting I noticed a few things that wasn't what I call natural forest happenings (for lack of a better word). I had not heard of markers of bigfoot territory but I saw what I thought was the work of a few of the local boys out in the woods playing. But as I looked at the three large trees that was leaned on another tree to form a teepee structure without a covering, the question always came to mind, \"Why would anyone want to drag those trees up to here and lean them on that tree?\" You could see they were not a natural fall or a accident, It was a diliberate structure that was constructed by someone. There was also small trees that were twisted almost in two at from four to six feet off the ground. These were not caused by the wind but by using two hands to twist as you would wring out a cloth. I never saw any footprints but once when the dogs were acting up at something in the woods, and just about twenty yards up the hill, I went after it with a 30 30 rifle. It was about 11:00 at night, it was probably in early winter or late fall, there was a skift of snow on the ground, mostly in spots on the hill. After I walked around the hills for about a mile to a mile and a half not getting any closer or able to see what I was after even though it stayed about twenty or thirty yards ahead of me. I could never see it, but I could hear it walking in the leaves and breaking branches. I decided to just go on to the house. The next morning I walked up on the hill to see what kind of tracks I could see. I found my tracks in the snow and where I had tripped a couple of times on vines growing in the leaves on the ground. But I could not find any indication of anything that was walking in front of me or any place around me. I have seen eyes that looked blood red, and another time green, as they were looking at me from the low underbrush at night. While setting on the porch at night I would hear what at the time I thought sounded a little like an old steam locomotive whistle. But not guite the same they were always a long way off in the hills. My wife at the time (now divorced) saw what she described as an old Indian men looking through the window at her. I was not there at the time, but she did call the Kentucky state police. There were no foot prints so they said she probably saw her own reflection and I guess just dissmised it. She said she saw it from the mid chest up. The bottom of the window is at least six feet six inches off the ground, I'am six feet and I had to use an 8 inch block to see over the bottom edge of the window. One night we were leaving to go into Ashland. As we were getting into the truck we heard someone on the hill whistling, I called out to see who it was but there was no reply, just more whistling. I told them I had a gun and would shoot if they did'nt answer. There was no answer, and I fired a shot in the general direction and the whistling stopped. But there was no reply. It just started to walk around the hill, I fired another shot in the air but it did not speed up or slow down. I got in the truck and we left. I never had a sighting but all these things and a few more such as throwing of rocks and pieces of wood has convinced me there is something that is intelligent enough to stay so close and still so undetected is living within our back yards. These things happened in the early eightys and the place has changed, but I think it is still alive and healthy. The Greenup County sighting prompted me to send this to you as that was just a few miles over the hills. Hope this information will be helpful to you.","Six miles east of Greyson, Kentucky and about twenty miles west of Ashland Kentucky. ","Carter County","Kentucky","Winter","Report 1850: Man relates series of events over several years after seeing a report posted from 3-4 miles away",38.33885,-82.89059,"1983-01-15",1850.0,"Class B","dnv41g2gvr",33.42,27.865,22.31,23.62,0.72,1.0,0.05,0.0059,1.0,"snow",1015.14,"Snow (< 1 in.) until afternoon, starting again in the evening.",2.0,4.56,299.0,10.35,"RES.SEASON"], [1563,4025,"A friend and I had towed my canoe from Okeechobee to Lake Park to paddle the water catchment area EQQ. It was early morning before 8AM. We were told we had to rent a canoe and couldn't go out by ourselves, had to go one a guided trip. I grew up in the area and had covered on foot, horse, swamp buggy, canoe, etc. But they ranger still wouldn't let us go. So we walked the boardwalk and I looked out to the cypress heads and squatting down at the base of a cypress tree was a dark figure. It would dig a little in the mud at the base of the tree and stand up and put a hand to it's mouth. I asked a Ranger for binoculars and she came out to look. The humidity was so high the binoculars fogged over and were useless. We watched the figure squat down and repeat, dig around, stand up and it did it over and over. Another Ranger came and my friend and I watched this motion for about five to seven minutes more then left. I have no idea how long the rangers watched it or if they saw it leave. If it turned out to be a bear that would thrill me too. No bears had been seen in Palm Beach County since 1979. But I'm sure it wasn't a bear. It stood too straight and bent at the waist and squatted at the knees like a human. A Bear doesn't bend the waist. I had forgotten about it until after I had a sighting in Okeechobee Co. I filed a report on the Okeechobee sighting and spoke with and went out to the area with an investigator. I've decided to report the first sighting because of the way Fish and Wildlife handled a sighting here in Columbia County, Fl where I now live. Big joke, lots of laughs. I take offense to that attitude. I've spent a life time in the swamps and woodlands of Florida, put in 12 years as a wildlife rehabilitator in Palm Beach County. It's pretty safe to say I know what I'm looking at. My friend and I talked about the sighting in 2006 and she said if that's what I thought we saw she was happy with it because she didn't know what it was either. I should mention she is a Veterinarian nurse, pretty familiar with animals too. Since the second sighting I've been putting a lot of research into the subject and would like to discuss ideas with other people but haven't found anyone to carry on a serious conversation with. Since the Finding Bigfoot program came on air and as more information comes out I hope to get past the jokers. The funny part is Grassy Waters is almost across the road from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission headquarters. Wonder if they had a visit?","Northlake Blvd and St Rd 710, south on Northlake Blvd to Grassy Waters Preserve. On the left maybe two miles.","Palm Beach County","Florida","Summer","Report 30929: Daylight observation of a hair-covered bipedal figure in the Grassy Waters Preserve",26.80829,-80.16933,"2003-06-14",30929.0,"Class A","dhybx8q3x5",86.0,80.025,74.05,72.81,0.75,0.53,0.51,0.0041,1.0,"rain",1016.38,"Rain in the morning.",7.0,9.75,127.0,11.14,"RES.SEASON"], [1564,4550,"On October 7, 2017, my wife, myself and our dog went on a late season kayak paddle to Upper Priest Lake and overnight camping trip at Beaver Creek Campground. After loading the kayak after our paddle, we drove ½ mile to the campground, only to find that it was closed for the season. Not wanting to find another campsite, we drove around the campground to the Tule Bay boat launch parking area, which was still open. We parked our vehicle, unloaded our tent, sleeping and cooking gear and began to set up camp, carrying things into a designated site that would normally be accessed by the campground road. I was a bit concerned about camping in the site after the campground was officially closed, but figured that as it was already getting dark, it was unlikely that we would be confronted by a ranger. It had been raining and was getting cold, and my wife wanted a campfire to warm up from our paddle to Upper Priest Lake. I didn’t want to start a fire, as I was still uneasy about camping there and concerned that a fire would attract attention to us. After setting up the tent and getting things situated, we heard a whoo call to the north of us, across the road. I had the distinct impression that it wasn’t an owl, but a person whooing for someone in the dark woods, like someone trying to contact a hiker who was late getting back to the car (though there were no other cars in the area). The call was quite loud, louder than any owl I have ever heard. Too me, it seemed like it was coming from something (a person) with large lung capacity. By this time, it was dark and we couldn’t see anything beneath the tree canopy outside of our campsite. While my wife worked on starting a fire with wet branches (unsuccessfully), I arranged our sleeping gear in the tent. Suddenly, we heard a WHOO call that was much closer and much louder. This call made us nervous as we both felt it was made by a person who was creeping around our campsite in the dark messing with us. But we had heard no vehicles drive in, saw no headlights or flashlights, and it was too dark and overcast for a person to drive or walk around the woods without a light. My wife has better hearing than I do, and heard what she felt was an answering whoo from some distance away in the forest. Grabbing a flashlight, I walked 75 feet or so back to our vehicle to get my 9mm pistol. There was no question that this wasn’t an owl. The call was much too loud and gave both of us a fearful feeling. I could feel the loudness of the call in my chest. We noticed that our dog had no reaction to the calls, remaining in camp and not acting scared, but I sure felt that way, even with a firearm on my hip. After the last loud call, we didn’t hear anything more the rest of the night. No vehicles drove into the boat launch parking area and we heard no people or animals about. In the morning, I looked around our campsite but couldn’t see that anything had been disturbed. Later back at home, my wife researched owl calls online, but couldn’t find anything that sounded like what we heard. Whatever had made those calls around our campsite that night knew we were there and had a lung capacity much larger than an adult human male.","Directions to our campsite are described in the story.","Bonner County","Idaho","Fall","Report 65276: Husband and wife hear vocals while making camp at dark, near Priest Lake.",48.73665,-116.8596,"2017-10-07",65276.0,"Class B","c2svkb1rtf",53.73,42.625,31.52,30.63,0.53,0.78,0.59,0.0053,0.27,"rain",1007.2,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,4.076,279.0,4.16,"RES.SEASON"], [1573,1816,"I was parking out in the woods with my date late one fall evening. All of a sudden my car began to shake. I looked out the drivers side-window and found myself looking at a huge face. We stared at each other not over 3 inches from each other through the glass. I hurriedly started the car and put the headlights on. The first thing we saw was that now the animal was on the passenger side of the car and on all fours as if it were trying to stay out of the light from the headlights. The animal hurriedly covered the 35 feet in front of the car and into the woods. It only stood up as it reached the trees. The speed that it moved was amazing. It was much faster than any deer. It was over 7 feet tall, brown and had a large head though we could not see the face. We quickly left the area and headed back to town. It took over an hour to get my girlfriend calmed down.","dead end county road","Callaway County","Missouri","Fall","Report 9941: Couple has car shaken and sees large animal up close near Tebbetts.",38.62,-91.96238,"2004-12-06",9941.0,"Class A","9yyeeqe1c1",58.66,52.515,46.37,50.56,0.89,0.81,0.81,0.0109,1.0,"rain",1006.22,"Rain starting in the evening.",2.0,8.4,164.0,3.24,"RES.SEASON"], [1575,3191,"On April 2015 I was clicking on some YouTube videos when I came across one from my own town. It was a small town radio interview with a mother and daughter that were coon hunting at night in an area that I know well and they had a class A encounter. I told my son about it and he took a walk in the area a couple of days later. He called me and told me that he came across a structure that must have been built by boy scouts or something. I went in to check it a couple of days later and took some very good photos of it and some of the surrounding area. I returned to the area again today 08/13/2015 to check the structure and took more photos which I can send.","(this should not be posted)","Plymouth County","Massachusetts","Spring","Report 49512: Possible structure found when checking out the location of a sighting near Lakeville",41.85164,-70.95207,"2015-04-09",49512.0,"Class B","drmw16y72z",39.16,38.115,37.07,34.76,0.92,1.0,0.67,0.0082,1.0,"rain",1026.71,"Light rain in the morning.",4.0,3.6,48.0,6.49,"RES.SEASON"], [1583,2770,"As usual for my afternoon activity, I left the house to pick thimbleberries. I was approximately fifty yards away from the house, and had been devouring berries for no more than three minutes. It was then that an enormous creature stood up suddenly, from what I presume to have been a squatting position, from behind the hedge of thimbleberries, no more than three feet away from me. Although I was only two years old at the time my memories of the incident remain quite clear. The creature was covered in thistly stark white fur. Its build consisted of exceptionly broad shoulders, long burly arms which dangled at its sides, and a waist easily twice as large I was. The whole appearence gave it a rather squarish appearence. For the three or so seconds that I remained there I stood petrified by how large the monster was. I didn't look up to see the monster's face, but my peripheral vision told me that it had a humanish-shaped head and that it touched a twig on the tree behind it. After those few second passed, I ran. I ran back to the house as fast as I could. I was terrified. Looking back and wondering what it might have been, I was looking on Youtube watching various bigfoot documentaries when one showed a clip of a white creature very much similar to the one I had encounted many years ago. Only now do I know that what I had encounted was a sasquatch.","This incident occured on our rural, somewhat wooded lane, within sight of our house.","Clark County","Washington","Summer","Report 28123: Teenager recounts his sighting as a very young boy on his property near Yacolt",45.90052,-122.3898,"1995-08-15",28123.0,"Class A","c20vngymyv",64.73,59.325,53.92,51.96,0.74,0.96,0.67,0.0005,1.0,"rain",1010.89,"Overcast throughout the day.",5.0,10.0,324.0,5.06,"RES.SEASON"], [1584,3384,"On a cloudy, cool day I went for a hike at Hart Prairie on the San Francisco Peaks outside of Flagstaff, AZ. It was August, but the monsoon season was in full effect and it was a cool day for Arizona. I hiked up slope from FR 151 towards the Snowbowl Ski Resort. The area has springs and so the plant diversity is high and the wildflowers were at their peak. Being a cloudy, cool day I kept an eye out for wildlife which would normaly bed down at midday in August, though I did not see anything other than various songbirds and raptors. I had been in the area maybe two hours but as I like to wander around slowly (I see more that way) rather than \"hike\" from point A to point B at a quick pace, I had not covered much ground in that time. I was at the edge of an aspen grove when I heard a loud howling from up slope and a little to the east of me in the direction of the ski resort. My first thought was that it was a foreign tourist goofing off. Because Snowbowl has a paved road to it and the views are awesome, tourists from all over the world on their way to the Grand Canyon stop at Snowbowl and many hike around as it is a beautiful and inviting area. So I thought I was hearing a human. But I wasn't so sure after the next howl- I was really puzzled. The sound seemed somewhat human-like and the volume, though quite loud, wasn't too extraordinary- I could possibly howl that loud, though it would be hard to do without real strain and the sounds I heard were almost casual- no hint of any strain. But it seemed to be an unusually weird sound for a human to make. Almost as if the human had a deformation of some kind which distorted the sound. This was why I thought of a \"foreign\" tourist first, because of the weirdness of the sound. I heard about a half dozen calls and it was clear that whatever was making the sounds was coming in my general direction at a rapid pace. By this time, I was sure it was not a human but a large animal. I was at the edge of a clearing and I waited at that spot expecting to see whatever was making the calls. The first howl was maybe 250 meters away and the final one maybe 75-100 meters away. Then it stopped and I never did see anything. I did not hear it moving through the woods and did not notice any smells. It is possible that whatever it was smelled me as the air was gently moving up slope towards the animal. I think it probable that this was the reason whatever it was stopped moving towards me and vocalizing. I waited a minute or so after the final vocalization and then I went up slope in the general direction I had last heard it but did not see anything or any indication of a human or animal. My curiosity was at a peak and so I made a real effort to find whatever it was and spent another hour circling the area looking for signs of a large animal passing through. I have listened to the recordings on this site and I did not make a match between the sounds- though there were some similarities between what I heard and the calls from Washington State and the 'Ohio Howls'. What I heard was not nearly as drawn out and evenly toned as the Ohio recording, but was similar. A deep to mid-range 'howl' with a little variation in the tone somewhat similar to the Snohomish recording. Each call lasted maybe 3-4 seconds and was seperated by various lengths of time from maybe 5 seconds to maybe 15 seconds. Some of the recordings on this site, if I heard in the field, I might describe as having a 'monkey' quality to them- distinctly animal-like. The Ohio recording does not really have that quality and neither did the sounds that I heard. At the time I only thought of a human at first and then I was merely puzzled and could not classify what I had heard. I have thought about this incident since it occurred trying to put some explanation to it. I do not think it was a human for a couple of reasons: The sound, though it had a somewhat human-like quality, was not at all the type of sound a human would (or perhaps, could) make to communicate to another- say two or more people in the woods who are separated and walking along and vocally maintaining contact with one another. The volume of the sound would have required real effort for a human to achieve and I couldn't imagine a human being able to howl like that and walk around a mountain at that elevation at the same time- and it was traveling fast. Nor did it have any element of humor about it if it was just some high spirited tourist having fun. And there was only one caller, not two or more people hootin and hollering to each other. The call was somewhat somber in tone and there was no hint of excitement or emotion about it. Also, a human walking through those woods would have made a great deal of noise and I would have heard or seen a human when I went looking after the last vocalization. I did not see any humans during that day though I went right to the base of the ski resort and could see the parking lot. At the time, the sounds did not spook me and I never got that unexplained adrenaline rush and surge of fear that I have gotten on more than one occasion in the wilderness or ocean. I am quite familiar with the wildlife in this area and have heard and seen just about everything except a mountain lion. It certainly was not an elk, bobcat, coyote, dog, or cougar. It might just possibly have been a bear- I have had several close encounters with bears and have heard their vocalizations. But bears do not, to my knowledge, vocalize in such a regular, loud way. Because I heard 6 or 7 howls, I had time to really hear the sound and think about it. To me it sounded most like an ape, though I only thought of this much later. What I heard was not much of an incident. I puzzled over it for a long time. I am reporting it here because a sasquatch is the best possible answer that I can come up with, though I did not come to that conclusion until months after the incident. So I did a web search on bigfoot and found this site and the recordings. Another puzzling thing though- if it was a sasquatch, that area is quite popular with people and when I go there, I usually do see someone else. That area could be easily avoided by an animal. Despite the abundance of wildlife as a potential food source, why would a sasquatch travel through this area at midday in the summer , howling? The whole incident is weird...","This happened just below the Arizona Snowbowl in Hart Prairie on the San Francisco Peaks. I had hiked up slope from FR 151 which is a fairly well maintained and popular forest road. Hwy 180 goes from Flagstaff to Valle on the way to the Grand Canyon and FR 151 intersects with the hwy about 5 miles past the paved Snowbowl Road. Specifically, I had started hiking right next to the Nature Conservancy's preserve straight up slope towards the lower end of Snowbowl. I heard the howls at the edge of an Aspen Grove about .25 mile up slope from FR 151.","Coconino County","Arizona","Summer","Report 20235: Possible vocalizations heard near Snow Bowl on San Francisco Peaks",35.3,-111.675,"2006-08-15",20235.0,"Class B","9w28ff0tru",64.8,57.07,49.34,54.02,0.95,0.58,0.74,0.0088,0.82,"rain",1016.22,"Rain starting in the evening.",8.0,9.56,247.0,1.82,"RES.SEASON"], [1589,4719,"I was out late one night cat fishing at Clinton Lake by myself. I had been there for probably a couple hours and hadn't really been catching much. I had talked to a few people who were coming in on boats and seen a few going out. It seemed like a normal night for the most part. About an hour after I had seen the last person left, I was starting to get the feeling I was being watched. I shrugged it off because I know there are raccoons, possums, coyotes, even stray dogs and cats. So I dismiss it and resume my fishing. After awhile I notice how quiet it is. All I can hear is the faint breeze and the water lapping on the boat ramp where im sitting. Right about now I'm starting to get spooked. I know when there's a predator of some kind around that this usually happens. I'm an avid duck hunter, and a die hard cat fisherman, so I'm used to traipsing around in the dark. I figure its just a coyote eyeballing me so I get my flashlight and get up to take a look around. I look around for a bit and don't see anything. I once again put this out of my head, starting to think I'm losing my mind. After a little while longer I still notice there isn't any sound. As I'm sitting there staring across the lake, the hair on my arms and neck starts to stand up. I don't really spook that easy but when the hair stands up, something is watching you. I decided that I had all I could stand and threw all my stuff in my truck and left. On my way home I called dad and told him what was going on. He told me back in the 70's, there was sightings of what the town called the Salt Creek monster. I'm no skeptic, but at the same time I haven't ever seen it. After a while he tells me I should go back and check the place out a little more closely. I decided it was probably a good idea just for some peace of mind. I drive back out to the boat launch, and park in the parking lot. I have the truck lights on as well as my flashlight that I'm scanning the area with. After about 15 minutes I give up and go to leave. As I'm turning around in the parking lot, the truck lights pick something up standing in the trees. I immediately stomp on the brakes. About 20 yards away I'm looking at something that's probably seven feet tall, not overly muscular but it was covered in black hair. It also had a big pair of yellow eyes. It had a deer in the head lights look about it and it tore off running through the trees along the lake. I had been in track in high school and this easily outpaced the fastest runners I'd ever seen. When it ran it didn't pump its arms. They just swayed a bit. Before I really understood what I was seeing it was gone. I drove my little truck as fast as it could go all the way home. I called my dad back and remember being on the edge of hysteria. After that I always had my gun in the truck, which was always within sprinting distance of where I was fishing.","You would take Illinois Rt 54 out of Farmer City going west, then take a left onto Liberty Road, or as the maps say 2225 E.","De Witt County","Illinois","Summer","Report 28110: Night fisherman has sighting at Clinton Lake boat docks",40.19732,-88.724,"2009-06-27",28110.0,"Class A","dp0utj9nkg",89.98,80.01,70.04,63.47,0.64,0.09,0.18,0.0003,0.59,"rain",1010.89,"Light rain overnight.",11.0,10.0,174.0,2.43,"RES.SEASON"], [1597,3095,"About a week ago my dog was making a strange noise like he was playing around 12 at night. I called my friend who lives on the property to meet me outside. We went up the hill to my dog pen and he was acting as if he was playing, all happy running around and looking behind him. We shined our lights up the hill and saw a rather large figure about seven to eight feet tall and rather thick, step back into the darkness and disappear. It scared us and we ran. We have been hearing sounds every night. Last night we went out around 1:00 AM to do knocks and yells. Something growled back, not like a bear, and was very close and kept following us. My dog is still doing the same thing every night and my cats refuse to stay out at night. Before this started they wouldn't come in. We are on the side of a mountain with about two thousand hunting lease acres behind us. Neighbors about a third a mile away. We are on a dead end road with lots of animals and very secluded. Deer walk around in our yard most days before this started and we regularly see four bears here. It is very thick here and could hide lots of other animals.","Near Pax, WV, off of I-77 between Charleston and Beckley, WV. Paint Creek runs through my property and there are caves on the back property.","Fayette County","West Virginia","Fall","Report 43193: Homeowner reports possible interactions that include his hunting dogs near Pax",37.603,-81.2625,"2013-11-30",43193.0,"Class B","dnwjyv6mqe",41.28,32.79,24.3,21.74,0.65,0.0,0.91,0.0003,0.24,"snow",1032.05,"Clear throughout the day.",3.0,10.0,127.0,3.9,"RES.SEASON"], [1605,2883,"In early May 2000, I had decided to go hiking in an area which is closed between November and May 1st. On previous hikes and camping trips in the area I had noticed a trail and on this day I decided to see where it went. I stopped my car, and upon getting out noticed that the area was silent; no birds, frogs,or other animals were calling out, which I found odd. I had started up the trail(approx 1/8 mile) when I heard(and felt) what sounded like someone pounding on a hollow tree in an incredibly fast and hard manner. The sound was coming from my left and I guess it was maybe 1/4 to 1/2 mile away. Approximately 10-15 seconds later, I heard the same type of noise more to the right and closer. I would say within 200 yards. I could feel the percussion as well as hear it. I continued walking uphill along the trail for another five minutes when I encountered an odor that I had never smelled before. I did note the breeze was in my face.I continued for another 40 yards when something started walking/running rapidly through the brush approximately 20-30 yards ahead of me, moving from my left to my right. Every time it stepped, I could feel it through the ground, so whatever it was was big. I immediately took a trail to the left that led downhill, as I thought I may be cut off on the trail I was on, and I didn't want to get in anythings way if it was coming down the trail I was coming up. Whatever it was then moved from my right to my left through the brush as though to cut me off on this trail as well. I then started running to my left diagonally through brush and deadfall to try and cut the trail I came up on. I did cut the trail and ran back to my vehicle. Whatever was there did not follow me down to my car, nor did I ever see it. Upon reaching my car I again heard the same drumming noises, this time the second one was much closer and uphill of the trail I had started on. ","To get there go up highway 410 eastbound. Go through Greenwater, take the \"_\" FS road up onto Huckleberry Mountain. Note: Witness did not want exact location of events made public for reasons of public safety. BFRO Investigator has verified the exact location witness described.","King County","Washington","Spring","Report 1815: Hiker encounters intimidating beating sounds and heavy running footsteps",47.1608,-121.6594,"2000-05-15",1815.0,"Class B","c23kr967dd",63.22,56.28,49.34,41.9,0.57,0.52,0.42,0.0009,1.0,"rain",1013.23,"Light rain in the evening.",7.0,9.79,222.0,3.51,"RES.SEASON"], [1613,438,"In 2019 Richfield Ohio large dark figure crossed road.","Near Buddhist temple, rt 303 Richfield Ohio [Investigator (MM) Notes: Here are the GPS coordinates for the crossing point. The figure was crossing Route 303 from south to north. Paste these coordinates into Google Maps, or paste the link into a web browser. 41.2392457, -81.6229513 https://goo.gl/maps/FicvVoP9kQLokNGcA","Summit County","Ohio","Spring","Report 71997: 4:45am road crossing sighting of a Sasquatch 18 miles south of Cleveland",41.23925,-81.62295,"2019-05-28",71997.0,"Class A","dpmfwe7up3",82.64,71.38,60.12,64.98,0.81,0.82,0.82,0.1524,0.92,"rain",1006.1,"Heavy rain in the afternoon and evening.",6.0,8.939,241.0,2.99,"RES.SEASON"], [1615,2669,"On 4-24-03, my friend was driving home from work from Naselle, WA to Puget Island, WA around 12:30 a.m. on Highway 4 (Wahkiakum County, WA). He observed a large bipedal animal (approx. 6 to 8 feet tall) broad shouldered with dark bluish/grey hair walking down a steep slope on the other side of the guardrail at the top of KM Hill. He reported seeing a large set of shoulders but didn't see the head due to catching a glimpse of the animal as he was driving by. It appeared the animal was walking down the slope. He reports that a bear (even a large bear on it's hind legs) would not demonstrate the shoulder width that this animal did. He said there are elk there all the time when he drives home but due to the size of the shoulders and color of the hair it was not an elk. The weather was good although the light conditions were low being that it was past midnight. He didn't hear anything or get out of the car to check for footprints. He kept driving because he wasn't packing heat.","This sighting took place at the top of KM Hill on Highway 4 traveling from Naselle, WA towards (eastbound) Cathlamet, WA. The location is between the beginning of the slide area to the end of the slide area traveling eastbound. The slide area was fixed a few years ago and is marked by the hydroseeded grassed area.","Wahkiakum County","Washington","Spring","Report 6232: Nighttime sighting by motorist on KM Hill near Skamokawa",46.33425,-123.5439,"2003-04-24",6232.0,"Class A","c20psdyhd6",48.29,42.125,35.96,39.11,0.91,0.6,0.79,0.0086,1.0,"rain",1008.54,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",6.0,9.62,179.0,2.75,"RES.SEASON"], [1616,335,"Visual Report: My name is Alan Y. on about Mid-November 2012 I had a very unusual experience that at first kept me very mixed up, but always stayed in my mind until I started doing research. It was about 2 to 3am in the morning. I awoke to go outside and have a smoke. The area of the town of Bath, NY is semi-rugged with hundreds of huge foothills. There is a vast amount of forest, lakes, ponds, wildlife and many state parks. Much of the land is posted \"no hunting\". The hills are super steep, so climbing or hiking is difficult. We rented the full basement apartment of a home. Our entryway was in the back of the home semi-underground. There was a deck over our entryway. I am an ex-US Army Intel (Special Tasking veteran) who served in central America and the Middle East. I am telling you this because I am a trained observer and weigh out everything I see. I am super aware of my surroundings. That morning I went outside and lit up a cigarette. It was very dark this night and cool. Deer would constantly wander through and many times I could be 10 feet from a deer and be silent so as not to spook them. As I lit up my smoke some movement caught my attention about roughly [140] yards directly in front of me to the East. A cinnamon brownish colored figure was pacing back and forth over and over. On each side of this clear cut there is a couple homes. This thing was at the far end by the next tree line pacing back and forth moving towards the last home and back again moving appx. North to South then back the other way. It was moving erratically pacing back and forth like it was confused or undecided if it wanted to go closer to the home. As I looked at first, I thought it was a drunk person? But in all the years I lived there, I never seen anyone out there. As I watched what really caught my attention was it looked like it was floating across the ground as there was absolutely no head bob at all. The ground rose between myself and this entity and went back down on its side so I could not see the lower legs good. It kept on pacing back and forth for about 3 minutes. At the position I was at under the deck, in the shadows, I was not observed by this creature. I’m not a afraid of too much, but for some reason the hairs stood up on the back of my neck and I got into what I call (combat mode). I wanted to bellow out at this entity (Ahh) but something said do not do that. Around 3 to 4 minutes of this pacing, I turned my head for a second and it was gone. I got a fearful sense of where this thing went and had a feeling it may try to flank me around the 2 homes, so I went into the house and awakened my wife and said “there’s something weird out there.\" I did not think of \"Bigfoot\" right away, because it was not the Patty type I seen on the P&G film. I also thought that they are in the Northwest, not really here in New York State. It was I believe 6-7 feet tall, a slimmer build. Wide on top and slimmer than Patty. More like a fine-tuned athlete than a body builder, long arms and an awfully long shaggy head of hair (which stood out too me, WEIRD. The reason I even saw it was because there was a light on that home as he was pacing towards, that lit up it and some of the area. Upon seeing it (after the fact), I realized that there was a hedgerow running parallel to it, and a large ravine behind that that ran into the woods. Across from this property was a road, couple mobile homes then a very step wooded foothill (small mountain). For years this baffled me, and I could not get this out of my mind until I visited the BFRO website and seen at least 6 reports entirely around my area. Thank you, for having a website where we can get these things off our chest.","Edge of village of Bath in the town of Bath. [Investigator Note: The witness was observing from: 6876 Lakeview Terr Bath, NY 14810 The creature was behind: 7026 E Washington Street Ext Bath, NY 14810 ]","Steuben County","New York","Fall","Report 68932: Resident observes a sasquatch near homes at 2-3am on the outskirts of Bath",42.33473,-77.29253,"2012-11-15",68932.0,"Class A","dr90c4v39t",44.77,32.945,21.12,24.02,0.83,0.06,0.08,0.0002,0.18,"snow",1029.9,"Clear throughout the day.",2.0,9.354,168.0,0.63,"RES.SEASON"], [1624,2827,"The night of the 4th of july me, my finace, my son and my friend and his step brother were camping across from the humptulips fish hatchery at the mouth of stevens creek..we got out there about 5pm and got camp set up and built a fire and got settled in. we stayed up cooking hot dogs and talking till about 11:30pm then me and my fiance went to bed, my friend stayed up till about 2:30am...thats when the whooping started..right after he went to bed the sasquatch started whooping from across the river, it woke me and my fiance up from a dead sleep...she asked me what it was and i said it was the people camping down the river bar just making stupid noises...i knew what it was but didnt want to freak her out and pack up at almost 3am..the first thing that entered my mind when i heard this was the whoops from the 1974 recording from california..it was almost identical to it but the ones that i heard had more of a primate tone to it...i do believe there was 2 of them communicating because there was one just on the other side of the river not to far back in the timber..(the one that woke us up)...then occasionally we would hear one farther away, then the closer one would whoop back in response...this went on for an hour. i fell back asleep about 3:45 or so....i didnt know my friend was awake at the time but when i woke up in the morning i asked him if he heard the sounds last night and he said he did..he was trying to talk himself out of what he heard till i asked him about it. this camp site is about 15-20 miles away from where i found the footprints in the snow earlier this year report #23493.","it is right at the humptulips fish hatchery.","Grays Harbor County","Washington","Summer","Report 24216: Possible vocalizations heard near a fish hatchery on the Humptulips River",47.2331,-123.9878,"2008-07-05",24216.0,"Class B","c0rudwdbfb",60.89,57.82,54.75,56.66,0.91,1.0,0.1,0.0191,1.0,"rain",1015.79,"Rain until afternoon.",4.0,6.37,197.0,2.25,"RES.SEASON"], [1626,1233,"My son has convinced me to contact you. I will tell your organization of our encounters. On November 28 2008 I was visiting a friends house in Lacey's Spring Alabama. His house is in a small middle class neighborhood with mountains and woods that stretch for miles behind his home. I woke up to use the bathroom at about 4:00AM and had just laid back down when I began to hear loud vocalizations. The sounds where very similar to the Ohio and Mississippi recordings. I was inside the house and his heating unit was running so they must have been very loud outside. I got up and went out on his back deck but by the time I got there they had stopped. I listened for about 10 minutes and heard nothing. The heating unit was next to the deck and was quite loud so I decided to go back inside. About the time I started to fall asleep it started again the howls lasted about 3 minutes. Then stopped I thought that it might be my friend snoring in the back bedroom but I don't believe this was so because the neighborhood dogs where barking throughout the area in response to the howls. At this point I knew something outside was making the noise. I wanted to go into the woods for a better listen, but walking into the woods with no one in the know and not prepared for self defense or to photograph or record the creature did not seem like a wise proposition. The howling started and stopped 3 more times and finally finished at dawn. I talked with my son about what I had heard and he and I have also had a encounter with this animal in the past.","off Hwy 231 south of Tennessee River.","Morgan County","Alabama","Fall","Report 25111: Ohio howl type vocalizations for several hours in early morning near Lacey's Spring",34.55946,-86.59747,"2008-11-28",25111.0,"Class B","dn4kt7mekw",61.48,54.29,47.1,44.0,0.76,0.59,0.03,0.0016,0.89,"rain",1015.29,"Light rain overnight.",3.0,8.13,16.0,1.08,"RES.SEASON"], [1632,2341,"This was so unreal, that I really hesitate to mention it.The spot is on Warbro Rd.East side, n.of ready mix co, across from Martin Marietta quarry.This short road runs N.from Hull St.(US 360),South from Genito Rd.(state rt.604). The area actually has a lot of real wilderness through out and nearby, marshes, creeks, deep woods. There has been some clearing of land East of the rd in question.The incident was about 9:30 pm, Fri.June 2nd. We had been to the theater, grabbed some food and were headed home. Driving N.on Warbro. My wife and myself saw something rushing along the edge of the woods, Southbound, it glided into the woods as we passed. I said to my wife-\"did you see that deer?\" She said-\"that was no deer!!!\" It was a silvery-white, tall, vertical, slender thing with what she called \"flowing\" hair. Our \"sighting\" was about 3 seconds. This would have been utterly dimissed as something unexplainable, except we went back there the next morning, walked up to a cleared area with some very soft, muddy places. My wife got some poison ivy for her efforts. We found quite a few tracks, TWO DISTINCT sizes. Long stride on the larger. They were atleast 15\"long and about 8\"at the wide end. There were distinct toe markings on some. The shorter foot was about 9\" long with a more \"human\"look to the shape. I should say that this area teems with deer, beaver, raccoons,etc. The whole thing is just unreal. You don't expect to see this within sight of a freakin' Walmart.","Above","Chesterfield County","Virginia","Spring","Report 14952: Driver sees running figure along road at night near Woodlake",37.44378,-77.6257,"2006-06-02",14952.0,"Class A","dq8v186ty4",88.54,79.09,69.64,67.76,0.76,0.62,0.21,0.0025,0.91,"rain",1011.47,"Light rain in the evening.",7.0,7.63,208.0,2.9,"RES.SEASON"], [1635,4108,"It was just at twilight. I was sitting waiting to turkey hunt. I've heard the howls on here but this was different. It sounded higher in pitch all most like a child making the sound. A few minuets later I heard it again. Whatever it was was far off. I was hoping to hear a deeper answer but didn't. At first I thought it was some child calling cows or something, but it was too early for that. I've heard that before.","Near Pea River.","Holmes County","Florida","Spring","Report 14181: Hunter hears vocalizations, relates other experiences in vicinity.",30.993,-85.97701,"2006-03-16",14181.0,"Class B","djdb7d17q3",66.79,61.485,56.18,40.33,0.64,0.78,0.55,0.0024,1.0,"rain",1021.63,"Light rain in the evening.",4.0,7.0,149.0,0.1,"RES.SEASON"], [1636,2017,"Mike Hall and I had just wrapped up night operations with TBRC/BFRO on that Saturday night, we hiked out of our area and met with Daryl Colyer, Alton Higgins and other members of the group at the forest service road where we had parked Mike's Jeep. We loaded our gear in the back and headed back to base camp as the others left to go back into the woods to do some further research. Interested in getting back to base camp and getting warm, and much needed sleep, I was concentrating on watching for animals in the roadway, as I didn't want us to hit something and be stuck out there in the cold. Mike was driving and there was no conversation until we topped a hill in the road, and I saw something moving in the same direction that we were in the middle of the road. I pointed and asked \"what is that?\". Mike slowed and asked \"what is what?\" and I answered \"that thing in the road just beyond the headlights.\" Mike looked and said \"holy s---!\" and I said \"whatever it is don't hit it.\" What we saw was a large dark upright moving creature walk in the middle of the road. It was about 5 1/2 to 6 feet tall, moving upright, in the same direction that we were traveling. It had noticeable hair and its head seemed domed and no neck, as if its head rested right on its shoulders. It was very very broad at the shoulders and thick (massive). It never turned to look at us, so I don't know what the face looked like. We have no recollection of its hands or lower body, our focus was on how wide it was and how smooth that it moved. It was amazing, just very graceful. No jerky movements, very fluid in its movement. As we neared, it moved to the side of the road in a smooth motion then stepped off into the ditch and into the woods to the right side of the road. Then Mike realizing what we were witnessing, stopped the jeep and grabbed the gun and flashlight and jumped out to look for tracks. I stayed in the jeep not believing what I was seeing with it running. As mike scanned the woods following sounds he was hearing, he motioned for me to cut the engine and waved for me to get out an join him. I did both reluctantly. As I got near Mike he asked for me to look where he was shining his flashlight and to tell him what I saw, to my utter disbelief I saw a large shape of head and shoulders move quickly between two trees and disappear. I must have blinked because it was there one second and gone the next. We scanned the woods and the road for any signs but couldn't see anything, we also listened for movement but it was dead quiet. We then moved back into the jeep and just sat there, amazed at what we had just witnessed. There was no odor and no sound, other that what Mike had heard before I got out of the jeep. In reflection on the event I did have the feeling that we were being watched. Mike was so excited over this he could hardly think, so I grabbed a pad and pen and said to him, \"Here let's write down what we saw.\" He was so shaken that he couldn't even write, so I took over and had him dictate what he saw and added what I saw. Not having any way to communicate with the others in the woods, we didn't know what to do. Not thinking clearly because of the excitement and lack of sleep we drove back to base camp, where we were headed in the 1st place. Upon reaching camp, I just couldn't face another cold night on the ground and begged Mike to take me into town to a nice warm hotel. The next day we returned and reported the incident to Daryl Colyer and the rest of the group.","Near Lake Conroe, several creeks in area that we were scouting around.","Walker County","Texas","Winter","Report 10407: Journalist and investigator have early morning sighting in Sam Houston National Forest",30.6,-95.63,"2005-01-28",10407.0,"Class A","9v7ypfs3gm",48.86,47.005,45.15,43.64,0.93,1.0,0.6,0.0177,1.0,"rain",1019.9,"Rain in the morning.",3.0,8.81,11.0,3.33,"RES.SEASON"], [1637,2130,"Hello, my name is Ricardo. On Friday the 23rd of October, 2020, my wife and I were seeing if a restaurant in Texas was opened so we could have lunch. It was around 1 pm. The name of the restaurant is called the Catfish Cafe, located just West of Weatherford, Texas on Interstate Hwy 20, right next to the Brazos River. There was only one worker at the restaurant, and he told us that the restaurant would not open until 4pm. So, my wife and I decided to drive around the countryside in that area and kill some time until 4 pm. Immediately just west of the restaurant about 50 yards or so, is a bridge that goes across the Brazos River. We headed across it and stopped in the center of the bridge to look at the river scenery when we spotted a huge dark figure on the river wading in the water around ankle deep. This thing was about a quarter mile north from the bridge. At first we thought it could be a man that was kicking the water, chasing a possible fish or something, but looking at the object a little closer, we knew that it was not a man because it was dark, tall, and hairy. We believe that it was a bigfoot looking for his meal. We stayed there on the bridge for a good 5 minutes, as no cars were coming. We drove around for awhile after that and came back to the restaurant about 3:45 pm stopping again on the bridge to see if that thing was still there. It wasn't, and we then got our food to go and went back home to our house in Weatherford. You guys are the first people we have told about this incident.","West of Weatherford, Texas. On the river itself, by itself, and no one else around. [Exact location (copy and paste coordinates into Google Maps): 32.669084, -98.032844 ]","Parker County","Texas","Fall","Report 67199: Daylight sighting on the Brazos River west of Weatherford",32.66908,-98.03284,"2020-10-23",67199.0,"Class A","9vf3c5nxjm",70.43,56.38,42.33,54.1,0.84,0.71,0.27,0.017,0.55,"rain",1018.0,"Rain in the morning.",4.0,9.691,355.0,13.39,"RES.SEASON"], [1643,4306,"My Fiance had an accident at work last summer where he received burns on his hand and I had to take him to the burn center in Gainesville at Shands. I was driving home with him in the car and he was asleep from the painkillers he was on due to his burns. I had my highbeams on and was going ~45mph down SR-16 eastbound near Starke/Camp Blanding. A creature ran across the road on all fours or heavily crouched over. It did not have a tail and in the high beams it looked blueish-grey. Its rear end was pushed up high from the ground, about 4 feet or so, but when it got to the other side of the road it stood up and ran on two legs. I noticed its face was very flat, with no snout or jawline, but with hair all around it. It happened very fast, but I am sure it wasn't a bear because I couldn't see a snout, and I'm sure it was not a panther because there was not a tail. Once it stood up it looked to be about 6 foot tall. Once it crossed the road it kept on running into the woods and never slowed down. While it was running on the asphalt it looked like a lemur running on all fours, once it hit the grass it stood up and continued running bipedally without skipping a beat and made maybe three steps until it was in the woods. I turned to my Fiance and asked \"did you see that?\" but he was unconscious. I didn't mention it earlier because I never really thought twice about it, but my fiance and i were watching TV and it was a bigfoot documentary, i asked him if he remembered the event, and he said no, but then told me to go ahead and report it to the BFRO.","Headed east from Gainesville on SR-16 between Starke and Camp Blanding.","Bradford County","Florida","Summer","Report 41503: Nighttime road crossing near Camp Blanding",29.97917,-81.85223,"2012-06-12",41503.0,"Class A","djmf93t12f",90.88,82.10499999999999,73.33,72.14,0.85,0.34,0.79,0.0102,0.92,"rain",1017.49,"Rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",8.0,9.32,218.0,0.93,"RES.SEASON"], [1648,1003,"Right off the bat, I'll tell you I'm a 16 year old kid telling absolutely the truth, so god strike me dead. I hope you don't take my report as bogus because of that. Let me explain my situation to you: I live, and have lived, on the Molalla river for most of my life and never thought twice about walking around at night or anywhere period. About 2 months ago, I was alone in my Grandmas house using the computer, when I decided to go home (my house is only about 50 yards away). As I was stepping outside the most hideous feeling of being alone and fear thumped my heart. I kept walking in terror, when all of the sudden about 30 feet off to my right, I heard a loud thumping sound crash out. From there on, being distorted by my act of running faster than I've ever moved before, I could swear I heard the distinctive two-legged footsteps veering toward me from off the trail between houses. I raced in my house, slammed the door, locked it and sat in the living room to calm down from my strange experience.The oddest feelings flushed through me then, and now. Now, before you dismiss my story as a frightened child running from noises, I'll have to tell you of the strange past our 45 acres of land at the end of the Dickey Prairie road has had: Around three years ago, when we had cattle and cows fenced on our property, I noticed casually how they would always stay together and go near the barns at night. Then one day we discovered two of them killed up in the woods by the drinking creek. The killings weren't average killings either. The cows didn't have a scratch on them, both had broken necks and their eyeballs sucked cleanly out. Since those experiences, I'm now scared to go hiking and travel at night. Yes, average signs of fear, but I have the weird feeling of being an 'Intruder'. Thank you for your time sincerely, Shawn Murray p.s. I'm a believer.","It occured between two houses on our property, fairly wooded area.","Clackamas County","Oregon","Spring","Report 85: 16 year old has strange experience walking home",45.03255,-122.4808,"2000-06-08",85.0,"Class B","c20bhvujwe",59.36,53.615,47.87,49.63,0.86,0.98,0.23,0.0006,1.0,"rain",1012.38,"Light precipitation in the evening.",5.0,10.0,263.0,4.74,"RES.SEASON"], [1655,3034,"I was traveling early one morning in January, in snowy conditions, when I spotted a large, upright, dark-colored creature just off Rt.55. Very tall, fuzzy looking, with primate features, similar to an ape.","The sighting occurred in Pendleton County, West Virginia near Rt. 55 near Seneca resort area.","Pendleton County","West Virginia","Winter","Report 1205: Witness sees a large creature crossing the road",38.87813,-79.3434,"1998-01-28",1205.0,"Class A","dnzt4mxcsb",35.39,31.895,28.4,31.98,0.9,1.0,0.01,0.0201,1.0,"rain",1013.13,"Heavy rain until evening.",2.0,2.99,344.0,2.85,"RES.SEASON"], [1658,2864,"I really don't know if this was a Bigfoot encounter or not but I don't know how else to explain it. It was in the summer around the year 1970 I was between 9 and 11 years old. There were woods all around where I lived and I spent most of my time playing in them. There was an old road passable only to bikes, horses and 4 wheel drive that led to power lines and a popular camping/party spot. It was dense forest and no direct sunlight came through the canopy. As my friend and I walked and talked all of a sudden there was a loud growling/screaming and about 50 feet or so in front of us the trees were shaking and what ever it was moved a tree (probably Alder) enough to let sunlight beam down, these were big trees, and it seemed like the earth was shaking a bit. We stopped dead in our tracks just long enough for the adrenaline to kick in and then we ran as fast as we could for the whole half mile out of the woods. It has been along time and I was young but the vision is pretty clear of the trees moving and the bright sunlight. I told my family about it at the dinner table that night and they said some body was trying to scare us but I never really accepted it and my friend and I never spoke of it again. It has plagued me my whole life. All the years before and all of them after I never saw and nobody has ever mentioned experiencing anything like a Bigfoot encounter. Just writing this I remember the fear like it was yesterday.","30 miles east of Seattle. A couple miles from town up the coalmine road, on what was called the Gates road.","King County","Washington","Summer","Report 1384: Vocalizations heard by hikers",47.5225,-121.7569,"1970-05-13",1384.0,"Class B","c23qm75qds",58.56,52.075,45.59,39.64,0.74,0.58,0.26,0.0008,0.52,"rain",1026.64,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",7.0,8.71,184.0,3.6,"RES.SEASON"], [1666,1216,"I was walking home from fishing, taking a different trail. As I got about 2/3rds. up the hill I had the hair on my neck stand up and a feeling like I was being watched. This was around 5:00pm. I just casually kept walking till I got home always checking my back. It happened again within a week. Maybe a few days. Did not smell anything cause I had been fishing or no smell anyway. Wasn't long afterwards I was checking on the clouds of a thunderstorm when lightning struck close to the trailer. By this I mean I had my head out the door. I heard a yell about 70yds. behind the trailer. It didn't sound like a cow but I checked anyway. No cows had been in the area for at least 6 months. The scream was high pitched without coming down a lot at the end. With my wife being there, I just closed the door and didn't say nothing. I would say the following Sunday afternoon, my wife went to church at 6:00pm. and I stayed home to watch TV. About 45 min. later, I was laying on the couch watching TV, when something had blacked out my window at the far end of my trailer. The window was 1ft. wide and 3ft. tall. I had raised up to look out my picture window above the couch and it turned the corner and walked around the steps at the back door. It was looking off into the woods and as it kept walking, it looked at the ground. Understand this though, I had clear plastic on my window to keep heat in from winter.(Hadn't taken it down yet.) When it got to the window, I had already laid back down on the couch, looking up and lay still. It looked down at me and kept walking, hopefully. I laid there for about as long as I could stand maybe a minute. Then I got off the couch by sliding on the floor, went and got my gun walked back in the living room and waited a minute, then went outside making all noise I could. I checked the back of the trailer, nothing there. Details of Bigfoot is as follows, he was about 7ft. tall maybe 7ft.3\". Solid black, no white or brown that I could see. Remember the plastic. His head was more rounded and not cone shaped. I could not see the color of his eyes or anything like that. He was broad shouldered and thinner around the waist than what you usually see in the pictures and he walked more upright, not humped over like a gorilla. His hands hung around his thighs. The next morning around 10:00am., I got up from bed as I worked 2rd. shift then. My wife told me a friend of mine had come down to see me. I asked what did he want. She said she only saw him as the top of his head went across the kitchen window. We had to set the trailer on 4 blocks high and 3 on the other end, which meant you could not see anyone walking in front of the trailer, not out the kitchen window anyway. I told her my friend was 6'4\" and with a hat on you could not see him the way she had told me. We lived on rocky ground but I had one dusty dirt spot at the end of the trailer. Hoping he had walked in it. I checked and in the middle was a footprint. It was about 12 and a half inches long and 3 and half to 4 inches wide at the heel. Being dust it was only 1/4\" deep. There were only 3 toes which I did not understand at the time. I told some friends at work and one came to see it. The following Friday or Saturday night, he and a friend of his came over, no drinking sorry. And I told them the whole story. My friend was not hard to convince but his friend started talking big. So I told them let's go outside. Joking around to see how brave he was when we heard two dogs about medium to small size started barking and chasing something on the other ridge behind my trailer. Which was not far at all, maybe 200yds. They chased it into the small valley about 50yds. south of us. When one dog quit barking, the other gave one more then it was quiet. Stunned, we looked at each other and Bigfoot started running back towards us. It stopped about 80yds. from us and started to hit a tree with something that sounded like a branch about 4 to 5 inches thick. Then it ran closer to about 40yds. and done the same thing again. By this time all bravery was gone. I went back in the trailer and got my gun. Come back out and asked if anything had happened. The brave guy thought he might had seen something in the shadows south of us, light was on of course. They took the gun away from me and I didn't mind, thinking I had a way of escape. But we heard nothing else. My nearest neighbor is about 250 yds. away.( Mother-in-law) No one else for at least a mile. No reason to mess with us that I could even think of. That was the last I have seen or heard of him.","Winchester Rd. out of Huntsville AL. to Buddy Williamson Rd. North of Newmarket to Old Limestone Rd.","Madison County","Alabama","Winter","Report 416: A resident's early evening sighting next to his home near New Market",34.95605,-86.4559,"1983-11-15",416.0,"Class A","dn4wbes9z8",55.21,48.27,41.33,43.82,0.74,0.96,0.34,0.032,1.0,"rain",1010.21,"Foggy in the morning and breezy until evening.",3.0,7.28,289.0,11.81,"RES.SEASON"], [1668,589,"My cousin and I were leasing hunting land in Harrison County, near Scio, OH. It was on or about September 4, 2010. It was approximately 9 AM and we were clearing our four wheeler trails. The birds were chirping, squirrels were jumping, and wildlife was moving around. Suddenly, we noticed that all woodland sounds had stopped. It was very odd to us, so much so that we both stopped what we were doing and stood motionless. As we looked around, we saw a tall dark figure approximately 50 yards away standing behind a large tree. It was approximately 8' tall, with hair covering its body. It was standing upright and was looking out from around the tree. At first, we could only see about 1/2 of its face and part of its shoulder and left arm. We were both armed with pistols, which we quickly had in our hands. The stare down lasted approximately 30-45 seconds. I asked my cousin in a low voice... \"are you seeing what I'm seeing?\" He replied yes in a somewhat shaky voice. I said \"what is it?\" He said \"you know what it is\". We both knew it was a Bigfoot. A few seconds later it ran perpendicular to us. We got glimpses of it crashing through the thick brush as it was moving small trees out of its way. It ran completely upright. We saw it running for approximately 50-60 yards before it disappeared into the swamp. Even though the hair was standing up on the back of our necks, we slowly walked over to where it crashed through the woods. The small saplings it ran through were completely broken and bent over. We could not wait to get out of the woods so we fled the area. We did not see it again that hunting season, but made sure we were always well armed, even during bow season.","Bower Road and Beaver Dam Road","Harrison County","Ohio","Fall","Report 50856: Hunters encounter an 8' tall Bigfoot near Scio while clearing trails.",40.40611,-81.13733,"2020-02-29",50856.0,"Class A","dpnmcetweh",31.58,24.855,18.13,13.52,0.62,0.33,0.2,0.0006,0.12,"snow",1019.9,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,10.0,277.0,9.14,"RES.SEASON"], [1671,713,"I would be happy to send you a copy of a colored picture I drew when I was 5 years old back in 1943 of what possibly could have been a bigfoot. I was lost out in the woods while camping with my parents somewhere in central Ohio and this large female ape-like creature put me back in our camp. Then I started screaming and my parents who were out looking for me heard me and came back to the camp and found me. I have not showed this picture to many people because they would have thought I was crazy. I was a lawyer here in Summit County for nearly 40 years and I did not need any aspersions cast upon my sanity. I have had two cancer surgeries in the past six months and I would now like to leave the original of this picture as a bequest in my will to the right kind of museum before anything else happens to me. I also hope that this picture might corroborate the testimony of people with similar experiences whom nobody would believe before. If you don't have the time to look at it, please let me know the address where the picture can be sent by parcel post or UPS. I am grateful to that blessed creature for my life and would like to honor her memory in some way.","Somewhere between Cleveland and Columbus in one of the little campsite areas along State Route 3, from what he recalls. (He called back to describe the Mohican Memorial Forest as the likely general area.)","Ashland County","Ohio","Fall","Report 5333: Man recalls being picked up as a child in Mohican Memorial Forest",40.60787,-82.26236,"2004-08-29",5333.0,"Class A","dpjx006mup",79.69,71.58,63.47,66.67,0.89,0.73,0.48,0.0013,1.0,"rain",1013.32,"Light rain in the morning.",6.0,5.68,266.0,2.53,"RES.SEASON"], [1672,930,"I WAS HUNTING WITH MY TWO BROTHER IN LAWS IN OCTOBER OF 2000. WE WERE IN THE COASTAL RANGE MOUNTAINS ABOVE FALL CITY. WE WERE DRIVING OLD LOGGING ROADS LOOKING FOR GOOD LOCATIONS TO SPOT DEER. WE DROVE UP ONE LOGGING ROAD WHERE THERE WAS A TURN-AROUND OVERLOOKING A HUGE REVINE CONTAINING A DENSE FOREST. I GOT OUT TO LOOK OVER THE EDGE WHEN I NOTICED A LARGE HUMAN-LIKE FOOT PRINT. IT WAS SLIGHTLY LONGER THAN MY SIZE 12 HIKING BOOT AND POSESSED 5 TOES. THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE OF ANYONE BEING THERE RECENTLY(I.E., TIRE TRACKS, SHOE PRINTS, FRESH GARBAGE AND BULLET SHELLS, ECT....ALL THINGS COMMON TO THESE TYPE OF TURN-AROUNDS). WE WERE VERY DEEP IN A COMPLEX SERIES OF LOGGING ROADS THAT WERE PROBABLY SELDOM USED. THE TRACK LOOKED RELATIVELY FRESH, MADE UP OF LOOSE DIRT( A FEW DAYS OLD AT THE VERY MOST). I TOLD MY BROTHER IN LAWS(WHO ARE VERY SKEPTICAL) WHO WERE STILL IN THE CAR TO GET OUT AND LOOK AT WHAT I FOUND. THEY WERE INTERESTED, BUT VERY SKEPTICAL. AT A CLOSER LOOK WE DISCOVERED THAT THERE WAS A HAIR OF SOME SORT WITHIN THE PRINT. THE HAIR WAS ABOUT AN INCH LONG AND WAS VERY CORSE. IT WAS VERY DARK BROWN AND HAD A BLONDISH COLORED TIP. WE HAD A VIDEO CAMERA AND A STILL CAMERA WITH US JUST IN CASE WE ACTUALLY GOT A DEER ON OUR HUNTING TRIP( WE NEVER HAVE). SO, WE TOOK VIDEO AND STILL PICTURES OF THE PRINT. WE COLLECTED THE HAIR AND PUT IT IN A FILM CONTAINER. UNFORTUNATELY WHILE TAKING THE HAIR OUT TO SHOW SOMEONE, IT WAS LOST. I DO HAVE EVIDENCE OF IT IN THE VIDEO THOUGH. THE PRINT WAS LOCATED BETWEEN A PATCH OF GRASS/UNDERGROWTH AND THE STEEP LEDGE. WHATEVER IT WAS THAT MADE THE PRINT WAS STEPPING FROM THE GRASS TO THE LEDGE. THE LEDGE SEEMED TO HAVE SOME IMPRESSIONS MADE BY THE SAME CREATURE WALKING SIDEWAYS DOWN THE HILL, BUT IT WAS SO STEEP AND HAD SUCH LOOSE SOIL THAT NO ACTUAL PRINTS WERE APPARENT. I DO HAVE PHOTO AND VIDEO EVIDENCE OF THE PRINT.","OREGON COASTAL MOUNTAIN RANGE NEAR FALLS CITY OREGON.","Polk County","Oregon","Fall","Report 3633: Hunters find track in mountains above Falls City",44.86875,-123.4462,"2000-10-15",3633.0,"Class B","9rbpqbj5rj",58.9,53.775,48.65,42.81,0.87,0.48,0.58,0.0005,1.0,"rain",1019.0,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,8.87,197.0,0.96,"RES.SEASON"], [1673,606,"My grandson was squirrel hunting with his grandfather who had left him to sit on a log and moved to another area. He was 12 years old at the time. He saw a dark, hairy, figure run out from behind a tree. He said it was bigger than a person, it ran upright and ran very fast. He said it made a noise that reminded him of a \"high pitched chain saw\". He also said that its feet made a lot of noise thumping on the ground as it ran. He could hardly believe what he was seeing and after it disappeared out of sight he ran and found his grandfather and told him what he had seen but his grandfather didn't believe him. Another time he was playing in the woods and he heard strange noises like someone striking a tree with something. He heard these sounds from three seperate locations. He picked up a stick and started striking a tree himself and the noises stopped. I myself, heard this same noise in the woods behind our house.","Jefferson Co., Ohio near Wintersville and1/4 mile from US Route 22. In wooded area near our home.","Jefferson County","Ohio","Fall","Report 4951: Young hunter has sighting, accompanied by knocking sounds, near Wintersville",40.39103,-80.6937,"1997-09-30",4951.0,"Class A","dpntgbbwu9",63.05,57.68,52.31,48.74,0.65,0.76,0.97,0.0039,1.0,"rain",1002.11,"Light rain until afternoon.",4.0,10.0,261.0,10.75,"RES.SEASON"], [1675,2260,"I was family camping with my wife, daughter, and father below Huntington Reservoir. The last two nights of this trip while sitting around the fire late at night we started hearing a moaning sound that sounded like it was coming from the opposite ridge roughly 2-4 miles away. We heard these sounds repeatedly for over an hour on both nights and they seemed to be coming from at least two different directions. My father and I are both avid bigfoot enthusiasts and have been to all of the locations of recent sightings in Utah posted on your site. But, this trip we weren't even thinking about it or talking about when my father said do you hear that. After listening for a second I heard a long moaning howl that(as far as we can tell) sounds amazingly similar to the Ohio howl.","We were camped in the Lake Fork Campground just below Huntington Reservoir. The dam was in sight of our campground and the ridge that we felt the sounds were coming from were due East of our location and as far as I know there aren't any roads accessing that area.","Sanpete County","Utah","Summer","Report 14732: Possible vocalizations heard near Huntington Reservoir",39.48,-111.23,"2005-08-15",14732.0,"Class B","9x0bsghg9j",65.92,56.0,46.08,45.8,0.77,0.27,0.35,0.0009,0.52,"rain",1015.49,"Mostly cloudy starting in the evening.",10.0,9.91,138.0,0.25,"RES.SEASON"], [1677,934,"I was driving from Portland to Lincoln city to retrieve my work bag that I had left in Lincoln City over the weekend. I left Portland at 3 am and had only had coffee and donuts to eat; there were not many other cars on the road at all, none that were going in a westerly direction that were within sight of me and only about 2 cars passed me between Spirit Mountain Casino and the site were I had my sighting. I was driving about 55 mph and had my bright lights on and had just came over a rise in the road shortly after you start down the back side of Murphy Hill summit. As I crested the rise out in the distance I saw what I thought at the time was a deer on the left shoulder of the road about 200 yards out from me. I slowed down to 40 mph or so because I didn't want it to jump in front of me or if there were other deer in the area I might spook them into the road. As I got within 75 yards the object began to move across the road from left to right, that is, when I saw that it was not a deer and I thought it might be a bear which I have seen cross a road before but this was way different. The object was hunched over slightly and was on two legs and cleared the road in about 4 steps. The best way to describe the color was dark brown to black and I would guess the hair to be 4 or 5 inches. The arms looked to come down to mid thigh area. I did not see the face except for there seemed to be a deer-like shine coming from the face area. The height was about 7ft + as it disappeared over the edge of the road to the right. I was about 50 yards away by this time. I was starting to feel pretty weird like this was something I had never seen. Hard to explain the feeling as I passed the spot where it went over the bank I tried to look over and see where it had gone. I was going about 25 mph now as I went about 20 yards past the spot and stopped I then reversed my car to the spot where I had seen it go over the bank. I stopped my car and left the engine running I had my window rolled down slightly for air flow as I was driving. When I stopped I could smell a musty type smell not real bad but strong enough to notice. I could hear some movement in the brush but not a lot because of the car noise and the fact that my window was only down 2 or three inches on the left side when the object was now on my right. I had a really strong feeling that I was being watched; every hair on my body was rigid, I had goose bumps over my whole body I have them now as I write about this, not as bad but the chills. I decided then that it would be a really good time to leave so I drove off as fast as my Metro would go I made it to Lincoln City at 6 am and had about 10 cars pass me going east on hwy 18 in that time.When I got there I went to my girlfriend's to get my bag and was going to come right back to Portland to work. Instead I stayed until 9 am then left to go back to Portland. As I drove by the spot I thought about stopping but decided against it. I know the area well though because I helped a lady who had rolled her car off the road in the same are many years ago. The bank in the are is about 7 ft down on both sides and is swampy in some places. I lived in Lincoln City for many years and have spent time in the woods alone and with others and have never felt or seen anything like this I don’t know what to make of it except for it being Bigfoot. No bear walks on its back legs like this. If you want to see the spot I can take you there just let me know also I drive this stretch of road 2 times sometimes more a week.","About 1/4 mile west of Murphy Hill summit in coast range on a long straightaway","Polk County","Oregon","Winter","Report 7537: Sasquatch crosses road in Coast Range in front of car",45.0608,-123.694,"2003-12-08",7537.0,"Class A","c200370f0v",47.04,44.665,42.29,42.33,0.95,0.78,0.49,0.0004,0.31,"rain",1021.65,"Foggy in the morning.",1.0,6.72,97.0,2.01,"RES.SEASON"], [1679,1135,"I was bow hunting on October 24th, 2007. Around 5:45 pm I saw a large \"sasquatch\" like man about 180 yards away walking away from me. He/She was clothed in all one color. He/She was close to 8 feet tall and extremely muscualr. It was the color of dark rust. All I know is it was the scariest and most bizarre moment of my life. I climbed a small pine tree to get a better look, but he was gone. He/She dissapeared after 3-4 steps.","Sighing was on a pipeline that parralells Allentown Road in West Rock Hill","Bucks County","Pennsylvania","Fall","Report 21962: Bow Hunter Encounters Strange Creature near Argus",40.37726,-75.37814,"2007-10-24",21962.0,"Class A","dr4mswrqd4",64.24,56.785,49.33,59.1,0.94,0.99,0.44,0.0096,1.0,"rain",1012.56,"Light rain in the morning and evening.",3.0,9.01,349.0,0.5,"RES.SEASON"], [1701,4817,"This took place while on the last day of firearm deer season in Novemeber, 1988. It was after sunset but not yet dark. The temperature was in the mid 30's but the ground wasn't frozen and there were still patches of snow on the ground in places. I came out of the woods, put my shotgun, heavy winter coat, and daypack in the trunk of my car and got inside my car to start it up when a movement to my left caught my eye. I will tell you what I saw and what I thought as I was seeing this happen. This man/bigfoot came out of thick brush between the trees to my left on the opposite side of the road from where I was parked, maybe thirty five or forty yards down the road at an angle but it had to know that I was there or at least that my car was there. When I first saw this thing coming out of the thick brush the first thing I thought was, where in the heck did he come from.... Then, I thought, stupid guy, no hunter orange and then I began to notice strange things like he had no gun, and that he was the same color from head to toe, no hat, no hunter orange? But then what I really noticed was that his arms were long, his hands were swinging at his knees and though he was taking large steps crossing the road very quickly but without running, he was just walking. His arms were swinging wide like a British soldier marching but he didn't seem to be in any hurry and he completely ignored me like I wasn't there but he had to know that I was there. He did not look over and kept his head looking straight ahead. He went into the woods on my side of the road (side I was parked on) and went down the hill and disappeared. My eyes told me that I just saw a bigfoot but my brain and common sense was trying to dispute that. His color was dark brown and I thought could that have been a man in a one piece Carhartt outfit or if he were a hiker lost wouldn't he just have stayed on the road rather than go down a steep hill when it was almost dark or if lost why didn't he ask me for help? He was about six feet tall but very husky with his hands, body, feet, side of his head-face, all one color. I actually couldn't see fur because the light was dim. I could see the trees and tree trunks fine but not the bark because the tree trunks were silhoutetted and that's what I mean about not seeing the fur, it was all one shade of dark brown. Now, all of this that I just told you took place in a minute or less. Soon as it disappeared over the side of the hill I jumped out of my car, opened the trunk and loaded my shotgun (for self-defense only), put on my winter coat, and got my flashlight out of my day pack and walked to where I thought the thing went over the hill. I wanted to check out what I just saw and was hoping to find a footprint in the ground or on a patch of snow and I went slowly back and forth, traversing this rather steep hill going a little deeper down as I moved back and forth. There was a deep like gorge on the right side of the hill and I looked up towards the road and by now the ridge on top was just a slither of gray and looking over my shoulder I realized this was not too smart, it was pitch black below me and I got a little scared and hiked back up to the road and to my car as fast as I could. I placed my shotgun back in the case along with my heavy coat putting them in the truck and then I drove up and down the main forest road to see if there were any cars parked off on the sides or if there were anyone walking, I saw nothing. I drove to the valley road where I thought this thing would eventually come out at the bottom of the hill into farm fields and I drove back to the end of this valley and back hoping to see something but saw nothing. I have been wanting to make a report of what I saw and have told my wife, children, teenage granddaughters, brother, and two close hunting buddies, but have always been hesitant to make a report. The truth is, though I am sure what I saw wasn't a man I can't prove it wasn't a man dressed up in a suit but who would be that stupid especially during hunting season. I can't say positively that it was a bigfoot but that is what my eyes saw. Logic says \"no\", my eyes say, \"yes\" and that's my report the best that I can remember it. I am glad to get this off my chest. If this helps in any way then that's great but please use only my first name if this is posted, I am not seeking notoriety here, thanks. Sincerely, [name removed]","Hindustan is the nearest village (only a few homes and small church) perhaps 3-4 miles away on Old 37. The town of Martinsville is about 5 miles to the north and the town of Bloomington is about 15 miles to the south. This incident took place in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest on the Main Forest Road about 1 or 1.5 miles east of the forest entrance that is off of the State Road Old 37.","Monroe County","Indiana","Winter","Report 24815: Man recalls his observation of a creature crossing a road while hunting in the Morgan-Monroe State Forest",39.32117,-86.46065,"1988-11-30",24815.0,"Class A","dnfx8w1q2v",39.03,29.97,20.91,29.57,0.77,0.86,0.73,0.0013,1.0,"rain",1016.92,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",2.0,7.05,254.0,11.66,"RES.SEASON"], [1712,4599,"It all began with my father in law. He had an encounter of something huge and making an un familiar noise he said he had never heard before. He is a 70 year old man and great guy. I recall laughing and making fun of him. Then the tables turned, I was in the woods alone hunting in the 2015 hunting season.I was in my stand and had several deer come in but they seemed very skidish. I drew my crossbow down on a nice buck and pulled the trigger. My arrow seemed to find its mark. I allowed about 45 minutes to go by and it began getting dark. As I climbed down out of my stand I began hearing some unusual noises. Kind of like I screaming growling noise. Now I'm soon to be 50 years old myself and as my father in law said to me. These were sounds that I had never heard before in the woods or anywhere else. I called my father in law and told him I had a deer down and asked if he could meet me out in the woods to help me get the deer out. He told me he was in Terre Haute Indiana, and that it would be close to an hour before he could even get home. I was too embarrassed to tell him I too was feeling pretty uneasy. I tried to keep him on the phone but he had to get off the phone.so I began tracking the deer I found really good blood. And was sure the deer didn't go far. As I started down a small hill I began hearing these noises again. It was as if I could feel these screaming growling noises in my body. I kept hearing what I thought may have been falling tree branches or something. I looked up on this hill side 30 yards from me and seen a sillhouette of something huge. I quickly headed out of the woods and continued hearing the noises all the way out. I called my father in law and told him about my encounter. He laughed and said you mad fun of me. We returned the next morning to find the blood trail where I left off and we knew the deer had to be close due to the amount of blood. And then it was as if the deer just vanished.. We began working in circles to find nothing. There was a steep cliff to the east of where we found the last blood. We looked down torward the creek to find nothing. But the smell in the woods was as it was the night before. A very strong pungent odor. Kind of a cross of something dead and the urine of many different types of animals. I felt eyes on us the whole time we were out there. We went back several times without success. Then in April I went out to the same location mushroom hunting, I found that the woods was very quiet. I didn't find any mushrooms so I headed out through the North end of the woods to look at deer sign. When it hit me, the smell it was so strong , I began hurrying to get out of the woods as I got to the edge of the woods to an area we call the grassy area and there it was a foot print. A single foot print it was the left foot and was very large . The print was a good one very detailed you could see the toes and everything.I wear a size 13 and this print was way bigger than my foot. This area is about three miles from the Kickapoo state park in Vermilion county Illinois. I have never been frightened in the woods in all my life. I spent my whole life in the woods hunting most of every species in our area. I coon hunted in the dark by myself and never been as frightened as I was with this encounter.","Approximately 3 miles south-east of the Kickapoo state park.","Vermilion County","Illinois","Fall","Report 55144: Hunter describes strange encounters and finds a possible footprint near Kickapoo State Park",40.09169,-87.71541,"2015-11-12",55144.0,"Class B","dp1s5frx4b",53.77,44.59,35.41,39.71,0.71,0.56,0.03,0.0004,0.34,"rain",1007.41,"Overcast until afternoon.",2.0,10.0,252.0,15.2,"RES.SEASON"], [1716,3056,"Large tracks spotted, too large to be human, estimated size: 20 in. foot size- occurred september 23 , 1997 at 10:30 am- that night we heard loud, piercing screams in the forest and a strange odor- like a cross between a skunk and sweat- I activated my personal alarm, which apparently frightened the creature away-the next morning, we observed more tracks near our campsite- and some broken branches- needless to say I was a little frightened..","Monongahela National forest-West Virginia- Dolly Sods: Petersburg Forest road 75","Randolph County","West Virginia","Fall","Report 1206: Dolly Sods; Tracks seen, loud screams and strange odor detected.",38.95242,-79.42547,"1997-09-23",1206.0,"Class A","dnzt8eh4k3",56.29,50.26,44.23,49.73,0.96,0.96,0.75,0.0001,1.0,"rain",1020.8,"Light precipitation in the afternoon.",4.0,7.71,356.0,0.91,"RES.SEASON"], [1724,170,"I submitted a report earlier on in the year and have already discussed this incident with a researcher (while we were talking about my first report), but I will submit this second report regardless. I was in my apartment one evening in December, 2000, around 7:30 in the evening. We were having a snow storm and it was raging outside. Suddenly my dog, who is normally pretty laid-back unless there is something weird going on, went absolutely NUTS and tried to break through my sliding glass door, barking, clawing and growling. She is very gentle with people and loves just about everybody, so this clued me into the fact that there was probably an animal outside, which stuck me as unusual since she has never reacted like THAT to any animal; usually she woofs a little or gives curious little whines. My brother looked at me and said, \"What is THAT all about?\" I told him that I thought that there was probably an animal outside and not to worry about it. At about 10:00 in the evening I took my dog out to do her business. As soon as we got to the yard I noticed very unusual tracks in the snow. Unfortunately, it was pretty late and the snow had been blowing for 2 1/2 hours, so I could not decifer any particular features, toes nor boot sole patterns. All I could see were footprint indents. They were unusual because they were so huge, deep and spread apart. Initially I thought that my neighbor's boyfriend was probably outside earlier in the evening, but then I realized that that would be ridiculous. For one thing, his feet aren't that large, and the prints could have been from a size 14 or 15 shoe, and why in the world would he be walking around at night in the middle of a snowstorm? For another thing, he is not THAT tall; I put my heavy hiking boot, woman's size 9, up next to the prints and they could have swallowed my boots 2 1/2 times. I also mimicked the gait to see if I could guess-timate about how tall the individual was. My legs had to spread 4-5 feet apart just to keep in step with the prints. I also noticed that there was only one set of tracks going in one direction---from a deep part of the woods, across the lawn, and over a bank and into the woods again. I deduced from the drifts that the prints had been made within two to three hours, exactly the same time my dog went nuts earlier in the evening. I could have kicked myself for not checking it out when it happened.","My apartment complex is located on the side of a small mountain in Henderson county, on the outskirts of Hendersonville. There are a lot of woods in the area and some houses and other apartment buildings. My building is small (six units)and situated by itself. There is a steep hill directly behind my building and directly in front of it. The building itself sits on a \"lip\" on the side of the mountain.","Henderson County","North Carolina","Winter","Report 2054: Tracks found before Christmas, near Hendersonville",35.36,-82.4831,"2000-12-19",2054.0,"Class B","dnm35j1dum",32.89,20.855,8.82,19.77,0.76,0.99,0.81,0.0052,1.0,"snow",1011.11,"Snow (< 1 in.) in the morning and evening and breezy starting in the afternoon.",2.0,5.8,357.0,9.44,"RES.SEASON"], [1725,686,"I found foot prints in my yard . I made a cast of one and it shows some toes, an arch and even the foot ball.","On personal property north of Vian, OK","Sequoyah County","Oklahoma","Spring","Report 23628: Possible tracks found in yard north of VIan",35.56637,-94.98001,"2008-04-18",23628.0,"Class B","9yk6qdttj7",63.02,49.565,36.11,42.26,0.72,0.71,0.45,0.0102,1.0,"rain",1013.45,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",5.0,9.09,282.0,8.48,"RES.SEASON"], [1730,3258,"I was leaving a freinds house a little after 9 pm on a week night headed home. I was on my motorcycle going east on KY 8 about to come up on a bend in the road. I had lived in this area for about 5 years and had just recently moved. In the years of living in this area and being an avid bow hunter, I have observed lots of deer crossing the road just around this bend. I slowed down because the sun had set not long before and the deer move at that time. As I came around the bend, I realized there was something in the road in the oncoming lane. I slowed down futher, it was crossing the road into my lane. I rapidly slowed and swirved left to go behind it. I almost hit it, missed it less than a foot. I stopped about 10 feet past where it crossed in front of me. I quickly turned around in the road and aimed my light on it as it went into the thick brushline next to the road. It was about 36 to 42 inches tall, short legs and long arms, black hair 4 to 5 inches long, walking upright bipedily.","3/4 of a mile west on KY 8 (aka 3608) from the I-275 petersburg exit in kentucky. Just past where the guard rail stops on your left as you go through the valley and start up the hill.","Boone County","Kentucky","Fall","Report 31368: Nighttime sighting by motorcyclist near Petersburg",39.08002,-84.79574,"2011-09-15",31368.0,"Class A","dngwq6m9s5",63.09,53.72,44.35,42.43,0.64,0.43,0.6,0.0151,1.0,"rain",1022.11,"Mostly cloudy in the morning.",7.0,5.92,12.0,2.63,"RES.SEASON"], [1732,633,"On the evening of April 7, 2020, we decided to do a little catfish fishing at a creek off of Piedmont lake in Egypt Valley. We backed our truck up to the water, dropped the tailgate, built a fire and started fishing. This was around 9pm. The moon was so full we didn't need a lantern. It was very still and quiet out until we heard a few coyote's howl followed by some frogs croaking. Across the creek was thick with brush and small trees, there was a path that looked like led down to the water. While sitting on tailgate, we started to hear a sound of something walking down the side of the creek. You could hear it slowly taking what sounded like a two beat step. Too heavy for a deer, and too small for a coyote/cat. It hesitated at the pathway, then continued on to the left of us. It then made a loop to the right and came back up only farther away from the bank. Then we heard a hoot owl like sound very close to where we first heard the brush cracking. Then another hoot farther to the right as we could hear the footsteps fade in the distance. Then, about 5 minutes later, we heard a tree fall to the right of us across the creek where we heard the footsteps and hoot sounds. After all this the frogs started croaking again. We fished a little longer and decided it was time to leave.","Take County Road 100 off old route 40 (lady bend hill), go pass Egypt Valley stone yard, continue approx 2 miles...if you come to a wooden bridge you went too far. There is a place to drive back to a creek a couple hundred yards before the bridge. It's on the left.","Belmont County","Ohio","Spring","Report 65305: LAST WEEK: Fishing couple reports whoops, bipedal footfalls, tree pushover while night fishing in Egypt Valley.",40.10084,-81.14331,"2020-04-11",65305.0,"Class B","dpnk1s1hrf",55.44,48.225,41.01,28.95,0.59,0.18,0.65,0.0007,0.08,"rain",1016.4,"Clear throughout the day.",6.0,10.0,245.0,5.03,"RES.SEASON"], [1737,3036,"Actually, I didn't make anything of this experience until I began watching the show on OLN \"Mysterious Encounters\". That's when the excitement of possibly having an encounter of my own hit me. I was traveling up a very steep and rocky ridge about 2 hours before daylight one Saturday morning. I was packing a tree stand and my bow. It was mid-october, and daylight would bring the opening day of bow season. I was on a very rugged ridge in Pendleton county; and I had taken several deer in the area in the past. After ascending the first half of my climb, I heard russling up the ridge in front of me. I shined my small mag light in that direction. There, about maybe 60 yards in front of me were about three or four sets of (Yellow) eyes. I noticed the one set of eyes go vertically several feet, still looking in my direction. Keep in mind that our deer are about 3 feet high at the shoulders at best. Plus, the encline was about a 1:1 ratio (or steeper than the nose on most peoples faces). I also noticed that two sets of eyes were very close together, and that one of those sets of eyes didn't loose contact with me when they run off. I kept anticipating a white tail as they moved off, or at least a snort. This is very common in our deer, even jumped up in the dark. This whole scenerio took maybe about 3 or 4 seconds. About 15 to 20 seconds after they had moved off, I remember something rather heavy falling near me. I just assumed at the time that it was something falling from an oak tree or something. I now think that it was instead something thrown at me. Another very short time lapse revealed some rather peculiar \"deer vocalizations\". By this time, the creatures of source at moved across a very deep/steep hollow from me. I remember thinking to myself that those sounds couldn't be coming from a deer or any other wild animal I have ever encountered. That included my hunting travels east and west. That's when the cold sweat broke out on me when I heard something very similar on the T.V. show. I would like to add that the area that I was in was in close proximity to where the encounters occurred at Dolly Sods. There is probably about a two thousand feet difference in elevation at where I was at; but it is only a few miles traveling across the Allegheney Mountains. If these creatures are known to eat white-oak acorns and wild fox grapes, then they would have been in business at that time of year, as they were fairly plentiful in that area. I also remember the skunky smell where I think they were bedded down. Several emotions come over me now when I think about it and relive it.","It was located in a portion of the Monongahela National Forest, east of the highway.","Pendleton County","West Virginia","Fall","Report 8796: Hunter experiences object throwing and vocalizations near Onego",38.8554,-79.3999,"2001-10-16",8796.0,"Class B","dnzt11qv05",56.49,46.38,36.27,37.28,0.9,0.45,0.01,0.0076,1.0,"rain",1016.86,"Rain starting in the afternoon and breezy in the evening.",4.0,7.2,251.0,7.26,"RES.SEASON"], [1738,1383,"Background: I have spent a large part of my life in the woods between Eddington where I grew up and Deblois where my Grandfather built a hunting / fishing camp in the 1920s – everywhere in between hunting, fishing, camping and hiking. I have walked those woods since I was 4 years old and I’m now 61 – I know the deer, moose , bear and other wildlife of those woods. I built my camp on Spectacle Pond in Osborn in 1988. I have spent a lot of time in the years since exploring the woods and waters around the camp over the years and know the area between Route 179 and Route 193 better than most and within 10 miles of my camp, better than anyone. Since 2008 when I retired from the U.S. Navy, I have spent one month every year at my camp – 2 weeks in May, fishing and 2 weeks in November, hunting. I have spent many days and nights in the most remote areas of that part of Maine. On the evening of November 12th 2020, my wife and I had returned to our camp after an afternoon deer hunt, it was dark by the time we got back to camp and settled in for a routine evening with getting the camp warmed up, supper, a couple hands of cribbage and talking – we had been in camp for 10 days. At around 8:30 my wife decided to go to bed as we planned to hunt the morning. I picked up my book and was reading until 10:30. The only light within a half mile of my camp was the single gas light in the front room of the camp which I was using to read – the nearest people were 0.5 mile away in their camp back toward Route 9. I decided to call it a night at 10:30 and wanted to relieve myself before I went to bed so I went outside across the porch, down the front steps and walked approximately 15 feet to the back outside corner of the camp. Within seconds of standing in that spot there was two very loud “THWACK” sounds just inside the woodline which is 15 yards across the back yard. It took me by surprise as I’ve never heard that sound before completely by myself in the woods. It sounded identical to someone taking a large stick of firewood and hitting a tree in full swing. I could easily replicate that noise as in knocking snow/ice off firewood against a tree, but with force. I did not have a flashlight with me as the diffused light from the gas light inside the camp gave me enough point of reference to get back inside so I didn’t think to bring one with me. I stood there perplexed as to what I had just heard and trying to make sense of it, when it happened again…”THWACK” but this time a little farther away – maybe 25-30 yards, but still quite loud. This repeated itself 10 or 11 times over a period of maybe 2 to 3 minutes, each time a little more distant than before. I remained standing there as I was still trying to figure out what it was “THWACKing” these trees. After the hitting of trees dissipated, I returned to the camp and locked the door – I didn’t (and still don’t) know what it was but I knew it wasn’t a person, moose, deer or bear! Of note, there was absolutely no light as in a flashlight from a person. Additionally, those woods are extremely thick with dead spruce and fir – lots of blowdowns yet there was absolutely no noise – no snapping branches, breaking twigs. Nothing – Silence. I can tell you first hand that nobody could walk down through there in broad daylight, much less at night without a flashlight without snapping branches and making a lot of noise. I spent an additional hour in the camp that night reflecting on what I had heard and trying to attribute it to something that made sense – there was none in all of my experience. I went to bed and when we got up Friday morning, we decided to hang out at camp to get a start on packing and cleaning as we were closing up camp and leaving on Saturday. I walked into the woods during daylight where I heard the “THWACK” noises the night before but found nothing where I expected to see some type of sign. Needless to say, I didn’t tell my wife about those events until Saturday morning as we were getting ready to leave. I still have no idea what it was and it was so dark, I didn’t see anything but I can tell you that I’ve never heard or experienced anything like that in the many years I’ve spent in those woods and the 30+ years I’ve owned that camp.","Spectacle Pond, West of Kingman Brook","Hancock County","Maine","Fall","Report 67335: Knocks heard near Spectacle Pond, 27 miles east of Bangor",44.78159,-68.2283,"2020-11-12",67335.0,"Class B","drzqz2jxtm",58.66,45.71,32.76,45.96,0.73,0.96,0.92,0.0015,0.44,"rain",1013.7,"Overcast throughout the day.",2.0,9.976,312.0,6.99,"RES.SEASON"], [1767,4375,"Hello BFRO, I golf three times a week and often up to a one hour drive from my home in Peachtree City GA. I was very close to my home and near Fayetteville GA. I was with three (3) other grown men and NO we had yet to open any cold beer. We drove up to our tee box and a friend yelled at me - \"Dave look there's a bigfoot.\" All of us were about forty yards or so from a large black creature walking from left to right up a slight hill. I watched for just a few seconds and swung the golf cart back up the hill and much closer to the woods & in the direction that the large creature was walking. Mid December so near 50% of the leaves were OFF the trees / bushes that just several days before would not be able to see through. Anyway I got closer to the woods and in that general direction of its walking. Seemingly walking straight at us was a 7 foot or large large black creature. I asked my buddy sitting beside me if it was walking AT US but he told me to GO to GO to GO as he wanted NO part of what we were watching. I yelled at it and down it went behind a log or some debris. It got up after just a few seconds and began to walk AWAY from us. I kept yelling and it turned as the sun hit it and I saw the left side of its large shoulder and left side of its face. It appeared to have fur like a beautiful jet black mink coat. The shoulders and arms were HUGE. We watched for just a few seconds as it disappeared over the hill going back the way it came into that wooded area. Deer Hunting season had just begun in GA so it likely was pushed from its normal residence South of Whitewater Creek Golf Club and Fayetteville GA area. Near Griffen GA a bigfoot was seen by a home owner and a police officer got a good imprint of the large foot print. (it was near Zubulon GA that is South of Griffen GA)","We were on the White Water Creek Golf course. We are members and know the area well. Several lakes and ponds just off the creek near the 15th tee box. [Investigator note: For the Google Maps pin to the spot where the sasquatch was first spotted, click . Coordinates: 33.371111, -84.508000 ]","Fayette County","Georgia","Fall","Report 68899: Four senior golfers observe a sasquatch next to Whitewater Creek Golf Course, 27 mi south of Atlanta",33.37111,-84.508,"2018-12-15",68899.0,"Class A","djgvugp0uc",53.48,50.34,47.2,46.88,0.86,0.99,0.27,0.002,0.75,"rain",1014.6,"Light rain in the morning and overnight.",2.0,6.502,218.0,4.38,"RES.SEASON"], [1772,3146,"We just had a house built. Esler field . buy a set of woods . at the time it wasnt to populated.Well one night my farter and mother had friend s come over on a friday night and play cards there daughter was my sister friends so we were all outside at night playing around on our farthers car hood with was parked on the side of the drive way next to the wood s . i got down from the car hood and went off to the side of the woods and was walking towards a streetlight that we had put up near the end of the drive way and off on the side of the woods . when i felt something standing in front of me. it was very hairy or fury so i lifted my head all the way up to look up into the eyes of bigfoot . its eyes where very dark and were very pupil big. its face had a grayish color to it . it was almost like a gorila face but wasnt dark but grayish . it had a more upright forehead that face it self wasnt all covered with hair. all it did was look down at me no expression on its face at all . like it was just curious.well of coase i ran out of the side of the woods and towards and in my house . leaveing my sister and her friend behinde . i told my parents what i seen when i could finnally calm down but they thought it was just my mind playing tricks on me . but after a few minutes my sister and her friend ran in and slam the door and said they heard someone walking in the wood s . nothing else was said and i think everyone else has forgotten but i never did or could . i didnt seem to be a monster but it seem to be a creature with a soul and feelings and wasnt out to harm . if it wanted to it could have rip me to one end to the other. its very tall and very wide in the soulders . long arms and wide. this is my sighting i never really have told anybody until now. since then i always new and new if i wanted i could find such animale . thank you","Esler Field Road near the airport","Rapides Parish","Louisiana","Unknown","Report 1459: Witness looked up into the eyes of Bigfoot",31.3799,-92.37835,"1978-07-15",1459.0,"Class A","9vw69bs1hm",95.62,84.74000000000001,73.86,67.28,0.62,0.79,0.33,0.0041,1.0,"rain",1012.76,"Humid and mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,7.64,224.0,2.76,"RES.SEASON"], [1779,3918,"Four 22 inch long bare human tracks. Eight feet from toe to heel in order left right left right. These tracks followed a deer path doun a hill and crossed a dirt road. The road was very hard and the tracks on the hill sunk in the earth about 2to 3 inches. The tracks on the road did not indent becouse of the hardness of the road. Dirt was left on the road in a bare foot form with 5 toes.","USA, Colorado, Fremont county Hwy 115 A state land area called Table mountain.","Fremont County","Colorado","Spring","Report 1361: Twenty-two inch tracks found",38.54166,-104.9908,"1998-04-14",1361.0,"Class A","9wv76bk13n",47.81,38.615,29.42,31.65,0.78,0.69,0.59,0.0005,1.0,"rain",1007.88,"Light rain in the evening.",6.0,8.47,7.0,10.02,"RES.SEASON"], [1785,4798,"Chimpanzee noises at work. Went outside, seen in hedge apple tree. Tan reddish hue, wedge shaped head from behind. Went away after I yelled, still heard noises.","Glenwood, Illinois next to Glenwood Woods Forest Preserve.","Cook County","Illinois","Fall","Report 51417: Possible early morning sighting near Glenwood Woods",41.53887,-87.62597,"2016-03-14",51417.0,"Class B","dp3sq1btqy",51.35,48.725,46.1,45.57,0.92,0.99,0.21,0.0012,0.89,"rain",1006.24,"Overcast throughout the day.",3.0,5.88,337.0,0.42,"RES.SEASON"], [1804,491,"Hello, I am writing for my mother as she is not very good with a laptop. They live in Valley City, Ohio. She saw something last night that has really scared her and didn't know who she could ask about it. Here's a little background. Over the past couple months they have heard deep growls off and on but have never seen anything. They live in the country with a river and woods across the roads both in front and behind the house. They never go outside at night unless they can help it because it just doesn't seem right out, sort of like they are being watched. Then this morning about 3 AM my mom was in the kitchen making coffee and looked out the large window on the side of the house and saw yellow eyes looking in at her. As she had the light on in the kitchen, she couldn't see the full body, but the window was open and she smelled a musty skunk smell. This was the only window that the blinds were not closed. Needless to say the coffee never got made. It scared her really bad. She went to the living room and sat in the dark until it got light outside. Then when it got light she went outside and said it smelled like a herd of skunks had been around. The window is fairly high on the side of the house and I am about 5' 2\" and can barely look in the bottom of it. We estimate that where the eyes where on the window it had to be close to seven foot tall. She said her iris flowers and some other plants were smashed down under the window and all the corn for her squirrels was missing. She couldn't see any tracks because of the plants and the ground was dry.","Just off of State Route 252. I will give more information if you wish to contact us.","Medina County","Ohio","Summer","Report 41774: Woman is startled after seeing a face with yellow eyes peering into her kitchen window near Valley City",41.22248,-81.91616,"2013-06-25",41774.0,"Class B","dpmdxbq6r5",88.07,77.615,67.16,68.46,0.75,0.43,0.58,0.0357,0.87,"rain",1013.96,"Heavy rain in the evening and overnight.",8.0,3.97,234.0,2.64,"RES.SEASON"], [1814,2388,"I was on my way back from Glenwood where my cousin had had a high school volleyball game; I and her older brother had hung around town well after the game so I left around midnight. On the way back I drove slower than normal because I didn't want to hit a deer with my car I had bought the previous month. I was a little more than two miles from the BZ corner junction when I saw a set of eyes reflecting on the opposite side of the road. I slowed down thinking it was a deer, however as I continued to approach I saw that they were sitting up pretty high. The road dips down on that side just as on mine, there are steep banks here and there. When it began to cross I was a little less than 10 yards from it but through the majority of the encounter I inched towards it to approximately 5/6 yards at the closest. When it came in to the shoulder of my headlights I noticed that the legs weren't thin like a deer or elk they were thick. I thought it might be a bear, however as it continued to cross I could tell it was way too big to be a bear sitting at roughly 7/8 foot high. I also knew it wasn't a bear because bears are meant to be on all fours it wouldn't have \"arms\" that came down about half way down the thigh (I could tell they came down that far because they swing slightly as it walked). When it crossed over the centerline for a moment it made about a quarter turn with its torso and looked at me briefly before turning back (all as it was walking, it didn't stop at any time while on the road). I don't recall much of the face but what I do clearly remember was noticing the shape of the head was not at all like a bear, more like a tall bump off of massive shoulders and that there was no snout (that part I noticed as it finished looking away from me). It continued to walk forward in to a ditch along the road with a steep bank (as it did so walking a little bit towards my car as if trying to step out of the light). It awkwardly turned away and I started driving forward slowly. I ended up crossing halfway into the other lane but I would estimate its distance to the side of my car as I began to pass would have been 3/4 feet at the closest. Once I was pretty sure I had passed it I sped up. I never looked in the rear view mirror, I was honestly too afraid too. The hairs were standing on the back of my neck the rest of the drive. I knew it was watching me as I drove away and the scariest part was I knew it was watching me when I was unable to see it after I passed.","This happened while I was traveling South West on the BZ Glenwood Highway 2 miles from the BZ junction on to HWY 141.","Klickitat County","Washington","Fall","Report 35479: Nighttime sighting by a motorist near BZ Corner",45.86883,-121.4813,"2010-09-15",35479.0,"Class A","c21sgwhj29",71.01,64.315,57.62,49.74,0.69,0.32,0.27,0.0004,0.4,"rain",1014.08,"Mostly cloudy starting in the evening.",6.0,9.93,254.0,1.23,"RES.SEASON"], [1829,3862,"My wife, my two children, and I were driving on Hwy 50, west bound, leaving South Lake Tahoe at 9:55 PM. We just passed the agriculture inspection station in the town of Meyers, CA, when both my wife and I saw simultaneously a large animal crossing the road about 100 yards in front of us. I thought it was a bear but wasn't sure. So I asked my wife. Her response was most unusual. She said that she saw it walking on two legs and that it looked like a monkey, about 5 1/2 feet tall, with light brown fur. She has better eye sight than me so I questioned her further. \"What else did you notice,\" I asked, very curious. She said that it had walked rather slowly, across the road, and that it was definately an animal, like a monkey, and walked like a monkey would walk. It disappeared into the trees, before we could get close enough for a better look. I wanted to turn around and look some more but my wife didn't want to. So we kept driving. That's when I had a chance to question her more. My wife has had Laser surgery on her eyes, and I wear corrective lenses, which, most unfortunately I wasn't wearing at that moment. This is why she was able to see better than me.","\"It\" crossed Hwy 50 close to Upper Truckee River. I can pinpoint the location because Hwy 50 crosses Upper Truckee River. I know the area well, I want very much to look for tracks in this area. But I live in Sacramento and I'm too busy right now.","El Dorado County","California","Summer","Report 6639: Couple have night sighting near Lake Tahoe",38.85556,-120.0133,"2003-07-20",6639.0,"Class A","9qftj12yp3",83.43,70.63,57.83,50.54,0.51,0.08,0.73,0.0043,0.54,"rain",1019.88,"Clear throughout the day.",11.0,10.0,224.0,0.33,"RES.SEASON"], [1838,1075,"When I was 12 years old, my mother was cooking my breakfast before school and as she was cooking and looking out the window she said, what in the world is that? I jumped up just in time to see a large brown figure going into the woods toward a stream behind my house. She said it ran from the neighbors down a powerline and was snapping off sumac like they were twigs. Being young and curious I ran about 75 yds to the spot the animal had entered, there was a small drop off of about 20 feet then a level spot about 10 ft, then another 4 ft drop to the creek bed. When I arrived I observed the bigfoot at about 50 yrds, It must have heard me as it stopped and turned its upper torso and looked at me. The animal was between 6 and 7 ft tall with a dark face, after looking at me it made great strides down the creekbed and was gone around the bend. When my father arrived we went to check the area. There were very large heel prints in the top of the bank where the animal had landed when it leaped off of the top. I hunted those woods for years and there were times that I felt I was being watched, We heard vocalizations one night but my father said it was a bobcat, after hearing bigfoot recordings I believe they are what made the noise.","From the red light in Sandy Lake take 173 north to Mill Street stay on Mill Street it turns into Coal Road go about 1 mile you will cross a small creek in a valley the incident happened near the back of the property.","Mercer County","Pennsylvania","Fall","Report 48013: Memory told of a close daylight encounter behind a home outside Sandy Lake",41.21365,-80.26563,"1978-10-15",48013.0,"Class A","dpqfmw8qgm",47.59,40.235,32.88,33.13,0.79,0.63,0.48,0.0025,1.0,"rain",1017.76,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,9.24,232.0,4.43,"RES.SEASON"], [1843,2338,"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 spent a great bit of time in the woods. I know animals and flora and that is why what occurred back in the fall of '03 has bothered me so much to this day, enough to finally submit this report. My former roommate's father owns the property this incident took place on. I have had access to it since I was 15. It's a small sportsman’s paradise of nearly 200 acres and a 5-acre bass pond. I had hunted it every fall since '94 and had fished there for years before that. I hit the woods, completely scent proof, at about 3:30AM and hiked from the farmhouse appx. 600 yards back to the deer stand I was planning on using that morning. I stopped short about 100 yards to apply a drag rope (doe in rut scent) and then crossed the creek bridge and walked a wide pattern out in front of the stand to put out several scent markers on the game trails. This took perhaps 15 minutes and no game animals were spooked. I then headed back towards the tree stand, tied off my rifle and gear to a safety rope, climbed the stand and pulled up my gear. This would give me a full hour and a half to let the woods settle down and help my presence go unnoticed. What happened next has cost me countless nights of sleep and still gives me chills every time I think about it. Once in the stand I went about the business of sorting out my gear and making sure everything was where I would need it, binoculars, grunt caller, etc. Out of nowhere came the most god awful, blood-curling scream/yell/growl that I had ever heard in my life. The morning calm was completely shattered and it sounded close. I immediately ran the a mental list in my mind as to what it could be, but nothing I had ever heard before could match this in either pitch, depth, or duration. It lasted for at least 5-7 seconds. I was scared. It started so high and just kept expanding in pitch into a howl that ended in a menacing guttural growl. Before the sound was even over I realized/felt extreme danger. The real fear was from the fact that the volume was so loud and it came upon me so suddenly that I knew it was close, too close, within say 25 yards. Following the \"howl\" there was complete silence. I immediately felt to close to the ground, for whatever reason (in a 17ft. tree stand), and carefully stood up so that my feet were not dangling off the seat. I pulled out my mag light and started scanning the area to my front and right that the sound seemed to come from. I tried to listen for further movement while scanning, but realized that my ears were actually ringing from the howl. I remember thinking (from previous survival training) to keep cool and not panic, and figure this out. I quickly chambered a round and checked to make sure the safety was on my rifle, a Winchester model 70 in .300WSM. I then continued scanning between the woods to my front and the pine thicket to my immediate right with my flashlight. I just felt so vulnerable, and remembered thinking that this rifle might not be enough so I fetched my S&W.40 handgun from my backpack and secured it to my belt (now I know that it's unlawful to carry a sidearm during rifle season, but there are black bear on this property and I wasn’t going to leave myself without an option). It took several moments for my hearing to return and when it did I heard distinctive movement back in the pine thicket to my front and right, maybe 20 yards into the trees. Then nothing. That’s when the smell hit me. I'm not sure I noticed it at first because I had been handling deer scents, but I smelled what I can only describe as a \"rotten cabbage/ripe dumpster\". It didn’t last long, and there was no noticeable wind at the time of this incident to carry this scent. I stood there in that tree stand for the next two hours until first light and then got the hell out of there. I'm not the type to scare easily and I was right back out there two days later, but didn’t think to check for tracks or any other evidence. The game was still scarce. I've been back several times since then to fish the pond and nothing out of the ordinary ever occurred during those trips. I totally forgot about this incident for nearly a year. It bothered me so I just didn’t think about it. That changed when I caught a documentary on T.V. concerning bigfoot/Sasquatch. The BFRO was mentioned and I found your website out of curiosity. I was stunned when I read the report (also in Franklin Co.) that you had listed, but was even further stunned when I listened to some of the recording in your database. Several (from '73 and '78 I think) sounded similar to the very beginning of the howl during my incident, but the sound I heard was so close and loud and went so deep at the end that they are tough to compare. Whatever made that noise had one hell of a set of lungs though. I was also surprised about the smell that \"they\" supposedly emit when threatened. I had no idea. That was the icing on the cake that made me think that I might have possibly had an encounter. I've always been someone comfortable in the woods, and for the most part I'm still that person, I'm just a little more aware of what could possibly be out there.","From Roanoke: 220 South to Rocky Mount, then 40 West past Ferrum College","Franklin County","Virginia","Fall","Report 13212: Possible pre-dawn vocalization heard by hunter near Ferrum",36.94165,-80.04166,"2003-11-13",13212.0,"Class B","dnx44t52wn",45.65,38.555,31.46,21.67,0.4,0.24,0.64,0.0002,1.0,"rain",1014.11,"Breezy throughout the day and partly cloudy until afternoon.",3.0,10.0,295.0,17.47,"RES.SEASON"], [1846,34,"I've told very few people this story for fear that they might think I'm crazy. The only reason why I'm taking the time to report this is because of a recent entry a friend of mine who knew my story told me about. My story takes place in Charlestown, Rhode Island in the late 1970's. My mother and father and I lived in a wooded area abutting the \"Indian Cedar Swamp\" and property owned by United Nuclear which probably comprises several thousand acres. The property surrounding our home was mixed white Atlantic juniper swamp,scarlet, red and white oaks with old growth white pine stands mixed in, with a dense understory of briars, mountain laurel and blue berry brush. We lived off a road with 3 houses on it. The houses were all built close to the entrance of this development. The road was part of a series of roads that were put in as the start of a development. The roads were oiled gravel and had been left to grow in after years of little or no use. It looked like the developer had started and went belly-up. These roads were great to ride bikes on or take a evening cruise on after bringing my father dinner at his second job. My mother drove a baby blue Mustang Mach 1 and she would drive around the roads with me looking at deer before we retired to our home for the evening. As a kid I remember this being a highlight to the evening. I was at the time maybe 8 years old and my mother and I on this particular night in the late 70's commenced our ride around the roads to see if we sould see any deer. It had been raining earlier with thunder and lightning mixed in. Now it was just raining. We were rounding a corner on one of the roads that paralleled the Indian Cedar Swamp and as we started downward, we noticed the road was obstructed by a large blown down oak tree, the tree had green leaves (this makes me think it was summer or the early fall) on it so it had recently come down, we guessed maybe in the storm earlier(possibly lightning). The road was very narrow and the brush along the side of the road made it difficult to back the car around to turn around. The rain was falling but not heavy, the wipers were on, the headlights on the car were on as well. As my mother turned the front end of the car the lights cast on the left side of the road where the tree had been broken off from its stump. We were maybe 1 1/2 car lengths from the stump. Beside the tall fractured stump stood what looked like a large white(yellow white) ape. It was maybe 6 to 7 feet tall, its hair was long, face flat, long massive arms, its head appeared to be without any neck, its chest was broad. My mother and I froze momentarily (5 seconds, maybe 10) and the figure remained still, staring at us. My mother floored the car into reverse. I remember ther terror of it all. The sound of gravel hitting inside the fender wells, the sound of the brush crushing against the car and then the acceleration as she sped off. We were clear as to what we saw and we have no question in our mind that we saw something or someone in ape like shape that night. This we are certain of. We need no one to tall us what we saw, it's crystal clear. For years we told no one. We would talk about it in our home in privacy and even my father found this story hard to accept. We've never forgotten this and this story would have never been told if it wasn't for someone else informing me of a similar sigthing. I'm now in my 30's an extremely active hunter, farmer and woodsman. I hunt deer 40 days a year in Maine, RI, CT and New Jersey. I use automated cameras which are triggered by heat. I've never seen a picture of a bigfoot on my film. I have seen pictures of deer on my 50 acre tract of land that I would never believe are there if I didn't see it on my film. I know every inch of my land and the surrounding property and these mystery deer show up at all hours on my cameras and frequently at that. How can they move right around our hunting parties in such a small area and never be seen, I'll never know, Even today I find it hard to accept what we definitely saw. I'm not a fan of ghosts, UFO's or even big foot. I'm not sure to this day what I saw wasn't a man in a costume, dressed up, out in rainstorm, a half mile or more from any home, waiting for my mother and me to drive down the road to give us a scare. The only thing I can say is it was a damn' good costume and a damn' good plan. We saw what we saw and this is something I would sware to on any polygraph test as I'm sure my mother would.","In a development off RT 112 in Charlestown known as Five Seasons.","Washington County","Rhode Island","Summer","Report 6643: Mother and son see sasquatch closeup from road",41.432,-71.65183,"1978-07-15",6643.0,"Class A","drm59w2wzk",68.56,65.805,63.05,62.27,0.88,0.8,0.33,0.0285,1.0,"rain",1014.7,"Heavy rain in the morning and afternoon.",5.0,5.71,161.0,5.47,"RES.SEASON"], [1847,4019,"Aug. 26 2011 This day was a Friday in August, Central Florida. In the pre-dawn hours of the morning my husband was not even half way on his commute from Space Coast to Disney World to report for his early morning shift, like he does 5 days a week. He takes the 192 which involves a loooong stretch of road with seemingly no sign of life anywhere for about an hour until you reach the St. Cloud area. My husband slammed on the brakes to try to avoid what was in the road without hitting it dead on, all the while trying to avoid flipping his Volkswagon Passat. Unfortunately, he could not avoid contact, and he struck the massive 9 Ft. Gator. He pulled the car over after attempting to resume driving, realizing the car was now undriveble. He made phone calls to the insurance company, his job, and me. I head out on the same stretch of 192 to retrieve him. His vehicle is being loaded onto a flatbed and he is waiting with the tow truck driver who is nice enough not to leave him standing at the side of the road in the middle of nowhere at (now) 6 o'clock in the morning. I am driving, wide awake, looking the whole time for this piece of road kill. I want a photo of it. No I am not morbid, but he said it was HUGE, and I take pictures of all wild animals I come across. Bunnies, snakes, gators, whatever. I drive a long time, the sun is breaking over the line at the moment I finally come to the Gator. It is daylight enough that I can drive without headlights and I can see outside very well. I see it up ahead in the distance, I see the Turkey Vultures. The BIG BLACK birds that come to eat the road kill. My eyes are darting down to the road, up ahead the highway looking for the tow truck, back to the monstrous mess in the road. I am slowing down so I can photograph the Gator, and I am reaching for my camera. As my eyes follow a 3-pack of the large birds up off the road and cross over the the right, I see a man walk into the woods up ahead. He is up ahead a distance I would call a block. A block away. He is wearing ALL BLACK. His elbows are bent as he is walking, and he disappears into the woods. So I am pulling over now, snapping photos of the disgusting mound that is so large in the road that if it's not cleaned up, and if someone hits that, there is going to be another accident. And I am fully awake and present in the moment. I am running a checklist in my head. Gator. Birds. Man. Man ?!?! What Man? Why would a \"man\" be out here at (now) 7am exactly, walking around in the woods. There are cows here. Lots of land you pass on this road has cattle being raised for beef. Oh, and a DEER sign. A sign, just a moment back I passed , warning of Deer Crossing. (Thanks for the heads up on the 9 Ft. Gators). So he's tending to his cows? A ranch hand? Where's his truck? Where's his Cowboy hat? . So I recall this again. A man - in ALL black- no change of color for face or hands- Wearing a black hoodie? On a beautiful, warm, dry, summer morning- in August- in Central Florida? He's not looking when a car pulls up? He walks into the woods that are headed nowhere? I don't think so. Makes no sense. I think I saw a Bigfoot. So it took me about 2 minutes to put this all together and I didn't want to leave! I wanted to go in after him. I couldn't. My husband was waiting and was all revved up from his climactic morning. He would be angry if I delayed, goofing off. The tow truck driver had waited long enough. I snapped like 2 pictures of the mess in the road and quickly moved on. Putting this all together in the months since the event, it makes more and more sense that what I saw was a Florida Skunk Ape. Of course he would be pulled out of the woods at the knowing of the HUGE road kill. It was dark for more than an hour while that Gator sat there in the dark. There was time for a Bigfoot to hoof it on out there and check out the scene, hey, he even had enough time to pack a bag lunch. Nearly escaping unnoticed before the sun came up over the horizon. It has been almost a year, and I am planning to go back to said location and search for prints and evidence one day. I have driven by the exact location approximately 6 times since then. Each time going over and over it in my head. I am so angry with myself that I had camera in hand, and came up empty. But even driving in the passenger side with the camera hanging out of the window I can miss a pic of a deer! Nothing could have prepared me to photograph a \"hey--maybe that's a \"somethin' \" at a moment's notice. Meanwhile, since my incident I have heard of two other sightings in locations that are within 2 hours driving distance (east or south) of my incident. I continue to search for new reports of local sightings and hope to make future trips to search for tracks. Camera in hand.","(from I95) 192 heading NW in deserted area just before Crabgrass Rd.","Osceola County","Florida","Summer","Report 35769: Possible sighting at dawn near road kill on US-192 east of Holopaw",28.13136,-81.00677,"2011-08-26",35769.0,"Class B","djn2h9htj3",92.31,85.13499999999999,77.96,74.49,0.77,0.38,0.91,0.0003,0.68,"rain",1005.66,"Humid throughout the day and partly cloudy until evening.",8.0,10.0,298.0,6.12,"RES.SEASON"], [1854,1689,"This story has been told by my father, I remember him coming home as a kid an telling us his hunting stories,this story was the best, this story was never talked about again until this year when i learned about this site, I ask my father now in his late 60s about the story he told when we were kids, this happened in 1976, my father is an avid bowhunter, while leaving a deer stand and heading back to the house, he noticed a large man standing on the edge of a small field, directly across from him. he had thought it was another hunter that hunted on the farm, my dad whistled at him to let him know he was there, there was no response, so he whistled again, no response, keep in mind this is a small winter wheat field.food plot.approx 100 yards across, my dad said he stopped and studied the figure and realized it was very tall, and it was not a man, he said his hair stood up, and he made his way to a dried up slough and headed towards the house, while navigating his way he said he could hear limbs popping behind him, when he stopped to listen it would stop, when he moved again it would move, he never seen the creature again until this year 32 years later in November 2008, while deer hunting again on the same farm, he called me and told me he seen something again, on the farm, this time he only got a glimpse of it, it was on its belly crawling up a deer trail out of a slough, he said it was black in color,and very large, he said he only got a glimpse of it and believed it to be one of the creatures. This area has very heavy jungle like foliage, if you have ever been in the river Missouri bottoms, you know what I am describing, my dad would never tell this or report this to anyone. I have decided to do it so the info is out there.","Missouri river bottoms above river from the 370 hwy bridge","St. Louis County","Missouri","Fall","Report 23836: Several incidents experienced by father and son outside St. Louis",38.73802,-90.53249,"1976-10-20",23836.0,"Class A","9yzs7uh324",46.14,39.65,33.16,36.18,0.83,0.68,0.9,0.0005,1.0,"rain",1020.99,"Overcast until afternoon.",3.0,5.63,300.0,9.61,"RES.SEASON"], [1871,4486,"Hi. I don’t know how to start this off but here it goes: I am a 35 yr male disabled combat veteran (Iraq/Afghanistan) I’ve hunted this land for the last 5 years ish. It was the 9th of October and I had camp set up. Wife was getting off early and the kids were in school. They were coming to meet me there in the afternoon. I decided to go see if I could locate a small pocket of elk and shoot some grouse. I took my SxS down a normal trail that I somewhat frequent looking for my last 2 birds. It’s a old log road that dead ends. Immediately shot 1 soon as I got off the SxS. Got him and figured hey it’s a dead end, I’ll walk this and see if I can find fresh elk sign. I can show you on OnX where I was and can explain the terrain. Anyway, walked down maybe 1/2 mile at the beginning I kept jumping birds but always opposite of where I was. I went to the left the jumped 50-60 yards other side... get to a good opening and see a few wolf tracks. Big pile of bear shit. Decided to head back to check on my dogs and wait for the fam. Walking back was dead quiet as in awkward quiet no chirps no nothing, not like when I walked down. I got almost halfway back to my side by side and heard a knock... I know what a woodpecker sounds like.. I am not a believer (well idk now). So I thought maybe another hunter was in the timber so I speak out loudly “ohhh tree knocking huh!!!\" Then 2 knocks, I started laughing “Sasquatch is that you..\" silence for probably 10-15 seconds then 3 knocks no special order just odd timing knocks. I make a joke of it “Have u seen any grouse I need one more” no answer, few seconds later knocks 2-3 maybe 4 .. I joke “ knock twice if your in New Hampshire (joking quoted anchorman movie) no knocks .. So I look thru my binos, not cheap shit, vortex viper 12x50... I looked for at least a min. One knock while I was glassing.. Started to feel really uneasy. Out loud said, \"Alright dude it’s not funny, at least wave a hand so I can see where you are! Again, I am grouse hunting with my 12gauge pump and don’t want to pepper someone when they're hid and I try to shoot a bird!\" Quiet for probably 30-45 seconds. I am glassing (thinking maybe someone put a blind up or something) but nothing. I unload my bird shot and put my 2 buckshots in followed by a slug. I tell them they're gonna get it and they need to show them self. Nothing, Was about to walk up the direction and just didn’t feel right. Kept my buckshot in and started to walk fast for the next 20 mins to my SxS. Got to my ride and still dead quiet... OK my area, potlatch land (timber company). I rode from camp 8.7 miles. Friday mid day. This is a dead end trail. I did not see anyone all day. No tracks, no tire marks, nothing. I know I was the only one out there. Went back to camp waited for my family. Told my wife and she said “You grew up in these woods. I don’t think you're crazy but I wasn’t there.” I am not crazy. I spend probably 7-8 months of the year in this area, never anything like this.","Longitude / Latitude: (copy and paste coordinates into Google Maps): 46.75473, -116.42915","Latah County","Idaho","Fall","Report 67401: Hunter gets spooked by loud knocks 7 miles south of Bovill",46.75473,-116.4292,"2020-10-09",67401.0,"Class B","c2m1yx6y51",69.67,57.94,46.21,44.17,0.66,0.24,0.75,0.0003,0.03,"rain",1009.4,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,10.0,122.0,4.01,"RES.SEASON"], [1874,425,"Yesterday up the road from my house a friend and I actually saw a bigfoot in the daylight about 6 pm. As i stated on the 99 incident at my home this must be a route they use after what we saw yesterday. We are going to go look for prints today. We we driving down the street and at the top of the hill I saw something dart past a telephone pole on my right. It was very fast and my first reaction was that its a jogger dressed in black, just like in 1973 and I said nothing but as we got to the intersection my friend says \"where'd he go\" and I said \" did you see something dart up in the woods?\" He said yes. We turned around right then and there and went to look in the woods. There was nothing there. Nothing moves at that speed. By the way we live just west of Alliance Ohio where there have been sightings. Maybe this is a route they use?? Thing was all black and had a long torso with very tall long arms that were swinging in a forward motion when it was running.","just off us state route 30 south out of E. Canton.","Stark County","Ohio","Winter","Report 1851: Two men see see a hairy creature running into woods",40.77789,-81.25768,"2001-02-24",1851.0,"Class A","dpnpyzmuqv",38.3,39.835,41.37,20.53,0.64,0.67,0.04,0.0007,1.0,"snow",1027.3,"Light rain until afternoon, starting again in the evening, and breezy overnight.",4.0,8.54,121.0,9.19,"RES.SEASON"], [1877,1005,"Today, March 18, 2001, my brother and I were hiking near Table Rock Wilderness in Clackamas County, Oregon. Found footprints in the snow very much like a very large, bare, human foot. We wear size 12 and 13 boots and the prints were significantly bigger. Using a dollar bill as a size reference I took pictures with a digital camera. Using the dollar bill we measured a stride of 4 feet. Also the prints were deeper than ours or the other human prints in the area. I would like to submit the pictures for expert evaluation and will do so if an e-mail address is provided.","To get to Table Rock Wilderness from Molalla take Dickey Prairie Road to South Molalla Road and follow Molalla River. Follow signs to Table Rock. See \"investigator comments\" for precise directions to location.","Clackamas County","Oregon","Winter","Report 1986: Hikers make track find on Table Rock Creek, Oregon",44.97487,-122.3057,"2001-03-18",1986.0,"Class B","9rcpbg7twe",48.06,39.06,30.06,43.63,1.0,0.96,0.81,0.0179,1.0,"rain",1018.59,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",3.0,9.79,190.0,10.97,"RES.SEASON"], [1891,2768,"Mrs. Brenda G., washing the dinner dishes, looking out over her backyard, past the horse corral with its pony and off into the distance, notices that suddenly the horse becomes unruly and seems close to panic, while an indistinct figure passes through the trees behind the corral. She calls to Nick: \"Nick, there are some kids out there trying to tease the horse\" and steps out the kitchen back door with a BB-gun in her hands for good measure. Nick races out past her and some distance down the overgrown meadow along the stand of trees, where he comes abruptly face to face with a sasquatch standing on the indistinct foot path. Nick comes to such a \"screeching halt\" that he slides on moist vegetation and sits down on the ground. For reassurance he throws a backward look to his mother who, however, has returned to the house. When he looks back at the sasquatch, it is already walking with long strides across the brush and wildflower covered meadow, \"lifting up his feet more than people do\". As Nick scrambles to get up, a branch snaps and the sasquatch turns to look at him \"with big eyes\". Nick runs back into the house, tearing the screen door off its hinges in the process, to tell his mother about the creature and to change into boots from his slippery loafers. Then he charges back out, taking a large army bayonet from over the fireplace for protection, with Brenda close behind. Their two dogs have retreated under the house. As he runs down through the same meadow, the sasquatch is still walking about there, retreats downhill, crosses a small creek and stops on the far bank of the creek under a fir tree to face his pursuers, his entire body bathed in sunlight and visible from head to toe. Nick stops about 30' away, his mother stands about 15' behind him. This silent tableau holds its place for what seems an extraordinarily long time, perhaps 5 minutes, although Nick's and Brenda's estimates, colored by the adrenaline of the encounter, range as high as 20 minutes. Whatever length of time passes, it gives Nick and Brenda the opportunity for detailed inspection of the sasquatch. They describe it as being 6'6\" tall (as measured against a branchlet that barely touched the crown of its head), covered with black-gray fur and golden brown patches on its shoulders and chest. The hair is 4\"-5\" long and dirty with burrs in it. The head is notable for its pronounced brow ridge and deep set eyes, that are \"less open than human eyes\" [facing into the sun]. It has a wide and stumpy nose, the hairiness under the nose getting thicker, hiding the jaw line. It has impressively wide shoulders (\"Man, they were this wide!\", Nick holds his hands far apart in retelling), heavy arms, wide hands with thick fingers and dark brown and rough palms. Its nails have a deep yellow \"nicotine-stained\" color. Its torso narrows somewhat to the waist, no genitals are visible in the fur, and it has \"sort of a small butt for a man\", according to Brenda's astute assessment. Both observers perceive the animal as a male. Neither of them detects any smell. In due time Brenda gets the \"willies\" and anxiously screams to Nick to break it off. Thereupon the sasquatch screams, takes a step across the creek toward them, while holding its arms out to the side by about 45 degrees, as if to herd them on their way. They run halfway up the hill to the house, when Nick feels compelled to give it one more look. He is rewarded by a repeat of the faintly aggressive display. They continue to the house, Brenda scooping up John from the lawn, who says: \"Mommy, there is a big monkey in our backyard\". Brenda climbs up on the low garage roof and watches the sasquatch walk away. The dogs stay under the house for a safe two hours and will not let themselves be coaxed out, even by having meat waved at them. The horse has substantial abrasions on its fetlocks from having gotten snagged on a rope in its panic. Brenda phones 911, but hangs up before the call is answered. After some time she phones back and reports the encounter, which is duly noted in the police blotter, but not acted upon. Only an alert reporter from the Vancouver Columbian catches the brief note and looks up the family. This reporter and several Sasquatch investigators canvas the surroundings and neighbors and come up with a few additional items. Two sets of foot prints are found, 12\" long and 6\" long, whereupon Brenda puts a roast chicken into a high tree fork, since she wants to see the \"baby\". An adjacent unused meadow has a large depressed area of grass in it. A patch of thimbleberries is found on the steep hillside to have been stripped of its fruit and leaves, leaving bare canes behind. The adjacent farmer's cows, which had just been turned loose for the summer into a higher, lush meadow, come rushing back to the barn that night, something the farmer had never observed before. After about a week, little John comments casually: \"The little monkey isn't coming to play anymore\".","Just South of the small community of Yacolt, Washington. Yacolt lies 21 miles NE of Vancouver, WA, 26 miles SW of Mt. St. Helens, 7 Miles S of Lake Merwin and the Yale Reservoir.","Clark County","Washington","Summer","Report 933: Family has face to face encounter with sasquatch in their back yard",45.8581,-122.4089,"1989-06-14",933.0,"Class A","c20uys0wcc",60.68,56.15,51.62,56.94,0.97,1.0,0.35,0.0136,1.0,"rain",1016.46,"Light rain in the morning and afternoon.",4.0,7.67,128.0,0.94,"RES.SEASON"], [1893,4382,"On our way home to Rockmart, GA from Birmingham, AL, we were following the directions the GPS gave for the distance. This brought us to Hwy 120 and Vincent Mountain Road. We had just made that turn and gone a mile and a half when my husband and myself saw a large figure standing in the tree line. There was illumination coming from the right side of the road from an additional light source other than our car headlights. This enabled us to clearly see this figure that was on the left side of the road with one arm straight down and the other arm slightly moving. I believe that arm movement is what caught our attention making us both look to our left CLEARLY allowing us both to view this creature. It was covered in reddish brown fur from head to toe with a face I can only describe as Ape like. It appeared to be over seven feet tall. He/she seemed to be getting ready to cross the road. After about 15 seconds past, he and I both screamed out, \"did you just see what I saw???\" I have never been a big believer in the legend of Bigfoot, but I know what I saw tonight. And I am floored. I have never written to any site such as this about anything in my life and I certainly didn't think I would start at 56 years old. Thank you for your time.","1 1/2 mile up Vincent Mountain Rd after turning off hwy 120...left side of road across from a church...","Haralson County","Georgia","Winter","Report 56061: Nighttime sighting by a husband and wife driving near Rockmart",33.81871,-85.10207,"2016-12-03",56061.0,"Class A","dn52rkw860",52.73,47.68,42.63,36.09,0.79,0.47,0.13,0.0026,0.75,"rain",1024.74,"Overcast starting in the afternoon.",3.0,9.46,354.0,0.47,"RES.SEASON"], [1897,2613,"My niece was living with us at the time of the sighting. She was a senior in high school. Our house is about 6 miles out of town and in 1987 when the incident occurred, it was very rural, though now it has become quite developed. The school buses didn't go down the side roads so kids would have to walk to the closest main road. We live not too far off the bus route. The neighbor girl drove to school and she would often stop and give my niece a ride as she was walking to the bus stop. On this particular morning she had just gotten in the neighbor's car when about 50 yards ahead, this creature came out of the swamp area on the right side of the road, paused in a crouching position, started crossing, then dashed very quickly across the road and into the woods. She said she turned to the neighbor girl and said, \"What the hell was that?\" To which the girl answered \"I don't know!\" She says it was about the size of a bear, brown in color, but was definitely not a bear. It started crossing the road walking like a gorilla (she even wondered if it could have been an orangutan or some kind of ape), then it ran the rest of the way very fast on all fours. The whole incident happened so fast that she was not able to see much of the hands or feet. She described it to me as being like an ape, but also sloth-like. I said unless there had been an escaped primate from a traveling circus, we just don't have them in Washington. She said it had hair covering its entire body and she noticed hair hanging from its arms. She also heard from the swamp a whoop-whoop-whoop sound. Thinking back she realizes that she had heard that sound coming from the swamp before, but thought it was some kind of bird. It ran into an area of hundreds of wooded acres which eventually dip into the valley beyond (we are up on a plateau). There is a ravine in the middle of this area. To the right, past the swamp and as the crow flies there is Woods Creek about a mile or more away. The deer pass by this area headed toward water at Woods Creek. My niece said that she and the neighbor girl didn't say a word all the way to school and when they arrived she said again \"What WAS that?\" They both were dumbfounded. She said it gave her the creeps and she felt scared. We have talked about it on and off for years trying to think what it could have been. A couple of weeks ago we sat down and I made a sketch while she guided me. Actually she had to modify and finish it because I just could not figure out what she meant about how the head, chest and face looked. When I saw her alterations I thought no wonder she was scared. ","off SR2 in Monroe,","Snohomish County","Washington","Winter","Report 8597: Bigfoot crosses road in front of two teens going to school",47.87725,-121.8943,"2004-07-03",8597.0,"Class A","c29265z30y",68.78,62.34,55.9,54.61,0.79,0.77,0.55,0.0012,0.75,"rain",1018.1,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,9.3,350.0,1.33,"RES.SEASON"], [1899,4743,"Well had a possible sighting today in the Shawnee National Forest... Not by me sadly but my wife! And believe it or not she's not even a believer! Anyways we where driving around from campground to campground tryin to find a spot to set up. Drove to a campground called Camp Cadiz. All camp sites were occupied there so we drove down this old road. It became to muddy to go any further so we decided to turn around. And as I was dodging big potholes filled with water we came around this bend, and she catches out the corner of her eye, she screams \"babe don't hit that\" and Im like \"what !?\" Of course I see nothing there, but she says there was something coming out of the wood line trying to cross the road but rain back in. She says it was black/brownish, upright & extremely large and tall! She says she still doesn't believe bigfoot exists.. but she knows she seen something she can't explain !","It happened on a gravel/dirt road near the campground. [Camp Cadiz]","Hardin County","Illinois","Summer","Report 69321: Possible Sasquatch sighting by camper near Camp Cadiz in Shawnee National Forest",37.44508,-88.36589,"2021-06-13",69321.0,"Class B","dn9jj0tvms",91.71,77.52,63.33,73.73,0.76,0.29,0.11,0.0026,0.23,"rain",1012.3,"Humid throughout the day.",9.0,10.0,342.0,5.54,"RES.SEASON"], [1914,716,"The incident occurred on June 9, 2021 at approximately 5:15pm. It started raining around 3:30pm and ended around 5pm. I had to get the grass mowed because it was already too long. Usually, when I mow, I have my cellphone in my shirt pocket. But, since it rained, I didn’t want to take the chance of it getting wet. So, I left it in the house. I was mowing in the direction of north to south. There are several large farm fields behind my house. In between these properties are three large depressions in the landscape where a large vehicle could park in there and no one would see it. Through these particular spots are cart paths that run along the bottom (also running from north to south). As I was mowing, a dark figure appeared down by the corner of one of the fields, approximately150-200 yards out. I stopped and looked and was wondering if it was the neighbor checking his trail cam that points to the north. I took my mower over to the wood pile which is approximately 35 yards closer, to get a better view. The field was just planted with soybeans, so I couldn’t go in the field with the mower. At that point, the dark figure was just east of the trail cam and I was hoping it would cross the path of the trail cam, but it seemed to avoid that area. This dark figure was following the deer trail that are 40 yards east of the trail cam. I asked myself, “What am I looking at?” knowing it had just rained. Who would be back there?” I idled the mower down and noticed the toadstools around the wood pile and thought maybe it was a mushroom hunter. But, this “person” was black from head to toe and mushroom season is basically over by now. This large figure started to move across the second field heading northeast along where the deer usually go, down into the large depression in the field. As it was moving across the field, I knew there was no way I would have enough time to get my cell phone or binoculars in time to view it. I sat there and observed it following the deer trail...knowing it was not a black bear walking on two legs. The whole time I was thinking, “No one is going to believe me”. It seemed to cross the field without any trouble and cleared the field within a matter of a minute and a half. As it disappeared into the chest-high weeds, I sat there for approximately five minutes waiting to see if it would appear on the other side or head toward the large section of woods which have several trail cams along the perimeter of the woods. I also scanned the treeline for any vehicles that might be there from someone out walking, but there weren’t any. I could not figure out what I had just seen. I finished mowing and didn’t even tell my wife about it until a few days later. At my first opportunity, on June 12th we took our golf cart back into the area to see if we could find any prints or tracks. To our disappointment, the field had been no-tilled (Roundup) where the field was filled with weeds, grass, and corn stalks where it made it very hard to find footprints. We also followed the path that it took up to the large part of the depression in the field where you can see game trail going in and out of chest-high weeds. We also took the cart down into the lower part of the depression via the mowed paths that are back there. On June 13th, we conducted a re-enactment with our 15 year-old son. He is about 5’11” and 235 lbs. We had him dress in a black Adidas sweatsuit that had white lettering and stripes on it. My wife took him on the golf cart to the area where I saw the black figure. I sat back at the wood pile on my mower to watch for him. Through cell phone conversations with my son, I had him put up his hood and walk the same path, three quarters of the way through the field, all in black. My first observation was that what I saw on June 9th was much bigger and moved through the field easier than my son did. He was trying not to walk on the newly planted soybeans and trying to miss the old corn stalks in the field. Because of this it took my son longer to cross the field. He was close enough that I could actually see the white parts of my son's sweat suit with no problem. Because of that, I know that what I saw was all black. Note in May, we saw less deer in the area possibly due to the farmer tiling the field. And for the month of June, we have taken cart rides and have seen less deer in the area. I haven’t told too many people for fear of being made fun of. My wife didn’t really believe me until we did the re-enactment. She even says that there is no way you could miss something all black from head to toe back there. I just can’t seem shake it from my mind.","Adjoining roads Township Road 1714, County Road 1754, and Township Road 655 [Investigator Notes: Coordinates: 40.8113889, -82.2680555 Google Maps link:","Ashland County","Ohio","Summer","Report 69411: Long distance daylight sighting by farm owner 5 miles south of Ashland",40.81139,-82.26806,"2021-06-09",69411.0,"Class B","dpm2pvqpx6",80.0,72.325,64.65,69.32,0.87,0.73,0.99,0.0076,0.73,"rain",1018.0,"Possible light rain in the afternoon and evening.",6.0,10.0,201.0,4.91,"RES.SEASON"], [1915,2957,"A couple years ago I sent you a report that my daughter and I heard a very loud series of calls that I thought could have been made by a bigfoot. After listening to the recordings of calls from central MI I am more convinced. In my report I had trouble putting into words what it sounded like, but the recordings are nearly exact as some of the recordings. Then this fall I was in the hospital and my wife started smoking and sitting on the porch at night for her nightly puff. She told me the coyotes were howling a lot. When I played the recording of what I heard she came from the next room and said (that's what I heard). My sister works with my neighbor's wife, she said they have her husband and I are long time hunters, I have hunted in Canada, Alaska, Idaho, and WI where I live. Now a wolf in our area would be almost unheard of. I don't think they live here but they may migrate through.","North of Sheboygan/Manitowoc Co line.","Manitowoc County","Wisconsin","Fall","Report 39031: Home owner reports strange howls and possible ongoing activity near Kiel",43.89418,-87.94178,"2009-10-15",39031.0,"Class B","dpc3wydy0h",41.94,38.44,34.94,33.74,0.75,1.0,0.91,0.0036,1.0,"rain",1017.72,"Light rain in the afternoon.",3.0,9.83,74.0,9.19,"RES.SEASON"], [1916,488,"One afternoon I was riding my bike on my grandfather's farm through an alfalfa field. I was approaching a small crest on a hill and started coasting down. About 300 feet away to my left I noticed this huge hair covered creature coming up the hill towards the cornfield. When it noticed me, it stopped and turned back towards the woodline. I stopped my bike and watched as it went down the hill into the woods. When I stopped, it swung its body to look at me. Then, it started to run down the hill and out of sight. When it went down the hill it stumbled and made a strong grunt like noise. I rode back to the house as fast as I could to tell everyone what I just saw. My grandparents didn't believe me and said I was just seeing things. ","State Route 42 south from Medina to Friendsville Road. The farm is on the right hand side of the road.","Medina County","Ohio","Fall","Report 7973: A young teen sees a hairy creature on the family farm while riding his bike.",41.06648,-81.96419,"2001-09-25",7973.0,"Class A","dpm9wggmxf",47.7,44.475,41.25,42.82,0.9,1.0,0.29,0.0115,1.0,"rain",1014.8,"Light rain until afternoon, starting again in the evening.",4.0,8.94,260.0,11.31,"RES.SEASON"], [1917,2940,"I was hiking about 2-3 mile from our camp in Wenatchee National Forest and was sitting on a bluff that give an excellent view of the surrounding ridges. After a while of sitting and seeing nothing I hear a series of heavy sounding thuds that sound like they were in the rhythm of a person walking. I had no idea what it was. I thought maybe it was a deer bouncing away buy it didn't quite sound right. The thuds were almost cartoonishly heavy and loud. Then about 5 minutes later I hear what sounds exactly like someone banging two rocks together. I was still deeply confused as to what the sound could be. It sounded like it was maybe 40 or 50 yards away just into the tree and brush, out of sight. I got up and grabbed my rifle and started down to where the sound was. When I was about 10 feet from the trees I had the sasquatch epiphany, so speak, realizing it might be sasquatch. Every hair on my body stood on end as I made my way immediately back to the top of the bluff. I was still hearing the rock banging so I grabbed two rocks and banged them 3 times back at it. There was a pause and then I heard three bangs back. I went back and fourth with this thing for about 10-15 minutes. It would mimmick the number of bangs I would do. I do 2 bangs it does 2 bangs. I do 4 bangs it does 4 bangs. I was far too freaked out at this point two investigate further especially because it was getting dark. I made my way back to camp and shared the story. There's only one way to access that area and nobody else had been up there. My friends suggested maybe a bear was snapping it's jaws but there was a nearby gut pile from a deer my brother had shot earlier that day that was untouched. If a bear was in the area I would think if would have investigated the guts. Later I had my dad stand about as far away from me as I thought the sounds were and had him bang two rocks. It sounded exactly the same. I'm not sure what it could have been other than a sasquatch. We were the only people camping up that road.","In the mountains west of Jungle creek trail. Investigator (MM) Notes: The location is in Wenatchee National Forest. It is 1.15 west of the end of NF-9701 and roughtly 1 mile NW of Teanaway Butte. Paste these coordinates into search bar for Google Earth or Google Maps: 47.344323, -120.947687","Kittitas County","Washington","Fall","Report 70737: Heavy thuds and distinct rock clacking north of Teanaway Butte (Wenatchee NF)",47.34432,-120.9477,"2021-10-15",70737.0,"Class B","c23vrfb8dk",51.83,45.05,38.27,40.65,0.92,0.89,0.36,0.0014,0.51,"rain",1021.2,"Overcast throughout the day.",3.0,9.721,262.0,3.5,"RES.SEASON"], [1936,2822,"Driving home around 3AM returning from my sister's house, I came around the bend on 'B' Street in Aberdeen, after (Stewart?) Park, when I saw a huge upright figure with dark fur. It seemed like it probably had just come from the river side of the road, and didn't seem too concerned that I was driving past. It was watching me pass the same as I was watching it. I was in disbelief, and didn't even think to stop, or even wake my then boyfriend. I know this figure wasn't a bear, I know that it wasn't just a huge man in a fur coat. I do know that what I saw was a Sasquatch. Since it was dark, the only real description I can give is that it was huge, probably around 7', it was mostly upright, with a slight slouch, and the fur looked somewhat matted.","The location was on 'B' street in Aberdeen. Coming from Whishkah towards Aberdeen, he would have been on the right hand side of the street. Like he had just crossed from being at the river, maybe.","Grays Harbor County","Washington","Summer","Report 12838: Night time sighting along B Street outside Aberdeen",46.98621,-123.8161,"2005-12-01",12838.0,"Class A","c0rgq3xfeb",39.06,36.8,34.54,32.33,0.84,0.76,0.01,0.0026,1.0,"rain",1001.52,"Snow (< 1 in.) until afternoon.",1.0,8.91,80.0,5.19,"RES.SEASON"], [1938,2701,"Elk Camp 2001 . . . VERY LOUD and LONG VOLCALIZATIONS! The night before the incident, I aimed my 2,000,000 candle power spotlight to the cliffs and caves above the camp. As usual the relatives were around the campfire till late at night (1:00 a.m.) cracking jokes and making the most racket around, long after other area camps shut off their noisy generators. Believed this attracted it's couriousity. The relatives (3) who witnessed the sounds are very experienced outdoorsmen. One worked in the Northwest woods as a surveyor and has been chased by bears a couple of times (One time his co-worker had his pack ripped from his back as they ran) and all three know the sounds animals make. What they heard was NOT something like a Bear or Cougar! They are braver than most, not easily frightened by anyone or anything! The night of the incident was quiet and cold . . . about 2:30 a.m. one relative went outside the tent to relieve himself. As usual, he shined his flashlight around the perimeter of the camp. As the light beam went close to the creature, it let out a VERY LOUD and LONG Volcalization as it ran through the dense timber. The noise was very intense and continious without breaking branches along the way and again 3/4 mile up the high ridge. It seemed to be mad for almost being spotted and made the sound as it ran as though it was without effort. Comparable to a kids loud car stereo turned on with the volume already up and was steady for 10 - 12 seconds. The second time up the ridge could have been from another creature but sounded like the same one. It would have easily beaten any person up the heavily timbered and steep ridge. It was defenetly NOT any known animal like a Bear bellaring as it ran or a cougar. The noise was so loud it woke up three camps about 1/4 mile apart. The relatives left a gas lantern on until it burned out each night afterwards and they went out with a loaded gun or second person with their loaded gun. None of them will EVER sleep on the ground again! That week of hard hunting, the 14 other hunters in the area didn't see any Elk or Deer. Also did not hear any coyotes! Seemed like everthing was frightened away, very unusual. There was no sign in the hard frozen ground or up the high ridge the next day.","Logging road above Rimrock Lake.","Yakima County","Washington","Fall","Report 3759: Elk hunters encounter large animal and hear vocalizations near Rimrock Lake",46.621,-121.0638,"2001-10-29",3759.0,"Class B","c23cjph50b",37.97,33.465,28.96,28.9,0.96,0.95,0.42,0.0001,1.0,"snow",1022.39,"Light precipitation in the morning and overnight.",2.0,9.85,230.0,1.92,"RES.SEASON"], [1946,2214,"Myself, my wife, and 4 children were on our way back home from church on rural dirt road, Old Joy Shannon Road. At the edge of my headlights something appeared on the side of the road. I slammed on my brakes, and before we stopped it, he'd crossed the road. It had taken one step onto the middle of the road and the next was on the other side. Then it went over a barb wire fence with a step. We sat there trying to make sense of what we had just seen and the only thing we could think of is sasquatch. This has changed our whole outlook on what might be out there.","Fm 148 between Henrietta TX and Jacksboro TX then FM 172 to Bluegrove TX and Scotland TX","Clay County","Texas","Summer","Report 51612: Rural North Texas family has nighttime road crossing sighting near Bluegrove",33.675,-98.225,"2015-06-17",51612.0,"Class A","9vfpsf6epd",73.15,71.57,69.99,70.56,0.94,0.91,0.04,0.0578,1.0,"rain",1011.98,"Heavy rain throughout the day.",5.0,7.15,1.0,5.2,"RES.SEASON"], [1984,3460,"Me and my family decided to go fishing at Silverwood lake and we got there around 1:30pm......i was fishing by the lake and after a while of not catching anything i decided to put a 2nd rod about 100ft away from the 1st one..i went back to my 1st and around 3-4pm i decided to check on the 2nd rod and my 3&4 yr old daughters were following me so i sent them back with my wife.i thought they had gone back so i kept on walking towards the 2nd rod all of a sudden i heard leaves crunching to my left about 30 ft away from me i saw an ape like hairy looking creature with light brown hair....it had long arms that were swinging while it ran...it was also crouching a little to the front stood there in shock frozen for a while and realized my 4 year old daughter was behind me running back to my wife yelling \"MOM!MOM! There's a big animal!\"then i went back to mu wife and told her what i saw....What amazed me was the speed it was running......","When we got there there was only two people...but when it started sprinkling they left ....my wife me and two daughters had a beach umbrella so we stayed and were the only people there","San Bernardino County","California","Summer","Report 46330: Daylight sighting by fisherman at Silverwood Lake near Hesperia",34.28665,-117.3395,"2014-08-20",46330.0,"Class A","9qhe1ceypq",76.1,66.88499999999999,57.67,50.23,0.59,0.38,0.85,0.0011,0.45,"rain",1011.77,"Partly cloudy until evening.",9.0,9.72,198.0,1.34,"RES.SEASON"], [1989,2865,"Looked like a large chimp running along the road. We were in a car going the opposite direction so it was a pretty quick look.","Between Black Diamond and Auburn on Hwy 169.","King County","Washington","Spring","Report 1383: Creature seen running along a road",47.29944,-122.1806,"1973-04-18",1383.0,"Class A","c23j5dwg1w",47.18,44.08,40.98,37.55,0.79,0.97,0.54,0.0159,1.0,"rain",1012.63,"Heavy rain until afternoon, starting again in the evening.",4.0,9.6,185.0,8.86,"RES.SEASON"], [2026,4284,"I was hiking the Appalachian Trail in July of 2005 and I stopped to spend the night at the Gooch Mountain shelter. There was a hiker there at 16:00 but he left around 18:00 to get in a few more miles. It was a normal night on the AT until around 2:30 in the morning. I was awakened by a very heavy rustling sound. I immediately jumped up in the sleeping bag thinking it was a bear. I was sleeping in the loft upstairs, for just this reason, and I had seen a bear earlier that day. When I shined my headlamp out the front of the shelter there came a tremendous whooping sound. It was a mmoooooopp. It was pitch dark and dead silent except for this tremendous whoop. I was almost painful to the ears it was so loud. I could not see anything. The sound seemed to be about 50 feet away and moved from left to right out of range of my headlamp repeating this loud whoop. There were no other sounds in the woods, nothing, not even the crickets or frogs until 3 or 4 minutes after the sound stopped. I did not sleep the rest of the night. I looked in the morning and found no evidence of a bear, raccoon, or other animal, but the ground was very hard and dry. The sound came from the area where I had my food hanging in a tree away from the shelter. I am a big guy, ex-military and spend a lot of time hiking and surviving in the woods. I have never heard anything close to this sound from any animal I have ever encountered. I do not scare easy but this had me really shaken. I watched a show on The Discovery Channel (I think) a while back and they played a supposed recording of a Bigfoot, then I realized this was exactly what I heard. Until that time I had dismissed the event.","Gooch Mountain Shelter","Union County","Georgia","Summer","Report 23701: Vocalization heard at close range on Appalachian Trail (Gooch Mountain Shelter)",34.6527,-84.0354,"2005-07-03",23701.0,"Class B","dnhjpsr697",73.24,69.66999999999999,66.1,68.0,0.98,0.49,0.91,0.0075,0.66,"rain",1014.85,"Rain in the morning.",5.0,6.17,88.0,0.43,"RES.SEASON"], [2028,1616,"We,(FIVE OF US) planned a three day investigation on private property, some 126 acres of private property near Rock, north of Escanaba Michigan, U.P. Arriving in a predetermined site, some half mile into the described property near the Hiawatha National Forest, the working campsite was set up in a clearing, surrounded by forest and swamp land. Drone footage revealed our location to be in a remote area with opened swamp land, wooded habitation for local wildlife and full of game trails. Large cats, coyote, black bear, wolves and deer comprise the common larger wild-life in this area. Several digital cameras were set up or used during our visit to this area including GoPro, Panasonic video cam, HD drone cam, digital photo cams, trail cam, digital audio recorder and IR night vision cam and a digital SD card megaphone loaded with various sasquatch vocalizations gathered before the trip. The first night, Wednesday the 30th of May, 2018 was mainly uneventful, though I went to use a tree earlier in the day behind our campsite and happened to look down to my right and smack in the middle of a game trail were two large footprints. The prints looked older with some leaves and debris in them. Frank and Bart made a cast. During this first evening, Frank and Bart heard some physical movement in the wooded area directly behind the camp, Frank searched the tree line along the edge of the site and believes that he observed \"something\", through the IR camera, though it was not captured due to a \"battery issue\". We all entered our tents sometime after 1:30am or so. The second night, Thursday, May 31st, was a completely different experience. I still do not understand why a group of \"first timers\" with no personal Squatch research experience, schooled only by what we read about the subject and view on You Tube, would have such an incredible event happen to us. I will say few words about this experience, my partners will share their own perception of what took place. We all entered our tents some time after 2am on the second night. Ignorance and inexperience account for me not turning on the digital audio recorder before turning in. After all, we were going to sleep, nothing had happened earlier, and thinking of the next day's possibilities, I completely let everyone down, but learned a lesson. consequently, we did not capture the audio of something huge that came near us within 50+ yards or so of our camp. \"CLOSE, LOUD AND LONG\"!!! A little after 4am, (we check our watches), a long and loud yell or howl, lasting at least a good 10 seconds, pierced the night, immediately followed by a pack of coyote, yelping, inter-mingled with shorter yells/howls from whatever was \"shaking\" up the forest, woke us all up in complete surprise and amazement. The length of the vocalization exceed the capability of a wolf by 5+ seconds or so. The yell was definitely not a wolf. It did not seem like this could really happen, BUT IT DID! Once the coyote stopped their yelping, EVERYTHING went silent! no critters to be heard for sometime after. - DB Bart's testimony: MONDAY night, arrived set up camp, soot steps behind me, felt like something behind me, Frank looked behind me with night vision he was a bit shaken and said he saw a face. looked again with new batteries and face was gone. TUESDAY NIGHT; large scream 75 yards to south coyotes went crazy with 2 short screams. nothing I ever heard, lasted about 10 to 12 seconds om first long scream/howl,,,,,,, WEDNESDAY : am, discussed what happened in am at 4:20 determined it was bigfoot and length, distance and intensity of the owl/scream......in pm met with bigfoot expert and had lot of answers to questions...... THURSDAY; woke up and someone noticed bones about 30 feet away. they were over a foot long looked like bones from a deer and were snapped clean and looked bleached from sun. this bothered me. someone had to of seen this sooner. all words are from journal and not to be changed or polished............. Bart Frank's testimony: Shortly after arriving at our camp site Dennis found a foot print. It was the left foot. I was able to put my fingers into the indentation of the toes. It seemed the fourth toe was missing. We also saw a light impression of another and possibly a third print not far away. First night we were there We were sitting around the fire and Bart said there was something to his left and behind him I slowly got up and looked through the night vision camera and thought I saw a face between two small trees then the camera died. When the camera was working again I could not find it again. This was possibly 20 foot from me. I found no foot prints in that area the next day. We later went to sleep. Bart and I got out of the tent about 4:20 to go pee. We heard what sounded like a whistle it was a tone like a bird we heard earlier but sounded different. We could hear no other sound , birds or frogs. The second night we were awaken by what I can only describe as a yell that was so loud sounding like whooooo about 10sec long with coyote yelling at the same time in the same location there were 4 or 5 short yells 2 or 3 sec that quickly followed then total silence. This sound was perhaps only 50-75 yards away That was the only time we heard coyotes at our camp before or after. We found 2 bones maybe 40 or 50 feet from our tents there were no other bones to be found so the kill was not there. In the picture you can see how one bone was broken. Frank","49880 ZIP CODE. Mid-western edge of the Hiawatha National Forest on family private property.","Delta County","Michigan","Spring","Report 59590: Possible vocalization outside Rock MI near western edge of Hiawatha National Forest",46.06728,-87.15701,"2018-05-30",59590.0,"Class B","f04n0dq1q7",76.85,69.035,61.22,60.17,0.78,0.36,0.54,0.0068,0.74,"rain",1008.6,"Rain in the evening and overnight.",9.0,6.241,124.0,3.98,"RES.SEASON"], [2031,4880,"My husband and I rented a cabin in Nashville. We just came down for a year to Indiana. About 11 PM we went to bed. Within minutes our dogs went nuts. My husband got up to check and opened the front door of the cabin. It is covered by a porch and it was raining hard. The porch light doesn't work so it was dark. He closed the door and told me to bring a flashlight and firearm. I ran out of bed and went to him by the door. He said something was breathing heavy on the porch to the left of the door. At this point it occurred to me that our dogs were strangely silent. Being Akita's that have seen bear, wolf, coyote, and lynx all up close in Alaska this was not normal. My husband slowly opened the door again I sure enough something was breathing very heavy just to the side of the door. It also smelled. It was really strong, musky mixed with soggy old carpet and wet dog We closed the door again while we chambered a round and I lit the flashlight and we did a tactical to the left where we had heard the sound. It was gone but wet foot prints that looked like they were made with soggy fuzzy bedroom slippers were across the floor. It had come across our front lawn and up the right side of the porch and across the door to the other side where we heard it. The prints were close together while passing the first window and the door and when it fled it did it in one step. The foot prints were alot larger then my foot in slippers which is a women's 9.5 wide. I wondered if it realized what chambering a round meant since we had opened the door twice and it stayed breathing heavy right on the other side right to the side where we couldn't see it. Dogs didn't scare it and us two talking didn't scare it. That would indicate it had had human interaction maybe with hunters before. Not uncommon with bears in Alaska. A lot of people will chamber a round not wanting to hurt it but ready to if it gets aggressive. They are smart and learn fast what that sound is. Another strange thing is that the dogs paced all night. They did not do this after confronting an 800 lb brown bear in Alaska..literally. They worked together and chased all of the above away from around the home. We lived in a cabin off the grid. Not sure if we have a stinky homeless person wearing bedroom slippers living in the woods but it was a very strange occurrence and my husband was career Ranger/SF. Not one to let his imagination run wild. We were stumped. The dogs (two of them) pooped in the cabin. Something dogs are known to do when frightened and these dogs are well housebroken.","Greenbriar Lake near Brown County State Forest","Brown County","Indiana","Spring","Report 35236: Eight years ago like it was only eight days",39.2065,-86.22125,"2012-05-01",35236.0,"Class A","dnfxjcrd7m",77.64,71.995,66.35,62.26,0.86,0.83,0.34,0.0428,0.67,"rain",1014.0,"Rain starting in the afternoon.",6.0,6.566,156.0,1.79,"RES.SEASON"], [2037,644,"Late Oct 2000, fall weather but jacket needed, about 1030-1100 pm, my wife and I were driving back home from her sister's house north of Donnelsville, driving south on Snider Rd. Just as I came over the small bridge over the drainage ditch headed south toward the RR tracks, I saw a tall (about 7-8ft), large fur covered biped, standing about 15 ft east of the roadway near the tree line as if waiting to cross the street after we passed. The fields are slightly lower than the roadway, and it's head was higher than mine in my old pickup that rides 6 ft high. It was dark in color, broad shoulders, no neck, fur covered head to toe. I didn't tell my wife until we were home because I did't want to scare her. It sent shivers up and down my neck, and actually I felt sort of funny like something was strange before I actually got to the bridge, you know like something is going to happen or someone is watching you when you are alone in the woods. I tried to look back through my mirrors but couldn't make out anything in the dark, even though there was a little moon-light.","(edited)","Clark County","Ohio","Fall","Report 1755: Driver sees a tall (about 7-8ft), fur covered biped along roadside",39.86096,-83.96562,"2000-10-15",1755.0,"Class A","dph6c26ngj",72.85,62.3,51.75,51.51,0.66,0.83,0.58,0.0015,1.0,"rain",1018.96,"Light rain in the morning.",3.0,9.09,195.0,4.11,"RES.SEASON"], [2042,137,"I have always wanted to tell this story to someone and after reading report #1939 I finally have the nerve to tell it. I live in Carteret county and at the time worked in Sneads Ferry (Onslow County) and the commute to work everyday took me through camp LeJeune via the back gate. As I made the turn onto Hwy. 17 off of Hwy. 172 I noticed what I thought was a bear sitting down under a huge pecan tree on the right. Since there was about 50 or 60 feet distance between me & \"the bear\" I decided to pull of to the side of the road & watch him for a minute. It was a warm July morning & I had the windows of my truck rolled down as usual and noticed the most ungodly smell I had ever experienced. It was kinda like rotten eggs mixed with sewage & sulfur. As I sat & watched I quickly realized that this was no bear as the creature stood up from the croutched position walked over to the pecan tree & began shaking it. I was floored by what I was watching. Understand that this tree is immense & the creature had no problem shaking the pecans from it. Pecans that are still in the green hulls by the way. I wanted a better look at it since the whole sighting was with it's back to me so I put the truck in 1st gear (ready to bug out if need be) & blowed the horn. It suddenly stopped & just completely froze still with it's back to me. it stayed like that til I layed down on the horn about 10 seconds later & it slowly turned & looked right at me. Thats when my heart decided to do the 50 yard dash in 2.3 seconds. I couldn't see it's face that well but it stood about 8 - 10 ft. Tall & it's hair was very long & matty. It stared at me for what seemed an eternity & made a loud screaching noise & tore off into the woods. The sprint from the tree to the woods was about 30 yards or so & it took him no time to reach them. I'm talking split seconds! On my way home that day I decided to stop again and though the creature was gone I could still smell that ungodly mix of stinch. To this day when I pass by that pecan tree my heart races.","From Hubert you can take Hwy. 172 to where it meets Hwy 17. From that intersection look to the right & you can't miss the pecan tree.","Onslow County","North Carolina","Summer","Report 9750: Motorist observes bipedal animal shaking a pecan tree near Camp LeJeune.",34.53784,-77.50434,"1999-07-16",9750.0,"Class A","dq0ukr7j9b",85.92,77.67500000000001,69.43,70.43,0.81,0.27,0.13,0.0006,0.73,"rain",1022.35,"Partly cloudy until evening.",10.0,8.85,112.0,1.65,"RES.SEASON"], [2056,1865,"Thursday, May 14th 2020. 10:30 am. South of Hartsburg MO. About 1500 hundred ft south of town on South Bush Landing Road. Hartsburg is a small community of around 100 people. The area is on the bottoms of the Missouri River. A bike trail called \"Katy Trail\" runs North and South through Hartsburg. My wife was taking care of her 93 year old mother and I decided to drive down to the river and look around. There were a lot of people riding bikes on the trail because of the pandemic going strong and no one could work or shop. It was a sunny warm day. I was driving south slowly when I looked up ahead on the road and I saw a big figure moving across the road in a very fast pace. Not running but, walking in big fast strides. It looked like vert big person, tall, thick, and brown in color all over. I thought it was weird for a guy to be walking across a farmers field coming east from the river and heading in a straight line to the bluffs. Farmers will ride their ATVs when they are in the fields checking on things. I thought it was wearing a heavy brown coat with a cone shaped hood. There was fresh planted soy in the fields and I could see this thing from head to foot. When I first saw it I was about a 100 yards away. I was driving slowly. By the time I reached where he crossed the road he had covered at least 200 yards and walking away from me. I had no camera or binoculars with me that day. I turned down a farmers dirt track road to head toward the thing. When I merged on the road and drove toward it, it turned North and headed toward Katy Trail. I never got any closer to him than the 100 yards and that was because it was moving very fast, swinging its arms. I drove on back to my folks house after that. ","It was on the bottoms of the Missouri River South of Hartsburg Mo about 1500ft.","Boone County","Missouri","Spring","Report 65870: Possible daylight sighting near Missouri River and Katy Trail outside Hartsburg",38.4125,-92.1855,"2020-05-14",65870.0,"Class B","9yy6w2b940",79.11,69.975,60.84,64.84,0.83,0.57,0.77,0.0081,0.89,"rain",1011.4,"Heavy rain throughout the day.",6.0,9.92,174.0,9.01,"RES.SEASON"], [2058,485,"A strange creature was sighted at the side of the road in the Fall of 1978. I was taking a friend home about midnight. We both sighted what appeared at first to be a large, standing bear. It did not look like a bear about the face and was about 6 feet tall. We both saw it very plainly and it looked directly at us and did not move. We didn't think anyone would believe us, so we never talked about, except once, about 5 years later. I bought it up to my friend (to see if maybe I just dreamed it or something), but he remembered all the details of the scene as well. I never told anybody else (not even my wife.) It still gives me goose bumps as I type this.","Poe Rd., between River Styx Rd. and SR 57. Near Medina, Ohio.","Medina County","Ohio","Fall","Report 4960: Sighting by motorists along Poe Rd",41.09302,-81.82391,"1978-09-30",4960.0,"Class B","dpmcf0c8hw",77.73,66.3,54.87,54.5,0.78,0.51,0.94,0.0432,1.0,"rain",1016.68,"Heavy rain starting in the evening.",5.0,5.03,188.0,9.3,"RES.SEASON"], [2061,1944,"This particular incident happened to me about 3 years ago. An event that I had kept to myself for at least a year before I even told any of my closest friends about. Like the majority of people who have an experience like this, the fear of being ridiculed and labeled \"nuts\" has kept me quiet. Stumbling upon your website and reading other reports prompted me to give my account. Being from the South I have always been active outdoors; fishing, hunting,camping and spelunking. I was on a solo camping trip on the Cumberland Plateau. It was early morning, very dark and my campfire had long been extinguished and my propane lantern was spent. I was asleep in my 2 man tent when I suddenly awoke to the feeling that someone was approaching me. I had strategically set my tent up so that I could see the end of the 40 yard, steep incline that led to my campsite. Sitting up I saw the silouette of a humanoid figure at the top of the trail.(The closet comparison I can make would be similar to the alien in Predator.) I strained hard to make sure I was relly seeing what my eyes were telling me I was seeing. The figure had apparently stumbled upon me by chance and stopped. As I was looking, I first noticed the height to be 6 1/2 to 7 foot tall, bi-pedal and shoulders that were the widest I had ever seen. It was then that I saw a second figure of equal proportions directly behind the first. At this point, the second figure moved left as if to outflank my tent. That is when the sudden rush for urgency swept over me. I quickly started feeling around for the .44 Magnum and flashlight that I had in the tent with me. What seemed like forever but only took 3-5 seconds, I located both and shined/aimed it in the direction of the trail and it was gone. I stayed in the tent and replayed the events that just happened over and over becoming more and more convinced that what I saw were actually 2 Bigfoot creatures. The size, stealth and intelligence of these creatures was humbling. There are black bear that inhabit the woods also, but being familiar with the species and the fact that the two figures stood bi-pedally still and silent for an extended period of time and the intelligence to outflank me solidifies my belief in this encounter. I eventually went back to sleep with the thought that I was no longer in danger and that I had probably startled them as much as they did me. I left the area that morning knowing I had experienced something unlike any other experience in the wild that I had ever had.","Off of Hwy 27 North, turn left into the Laurel-Snow Wilderness Pocket.","Rhea County","Tennessee","Spring","Report 20231: Camper Awakens and Sees Two Creatures in the Laurel Snow Pocket Wilderness",35.5467,-85.02585,"2004-03-01",20231.0,"Class B","dn7d1pn4d1",66.43,59.99,53.55,45.01,0.64,0.73,0.33,0.0008,0.36,"rain",1019.31,"Overcast throughout the day.",4.0,9.71,186.0,4.7,"RES.SEASON"], [2062,1087,"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 seem to matter as far as reporting it. But now, I realize that all encounters need to be in a data base somewhere. These DO exist and when that day of discovery happens, this database will house many of the answers. My encounter happened in early June of 2010. I took a friend to the Marienville/Timberline ATV trails northeast of Marienville, Pennsylvania in the Allegheny National Forest, to ride ATV’s for the day. Allegheny National Forest covers approximately 515,000 acres or 800 square miles of protected wilderness in North West Pa. The forest is pretty dense in most spots and has many types of terrain. From my understanding the Allegheny National Forest is one of the least densely populated areas east of the Mississippi River. Surrounding the Forest are more woodlands and farm country. The 2 trail systems we were riding that weekend join together and make an approximate 60-80 mile loop from the northern end down to the bottom, and then back up the other side of the loop. My encounter happened on our return back up, heading North. I remember it rained very hard the night before and through the early morning because my friend, who was new to ATV'ing, didn't bring rain gear. We had to go into town to buy him some cheap rain gear and then headed up to the trail. It rained the first half hour or so of our ride and I remember the sun coming out and it was turning into a really nice day for a ride. For those that ride ATV’s, they know that the rain makes mud, which is much more fun to ride in than dust. A few hours into the ride, having stopped and observed some beaver dams, some very old oil wells, a couple logged out areas where you could see for what seemed like miles and other cool sites that the forest has to offer, I was getting in more of a hurry to get back - it was approaching the end of the day. My buddy was way behind me so I decided to stop on the trail and wait for him. I usually don't separate from atv buddies when riding, but this part of the trail was an abandoned logging trail and pretty easy so I rode ahead awhile and then decided to stop and wait for him. He didn’t ride fast or dangerous; he \"putted\" so I knew he was safe, just slow. If he didn't shown up I would turn around and meet up with him. I wasn’t sitting long. I just took my helmet off. That’s when I noticed rocks kept hitting the front right side of my ATV. They weren’t large rocks, maybe about or just smaller than hand sized. It took a minute or so before it occurred to me that I was stopped and that rocks should not be flying through the air and hitting my atv. I was turning my head towards the right to follow the path of these \"air rocks\" as I called them, when my turn stopped. I noticed this “Stump” which turned out to be a dark figure, approximately 70-90 feet away, that appeared to be in a sitting or crouching, or just a low position, then stand up into an upright position. I’ll never forget how it seemed to pop right up like it was on a spring, with very little effort. Initially I looked at its hands because I was interested to see what was in its hand, if anything. It was much taller than a normal human – best guess at this point would be 7.5 feet or so, and absolutely NOT a bear. It was VERY broad at the shoulders. Almost freakishly broad – I remember that very well. It was on 2 legs and I could see its right arm hanging down, which was on the left side because it was facing me. I remember wanting to watch its right hand to see if “it” was armed or what it might be doing. That is funny to me now, because for some reason I assumed it was right handed. It moved its right arm to a slightly bent position, stopping with its hand in front of it, at about its waist. Its left arm stayed hanging to its side – very long arms. It was all very dark black – a shiny black – from head to toe, or as far as I could see to its feet as it was standing in 1-2 foot tall grass or taller. As my eyes made their way up on the creature I could see its head was all black as well. There was no white or lighter color that stood out, like most animals would have on their face. I could not see clear details of the face as it was all black as well but it did not appear to have hair on all of its face. It appeared to be black skin - the same color black as its hair but I could tell it wasn't hair in some spots. I noticed that the eyes were black, or very dark and deep, with a pronounced brow ridge. I could obviously tell it had a face. I just couldn’t see defined detail of the lips or anything as it was all the same color. The lips were closed though and in a straight line across its face, not open mouthed or smile or frown – just straight lips. The hair was short to medium length and not shaggy. I’d say the hair was an average of 3 to 5 inches long, shorter at the head. It was almost groomed in appearance but I think it’s from the hair being short and thick. At least that was my impression. Oddly, I did not notice any mud or dirt all over it, which seemed odd because it had rained hard the night before and didn't stop until several hours before this. The trails were muddy. Almost as soon as my eyes were at its head and face and I was trying to “zoom in” and get a better look at the face, it began to leave. It didn’t turn and walk away, but rather it stepped straight backwards into the brush and the trees and not take its eyes away from me. It stayed square to me as it was moving backwards. This all happened in the span of no more than 30 seconds, from the time I noticed the rocks hitting my ATV, up until it moved backwards. When I play it over and over in my mind, it seems more like 30 minutes. At this point an overwhelming fear just filled my mind, and I remember feeling like I shouldn’t be in this spot right now. I don’t remember shaking in fear or anything like that, but I felt warm and almost like I was going to puke. So I hit the gas and took off. I wish now that I wouldn’t have just fled, but the feeling that came over me was not like I’d experienced before. I had my smart phone/camera in my fender bag and it NEVER occurred to me to get it out and start video. I honestly couldn’t move for a short period of time. I have been surprised by people walking up on me in the woods and have hunted all my life, so animal encounters, even bear from a distance - do not scare or alarm me. I was in the military for 6 years, and actually had the honor to serve as SEAL TEAM 4 and SDV TEAM 2 (the old UDT TEAM 2) support, as part of a special warfare boat crew. During that time, I had many highly anxious experiences as one could imagine. To summarize, I am pretty observant, I don’t have a tendency to over-react and I don’t scare easy. I am very level headed and definitely not crazy. I didn't instantly think \"Bigfoot\" as I wasn’t a REAL believer then. At least I doubted their existence in the Eastern US and if they existed it was only in the Northwest US, Canada or Alaska. This encounter took my emotions to places they had not been or at least had not been for a long time. It has been going through my head for over 4 years. I didn't tell anybody except my fiancée within the first year after the encounter. Now - quite a few people know. The person I was riding with that day just found out in 2014. I never told him about the story before, but because I couldn’t remember if it was springtime/early summer or late summer/Fall when this happened. I asked him what week if he remembered. When he told me it was springtime / early summer, he naturally asked why – what’s up? I told him what happened. It turns out that he believes in these creatures too. He then realized why I was acting so weird when we finally caught back up with each other, and then on the 2 and a half hour truck ride home. Now I wish I would have told him then. Maybe we could have joined together and gone back to look for signs or whatever we could find. Instead, the overwhelming feeling of “What the heck was that”, and “I can’t tell anybody-they won’t believe me anyways” took over, and I kept it to myself. Nobody has to tell me what I saw or didn't see. I knew what I saw. I saw a large dark figure with hair that could throw rocks (and very accurately), stand up within 100 feet from me, in a large dense forest where there aren't any cabins or people just hanging out. I still do leave the option open for an extremely large man (larger than anyone I have ever met) in a heavily padded Gillie suit with hair on it standing about 100 foot from the trail just waiting for someone to stop in that exact spot so he could throw rocks at him and take a chance of getting shot (most folks on ATVs will pack a handgun when riding in deep woods. At least that's my experience). Now that’s being sarcastic, but trying to make a truth out of what happened. Of course that option is slim, but it will always be there as I didn't walk up to this thing and shake its hand or hug it, so being 100% sure it was a Sasquatch just isn't possible. I am at 99.999% sure though. I do know that a fear like I’ve not felt in a long time, if ever, took over me for awhile. Something told me to go, to move on, that I shouldn't be here right now. Again - I am a very rational person and this just didn't make sense to me at all. I eventually plan on returning to that general area, on ATV and parking the bike and doing some walking. I just need to look around and feel comfortable with that. Ever since my encounter, I cannot put this down. I’ve been researching since and came across various online groups that discuss encounters. I want to learn as much as I can before returning and looking around and I want to go armed with more knowledge than I have now. UPDATE: I have returned to this trail (5 1/2 years later) and found the area this happened. It was strange being there. Some of my biggest questions since learning more about these creatures are “What was it doing there, close to used ATV trails” and “Why did it draw my attention to itself?” If it hadn’t thrown rocks I would not have looked and if it hadn’t stood up, I probably wouldn’t have even noticed it. Someone told me that maybe it was travelling and recently crossed that trail. The reason for rock throwing and drawing attention to IT was possibly to draw attention to it on purpose so my attention wouldn’t go to something else nearby less able to protect itself. I interpret that as young ones. That NEVER crossed my mind. Just to realize that one was in the area blew my mind away and made me start thinking differently about what could be out there. Now, there may have been more? I’ll never know that for sure, but it does make sense to that question that’s been bugging me. I now wonder if there were young close to me, maybe they were throwing the rocks being mischievous. It is still hard for me to grasp that anything could throw rocks from approximately 90 feet away and hit the same general area – very, very accurate. If it wanted to harm me, it would have beaned me in the head and I wouldn’t be writing this encounter. I've since been researching an area about 25 miles west of this location. I went from not caring or thinking about Sasquatch to a full blown enthusiast. I attend conferences and have actually received an invitation to Beachfoot in Oregon in 2016. For this years Ohio Bigfoot conference, Sybilla Irwin (a BFRO member and artist) is doing a drawing of what I've described to her, and will be unveiling it at the conference. All of this is exciting, and I cannot wait to see her bring this back to life, and return my emotions back to that 1 minute of my life that changed how I think now. I cannot attach that picture yet as the Ohio Bigfoot conference director has asked not to put it out there until after the conference. But if you would like, I could come back to this and attach the drawing, which will be as close to what I saw as possible. also - for more info on this, The guys from Monster X internet radio contacted me and asked if I would come on their show. They saw my encounter on a group. I agreed and did a 2 hour show with them, discussing this event. Google MONSTER X Dave Groves. I am not looking for any type of notoriety out of this. It's why I haven't put up a report. But they found me and asked, so I agreed. I feel that folks need to know about this and that these creatures DO exist Anybody who knows me will tell you I am a very honest person. It is one of my strong qualities. I know there are many made up hoax bigfoot stories out there, but I can assure you that this is NOT one of them. I wasn't out looking for a bigfoot that day. I did not ask for this encounter to happen. But it did, and it changed many things about me. I stopped hunting deer and have not hunted since that day. I now cannot put Bigfoot stuff down and even started a bigfoot book collection with some very old and hard to find, autographed bigfoot books. This doesn't happen to a person overnight, unless something occurred to change them. That day certainly did change me.","Directions withheld at the request of the witness.","Forest County","Pennsylvania","Summer","Report 51283: ATV rider has broad daylight encounter, rocks thrown near Marienville",41.51954,-78.87955,"2010-06-05",51283.0,"Class A","dprujn3sv7",77.54,71.005,64.47,64.39,0.88,0.77,0.77,0.001,0.64,"rain",1007.28,"Rain overnight.",8.0,7.46,231.0,4.6,"RES.SEASON"], [2063,2793,"I was elk hunting this past week in the Mt. Adams and Mt Saint Helens areas. I headed up on a hike on Wed. the 23rd of September at a place called Spencer Butte. It's located Outside of Cougar and is a steep hike of 1800 elevation gain (it sits about 4300 ft). My friends and I headed up the hill in the morning at about 8:30 am. The weather was very rainy. We were trying to be very observant of any sounds or tracks. About half way up the mountain my friend turns to me and says 'did you hear that? it sounds like people yelling' I listened for a moment and heard what I would describe as a distant yowl...far up the trail. It was faint but distinct. We continued up the trail and eventually reached the top. My guess is it was about 10 am. Once we had reached the geological marker at the top, my friend and I began a search splitting directions. I continued through the trees and brush for about 75 yards from the geological marker and came to a clearing. I sat for a few moments and noticed that beyond the clearing...roughly another 35 yards or so was an alder that was shaking. I could just see the top of it, but there wasn't wind at the time and it was shaking intermittently. It happened several times. I thought I had an animal...possibly an elk pushing against the tree. I approached it and paused as I could hear something begin to move away. I then backtracked...grabbed my friend and he followed me over to the area. We proceeded to move around the area on either side hoping to see what it was. It was gone...Once I got to the tree I was surprised by how big the trunk was. Something big must of moved it. We split up again and I went back the way I came. As I was walking I came across a bit of mud and gravel. I noticed something very distinct. A Print. It was a left foot. I could see all of the toe outlines and it was much much bigger than my foot. I took a picture with my phone. We didn't have any other incidents but that sound, tree shaking and print are very compelling evidence. The location was also very compelling. The print was well away from the initial trail and geological marker. I have always been a believer, My grandfather researched and searched for bigfoot and before he died gave me his plaster cast from California. On another note, A few months ago had a very strange early morning (2:30 am) whistling experience, with eye shine earlier, movement and a dog that was very wary (but fearful) of something in the back woods near my house. I live in the Jim Creek area in Arlington, Wa. I can share more on that at a later date if interested.","Trail head - Co-ordinates: 46.1725, -121.9305","Cowlitz County","Washington","Fall","Report 66120: Vocals and track on Spencer Butte",46.1725,-121.9305,"2020-09-23",66120.0,"Class B","c21q9mkym3",55.14,50.995000000000005,46.85,50.04,0.95,0.82,0.25,0.0737,0.94,"rain",1011.7,"Heavy rain throughout the day.",4.0,5.56,191.0,8.19,"RES.SEASON"], [2075,5013,"OK, let me start by saying I have always been fascinated by \"Big Foot.\" I don't think it makes me biased because until recently I was always still skeptical but very curious. I recently had a sighting and was looking in the reports provided here to see if there had been many in KY. I was shocked to see so many in KY and was completely floored when I saw a report not only in my same county but on the abandoned property behind my farm. The report was from 1993 I think but our first sighting was in 2006. In 2006 my then 4yr old daughter told me that she saw Monkeys at the edge of my field as she was riding in my wifes car down our driveway. She said There was a big one and a smaller one. They both had red eyes and the bigger one looked like it was waving. I asked her how big and she said the biggest one was a lot bigger than me (I'm 6'4\" 200lbs) and it was real hairy. I dismissed it as a childs imagination but always kept it in mind because the description matched stories I had heard as a teenager about a big foot type creature in Lawrenceburg known as \"Howdy\" because he waves. Ive had her retell the story to friends and family over the years and it stays consistant but never much detail. I was actually jealous. I thought, if she really did see something, why couldn't I have seen it too so I could know for sure, plus as I stated before, I was always curious. I kept an extra eye out for a while but never saw anything and pretty much dismissed it. Modern Rifle season, November 2011. I was deer hunting by myself on the same property (mine) that borders the abandoned ***** ******** mentioned in a previous report. It was getting close to dusk and I was considering getting out of the deer stand soon when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I turned to look and couldnt believe my eyes. From left to right I watched 2 creatures, both larger than me and covered in long hair, running upright on 2 feet. There was no mistake these were big foot(s). One was very dark brown/almost black and the slightly smaller one was almost blonde. More like coyote colored blonde. They were both jogging with arms relaxed and looking behind them. They ran within 25 yards right in front of me! I honestly cant give much detail about the faces, they were looking behind them alot plus I was simply shocked and not looking for detail. They covered ground quickly and were gone in less than 10 seconds. They dissapeared into a clump of trees behind my pond. I pulled my scope up but could only make out \"something' going through the woods once they passed. I waited until almost dark and got down to look for fur or prints. I couldnt find anything but it was cold, dark and I was shaking from the shock of seeing them and the cold combined. I returned the next morning and found no sign.","Removed at witness' request.","Anderson County","Kentucky","Fall","Report 33187: Dual sighting in late afternoon by deer hunter in tree stand near Lawrenceburg",37.97699,-84.90234,"2011-11-15",33187.0,"Class A","dng8h18000",56.8,55.62,54.44,54.16,0.93,1.0,0.65,0.0348,1.0,"rain",1011.58,"Rain until evening.",2.0,8.95,190.0,3.5,"RES.SEASON"], [2076,3226,"I had took the kids to Yell county Ark, to a horse Swap N Shop, We left at 8:00pm on hwy 27 North, Decided to head to Spring Lake. Used to take my kids there when they where young. It was 7miles west of Hwy 27.Had drove about 3miles on pavement and it turned to dirt. Hadnt been on the dirt road a mile or less and looked up the road and caught a black upright something on the edge of the road heading into the bushes.I know what I saw,but Im still in disbelief and feel strange telling anyone ,but I know what I saw. I wish I would have stopped and thought to check for foot prints, but It really spooked me and the kids after I told them.","Take Hwy 27 SW from Dardenelle 9 miles Right or West on Arkansas 307 3miles (paved) to Forest Service Rd 1602 (gravel)","Yell County","Arkansas","Summer","Report 24276: Possible sighting of an upright creature crossing the road at dusk by a woman driving to Spring Lake",35.15193,-93.42848,"2008-07-26",24276.0,"Class B","9yjxczpqyd",97.63,85.94999999999999,74.27,72.9,0.7,0.08,0.79,0.0004,0.33,"rain",1014.77,"Humid throughout the day and mostly cloudy overnight.",11.0,8.33,274.0,1.64,"RES.SEASON"], [2079,3093,"I will start with what happened back in the late 1970's. My husbands uncle and a friend were frog gigging on this farm, that we have now lived on for the last 10 years. (It is my father-in-laws land, which has been in the family for over 30 years.) He said that they just crossed the creek that is directly behind our mobile home (of course our home wasn't here at the time!). They heard a noise about 30 feet down the creek. It was nightime, so they shined their lights in the direction of the noise. They saw a animal creature bending down at the creek, drinking water out of its hands. The \"animal\" stood up, on two legs like a man, was gray, and hairy all over. It then took off up the holler, running on two legs like a man. It was no bear. A bear wouldn't run like a human does. My husbands uncle and friend immediately left, they were so scared. Now lets skip to the early 1990's. My husband and I move a mobile home in on the farm. For the first time in many years, someone has finally occupied this land. Our first summer here, in 1991, I would hear all sorts of noises. Being from the suburbs, and not used to nighttime country noises, I didn't know what they were, and always kept the windows shut, no matter how hot it was inside. I felt like something was just \"out there\". We have always heard weird things over the years. Now lets skip 10 years to this past June 2001. My kids, ages 13, 11, 9 and 6 were playing in the field, out behind our mobile home. They came in, wanting my camera. They said they found \"footprints\". I laughed it off, and told them just don't take too many pictures. They took the pictures, I forgot about them for about 3 weeks. When I went to get the pictures developed, I was shocked at the footprints! They are nothing like I've seen before. About a week later, the end of June 2001, my kids were playing again, at the creek that runs behind the field, that is behind our mobile home. Our dog was with them. All of a sudden they hear something running across the hillside, sounding as if it was tearing down trees as it went. The dog ran after it. Whatever it was, kept on running, with our dog on its trail. We then heard the dog start yelping, crying like whatever it was got him. I was too scared to go and see if he was ok. We waited for him to come back. He did several hours later, covered in some kind of slimy stuff. Like slobber. He was ok, but never did find out what that stuff was. I had told the kids not to go down to the creek again, till we find out what is up on the hill. Of course, being kids, they didn't listen. They took off on the hill, to see if there were any small trees or shrubs knocked down by whatever ran through the woods the day before. They weren't up there very long, before huge rocks down tumbling down the hill at them. It was like something or someone was up there actually throwing huge rocks at them. I am talking rocks that are bigger than a persons head. They came running back down the hill. Two days later, around 9 am, I had all the windows open to our mobile home. Everyone but me was still in bed. I heard a very loud, long growl. I have never heard this sound before in my life. The dogs, which were sleeping in the yard heard it, and took off on the hill after whatever it was. Over the years, there have been unexplained things and noises happening. This past winter (around Jan. 2001), something hit the side of our mobile home in the middle of the night. It was like someone had taken a ballbat and smacked the side of the wall where our bedroom is as hard as they can. We have hiked on the hill, and heard unidentified loud growls. At night there have been screams and growls. My husbands uncle, the one who had sighted the \"animal\" in the 1970's had lived in a small shed on our farm in the mid' 1990's. He would work late shift and come home in the middle of the night. He would have to walk 1/4 of a mile to the shed. He would tell us all the time how creepy it was to walk up the holler at night. And all the sounds he would hear.","(edited)","Cabell County","West Virginia","Summer","Report 2786: On-going encounters makes rural family cautious",38.46118,-82.07358,"2001-06-15",2786.0,"Class B","dnvdu3eudg",89.4,79.405,69.41,71.63,0.81,0.29,0.8,0.0043,0.5,"rain",1013.79,"Humid throughout the day and partly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",9.0,6.82,209.0,2.82,"RES.SEASON"], [2081,1315,"I was fishing behind the fish hatchery in Ft. Chiswell my friend and me where coming out at dusk when it was getting dark I said, \"we need to go I don't want to be out here at night\" so we were walking down the trail so we get out of the forest, I was feeling very weird at this time because something didn't feel right to me it felt like someone was following as you already know you can tell if someone or something is looking at you, so I let my friend out of the tree line first because I always do that and when I was coming out I heard a crash in the woods it sounded like something crashed down from the tree I turn around and saw a dark figure standing in the trail we just got off of, my friend was 30 ft in front of me when he heard the thing that was in the woods he ran. I was brisk fully walking backwards and pulled my knife out I was in fear for my life from what I saw whatever it was stood I say around 7 to 8 ft tall I only saw the silhouette of it it was very tall and very broad across the shoulders, I saw it for about 3 to 4 seconds and ran to my left with incredible speed and I ran to the truck in fear for my life. On a later incident I was carp fishing near the river behind the fish hatchery again, I had 2 other friends with me I will not mention any of my friends names because they don't want to be included in what happened, and something threw what I believe was a rock at us I was scared but we left a few hours later because I was getting worried.","Head on N I-81 Turn right onto VA-619 S/Major Graham Rd Continue to follow VA-619 S Turn right onto Red Hollow Rd/State Route 629 Destination will be on the right Wytheville State Fish Hatchery 1260 Red Hollow Road, Max Meadows, VA 24360","Wythe County","Virginia","Summer","Report 35981: Possible encounter behind a fish hatchery near Fort Chiswell",36.932,-80.89,"2011-06-10",35981.0,"Class B","dnw6p738qr",85.54,74.055,62.57,62.27,0.73,0.06,0.31,0.0002,0.24,"rain",1015.52,"Clear throughout the day.",11.0,9.24,290.0,0.49,"RES.SEASON"], [2106,4149,"Monday July 10 2017 5:15AM. While driving home from an all night fishing trip at Tampa Bay, we were about 2 miles outside of Parrish FL. There was a car ahead of us & we were about 10 car lengths behind.This creature waited for the car ahead of us to pass and ran across between our two cars. It was running upright on two legs. It was huge & fast. It didn't have the shoulder motion that a human has when they run. Manatee Sheriff contacted.","Wooded to the right side of the road where it exited the Hwy","Manatee County","Florida","Summer","Report 57884: Nighttime road crossing outside Parrish",27.35273,-82.22301,"2017-07-10",57884.0,"Class A","dhve8grj1n",91.31,82.39,73.47,73.92,0.84,0.23,0.54,0.0206,0.93,"rain",1017.83,"Heavy rain in the evening.",10.0,9.87,116.0,1.15,"RES.SEASON"], [2132,1763,"Bigfoot standing in the middle of hwy 17. was 6 ft. tall or better very dark brown or black. It was looking down at the ground in a north west direction arms to it's side. It looked slim or gaunt. My brother was driving a feed truck back from Tuscumbia, Mo. going north on Hwy 17 about 2 miles from the Marys Home turn off. As he rounded a curve to the left was when he saw it in the road about 200 yds. ahead. He looked away for just a second and It was gone. When he got back to Jefferson City, Mo., in about 30 min, he called me and told me about it, and that he was taking another load down to meet him there. I did so. He showed the place and then he left to make his delivery. I walked up and down both sides of the road and found where somthing had walked up to the fence from the east. The grass was thick and mashed down but no imprints were left. I also noticed the cattal acting spooked. I am making this report for my brother, whom would not.","About 200 to 400 yds.south of Buster Rd. on Hwy 17 in the middle of the highway.","Miller County","Missouri","Spring","Report 8890: Truck driver has daylight sighting on country road near Marys Home.",38.305,-92.411,"2004-12-05",8890.0,"Class A","9yy3cjhqg9",47.82,47.955,48.09,36.34,0.83,0.54,0.78,0.007,1.0,"rain",1011.89,"Rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",2.0,9.01,145.0,3.8,"RES.SEASON"], [2137,4176,"On December 2014 I was out hunting with my nephew in Big Cypress National Park. We entered the hunting area into Monroe station, we walked the trail that day and there's an open field pass on the trail to the right. We cut through the open field it was a very nice day but we didn't see any game. We were there till 6 pm between 6 pm and 615' we were heading out through the middle of the field towards Tamiami trail to cut through the woods onto the trail. It was still good light out, just before we entered the woods my nephew decides to go across the other woods to see the other side of the field while I wait for him. I was out in the open, I was away from the tree line about 60 yards. I noticed a movement from the distance when I look it was walking big steps right where we had hiked, from what it seemed like it was following us in the distance. I was really scared, I started shouting for my nephew. But wouldn't get my eye off of it. It stood behind a tree moving its head gently side too side looking at me. I was gonna point at it with my rifle too see it through my scope but I didn't because at the same time I thought what if its a ranger on a ghille suit? I didn't want to point at him with my rifle. My nephew came running when he got to me he told me did you see that in the woods. I told him no, look at where I'm looking and tell me my eyes aren't playing tricks on me. He looked, and looked at me, cocked his gun and we ran into the woods to cross over to the trail. By the time we got to the trail running it was night fall. Luckily there was a man in a buggy with his wife. And gave us a ride out...what I saw was approximately 4 street blocks away. Its head was kinda square, its arms would hang down about where I thought its knees would be.","It's the trail on Monroe station in big cypress. Monroe station is north of the Oasis visitors center on the left hand side of the big cypress national park","Monroe County","Florida","Winter","Report 45566: Hunters in the Big Cypress National Preserve observe large biped traversing their recent path",27.45883,-80.79379,"2013-12-15",45566.0,"Class B","dhys1qxz20",74.19,64.42,54.65,68.25,0.93,0.69,0.45,0.0029,0.88,"rain",1015.56,"Light rain in the afternoon.",3.0,8.85,230.0,1.99,"RES.SEASON"], [2140,430,"Well, I've really been into this Bigfoot stuff ever since I saw a show about it on the Discovery Channel a few years ago. Not long ago, I asked some friends if they've ever seen ghosts, Bigfoot, or anything else unusual. To my surprise, my friend told me that she saw Bigfoot two times in her back woods. Now I didn't see this thing, I'm reporting it for her because she thinks everyone will think she's crazy if they find out she posted her story (I'm 14 years old and she's 17). I believe her because she's trustworthy and the way she described it just made me KNOW it was the truth. I've sort of \"researched\" these things a lot. I look on websites at pictures and stories and try to get a lot of info on these things. Anyway, she explained it to me like this: She has a lot of woods in her backyard that went all the way to the highway. About 20 to 30 yards from the back of her house a little cliff starts and then it goes down into a ravine. The first sighting was when she had to pick up after her three dogs (which weren't outside at this time) and throw the doo-doo away into the ravine. When she started heading down there she saw a very large six to seven foot tall animal on two legs. It had black fur and the hair was a bit longer on its head then the rest of the body. She told me that this thing looked JUST like the Bigfoot from the movie \"Harry and the Henderson's.\" When she saw it, it was walking away at a fast pace. She then obviously panicked and ran to her house and never looked back. The second sighting is a bit scarier. This took place a few months after the first one. After some time she regained the courage to go outside and enjoy her backyard again. But as she walked toward the woods she stopped dead in her tracks and sort of breathed in quickly because she was startled. Sitting/squatting on the edge of the little drop into the ravine was a brown-furred Bigfoot. She said it was holding or examining something in its hands at the time, but right after my friend breathed in, it turned around and saw her over his shoulder. My friend said that the way it looked at her with its big eyes made her almost go crazy in fright. After a few seconds, she said \"OH S**t\" and started slowly backing away. Then she fully turned around and sprinted home. Stopping close to her door, she looked back, but she didn't see it anymore. She knows what she saw and I believe her. Someday I will go over her house and check out the area and try to picture it in my head.","South of State Route 303 and east of I-77.","Summit County","Ohio","Fall","Report 5267: Young teenager has two sightings less than two months apart in a ravine behind her home",41.23638,-81.62379,"1998-10-01",5267.0,"Class A","dpmfwdg77f",58.11,48.01,37.91,42.72,0.62,0.58,0.35,0.0001,1.0,"rain",1015.71,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",5.0,10.0,321.0,9.07,"RES.SEASON"], [2141,2303,"I live about 3 miles west of Collierstown, VA, in the heart of the Appalachians. Around 7pm yesterday evening, 1/9/2021, I went out on my porch to listen to coyotes (which I hear some nights), and about a minute after the coyotes stopped I hear a very high pitched wail or moan that was in three intervals, each with higher pitched succession, coming from the next mountain ridge to my east. The tone, and duration of the wail or moan, was unlike anything I have every heard, and sounded out of place. It did not sound like the normal coyote sounds. It was very strange and made the hair on my arms stand up. I live in a very remote region of the Appalachians, about 15 miles southwest of Lexington, VA. I am an avid outdoorsman and an expert with most animal sounds in the region. I could not identify this sound.","A cabin, located off Little Dry Hollow Rd. (A gravel Road), about 25 minutes southwest of Lexington, VA. Situated about 5 miles south of Big House Mountain. [Investigator Note: Approx howl location: 37.7592566, -79.5912031]","Rockbridge County","Virginia","Winter","Report 67485: Possible howls in Appalachian Mts 3 miles west of Collierstown (15 SW of Lexington)",37.75926,-79.5912,"2021-01-09",67485.0,"Class B","dnxqucg7ws",47.18,35.4,23.62,21.12,0.59,0.16,0.89,0.0002,0.04,"rain",1017.6,"Clear throughout the day.",3.0,10.0,326.0,5.81,"RES.SEASON"], [2143,176,"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 duty. I now live in Florida. Actually, this incident was a series of three encounters over a three-day period. A bit of background seems necessary. My girlfriend lived on the next block. Our houses were separated by a field with a stand of trees on the north side of the field; the stand of trees was approximately 20 feet wide at that time and ran East-West. The stand of trees ran to the East to Bellevue Blvd. On the East side of Bellevue Blvd. was a heavely forested area that was either a part of, or bordered, Fontenelle Forest. I would go over to my girlfriend's house and visit until it was time for me to go back home (my curfew was 10:00 pm during the summer). The first incident occurred as I was crossing the field on my way home around 10:00 p.m. I was walking in a NW direction with the thick stand of trees to my right. I heard heavy foot-falls and occasional snapping of branchs within the stand of trees. Whatever it was within the trees was paralleling me. When I stopped, it stopped. When I began walking again, it began walking. It was very dark in the field and I could not see anything. After several stops and starts, I became somewhat frightened and ran the rest of the way across the field, climbed over the 4-foot chainlink fence that surrounded our backyard, and ran up our backyard (it was basically a hill) and into the house. The second incident happened the very next night. This occurrence happened exactly the same way as the first incident. The final incident happened on the third night. As I crossed the field I again heard the heavy foot-falls and snapping of small branches within the stand of trees. However, this time I was not being paralled; the thing was heading in a SW direction which placed it on an intercept course to my NW direction of travel. I could hear it getting closer, but could not see anything because of the extreme darkness. Near the point of interception, I began to smell a foul odor. The odor was very stong and almost made me gag. By now the foot-falls were very near. I could feel the thing cross in front of me very close, but could not see anything. The foot-falls were now on my left. At this point I became extremely scared and began running across the field. I'm not sure, but I suspect I cleared our 4-foot fence without even touching it. About half-way up the hill (our backyard) I stopped. I can't explain why I did this, but I simply felt compelled to do so. I turned around and saw what had crossed my path. The backyard and a portion of the field was nicely illuminated by a flood-light my father had put on the back of the house. Standing at the edge of the field next to a clothes-line pole, was a creature on two legs. It was covered in dark brown hair. I estimate the height at 7 feet. This is based on the fact that the clothes-line pole was 6 feet in height and the creature's head was a good foot above the top of the pole. I was approximately 40-50 feet from it, but could not make out any facial features. I recall that there was eye-shine, but I can't recall the color, possibly reddish. The thing was extremely thick across the chest. The arms hung almost to the knees. This thing was very muscular. We stood there staring at each other for approximately 20 seconds before I turned and ran into my house (I chickened out before it did). There is no question in mind that what I saw was a bigfoot.","Georgia Ave. and Tulip Ln. run East-West My house was approximately 1/3 of a mile from Bellevue Blvd., which ran along the heavily forested area of Fontenelle Forest.","Sarpy County","Nebraska","Summer","Report 7809: Teen has nighttime sighting near Fontenelle Forest",41.134,-95.88,"2005-01-06",7809.0,"Class A","9z7f40nqfj",9.8,8.595,7.39,1.68,0.82,0.31,0.86,0.0009,0.52,"snow",1020.34,"Mostly cloudy starting in the evening.",2.0,8.21,212.0,1.49,"RES.SEASON"], [2151,4882,"Me and my 11yr old daughter was spring turkey hunting 2020 in yellowood state forest behind our house. She seen it first, then I saw it. I watched in disbelief as it moved away from us. It was approximately 6ft tall, grey in color and very, very strong looking.","Yellow wood state forest.","Brown County","Indiana","Spring","Report 65536: Father & daughter sighting in Yellowwood State Forest",39.24841,-86.33011,"2020-05-09",65536.0,"Class A","dnfx78bqd9",55.83,49.03,42.23,25.21,0.51,0.05,0.6,0.0007,0.06,"rain",1023.6,"Clear throughout the day.",7.0,10.0,283.0,3.82,"RES.SEASON"], [2154,600,"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 support the other person that made a report because I have to back them up. In mid May, 2013, I was returning from Buckeye Deli in Nashville Ohio on a deserted back road, (TR211 on my way to CR22). It was early dusk because I wanted to get some cigarettes at the store before it got dark. I stopped for several minutes to take pictures of some horses on the side of the road. I was listening to live Grateful Dead,\"Two From the Vault,\" on the Ford Expedition's CD player. I was enjoying thinking about being off work from traveling this summer, and appreciating this beautiful place that we call home. The road is very scenic. There is a canopy of trees which makes it cool to drive through in the hot summer. The road cuts through a hill on the left and a ravine on the right. There are no guard rails and it is a dirt road. You don't travel this road in the winter if it is snowy and icy. There are a few houses and farms nearby but mostly it is just wooded and remote. Just locals for the most part go by every now and then. So after several minutes of nature watching, (I have three photographs), I decided to go forward and as I put the car into gear, about 250 feet ahead of me I saw a big black creature leap from the hillside into the ravine. I said outloud to myself, \"What the hell was that?\" I made a mental note to watch for deer, as we all do around here, but then I got thinking about what I saw. It was definitely black or dark colored. Since it was filtered light I realized that it couldn't be a deer that was sillhouetted dark, because the sun wasn't right for that. There was a cover of trees. I went back another day at the same time and confirmed it with my brother-in-law and husband. So after I saw it, I got nervous because I believed that I may just have seen real sasquatch! I have seen the TV show a couple of times, but didn't really think about it much. I drove forward to where I saw whatever it was cross the road, (arms / front legs in the air, big body lower, leaping into the woods), and didn't see anything after that. I can't say how big it was. It fits the profile looking back in my mind now. I remember at the time thinking at first that I saw a deer, and that it was a very big deer, (the kind that people would be proud to get around here in season), and that I should watch out on my way home. Then I started thinking about what I saw, and knew that it wasn't a deer. I have to admit going down the road a bit that after a cursory glance, looking for whatever I saw...I kind of wanted to get the heck out of there. I called my sister-in-law on my way back to tell her that I think I saw a sasquatch, (she likes to joke about sasquatch stuff). She can verify that I was a little shaken up by it. I was still reeling when I got home a few minutes later, still on the phone with her, and reported it to my husband. After a few minutes discussion, he said that it was probably a bear, which I was OK with. I thought about it for awhile that night and went on to other things. After several days, (it was still on my mind), I decided to look online to see if there was any other reports out there for Holmes County, Ohio. After a google search, I found BFRO and read the report from June 2012 for that very same area! That blew me away because we are in a very rural area in the middle of nowhere. What were the chances of having a report HERE! So I started to think that maybe it was a sasquatch. I sent an e-mail to BFRO and got a call the next morning from the Ohio investigator. He sounded very credible to me, and while I was rushing around getting ready for a job interview, I had to tell him what I saw. He blew me away when he told me that there have been several reports from my area in the past 6 months. Now I was really concerned that this might be real. Word went out to our family about my possible squatch sighting, and this past Sunday of Memorial Day weekend, my brother-in-law came down for a visit because everyone else was out of town. So the three of us re-traced my steps down TR211 about the same time of day so I could verify that the light would not make a deer look black. I have the three pictures of horses from where I was parked when I saw it. We matched up the area and took another look. We stopped where we thought that it crossed before the bend in the road, looked over, and noticed that the fence was bent. There was no fur stuck to it. There was a black thing on it but we didn't think it was fur. Maybe I should go back and look again! lol My brother-in-law said that the area looked squatchy. There was a canopy of trees, hills, a stream, wildlife and seclusion. Here's the best part of the story... On Sunday of Memorial Day weekend a few weeks after my sighting, we made a big warm bonfire because it was in the mid 30s and we wanted to be outside to celebrate the unofficial first weekend of summer regardless of the cold. My husband went to bed, and my brother-in-law and I decided to turn off the music and listen to the night sounds. It was about one o'clock in the morning. There is a lot of wildlife around here. It was then that my brother-in-law let a really good squatch call rip, (like you hear on youtube). And wouldn't you know it, we got a similar call back! I looked and him and he looked at me, like did we really just hear that? So he did it again, and sure as sh-- it came back even louder and clearer...then it trailed off. I just about died. We're like no way did that just happen! I noted the time 0138. We both said that it was one of two things, either someone else was messing with us, (there are campgrounds not too far away on the Mohican River), or it was a sasquatch. I looked down the road and the distant neighbors did not appear to be out, not surprising because it was really late and really cold. We heard it from the same direction on TR211 where I saw something a few weeks earlier. It was 35 degrees out and no one would be howling from a crowded campsite. The calls definitely came from the general direction of Nashville. I can tell you that it did not sound human and was totally creepy! Up until that moment, there were no answers to previous calls. We had been having fun with it earlier in the day practicing our squatch calls. But the two of us, without a doubt, heard those two calls. It sent chills down our spines, and we know what we heard. I made a new rule, that if anyone wants to call squatch, that we have to have tape rolling on it. We have lived here for 14 years and I have never been afraid of any animal life around here when I sit out late night watching the moon and the stars on our porch or by the fire. I am a night-owl and enjoy staying up late, sometimes until sunrise. It's a nice time to think, and to enjoy my beautiful surroundings when I don't have to get up early in the morning. It's an amazing place here in Drake's Valley as the original locals call it. We call it home now since 1999 and never want to leave, even if there is a bigfoot nearby! Although I have to admit, this whole thing kind of freaks me out and I don't want to be scared of my surroundings. You move here for the glory of it all, not to be afraid of it. Maybe this place just became more amazing to me and I should embrace it. This old farm house has been here for 138 years and we are surrounded by wilderness. You can't spend any time away from here because the wilderness will start to take it over, (squirrels, racoons, cardinals, wasps, mowing lawn for hours, cuyote, bees, birds, moles, tics, deer, bald eagles, fox, muskrat, cats, rooster, heron, hawk,snakes, grouse, geese, duck, bullfrog, possum, rabbit etc). We have it all down here...and now we have sasquatch possibly! My husband and I know that we are guests in these animals' home. It's our home too though. Somehow we will learn to live together...and maybe even communicate. In any case, I saw of glimpse of something and I heard something. What it was / is, I don't exactly know. By the way, as I am typing this report, which takes a lot of guts to submit, on our porch two days after hearing the squatch call, with no music on, just sitting here enjoying the evening quietly for about 4 hours now, I just heard something at 0102. It was a big tree knock! SERIOUSLY! Figures that would happen right now. If I hadn't started doing some more research, I might not have paid much attention to that type of sound. I do pride myself on being able to idenify every night sound around here when my music isn't playing. That one that I just heard was a real tree knock! It sounded as if someone took a tree and banged it on another tree. I only heard it once now. I recognized it immediately from audio clips. That was not too far away from me now! I just called my sister-in-law. It was in the opposite direction from where we heard the call Sunday. Maybe it's waiting around to see if my brother-in-law came back. There are 189 uninhabited acres from our back yard to the Mohican River. I heard it at 0102 in that direction. I know all the sounds around here, and that was a darn tree knock. I also have to say that on Sunday, my we were playing Ohio squatch sounds on Youtube and I got a chill and said, \"I have heard that sound before.\" I just wrote it off to cuyote, peacock or ferel cats. I am usually playing music, but my first thought is that I have heard that sound before. A cuyote cry, (or maybe a sasquatch cry), comes in over the music. You hear a lot in this valley. I have found renewed motivation to send you this report now. I don't know what is going on...we're just regular people. I am not drunk. And lol, I don't think that I am crazy! You wanted description, so I wrote an epistle as my dad would say. :)","Take SR514 from Buckeye Deli in Nashville, right on TR211. Sighting was just before TR466. The squatch call-back occurred near the intersection of TR211 and CR22 toward Nashville.","Holmes County","Ohio","Spring","Report 41270: Possible daylight sighting while driving in farm country near Nashville",40.59307,-82.14194,"2013-05-27",41270.0,"Class B","dpjwfvdpf0",62.8,59.085,55.37,43.5,0.69,0.42,0.59,0.0027,0.73,"rain",1022.77,"Light rain overnight.",6.0,2.72,131.0,1.39,"RES.SEASON"], [2161,940,"This weekend 8/19/00 while hunting off of Salmonberry Road off HWY 26. I was looking for bear tracks on a trail that I have hunted before; anyway, when I came out at the trails end on one of the logging roads I decided to take a walk up the road with my fiance. I always keep an eye on the sides of the raods for traks to see where an animal may have crossed. Well about a half a mile up I saw a track, with very decerable toes (5) and I put my foot up nxt to the print, I am a size 12 and the print was about the same. The funny thing was, the print looked like the foot was broken and healed wrong, I do know that it was not human and it deffinatly was not any type of animal I hunt for. My fiance also saw this print as well. As we first hit the trail, I should mention we both herd a howl the likes of nothing I have never heard before in my LIFE, the hair on the back of my neck stood on end, even my fiance said that it was the wierdest thing she ever heard. There was no noticable odor in the air at that time. This was all in the morning at about 6:10am. I will be checking this area again in about a week. I will not forget that howl\\moan for as long as I live. It is monday and I can still hear it in my head.","All information is listed in the above statement. Please contact me ASAP","Tillamook County","Oregon","Summer","Report 102: Couple hears unknown howl, later finds possible deformed track",45.7351,-123.466,"2000-08-19",102.0,"Class B","c20hnmyf38",57.98,47.115,36.25,48.62,0.97,0.77,0.65,0.0178,1.0,"rain",1020.65,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",5.0,9.54,302.0,0.56,"RES.SEASON"], [2163,883,"I write this email with a little apprehension of what my son and I heard in late August 2006. My 16 year old son (at the time) and I were on a three day hiking trip in the Siskiyou Mountains of Oregon. We were hiking on trail # 900, to a snow shelter cabin we've been going to for about the last 10-12 years at the time. It is called Greyback shelter off of trail #900 or Obrien Creek Trail. The entire area is wilderness and you can reach the Oregon caves from the same main trail # 1207, also called the Siskiyou/Rogue division trail. On the southwest side of the cabin there is a huge meadow where there used to be another cabin built in the 40's by cattlemen. On the third and final morning we woke up in the shelter where we had camped. And, I had to answer natures call, my son was just getting woke up when I told him I would be back in a few minutes. I walked to the meadow where there is an old outhouse type thing just to the back of the old cabin that stood there, and well... After, I had finished, I remember feeling like I was being watched, and I walked toward the path that connected the two cabins in the meadow. The meadow is beautiful, so it being about 8:00 - 8:30 AM, I stood at the base of the meadow to enjoy the scenery. Then, above me I heard a screeching howl/guttural like sound, that lasted a couple of seconds and ended abruptly, and began again, it seemed like it went on for about 2-3 minutes. I stood there looking up to the area I heard the sound and could not see anything, which was weird because it is relatively open meadow with rolls and dips. I didn't recognize the animal making the sound. Like so many of your reports that I have read, I'm a hunter, hiker outdoorsy kind of a guy. And, I had a hard time identifying the sound, still can't. But, it kind of freaked me out. I pulled my pistol and quickly, cautiously went to the cabin were my son was, and We never go to mountains without a firearm, He had heard the sound as well, and he had pulled his weapon, he knew it was me coming I was calling him to let him know it was me, as I came around the cabin I saw my son looking in the same direction as I had when we both heard the sound, he was as white as a sheet. We were both very visible shaken. He then asked me \"DAD, what the hell was that?\" I know my son is a teenager, I know he cusses, but not around me at the time. We ate and uneasy breakfast and packed our gear and headed out, a lot earlier than we would normally. All the way down the trail back to my truck we constantly check our back trail, it only being about a mile and half down and out of the area it was probably my longest hike. We have not been back to the cabin since, and that was just over 2 years ago. I would also like to add that the sounds we heard that day are similar to two of your sound clips 1973 Puyallup and the 1978 Snohomish county whoops/ howls. But, with a little more guttural grunt that ended abruptly, it did not taper off like a coyote, fox, wolf or elk; it just stopped and started again. My name is B. H., and I lived in Medford, Oregon. Think what you will of me and my son, but we know what we heard that day and we do not know what made the call. We are no longer on the fence of \"do\" or \"do not\" we believe it was a Sasquatch.","Take hwy 238 out of Medford and head towards Jacksonville, follow Hwy238 out towards Ruch. Turn left on upper Applegate Rd. follow to Carberry Creek Rd, that is also called county 777 Rd. Follow to the junction of FR 10 (Thompson Creek rd.) and FR 1005 and FR 1020. Follow road 1005 all the way to end of the road, which ends at Obrien Creek. Trail # 900 Trail head. Follow Trail # 900 to trail junction #1207, here is a sign that tells you how to get to the Greyback Snow Shelter at the fork of 900 and 1207. Follow foot path to shelter and you will see the other trail/path that will take you to the meadow where the Krause cabin used to stand. My son and I would be honored to take an investigator to the spot before the winter weather hits, if you would like.","Josephine County","Oregon","Summer","Report 24892: Father and son hear strange sounds while camping near Oregon Caves",42.125,-123.2916,"2009-03-02",24892.0,"Class B","9r2rdktgcm",42.0,33.595,25.19,34.97,0.98,0.76,0.2,0.0152,1.0,"rain",1005.27,"Snow (< 1 in.) starting in the evening.",4.0,9.27,183.0,2.22,"RES.SEASON"], [2169,2546,"My husband and I were up off of highway 410, about 5 miles outside of Greenwater (on the FS road right after the fire station on the left side of the road)around the first part of June in 2008. We had come from Tacoma and I was trying to get my husband acquainted with being in the woods at night, so we headed up to a place I liked to go occasionally to start a fire and cook some food and relax. It was a site for what looked like an old rock quarry alongside the right hand side of the woods. I chose the spot because it was fairly open to the road and there were also a large number of campers dotted throughout the woods and along the river at the time. It should also be noted that it was foggy. We pulled into the muddy rock pit(we were driving a '69 220 Mercedes) drove in about 50 feet and then noticed something in front of the car. My husband seemed panicked and wondered what the hell it was. It was gray(light colored)big, human shape, visible right in front of our car no more than 15 feet from the front bumper. Even though I knew it wasn't human or a known animal, I told him it was a deer's butt and not to be scared. He has stopped the car at this point and then we both witnessed the creature climb up the side of the quarry at a high rate of speed. He was terrified, but for some reason, I wasn't scared at all even though I had just something unexplainable. I convinced him to park and we got the stuff out the trunk headed up the other side of the quarry and started the fire. By the time it was really going it was dark out and we were just sitting and talking. It also started to rain a little. I had the unerving feeling that we were being watched. That was when we saw headlights coming up the road and turning into the quarry. It was the sheriff. He stopped at our car then came up the side of the quarry in his truck, shining his search beam on us as he ascended. After asking what we were doing he left and headed down the side of the quarry in which we had seen the creature earlier. I noticed about a quarter of the way down he stopped and shone his light into the woods at which time the previously viewed creature was spotted standing at the edge of the woods. It turned around and headed back into the woods and the sheriff sped down the side of the quarry. I bet he remembers it, but I don't remember his name. We left immediatelly. It should also be noted that I didn't feel scared at all and I almost forgot that I had seen the creature until we drove home and my husband reminded me. It was almost like my mind was trying to dismiss it because I didn't know or could make sense out of what I had seen.","Please read account","Pierce County","Washington","Spring","Report 28898: Dusk and nighttime sightings by couple at rock quarry near Greenwater",47.12045,-121.5298,"2008-06-07",28898.0,"Class A","c23s4d08w2",44.86,42.575,40.29,40.47,0.92,1.0,0.15,0.0029,0.48,"rain",1020.97,"Foggy until evening.",5.0,3.99,257.0,1.93,"RES.SEASON"], [2188,1296,"I was hiking in the woods, doing occasional whoops and wood knocks to try to illicit a response. It felt so squatchy from the moment I got there, but I got no response to anything. I was about an hour into my trek and I see off the beaten path a series of footprints. The snow had stopped yesterday and I tell you these prints were FRESH. I am thinking I just missed that squatch by a matter of minutes or hours! SO CLOSE! Well, let me tell you what!! These things were 12'' long and the stride between steps was measured at 8 feet! The line of prints was straight, just like you see with other evidence of a bigfoot trail! It was INSANE. There were no other prints around, I followed these about a quarter mile into the depths of the woods and off the beaten path. The snow was up past my knees at some points but how could I stop following this epic trail! I could see some prints more clearly than others, I could see toe outlines and the heel in a few! I have pictures and videos to share with you. By the looks of the size of the prints and the distance in stride, this seems like an adult sasquatch, These things were huge!! The sun was setting and my phone was dying so to my dismay I had to turn around and get back to the path before dark, otherwise I would have followed those tracks until they lead me to whatever made them, and we know what made those beasts! This is the BEST day ever. My very first bigfoot evidence and experience and I couldn't be happier!!! There is literally NOTHING else this could be, it is an amazing and documented bigfoot footprint trail!","Vaughn Woods State Park in South Berwick, Maine.","York County","Maine","Winter","Report 56798: Possible track way found in the snow in Vaughn Woods State Park east of Dover",43.2045,-70.81187,"2017-02-14",56798.0,"Class B","drttu9hk7y",32.47,26.18,19.89,16.07,0.74,0.09,0.63,0.0006,0.31,"snow",1009.95,"Overcast overnight.",3.0,9.94,235.0,0.48,"RES.SEASON"], [2206,2441,"At the time of this sighting I was homeless and living in my station wagon. I always took showers at a campground on Harstine Island. At about 11:30pm I was traveling north on the Island and was doing the speed limit and watching out for deer in the road because there are a lot of them on the Island. I was comeing up to the grange hall turn where there is a connecting road that travels south on the eastern side of the Island. There is a hill at the point of the intersection and I slowed down to the recommended speed because there is a hairpin turn just down the other side. As my light's came over the top of the hill I could see into the large pasture next to the road where it turned left. It was a clear fall night and the moon was out so I could see very good. I noticed something standing in the field couldn't remember seeing it before. I thought it was a tree stump at first but there wasn't one there before. Then I thought about the horses that are usually there in the daytime but it just wasn't it. I was slowing down to about 10-15 mph so I could turn left when this thing turned it's head and looked straight at me. I remember quickly slowing the car and almost came to a stop. As I rolled through the corner it turned in the same direction and walked at the same speed I was rolling. It was absolutely HUGE! It wasn't very far from my car maybe 40ft. The field is about 3-4 ft below the road and this thing towered over me so I had to look over the top of the steering wheel to see it. I could smell it and it burned my nose. My window's were up but the heater was on. It took long stride's and was actually moving faster than me and I stopped the car because I thought it was going to come over the barbed wire fence into the road in front of me. It walked down the fence line and I folled at a distance but I could still see it very clearly. At the corner of the fenceline the road turn's sharply to the right and it just stepped over the fence with no trouble at all. I remember feeling scared to death and the hair on my body was standing up. It crossed the road at the corner and disapeared on the other side in the brush. The turnoff to the park is about a 1/4 mile past that and to the left. I raced to the campground and took my shower as quickly as I could. I remember almost being in tears when I came out to get back in my car. I was still pretty shook up and I knew it was not far away from where I was.I usually stayed at the campground on those night's but not that night. The next day I returned to the area of the sighting and I didn't see any horses or tree stump's but I did see where the fence was pushed down. I talked to a friend of mine who lives on the Island and he said there were 3 or 4 of them there. I never came back at night again.","Harstine Isl. several miles N.E. of Shelton, off Hwy. 3","Mason County","Washington","Fall","Report 1568: Creature observed turning it's head and looking straight at witness",47.27667,-122.8858,"1993-10-15",1568.0,"Class A","c22sgwmq96",56.5,52.565,48.63,51.51,0.89,0.99,0.01,0.0187,1.0,"rain",1011.98,"Rain in the morning and evening.",2.0,5.86,358.0,0.73,"RES.SEASON"], [2207,1824,"I was up getting a glass of water at about 11 PM. My folks were getting ready for bed, and that is what woke me up. We lived on a farm in rural Missouri, not far from the town of Prairie Home. We had a kitchen door that had a window in it that faced out to our carport. Beyond the carport was a two-acre field with trees at the far end. I got a glass of water---my back to the door---when I felt a presence. Well our nearest neighbor was over a 1/4 mile away, and I thought that maybe our cattle had strayed from our bigger parcel into the small 2-acre field. I moved my stool over to the door and got up on it. I cupped one of my hands to cut the glare from the kitchen light on the window. It was pitch black out. I turned on the carport light, and put my face back up to the window---it was still dark for a second or two when something stepped back from the door to allow the carport light to illuminate the situation. The thing that stepped back from the window was very tall---much taller than the standard height of a door---it had been so close to the door that it was blocking all the light from the carport. I screamed, and dropped the water that I had in one hand. The thing outside my door looked right, then left, stepped back a couple of steps---then turned and ran across the carport---and through the field into the woods that bordered it. It was a couple hundred feet from the carport to the tree line, and I saw exactly where it entered the trees. It did not take long for it to reach the trees. Before it ran---it was definitely looking right at me. It had very dark brown, and/or black hair. I could see the reflection of the light from the kitchen in its eyes. I do not remember seeing any white in the eyes. The face had some areas that showed dark skin, with tufts of hair sticking out or surrounding the face and head. I never saw any teeth. Its arms were much longer in proportion to humans. They seemed to hang to the knees. There was long hair at the wrists that seemed to hang down over the hands. When I saw a grizzly bear run later on in life---I thought that the way its hair “flopped” up and down was the way it did on the Mo Mo that I saw.","west of Prairie Home on Highway J. Not far after crossing Pisgah creek. Old farm house with separate yard from pasture.","Cooper County","Missouri","Fall","Report 3483: Nighttime sighting outside farm house, west of Prairie Home (the town) near Pisgah Creek",38.81124,-92.59781,"1975-10-15",3483.0,"Class A","9yyhuck7fe",62.09,50.905,39.72,49.65,0.75,0.84,0.36,0.0108,1.0,"rain",1017.49,"Light rain in the morning.",4.0,9.75,284.0,7.06,"RES.SEASON"], [2215,4305,"My family and I took a boat ride to the Shell Island Beach (it wasn't really an island, it eventually connected to the mainland). When we anchored I got out and proceeded into the forest farther in. As I began to approach the forest I heard a high pitched scream that I mistook as a bird at first, I then saw a large brown mass moving to my right in the trees in front of me. I saw it for no more than a second as I turned around an ran back to the beach.","The island was across from St. Andrews State Park.","Bay County","Florida","Summer","Report 51044: Vacationer has a possible daytime encounter while taking a walk on Shell Island Beach",30.1766,-85.8055,"2015-07-14",51044.0,"Class B","dj6gxmqr6v",86.93,85.635,84.34,77.4,0.81,0.12,0.96,0.0015,0.43,"rain",1012.8,"Humid throughout the day and mostly cloudy overnight.",11.0,9.75,236.0,6.03,"RES.SEASON"], [2219,1456,"My son-in-law and I were hunting across from Clear Lake a few miles off Hwy 94 next to Green Lake. We were running our hounds on coon that night. There is a lot of country past Green Lake up into the Hickey Marsh and eventually the Seney. I had noticed partridge remains where we parked. I didn't think about. The hounds were gamey right out of the box. I cut a young hound and proven hound in. Both with a lot of grit. When they struck I had the feeling we weren't running coon but rather a bobcat. It took about twenty minutes and they treed. We proceeded into the dogs and right before the tree the critter bailed. Cats bail when they see lights like bear do at night when we run them. The dogs pulled tree and gave chase again. Treeing deeper. Way deeper. My son-in-law went to the truck to holler me out if needed. I kept the the tracker with me. I'm now in marsh with a mixture of spruce, cedar, bog and popple. The dogs treed deep. I went to a high spot to vantage my hearing on them. A thick wooded ridge. My radio tracker could barely read them and barely read the extra collar at the truck. Its range in wooded areas is about 7 miles. I kept swinging it around slowly trying to gain a good reading. I could smell something foul but thought it was myself after falling in swamp muck on more than one occasion. Again while swinging my tracker my coonlight in the direction of the antenna I noticed in the spruce a set of eyes next to the deer run on this ridge. Coon hunting you see a lot of different eye shine. I shrugged and swung the tracker, when I swung back into the trail toward the truck the trail was filled with animal twenty feet in front of me. It was around 8 feet tall long arms with fingers, barrel chested and pot bellied. The eyes were close and deep set but aggressive in its gaze, the mouth was agap. My goodness the ears were small. I froze in my tracks, I lost my training of the hounds call. We just looked at each other frozen. It grabbed a very large spruce, wrapping its hand around it. Its hair was black to brown not long, not short, the nose flat, with a face not covered in hair like its body. I really don't remember how it left. I remember the smell followed me almost all the way to the truck just up a trail where my son-in-law met me. He commented I passed gas jokingly. I was very shaken. I had a hard time reading my tracking system on the way back, I doubted my compass. It wasn't the straightest path back. To this day I haven't ran the hounds up there for or or bear since. As well it was the only time I left my hounds in the woods. In the morning after sleeping a bit I rode up {nervous as hell } to try and find the hounds by myself as my son in law went to work. Thank the lord they were treed in the beechwoods 30 feet off the gravel road with the prettiest sleeping bobcat you ever seen in the tree.","28 miles north of Manistique off Hwy 94","Schoolcraft County","Michigan","Summer","Report 31025: Close encounter by a hunter tracking his dogs at night outside the Seney National Wildlife Refuge",46.19183,-86.21193,"2010-08-15",31025.0,"Class A","f04wy0yqum",74.2,65.19,56.18,62.44,0.73,0.51,0.21,0.0001,0.21,"rain",1007.63,"Mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",5.0,9.79,245.0,6.56,"RES.SEASON"], [2224,1227,"I WAS 17 YEARS OLD, IAM 24 NOW. IT WAS LATE SUMMER, AND MY GIRLFRIEND'S PARENTS HAD GONE OUT FOR THE NIGHT AND HAD ASKED ME TO STICK AROUND AND LOOK AFTER HER AND HER YOUNGER BROTHER. I LIVE 5 MILES WEST OF ELKMONT,AL AND 1.5 MILES SOUTH OF THE ELK RIVER. I WAS IN THE LIVING ROOM AND HAD JUST GOT OFF THE COUCH WHERE ME AND HER LITTLE BROTHER WERE SITTING TO LOCK THE FRONT DOOR. I WENT TO THE BATHROOM. I CAME BACK OUT AND SOMETHING JIGGLED THE DOOR KNOB I HAD JUST LOCKED 1.5 MINUTES BEFORE I WENT TO THE BATHROOM. MY GIRLFRIEND WAS IN THE KITCHEN MAKING KOOL- ADE.WE SHUT THE LIGHTS OFF AND LOOKED OUT THE WINDOWS BUT DID NOT SEE ANYTHING. I GOT US OUT OF THE HOUSE AND RAN TO MY PARENTS HOUSE TO CALL THE POLICE. AFTER THE CALL WAS MADE, I STEPPED OUT OF THE HOUSE WITH A FLASHLIGHT AND MY SHOT GUN TO INVESTIGATE THE SITUATION. THE MOON WAS FULL AND I NOTICED AN OBJECT STANDING IN THE FIELD BEHIND MY HOUSE. AT THE TIME THE WEEDS IN THE PASTURE HAD GROWN UP BECAUSE OUR TRACTOR WAS BROKE DOWN. I AM 6 FEET TALL AT THE TIME AND THE WEEDS WERE OVER MY HEAD. I SHINED MY LIGHT TOWARD WHAT I HAD SAW IN THE LIGHT OF THE MOON AND SAW A CREATURE THAT TOOK THE SHAPE OF A HUMAN BUT WAS MUCH TALLER AND MUCH LARGER IN SIZE THAN A HUMAN. IT WAS AN OFF-WHITE COLOR AND HAD VERY LARGE AND WELL DEFINED MUSCLES. I DROPPED MY LIGHT TO DRAW AIM ON THE CREATURE, AND RAISED MY LIGHT TO FIND THE CREATURE GONE. I TOLD THE POLICE WHAT I HAD SEEN AND THEY TOLD ME THAT MY MIND WAS PLAYING TRICKS ON ME. I WAS VERY ANGRY AND WENT DOWN TO WHERE I HAD SEEN THE BEAST AFTER THE COPS HAD LEFT. THE WEEDS WERE AL MASHED DOWN. I WAS SURPRISED TO FIND THAT THIS WAS NOT THE LAST TIME I WOULD SEE THE CREATURE. I HAVE SAW IT AT HANNAH-WARD BRIDGE, AND HAVE SAW IT ON SULPHUR CREEK. EACH TIME IT DID NOT SEEM TO TRY TO HARM ME, BUT JUST STOPPED WHAT IT WAS DOING TO WATCH ME AS THOUGH IT WAS JUST AS CURIOUS OF ME AS I WAS OF IT. SIGHTINGS: ELK RIVER NEAR VAUGHN HOOLOW, HANNAH WARD BRIDGE NEAR VETO, AND SULPHUR CREEK NEAR ELK RIVER. TERRAIN: MOSTLY HILLY AROUND RIVER BOTTOMS AND ALWAYS AROUND WATER. DATES: 1993-1996 DESCRIPTION: APPROXIMATELY 7.5 FEET TALL WEIGHS 475 POUNDS, LARGE WELL DEFINED MUSCLES, VERY ATHLETIC, COLOR OFF WHITE","5 MILES WEST OF ELKMONT ON MORRIS RD INTO VAUGHN HOLLOW","Limestone County","Alabama","Summer","Report 451: Young man has sighting near home",34.9263,-87.02025,"1993-08-20",451.0,"Class A","dn4ney1u3n",92.63,81.64,70.65,74.23,0.83,0.58,0.11,0.0034,1.0,"rain",1015.8,"Humid and mostly cloudy throughout the day.",7.0,5.52,228.0,1.48,"RES.SEASON"], [2226,4989,"I saw something along Interstate 75 South in Kentucky, maybe 30-40 miles south of Cincinnati. I don't recall exactly where along that highway I was at the time, somewhere after three lanes had been reduced to two. And it happened 4-5 years ago, in 1999 or 2000. I don't recall what time of year it was, maybe autumn. It never occured to me to report it, and I just found this site so I thought I'd let you decide if it has any merit. It was late, between 1-2 AM, and I was heading back to Winchester, KY (20 miles E of Lexington on Interstate 64) after a visit to PA. No other traffic was on the road at the time I sighted what appeared to be a large animal standing in a recess along a road cut, which I wouldn't have seen but for my headlights; there were no street lights or other sources of light. It stood erect and was covered in dark fur like a bear, which I imagined it must be, but it had no muzzle like a bear. I wondered if it could have been an elk because it was the right height, but I couldn't reconcile an elk with the other body features. It was only in view for 3-4 seconds and was not moving, only looking directly at my car as I sped by. I passed within 15-20 feet of it. I looked directly at it, and it had an angry expression on its face. It made my hair stand on end. I usually didn't travel via Cincinatti when I lived in Winchester (I live in Lexington now), and in subsequent trips along that stretch of road I have been unable to find the exact spot at which I sighted it. Perhaps the roadway has since been modified to eliminate overhanging rocks; there has been a lot of road work along that stretch in the last few years. And I've wondered if it was just the play of shadows from my headlights that gave the illusion of something standing there, but the shape of a shadow changes as the light source moves, and this figure did not change. I was not sleepy; I work a night shift so I'm usually awake at that time. I'm reasonably certain I saw something, just not sure what. In summary, whatever I saw was 6-6.5 feet tall, dark brown to black fur, bipedal posture, angry demeanor. And it appeared to be holding its arms/paws up at shoulder height, as though it were a tree, or stiking some pose intended to frighten me, which was very effective. My initial impression was that it struck a very human posture. I heard no sound and it it not move. ","30-40 miles south of Cincinnati, OH on Interstate 75.","Grant County","Kentucky","Fall","Report 8715: Motorist has nighttime sighting of animal along Interstate 75.",38.528,-84.588,"2005-02-02",8715.0,"Class A","dngg5jucue",36.59,33.765,30.94,25.96,0.81,0.39,0.77,0.0019,1.0,"snow",1026.43,"Mixed precipitation starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",3.0,6.27,55.0,2.6,"RES.SEASON"], [2230,3915,"My family was on vacation in Colorado Springs, Co, last summer. We were driving up Pike's Peak on the main road, and turned off onto the first rest area parking lot. The region was composed of large and small rock formations and was forested, primarily with pine trees. A stream was across the street. It is an area that is not inhabited by human, except for the traffic on the road: tourists visiting Pike's Peak. I was standing on top of a large rock formation, looking down on my dad, who was about to take my picture with his camera. I shouted, \"Dad, look!\" as I saw what I immediately believed to be a bigfoot 100 feet behind him. My dad did not turn around and look at the bigfoot, because he wanted to take my picture. The bigfoot was in motion, black, and was quickly out of sight. I know what bears look like, because I did a report for school on bears last year. This was not a bear.","first visitor parking lot on the Pike's Peak Highway, right turn (going uphill)","El Paso County","Colorado","Summer","Report 3710: Daytime sighting by Pike's Peak tourist",38.9006,-104.9917,"2001-06-30",3710.0,"Class A","9wvm6cekkj",81.39,67.345,53.3,47.98,0.56,0.56,0.34,0.0033,1.0,"rain",1013.91,"Rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",7.0,10.0,150.0,5.88,"RES.SEASON"], [2254,1362,"My girlfriend and I both had Friday off, 5/15/20, and decided to go do one of our favorite hikes up to Silver Star Mountain in Skamania County, Washington. We live in Portland and go up to that hike at least once or twice a year. We regard it as one of our favorite hikes in the area due to its proximity to home and its sheer beauty. I was born in rural SW Missouri, and then spent my formative years growing up in Colorado. I am an avid outdoorsman and spend a large amount of time backpacking, hiking, camping, snowboarding and surfing in the wilderness (as well as my girlfriend). I went to school for/work in environmental science and have years of experience collecting data in nature, including animal tracking and navigation. We left around noon and arrived at the Grouse Vista Trailhead and began our hike at 1PM. The hike is around 6.8 miles roundtrip and can be challenging on the way up due to the 2,000 feet of elevation gain to the top of Silver Star Mountain. The trailhead was filled with cars, although most of the foot traffic we encountered was on the way up as others were headed down. We like to hike in the afternoon for this very reason. We are both active/fit and didn’t stop on the way up except for once when nature called. Near the top, we encountered some snow (as was expected), but not nearly as much as the year prior. We finished the hike and were at the top of Silver Star Mountain. It was overcast with patches of sunlight, but no wind or rain and was generally pleasant. During that time, we were alone on the craggy peak and only a handful of other people were on the ridge to the south. The mountain is surrounded by valleys carving through the landscape on all sides. My girlfriend is in the medical field as was on call that day. She was digging through her backpack for her work phone to check voicemails (we had very limited service). I was rummaging through my pack for snacks. It was during this time that I heard the first series of very strange noises from the closest valley to the north. It was a distinct and loud “whoooo-ooop whooo-ooop”. The first “whoooo” segment of the noise was deep, with second “ooop” part having an extreme pitch change that I could not correlate to a known animal. I ask my girlfriend if she heard it, but she was preoccupied with her phone. It was around this time that a couple of other hikers showed up with their dog. We wanted to sit out on the rocks overlooking the views, so we moved slightly further down the ridge from them to a rock outcrop and ate some snacks and took photos (I can provide these photos for reference). In between conversation, the noise happened again from the same spot in the valley to the north. It was about 15 minutes from the first one. It was loud and filled the entire valley, giving me the feeling that it was a rather large animal. My girlfriend heard it this time and we both looked at each other puzzled. The other hikers behind us were carrying on conversation and didn’t seem to be paying attention to the noise, but their dog had kept going to the ridge and looking to the direction of the noise. We waited in silence to hear it again, but never did. We decided to head back down the trail. About halfway back down, the trail passes beneath Pyramid Rock. We had always wanted to scramble this rock to see the views and felt energized that day to do so. Pyramid Rock is comprised of loose talus and can be dangerous to climb. We picked our line going up the north side of the rock, which was rather steep, and came to a shallow cave toward the top. It was probably 20 feet wide and 20 feet high, but maybe only 10 feet deep. There were remnants of a campfire here, as well as a 4-foot wall or blind made of stacked rock around the entrance. After making it to the top, we decided we were hungry so we high-tailed it back home. Upon returning home, I decided to check BFRO for reports from Silver Star Mountain and found Reports #13115, #1652. These reports are from the exact area we were in. The photos included in Report #13115 were taken from the top of Silver Star Mountain where we were sitting and heard the noises. I would also like to note that the first few seconds of the Berry-Morehead “Whoops and Knocks” audio here on BFRO are nearly identical to what we heard that day.","The summit of Silver Star Mountain that we hiked to via the Grouse Vista Trailhead. Coordinates: 45.747963, -122.238859. See environment section below for more details on the location.","Skamania County","Washington","Spring","Report 65464: Vocalizations near the summit of Silver Star Mountain",45.74796,-122.2389,"2020-05-15",65464.0,"Class B","c21h62hm5j",52.54,48.525,44.51,40.02,0.88,0.65,0.8,0.0164,0.89,"snow",1020.0,"Snow (< 1 in.) in the morning.",6.0,6.371,249.0,3.44,"RES.SEASON"], [2259,3112,"I am a carpenter, self-employed; at times my job will be many miles away from my home. When I take one of these it fits my life style perfectly because I enjoy camping, so there is a perfectly good reason to be in my favorite place the great outdoors. This summer while at my tent home there was many times this strange sound could be heard. It was not like any I had heard before. The sound would awaken me, always after midnight. My camp sight was in a low part of a meadow. When I was awakened by the moans, I noticed the sound was one following the next ( moannnnnnn -- 1234-- moannnnnnn --- 1234 --- moannnnnnnn. The long hours I worked kept me from looking for any tracks, the weather had been very dry this summer. The camp was hidden under four trees in which had low hanging branches. Near by perhaps three hundred yards was a large forest. One day I went down a near by road which took me to the Tygart Valley River, nearly two miles away from camp. This was new to me. The forest and large rocks were on both sides of the road. There were no sounds during the day. A number of times there would be walking sounds near camp at night. I saw nothing with my flashlight.","Rt. 250 north between Belington and Philippi, Two miles from US 250","Barbour County","West Virginia","Summer","Report 13141: Possible vocalizations heard by camper near Tygart Valley River",39.05,-79.98335,"2005-05-30",13141.0,"Class B","dnzn5uvfsz",68.31,58.78,49.25,48.5,0.74,0.29,0.75,0.0011,1.0,"rain",1016.28,"Light rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",9.0,9.37,311.0,0.43,"RES.SEASON"], [2261,2507,"My partner and I were hunting the late deer hunt in Nov. We were hunting a blowdown area near a large stand of old growth timber. When we came up on some very large tracks not bear and not human. My partner and I both have been hunters and woodsman since we could barley walk. Neither of us had ever seen tracks like these. The strangest part was the woods became very silent, no birds nothing I looked at my partner and said I know something is watching us I got the same feeling I would get in VietNam. We never saw what made the track but we left the area very hastily.","Clearwater Wilderness area.","Pierce County","Washington","Winter","Report 1589: Two hunters find large track",47.05472,-121.8211,"1979-11-16",1589.0,"Class B","c237eyh9de",29.63,29.545,29.46,26.0,0.9,0.54,0.9,0.0015,1.0,"snow",1016.86,"Mixed precipitation in the afternoon and overnight.",1.0,4.48,92.0,8.4,"RES.SEASON"], [2262,665,"A friend of mine and myself went to Coshocton County Ohio. My friend has been deer hunting there for about 15 years and wanted to show me his tree stand along with the area he hunts. My friend took me to an area where there were the carcasses of at least 3 deer[all bones].He told me he had seen them there in this field next to the woods a couple years ago,along side of the scattered deer bones were about 7 fresh muskrat carcasses lined up in a straight row as if someone or something laid them all side by side. As we walked by this small lake near the edge of the deadend road I glanced to my left and noticed something that resembled a bees nest in a tree about 3ft off the ground, it was April 2001 so there were no leaves on the trees yet making the apparent bees nest stick out like a sore thumb. Upon looking a bit closer we found it not to be a bees nest but a few dead ducks hanging in the trees and scattered all over the area below the tree.It was a very eerie sight,very unnatural and spooky.The ducks had been twisted around tree limbs and were there for sometime based on the mummified remains, their necks were wedged into the crotch of the tree. We counted at least 12 dead ducks in the tree and on the ground.This was very weird, I did have my camcorder and videotaped the scene.Later in the year [this past fall] we returned to the area,the duck remains were still there but were quickly deteriorating, we also noticed more dead ducks further down the road on a hillside. These too had been wedged into the crotch of a tree about 6-7ft. off the ground this time. This I also videotaped. This is just very strange to see something like this, I'm not saying it was Bigfoot but this area is a real hotbed for sightings in Ohio. I just wonder if you have any other info on this and if you have ever heard of this before. Any input will be appreciated.","I was not driving and had never been there before so Im not even 100% on the county rd.name.It was on woodbury wildlife refuge [public hunting].","Coshocton County","Ohio","Spring","Report 3535: Two witnesses find animal carcasses in possible display arrangement, near Coshocton on the Woodbury Wildlife Refuge",40.25597,-82.1334,"2001-04-15",3535.0,"Class B","dpjt502k10",53.21,45.895,38.58,45.55,0.86,0.71,0.75,0.0517,1.0,"rain",1008.17,"Rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",5.0,7.22,14.0,4.49,"RES.SEASON"], [2270,4795,"The following on-site interview was conducted by Stan Courtney. The first name of the witness has been changed. Stan - Jim, can you explain what happened? Jim - When I was about 16 years old, myself and two friends were parked by the woods, weren't drinking or anything, which is an important factor there. I actually saw a hand come around a tree, like you were gripping a tree, or something, but a big furry hand. And being a kid I thought it was a werewolf, the first thing I thought. And I told my buddies and they looked but didn't see it a first. Not even a moment later a big, I didn't know what it was, a big furry head stuck around the corner, peeked at us, and went right back. It didn't charge us and it didn't move. And then we took off from there like wildfire, just flew out of there. But, that is something we never really talked about because we never knew what it was. Stan - What year would this have been? Jim - That would have been in about 1974. Stan - And in summer? Jim - Yes, it would be middle of summer. It was just one of those little Forest Reserve cutoffs where you pull-in, and your car is kind of almost in the woods. Stan - How tall was it? Jim - I would have to say eight foot range. The hand was up there high, that is what caught me off-guard. Stan - And what color was it? Jim - It was a blackish-brown, I just remember seeing a big hand. You would almost mistake it for a gorilla-type thing. It is something that is not natural in Illinois. Stan - And were you able to see the face? Jim - Yeah, have you ever played peek-a-boo with the kids? You know how you do that? It was kind of like that, it stuck around the corner and went right back. I just remember it wasn't a person, eight foot tall and it was all furry, but it wasn't a gorilla face. We thought it was a werewolf, because we were all kids.","The road is abandoned now but at that time in 1974 was Bachelor Grove Road west of Ridgeland Road and north of 143rd Street. This is three and half miles west of Midlothian. It was about one half mile north of 143rd Street.","Cook County","Illinois","Summer","Report 45041: Man recalls possibly seeing a bigfoot playing peek-a-boo in headlights while parked west of Midlothian",41.63289,-87.79683,"2014-05-14",45041.0,"Class B","dp3sf5h31t",55.2,48.485,41.77,42.3,0.7,0.91,0.49,0.0005,0.46,"rain",1019.94,"Light rain overnight.",5.0,7.57,8.0,4.0,"RES.SEASON"], [2275,1007,"I lived in Welches, Oregon. I am 42 yr old now. This was 2 1/2 years ago, in November 2003. I was living in an apartment over a garage overlooking the Salmon River. At around 6pm there was a large bang on my front door. The door was locked, thank goodness. I called 911 and told them that something banged on my door, and I was alone and scared. I lived right next to the Mt. Hood National Forest. No families lived there in the winter time. If something happened to me no one would hear me scream. I heard grunting. I looked out onto my deck, through the windows and I saw those eyes. It had to be huge animal. It was there watching me and I was watching it. It blinked its eyes, but it was like the animal was frozen with its eyes set on me. It had a furry head. It took 3 hours for the police to show up. They came in on foot, from down the road, but did not see anything when they looked around.","Elk Park Road, Welches, Or 97067.","Clackamas County","Oregon","Winter","Report 14841: Possible approach to a property on the edge of the Salmon Huckleberry Wilderness",45.3207,-121.9547,"2003-02-15",14841.0,"Class B","c213bf7k1w",46.59,42.865,39.14,38.76,0.85,0.86,0.45,0.0242,1.0,"rain",1008.48,"Rain until afternoon, starting again in the evening.",2.0,8.15,91.0,3.05,"RES.SEASON"], [2288,3961,"Me and my mother were in the kitchen washing dishes around 11:30p.m. around thanksgiving 2004. We heard a loud BANG! on the far side of the house . Me and my mother just looked at each other and I said what was that! so we went to the location were we heard the noise and I witnessed ,a BIG shadow larger than a human moving by the window. I estimate aroud 7/1/2 - 8ft ft tall.After the incident I went upstairs and my mother told me the next morning that she felt like she was being watched for about 3 hrs. and was quite unerved by the whole thing. ---------------- [From the aunt of the witness above, who lives roughly one mile away, bordering the same stretch of woods:] It was late June around 3:00A.M. it was hot humid night being a sound sleeper, I was awakened by a loud sound, one I have never heard in my life I live near a State forest called Salmon River State park in East Hampton CT, for almost 25 years. I know all the animal sounds , as I am an animal lover, avid hiker and camper . I have never heard such an animal sound like this It was an incredible kind of screaming. It lasted for several minutes. The closest I have ever heard was on your site. I live in Moodus Ct, in Middlesex County.","Middlesex county","Middlesex County","Connecticut","Winter","Report 13585: Possible activity near Salmon River State Forest",41.51105,-72.46315,"2006-01-17",13585.0,"Class B","drkkphcgqh",37.88,36.6,35.32,16.2,0.62,0.34,0.6,0.0003,0.36,"snow",1021.04,"Rain overnight.",2.0,10.0,85.0,0.57,"RES.SEASON"], [2294,990,"My wife and I love to take our three young children on small treks (we usually hike 3-5 miles). We live very close to Silver Falls, but wanted to venture out a bit more. We read about Mary's Peak, just outside of Philomath and thought we'd give it a try. The following is what my wife wrote in her blog last night. Here is the link, where you can find some pictures of the area we hiked http://tleraadventures.blogspot.com/ Here's what she wrote: We were disappointed to find it incredibly foggy, since it is the highest point on the coastal range, and we had our hearts set on a spectacular view. As it turned out, the fog made the dense forest section of our hike even more interesting and gorgeous. All of the plants and trees were damp and dripping from the condensation, and the clouds were swirling around us at times- absolutely breathtaking! It was very secluded, and simply serene. About half way through our hike, we heard a UAS (Unidentified Animal Sound). The best way I can describe it is to say that it was a short, deep, guttural whooping sound. Whatever it was, was clearly rather too close for our liking. We weren't really frightened, but we were unnerved enough to take safety precautions. I stopped taking pictures, and Travis & I insisted that the kids walk between us in a tight group for the remainder of the hike. The sound came and went, and at one point it became clear that there were at least two of whatever-they-were, because we realized that not all of the sounds were coming from the same direction. They were alternating, as if they were communicating. It all continued for about 40 minutes, sometimes louder and closer, other times quieter, and obviously farther away as we continued to climb the trail. Eventually, the sounds ceased altogether, and we relaxed when we finally made it out of the forest section and back into the open.","Mary's Peak. We parked in the large parking area and walked the inner trails through the forest.","Benton County","Oregon","Summer","Report 26137: Family hears whooping sounds while hiking Marys Peak",44.50455,-123.5524,"2009-06-13",26137.0,"Class B","9rbjhmzcu3",56.49,50.19,43.89,48.89,1.0,0.89,0.68,0.0092,0.92,"rain",1013.92,"Rain in the morning.",5.0,8.66,307.0,1.08,"RES.SEASON"], [2298,1124,"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 particular morning, I think it was around 0900, only one of my friends was able to accompany me into the woods. We followed our normal trail to the rim of Curry Hollow, which was about 400yds into the woods. We strung some ropes, and went down the incline. It was steep enough that the ropes were necessary. When we got to the floor of the hollow we started walking through a section of woods that we hadn’t checked out yet. Mostly we were just wandering, and seeing what was in the area. At that time of my life I had a started developing an interest in the outdoors and wildlife, so whenever we were in the woods I tried to make sure we were quiet enough not to scare away any animals. We all enjoyed trying to track the different species in the area. In our wanderings we had found raccoon dens, snake and bird nests and even tracked a few deer through the trees and brush so when we saw the animal stand up in front of us we knew instantly that this was something different. We were coming up on a deadfall that had been covered over with vines and surrounded by small saplings since it had fallen. We started to go around the fallen tree (it was approx. 80 to 100 feet long and 2 ½ feet wide and the crown caused it to be about three to four feet off the ground) and had made it to the base when we both spotted a humped shape covered with brown hair or fur. The shape was about 10 feet in front of us and was close to a tangle of vines and brush. We both froze and just stared. We had both been told that though they were rare in the area, some people had seen bear in and around these woods. And that’s what we thought it was, and we knew we were to close. Thinking it might be injured since was so still, I decided we should go home and let my father know a local cop know about it. I glanced to my friend and motioned to him that we should go back the way we came. We had just started to turn when the shaped stood up and took off running. When it stood, we saw was that it was at least 2 feet taller than us. At the time we were both around 5’ 5”. When it started running was when I got scared, it was on two legs. It cleared a good 20yds through the brush in what seemed like a split second. We instantly took off the other way and didn’t stop until we had made it up the rope and out of the woods. We didn't discuss it at the time. Later that week we talked and told some friends, and few days later we went back to the area with 3 more people. We found the tangle of brush the figure was behind and saw a large clear space, the size of which a small family of deer would have made, but there were no tracks, neither foot-prints or hoof-prints. The ground cover was a thick mat of leaves over the entire area. We noticed nothing else out of the ordinary. At that time I had seen bears in the zoo and on nature programs. And had seen them stand up on two legs. This was not a bear. It moved too fast and did it upright. And it certainly wasn’t a deer, or a big dog or anything else I had ever seen outside of a movie. When the figure stood up it was a good 2 feet taller than us so that would put it around 7'5\". It had it's back to us and I got a good perspective of it's bulk. It was muscled but not fat like a bear. And it had sloping shoulders. That was all I saw. I started running around that time. I've read about a foul smell others have noticed during their encounters, but I noticed nothing like this. It did make a lot of noise as it ran, crashing thru the brush and trees. It ran in the direction of road which splits the hollow in half. The other side of the hollow has less steeply angled sides and would have been much easier to climb. Plus there was more wooded area on that side of the hollow. I have never spoken to anyone about this since that summer. I knew no one who would have believed me.","Curry hollow is a steep sided valley the leads from the Monongahela river and Route 837 in Dravosburg to Lebanon Church Road and the Allegheny County Airport in West Mifflin. It passes below the Irwin Works steel processing plant. At the time of the sighting it was a medium to densely wooded area with a gravel road running parralel to a small stream that fed into the river. The sighting accured on the downhill side of the large train bridge that crosses the hollow and leads to the steel processing plant.","Allegheny County","Pennsylvania","Summer","Report 11228: Two teenagers have a surprise encounter in mid - 80's",40.357,-79.8765,"1985-06-15",11228.0,"Class A","dppjw6g8wd",70.78,65.215,59.65,48.57,0.6,0.85,0.91,0.0026,1.0,"rain",1016.34,"Light rain in the evening.",5.0,8.38,155.0,4.91,"RES.SEASON"], [2300,212,"My wife and I were hiking at Wildcat Ridge Wildlife Management Area in northwestern New Jersey on the afternoon of March 11th 2006. We were heading towards the hawk lookout when I began to hear what sounded like wood knocks coming from behind us to the east. I decided to knock back to see what would happen. I had my Panasonic Digital IC recorder model RR-US360 with me. I knocked while my wife recorded. This happened at approximately 1:30 PM in the afternoon. I have been hiking this area for a few months now and have come across some interesting stick structures. I later found out from a neighbor that lived in the area his entire life that there are caves and mines on the side where the knocks were coming from. Could it be Sasquatch? I do not know for sure, but I cannot think of anything else making these wood knocks and stick structures.","Wildcat Ridge","Morris County","New Jersey","Winter","Report 21977: Possible Wood Knock Interaction at Wildcat Ridge near Rockaway",40.9427,-74.46155,"2007-11-09",21977.0,"Class B","dr70ct6u80",42.03,37.925,33.82,31.21,0.83,0.74,0.98,0.0042,0.88,"rain",1019.85,"Light rain in the evening and overnight.",2.0,8.64,17.0,0.95,"RES.SEASON"], [2311,688,"My sighting happened on November 21, 2002, on or about 7:30am in Catoosa, Rogers County, Oklahoma. I work in a dental office, and happened to look out of the window and saw what I automatically knew was a bigfoot/sasquatch, walking beside an abandoned house. It was very dark brown or nearly black, thick neck with broad shoulders,and had a wide skull, it was at least 7ft.tall. I only saw the backside of the animal. I can best describe it as primate looking animal that stood more upright than a gorilla but somewhat stooped, it slowly swung its arms, and had a slight knee bend.","1755 NORTH HIGHWAY 66, CATOOSA, OKLAHOMA","Rogers County","Oklahoma","Fall","Report 7062: Woman has sighting through dental office window.",36.18889,-95.74556,"2003-10-09",7062.0,"Class A","9y7vv7bpwd",77.82,67.185,56.55,64.82,0.85,0.75,0.48,0.0558,1.0,"rain",1012.09,"Heavy rain in the morning and afternoon.",5.0,7.98,61.0,2.32,"RES.SEASON"], [2318,3177,"I have hiked the Appalachian Trail Georgia to Hanover NH ( 2006-Present ), I am a section hiker. While staying at The Tom Leonard Selter,East Mtn State Park Mass.I had an incident. While solo camping at the shelter I decided to call a big foot in. Or try, it was a erie evening, i went to get water it was a long way down. While I had a feeling something was watching me. It was getting dark...uneventfully I hiked back. I made a big fire that lasted for three hours, made alot of noise. Did a couple Bigfoot calls. A whoop whoop type. A wood knock ( no return ). A local plane saw my smoke and buzzed right over my camp site. After a great meal, some singing, i went to bed on the TOP bunk. I always sleep with one eye and ear open. At 2:30am I heard a solid Wood Knock followed immediatley by a tree gettintg pushed over. It did not crash . It sounded dead and not tall... \" Wood Knock then a Thud \", after that nothing. 1/2 hour later I was back to sleep.","South Of Tyringham, Mass north of Great Barrington Mass","Berkshire County","Massachusetts","Fall","Report 56293: Another possible encounter along Appalachian Trail",42.07867,-73.38644,"2015-09-11",56293.0,"Class B","dr7z6h1wh0",75.7,65.36,55.02,61.13,0.86,0.67,0.95,0.0072,1.0,"rain",1007.45,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",5.0,9.33,358.0,1.1,"RES.SEASON"], [2334,2736,"I am the brother In-Law of the person who told me they had an experience back in the early 70's. My brother In-Law told me it bothered him for at least a year after he saw something. Strangely enough,I have reported a sighting my family had in 1994 in Wyoming.This was reported in your February 2001 listing under new sightings. My brother In Law Dan, told me of his experience after I told him that I reported mine to BFRO! Dan's story goes like this: He had gone up to visit some people camping in a trailer. As he arrived and turned off his motorcycle engine, he observed something dark in color moving on an open hillside below a timber line. There was snow on the ground, it was getting towards dusk and it was a little foggy.The thing was two hundred and fifty yards away approximately. As Dan observed this thing, he noticed it was quite tall, seven feet or more in height. This thing let Dan know that he saw Dan by looking back directly at Dan, as he continued walking uphill towards the timber. He looked back at Dan several times without breaking his stride. His stride was long, longer than a man's, and was effortless as he walked through the snow. Dan thought, what kind of a man would be wearing a dark hairy suite that covered his entire body, out in the forest? Dan also noticed that this thing was much bigger than any man he has seen and it's build was very big! Dan felt it could weigh a good six hundred pounds or so. This creature disappeared into the timber. Dan knew he had seen something very unusual and he was aware of Big Foot sightings in the news. He just let his story go all these years until I am now reporting it to you. ","Will need to talk to Dan to get the details, he can give them to you.","Chelan County","Washington","Winter","Report 2070: Two men see something walk up and over ridge behind home",47.35305,-120.2955,"2004-10-17",2070.0,"Class A","c26mqs77x8",49.13,44.69,40.25,44.76,0.92,0.88,0.13,0.0157,1.0,"rain",993.41,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",2.0,9.35,321.0,0.76,"RES.SEASON"], [2341,2749,"Arrived on 4/20 (and no we are not pot people) at a rental cabin two miles from downtown Leavenworth. First night heard a wood knock as we were going to be about 10 pm. Did not think much of it other than odd and startled me. Next evening we were in the hot tub about 8pm, still light out, and my husband heard two wood knocks. I discounted it stating likely deer etc. About hour later he went out to our car and heard another knock. At this point I started to think maybe it was a Bigfoot but actually hoping not. I went to bed around 10 pm and shortly after I got into bed and still wide awake I heard loud rock hitting side of the wall behind my head and then heard another less loud rock sound hitting the wall of the bedroom next to me on same wall side. In the morning I went out to see if I could find the rocks and believe I did. There are not that many rocks on the ground and the ones that were were embedded into the ground. Two rocks were lying on top of the ground and did not appear that they had been there long in the weather. There was a bigger rock on my bedroom side and a smaller one on the other side.","Bear Paw rental cabin of Comfy Cabins. Lots of woods behind the cabin but still pretty close to a main road and another house currently empty in front of this one. Houses are all around this road and area but plenty of woods in between. [Investigator (MJM) Note: Here is the address of the cabin: 11142 Eagle Creek Road , Leavenworth, WA 98826]","Chelan County","Washington","Spring","Report 69049: Cabin renters report wood knocks and rock throwing near Leavenworth",47.64581,-120.607,"2021-05-21",69049.0,"Class B","c26pp98svn",63.89,53.275,42.66,41.72,0.71,0.52,0.33,0.0028,0.2,"rain",1019.2,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,10.0,329.0,5.21,"RES.SEASON"], [2345,4940,"Part of my travel route to work is along Kentucky State Route 164 from Kentucky State Route 807 to U.S. Route 68 at Canton, KY in Trigg County. I was driving along jamming on the radio, but looking for deer. Deer are constantly running out in front of vehicles and causing accidents. So I try to stay alert for the deer. On this day I saw much more that I bargained for. There on the side of the road in the edge of the woods was a bigfoot. It was just standing there watching me drive by. It did not seem violent or mean spirited. It was at least 10 feet tall and covered with thick black hair. I've watched for it every since then and have yet to see it again.","It was on Kentucky State Route 164 between mile markers 3 and 4.","Trigg County","Kentucky","Summer","Report 13289: Daytime sighting near Canton on State Route 164",36.75139,-87.89472,"2005-07-15",13289.0,"Class A","dn93pfmh2e",82.73,77.565,72.4,72.44,0.9,0.58,0.29,0.0049,0.74,"rain",1012.72,"Foggy in the morning and humid throughout the day.",7.0,3.26,224.0,0.72,"RES.SEASON"], [2347,4044,"While bicycling on the Van Fleet trail on the North End, I saw 2 \"humans\" cross the trail about 200 yards ahead of me. They were both dark brown color from head to toe. The 1st was tall and quite big, well over 6 feet. The second was smaller and much lighter. Long arms and large head. They walked onto the tar trail, paused briefly to look at me coming, then ran off the trail. When I got to the spot they crossed, there was no trail to hike or run on and a very steep bank on the side they left on. It didn't take long to get to the spot, but they had completely gone out of sight. This trail goes through the Green Swamp, so there is not much around the area except swamp. It looked so much like Bigfoots, that I figured it must be a hoax.","1 mile south of the Lake County line (power line)","Polk County","Florida","Summer","Report 41309: Possible daylight sighting by a bicyclist on the General James A. Van Fleet State Trail",28.525,-81.95499,"2013-04-29",41309.0,"Class B","djjdr0f4nm",85.32,76.705,68.09,64.13,0.71,0.43,0.64,0.0002,0.05,"rain",1015.89,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",9.0,10.0,187.0,1.12,"RES.SEASON"], [2370,652,"Just wanted to say I was glad to find this web site! Had two encounters personally and it's nice to have someone that doesn't dismiss you as a nut! Lived on family farm ... a bigfoot came to the back of my mobile home and stood outside my screen window.....stayed there for 1 - 2 minutes - cavernous breathing, most terrifying , petrifying moment of my life ....long story, I'm at work now, at the time called the University of Pennsylvania who referred me to Grover Krantz at the University of Washington State....He received a detailed report and was plotting sightings in the area.....","USA - Ohio - Columbiana - Duke Vodrey Rd. above Beaver Creek","Columbiana County","Ohio","Summer","Report 4306: Sighting at a home on Duke Vodrey Rd., above Beaver Creek.",40.76533,-80.55217,"1980-06-01",4306.0,"Class A","dpnxyvpeq2",77.86,71.38,64.9,61.14,0.82,0.58,0.59,0.0034,1.0,"rain",1014.24,"Light rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",7.0,4.6,188.0,4.93,"RES.SEASON"], [2385,475,"I just read of a woman whom now is 39 and her sighting was in 1976. That blew me away, my sighting was the same year. I was 12 years old when my parents built our house right next to my grandparents, and then over a foot bridge to my great grandparents house. I had free run of the properties. They went all the way to I-76, Greenwich Road, and just down the road was Route 57. I was a child who basically tested the waters. I can remember it was warm out, sunny, the leaves were falling since we were heading into fall, the air smelled of leaves. I was standing on my great grandparents property. With permission, I could basically go all the way back to the highway, usually with a friend. I was told never to go further then great granny's woodline. That day I went further past her woodline into the woods that was on the right hand side of the house. Through the woods was another families home. I started walking through the forbidden path and about half way through is when I saw something brown and hairy in a squatting position. At first, I thought it was a dog. Then it stood up! It was at least seven feet tall or more. I stood there in a frozen position and stared at it. I ran before it could turn around. I was in total fear. The back was covered in hair, the arms hung down, it had very broad shoulders, the body was covered in brown hair. I stumbled across this website, and still felt kinda shy about telling people, but that is my story.","From Wadsworth, take College Street west until it turns into Greenwich Road. Our property was on the right hand side. If you hit Mennonite Road, you went to far.","Medina County","Ohio","Fall","Report 8587: A childhood encounter just outside of Wadsworth, Ohio",41.02572,-81.77677,"1976-09-01",8587.0,"Class A","dpmc7hebph",72.88,64.445,56.01,57.73,0.74,0.83,0.27,0.0003,0.29,"rain",1018.21,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,7.65,231.0,5.72,"RES.SEASON"], [2388,2234,"On a recent backpack trip in the Marsh Peak/Twin Lake area of the High Uintahs in Utah I and several others in the party noticed the obvious lack of small birds, chipmunks, deer and other small wild life. On the morning of the second day shortly after our camp became active with the days preparation for more hiking we heard whooping sounds coming from up the trail where we assumed there was another group of hikers. The whoops matched one sound bites found on this web sight. As it turns out we were the only group hiking in that area at that time as we found no trace of other visitors in the area during our time there.","We were camped at the lower Twin lake east of Marsh peak and north of Paradise park resevoir. We hiked in on trail 075 and trail 050 from Paradise park.","Uintah County","Utah","Summer","Report 12289: Possible early morning vocalizations in the Uinta mountains.",40.65,-110.0,"2005-08-02",12289.0,"Class B","9x1z2bh7qj",62.08,53.585,45.09,50.25,0.87,0.32,0.93,0.0003,0.7,"rain",1015.68,"Overcast in the morning.",11.0,10.0,188.0,0.73,"RES.SEASON"], [2394,504,"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 adjoins Dillon State Park, which is 2,285 acres of state ground. Both my friend and I are experienced woodsmen and hunters, in having been in nature our whole lives. We are confident in our knowledge of animals, their behavior, and calls. This compiling of events at times left us confused, awestruck and at a loss for words. We both went into the woods with the understanding that there are some things that cannot be explained or fully understood yet. However, we left our trip with a much greater understanding than we thought imaginable when planning this trip. 12/1/15 Tuesday Just after dusk. Light rain and no wind. We heard a large tree knocked over in the woods. There was no wind or outside influence that should have caused the tree to crash down. About 30-45 minutes later, we heard a second tree fall, which sounded larger. Around 8pm we began to hear tree knocks coming from 3 different locations simultaneously. The first 2 sounded like someone hitting 2x4’s together. The 3rd on the other hand was much louder. It sounded like someone hit the tree with a very large Louisville Slugger. Around 10pm, we heard what sounded like someone walking through the woods whistling. It was a human-like whistle, but we were the only people around. At about 3am, my friend stepped out of the camper to use the bathroom. Upon walking outside, he heard another loud tree knock from the 3rd location as before. 12/2/15 Wednesday We hunted all day and returned to camp. After dark, the tree knocks began. This time it was only 2 locations. Around 10 to 10:30pm we began to hear whooping sounds coming off of a ridge about a ¼ of a mile away. Still inside the camper, the sounds were so loud we could feel them. The whoops lasted 15-20 seconds without pause. Within 5 minutes we heard the call again, but this time the duration of the call was shorter. We stepped outside of the camper to get a better sound quality and then heard a 3rd set of whoops, this time so loud the calls could be felt in your chest. When these calls were finally finished the woods and entire area around us went quiet. Not a sound. Just as the night before we continued to hear wood knocks. Also noted we could hear something banging/ beating on cars in the junkyard below our camp site. At times it was so loud whatever this was seemed to be upset and trying to rip off a car door. The junkyard is inaccessible at night. Just as the night before my friend awoke around 3am to use the bathroom and upon stepping out of the camper was confronted with a very loud knock from the same area as the night before. 12/3/15 Thursday The evening was quiet until about 9-9:30pm. Out of the blue, we heard a very long, very deep, aggressive almost tarzan like yell coming from the same ridge as the whoops the night before. This brought a chill down our spines it was so loud. It was long and powerful and lasted a solid 20 seconds. Trees knocks continued from the same areas as previous nights almost like we were being observed all evening. They were lesser in frequency on this evening however. About an hour later we began to hear coyotes yipping near the same ridge as all the calls have been coming from. There was an answer to the coyotes, which was similar but definitely not a coyote. The tone and pitch were different and it was much louder. It was very bone chilling to say the least. Shortly after this we could hear growling sounding like it was coming from just outside the camper. We loaded our guns and prepared for an encounter with whatever was out there. We stepped out with a bright flashlight but we could not spot anything. The tree knocks continued until we went to bed. 12/4/15 Friday Sitting around the fire around 9pm, we heard another tarzan yell, this time it was on a further ridge. Guessing around a ½ to ¾ of a mile away. It was long and as loud of a call as the evening before, just further off in the distance. It was quiet again until about 9:45. From the lake and waterway about a ¼ to ½ mile away, we heard a blood curdling high pitched scream. Also by the water way is a long set of rail road tracks that I wanted to note of here. From this point on we heard screams every 5 seconds. The screams progressively came closer and closer, moving down the creek bottom between the two large ridges. In no more than 30-60 seconds, the screaming had moved from the waterway again about a ¼ to ½ a mile away to what sounded like 100 to 150 yards away at the tree line. About 10 to 15 seconds later we heard what sounded like someone or something jumping on the hood of a car and over the 8ft tall (give or take) junkyard fence, clipping it as it went over. This was astonishing because in this 10 to 15 seconds of time this thing moved through 400 yards of heavy cover. I do not know of any person or animal that could do this that would also be responsible for these noises. A few minutes after all of this commotion, we heard the same blood curdling screams coming off the ridge behind us as all of the screams as the nights before. 12/5/15 Saturday We set up a two man deer drive for the morning down the same ridges and holler from where the screams the night before were moving through. Moving as quickly as possible, it still took me an hour to cover and navigate the same ground as the high pitched screaming the night before. We decided to check out the area around the waterway for tracks to try and confirm what we thought we had been hearing throughout the week. At one end of the spillway, the water had receded to depths of only about 4 inches. There were nearly 20 tracks coming from the main ravine and rail road tracks and into the shallow end of the spillway. They all enter at the same place but veer off in 3 different directions. The tracks appeared to be 14-16 inches in length, 3-4 inches at the heel and 6 to 8 inches at the toe. This creature appeared to have a stride of nearly or about 5ft toe to toe. My friend documented these as pictures on his cell phone. Upon further investigation we found more tracks 20-30 yards away in the sand on the bank. We took pictures of these as well. One set was slightly smaller but when up next to my 11 ½ size hunting boot it dwarfed my feet in comparison. We found another, larger track near these. This footprint was 16-18 inches long at least 4 inches at the heel and 8 inches or more at the toes. It was an older track but still stood out to us. We have a clear picture of this track up against my friends size 13 hunting boot and this track just swallowed it. These impressions sunk deeper than anything my friend or myself could recreate, and we are not small men at 210 and 185 lbs respectively. Investigating the bank line we could see multiple shellfish that had been eaten (potential secondary food source to all of the gut piles and wounded deer from gun season) There were no other animal tracks in the area that would have been known to be feeding on these aka raccoons. Also noted we noticed multiple footprints that looked to be from a child barefoot. These looked fresh. Why someone would let their child run around barefoot in December in cold water and mud is beyond me? Still not sure what to make of this. 12/6/15 Monday Upon returning home I spoke to my girlfriend about what had gone on during our hunting trip and finding the tracks and she was mind blown and interested. Since the tracks were on public land and deer gun season was over I know it would be safe to take her down to the water and show her the tracks and let her see the area. First I took her down to a sand bar to show her an angle I had at a nice deer on Wednesday. When we got down there she said wow bigfoot. When we looked down there was a fresh set of tracks in the 14-16 inch range very similar to the other ones noted already. They were so fresh you could see where the mud had squished up between its toes. She took pictures on her phone with her feet next to them as reference. I then took her over to the sandy bank and showed her the tracks my friend and I had found to get a second set of pictures. Upon getting over there we found another type of track. It was roughly 14 inches in length but appeared to have severe hammer toe and or arthritis. It was roughly 4 inches at the heel and roughly 8 inches at the toes. We took pictures of this track as well. When exploring near the wood line I noticed how a very large creature had been moving through there. I found a large impression in the leaves. I began to remove them to get a better look at what was below. We found what appears to be very very large footprints. These were between 20 and 24 inches in length, well over 5 inches at the heel, and 10 to 12 inches at the toe. A picture was also taken of this impression. Upon seeing these the feeling of being watched began to overwhelm my girlfriend and we quietly left the area. At the end of this trip we left with some astounding experiences and a sense of shock. However, we both feel this is not a series of coincidences or random actions. Given our encounters and physical evidence which we were able to document, we strongly feel there is one explanation Bigfoot. Being experienced trackers, we feel these creatures are using the railroad tracks as a highway to come and go with minimal trace. Our interactions this week led two outdoorsmen who are very comfortable in uninhabited woods to sleep with loaded guns within arm’s reach. Each of us there will think twice before staying or wondering near or in nearly untouched woods at night alone. Although we did not get a visual, we fully believe this creature is large, athletic and completely in its element in the woods at dark.","Just south of State Rte 16 off of 146, North of Dillon State Park","Muskingum County","Ohio","Fall","Report 50393: Two deer hunters experience a likely week-long encounter near Nashport",40.01209,-82.13298,"2015-12-01",50393.0,"Class B","dpjee5bx6f",58.61,49.165,39.72,49.46,0.96,0.84,0.7,0.0063,0.86,"rain",1012.79,"Light rain in the afternoon.",2.0,2.13,199.0,0.76,"RES.SEASON"], [2403,2405,"Our family was coming home down I-5 from visiting our daughter in PeEll. It was a very warm spring day, discount that we have estimated in May 2000. We were traveling south bound just from the on ramp. We saw a very large figure crossing the rail road tracks. It was probably 8' or 8 1/2' tall. It moved gracefully across the rail road tracks. At first I thought it was a man dressed up in a dark brown fur suit. Some one said, \"Did you see that?\" and then the 3 of us started trying to rationalize what we had seen. Almost at the same time we said that was a Big Foot! We have never told anyone about this until today at the Onalaska Sportsman Show. We saw the BFRO exhibit and my husband talked to Kevin Lindley, next thing I know we were sitting down telling our story. We have really tried to discount the idea that it was something else we saw, but we know what it was, a Big Foot. He was large, long arms, dark brown fur from head to toe. It was in the area of the steam train, but the other tracks that the AM Trak travels.","The tracks at I-5 as you are going accross the bridge between hwy 6 and 13th street exit. The tracks that Am Trak travels. There are trees and bushes along both sides of the tracks.","Lewis County","Washington","Spring","Report 4737: Afternoon sighting by family on I-5 near Chehalis",46.6622,-122.9627,"2001-05-13",4737.0,"Class A","c2293yt712",67.37,57.56,47.75,46.6,0.74,0.86,0.7,0.0005,1.0,"rain",1015.77,"Light rain in the morning.",5.0,9.56,206.0,4.45,"RES.SEASON"], [2410,4758,"Hi, I am 47 years old and I am a truck driver. I had an eye witness of something yesterday January 16 2013 in Clark Co. Ill. I was driving down I-70 east bound around 7:30 am when I noticed something in the field about 200-300 yards away. It was black in color, fairly big but seemed to be squatted down with its back to me. At first I thought it was a bear but as I got closer its form resembled more of an ape like form. Then before I passed it, it began to move away toward the woods. As it moved it was moving like if you were to squat down and then try to walk while squatted. I can't say that it was a big foot but I have no other explanation for it. I have been hunting since I was 15 years old and I have seen a lot of animals but I have never seen anything like this and the way it moved.","Approximately at the 144 milepost along I-70 near Marshall.","Clark County","Illinois","Winter","Report 39084: Semi truck driver on I-70 observes a large ape-like creature in a field near Marshall",39.40458,-87.7313,"2013-01-16",39084.0,"Class B","dp185tkh2d",34.54,32.485,30.43,23.71,0.8,0.49,0.18,0.0004,0.37,"snow",1018.89,"Mostly cloudy starting in the evening.",2.0,9.44,224.0,2.79,"RES.SEASON"], [2411,2691,"My husbands parents, uncle and and three others bought a piece of river property in 1972. It has been used continuously since then, mostly by Uncle. We use it once in a while as does my SIL and her family and one other family’s grandkids. Although the road is right next to the property, the property sits about 30’ below it in river bottom. There is a creek at the north end of the property, about 200 feet from where our rig was parked. That creek runs out to another creek that is part of the river and creates an island that used to be part of the property. It is very secluded. The summer of 2018, my sister-in-law and her (adult) kids had been camping out at the property on several occasions, cleaning out trees and undergrowth, as they had bought trailers and needed to do a bit of landscaping to get their rigs in there. My husband had a load of crushed gravel taken out there in 2009 that we used to put in the fire pit area and bolster the ground as we had a trailer at the time and needed a place to set up camp without sinking into the mud up to our axels. We had spent almost every weekend that summer out there. There was still quite a mound left, so SIL used that gravel to cover the area (nobody had used that area of the property on a regular basis for about 9 years at that point). She also made a sweet little walk-way from the fire pit to one of the camp spaces about 40 feet away. On the weekend of August 18-19, 2018 we were camping at the property. One of my step-son’s was up visiting from Texas and my husband wanted to have a BBQ for him and our daughter-in-law with the family. We took our motorhome out to the property on Saturday afternoon and met my SIL and BIL who had gone out the night before in their rig. We stayed up talking til about 9:30PM. Then right after dark I went into the m/h, my husband came in about 30 minutes later, his sister went into their trailer about the same time, then I heard our BIL go in about 10:15 PM. I had a window open as it was a pretty warm night, and the shade up about 5” and their door was open, so I could hear (and see the flickering light) that he was watching a movie, as was I. Our rigs were parked about 70’ apart with a few scraggly, leggy plants and the large fire pit area between us, but otherwise an unimpeded view. My husband had gone to bed at the back end of the M/H. I sat up at the dinette until about 12:15am, finally deciding that I was sleepy enough to go to bed. I closed and locked the window and the shade, made sure all the doors were locked, got into my jammys and got into bed. My husband was sound asleep, as was our 6 month old Golden Retriever puppy. Within 3 minutes my brain was settled enough to begin dozing off. Suddenly… Bang…Bang…Bang!!! It sounded like 2 baseball bats being slammed together, about 3 seconds apart! It seemed like it was coming from the rivers’ edge, or closer? 60 feet, 100 feet away. I didn’t know. Pretty close! My eyes flew Wide open staring into the pitch black room!! I KNEW instantly what that was!!! 15 seconds went by… nothing, so I was closing my eyes. Then… Bang…Bang…Bang!!! It sounded like it came from up the creek, maybe a hundred yards. I don’t really know.. on the island? Oh Sh.., there are Two of them!! 15 more seconds went by (yes! I was counting!! My Navy training kicking in) Bang…Bang…Bang!!! The closer one again. Another 15 seconds… Bang…Bang…Bang!!! Up the creek My heart was pounding so hard, I was afraid that it might literally explode!! Caught in the pitch black woods in my fiberglass box!!! Are the doors lock? Are the shades drawn? Did I close all the windows? Can they rip the doors open?! Would they smash in the windows?!!! Would the family find us dangling from tree branches tomorrow afternoon? Did “B” hear it and shut their door? It was so loud! He must have heard it!! I can’t call him, we have no cell service down in this gawd-forsaken hole!!! Next thing I know…it’s 8AM Sunday morning.. How the heck did that happen?! After all that banging and fear I thought I would be awake all night!! Nope, I fell right to sleep!!! Strange thing for me to do in light of the fear and emotion running around in my little chicken brain!!! I peaked out the windows..nothing. Oh! There’s my SIL sitting at the campfire. I put on a pot of coffee and walked over to visit her for a few minutes. I asked her if she heard any noises last night. No, she didn’t, but she sleeps like a log she said (so does her brother). Well, that is strange. I KNOW that happened before I fell asleep, I KNOW IT! I had only been in bed a couple minutes. I wasn’t even asleep yet! So, I headed back over to our rig to start breakfast. And THERE IT WAS!! MY PROOF!! That I was not insane and hearing things!! Half way between the fire pit and our door, right at the edge of the little gravel walkway was a lone footprint!! About 15” long. About 6” wide at the ball, the dirt was mounded at the metatarsal break and the heel was square. I had seen that same foot 17 years before, out on the sandbar, when it was only about 4” long!!! OMG!!! I was thrilled to pieces!! But freaked out at the same time! I went to the rig, grabbed my cell phone and took 3 good pictures. I’m so glad I did too! Later that afternoon, people started showing up and I showed it to everyone. I took my nephew over to look at it and my golden girl followed us, we were looking at the footprint, when she decided to lay right down next to it (for a tummy rub) and wiped it out with her tail!!! Oh man, that was horrible to see! I knew they were there, but now I have my own proof!","[Near the confluence of Kenny Creek and the North Fork of Nooksack River]","Whatcom County","Washington","Summer","Report 65641: Knocks north of Welcome along North Fork of Nooksack River",48.84984,-122.1455,"2017-08-19",65641.0,"Class B","c29jusb6gw",73.9,61.825,49.75,51.64,0.68,0.45,0.94,0.0003,0.04,"rain",1021.6,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,5.428,235.0,2.91,"RES.SEASON"], [2418,636,"I saw a tall dark figure walking with very long strides. It was about seven feet tall or taller. It was walking in the distance so I didn't get that close of a look at it. It had very long arms, much longer than a human's. There was a very bad smell after it had passed, not like anything I had ever smelled before.","It was locate about 20 minutes east of Brookville lake and about 2 minutes east of Govner Bev park.","Butler County","Ohio","Summer","Report 4672: Midnight sighting by two witnesses near Okeana",39.37215,-84.80138,"2001-06-06",4672.0,"Class A","dngxyr3x2s",78.88,70.575,62.27,66.69,0.92,0.85,0.52,0.0325,1.0,"rain",1015.58,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",5.0,7.73,210.0,2.71,"RES.SEASON"], [2421,1857,"What was seen was a Hairy Animal on two feet running towards us on a wet rainy night...It was late one night about 3:00am... I was driving from Houston Texas from a job interview, I had been driving all night long, and My Mom was with me because she decided to go, and we were almost home when it began raining. I'd say we had about 20 more miles to Meridian, somewhere between Enterprise and Meridian on Interstate 59..I was going about 55mph because of the rain. I noticed a large figure to the left of the Jeep running towards us. I looked at my Mom and asked her if she had seen what I seen, and she said yes. I asked her to describe what she had seen and she said that she had seen a large hairy man, or something running at us. We both came to the conclusion that it had to be a bigfoot. I hunt alot, and I have never seen anything like this in my life. I believe that what we witnessed that night was truly bigfoot... This creature looked to be about 8 ft tall... Scared the Hell out of us.I don't know what else it could have been if not a bigfoot.","The location of this incident was on Interstate 59 between Enterprise and Meridian","Clarke County","Mississippi","Summer","Report 12290: Motorists have early morning sighting near Enterprise",32.1806,-88.864,"2004-06-15",12290.0,"Class A","dj8z1f71wd",87.96,81.555,75.15,73.13,0.83,0.73,0.94,0.0012,1.0,"rain",1012.97,"Humid and mostly cloudy throughout the day.",8.0,9.54,149.0,6.44,"RES.SEASON"], [2432,2930,"I was on a two day camping trip with several other adult volunteers and a group of about ten inner city youth. We went out past Roslyn from Cle Elum toward Salmon La Sac and the Wenatchee National Forest. There were many small dirt roads off Salmon La Sac road leading down to the resevoir on the left. We decided to camp down one of these small road between the resevoir and the main road. It was not a campground, but had some decent places for tents and had been used by campers before as evidenced by a fire ring. There was another tent camper a few hundred yards away. The weather was poor. It began raining on the trip up and kept raining and drizzling off and on the entire time we were out there. After unpacking all our gear and getting camp set up we began to notice medium sized rocks (golf ball to baseball sized) flying into our camp. At first we thought it may have been one of the kids goofing around, but after an hour or so we had accounted for all the kids and the rocks kept up. We continued to have rock thrown into our camp until the next morning. In addition, roughly ten times during the night we heard very loud screams coming from further down our side of the resevoir. We were a little worried because we weren't sure who or what was screaming. If we weren't so far from a town we would have called the police for fear that someone was being hurt. We took turns keeping watch until morning because of the wierd stuff going on. At daybreak we decided to cut our trip short and head home. The weather, rocks, and screams were just too much for some volunteer counselors to handle. I didn't think of the possibility of sasquatch until several years later when I heard recordings of sasquatch screams that closely matched what we had heard that night.","From Cle Elum take highway 903 through Roslyn. Highway 903 turns into Salmon La Sac Road. We camped several miles down the road between the road and the resevoir.","Kittitas County","Washington","Spring","Report 5136: Multible witnesses hear loud screams and have rocks thrown into camp near Cle Elum lake",47.3991,-121.1008,"2004-12-07",5136.0,"Class B","c23vsk9pfb",34.1,33.58,33.06,29.63,0.9,1.0,0.85,0.0054,0.56,"snow",996.98,"Snow (< 1 in.) in the evening and overnight.",1.0,1.36,69.0,0.58,"RES.SEASON"], [2436,4174,"We were in the car taking out our boat. I forgot which road we were on. We saw a group of people out of their car on the side of the road with cameras and binoculars out. From what i saw of the creature it was very tall, I'd say around 7-9 feet. It was very muscular, covered in dark brown fur with a patch of white in the chin area. It was just standing there (it might've been confused, I don't know). My dad thought it was a bear, i think it was too slender to be a bear. My mom (who thinks that the whole concept of cryptids is ridiculious) thought it was a deer, i don't know how because it must've had huge, furry antlers. I think i saw either Skunk Ape or Bigfoot. I've been looking at pictures of them all my life and it's what I saw.","On the roadway to Flamingo (Everglades National Park). Outside the park near a boat-ramp and docks.","Monroe County","Florida","Spring","Report 15170: Daytime sighting near Everglades National Park",25.141,-80.926,"2006-03-01",15170.0,"Class A","dhqrn2z2zw",75.35,72.50999999999999,69.67,61.06,0.71,0.01,0.06,0.0537,0.61,"rain",1019.1,"Heavy rain overnight.",6.0,10.0,93.0,5.78,"RES.SEASON"], [2441,3494,"Hi, my Name is [L. D.] I am 56 Years old and live in Redding California. Last Saturday evening on January 7, 2006, my wife and I drove from Redding to Shingletown about 26 miles east of Redding to see a puppy that we wanted to buy. It was a very dark night with fog like clouds low to the ground, so I had to pay very close attention to the road. About 6 miles past Shingletown there is a stretch of road that is straight. About 300 feet up the road from the car, I saw this thing walking across the road. It looked very tall with big long arms. It had a very large walking stride. It walked like it knew a car was coming, because it went up the side embankment of about 12 to 15 feet. I am just a normal man and I know what I saw. This is not to far from Lassen Park.","Start from Redding ,California ,Go HWY 44 East just past Shingletown, California.","Shasta County","California","Winter","Report 13549: Evening sighting by a motorist near Shingletown",40.4999,-121.9167,"2006-01-07",13549.0,"Class B","9r1q3sycnb",44.39,35.995000000000005,27.6,40.22,1.0,0.72,0.28,0.01,1.0,"rain",1018.5,"Foggy in the morning.",2.0,5.7,198.0,2.14,"RES.SEASON"], [2444,3064,"Last summer either end of June or early July I was trout fishing the shavers fork of the cheat river in Randolph county, West Virginia. I was wading on one side of a fork in the river with an island type feature in the middle of the two streams and heard the snap of twigs. I looked to the island and briefly saw a figure that was roughly 60 yds away, very tall and dark brown or black in color. At first I thought it was a person but there was no facial features I could make out at that distance it was all dark I assumed covered in hair. My next thought is that it was a bear, but it walked away out of view moments after I had eyes on it, on two feet, and carried a staff with it. The staff was large, probably st least 5-6” in diameter, larger than I believe a human could or would wish to use as a walking stick. The figure moved to my right, downstream and quickly out of view. I was frozen with fear and unarmed at the time so there was no way I was going to pursue it. I’ve only told a handful of people about it and most think it wasn’t true expect my wife who knows when I am being sincere. Earlier this month I visited my father who I now know is a Bigfoot enthusiast and told him about the sighting. He had urged me to report on this website so now I’m getting around to actually doing it.","It is a road off harpertown road from Elkins, WV. Not sure if the cutoff road name but the area of the sighting is referred to as Lower Cheat by locals. I have a screen cap from google earth that I can provide upon request. 38 58’06N 79 45’40W are the approximate coordinates.","Randolph County","West Virginia","Summer","Report 59102: Daylight sighting by fisherman 6 crow miles NE of Elkins",38.9695,-79.7625,"2017-07-29",59102.0,"Class B","dnzm8yntz1",65.71,59.52,53.33,59.1,0.92,0.9,0.22,0.0387,0.79,"rain",1012.77,"Rain until afternoon.",5.0,5.68,359.0,2.43,"RES.SEASON"], [2446,3912,"While training at Ft Carson, I was on patrol with a Marine Recon Agressor Force, agressing fire batteries in simulated attacks. My patrol attacked the HQ company, and during the withdrawal, I was separated from my unit. There was plenty of ambient light, and I could see my unit across the field and hear them calling for me. They took off, and I figured I could cut through a wooded area and intercept them. As I rounded a bend in the trail, a figure stepped out into the trail in front me. It was about 6.5 feet tall, covered in light brown fur, had large fox-like ears, and large, black, globe-shaped eyes. The nostrils were slitted and large, without much nasal definition. The body was muscular, with a thin waist and easily discernible definition, and the arms were long, hanging below the level of the hips. The creature stepped out into the trail, looking in the opposite direction, and I had stopped stock-still the moment I saw it. It turned and saw me, at which it exhibited a startle reflex,then immediately crouched down and slowly moved sideways off the trail, watching me the entire time. It knelt behind a bush, at which point it became very hard to see. I realized that I was encountering something few people have the opportunity to see, at only a distance of about 10 feet.","Cheyenne Mountain, near NORAD.","El Paso County","Colorado","Summer","Report 17767: Night-time sighting by Marine training near Ft Carson",38.716,-104.875,"1986-07-17",17767.0,"Class A","9wvkm80353",77.94,65.46,52.98,46.05,0.51,0.7,0.36,0.0008,1.0,"rain",1011.15,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day and breezy overnight.",9.0,10.0,22.0,4.09,"RES.SEASON"], [2451,492,"I was with my friends at one of their houses. We were spending the night in a tent in his back yard and we had a small fire going. We had been hearing strange noises, like some animal grunting or snorting for about 15 minutes when we noticed a 10-12 foot tall hairy creature walking upright along a tree line at the edge of a corn field. We could see it since the corn was recently harvested down to the stalks. The creature appeared for about 20 seconds and then looked in our direction and took off into the woods. We could hear tree limbs falling and we could hear some more noises as it ran off. It was the scariest moment of my life, and I am not scared easily.","State Route 202 heading south to Ross road then to Wildcat Road.","Miami County","Ohio","Fall","Report 7718: Four teens camping hear grunting or snorting, observe creature walk from corn field into the woods",39.89172,-84.14493,"2003-09-03",7718.0,"Class A","dph4vnpd15",78.05,70.85,63.65,65.97,0.85,0.72,0.25,0.0002,1.0,"rain",1015.54,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",5.0,5.8,266.0,4.18,"RES.SEASON"], [2465,2840,"while driving northbound on hwy 20 approx 2 miles south of the deception pass bridge I was looking out the passenger side window at the passing scenery something xaught my eye and when I looked up into the treeline, I could clearly make out the outline of what appeared to be a humanlike form, sitting on a branch leaning out to the side holding on with one arm I say human-like because it did not appear to be someone just sitting in a tree it had a low slope0like set to its head and I did not see any clothes it reminded me of how you see large primates sitting on branches, watching what is passing by beneath them we were not in a position to turn around and I have not seen anything since","One half mile South of Deception pass bridge in Deception state park","Island County","Washington","Fall","Report 17903: Possible sighting by motorist on perimeter of Deception State Park",48.39936,-122.645,"2007-10-20",17903.0,"Class A","c28g34udsq",51.28,49.8,48.32,43.16,0.83,0.98,0.3,0.0003,0.34,"rain",1012.21,"Overcast throughout the day.",2.0,9.71,135.0,7.66,"RES.SEASON"], [2468,1703,"I was driving to work on Hwy 248 north of Branson MO traveling south on the road. I came around a corner and was a good distance from the vehicle in front of me, approx 200 yards or so. And a Bigfoot crossed the road between us. It was early morning so it was still dark and I saw it in the headlights of my jeep. It crossed the road from left to right in front of me in maybe three or four steps. It was taller than the truck that was in front of me, later as I caught up to the truck I found out t was a full size Chevy 1500. The Bigfoot was upright on two legs and was brownish, grayish in color. It disappeared off the right side of the road up a hill into the brush.","Take hwy 248 north out of Branson approx 3-4 miles","Taney County","Missouri","Fall","Report 40177: Early morning road crossing north of Branson",36.39835,-93.14626,"2013-10-15",40177.0,"Class A","9ymz06hgyb",65.48,55.225,44.97,58.47,0.88,0.99,0.39,0.0099,0.9,"rain",1014.63,"Rain in the morning and overnight.",3.0,8.6,265.0,0.46,"RES.SEASON"], [2472,2031,"My friend and I were out on Old Ferry Road near Paleface Park. My buddy, who is still my best friend, saw something big and hairy trotting upright on two legs, crossing the road ahead of us. We were parked on the side of the road. He instantly locked both doors. I saw the object from behind, moving through the brush. This object was about 75 yards ahead of us at dusk. This scared us so bad that we went straight home. We talked to a Travis County Sheriff several days later, and he reported seeing a bear. What we saw was not a bear, trotting on two legs. [It was] between 6 & 7 feet tall and brownish in color.","Near the Pedernales River.","Travis County","Texas","Summer","Report 8530: Two men see unknown, bipedal animal run across road near Pedernales River.",30.38667,-98.08611,"2004-04-24",8530.0,"Class A","9v6hzgxz5v",67.2,64.77000000000001,62.34,63.8,0.9,0.98,0.16,0.0195,1.0,"rain",1012.42,"Rain in the morning.",5.0,8.67,17.0,0.77,"RES.SEASON"], [2485,2102,"I had bought a lot in the subdvison of Westwood in 1983 and my brother and myself had been working to put up the walls on my house and had worked into the late evening and were useing gas camp lights to see by. My brother had been a logger in Washington State. He had come home with tells of bigfoot. But ofcourse no one in the family beleived him but me. I had had my own incounter years ago when I was in my teens on a hunting trip. So when the smell hit us brought by the slight wind our heads came up at the same time and my brother looked over at me and smiled. MY heart was thumping so hard I had to catch my breath. The smell was very bad like that of a bad potato. I walked out to the road where my car was with my rifle on the hood. As I stated we were in the middle of nowhere in a very empty part of the subevsison with swamp behind my property.We had tents set up near the road so we turned the lanterns off and just listened to the night sounds and heard the sounds of something very large moveing around us. The night went by quitely thought. But the next night was very scary. We had just put up our tools and turned the lanterns off. we sat out on the road in lawn chairs. it was very dark. My lot was on a cirle. It had been very quiet but about fifty yards to the side of us all hell broke loose there were at the least three very large animals began to scream and kakle and make a primemate type bableing. I got up and used the head light of my brothers motorbike to try to see them but when I moved they were gone and the night was very very still. We had many more enconters with them after that put mostly from a distance.They would check us out in the daylite from time to time. The one we were sure was a male would watch us from the pine trees about 250 yards away but we saw him good enough to see he was about eight feet tall very broad in the chest and had tall sloping forehead. Like I said we had many encouters with them but it is to long to go into here.","These incidents occured in Montgomery county Texas between The Woodlands , Tex and Conroe,Tex off highway 1488 in a very rural and mostly empty subdvison.","Montgomery County","Texas","Summer","Report 4138: Two brothers have encounter while building house.",30.23333,-95.60834,"1983-07-15",4138.0,"Class A","9vk5bru1uj",80.62,76.67500000000001,72.73,72.62,0.93,0.98,0.19,0.0426,1.0,"rain",1014.02,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",5.0,5.06,79.0,6.51,"RES.SEASON"], [2493,363,"I witnessed a Sasquatch at about 225 yards distance for approximately 15 seconds, while it traveled around 75 yards along the back of a stone quarry near Middleport, NY in the Fall of 2002/September. I stop there to look for deer in a large field behind the quarry that are always there and immediately noticed when I exited my truck a dark biped moving very rapidly through waist high field grass on very uneven rocky terrain. It seemed to float through the grass as I could not see its legs due to the height of the grass it moved through. Immediately I noticed that it was completely the same color and it seemed to hold its arms at its side as it moved very, very quickly from left to right. At first sight I thought it was a girl with very long hair but quickly noticed that it was completely the same color with no obvious clothes coloration and moved much too fast although at the distance I was I could not make out any actual features and at no time did it look in my direction, but I believe I startled this creature by pulling into the stone driveway which makes considerable noise. As it crossed a path next to a corn field and angled slightly away from me I noticed that its glutteal area was somewhat lighter colored. The biped then moved directly into a standing corn field and was not seen after that time. When I say traveled very quickly, I mean it was really moving very rapidly but at no time did it seem like it was running as you or I would look if traveling at that speed due to fact that there was no discernable movement of its arms as it \"floated\" through the tall grass. I am convinced that this was a sasquatch I witnessed as I have been an avid outdoorsman since a very young age, hunting, hiking and camping for over 40 years and very experienced with animals in the wild and I know what I saw that afternoon was remarkable.","Mountain Rd. runs parallel to Rt. 31A and parallel to the Erie Canal about 1/2 mile North of sighting location. A large stone quarry operation is on both sides of road and area is generally farmland with considerable woodlots in general area.","Niagara County","New York","Fall","Report 12709: Daylight sighting by hiker outside Middleport",43.19501,-78.54224,"2002-09-21",12709.0,"Class A","dr8jsxrm1j",75.25,65.905,56.56,63.58,0.76,0.69,0.51,0.001,1.0,"rain",1011.6,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",4.0,9.81,216.0,10.89,"RES.SEASON"], [2494,1276,"From the top of this hill the river was almost visible about a mile away through the darkness. We got out of the truck and stood and looked down toward the river. I was raised in the outdoors hunting, fishing, trapping and watching wildlife. I like to imitate owls at night just to hear them respond to me. As my friend and I stood on the side of this hill I began to hoot to see if any owls would respond from the river bottom. Instead of being rewarded with owls responding to my calls I heard a scream or moan about three quarters of a mile away like I had never heard before. I asked my friend what in the hell was that? He replied that it was probably what some of the old farmhands referred to over the years as the hairy man, which some of them had told of seeing from time to time for many years. I hooted once again and the same scream replied only closer this time. We stood there a little longer and could hear something big coming up the hill through the woods very quickly. By the time we got into the truck we were treated to another hair curling scream still in the woods but getting close to the hayfield. We cranked the truck and drove as fast as we could thru the bumpy field. When we arrived at the gate my friend asked me to get out and close the gate so that nobody could trespass onto the property. The gate was a quarter to a half a mile away from where we were run out of the field. As I opened the truck door to get out I was treated to yet another scream from the hay field. The gate did not get closed that night. What this was I do not know. I know that there was no livestock kept in this part of the farm. I do know that if this thing were discovered and somehow befriended that it would be a great asset to the U.S. Olympic team, for neither Jesse Owens or Carl Lewis can run cross country like this thing. This incident happened to me in 1985.","The events that I can describe took place along the Alabama River in Autauga Co. Aabama between the city of Prattville and the town of Autuagaville within a five or six mile radius of a creek named Rocky Branch","Autauga County","Alabama","Unknown","Report 1783: Night hunters hear strange screams in the woods",32.4456,-86.5653,"1985-08-15",1783.0,"Class B","djf2w4t166",88.74,80.52,72.3,71.61,0.82,0.7,0.97,0.0041,1.0,"rain",1017.02,"Humid and mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,6.98,126.0,4.49,"RES.SEASON"], [2499,2165,"I [work] in Jasper County, Texas. On Thursday August 4, 2005, [in the early evening] I was walking [outdoors on company property surrounded by the Big Thicket]. There was some rustling in the underbrush about thirty yards off to the left side of the dirt road which I was travelling down. Shortly after hearing the rustling I began to smell what seemed like a mixture of a skunk and strong coffee mixed with kind of like a dead fish smell. At first I thought that it might have been some wild hogs bedding down for the evening, so I stopped to listen for anything that might have indicated piglets since wild sows are dangerous if they are protecting their young. After about thirty to forty-five seconds, the rustling around stopped. I couldn't see into the brush, but I felt like whatever was in there was watching me. Not wanting to be the focus of a hog charge, I hollered in hopes that I would scare off whatever it was in the brush. After not getting any response, I figured that whatever it was had left, so I resumed [what I was doing]. I had to go down to a gate and turn around. When I passed the spot where I had my encounter, I heard a whoo--whoo--whooping sound coming from behind me. It was quiet at first then it got louder as I got farther away. I was puzzled as to what could make that sound. I am an experienced deerhunter, and I have never heard that sound before. It sounded kind of like a howler monkey. In fact that's what I would have thought that it was if I didn't know any better. About two and a half hours later [at a different location] I smelled the same smell. I have smelled that smell there several times after dark. I would like for my specifics to be kept confidential, as well as my job title.","Edited at request of witness.","Jasper County","Texas","Summer","Report 12314: Evening worker hears vocalizations, smells strong odor in Big Thicket",30.33778,-93.97194,"2005-08-14",12314.0,"Class B","9vmhtdgdrh",92.17,82.86500000000001,73.56,74.3,0.82,0.11,0.31,0.0025,1.0,"rain",1015.07,"Light rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",9.0,9.62,159.0,2.9,"RES.SEASON"], [2500,67,"I am an OTR truck driver. It was about 4:30 am near Tammany Montana near Lookout Pass. Had a very good look at a long reddish haired bigfoot standing up right on the back side of concrete barrier, long reddish brown hair. Couldn’t get a height since it was on other side of barrier. Saw the head and both arms on the barrier. Have very bright headlights on truck so got a good look. I am an avid hunter and outdoorsman. It did not have a pointy face. Eyes pointing forward. Saw it for about 5 to 10 seconds. It moved to my left extremely fast and was gone.","Heading westbound on 90 after rest area on corner with concrete barrier it was straight on before going around corner. Creek runs along road. Probably around mile marker 3-ish","Mineral County","Montana","Spring","Report 65664: Sighting by trucker on Hwy 90 at Lookout Pass outside Tammany",47.43904,-115.6545,"2020-04-15",65664.0,"Class A","c2mvbhnbqy",40.18,30.455,20.73,25.9,0.72,0.79,0.79,0.0064,0.94,"rain",1020.1,"Snow (< 1 in.) in the morning and afternoon.",3.0,6.992,40.0,3.78,"RES.SEASON"], [2509,1145,"On oct 16, 2008 me my best friend and girlfriend went up to our cabin in Cameron County pa, (montour run road) to start to scout for the upcoming bear season. on are way up to the cabin we checked other cabins on our road to see if anyone else was on the mountain that day. After and walk we went back to the cabin to eat. our cabin is very small made out of brick and is aprox. 15x10. we started to cook and on the side of the cabin opposite of the stove i heard a banging on the wall outside. i figured it may be a stick falling then it happened again in front of the stove (windows are closed didnt see anything). me and and my friend went out directly after to see if someone was there. there was no one. we went back in to eat and about 10min later there where three bangs on the door. we came out and walked around the cabin in opposite directions meeting on the back side. we didnt see or hear a thing but smelled an aweful odor. moments later an apple was thrown up the hill and landed about 20 ft in front of us. we got are stuff out the the cabin and went to the truck while loading the truck a stick was thrown. i am pretty sure that this was not a prank because we checked the other cabins on our way in and checked them on the way out. there were also no other vehicals on the mountain.","Cabin in Cameron county PA","Cameron County","Pennsylvania","Fall","Report 28580: Objects thrown and banging on a cabin east of Jericho",41.34404,-78.04547,"2008-10-16",28580.0,"Class B","dr2e0n3n2x",61.03,52.47,43.91,52.2,0.85,0.89,0.57,0.0017,1.0,"rain",1016.85,"Light rain in the morning.",3.0,7.31,296.0,3.27,"RES.SEASON"], [2513,558,"I HAVE SEEN THIS CREATURE THREE TIMES IN MY LIFE TIME.EACH TIME I HAVE ENCOUNTERED THIS ANIMAL BIGFOOT I GOTTEN A CHANCE TO GET CLOSER AND FINALLY A UNDERSTANDING OF ITS NATURE. ONE EVENING ABOUT 8:45 PM I WENT OUT BACK TO WALK MY DOGS. THEY WERE TIED UP AT THE TIME. SO I LET THE ONE DOG GO AND HE WENT RUNNING. JUST HAPPY TO GET LOOSE.MIND YOU, IT WAS DARK OUT BUT YOU COULD STILL MAKE OUT THINGS FROM THE LIGHTS FROM THE OUT BUILDING 50 YARDS AWAY.MY DOGS WERE TIED UP NEAR THE WOOD LINE AND THERE IS A STEEP VALLEY JUST BEHIND THE WOOD LINE, AND A THREE HUNDRED ACRE FOREST SOUTH OF ME.THERE IS ALSO A PARK AREA WEST OF HERE. AS I WENT TO LET THE OTHER DOG GO I NOTICE A SHADOW JUST FOUR FEET AWAY FROM ME. IT STOOD ABOUT 8 FT TALL AND VERY WIDE. IT WAS WHITE AND GRAY. THATS WHAT IT LOOKED TO BE.I WAS THINKING THAT THIS MUST BE A TREE I DIDNT NOTICE FROM BEFORE, BUT I THOUGHT NOT OUT HERE IN THE OPEN FIELD.IT STOOD THERE MOTIONLIST. IT DIDNT MOVE OR MAKE A SOUND.WHAT EVER IT WAS HAD NO SMELL OR MAKE ANY SCREAMS OR HOWL. I JUST KNEW IT WAS SOMETHING STANDING THERE UPRIGHT LIKE A MAN. IT WAS COVERED IN WHITE AND GRAY FUR ALL OVER ITS BODY. I KNEW I WAS IN TROUBLE IF I HAD MADE ANY SUDDEN MOVE,SO I WATCH IT OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE.I WAS CLOSE ENOUGH TO TOUCH IT WITH MY OWN HANDS. I COUNTINUE TO RELEASE MY OTHER DOG. I COULD FILL IT LOOKING AT ME, SO I PRETEND LIKE I DIDNT SEE IT. MY OTHER DOG I LET GO OF EARLIER CAME RUNNING FULL CIRCLE TO CHECK ON ME AND MY OTHER DOG FULL SPEED. WHEN I SEEN HIM ALMOST RUN RIGHT INTO THIS THING HE CAME TO A DEAD HALT AND COWED DOWN ON ALL FOURS. I KNEW SOMETHING WAS WRONG. THERE HE LAY LIKE HE WAS DEAD. THE CREATURE NEVER MOVED AN INCH. HIS EYES WERE ON ME AT ALL TIMES.I CONTINUED TO RELEASE THE OTHER DOG.I DIDNT KNOW WHAT TO EXPECT. THIS THING WAS REAL, AND I HAD NO WHERE TO RUN. THE SECOND DOG I UNTIED WENT BLAZING OUT OF THERE.I DARE NOT LOOK RIGHT AT THE ANIMAL. I KEPT HIM IN SIGHT OUT OF THE CORNER OF MY EYE, AND PRAYED THAT GOD PROTECT ME. I DID SOMETHING AS NOT CAUSE THIS THING TO ATTACT ME AND TURN MY BACK TO HIM OR HER.I KEPT WALKING AWAY NEVER TURNING BACK TO LET IT THINK I DIDNT KNOW IT WAS STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF ME. AS MY OTHER DOG CAME RUNNING PAST ME I KNEW IT WAS LETTING US GO AND I DIDNT FILL THREATEN ANYMORE.SOMETHING OF THAT SIZE HAS NO REASON TO FEAR ANY MAN.I STILL DONT UNDERSTAND WHY IT DIDNT ATTACK ME, AND WHY DIDNT THE DOGS BARK AND ALERT ME THAT SOMEONE OR THING WAS THERE. FINALLY WHY DIDNT IT RUN AWAY WHEN IT SAW ME COMMING DIRECTLY AT IT.IT ALLOWED ME TO COME WITHIN A FEW FEET OF IT.I AM NO LONGER AFRAID OF IT, BUT I DONT THINK I WOULD WANT TO GET THAT CLOSE AGAIN. ONE OF MY FRIENDS WHO LIVES DOWN THE STREET FROM ME SAID HE SAW SIX OF THEM TOGETHER. HE THINKS THAT THEY ARE A FAMILY. HE TELLS ME THAT THEY WOULD COME TO HIS HOUSE AND SIT ON HIS PORCH. I DONT KNOW HOW TRUE THAT IS BUT I NOW BELIEVE.HE TELLS OF THE CAVES THEY LIVE IN NEAR MY HOUSE. I USED TO LIVE WERE HE ONCE LIVE AND ALWAYS THOUGHT THEASE THINGS WERE OUT OF MY IMAGINATION, BUT I TRULY DONT CARE WHAT PEOPLE THINK ABOUT ME. THERE IS SOMETHING OUT THERE AND WE MUST PROTECT IT BY UNDERSTANDING IT TOO LIVES AS WE DO. I AM NOW TRYING TO CHANGE THE AREA WHERE THEY ROAM INTO A WILDLIFE PRESERVE SO THEY CAN CONTINUE TO LIVE IN PEACE. EVEN THO I CARE NOT TO SEE ONE AGAIN I THINK THEY SHOULD BE PROTECTED FROM THE PLUBLIC.MOST OF THE FOLKS WHO LIVE NEAR THE WOOD LINE HAVE HAD A ENCOUNTER WITH OUR HAIRY FRIENDS. THERE HAS BEEN ONLY TWO CASES WERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN IN A SIMULATED ATTACKED OR CHASED INTO THEIR HOME WITHOUT BEING HARMED OR KILLED BY ONE OF THE BIGFOOT CREATURES.THERE HAVE BEEN LOTS OF UNEXPLAINED SCREAMS, SIX INCH TREES SNAPPED IN TWO, ONE WITNESS HAS SEEN THEM ATTACK A DEAR AND LEAVE NOTHING BUT THE RIBS .IF THEY COULD DO THAT TO A DEAR, THINK OF WHAT THEY COULD DO TO US.I HAVE LOST TWO DOGS THAT LOOKED TO HAVE BEEN STRANGLED OR UNEXPLAINED DEATHS.I DONT KNOW IF THEY WILL TALK OR NOT.I WILL.","Take Rt.422 east from Cleveland,Ohio to Chagrin Falls, Ohio. South Franklin to Woodland to Loraine St. There is a forest south of me where this unusual wildlife seems to come from. I live in a low income area that where people are considerate of each other and keep to themselves. Most of the people here are African American and are very decent folks. ","Geauga County","Ohio","Spring","Report 3248: Bainbridge (Chagrin Falls) Ohio resident reports multiple sightings",41.39803,-81.33974,"2001-10-26",3248.0,"Class A","dpq5t061n8",40.08,38.97,37.86,32.37,0.75,1.0,0.33,0.0075,1.0,"rain",1012.37,"Light rain and windy throughout the day.",2.0,8.4,260.0,23.94,"RES.SEASON"], [2526,659,"In the month of June 2008 I was camping with my partner and her sister at Beaver Creek State Park, Columbiana County, Ohio. I had camped and hiked in that park since I was a little kid, and felt comfortable there and knew the woods, trails, area well. We had been camping for 2 days, and were on our second evening. We had a campsite in the \"pines\" side of the campgrounds. In the evening, around 8:30, I went a ways into the woods behind our site to \"answer the call of nature\" so to speak. While I was going number one I heard a loud crash, it startled me as I thought it sounded like a deer crashing off. I jumped up, and saw a dark very muscular figure hurrying off quickly in the direction diagonal to our site and our camping neighbor. It was very dark, with bulging deltoid muscles. I could not get in my head what the heck was happening, as it was human form but appeared like it had no clothes on, plus black. The figure moved quickly, without reaching up to brush branches away like most people would do going thru the woods. It headed back toward where there's nothing but a steep drop off ravine. I told my girlfriend and her sister, both were scared and wanted to leave. I insisted on staying as I was so fascinated at what I thought I saw. We spent a restless night and got rained out the next morning, quickly waking up before dawn. We haven't camped there since. I now live in Powell, north of Columbus and have only camped at A.W. Marion State Park. Never had an experience like this.","Beaver Creek State Park, one of the larger pine tree area sites (site 47, 48, or 49)","Columbiana County","Ohio","Summer","Report 46834: Camper has possible early evening sighting in Beaver Creek State Park",40.73206,-80.61996,"2008-06-14",46834.0,"Class B","dpnxtrn36y",75.8,65.675,55.55,66.03,0.86,0.78,0.38,0.031,0.74,"rain",1016.78,"Heavy rain in the morning.",5.0,2.15,231.0,0.29,"RES.SEASON"], [2527,183,"We live near Omaha, Nebraska. I am speaking on behalf of my mother. My mother first saw this \"thing \" when she was 10 years old. You have to understand the way the neighborhood we live in is set up. The house my mother lived in when she was 10 is less than a quarter mile away from the house that she lives in today. All of the yards in that neighborhood sort of connect with somewhat of a gully in the middle. The first time my mother had any knowledge of the thing, her sister and her were swinging on a double tire swing in her backyard. The next thing my mother knew, her sister had jumped off the swing and was running and screaming. My mom didn't know what to do, so she ran after her sister into the house. Her sister was hysterical saying she saw something in the back wooded area of their yard. I guess my grandpa did find some sort of large footprints. This was the first incident. The next incident was when my mom was outside her house when she was young. She saw a large thing covered in hair walking across her driveway. My mom told me that the \"thing\" walked almost as if it was bo-legged. She also said it's shoulders moved from side to side as it walked. Now my mother lives in the house I grew up in. As recently as two weeks ago, something has been seen in my mother's back yard. It hasn't only been seen by my mother, but also by my sister who frequently stays at my mom's house. About three years ago (April of 2002) is when my mom had her most vivid and frightening encounter with the \"thing\". She was letting our dogs out in the backyard and they both went barreling towards the fence surrounding our yard barking. My mom walked out in the yard, thinking nothing other than the dogs were just being dogs, and was standing waiting for them to use the bathroom. It was then when she noticed something moving in the next yard. She said it was about seven feet tall and standing behind a tree. She said as fast as the dogs had ran up to the fence to bark, they were running back to the house yelping. My mom said she froze. She always tells me the fear that she feels when she sees this \"thing\" is overwhelming. She said it then \"leaped\" from behind one tree to another. That's when she started running. She said she looked behind her and it was now coming forward towards her. She ran in the house and locked the doors. My mom lives in a brick house and she has also told me that on occasion she will hear something that sounds like something beating or throwing itself up against the side of her house. My mom is completely afraid of this \"thing\". We would really like someone to contact us or something. My mom doesn't really talk about this to anyone because she feels that they'd all think she was crazy. We don't know what to do but we do need some help or advice.","(Location withheld by request).","Douglas County","Nebraska","Summer","Report 12482: Various sightings by residents near the Missouri River",41.238,-95.92,"2005-08-13",12482.0,"Class A","9z7f971hy0",73.19,64.935,56.68,62.29,0.8,0.44,0.28,0.0018,1.0,"rain",1015.76,"Light rain until afternoon.",8.0,9.7,53.0,3.86,"RES.SEASON"], [2530,1442,"I had went for the evening to relax in the nearby harbor (Presque Isle) to have dinner and then drove up to the New Presque Isle Lighthouse and parked my car. I walked thru a clearing of trees (east) from the lighthouse towards Lake Huron. It was a full-moon, clear night with very little waves on the lake. I had been at this location for around :30 minutes to about :45 minutes and had been wading out in the water to just cool off. I was in shorts/t-shirt and flip-flops as it was summer. After I decided that it was time to leave I started to go back towards my car and subsequently dry off. As I was walking back thru the same clearing that I had come from earlier I could hear some motion in the trees to my left. I remember also it was very still/quiet that night while on foot. At different times I heard what sounded like large (or fairly large) twigs snapping on or near the ground and thought maybe it was a deer of some sort, probably not a bear I didn't think. Sometimes it would be one or two twigs/branches snapping, other times it was multiple snaps which would occur quite quickly as if perhaps (at the time) whatever it was had some good size weight to itself. I had the distinct impression (or sense) that I was being watched and it made me feel quite un-easy, I had a more sense of urgency at this point of just wanting to get to my car and leave. Also at other times I heard what sounded like whole trees being moved or pushed somewhat out of the way, I was puzzled as it implied to me that something was off in the trees that had a fairly good size body mass. As I continued on towards the end of the clearing, the sound would parallel (or stay) with me--it wasn't getting distant or going away from my vantage point of where I first starting hearing the commotion going on. After I had gotten into my car I felt hugely relieved but couldn't still necessarily understand why. I remember too, that I was constantly looking around \"over my shoulder\" very intently but figured it was more than likely a small animal and no big deal. As I drove off (about maybe--? 50-100 yards) as I had already turned on the radio and was feeling pretty relaxed I noticed from off the left side of my car (from the headlights shining onto some of the trees and roadway) a large black, furry looking figure standing completely in the front of the tree line looking dead, straight at me with some powerful--menacing eyes. (The eyes followed me as I went past). It completely shocked me, I slammed on the brakes of my car and just sat in the middle of the road for around half a minute (or less) and was trying to figure out (rationalize/take in) what I had just seen. It stood around I would say between 7'-8' feet tall and it's arms were unusually long. More than anything, the face is what spooked me and I remember the most as it closely resembled that of a man--the nose was flat and it stood completely erect, was not slouched or bent over--exactly still. The head looked like it was just perched onto some huge shoulders, the shoulders were massive going across and the upper torso was quite impressive. I decided it would be best to just keep going as I had thought about of maybe turning the car around and shine my high beam lights into the tree line (to see if I could spot it again) but decided this probably would not be in my best interest. I went on and headed back to Alpena where I had come from originally. I was never so glad to see \"city lights\" again until I reached the north end of town while on U.S.-23. I told no one what I had seen, actually for a long time.","Nearly at the end of the road, by the lighthouse is where I had my sighting. Take US-23 north, to E. Grand Lake Rd and turn right. Turn Right at (4-way intersection) and continue on E. Grand Lake Rd to Presque Isle Harbor. About 1 mile north of the harbor is the New Presque Isle Lighthouse and the road ends in a U-turn or cul-de-sac as you are at the conclusion of this small peninsula.","Presque Isle County","Michigan","Summer","Report 33611: Air National Guardsman describes being ushered out of the woods culminating in a nighttime sighting from his car near the Presque Isle Lighthouse",45.351,-83.4885,"2003-07-15",33611.0,"Class A","f0h9upvs8z",75.56,65.58,55.6,61.03,0.81,0.56,0.57,0.0163,1.0,"rain",1009.83,"Rain until afternoon.",5.0,8.29,216.0,6.06,"RES.SEASON"], [2533,3026,"hello. some time back i submitted a report about strange noises i and my family had been hearing over the years. i spoke with someone on the phone from bfro about it and informed him that my father had actually seen a bigfoot here in the past. well, much to my shock and horror i have seen one too. i was checking on my children in their bedroom last night at about 1:00 in the morning, when i saw the motion detection light we have mounted on the outside of the house go on. where my childrens bedroom is it is right against a hillside that leads to very dense woods. anything can walk out of the woods and onto a small porch that we have off of my childrens bedroom. well, anyhow as i was saying, i was checking on them and there is a window that you can look out onto this porch {it is on the second floor, but up against the woods} and also a door for access.when the light came on i instinctively looked over to the window because i knew whatever had set it off would be either there on that porch or in the woods. it goes off if a raccoon or a cat scurries by so itis not uncommon for this to occur. when i looked over to that window i could not breathe. all i could see was a massive, coal black, very shaggy haired creature standing there on two very bulky legs looking in the window at me. i felt very frightened, as this window is only about 6 feet from where my childrens beds are. i could not see anything but the two legs and the rear end of this thing because the window has a blind on it that was halfway down. it is one of those straw blinds that you can see through partially. with the light shining behind this thing i could make out the perfect outline of it's upper body. i am about 5 feet tall and this thing was, i am guessing, about 8 feet tall because it towered over the window. it just stood there for a brief moment and then went in the direction of the woods. i was too scared to go over to the window and look and see where it went. i took my children into my bedroom last night and i laid awake in fear all night.what i keep remembering is the muscles and the bulk in the legs. the rear end {the butt} also was quite muscular. and that ratty coal black fur. there was no smell at all and it made no noise. i am sure that the light coming on suddenly spooked it, but i got the impression that it was curious as to what was inside my home. it gives me the shakes to think of it. it was a cold winter night last night, but the ground was still muddy so i mustered up some courage this morning and went looking for tracks.i found some long slide marks on the hillside as if something had slid down the mud. no distinct footprints though.","Off of rt 2 in warwood.","Ohio County","West Virginia","Winter","Report 10006: A woman has late night sighting when a motion detecting light illuminates her back porch",40.1333,-80.68192,"2004-12-12",10006.0,"Class A","dpnsk411rj",37.97,34.129999999999995,30.29,28.72,0.78,0.95,0.03,0.0037,1.0,"snow",1006.32,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day and breezy in the evening.",2.0,9.16,232.0,11.3,"RES.SEASON"], [2538,4827,"I have reported before on this website. I live in a rural area in west-central Indiana. I have heard strange primate-like calls coming from the woods behind my residence for about eighteen months. About two weeks ago, I heard powerful whooping calls coming from our woods as I was changing a tire on my car at about 10PM. These calls were followed by wood knocks. The calls sounded like those I have heard on this site. I have been an amateur bigfoot researcher for many years, and am convinced that one, possibly more, are inhabiting the woods behind my house.","One hour west of Indianapolis on US 36, before US 231. Farmland, fields, and dense woods.","Putnam County","Indiana","Winter","Report 25237: Father and son hear possible vocalizations and knocks on their property west of Indianapolis",39.74356,-86.81714,"2008-12-01",25237.0,"Class B","dp4607jen0",32.72,27.68,22.64,26.68,0.87,1.0,0.12,0.0004,1.0,"snow",1001.34,"Overcast throughout the day.",2.0,6.25,268.0,7.39,"RES.SEASON"], [2547,4788,"It was just my wife and I and we were driving through the forest preserve we saw something standing by a tree. I had my high beams on because there are usually deer in there and other animals. As we got close to the tree we could see a well defined shape of a big person or whatever you want to call it. As we were going by its head and shoulders was turning with us as we were going by. We went straight to the police station, because the police station is not too far from there. We got up there, but I decided not to say anything because I didn't want anyone to think I was losing it. We went back during the daytime, this thing was standing in this ditch which is about three feet deep. The thing was looking at us eye to eye. Now I know its just not me. I got a map one day and looked and I thought \"Ok, maybe these things are using the forest preserves because most of them are interlinked\". This thing is huge.","Just north of Vollmer Road on Central Avenue in South Green Belt Forest Preserve.","Cook County","Illinois","Summer","Report 39851: Motorists have possible nighttime sighting in Green Belt Forest Preserve",41.53346,-87.75156,"2010-08-14",39851.0,"Class B","dp3s70vmbq",86.93,80.24000000000001,73.55,71.19,0.79,0.31,0.17,0.0003,0.5,"rain",1009.59,"Partly cloudy until afternoon and humid throughout the day.",7.0,9.56,205.0,0.98,"RES.SEASON"], [2549,2508,"Upright figure covered in black hair walking across road 20 to 50 ft. in front of our car as we drove home. I did not see much, as I wasn't looking forward until my mother screamed. My mother claims the creature was like a hideous ape with arms dragging. Size: \"taller than your father\"; Note: My father is 6'9\".","West of Vaughn, south bound on Rocky Bay Point Road. Approx. .5 mile south of our house.","Pierce County","Washington","Winter","Report 1595: Family sees an upright figure covered with black hair that walks across the road in front of their car",47.3704,-122.782,"1979-12-07",1595.0,"Class A","c22tqp8bs4",50.18,45.91,41.64,43.73,0.86,0.95,0.64,0.001,0.67,"rain",1021.51,"Foggy overnight.",1.0,7.42,122.0,0.3,"RES.SEASON"], [2555,2696,"We showed up and set up camp around 5:00pm. Started the fire and around 9:00pm the noises followed shortly therafter. We heard the noise about a half mile away and it progressevly got louder. It was still getting darker when we heard the noises and we saw a bird flying overhead and swooping down and then the noise was heard. We are all pretty sure that the noise was not bear or elk. It sounded like a schreech howl grunt. We heard the noise again the next day around the same time.","Unmarked campsite on right side just past the turn for state campsites and boat launch.","Yakima County","Washington","Summer","Report 1462: Sound heard month earlier than another report in same area",46.87139,-121.2981,"2000-06-13",1462.0,"Class B","c23dxu9mtk",50.63,50.175,49.72,44.19,0.92,1.0,0.4,0.0075,1.0,"rain",1026.06,"Light rain in the morning and overnight.",5.0,3.04,259.0,9.36,"RES.SEASON"], [2560,208,"On a friday night in October of 1969 at 9:30pm, me and another person were sitting in a car on Serviss Ave in North Brunswick, New Jersey. I was 15 years old at the time, and had just come home from a night out. We were parked on the right hand side of the dead end side of the block. There are two houses on the right side of the street, then there is woods, and then Lawrence Brook. The moonlight was shining from behind the car towards the brook. While talking I glanced up towards the brook when I seen two red eyes in the middle of the road about 35 to 40feet away. Immediatly I said \"whats that thing in the road?\" The driver turned his headlights on and thats when we could see that this thing was not a dog or, person, or bear. This thing was hunched down on the ground, and from the ground to the top of its head, it looked to be three and a half to four feet tall. After the headlights were turned on it sat there for about thirty second. We saw that it was hairy with three to four inch length reddish/brown hair and while standing it was about five feet tall. After the thirty seconds it stood up turned around and sort of waddled into the woods at a snails pace. We guessed it was ticked off by the headlights, and good thing because we were scared and locked our doors. Once it went into the woods I exited the car and ran into the house. The driver threw the car into reverse backed out into Nassay Street, threw the car into gear and sped off down to Livingstone Ave. After I went inside my house I told my mother, whose answer was it must have been a dog or bear, and thought nothing of it. This was a one time occurance and I have not seen anything like it since, but I did hear other things when I lived there.","Take Livingston Ave to Nassau St go up one block to Serviss Ave make a left and a you are there.","Middlesex County","New Jersey","Fall","Report 2271: Night time sighting by New Brunswick resident near Lawrence Brook",40.478,-74.4611,"2005-12-11",2271.0,"Class A","dr5n38g16w",38.56,32.735,26.91,22.96,0.77,0.41,0.37,0.0005,0.39,"snow",1003.75,"Mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",2.0,7.05,246.0,1.75,"RES.SEASON"], [2565,3958,"(Witness stated the incident occurred while he was with his mom, dad and uncle four-wheeling on the Como Road in the Sangre De Cristo Mountains in the San Luis Valley in Colorado on Sunday, August 20th, 2000.) We had made it past Lake Como and to the end of the Jeep road, where we fished for a while and ate our lunch. When we left the last lake, it was about 1:30 p.m., with my uncle and me in the lead on our four-wheelers. We had gone about a half a mile when my uncle and I spotted both something that looked like a dead, burned tree stump that was about 7 to 8 feet tall. We didn't think to much of it until it moved. It stood upright and walked like a man. At first, we thought it was a hiker but it was all the same color, from head to toe. It walked about 15 yards before it walked into the trees. My uncle and both stopped to make sure we saw the same thing. But we drove down the road about 300 to 400 yards before we decided to go look for it. We walked into the trees about 200 yards and came to a small meadow. My uncle was looking the other way when at the other end of the meadow it ran through. I yelled, \"There it goes\"!. We took off after it, on foot. This time I got a little bit better chance to look at it. The creature was a light to a medium brown and had shaggy long hair, it stood about 7 feet tall. When we reached the end of the meadow, each of us went in an opposite direction. My uncle went the same direction as the bigfoot, and I went the other way in case it double-backed on us. But we didn't see the creature after that. We did find a few footprints, but didn't have any plaster to make a mold. So we went back down the mountain. I know what I saw that day and no one can tell us otherwise.","From I-25 at Walsenberg, take U.S. 160 westbound. Turn right on Co. 150. Go about 2 miles and turn on what is called Lake Como Road. This is the toughest Four Wheel Drive Road in Colorado, and the third toughest in the U.S. You take the road untill it ends at a lake, that is 6.8 miles. It will take you about4 hours.","Alamosa County","Colorado","Summer","Report 348: Teen and uncle chase reddish bigfoot in San Isabel National Forest",37.57915,-105.4979,"2000-08-20",348.0,"Class A","9wsvz34f2v",65.15,48.14,31.13,42.2,0.87,0.16,0.68,0.0034,1.0,"rain",1020.16,"Light rain in the evening.",11.0,9.34,352.0,2.17,"RES.SEASON"], [2569,439,"At about 5:45pm I was walking out back and saw a large black creature out by the road. I yelled at it and it ran down the street. I think it went into the woods. When I walked up by the road I didn't see it and I did see some very large human like tracks in the snow.","About 1.5 miles from Mosquito lake","Trumbull County","Ohio","Winter","Report 4978: Prints found following sighting near Mosquito Lake",41.36755,-80.76735,"2000-02-01",4978.0,"Class A","dpqe64ep2q",26.89,18.95,11.01,16.44,0.76,1.0,0.88,0.0004,1.0,"snow",1015.37,"Light precipitation starting in the evening.",2.0,5.23,267.0,11.09,"RES.SEASON"], [2575,720,"Me and a friend were shoveling snow in our driveway when we noticed two sets of strange barefooted footprints with about a three foot separation between each step. We both thought it was a little strange that someone would walk in the snow barefooted. We started to follow the tracks into the woods. We walked about thirty yards from the drive on the tracks and started to hear a faint banging. As we got closer we could see two greyish figures. We couldn't tell what they were until we got closer. They were about eight feet in height and muscular. One was banging on a tree and the other was digging in the snow. We could smell them - it was very foul. When they noticed us the one banging on the tree let out a high pitch squeal like a train or a chainsaw. They both ran off into the woods.We thought it was a prank so we tried to follow them further but after a while we gave up. We don't know if it was real or not, but we reported anyway.","Directions: Off of Interstate 90 head south on Rt. 534 to Cork Cold Springs Rd. Once on Cork Cold Springs head east to Windsor Mechanicsville. On Windsor Mechanicsville head north to Country View ln. On Country View head east to Timberwoods. Once on Timberwoods go to the end of the road, it dead ends. Past the dead end is large patch of woods. That is where the sighting occured.","Ashtabula County","Ohio","Winter","Report 1117: Daytime sighting by two witnesses, near Geneva, at the end of Timberwoods Rd",41.72134,-80.88494,"2000-12-28",1117.0,"Class A","dpqmr7jkkm",19.77,17.064999999999998,14.36,12.0,0.81,1.0,0.09,0.0005,1.0,"snow",1021.35,"Foggy in the morning.",1.0,5.12,315.0,4.56,"RES.SEASON"], [2577,3143,"Encounter as told to BFRO researchers Scott Kessler & Patricia Normand on January 27,2001 by two teenage (both 14 y/o) hunters (K.H. & L.C.) about their encounter November 18th, 2000. We had ridden a 4-wheeler to a deerstand not far from the house. We had been there about 30 minutes. It was near 4 pm and the sun was just beginning to go down. It was almost dusk. We were out there hunting for deer when I told my friend K.H. that there was something moving closer to a group of wild hogs about 40 feet from us.When it got closer we saw what appeared to be a man \"duck walking\" towards the hogs. It scratched it's head and looked around and began to shuffle one foot back and forth (as if it was shifting its weight) .It was also making \"blowing sounds like a deer does\". I shifted my position in the deerstand and hit my shotgun ( 20ga.) against the inside of the deerstand and it heard it and stood up. The hogs ran off when it stood upright. We bolted out the back door of the stand and jumped on the 4 wheeler and hauled it out of there,after turning a corner and across a small creek I (L.C.) looked back and saw it standing by a tree watching us leave. We had watched it all total for about 10 minutes. It was reddish brown, covered with hair and we could see it's eyes . The face was somewhat covered with hair but not as covered as the rest of the body. It was about 7 feet tall and maybe 300, to 350 pounds.","On file w/BFRO","La Salle Parish","Louisiana","Fall","Report 1536: Two teenage deer hunters have encounter while hunting",31.6825,-92.3104,"2000-11-18",1536.0,"Class A","9vwk5rtegy",39.67,38.370000000000005,37.07,37.11,0.95,0.95,0.75,0.0439,1.0,"rain",1023.1,"Rain throughout the day.",3.0,7.72,43.0,7.76,"RES.SEASON"], [2580,4350,"I was driving to work Friday, May 10. I twas approximately 6:15 EST. I had just cut off Hwy 278 at the Shilo Church road and had gone approximately 1 mile. It was light enough that I could see into fields, I was looking for deer which is my hobby while driving. The first field that I came to I began to scan it. There was something standing in the field about 30 yards from the road. It was around 8' tall. I could see the body and head, with the body extending down into the grass which is about 3' tall. By the time I stopped my truck, the figure was no longer there. As you approach the filed it is around a slight curve in the road and about 60 yards to where I made the sighting.","Coming from Piedmont, AL. eastward, When you cross the Georgia state line on HWY 278. It is approximately 2 1/2 miles to The Shilo Baptist church sign on the right side of the highway. You drive approximately 1/4 mile to a stop sign. You have two choices, right or straight. Go straight across the road, field is on the left side of the road. Sighting was approximately 60 yards down the fence. Just past the gate to the property.","Polk County","Georgia","Spring","Report 41169: Motorist sees a tall man-like figure standing in a field at dawn near Cedartown",33.95003,-85.35133,"2013-05-10",41169.0,"Class B","dn531u3j3b",74.31,66.705,59.1,57.91,0.75,0.22,0.02,0.0003,0.63,"rain",1016.15,"Mostly cloudy starting in the evening.",11.0,10.0,213.0,1.4,"RES.SEASON"], [2584,4514,"On November 4 2006,Me & my family were driveing through the foothills above Idaho Falls near willowcreek when my sister,fiance,daughter&nephew said they had seen something off to the side of the road. I stopped & turned around so I could shine the lights from the bronco on whatever it was. when we got turned around the lights from the vehicle couldn't hit it so I decided to step out with a flashlight when I shined the light on it,it stood up on it's hind legs about 30feet from me.It was standing in a borrow pit and it was at least a foot taller then me,Iam 6 foot tall.When I seen it I started yelling at it & it ducked down every time I would stop making noise it would start to raise its head again.When I backed up & got into the bronco it jumped up & ran after us,& chased us quite aways. We all seen it but we could not make out any facial features.I have heard stories in the past from friends & family of sightings in the same area but never payed much attention.Iam an avid hunter & fisherman. I spend alot of time in the outdoors I have hunted & fished in this area all my life.I have seen elk,deer,antelope,badger,& bear. just about everything that has walked crawled or swimmed. And I have never seen anything like what I seen that night. It was bigger then any bear i have ever seen & I hunt the selway were there is a large population of bear& what we seen that night was not a bear.","Just above Kepps crossing on willowcreek.","Bonneville County","Idaho","Fall","Report 16527: Multiple witness incident at night near Idaho Falls",43.41005,-111.7899,"2006-11-04",16527.0,"Class A","9x8wbnt1fe",41.57,38.18,34.79,37.08,0.93,0.82,0.47,0.0026,1.0,"rain",1022.95,"Light rain until afternoon.",2.0,8.59,193.0,6.38,"RES.SEASON"], [2589,1991,"I was walking in a field located at the base of Black Mountain, Crab Orchard, TN. I had my wife and 2 daughters. As I walked I could sense apprehension from my girls and could feel myself. Feeling that this is from their usual fear of bears I continued the walk. As we made our way around the end of the field I looked up to notice a large black creature jump into the wood line. I looked back at my wife and the words I spoke were “That was big” ... I keep wanting to say it was a wild boar or maybe even bear. That would be fine but it walked on 2 legs and had a backside of a human or ape. And also moved like a bipedal creature.","Base of Black Mountain","Cumberland County","Tennessee","Spring","Report 65654: Possible sighting at base of Black Mountain outside Crab Orchard",35.8823,-84.88694,"2020-04-20",65654.0,"Class B","dn7shk5jwc",64.81,57.38,49.95,43.77,0.7,0.37,0.94,0.0164,0.91,"rain",1007.5,"Rain in the morning.",7.0,9.411,332.0,6.25,"RES.SEASON"], [2595,2651,"While bear hunting I found many broken saplings, all pointing in the same direction, and all at the same height. I thought it strange due to the fact that smaller trees all around them were not broken. The next day it was pouring rain and I came across a bare footprint in the road. I wear size 13 boots, and I could have fit my entire boot inside of it. The track had to have been made within 20 minutes of me being there, as the rain was pouring so hard it would have washed the track away if it was any longer than that.","At about 2900 Addy-cedonia rd, take a right onto Locke Rd, which takes you into the mountain. It was around four miles in the track was spotted, and near 7 where the territory markers were.","Stevens County","Washington","Fall","Report 50039: Hunter finds possible tree breaks and track near Stensgar Mountain",48.18676,-118.0076,"2015-09-05",50039.0,"Class B","c2s44sjkpx",45.8,41.845,37.89,42.94,0.94,0.99,0.76,0.0108,1.0,"rain",1013.49,"Rain in the morning.",4.0,8.95,351.0,0.55,"RES.SEASON"], [2604,1184,"Was driving home at night about 9:00 pm. Turned on Bone Camp road from highway 171 and saw a large figure standing in the brush. As I turned on my brights it had taken off in the brush. This is the second time I've seen this thing and a friend of mine who lives on Bone Camp has also seen it as well as finding strange tree formations and randomly snapped limbs.","Take 171 from Northport, and Bone Camp is a right turn about 3 miles up.","Tuscaloosa County","Alabama","Spring","Report 44849: Sightings at night in the same area off Bone Camp Road near Northport",33.37095,-87.6942,"2014-12-27",44849.0,"Class A","djctu6zpc5",56.09,54.065,52.04,47.68,0.9,0.94,0.21,0.06,1.0,"rain",1022.64,"Heavy rain in the morning and evening.",2.0,7.98,130.0,0.77,"RES.SEASON"], [2607,2626,"I was hiking, with my dog, at Wallace Falls State Park on 4/26/11. I started the hike at about 11:30am and there were only two other vehicles in the entire parking lot. I had hiked passed the upper portion of the falls, following an old logging road up to Wallace Lake. I only saw one other hiker coming down from the falls lookout. At approximately 2pm, my dog and I were walking towards the lake (it was about 1.5 miles away). We heard a very strange, humanoid yell come from across a marshy bog area. We both were taken by surprise and stopped. I looked across the bog area up towards the thick forest on the other side (about 75 yards away). I couldnt see any clothing of a hiker or potential body of a humanoid creature. The sound however was very interesting. I've spent many hours hiking the Washington state forests. I know what certain animals sound like when calling for a mate or calling to signal a warning. This noise was different. It was comparable to a person yelling directly and loudly \"yoouuuuuu!!!\". My dog and I stopped dead in our tracks and listened. About a minute went by and I heard the same noise again from the same area. The loud and direct \"yooouuuuu!!\". It was very strange. I'm positive that whatever made the noise was either a human toying with me, or some humanoid creature warning me of its presence. Being miles up alone in the wilderness, I didn't want to John Wayne across a bog into thick brush to investigate. It was the first time I've ever heard such a unique sound while out in the forest. I will never forget the look of confusion on my dog's face either. I'm sure mine looked the same as well.","Wallace Falls State Park. Approximately 3 miles northeast of Highway 2.","Snohomish County","Washington","Spring","Report 29170: Man hears strange calls while hiking near swamp at Wallace Falls State Park",47.90079,-121.6692,"2011-04-26",29170.0,"Class B","c292x254q4",50.02,44.035,38.05,39.25,0.91,0.8,0.8,0.0009,0.36,"rain",1018.44,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,10.0,181.0,1.01,"RES.SEASON"], [2628,2641,"Sunday January 8th, 2017. My husband and I were snowshoeing out from my parents property towards Antoine Peak conservation area around 12:30 pm. We had gone for about 45 minutes away from the house, seeing lots of wildlife along the trails including deer, rabbit and moose. There were lots of tracks along the way as well. We came upon a trail where all of a sudden the deer trails we had been following, swerved off the main trail and up the hillside. Up ahead was a single set of tracks that appeared to be a bi-pedal animal of some kind and there the smell was something awful. We weren't sure what to make of the tracks at first so we just continued along the trail. I immediately noticed how far apart the tracks were and became very aware of what we COULD have been looking at. I had my husband try to match his stride to those of the tracks, and he came up VERY short. We didn't come prepared with tape measures or anything like that, but my Husband is 5'9\" and he could only get to about half of the stride length. We continued to follow the trail of tracks for several hundred feet and they suddenly turned and, what looked like, jumped off the side of the hill towards a clearing where there is a pond in the summer months. At the time there was about a foot of snow on the ground and the following day, another 6+ inches fell. We are not sure what created these tracks, but I am unaware of anything with such characteristics in this area.","Antoine Peak Conservation Area. This is a very large \"park\" where no motorized vehicles are authorized to go and lots of wildlife is abundant.","Spokane County","Washington","Winter","Report 56332: Snowshoers find possible tracks in the Antoine Peak Conservation Area",47.73081,-117.159,"2017-01-08",56332.0,"Class B","c2kxtcpkj7",24.21,23.085,21.96,20.18,0.97,0.95,0.37,0.0015,0.4,"snow",1014.99,"Foggy starting in the afternoon.",1.0,3.76,40.0,2.61,"RES.SEASON"], [2629,776,"In November 1996 just a couple of days before thanksgiving my best friend and I were camping and deer hunting on Weyerhaeuser forestry land in SE Oklahoma the nearest town would be Smithville but even at that it would somewhere around 9 miles as the crow flies. (Land has since been sold to John Hancock Corp). This area is in the same general area as where my written report occurred. This area is used to grow soft pine trees for harvesting to grind into paper pulp. The total area is something around 800,000 acres. So you can imagine how big of an area this is. There are no homes or anyone living in this area at all, in fact you are not even allowed to build any permanent hunting cabins or such things. By this time of 1996 I had actually all but given up gun deer season, I was almost strictly a bow hunter. About 3 years before I was actually in a tree stand and had a bullet go over my head. Some idiot was out there somewhere (never seen him heard the shot but never seen the guy that pulled the trigger) anyway he was out there just taking pot shots. I had decided after that I would just stay with my bow hunting. However my buddy wanted me to go with him as he was alone, so I decided to go ahead and accompany him. The area that we camped in is an area that is very difficult to get to and rarely does anyone go into this area. You have to exit off a logging road and travel up this very steep clear cut that climbs up a small mountain. There is really not even a road as such that you have to travel along. At one time the loggers just took a dozer and cut a path the width of the dozer from the bottom of the mountain all the way up and then along the crest of the mountain. And this path is never maintained so it gets very rough and only a 4x4 can get through and even with that you have to drive at a speed little more than walking speed. This path travels about 3 miles and simply dead ends just at the start of the downward side of the mountain. Me and my buddy call it the dish. We call it that because you are traveling up this mountain in heavy forest make a curve then suddenly you are facing down and at the bottom is a area that very much resembles a satellite dish where it is void of trees and the concave shape of the ground gives the impression of a satellite dish. This clear area is about 30 feet or so in diameter. So anyway we make the journey up the mountain and take the treacherous path up to the dish. There we make our camp and it of course becomes our home away from home for the next few days. It was a bit odd this year because normally you see one or two hunting camps once you enter the area from the highway. But this time we seen not one camp or hunter. Now to take note the dish from the highway is 14 miles, now of course that is not straight line miles because you know how access and logging roads rarely run straight for any distance. On day 3 of our hunting trip we get up before daylight as usual and get ready to go out into nature and see if we find any deer. After all, that was why were there, even so I had seen nothing the previous two days but didn’t really care because as usual I very much was enjoying myself with the flora and fauna. I am also very interested in geology and there is much to see in that area. To imagine that area at one time was a shallow sea never ceases to amaze me. I wish when I took my first geology course in college I would have changed my major and pursued that field further. Oh sorry there got off track didn’t I. We decide which directions we were going and we plan for our rendezvous back at the dish for 12 noon. We walk together for about ½ mile camp and there we split up my buddy continues to the west along the top of the mountain and I head south down the side of the mountain. Being that it was not yet daylight and these woods are very thick and dangerous to walk in during the daylight hours due to the rough rocky terrain I was not about to do any walking until first light so after we split I only walked about 10 yards or so and sat down and waited for a few more minutes until sun up. At sun up I get up and start my hunt, I normally am not a stalker for a couple of reasons to be a successful stalker you must have coordination to walk and not make noise also you really need a lot of stamina. I possess neither of those traits. So I normally hunt from some type of stand. But I had sat for several hours the evening before and was ready to move, plus I wanted to do some exploring into a saddle I had never been into before so this day I decided to stalk. NOTE: I am using the term “saddle” here and will continue using that term; however it really is not a saddle as such. A saddle is the gap between where 2 mountains run close together. This area is on the same mountain but it has two ridges (or fingers extending out away from the mountain) making a gap and valley in between these two parallel fingers much like a saddle. Imagine if you will, make a fist with your left hand, then after you make a fist extend your index and middle finger out like you are making the peace sign. Your hand is the mountain and your two extended fingers are these fingers that extend out from the mountain. The width of this finger is I am guessing somewhere around 150 yards, but could not see all the way through because of the trees (more on this further below). I will be walking down that eastern finger which in the above example would be your middle finger. Your index finger will be the western finger or ridge. (I hate using the term ridge it is too vague). The distance between these two fingers were only about 50 yards apart at the mountain and by the time you get out to the tips they are nearly a hundred yards apart. So the technically are not parallel either they do diverge some. And the length of the finger I am on is about 300 yards. The length of the western finger is about 370 yards. Never went up there so I have no clue how wide across it is. Also the crest of that finger is about 20 – 30 yards higher than the one I am on. END OF NOTE I start walking down the mountain side and after about a half hour I reach the eastern finger of the saddle. I sit for a few minutes to rest and catch my breath before taking out down this finger of the saddle. On this finger I could view the saddle valley to my right and also could see the eastern side of the western finger of the saddle. From the top of the finger I was walking I could see very clearly down to the bottom of the saddle which was no more than 100 feet to the floor nearest the mountain and as you walked the top of the finger away from the mountain this finger sloped downward toward the valley so that by the time the finger ended the valley within the saddle was no more than 50 feet from the peak of the finger to the valley within the saddle. So from my 12 o’clock position to 180 degrees to my right (clockwise) I had a totally unobstructed view. With the exception of the trees in the saddle valley. But I had a clear enough view that if a deer was in there or came through that valley there was no way I would miss seeing it. This particular course also gave me a good look at the western finger face although with many trees on it there were several spot that had no trees and the rock strata was exposed which would give me a chance to look at to see If I could distinguish the types of rock there. I could also watch the ridge top of the western finger and see anything coming over the top. Over to my right across the top of this finger is heavily wooded with mainly hardwoods however there were some pine trees among them. This is old growth trees some of the hardwood (oaks, hickory) are quite large. It is heavily wooded enough that even in the bright sun it is fairly dark in there only a few feet in. Not dark enough that you can’t see but you certainly would not need sun glasses in there. It, just like up in the dish it gets dark in there long before the sun is fully set. There is very little under growth in this area because it is so sunlight challenged. And the spacing between trees are fairly wide so that if anything of any size moved through you would have no trouble sighting it. This tree line extends almost all the way to the edge of the finger. You would only have maybe 5 feet of space to walk the length of the finger clear of trees. From the edge of this finger I am on in some places are straight down into the valley below. The only way to get on this finger is from the direction I came or as I will speak to later would be from the very end or tip of this finger. So I slowly stalk down this finger, keeping just inside the tree line so as not to be exposed to the valley floor and the western finger. I stalk very slowly along in no hurry whatsoever. Understanding that stalking means walk a few steps stop, wait, and listen, and repeat. I stalk nearly the entire length of this finger and decide I need a break so I walk out of the tree line to a spot that is actually clear of trees (except for one tree about the diameter of basketball) for about an area the size of a large bedroom. There was this very fine looking stump there that actually looked like it was made for my fat butt and it was high enough that I did not even have to bend my knees very far to be sitting. I figured I would sit for a while and rest my tired legs then I would finish walking this finger all the way to the tip and look down it and into the valley across the way. Then head back because we were to hook back up at noon and by now it was 9:30 and I was a good 3 miles from camp and a very hard climb back up the mountain. (Why in the hell did I ever decide to walk down the damn mountain, I knew I would have to walk back up at some point)? As I was sitting on my fine stump I looked down the finger out to the tip. At the tip was a huge oak tree I am 5ft 10 and it would have took two of me to wrap my arms around this thing. As I was looking at this tree and trying to figure out how a tree can grow to that size in so little soil. I then notice just off to the right of this tree a figure walking up from below the tip of the finger. The figure was in bright sunlight so I immediately recognized it as walking on two feet. And he appeared to me to be walking with his head down. But my first thought was what a dumb ass. It is deer season and if you are in hunting you are required to wear blaze orange and this guy had none. Even if you are not hunting it is a good idea if you’re out in the woods. Now granted I had only seen one human in 3 days and that was my hunting buddy. And even though there were no humans for miles I for one would never take a stupid chance like that. I guess I should mention also that during the deer gun season, logging operations cease and the loggers go home. The company’s do not want their employees getting plugged by some knucklehead hunter. So I knew that this guy was not a logger. Then the next question came to my mine how in the hell did this guy get there? There is no logging road in that direction for a very long way. And from the nearest road it is a long ass haul to that point. And that haul would not be easy at all in fact that area is inaccessible even by an ATV. The next thought no he is not a hunter he is not carrying a rifle nor does he have one slung on his shoulders. Now remember that all these thoughts were processed in my head in a matter of micro-seconds. While this guy was walking slowly up this slope to the top of this finger that I am on. Then the next though through my mind gosh that is a cone head (from the movie) with hair. Because his head was very pointy. Next thought my god those are big assed shoulders. Next thought why in the hell is he wearing a mink coat? WTF. Next thought did god forget to give this guy a neck? It looked to me as his head was attached directly to his shoulders. Then this guy finally reaches the top and stands directly besides that big oak I was looking at just moments ago. Next thought my god that is one big MF. I have seen many football games and some of those have been up in the nose bleed section and those guys even that high up look big. But this was different I am now 83 yards from this guy and he is the biggest person I have ever seen bar none. Then the big guy looks up and looks directly at me out in front of god and everyone. It was then I realized ok I am not looking at any man but not really animal either it didn’t seem. Now let me attempt to explain what big guy did. Imagine yourself standing looking straight ahead at some target and right next to you and slightly in front of you to your right is a big tree. Your desire now is to get behind that tree with little movement as possible. What you would most likely do is simply lift your left foot and pivot 90 degrees counterclockwise on your right foot with your head and neck froze in place to watch your target while moving. That is what he done. Next thought do I have any clean underwear back at camp cause me thinks I need them. Then the flight or fight response kicked in on me but I forced myself to stop think and evaluate. I determined that at 83 yards (didn’t know it was exactly 83 yards at that time I went and marked off the distance later)(I was actually guessing at the time 100 yards)there was no way no matter how fast he was, that he could cover that distance before I put at least 3 bullets in him. (However I thought later than may have only pissed him off as big as he was). But anyway when I assured myself there was no real danger I calmed down and started thinking clearly again. The big guy was now standing behind that oak watching me then suddenly he popped behind the tree and I couldn’t see him. So at that point I very slowly got up and moved behind that little tree near me. Then I peeked around that basketball sized tree (BTW at that time I was beach ball size so you can see the tree really offered no concealment) to see what was happing. By the time I looked back up he was once again peeking out from behind the tree. Now this time I thought that poor guy is deformed somehow because there appeared to be some kind of growth just around and below his throat. Could not make it out but definitely could see the discoloration and could see that there was something there that didn’t belong. I was straining as hard as I could to make out the facial figures of this guy but try as I might there was simply no way I could make out any details of his face. My one real regret in this whole experience. Anyway we just kind of stared at each other for a couple of seconds then he popped back behind the tree. So I done the same the best I could. Here I am in an area with trees the size of Volkswagens and leave to me to pick a sapling to hide behind. After a couple of seconds behind the tree I pop out my head don’t see him but I stay in that position a couple of more seconds then the big guy pops out his head again and looks at me. Now I am really confused because the growth that seemed to be on his throat is now over on top of where a clavicle would be. I don’t know what is going on it is just too far away for me to make out fine detail. Someone with better vision probably would have been able to make things out better. Now here it becomes surreal and I don’t know if I can put into words the way the situation seemed to instantly change. One moment I am so tense you could not have driven a straight pin up my butt with a 16 lb sledge hammer. The very next second a calm came over me and somehow I just had a feeling that there was nothing to be concerned about. So while he was looking at me I purposely leaned my rifle up against the stump I was just sitting at with him watching me. I just got the distinct feeling (yes I know the least scientific thing in the world) that he knew that I meant no harm and had no intention of doing anything to him. Maybe not maybe I am just reading more into that than I should. For lack of a better word we basically played peek-boo for another two minutes popping back and forth behind the trees. I just got a feeling he would have liked to have gotten a closer look at me just like I wanted to with him. Of course that was never going to happen. I think we may have kept doing that for a while longer but something happened that changed the circumstance. After a total of just about 3 minutes he very suddenly snaps around the other direction? I was thinking what the heck. Then I heard what he heard very large SNAP coming from the woods on top of this finger. I peed. Then the big guy turns and keeping the tree between me and him he simply walks off. He did not run or even walk particularly fast, he was walking a bit faster leaving than he did walking in but not in any panic. I figured if it was something that made him want to leave the area I better figure out quick what that made that noise. So I pick up my rifle and immediately start scanning. I want so badly to walk over to the tip to see if I can a glimpse of big guy. But I don’t dare until I resolve this issue. After a couple of minutes of searching and listening to the noise I finally track to the source of the noise maker. A frigging tank rat. Damn I missed a possible chance to get a better look at big guy because of a dang tank rat. (Don’t bother looking that species up that is my personal term for an armadillo). As stated above after the incident I walked off the distance and also solved one of the mysteries. The abnormal growth on big guy was not on big guy at all. It was on the tree it was a viral knot about the size of softball. I am 5’ 9/10, standing under the knot I could barely touch the bottom edge of the knot with my fingers standing on my tip toes and arm extended as far as I could. I found no tracks what so ever even though I knew the exact location of where he walked up and back from, but the ground was hard pan and even a D9 bull dozer would have been hard pressed to leave any marks/tracks in that ground.","Can show on a topo map","McCurtain County","Oklahoma","Fall","Report 25703: Experienced hunter decribes a brief standoff at approx. 80 yards, in daylight, near Smithville",34.36778,-94.68028,"2009-03-25",25703.0,"Class A","9yhet2ryvd",64.62,54.225,43.83,43.16,0.79,0.31,0.96,0.0147,1.0,"rain",1012.01,"Rain in the evening.",8.0,8.04,103.0,0.95,"RES.SEASON"], [2632,2314,"It was last year (2019) around mid October near the Blue Ridge Parkway. Me and my boyfriend were working for the Roanoke Times delivering newspapers when this encounter happened. We delivered anywhere from 12am-6am. We were almost done with the route when we went to turn down this dead end maintenance road since there was houses at the end of that who got the paper. It was around 3:30-4am. While My boyfriend was going down the gravel end maintenance road the headlights caught a glimpse of this thing standing right at where the grass met the road. It stood about 7ft tall and it took off up the hill. It kinda walked fast, not necessarily ran. It was dark brown and had shaggy hair like fur. It was on 2 feet and walked like a human with its arms swaying back in forth right below the knees. I screamed out for my boyfriend to stop the car, but by time his reaction time kicked in whatever it was had already made it's way up the hill. My boyfriend positioned the car so the lights would shine up that hill and that's when we saw 2 bright glowing red/yellow eyes looking back at us. What was strange was it was hiding behind a huge tree and how high the eyes was up from the ground was close to 7ft tall. You could clearly see the eyes blink. We sat there for approximately 10 minutes and finally decided to finish up the route and come back. We did eventually come back after we got done with the last house and it was gone, but you could see where tree limbs and grass was pushed down from where it was standing on the side of the road. Maybe less then a month before we had that encounter we had heard tree knocks while on our route, from deep down in the woods maybe a neighborhood or two over. It scared us so bad when we heard it that we just bagged the newspaper up and threw it on the side of the road.","It was the neighborhood next to William Byrd School. One of neighborhoods next to it is Toddsbury. It's right off the Blue Ridge Parkway and its mountains","Roanoke County","Virginia","Fall","Report 65423: Newspaper delivery couple describe 4am encounter outside Roanoke near Blue Ridge Pkwy",37.29734,-79.85085,"2019-10-15",65423.0,"Class A","dnxhnvy2u2",74.23,62.31,50.39,42.52,0.63,0.16,0.57,0.0003,0.08,"rain",1019.2,"Clear throughout the day.",6.0,10.0,190.0,4.12,"RES.SEASON"], [2638,587,"I was 17 years old and fishing on a boat about 25 feet from shore. My father was with me and decided to take a nap on the deck of the boat. Suddenly I heard the sound of footsteps walking through water. It was a unique sound because it was a very distinct \"caploosh Gloomp\". \"caploosh Gloomp.\" It sounded like when I have walked through knee deep water in the past. Then, I heard a roar like nothing I have ever heard before. It sounded angry and a bit like a lion. There was splashing and then the sound of a squealing animal in distress, followed by more splashing and more roaring. Immediately, I started looking around in all directions but could not see anything. The sound was so vivid. I felt I was in danger and that whatever was harming this small animal was going to harm me and may even jump in the boat. Paralyzed with fear, I used the quiet electric trolling motor to get as far away from shore as I could with creating any disturbance. I woke my dad up who was napping and he heard the tail end of the encounter and instructed me to immediately start the motor and get out of there. We headed back to the marina and went inside to get a snack and drink. We had not known what we had encountered or if anyone would ever believe us. We were discussing the incident between us. Just then, a man behind the serving counter asked us what was wrong and could sense the fear in our faces. We told him of our encounter and he did not seem to be surprised. He told us that a few years ago a news crew showed up at this lake to do a report on a \"Bigfoot\" sighting. Until that time neither my dad or me suspected a Bigfoot, nor had we heard of anything like it. From that point on, I have been convinced that it might have been. In my mind I ruled out a short or four legged animal because of the sound of the distinct footsteps in the water. The aggression of the splashing and roars could have only been made from a large animal. One thing to note is that the woods and forest surrounding the lake are very, very dense and have often commented to my dad that it would be very difficult to get onto the shore. I have told this story many times and have been ridiculed. I hope you will believe me.","Clendening Lake","Harrison County","Ohio","Summer","Report 30548: Two fisherman hear commotion of a roaring animal on brushy bank of Clendening Lake",40.26059,-81.22332,"2020-02-16",30548.0,"Class B","dpnjp9nyzm",46.49,34.695,22.9,27.91,0.69,0.54,0.79,0.0013,0.15,"rain",1020.3,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,10.0,229.0,4.51,"RES.SEASON"], [2641,1851,"Me and three of my friends were on county line road west, between watkins dr and hanging moss road in Jackson ms. We were at a small pond just off the road,doing what you did back in 1979,drinking a few beers ,well we had the radio going pretty mellow for the day,when my friend Tim, whose car we were in said,did you hear that?We turned the radio down and rolled the windows down a little,listened ,nothing, so we turned the radio back up and in a few minutes We did hear something,it was a pretty loud growl,not like anything i'd ever heard before,we were on the north side of the pond and it was on the south side,there were cattails that were at least 7 foot tall on that side of the pond,Tim turned on the headlights and across the pond there was a huge hairy ape it looked like,with huge green eyes,and it was turning its head slightly from side to side,blinking its eyes,which were green only because of the headlights of course,well that got all of our attention real good, I remember asking everyone if they saw what I did,and we all agreed that bigfoot was on the other side of this real small pond,it had to be at least 8 feet tall,and had a very cone shaped head, just like a silverback gorilla,and was black as far as I could tell,it was making some grunting sounds every now and then,we cut the headlights off and cranked ths car,which chose to take a very long time to fire up,when the animal let out the most spine tingleing roar i've ever heard,kind of like a lions grunt but much louder and longer,the car fired up and we got out of there ,when the headlights came back on it was still there,I have to say it scared us so bad we didnt tell many people,but it has remained in my memory all these years,I can still hear that roar,its quite distinctive,I grew up in those woods since I was 7,always felt like something was watching me,from bicycles to dirt bikes we would ride those trails. At the time of the sighting the area was being developed into a industrial park,and hwy 220 bypass was in its first stages,we really were on the edge of Jackson at the time it was good bigwoods,with streams and ponds here and there. thanks for letting me tell this,as i'll never be able to forget.I moved from MS. in 1996,and never saw tracks or any sign of bigfoot,although i did know about it,and did look for tracks pretty much whenever I was in the woods,which was very often.Thanks.","area now is all developed,lakewood industrial park ect. on the south side of west county line road","Hinds County","Mississippi","Fall","Report 27012: Witnesses tell of a sighting they had as teenagers outside Jackson - w/sketch by artist",32.40191,-90.19371,"1979-10-10",27012.0,"Class A","9vzb7ddfy1",61.99,51.46,40.93,43.67,0.77,0.7,0.67,0.0059,1.0,"rain",1018.13,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,8.83,20.0,7.59,"RES.SEASON"], [2648,2873,"Christmas Day, 1986. Fifteen years old at the time, I was staying at my uncle's house near Kent, WA. At the rear of the house is a forested area. Around 7 or 8 am on Dec.25, 1986, we were all leaving to visit other relatives and I realized that I had left something inside the house, so went around to the rear entrance and was fumbling at the lock when I heard a tremendous crashing coming towards me through the forest. The oddest thing about the entire incident was my reactions - completely different to what one would expect. Hearing the crashing coming towards me I didn't (as you would expect someone to do) turn around to see what was happening - I felt a tremendous feeling of dread which certainly didn't help my efforts at unlocking the door. Whatever it was that was coming through the forest was making a LOT of noise and sounded BIG. The noise came closer until it was just approximately 30 metres behind me just inside the woodline and to my left, at which point I very slowly turned around (again it is impossible to convey just how frightened I felt) and I saw a creature standing upright and looking at me. It was tall and bulky but definitely not a bear standing upright because it didn't have the sloping shoulders of a bear but rather looked like a tall, bulky person in a cheap ape suit. I was genuinely paralyzed with fear and could neither make movement nor sound. The hair or fur was dark brown/black/reddish tints but mostly dark from what I could see. It was, as I mentioned, standing just inside the treeline, so the lower legs were hidden from view - only from about midthigh upwards was visible and definitely looked humanlike but with a pointier head than a normal human. I had the feeling that the exchange of looks lasted quite long but probably only lasted a few seconds before I was finally able to move, at which point I raced back round the front of the house and jumped into the car with the rest of the family, who remarked that I looked like I had seen a ghost. I never told anyone about what I had seen because growing up in the Pacific Northwest, one learns to laugh at the nutcases who claim to have seen bigfoot, and I certainly participated in the ridicule until that day. I only ever went to my uncle's house one other time after that day and sometimes now wish I had been brave enough to have looked in the forest for footprints later but it was simply impossible to have done at the time.","Hilltop Avenue, dead ending side street going north from E. James St.","King County","Washington","Winter","Report 7483: Morning daylight sighting around rural homes near Kent",47.39,-122.2187,"1986-12-25",7483.0,"Class A","c23jdg54cb",44.21,43.22,42.23,38.23,0.85,0.98,0.8,0.0307,1.0,"rain",1016.98,"Rain starting in the afternoon.",1.0,7.22,156.0,3.87,"RES.SEASON"], [2649,1511,"We were coyote hunting and when we first sat down my buddy says “did you hear that” I said “hear what” then he said “it sounded like a wood knock” I didn’t think much of it and we went on to call for about 30 minutes. After 30 minutes of calling I stand up to sign the field edge and when I sign I see 2 huge glowing eyes like a yellowish bright color I’ve never seen before and it was high enough off the ground my first thought was the land owners put a reflective sign in a tree. So I scope in on it and I realize whatever it was, was hiding behind a tree looking around it. So my buddy’s start scoping in on it to. Then it proceeded to crouch down low to the ground and look around the other side of the tree. Then it disappeared for about 10 seconds then popped up 10 yards to the right of where it first was and it was looking around a tree again and when we all scoped in on it we all clear as day witnessed it crouch down like a person and it vanished. I’ve been in the woods all of my life and seen all shorts of eye shine and tonight I seen the unexplainable.","Investigator (Moneymaker) Notes: For the Google Maps link to the location, click . Coordinates: 45.694750, -87.747750","Menominee County","Michigan","Winter","Report 67602: Coyote hunters watch upright figure at night in woodline with glowing yellowish eyes outside Faithorn",45.69347,-87.74364,"2021-01-30",67602.0,"Class B","f01egq5pbb",30.35,27.455,24.56,16.08,0.73,0.95,0.58,0.002,0.13,"snow",1023.6,"Overcast throughout the day.",1.0,9.017,97.0,8.07,"RES.SEASON"], [2660,3803,"My wife and I took a drive to Skaguay reservoir near Victor Colorado. Nice day and there were people fishing along the lake. Crazy thing is it was 11am and this thing walked across a valley in full sight of lots of people. It was across the lake maybe half a mile, walking slow but was moving at a fast pace, its arm movements and stride looked normal to be going that fast. I asked my wife her thought and she said it looked big and moved real differently. There were people on the lake and on the far bank half way to the animal fishing, it appeared larger at a greater distance. When it left the valley it left a way or on a trail that no one would choose. Before it left sight it stop behind a tree watched for a minute and walked away.","Standing on the west side of the lake looking east over the water. More to southeast looking past the east end of the dam.","Teller County","Colorado","Summer","Report 41935: Couple observe a large dark figure as it watches fishermen at Skaguay Reservoir near Victor",38.68775,-105.047,"2013-08-05",41935.0,"Class B","9wvk1dgh7r",75.64,64.975,54.31,48.37,0.65,0.24,0.96,0.0001,0.21,"rain",1014.16,"Mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",11.0,10.0,359.0,1.67,"RES.SEASON"], [2663,1279,"I was driving a VW bus so I had a good view of my surroundings. As I rounded the first corner of the exit I noticed what I thought was a big white dog, like an Afghan running on all fours toward the road, up an embankment. We both reached the same point at the same time and I thought I would hit the dog. It seemed it didn't notice my car until it reached the side of the road when it was only feet away from the car. I don't remember slowing much but I wasn't going very fast to start with as the curve was pretty tight. As the creature reached the road and I saw it, it stood up on it's back legs. It was covered with long white hair maybe 8 inches long, it wasn't thick but more stringy and dirty looking and it had a round head, not a dog. I passed the creature and didn't catch it in my mirrors as it was dark. It scared me.I didn't get much detail of it's face but I did notice a fairly large mouth or lips which were prominent. The head was not huge and the body was pretty slender, it was probably as tall as the VW when it stood up, over 6 feet.","I believe it is exit 287 off I-65. I think at that time there was only an exit at that location in one direction. I saw the creature on a curve near the interstate.","Blount County","Alabama","Summer","Report 50178: Recollection of a roadside sighting of a white Bigfoot near Blount Springs",33.89833,-86.84557,"2014-01-14",50178.0,"Class A","dn40zg0bpd",58.16,48.01,37.86,39.26,0.73,0.38,0.46,0.0022,0.96,"rain",1015.56,"Mostly cloudy in the morning.",3.0,9.54,294.0,2.21,"RES.SEASON"], [2668,3743,"We were driving up (withheld) road to pick our son at a friends house when the creature passed in front of our vehicle, approx. 15-20 feet in front of us. It was clearly illuminated by our head lights. It appeared 7 to 8 feet tall w/ thick brown/black hair. It had two long legs and only took two strides to cross the street. Then, about 30 minutes later on our way back, we saw it again, this time our son was with us.","Nevada County, near Nevada City, Californa.","Nevada County","California","Winter","Report 7804: Family has two late night sightings near Nevada City",39.26361,-121.0161,"2004-01-04",7804.0,"Class A","9qczq5wz07",41.99,35.54,29.09,24.96,0.77,0.05,0.41,0.0002,0.13,"snow",1027.33,"Clear throughout the day.",2.0,10.0,31.0,0.23,"RES.SEASON"], [2671,4884,"I was driving home from Council Grove after getting a coffee and some cigarettes, it was just after day break and the fog was kind of splotchy and lifting. I was driving slow just enjoying the morning when I saw something on the side of the road next to a cornfield so I slowed down thinking it was a deer.I still had my head lights on and could see perfectly. But what i saw was not a deer it stood up to its full height which I estimate to be 8ft.and looked right at me. It had a piece of corn in its hand and I mean a hand like a humans hand. It looked like a human being with hair all over him. I stopped my car and just starred at it as it did me, then it took off and jumped the road in two large strides. It made it down the creek bank in a few seconds.I was to afraid to look for footprints as i was by myself. I have told a few people about my sighting, but after I called and reported it to the law enforcement and was laughed at I haven't spoken of it to anyone else. I know bigfoot exist's and have tried for years to prove it as my first experience was when I was a kid. The place I found tracks back then is only a few miles from this sighting. I grew up in the country and on the same creek it ran off to. I don't know if you all are serious and will believe me but I feel better getting this off my chest and telling someone I hope will not laugh at me. I still find it amazing that it was eating corn like that. I would love to get involved with a group to help prove they exist I am a total believer now. I still can't get over how human it looked. The fur or hair was long in some spots but shorter around the face and eyes. I have drawn it out on paper many times.I thank you for having this site to let me tell my story.","the road is called Dunlap road and the creek is called Big John I am not sure who the corn field belongs to.","Morris County","Kansas","Summer","Report 25860: Early morning driver spots bipedal animal eating corn near Little John Creek near Dunlap",38.62563,-96.44296,"2009-08-10",25860.0,"Class A","9yg7trs6s5",85.64,74.155,62.67,67.63,0.76,0.36,0.65,0.0243,1.0,"rain",1015.88,"Heavy rain in the afternoon.",8.0,9.66,171.0,2.27,"RES.SEASON"], [2677,4009,"I was kayaking with a friend in econlockhatchie river in orange county the east side of orlando fl it was 2003 early spring or very late winter my friend was much slower than me so I was having fun suprising these very large alligators that were sunning them selves in the early morning sun.The river is very narrow and has tight winding corners which allowed me to pop around a corner and to my delight most of the time a huge gator would slip into the river silently I would glide over the spot thinking that gator has to be lurking on the bottom.Anyway The wind was light out the west very dry and cool a real treat for a floridian I paddled a ways on a strait with the wind blowing from the woods to the water when I smelled such a strong overwhelming oder musty thick moist pugent smell I never experienced before I looked to see what on eart could it be when I saw big patch of long flowing fur it was shiny and light brown and moving fast then this animal crashed through the woods with so much force that small trees were popping and snapping as it ran away from me and the river then that smell was lingreing over the area and was so strong I finnaly held my breath and had paddle to get some fresh air.I had heard that bigfoot smelled like that but I had no idea they had been reported in fl.Anyway I had watched monster quest for years and not one person ever mentioned the smell I only remember it from seventies on tv when i was very young I never reported this til now because I felt stupid and confused then after watching tonights episode where 2 different reports described that same smell I felt compelled also the location seemed very odd orlando fl just seemed too odd but internet searches showed many reports","ecolockhatchie river off st rd 50 between 2 spots where we drop the kayaks then drive 2 cars then drive back so we can float down stream and drive back so we dont have to paddle up stream then float back to the same spot where we parked the car get to see more of the river","Orange County","Florida","Spring","Report 25577: Kayaker smells a terrible odor and then sees a hair-covered figure on the Econlockhatchee River",28.48106,-81.11927,"2003-03-15",25577.0,"Class B","djn640ff0n",79.93,71.5,63.07,65.06,0.83,0.71,0.4,0.0008,1.0,"rain",1013.72,"Foggy overnight.",6.0,6.83,32.0,2.47,"RES.SEASON"], [2684,3671,"You would be interested in what happened to me a year ago, and twice more in 24 hours, just 2 weeks ago, near the Humboldt Mendo County headwaters of the Matole River. I am absolutely convinced that some unknown animal exists here so I began on the internet a search for similar accounts. While immersed in the Internet searching it became clear to me that your organization should have this most recent information in a timely manner. Last July 2018, I was staying in a very isolated region, which had very limited access, behind 3 locked gates and 20 miles south of Whitethorn, CA, on a primitive 4x4 road. This place is at the end of the world, on the northern border of a vast green belt spreading from Shelter Cove on the coast, east to Highway 101, and south to Fort Bragg, and east to Piercy, as can be seen on Google Earth. About 3 a.m. I was awake, it was a hot and dark night in these mountains. Something above my tent location, approximately 200-300 meters, began knocking on wood, best described as loud whacks on a tree trunk by a big club or branch. It started with one knock, which got my attention, with a brief hesitation, then several more knocks, but randomly timed, some in succession, others after hesitations. The knocking was loud, so loud that it echoed down the canyon. The event lasted only a minute or two. My first thoughts were that there was no one on the mountain who could be out here in the middle of a primitive and protected area. These knocks were obviously from something large, and no North American animal could have made them. I listened intently while my mind tried to wrap around how the noise was made. The woods were silent, not even a cricket. I told a few locals afterward and learned that there were other hotspots for squatch sightings between Piercy and up to Willow Creek. Flash forward to two weeks ago, when waiting at the first locked gate to this same conservation area, I heard two distinct vocalizations which cannot be explained. As I waited in the dusk for about 45 minutes, waiting to meet a party at the gate who were running late, I heard a very loud wail/ scream/ call that I've never heard before in nature. The call of this thing I located at about my 2 o'clock, facing east, and up the heavily wooded area above me, about 200-300 meters. I instantly knew where I had heard such an unfamiliar call....about 3 years ago when watching a Bigfoot reality show, where these squatch hunters were making this strange/unique call while searching for Bigfoot. There was a few second delay from the first call, then a few more, then silence for about a minute, leaving me to wonder if this whole experience was real, pondering what I know about the wilderness, either that was an unknown animal or some kind of implausible prank. It was loud, echoing down the mountain, as though some huge creature could belt like the lungs of Pavarotti, only much louder! The chance of it being a prankster waiting in silence with me for 45 minutes in that remote location, just to hang out in these impenetrable woods and prank me, went away very quickly when, when another call out at about 3-400 meters to the north of the first, approx my 8 o'clock. It was also just as loud, just as unique as the first, but came only 3 calls in succession, u-ah-o, u-ah-o, u-ah-o, with a distinct higher pitch on the \"ah\". This absolutely blew my mind, because the first call might be an elk on steroids, but the response from what was clearly not an owl, brought chills down my spine. This was some kind of communication between two individuals, neither which can be explained by any rationale. I must tell you that I have trekked and lived in remote areas in Africa, Australia, central and south America, many places of potential danger, and never had an inkling of fear. I was born and raised near Yellowstone Park, with 100 times the average distance trekked by most individuals in their lifetime, and never had bad experiences with grizzly, mountain lions and wolves. Travelling all these years with a firm understanding of ecosystems, I never could have believed in such mysteries, that anything new would ever be discovered. I had a fourth experience, which I must say something about, but it happened just the night before the dual vocalizations. On Friday evening, Nov 1st, 2019, I had just moved into a cabin that my brother and I rented, located along an extremely rugged canyon area of the Matole River. It was dusk, quite dark already in the forest. I was outside looking at the stars, taking in the newness of these rugged surroundings. Up above, again about 300 meters up and to the east of the river, there was a screaming that was so loud and so foreboding that I could only listen in amazement. It was the loudest screaming I've ever heard, so loud I thought it was produced by some kind of banshees from a horror film. The screams continued, full throttle, for over 5 minutes. I know mountain lions can scream, but nothing like this. It sounded much louder, more guttural, literally as if someone had set up a loud speaker and played the bloodiest scream that Hollywood could produce. At the time, the night after Halloween, I wondered if someone was up on the mountainside pranking me as a newcomer to the neighborhood. I listened for a bit, then went inside and told my brother about it because it was so unnerving. Bigfoot did not even enter my mind. But then at dusk the next evening I witnessed these 2 calls waiting at the gate. I have since been over and over in my mind, why have I been so lucky as to hear or experience such mystery? Much less 3 distinct vocalizations which cannot be explained. I began pouring over USGS maps and satellite imagery to ascertain what the link may be, 20 miles apart, are there any people or neighbors or access for individuals in the areas I experienced which may explain these? Could one individual in such obvious stress on one night, have triggered the coincidental travel of at least 2 more unknown creatures the very next night?? I have talked to many locals about hearing strange noises, but no one claims anything, or they don't want to be ridiculed. Look, I am a man, 60 yo, with extensive wilderness experience in forests and jungles all over the world. The closest thing to new species discovery for me was the Costa Rican jungles, but my mind has always been as a skeptic observer, dealing in evidence based biology as a science. What has happened to me recently has completely changed me! There is a mystery in these woods, and I have a few ideas how to answer them. Please feel free to contact me, if you would like access to these remote locations. And I am very curious if other people in my area are having similar experiences. Something unexplained to science lives out here, and I am beside myself with these recent events. Troy Hunter, troy.hntr@gmail.com. There is very limited cell service. 928-231-3***.","In a remote location near Baker Creek road.","Humboldt County","California","Fall","Report 63645: Mattole River Watershed (Lost Coast region) resident reporting loud knocks and vocalizations.",40.01142,-123.9122,"2019-11-02",63645.0,"Class B","9ppgs7cgkm",66.62,57.685,48.75,35.88,0.47,0.0,0.21,0.0005,0.03,"rain",1019.5,"Clear throughout the day.",4.0,10.0,80.0,3.64,"RES.SEASON"], [2685,616," We were driving home to the Lancaster, Ohio area on Lithopolis Road heading in a southeastern direction. We were coming over the hill just before the intersection of Lithopolis and Rock Mill Road slowing down to 30mph because of the very dangerous intersection. As we approached the intersection about 100 feet from the covered bridge, my friend said that he sees a set of eyes reflecting from the car lights on the left-hand side of the road. We quickly slowed down to take a look at what he was looking at. We all looked in the direction and witnessed a tall dark figure with yellowish green eyes walk from the left side of Lithopolis Road into the wood line at a normal pace taking very large strides. Being so late at night, we came to the conclusion that it could not have been a person because of the lack of homes in the area and it being late at night. We all agreed that the object in question was way to built in stature to be a person. The limbs appeared to be more elongated than a person. At no time did the object in question go down on all fours like a bear.","Rock Mill area of off Lithopolis Road intersecting Rock Mill Road very close to the covered bridge.","Fairfield County","Ohio","Summer","Report 7936: Three people driving slow down to witness a dark biped walking toward the wood line near the Rock Mill Wildlife area",39.74107,-82.70263,"2000-06-29",7936.0,"Class A","dpj4n49u90",76.29,63.705,51.12,55.68,0.71,0.31,0.92,0.0007,1.0,"rain",1013.07,"Partly cloudy until evening.",9.0,9.77,292.0,5.74,"RES.SEASON"], [2687,1643,"My wife and I were traveling south on Scenic Highway 7 north of Bovey, MN. It was a Sunday 2 weeks before Labor Day 2009. We had been swimming at our lakeshore property and my wife offered to drive home. I was in the passenger seat and noticed what I thought was a man in the ditch ahead of us. We were about 200-300 yards from this person when I noticed an animal type movement of its upper body. I have hunted in northern MN my entire life and thought this was really strange that this person could react with such speed. I then focused on this person - it then made a movement to the woods but just as fast decided to cross the road. I alerted my wife to slow down to not hit this person. As she slowed this creature crossed less than 20 paces in front of us. It was covered in dark brown fur was 6-7 ft tall. It had a broad nose with little hair on its forehead or cheeks. Its feet were covered with long hair like a clydsdale horse that trailed on the pavement as it crossed. Its chest had welts that I reasoned were from insect bites. It had long muscular arms and when it reached the other side of the road swung his arms and leaped the entire ditchway. My wife asked it it was a werewolf. I am very well trained when it comes to wildlife and would never have believed what I saw - seeing is believing. Also, its gait was unusual - it was no human in a suit. bigfoot does exist..","call me if you wish","Itasca County","Minnesota","Summer","Report 31166: Husband and wife experience an up-close daylight sighting on Hwy. 7 north of Bovey",47.5,-93.0,"2009-08-16",31166.0,"Class A","cbmy5xp7wc",73.4,60.46000000000001,47.52,63.51,0.89,0.85,0.86,0.0019,1.0,"rain",1006.35,"Light rain until afternoon.",5.0,7.28,206.0,3.72,"RES.SEASON"], [2698,3070,"I was out for a ride on road bicycle and had to stop on the side of the road to take a nature break. The section of road where I took my break had woods on both sides of the road. The right side of the road where I was stopped at was at the base of a banked hill. The opposite side of the road dropped down into a valley where a creek ran through it. There were no houses close in the area, and I was really out in the country. As I was taking my break all the sudden this rock goes flying across the road in the air about 15 ft off to my right shoulder. I just caught it going through the air out of the corner of my eye. I turned just in time to look across the road and see it land on the other side of the road. I looked up the hill to see who could have been throwing it, but could not see anyone. The hill had a very steep slope to it and most of the leaves had fallen off the trees, so it was easy to see deep into the woods. Getting a weird feeling I finished my business, and got back on the pedals and left the area. I heard no sounds, nor did I did smell any orders. But the location I was at no one could have seen me coming and climb this hill fast enough to get out of my line of sight. of sight.","Southeast of Sistersville WV. Along county road 3 miles from the Ohio River.","Tyler County","West Virginia","Fall","Report 13312: Bicyclist reports possible rock throwing incident outside Sistersville",39.51,-80.985,"2005-12-12",13312.0,"Class B","dpn2v0sd2t",31.99,21.44,10.89,19.04,0.72,0.49,0.4,0.0011,0.85,"snow",1014.23,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",2.0,9.96,293.0,4.81,"RES.SEASON"], [2700,917,"Hunting in the woods, I saw what I at first thought was a deer but it turned out to be an elk (rare to spot in the area). Out of nowhere, it took off running ... that's when I saw a large animal take off and run about 50 feet beyond the elk. It was about 300 feet from me and I pulled my rifle up on it to see it with the scope and was able to follow it just long enough to see that it looked to be dark brownish with what looked to be possible moss on it. I headed over to where it was and saw what spooked both it and the elk ... a group of 3 hunters were walking about. I asked them if they saw anything and they said no. I told them I think I just saw a bigfoot - they laughed. I chatted with them a couple minutes, then walked over the area that the bigfoot ran. Other than just some bent grass there was nothing until I came to the base of an old growth tree. There looked to be a single part of a foot print ... It was just the front half of the foot and it looked to have just the ball under the big toe and the big toe and the next two. It was about 3 inches deep and the big toe looked to be about 4 times bigger than mine.","About 10 miles up above Silver Falls State Park, way back in logging area. There are many roads with a lot of overgrown forest land along with many old growth trees.","Marion County","Oregon","Fall","Report 15067: Brief daylight sighting by hunter near Silver Creek Falls State Park",44.915,-122.585,"1995-10-15",15067.0,"Class A","9rbzd882f6",65.1,57.095,49.09,46.81,0.92,0.47,0.72,0.0005,1.0,"rain",1014.14,"Foggy in the morning and breezy in the afternoon.",4.0,6.35,202.0,5.15,"RES.SEASON"], [2702,169,"My son and I had just finished watching the sunset on the Blue Ridge Parkway at the Masonic marker. We were still sitting there watching the overview as a fog was rolling in. It was getting very cold so we got into the car, cranked the car up and started to back up and leave when a very dark large figure ran across the road into the woods. It looked man like. I turned towards the figure but couldn’t see anything. It was entirely too large to be a black bear and definitely wasn’t an elk. I haven’t seen any at all this weekend. The figure was very black. The hairs on my arm and back of my neck stood up straight I have never in my life been so afraid.","We were at the blue Ridge Parkway at the Masonic marker","Haywood County","North Carolina","Spring","Report 69269: Possible sighting of a Sasquatch on Blue Ridge Parkway at overlook near Masonic Monument",35.53467,-83.17152,"2021-05-30",69269.0,"Class B","dnkf5kuk7n",59.5,51.86,44.22,44.3,0.82,0.61,0.67,0.0008,0.21,"rain",1020.0,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,9.77,355.0,4.57,"RES.SEASON"], [2712,4793,"My wife, daughter and I saw a very large dark figure cross the road no more than 50 feet in front of us. This thing cleared the road in not even two steps. The arm on this thing was long and extremely large. I found some interesting information which leads me to believe they use the forest preserves to move from west to east and vice versa..my heart literally jump this time because it walked directly in front of us and all three of us saw it. Now my wife and I know that we are definitely not crazy.","We were heading south, this was just north of Vollmer Road on Central Avenue in South Green Belt Forest Preserve.","Cook County","Illinois","Winter","Report 38395: Motorists have nighttime sighting north of Matteson.",41.53346,-87.75156,"2012-12-20",38395.0,"Class A","dp3s70vmbq",48.76,37.565,26.37,39.03,0.93,1.0,0.26,0.043,1.0,"rain",993.69,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",1.0,5.36,145.0,1.79,"RES.SEASON"], [2734,1195,"It was the month of July, 2009 in Fairbanks Alaska. I was heading south on Auburn Dr toward Farmers Loop which was about 1 mile away. It is a wooded area frequented by homes and in general would be considered a populated area. Houses are on an average of about 100 to 200 feet apart with only the general area around and close to the homes cleared out. Most of the area by far is wooded. It was the section of the road where it passes by Pearl Creek Elementary school. The school can be seen through the woods. Some of the woods in the area are quite thick and in some places can’t be seen into more than about 10 or 15 feet. But in this area, it had apparently been cleaned out quite a bit and sightlines into the section of the sighting were very open. The school and vegetable garden could be seen off to the right from the road I was on. It was about 6pm and I was heading home after a day of working on a deck I was building. The weather was clear with the sun high in the sky. As I was driving, I happened to notice a “man” standing by the right side of the road about 100 yards ahead. It was more of an unconscious recognition. There’s nothing unusual about a man standing on the side of the road in this area. As I got to within about 50 yards, I looked closer. “That’s no man” I said to myself (I was alone in the car). Shortly after that, 1 or 2 seconds, he bolted into the woods towards the school. He did it like a wild animal would do if spooked. I didn’t slow down until I got to the place where I saw him go into the woods which is where I stopped. I could see him running away from the road and when he was into the woods about 30 yards or so, he turned left and was now running parallel to the road in the same direction I was heading. I got a good look at him, but not his face. I could have probably seen his face had I not been so mesmerized and had the presence of mind to look at it. I was busy noticing other things. His fur or hair looked to be about 3 to 4 inches all over the main part of his body. It was a reddish rusty color. I was mildly struck by how red it was, but it definitely had some rustyness to it. He was about 6 feet tall and looked to weigh about 200 lbs. He ran with a strange “Hoppy” kind of run. It wasn’t a limp. With one foot he pushed off with was more a normal running move, but the other foot he pushed off with propelled him upward (about a foot or less) and forward. I watched him until he disappeared into the woods. There was a road about 100 yards ahead and I took off to get to it so I could turn right and in 20 yards turn right again to the road that lead to the school parking lot. So the wooded area he was in was sort of a peninsula and he seemingly had to be in there somewhere. The woods I was looking into from that angle were quite thick and I didn’t see him and haven’t seen him since. A little farther up on the right was the school garden that had people in it (around 7 - 10) which I’m now sorry I didn’t stop to go talk to them about it. The next day as I was driving in to work on the deck, I naturally slowed down in the area I saw him (stopped actually) and was surveying the area when a couple walking their dogs were approaching. I flagged them down and told the story of what happened the evening before and they told me that about a week before they were with their dogs and were on the way other side of the school property by the soccer field and 3 kids came running over to them saying “Did you see the sasquatch, did you see the sasquatch.” They also said that what appeared to be a Dad was with them who didn’t seem to excited about it. My conclusion to whether it was real or not is summed up by saying. “It was either real or there was a man in a VERY, VERY convincing costume.” I reported it to the fish and game office in Fairbanks a couple days later. The person who was taking the report was sort of rolling his eyes through the whole thing as he seemed to be writing it down on a piece of scrap paper-. I even had to ask him to take my phone number just in case.","The intersection of Auburn and Farmers Loop is about 1 to 1 1/2 miles of the University of Fairbanks campus. You should be able to find it on google maps easily.","Fairbanks County","Alaska","Summer","Report 26604: Daytime sighting of reddish-colored bigfoot near Fairbanks",64.89139,-147.8142,"2009-07-15",26604.0,"Class A","bewchmhgxr",63.41,54.37,45.33,52.49,0.73,0.85,0.77,0.0012,0.74,"rain",1016.61,"Foggy in the morning.",4.0,5.73,324.0,0.96,"RES.SEASON"], [2737,608,"Hello, I live in Huntsville, Al. I have a friend who lives near Steubenville, Oh. She has told me that she has found large human-like footprints on her property several times over the past few years. Her son and nephew had a sighting of a Bigfoot a year ago. Now, she says that over the past week and a half or so, she has been experiencing some things. One of her sons and she went out in the woods behind her house 10 days ago or so, and she felt like she was being watched. Shortly afterwards, she smelled something that she described as \"rotting garbage.\" Then, she heard a loud knocking noise nearby. She described it as sounding like a log being banged against a tree. She noticed leaves stripped off trees that were out of her reach. And, she said to me that the sounds, and the feeling of being watched have continued to the present time. I asked her if it was OK that I contacted you, and she said that was fine. I then asked her if she would be willing to talk to someone about these happenings. She said yes. But, she feels a little uncomfortable about this, and wants me to be sort of a liaison. I told her I would email this in, then you can contact me, and I'll keep her updated. I wanted to tell you ASAP, in case you had an investigator who could run by there before these happenings quit. I'm not sure at this time, but I think if the investigation was discreet, she would allow one on her property. I'll have to talk with her some more about that. Or, if she's comfortable, maybe I can arrange for one of you to talk with her personally.","North of Steubenville off of State Route 213.","Jefferson County","Ohio","Spring","Report 8785: Family has series of experiences north of Steubenville off of State Route 213",40.42591,-80.6616,"2004-05-01",8785.0,"Class A","dpntux21br",79.01,70.88,62.75,56.71,0.67,0.53,0.38,0.001,1.0,"rain",1014.63,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",7.0,10.0,196.0,8.17,"RES.SEASON"], [2745,639,"i walked out of my mothers farm house i heard a deep howling sound coming from down by the calf penI returned to inside the house and explained to my mother that i heard the same noice decribed to me by my mothers boyfriend a few weeks earlier that he had heard then i left it was foggy out i was going down the hill right beside my mothers house i thought it was a telephone pole on the right side of the road it took off in front of my jeepit was brown and larger than i am and im six foot three inches and 240 lbs it ran across the road in 3 or 4 large steps it was very hairy and dark brownit didnt even look at me it just ran on 2 legs i also heard the whilstles sound last year coon hunting and thought it was a bird till i heard the exact same sound on a recording on the internet","North of Malvern, near the Pride Valley Trailer Park.","Carroll County","Ohio","Spring","Report 11771: A young man hears vocals and has a sighting north of Malvern",40.71737,-81.18352,"2005-05-30",11771.0,"Class A","dpnr8s7gyg",66.75,56.48,46.21,51.22,0.82,0.69,0.75,0.0007,1.0,"rain",1016.17,"Foggy overnight.",9.0,9.29,137.0,0.35,"RES.SEASON"], [2754,2631,"My fiancee and I were driving on a road in Marysville, Washington called Hilltop Rd. It starts off winding through woods and while curving to the right we saw this gigantic light brown to dark tan hairy figure cross from right to left. I couldn't see the head because it was above the area illuminated by the truck lights, but I saw that the shoulders were at least three feet across, and at the shoulders it was at least 8-8.5 feet tall, and while it ran I could see the arm/shoulder movement and the thighs move as well. With how steep the area it was that it went down, and how wooded and rainy it was I don't think a human could navigate its way down there as quickly as it did, because by the time I had stopped and gotten out it was gone, but you could hear the crashing of it moving through the brush and trees.","North from Marysville on 67th to Hilltop Road. To the right there is a steep hill it had to have come down judging by the foliage that it had slid down the hill in the direction it was headed. And to the left where it went to is a steep downward hill that had a lot of trees and obstacles.","Snohomish County","Washington","Winter","Report 38224: Huge upright figure crosses road in-front of Marysville couple at night.",48.11308,-122.1375,"2012-12-11",38224.0,"Class A","c291swwpjb",44.26,42.115,39.97,40.5,0.93,1.0,0.94,0.0069,0.9,"rain",1006.1,"Light rain in the evening and overnight.",1.0,9.57,146.0,2.48,"RES.SEASON"], [2767,768,"Went camping in the Ouachita mountains near Talemina Scenic Drive. At 3:39 we all woke up due to the sound of something knocking a tree behind us. Was in the distance but close enough to make you on edge. We thought it was a woodpecker and brushed it aside. 10 minutes later we heard the noise on our right side of the tent. The knocking was in triples such as “ knock, knock, knock” then a pause and the 3 knocks again, but in every direction the knocking had a slight variation. The knocking was coming from all sides of our tent, as if there was something surrounding us communicating. Knocks has slight variations in how quick they were, but all of them had the triple knocking. The closest knock was about 50 yard uphill from us. The close one made everything stop in the woods, it was raining and it stopped along with the wind. This is weird considering it was super windy up there the whole time we stayed, except that one moment. We all agreed to not camp that spot again.","[camp site near Horsethief Picnic Grounds off Talemina Scenic Drive]","Le Flore County","Oklahoma","Spring","Report 65284: Campers awoken by loud knocks around 4am near Talemina Scenic Drive",34.4415,-94.4325,"2020-04-03",65284.0,"Class B","9yhggjuk72",63.53,54.69,45.85,54.5,0.88,0.78,0.34,0.0212,0.93,"rain",1015.2,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",5.0,9.601,95.0,4.49,"RES.SEASON"], [2768,4121,"Hello, I contacted someone from your organization about a year ago regarding my encounter in central Florida back in the middle 80s. I was called away to work and was unable to continue with the call. With that said, I would like to finish sharing my experience. I was working as a fence contractor in central FL during the 80s. We had obtained a job to build 10 feed plots for deer in a remote area off of hwy. 44 near the Blackwater Creek area of the Wekiva River Basin. The acreage is vast and was utilized for big game hunting. Since there was a deadline, we had all of the fence material trucked in and we set up camp at the end of the access road. This allowed us to be onsite until all work was complete. On the second day of our stay, we (myself and a helper) were surveying and clearing a fence line in the early morning hours, it was still misty with little light coming through the trees. There was four of us total working, so we split up into two teams to knock out the 10 plots. While my helper and I were clearing brush we were commenting and joking about an odd odor (skunky/sulfer like) we had been smelling a few minutes before reaching the site of the first plot. As we were pulling a string line, abruptly, a dark, bipedal form stepped into our fence line about 60 yards ahead of us. At first we thought it was one of the installers working with us, but as it moved closer to the clearing you could clearly see it was not a human. It appeared to be mostly covered with orange/brown hair, un-human long arms and an odd shaped head (wide, pointy and large) with a very short neck. Once it stepped out, it seen us as well, and when we shouted out the names of the other workers it quickly vanished into the treeline. We viewed the creature for what seemed to be 60 seconds or so before it bolted off. My helper and I were stunned at what we had seen. We spent a few minutes trying to rationalize it but there was no doubt we witnessed something extraordinary. I was carrying a side arm so we walked up to the clearing but could not see anything through the trees, however we did hear something moving rapidly away from us for a few seconds. That was the first of two encounters. The second encounter happened on the fourth night of our stay. All four of us were at camp which was set up on the bank of Blackwater Creek, about 15 feet from the waters edge. That area of the creek is approximatly 12 feet in width from bank to bank. We had began to cook dinner and were still carrying on conversations about our sighting of a hairy creature two days prior, with the other installers ribbing us saying we must had been drinking on the job and such. There was a cooler that we had tied to a rope and placed in the creek to keep the contents cool. As we were eating a loud splash from across the creek startled everyone. One of the other installers ran down to the creek and found that our cooler was gone, as well as the rope and stick it was tied to. We all walked down to the creek bank but there was no sounds other than the normal water movement. The missing cooler was chalked up to raccoons or an alligator. As we settled back into eating, one of the guys walked away to relieve himself, as he returned to the truck everyone looked at him, he was silent and all the color was gone from his face, he just looked at me and said \"I'm sorry, I will never doubt anything you tell me again, ever\". Not sure what he meant at the time, I asked him what happened, he quietly turned and pointed, saying \"someone or something was standing on the other side of the creek watching me pee\". It was obvious he was actually scared speechless. I grabbed a spotlight and we all walked down to the spot where he was standing. As I was hitting the treeline with the light there was no sight of any movements, eyeshine or anything so I stepped as close to the waters edge as I could. As soon as I turned the light back on and the beam hit the other side of the creek, we heard a loud grunt, almost similar to a pig, I panned to our left and that's when it all happened. A large bipedal, hair covered animal stood up from behind a group of palmetto bushes. It stood fully erect, the light shine of the eyes were almost gold, it reacted to the light hitting its eyes like a person would, by throwing it's forearm up in front of its face, let out a chilling sound (not a grunt, more like a short howl) unlike anything any of us had heard, it then turned and fled, vanishing like before. All of that happened in just seconds and all four of us witnessed it. We immediately packed up our gear, went to a motel and stayed at the motel until the job was finished. Three of us later went to the FL fish and wildlife office and reported what we had seen. It was during that report when I first heard the term \"skunk ape\" or even that there had been other sightings of this type. I can honestly tell you, without any doubt, it was not mistaken identity. I grew up as a hunter and outdoorsman and I know what bears look like and also how they act in the wild, it was not a bear, it was definately a primate of some type. Till this day I am effected by the encounters.","From I95 south take the LPGA BLVD exit near Daytona, turn right, follow to end and turn right onto International Speedway BLVD (17/92), continue on 17/92 into DeLand, Turn left onto 17, turn right onto 44 west, continue on 44 approximatly 10 miles. Cassia is a very small town, look closely for the sign. Once in Cassia, the area where this took place is now called Camp Boggy Creek, I believe, which will be on your left, a sand road. It is just before the Blackwater Creek bridge (small bridge). Unknown who the land owners are now if any.","Lake County","Florida","Spring","Report 32249: Memory told of close encounters while working as a fence contractor near Cassia",28.85982,-81.48534,"2007-04-10",32249.0,"Class A","djnh1vb0tu",68.77,65.41,62.05,59.67,0.9,0.91,0.75,0.0098,1.0,"rain",1014.89,"Light rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",6.0,7.0,31.0,1.56,"RES.SEASON"], [2787,4316,"Myself and my brother both had separate encounters with it in the Spring and Fall of 1994, respectively. I first encountered \"something\" in the spring of 1994 when camping with a group of friends in the woods bordered by Lyons rd to the west, the Florida Turnpike to the east, Sample road to the south, and the Winston Park development to the north. I left the camp alone at about 1:00 am heading east, towards the Turnpike on a trail. I began to hear what seemed to be footsteps in the woods maybe 5 - 10 yards to my right. I'd also like to say that I smelled a musty odor, but I could be inserting that into the report - it's been awhile since I had the encounter, and my recollection isn't as clear as I wish it were. Regardless I continued to walk, and the footsteps were remaining parallel with mine, and it bacame clear that whatever was two my right was walking on two feet from the stepping pattern. I started to get a little frightened, because the area where the footsteps were coming from was a thicket of Brazilian peppers - difficult to walk through during the day, and nearly impossible to manage in the night. I heard it move closer, and I turned around, and walked briskly back to camp. I woke my friends, and we went back to find it, although it was gone at the time. I remember leaving with the impression that I had encountered a sasquatch (which must be because of the scent), although I wrote it off as a figment of my imagination - that it must've been a farmer or a vagrant in the woods. I preceeded to forget about the incident, and never mentioned it again. About six months later, my brother was in the same woods, maybe a half mile from where I had my \"encounter,\" walking at night with a friend. He turned a corner from one trail to another, and \"bigfoot\" was standing at the intersection of the two trails. He said that it had reached out for him, and he and his friend ran off. He told me about the experience, and I then related mine. We had a running joke for awhile that there was a \"monster in our backyard.\" I'd like to be able to have my brother provide his report, since he had a sighting and is a better and more credible witness than I am, but he passed away at the end of 95 (I believe I might be able to find the friend, however) Regardless, I wanted to report the incident for a few reasons - first - it's a very unusual area to encounter an creature like this - the area is surrounded on all sides by a significant amount of development. While there remained a good deal of open land, including a tomato farm, a tree farm, Tradewinds Park, and some undeveloped land, it didn't strike me as being an area where one would have thought to find a creature like this - there doesn't seem to be too terribly far for this thing to go without being spotted. Further, given the amount of development that has gone into the area since, its range is becoming severely limited. Still, the 1975 Broward report happened about a mile or two west of where my brother and I saw it, so it must have found a way to adapt. It's possible it could move along the turnpike and the sawgrass expressway somewhat unnoticed, making it over to the nearby landfill, as well as Quiet Waters Park, although it appears unlikely that it could've gone too much further without being caught in the middle of suburbia. Given the amount of development that has since gone into the area, it's range is further being restricted. It might be a very lucrative area to investigate. At the rate development is going, if it still back there, it's going to be encroached upon sometime soon.","Lyons halfway between Sample and Hillsboro, roughly where the Wiles rioad extension is being built.","Broward County","Florida","Fall","Report 1831: Foot steps heard while walking on trail at night",26.28585,-80.17845,"1994-09-15",1831.0,"Class B","dhwvx3py4t",87.11,84.03999999999999,80.97,75.82,0.83,0.86,0.36,0.01,1.0,"rain",1017.59,"Rain in the morning.",10.0,9.43,113.0,9.63,"RES.SEASON"], [2794,2830,"Deer hunting, south 101 out of Aberdeen, mile post 69, turn left on m-line -- logging road, turn left onto m-2800 stay left, #4 were I found a 20ft tree upside down stuck into the ground, about three feet in-- root side up... took a picture and drove to end. I parked and set up for some good hunting. Time 0845am. Sun out things a warming up. facing north with a lot of open clear cut area, glassing it all. The hill in front across the valley is 150 yards across, heavily treed. At 10:45 half way up the center of this hill, comes a loud crashing running straight down the hill in front of me. He makes a (my left- his right) turn and jumps on this deer killing it. The deer cries out three times and stops. All is now quiet again. I try making my way down my hill up the hill in front of me, nothing doing.. started to rain again, could not cross the river or creek, so I moved back to my spot to hunt.. nothing happening, so I went home at 1:30 pm.","101 so, logging road m-line to m-2800 #4","Grays Harbor County","Washington","Fall","Report 28532: Hunter near Raymond hears what sounds like a sasquatch chasing and killing a deer",46.82742,-123.7095,"2010-11-17",28532.0,"Class B","c2242utmrx",48.71,43.58,38.45,43.1,0.93,0.97,0.37,0.0255,0.64,"rain",1009.3,"Rain until afternoon.",1.0,7.35,211.0,4.62,"RES.SEASON"], [2800,2896,"I was walking my dogs in Marymoor Park, near Redmond, WA. It was in the early-to mid-afternoon. The park was predominantly empty and quiet, and despite recent rain, the paths were not overly muddy. It was a sort of hazy day, with some sun, probably 50-60 degrees. We had followed a somewhat under-utilized trail/road that parallels Hwy 520, going from the velodrome down to the Sammamish River. It is a grassy area with occasional brush. The trail makes a T-junction at the Sammamish River bank. One can turn right and go under Hwy 520 to Redmond Town Center shopping district, or turn left and remain in Marymoor Park. Just at the bank of the Sammamish River, there is a stand of brambles that create large mounds on both sides of the trail on the Marymoor side of Hwy 520. This little bramble forest is probably about 30 yards long. The Sammamish River travels along the west edge of the park, emptying into Lake Sammamish about 1/4 mile away (or slightly more?), in the park. (Salmon run this river in October/November.) We turned left and were walking through the brambles, parallel to the Sammamish River, heading into the park and away from Hwy 520. Just as we were at the end of the bramble mounds, and emerging into a clearing area, to my right, from the river bank, there arose a hair-raising screeching howly yowling sound, like something terrified and screaming. It did not sound human and was quite long-winded/sustained. I stopped and stood very still. I was chilled to the bone by the sound, the hair standing up on my body. One dog looked towards the river, his fur also standing on end and the other cowered a bit, her tail down. The sound was coming from within about 50 yards of us, but I could not see anything or anyone along the river bank. There is brush and trees there, so they were blocking my view of some areas of the river bank. The W. Sammamish Parkway is across the river and parallel to the river and the trail I was on. The cars travelling along that road create a certain roar as do the ones on Hwy 520. Whatever this yowling sound was, it was super audible above the sound of traffic on both these busy roads. After a minute, we began walking again, and the sound arose again. This time, it was further away, maybe 75 yards up the river. This time, the yowling sound was followed by knocking sounds of wood on wood. At this point, I did go to the edge of the river and look up the river bank to see if I could catch a glimpse of whoever or whatever was making the noise, but I could not see anyone or anything there. I wondered if it was people goofing around, but I did not see anyone or hear people sounds. A few minutes later, I heard knocking, again, but no yowling. It was probably from the area just below an old non-functioning windmill that stands on the banks of the Sammamish River, near the west entrance & bridge into the park. When we reached the main bridge that comes into the park from the Sammamish Parkway (close to the windmill), we turned east, towards the Clise Mansion and park facilities area, and were no longer walking along the river. I did not hear any other yowling sounds after that. Also, from that vantage point (the bridge), I could not see anyone or anything along the river. About 15 minutes later, when I drove out of the park, I again stopped near the bridge to look up and down the river, but saw nothing and no one.","Marymoor Park is a fairly large park that used to be a farm. It is on the edge of Lake Sammamish and is bordered by the Sammamish River on the west. Part of the park is open grassland, some is forested by pines and flowering trees, and part of it is swampy terrain, especially along the lake edges. There are several large brambled areas. There are intermittant stands of brush throughout the park, a community farm, a pet cemetery, large off-leash areas, sporting grounds (cricket, baseball, soccer, tennis),an auditorium, a velodrome, and a house/museum. The old chicken coops and barns are now facilities/maintenance offices and sheds. The park hosts a great deal of wildlife: rabbits, weasels, water fowl, salmon, snakes, birds of prey (owls, osprey, hawks), coyotes and deer. There are residential areas to the west of the park. To the east, mountains arise above the lake, and there is a great deal of wild terrain.","King County","Washington","Spring","Report 34479: Woman walking dogs hears possible vocalizations and knocks in Marymoor Park",47.6633,-122.1253,"2007-03-15",34479.0,"Class B","c23phuz4f7",47.85,46.21,44.57,34.49,0.76,0.67,0.88,0.0013,0.9,"rain",1027.7,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,9.97,106.0,0.3,"RES.SEASON"], [2802,2196,"Approx. 3:40am, Dec. 20, 2017 went outside before work. Across from my house is all country, Corps of Engineer land, north end of Grapevine Lake, Denton County, Texas. Across the road of my house maybe 200 ft, I heard three loud knocks followed by a single one. A few seconds later, I heard something answer back with three knocks about a half mile away deeper in the woods.....tree knocks. The hair stood up on the back of my neck. It was dead quiet before all of this. I do know there were no kids in the woods, nor did I see any flashlights.","south of Argle Texas and north of Roanoke 1.8miles east off of Hwy 1171","Denton County","Texas","Fall","Report 58855: Suburban Flower Mound resident startled by possible wood knocks close to home in early morning",33.04,-97.18,"2017-12-20",58855.0,"Class B","9vfguwexvy",61.6,55.1,48.6,53.02,0.92,0.61,0.08,0.0001,0.2,"rain",1013.96,"Foggy in the morning.",2.0,5.69,202.0,0.3,"RES.SEASON"], [2814,456,"I saw one in Napoli, NY, by Sawmill Run Rd. It was October 2000. My dad and I were hunting turkey on state land we were walking slow and quietly stopping and looking around. We were about 20 yards apart and we were both looking SE. I turned slowly and didn't see anything, but then did see movement in front of me. I pulled up my gun, ready for a turkey. It was about 20 yards away and I didn't shoot. I didn't know what it was. It was on two legs, all brown-red hair all over it and at least six feet tall. It took off running like a big guy, but swift. It ran down hill away from me and was out of sight. My dad was still looking the other way. I wish he saw it to, but he didn't.","New York State Land on Bucktooth Rd. & Sawmill Run Rd. in Napoli, NY.","Cattaraugus County","New York","Fall","Report 13288: Daylight sighting by turkey hunter near Napoli",42.15947,-78.82683,"2004-10-15",13288.0,"Class A","dprzy6bh9w",55.72,49.415,43.11,46.03,0.83,0.93,0.05,0.0116,1.0,"rain",996.63,"Rain in the afternoon.",3.0,6.96,184.0,6.24,"RES.SEASON"], [2818,2621,"Neighbors dogs started becoming increasingly loud/threatening barking...went outside of my home, heard at a distance of approx. 1/2 mile a series of howls...start low and quickly rise to a scream. Incredible lung capacity! Every 5 seconds or so it would repeat. It appoached from the river (got louder)...moved west...still howling...then quickly moved south/back from the river up the terain....howling as it retreated..untill it wasn't discernable. I've hunted with friends in the Colorado Rocky's for black bear, elk...have heard their death throws. . .and I've NEVER HEARD ANYTHING LIKE THIS IN MY LIFE.","Granite Falls east on Mountain Loop HWY 7 miles (2 miles short of Verlot)","Snohomish County","Washington","Winter","Report 23017: Possible vocalizations heard by resident outside Verlot",48.105,-121.905,"2008-02-01",23017.0,"Class B","c2939vprzt",39.5,36.11,32.72,34.9,0.93,0.98,0.83,0.0003,0.32,"rain",1010.87,"Overcast throughout the day.",1.0,10.0,185.0,1.87,"RES.SEASON"], [2820,4904,"When you enter Kingman County from the [east] on [60th street]. It was on the first bridge you come to. He was on the west bank. Just north of the bridge. It is wooded right there but surrounded by farmland. I am handicapped so I cant walk to where he was. My son could but I didn't even think of it. It just happened day before yesterday and its been raining.","Investigator Note: The location is where SE 60th Street (Route 364) crosses over the South Fork of Ninnescah River. For the Google Maps pin for the location of the figure seen in this incident, .","Kingman County","Kansas","Spring","Report 69193: Two motorists spot a Sasquatch TWO DAYS AGO on South Fork Ninnescah River 30 miles west of Witchita",37.56215,-97.85428,"2021-05-17",69193.0,"Class A","9ydmtmbxqh",77.61,68.255,58.9,60.63,0.8,0.77,0.19,0.0012,0.4,"rain",1011.4,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,9.595,60.0,5.47,"RES.SEASON"], [2823,4928,"A friend and I were walking up the hill at approximately 2:00 am.No drugs or alcohol had been consumed by either of us. We were walking on the road up the hill when we both heard a \"scream,\" for the lack of a better word. It definitely was NOT human, but it sounded like no animal I had ever heard. It was simultaneously high-pitched and growling; it was very strange. It first seemed to originate from a pretty good distance away. This is mountainous country, and we were near to the crest of the hill. the sound seemed to come from the valley below. When we first heard it, we both froze and looked at each other. After the \"scream\" ended, we both asked, \"What the hell was that!!,\" and we started to move a little faster up the hill. After 20-30 seconds, we heard the sound a second time, only now it lasted longer (about 6-7 seconds) and sounded MUCH closer. At this point we ran up the hill and back to my friend's home as fast as we could. My friend, who still lives in the area, says that he has heard the sound on two other occasions since then, but I never heard anything like it again; that is, until I downloaded some possible Bigfoot sounds recorded in Ohio, and that is EXACTLY the sound we heard that night. And a WAV file is as close to that sound as I care to get again.","Coal Harbor Hill, Perry County, Kentucky, USA","Perry County","Kentucky","Summer","Report 2429: High-pitched growling scream heard by witnesses.",37.2731,-83.49205,"1986-07-01",2429.0,"Class B","dnssh16gw1",84.41,76.94999999999999,69.49,71.09,0.86,1.0,0.83,0.0254,1.0,"rain",1013.42,"Heavy rain in the evening.",5.0,4.96,198.0,4.8,"RES.SEASON"], [2826,1250,"01192008 Suspicious knocking was heard about 3:00 am as my husband was camping with Boy Scouts on the side of a ridge SE of Henderson Peak about 200 yds from State Rd. 281. (topozone.com map 33° 27.85'N, 85° 52.21'W - across road from red #13 about 200 yds. ) This is just south of the Cheaha State Park line. It was about 14 degrees with intermittent howling wind. There were 3 sets of 2 knocks each about 100 yards north of the campsite described as “a piece of firewood hitting another.” It was very loud and the knocks, though themselves rhythmic, were spaced so that the wind died down before they occurred again. These were not little limbs hitting each other and he was not able to determine if there were any responses because of the wind. There were no campers north of them and the only other campers on the mountain that were encountered was another Boy Scout troop camping about 4 miles away directly on Lake Chinobee. My husband is an avid bfro.net browser (and hopeful member of a future BFRO expedition :-) who awoke and immediately felt that this was consistent with other knocking activity. Due to the inclement conditions and not wanting to scare the younger kids in camp, he did not have a chance to follow up. Although he didn’t mention the sounds the next morning, another adult did, and with careful, roundabout questioning all other factors for the sounds were excluded (trees falling, wind, limbs hitting each other due to the wind, etc). I am typing this since he was “not sure” of the cause of the sounds and was reluctant to report something that may not have been genuine (since he wasn’t able to go look for tracks).","(topozone.com map 33° 27.85'N, 85° 52.21'W - across road from red #13 about 200 yds. ) This is in the Talladega National Forest on the Pinhote Trail SE of McDill Point and NW of Odum Trail, on the SE side of Henderson Peak (as pointed out by the Troop Leader).","Clay County","Alabama","Winter","Report 22969: Camper Awakened by Loud Wood Knocks in Talladega National Forrest",33.46345,-85.87055,"2008-01-19",22969.0,"Class B","djfymgyfxp",34.42,25.28,16.14,26.21,0.75,0.83,0.4,0.0023,0.67,"snow",1022.46,"Overcast until evening.",3.0,9.06,306.0,1.96,"RES.SEASON"], [2830,1738,"I was just a kid when I saw it. I was sitting in the back of an old Chevy Citation at the time it was pretty new, my uncle was driving and my aunt was in the passenger seat and my little cousin who was around 4 or 5 at the time was sitting in the back with me, were coming home and I believe from visiting family or something. My aunt & uncle lived down this old dirt road around 2 miles and right before their driveway which was on the left was and old dry branch or creek that ran across the road and it did not have a concrete slab to cross over it so you had to slow down a little to cross. Directly to the right of the creek was an old driveway leading to an old abandoned house which no one had lived in for years. It was dark so naturally we had the headlights on and as my uncle began slowing to pass over the rough gravel something in the corner of my right eye came into view. My aunt kind of screamed but not loudly because we were amazed and terrified. Something that looked to be around 8 foot tall, (I know as a 10-11 year old kid it was huge) came across the branch which led out of the old driveway and not running but walking briskly came directly in front the car. We all just stared as it was some dream. It was swinging it's arms a little and acted like we were not even there. It walked across the creek and crossed the water gate which I don't remeber if it went under or over but what I do remeber is the branch had washed out the bank of my uncle's yard and his perimter fence was quite tall if you were staning in the branch and this bright red haired thing jumped over from the bed of the branch like nothing and into my uncles yard. Mind you were still watching in the car. We could see it walk up thru the yard and up the hill until we lost sight of it with the headlights. My uncle turned into the drive and we had all locked the doors. My aunt and uncle went thru the count of 3 thing and we open the doors and ran inside. We got inside and my uncle got his hunting rifle out and went outside with his flood lite and looked for it and on his way back which he didn't walk far he tripped on the chord and it came unplugged then he yelled and got up and ran into the house and locked the door. To this day if you ask him about what he saw he will say he saw something but he doesn't know what it was or that somebody was playing a joke on us. My aunt will tell that she saw bigfoot and so will I. My little cousin was to small to remeber much but I remeber and to this day I don't go out into the woods without a weapon. To the best of my ability this is what it looked like. It was around 7-8 foot tall, completly covered in red hair and 1 feature I remember is it looked like it's arms were almost as long as it's legs and that it was not afraid of us. Also at that time there was a man I do not remember but lived in the area and was at the local store there in Souder, Mo. and was telling everyone he had seen bigfoot and no one believed him so none of us ever made much mention to it except to family or close friends. But I believe. I know what I saw.","From 60 highway East from Springfield, Mo. take 5 Highway South to 95 Hwy. North and it is approx. 6 miles then left county road. Can't remember the # of the road.","Ozark County","Missouri","Winter","Report 5085: Family has nighttime sighting near Gainesville.",36.615,-92.425,"2004-12-05",5085.0,"Class A","9yw22cd1v6",46.78,46.78,46.78,37.91,0.87,0.6,0.78,0.0112,1.0,"rain",1013.13,"Rain in the afternoon and evening.",2.0,5.46,104.0,3.8,"RES.SEASON"], [2841,1537,"We were mountain biking through \"Lost Nation\", state land that is open to most outdoor activity. The land is hilly and fairly heavily wooded, has a river run through it, and covers a large expanse of land, so there are many remote areas inaccessible to most casual adventurers. We were riding up the hill leading into the deeper part of the trail, when we stopped to rest, just as we stopped we heard a deep growling kind of sound that was so loud, you could kind of feel it even though the sound came from a good distance away. My friend and I were at a loss to be able to explain the sound...it was as if something was letting us know it was there...but we never saw anything. After a couple of minutes, the loud \"growl\" was heard again...just about as close as the first time. My buddy and I just joked it off as being \"bigfoot\", but I have lived near that area almost all my life, and I heard stories of people seeing something strange out there since I was a small kid...I am now 38 years old. Also, when I was a kid, a group of us came around a corner near my house when we saw what we thought was a bear..we only got a small glimpse of the \"animal\", and I was probably 10 or 11 at the time...so I don't have too vivid a memory about the encounter, but there were 4 or 5 of us in the car, and at least 2 of us were adults and we all agreed that we had seen something. I have ridden the trail several times since the day of the strange sounds, and I always get the feeling of being watched, if I am by myself, I either won't ride that section of trail, or I won't stop at all for the entire 5+ mile section...and I am always looking over my shoulder and all about...the whole area just gives me a weird feeling, and it is so thick in spots that there are several places that something could hide out in...we had even talked about how easy it would be to go in and camp and never see anybody. I wouldn't even think about staying overnight there now. The area is located in Pitssford Michigan, a little town between Hudson and Hillsdale, the county is either Lenawee or Hillsdale...the area in question is about 5 miles from M34, I'm not sure of the name of the side road it's located on.","About 5 miles south of M34 on Pittsford road..I think...te parking spot for the trail is at the top of a large hill on the left side of the road, there is a trail leading to a lake right off the parking spot...but the trail leading to the area in question is across the road and about 200 yards south, at the bottom of the hill. Take the trail all the way up the hill...roughly 1 to 2 miles in...you will round a corner by an open area and enter a heavily wooded area...from this spot on, I always feel watched and like someone is there.","Hillsdale County","Michigan","Spring","Report 7181: Two bikers hear strange sound near \"Lost Nation\"",41.79639,-84.4587,"2003-05-01",7181.0,"Class B","dp7vy0g19e",71.09,60.125,49.16,55.89,0.8,0.64,0.01,0.0262,1.0,"rain",1008.83,"Rain starting in the evening.",9.0,7.28,234.0,2.45,"RES.SEASON"], [2844,4616,"I was jogging on the prairie path I have been jogging on for years. i can show you the place, I was crossing the bridge over Algonquin road heading north. Mile marker 1 i just came from and before i get to 2 I park my car up on hill there, so I come down to the trail run over the bridege to mile marker 1, turn around and then run all the way to mile marker 3, then back to my car, so 6 miles. Anyway i was heading to the 2 mile mark (or kilometer mark, can't recall) and i was coming around the bend and i can see more than a half, maybe 2 thirds mile down the path, not sure, and i see a big guy weasring a coat. walking in the way i'm running. As i got closer It looked furry and i thought why would someone be wearing a coat it's 65 degrees or more out! As i jogged closer, the thing got bigger (it had it's back toward me) and I stopped, got the chivvers and thought...that is a bigfoot...then the thing went around the bend ahead where there's a small stream and retention pond. It was still daylight and i kept running thinking it couldn't have been...but i ran another mile and there was no one there...where did it go? On the way back i stopped at a whole in a fence by a stream and small pond and lookeed in there. it was pitch black and then i got the chills and thought that thing might be in there...i went back to my car and have not run on that trail since! Finding Bigfoot show reminded me of this.","It was the prairie path next to the Algonquin postoffice. if you were coming from rt. 31 going to Randall road, it would be on the left side about mile marker 2 or 2 and a half.","McHenry County","Illinois","Fall","Report 32400: Jogger has daylight sighting on Prairie Trail near Algonquin",42.18476,-88.29926,"2008-09-13",32400.0,"Class A","dp3pyxw2n1",73.21,69.395,65.58,69.53,0.97,0.99,0.44,0.1321,1.0,"rain",1006.75,"Heavy rain until evening.",4.0,4.64,204.0,2.56,"RES.SEASON"], [2864,4952,"I was home alone one mid-October evening. My husband and I have a cabin located in rural Lee County, KY. It’s a primitive cabin, no electricity, no phone, hand pumped water, no neighbors, etc. My husband was visiting friends about 8 miles away. Just after dark, I was sitting inside, reading a book, when I heard what sounded like two logs being hit against one another...making a loud, hollow “knocking” noise. The “knocking” happened 3 or 4 times in a row...then it paused...”knocked” again 3 or 4 times in a row...and this was repeated for about 15-20 minutes. I looked outside but didn’t see a thing. You can’t hardly see your hand in front of your face at our cabin, unless the moon is out...and it wasn’t. Just a few minutes after the “knocking” stopped, someone or something threw what sounded like a handful of gravel onto the tin roof of the cabin. We have oak trees around our property but the branches were mostly bare at that time and they don’t hang over the roof...so nothing could have fallen from them onto the roof. Needless to say, I was scared to the bone and didn’t/couldn’t make myself go outside. My husband left one of his guns at home for protection and I sat on our bed, with the gun next to me facing the door until he got home. When he did get home...I told him what happened. He went outside and shot his shotgun off into the woods about 10 times. Later this same evening, he heard something rustling around outside so he went out the front door and shot his .45 off about 12 times into the woods behind the cabin where the noises came from. The next morning, he went outside to take a shower...(we have an outdoor shower behind the cabin)...and he found one of the bullets from the .45 sitting straight up, in the middle of the shower floor like someone just walked over and set it there. The bullet wasn’t deformed in any way...it didn’t look like it had hit or gone through anything other than the rifling. My husband has always thought there was “something” out there...and has never doubted the existence of Bigfoot. Since that experience, we have become very interested in the Bigfoot sightings, followings, documentaries, websites, etc. and would like to one day participate in the expeditions.","located in a saddle (a choke-point) of trails, between Fixer Valley and Little Sinking Valley, off of KY 1036","Lee County","Kentucky","Fall","Report 27323: Possible harrassment at a secluded cabin near Zachariah",37.65805,-83.79678,"2009-10-13",27323.0,"Class B","dnsqjpmn19",60.78,53.985,47.19,53.41,0.87,0.92,0.84,0.0001,0.26,"rain",1022.6,"Overcast throughout the day.",3.0,9.54,346.0,0.97,"RES.SEASON"], [2867,2447,"actually there is several parts to my report so bare with me.First my background. I am a Mason County resident that has lived here in Shelton for most of my life.My father was a State Fire Warden since the late 1950's up until his retirement in 1978,and my Mother was a floral greens harvester for about 50 years.Consiquently I know this area better than most residents as I also run a business that requires me to be in the woods a lot.I was employed by the USFS from 1970 to 1983 in Fire Management. My first encounter with what I believe to be a Sasquatch was in October,1984.I was living in Oregon at the time and had came home to visit my folks who resided on the Cloqullam road about 3 miles west of Shelton.One evening as I was sleeping on their couch I heard a screaming noise off in the distance(I am estimating a 1/4 mile)that I can only describe as a cross between a donkey braying,a high pitched scream and a growling noise at the end.What amazed me most was the duration of this howling as it lasted about 15 seconds.About 5 minutes later it howled again, this time much closer to the house and repeats itself twice.I can still recall my parents watchdogs scratching at the door to get in.As the noise got closer I could hear a more distant but unquestionably return answer to the screaming. The thing finally got to within a couple hundred yards of the house and the noise was like an air raid siren.I have never heard any animal as loud as this.It screamed a couple of more times and then it headed back the way it came continuing to scream at intervals until it was a very distant noise and either was out of my range of hearing or had quit.The next morning I asked my parents if they had heard the noise from the previous night.They answered yes and told me that they had been hearing it for years. I did a little checking around the area and found an elderly couple who with a little urging told me of there encounter about a year before that.The couple lived about a mile from my parents place and were in the habit of taking an evening walk up a pipeline which runs betwwen their place and my parents.One evening'as they put it,something tall,large,and hairy walked from the brush across in front of them into the timber on the other side of the pipeline.It walked on two legs,and was not in a hurry but took long strides and crossed the pipeline in about 5 strides.They said it was about 50 yards in front of them and had a very bad odor. Other people in the area attested to hearing the noises.As a prologue to this about 3 weeks later my parent's dog came up missing and I found him on the pipeline.His neck was broken and he was severly torn up.I don't know if this had any thing to do with the noise but I have always wondered. My other encounter was in early fall of 1996.I was out with my dog checking on some leases I had with Simpson Timber Company.After my business was finished I stopped at an area I knew I could find some mushrooms to take home.This is in an area near the Satsop River and betwwen the Cloqullam road and the Matlock-Brady road.It was late afternoon around 5:30 pm and I only had about an hour of light left. My dog and I hiked a short way in from the road and I was down on my hands and knees cutting mushrooms when my dog came over to me and tried to get as close as he could.I was mad at him because he was stepping on the mushrooms.I recall getting a whiff of very putrid smelling air.The smell was overpowering almost like something had died with an overtone of rotting garbage.I stood up to see where the smell was comming from and turned to my right and in doing so saw a large hairy creature standing in a fern patch about 200 feet away.We both made eye contact about the same time and I was so startled for a few seconds I had to rationlize what I was seeing. It stood a good 3 to 4 feet above the ferns and was very dark(although it was late, and this could have made it seem darker in color)It turned its head to look back and then turned its torso and arms and as it did I could see long hair on its arms.It proceeded to walk quickly away.I proceeded to walk out and come home.I didn't tell anyone for a couple of days as I kept going over it in my head to ensure myself that this it what I actually saw and I am positive of the events. I have since then found tracks in the same area which is only about 8 miles as the crow flys from my parents house.","Contact me","Mason County","Washington","Fall","Report 7580: Man shares encounters of an unknown subject",47.2293,-123.4898,"2004-11-16",7580.0,"Class B","c22htvv6x5",49.42,41.435,33.45,43.18,0.95,0.77,0.16,0.0035,1.0,"rain",1022.03,"Light rain in the afternoon.",1.0,5.97,205.0,0.96,"RES.SEASON"], [2871,1671,"11/9/20 11:15 am West bound HWY 169 - 1/8 mile or so past Twin Lakes Road sign on left side of road. It was 6-6.5 feet tall walking on two legs crossing a smaller road off to left walking parallel to me driving. It crossed the road ditch to ditch with three steps. I had 3-4 seconds of clear view. I saw very clearly the creatures back and right side of body. I saw grey to brown long hair. Kind of like the coloring of a grey squirrel. The hair was wire like. It was about 2 truck lengths from my van. I laughed and told my husband and my kids I think I just saw Bigfoot haha. I told my husband what I saw stating it must be someone in a suit because I saw it clear as I would look and see a rabbit or a wolf crossing the road. He said that would have to be somebody really crazy since it’s the third day of deer hunting season.","[Investigator note: Longitude / Latitude: 47.879654, -91.977476 ]","St. Louis County","Minnesota","Fall","Report 67381: Sasquatch sighting by motorist 5 miles west of Ely",47.87965,-91.97748,"2020-11-09",67381.0,"Class A","cbw87h0p1m",53.01,36.43,19.85,40.15,0.83,0.81,0.8,0.0256,0.93,"rain",1007.3,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",1.0,9.142,269.0,7.24,"RES.SEASON"], [2873,435,"I saw Bigfoot from the chest up just below my house, it was in a wooded ravine below my house. This was on June 4th, 2011. It arrived there with a great deal of crashing and breaking down of trees. I was looking to see what was coming when it stood up and looked at me. It had greyish brown long hair, particularly over the face, wide set eyes, ears on the sides of the head, and a huge chest and shoulders. It looked at me for maybe 1 minute, then went back down into the ravine. Later that day it was making lots of sounds, like low grunts, my friend heard this as well. After that, it stayed in the Cuyahoga Valley area all summer, and I would often hear it calling, smashing rocks together, knocking on trees, and one day it sneezed a lot. Another day in September my cousin was using my large tractor to mow under the trees behind my house, and as I walked to my car from behind my house, I heard a terrific crash to my right, and there it was again, it had knocked over a tree and then I saw it run back into the ravine. I did not see any tracks, because since I knew it was down in the ravine most of the time I left it alone. It only recently seems to have left the area. I heard something like it about 2 years ago but never saw it that time.","Edited at the witness' request.","Summit County","Ohio","Summer","Report 31852: Daylight sighting behind a home in Cuyahoga National Park",41.23739,-81.60576,"2011-06-04",31852.0,"Class A","dpmfx503py",88.85,77.00999999999999,65.17,58.88,0.62,0.24,0.09,0.0001,0.01,"rain",1017.79,"Partly cloudy starting in the evening.",10.0,4.14,219.0,1.64,"RES.SEASON"], [2876,4953,"I am an emt-b and a former firefighter from the greenup county ky area. I have had 2 encounters in my lifetime with, what i believe to be, bigfoot/sasquatch. I have told people i have had the encounters, but i have never told any of the details, mainly because I knew no one would believe me if I did. The second encounter, I never really saw the creature, but i know it was there...my first encounter was quite the opposite. i saw the creature up close for at least a few minutes, it was in short, terrifying. My second encounter happened while i was ginseng hunting in late summer. i was right on the outskirts of daniel boone national forest at the rowan/lewis county line in ky just a few hundred yards from cranston rd. i had been in this holler making my way up to the ridge looking for roots for about an hour or so when i heard some brush move about 50 to 75 yrds up the hill from me. i strained hard to see what had made the noise, thinking it may be a deer or maybe even an elk or bear, but saw nothing. As i continued my zig-zag pattern towards the top of the ridge, I heard the noise again. i looked again and saw a flash of black and the brush moved slightly. My next thought was \"bear\" and not having a firearm with me, i decided it would be best to start back down the hill. as i did, i kept an eye on the area I had seen the movement and to my horror, I realized it was following me down the hill all along making sure it stayed hidden. I could see glimpses of black and the brush and branches move the whole time I was retreating. I know that there is the possibility it was a bear, but what made me so uneasy is the fact that the brush and branches this thing was disturbing were 5 to 6 feet off the ground! knowing that black bears only stand around 3 feet high on all fours and knowing that bears don't move far on two legs (much less several hundred yards) I really believe what was following me down the hill was a bigfoot. my first encounter was in lawrence county ky when i was around 8 years old...i know it was a long time ago, but I know what I saw and i will never forget it as long as i live. we were staying with relatives (I'm not sure of the exact location now) in an isolated holler between two hills with no other houses around. there were quite a few people there and the little house didn't have adequate sleeping room, so we put sleeping bags on the floor in the rooms and my cousins and I slept in the floor beside their parents bed. i have always been the first person awake no matter where i sleep and this morning was no different. It was just breaking daylight, the windows in the bedroom were open because it was hot there in august. As i lay there wondering what we would do that day, i saw a figure pass by outside the window next to the bed. My first thought was someone was up and had to run outside for whatever reason, but as soon as that thought was finished, the figure was looking in the open window by the dresser. Words cannot describe the horror i felt. I had never heard of bigfoot at that time, so i was sure king kong was standing outside looking through the open window. I stayed frozen with fear, knowing if the beast saw me watching, it would attack (that was my thought anyway). The next thing i knew, it reached its arm through the window and grabbed a piece of jewelry from off the dresser. the noise it made caused one of the adults to switch positions in the bed and like a shot, it was gone. I told everyone what had happened and they told me it had been around there for years and not to be afraid, because it had never harmed anyone or anything and that it was more afraid of me than I was of it. I don't know about that, but i do know what i saw. After this incident, I started learning about bigfoot and was and still am convinced that the creature is real.","The second sighting happened right at the rowan/lewis county line (rowan co side) just across the road from the daniel boone natl forest parking area","Lawrence County","Kentucky","Summer","Report 30198: Man tells of his two encounters 30 years apart",38.1078,-82.73412,"1983-08-01",30198.0,"Class A","dnv0v36f52",88.32,77.785,67.25,68.25,0.68,0.76,0.74,0.0067,1.0,"rain",1017.66,"Rain starting in the evening.",6.0,9.62,221.0,6.64,"RES.SEASON"], [2897,489,"I saw a large hunched over creature about 8 feet tall. It was walking on the elevated tracks behind my house and then preceded to sprint down the tracks and jump down into the brush on the other side of the tracks. It was very fast and it had black hair all over. Looked like a monkey and man mix.","Just south of Lodi, Ohio.","Medina County","Ohio","Spring","Report 6330: A man standing on his back porch watches a large hair covered creature run down the railroad tracks and jump down into the brush",41.03,-82.0101,"2003-05-01",6330.0,"Class A","dpm9mv6144",79.2,64.785,50.37,58.97,0.76,0.42,0.01,0.0107,1.0,"rain",1010.18,"Rain starting in the evening.",8.0,7.48,206.0,7.31,"RES.SEASON"], [2911,4408,"I was playing paint ball with my son, and some kids he was freinds with, about summertime 2003. I had taken the youngest child(about 6) with me, and the other kids(mostly late teens) were looking for us. We were hiding in an overgrown ditch near our home, in a fairly populus, rural area. We both heard a strange groaning noise coming from the direction of some nearby appartments. The little boy I was with, was quite afraid, and wanted to go inside. I scared him so bad, he was crying. We went inside, and I told my wife, the boys mother, and the other kids about the sound. We all went into the yard, and heard the groans. I just listened to the Mississippi groans, and that was what i heard. I also checked to see if there was anymore sightings in my area, and I am about 25 miles from the Lanier county Georgia sighting.","Turn left on hwy 441/221 at the hwy 82 intersection(center of Pearson), go south for 1/4 mile, and turn left on Cogdell hwy, for approximatly 2 miles.","Atkinson County","Georgia","Summer","Report 17477: Witness and family hear Mississippi type howl from wooded area near home",31.2137,-82.77173,"2003-08-12",17477.0,"Class B","djt1s6r2yz",84.38,78.86,73.34,72.72,0.85,0.27,0.52,0.0023,1.0,"rain",1016.64,"Light rain in the afternoon.",8.0,6.9,178.0,3.02,"RES.SEASON"], [2913,520,"winter 1994 jay lake area west branch state park a friend and i were fishing a pond. the pond was mostly frozen over except for a spot in the middle which we were casting bait into. i dont know how long we were fishing but across the pond a figure stood up from the shoreline area and walked up a steep hill when it got to the top it turned back to look at us, the figure was large covered with hair and walked on two legs, it was winter the pond was frozen and the figure wore no clothes so theres noway it was a human we were arround 15 yrs old so we took off since we were scarred by this encouter. we viewd the figure for maybe 1 or 2 minutes","greenleaf rd at rt 5 across railroad tracks into woods pond at horse area","Portage County","Ohio","Winter","Report 28820: Man recounts sighting from his teens near Edinburg",41.15384,-81.1124,"1994-02-12",28820.0,"Class A","dpq645zf2p",37.07,33.56,30.05,23.14,0.81,0.88,0.07,0.001,1.0,"rain",1021.34,"Foggy starting in the evening.",3.0,7.42,125.0,6.13,"RES.SEASON"], [2923,3168,"Hello! This is something that happened a long time ago and to be honest I never thought it could be connected to Sasquatch/Bigfoot but recently I’ve been reading about the topic a lot and I figured I’d send it to you guys after finding your site and just checking out reports from areas where I’ve lived in the past. Anyway, I found a report from Belchertown, MA and I lived a rural part of Belchertown for several years when I was in college. This was sometime around 1997-1998 in Belchertown. My housemates and I were out on our porch which faced a 2-3 acre meadow. This open meadow and the porch were on the east side of the house. The entire area past the meadow to the East was wooded with houses and cabins here and there for about a mile until you hit a lake. Behind the house was abput 10-20 yards of woods with a walking trail and then another 10 yards past was a train tracks running East/west then more woods. Anyway, my housemates and I were out on the porch when we heard the sound of a tree crashing to the ground. About 19 seconds later while we all were kindve shocked there was an enormously loud and guttural growl/scream/roar. In all my life I have never heard any animal sound that could match it in intensity, volume, and it just sounded plain angry and vivacious. It is hard to describe just how loud it was and how stunned we all were that this was coming from an animal just inside the tree line. There were coyotes, owls, foxes galore back there and the sounds they made were a world away in comparison. We all immediately looked at each other, got up and went into the house as fast as we could without saying a word. Everyone assumed it was an animal but after reading about and hearing recordings of presumed Sasquatch scream and howls it brought the memory rushing back because it is so similar to what we heard. Anyway, just wanted to send this in as I saw there was another report for this area. Best regards","Take Route 9 through Belchertown and enter Federal street via either entrance as it is a road that turns off Rt 9, runs for about 3-4 miles then ends again at another intersection of Rt 9. It was around the street address if 722 Federal street.","Hampshire County","Massachusetts","Spring","Report 65734: Possible tree push over and vocalization near Belchertown and Quabbin Reservoir",42.32359,-72.43863,"1998-04-02",65734.0,"Class B","drs2z8gbc9",50.78,43.28,35.78,41.64,0.9,0.99,0.22,0.0082,1.0,"rain",1009.4,"Rain throughout the day.",4.0,6.171,18.0,4.61,"RES.SEASON"], [2926,3973,"Walking in woods about 50 yds off trail with my adult son. There was a stone wall about about 30 yds from me. I noticed a black figure behind this 2 ft. high wall. The animal was very black. I thought it was a bear at first. After 5 seconds it stood up and walked deeper into the woods. It looked to be around 5 ft tall. I never saw a face. It just got up with its back to me and walked away fast. It had a cone shaped head, no neck, a slim looking body, very black hair, swinging arm was very long, legs seemed shorter. It moved fast but it didn’t run. I yelled to my son who was about 20yds from my left. We tried to follow it. My son never had a visual but he could hear it crunching ahead of us. We looked for about 3 hrs trying to see it again but could not find anything.","North Chestnut Hill Rd. north of Abner Lane.","Middlesex County","Connecticut","Fall","Report 63731: Recent sighting on Connecticut Water Co. property near Killingworth",41.38622,-72.60558,"2019-10-06",63731.0,"Class A","drk77y4hpq",68.34,67.36500000000001,66.39,53.34,0.79,0.55,0.29,0.0006,0.21,"rain",1026.5,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,10.0,183.0,9.55,"RES.SEASON"], [2946,4239,"I have a sighting and other occurences to report. Its been about 3 years now since my friend Dan and I saw it. We were walking along a dirt/road trail along the focka canal system to find a good bass spot, as we were walking I thought I saw large brownish colored legs ahead on the trail. I didnt say anything at first until Dan asked me if I saw that. I was stunned and replied \"Yea, Huge brown legs cross in front of us and he replied \" I thought it was just my eyes\". The sasquatch was in a group of trees next to the canal I guess checking us out. The reason I am saying this is because we heard and saw the branches in front of us russling. We were honestly scared and backed away slowly. Now Dan is a officer in the Navy now working I believe out of Miami. He is a very credible none bs type of person. I myself is a biologist and I am super observent of my surroundings. The only reason why we just saw the legs is because we were looking down in front of us so we didnt step on one of the resident water moccasins. Since then I have been going to the same location to try to see if \"its\" still there and yes \"it\" is. I havent seen it since the first time but I found an area off the trail that had almost like I guess beds?!? Basically it was long saw grass bundled up together and it was obvious something large has sat in it. Also near by I found skelatal remains and hair from a bear that seemed to literally have been ripped in half. I have also spent many nights fishing in the location and near it and have heard undeniable 'calls\" that seem like it came from some sort of primate. Similar to a very deep howler monkey call. I have a lot of experience with primates from my studies throughout Latin America. Based on that I KNOW it was a primate call. There was another occurence when I was with my friend Chris on Turner River Rd. off Rt.41 South of Ochopee,Fl. We were crawfish hunting after a evening shower and heard some odd noises in the woods across the canal system. Then we smelt a very odd odor I wouldnt say it smelt like rotten eggs like all the other reports but maybe like methane gas. We moved on about 2 miles down the road and was picking more crawfish out of the swamp and heard the same noises followed by the same smell. This occured for another 30 minutes or so and we felt uncomfortable and left. I believe I read that the BFRO went to Florida in 08 on an investigation and I believe it was off Rt.41? I think there is a few key locations that BFRO should check out, 1. Picayune Strand, just outside of Naples, Fl, http://www.fl-dof.com/state_forests/picayune_strand.html, 2. Turner River and Birdon Rds. just south of Ochopee, Fl off Rt. 41 http://www.staynplay.net/florida-tourism-articles/turner-river-road.htm I live in New Jersey but have a condo in Naples,Fl, if BFRO wants to investigate these areas I believe I can find time to come down and show you the exact spots of the occurences. If you have any further questions please contact me I will be more then happy to answer any questions BFRO may have. Please take this seriously, my stories are not bogus, bs statements. I will take a polygraph test if need be. Please contact me back with your thoughts.","Picayune Strand- From Naples,Fl: Travel East down Immokalee Rd. turn right onto Randall Blvd follow road approx. 5 miles then turn right onto Everglades Blvd. Follow road approx. another 5 miles go over I-75 via a bridge into the strand turn left down the first street you see then follow road for about 1 mile and turn right down unknown dirt road and you will be at the sighting location. Turner River Rd.- From Naples: Follow Rt.41 south bound for 20-25 miles just past the small town of Ochopee you will Turner River Rd. on you left hand side.","Collier County","Florida","Summer","Report 32227: Man describes possible encounters off Route 41 near Ochopee",26.1875,-81.69245,"2009-08-16",32227.0,"Class B","dhtuvp335z",90.74,83.555,76.37,74.24,0.83,0.18,0.86,0.001,0.5,"rain",1017.65,"Humid throughout the day and partly cloudy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",8.0,10.0,118.0,3.17,"RES.SEASON"], [2947,2819,"I returned from a two hour drive to Seattle Saturday night, after visiting family for an early Christmas celebration. I walked onto my back porch and noticed an unrecogizable sound. Since I'm into nature observation and tracking, and had heard audio recordings of alleged Sasquatch vocalizations, this possibility was in the back of my mind. I walked to the edge of the ravine and listened intently to the patterns of barks and growls. They were more audible than any canine and had an order to them which reminded me of sogbirds, repeating notes over and over. They didn't sound like any coyotes or elks or other fauna. I went into a slight panick at the thought of it being a Sasquatch, which I was sure it was. I ran back to my house as fast as I could and grabbed my tape recorder which I usually use for recording bird songs. I spent the next twenty minutes waving the microphone into the night air. I then went back inside to see if it was working, but found to my dismay that the battery in the microphone was dead! By the time I got it working, the animal had stopped vocalizing. Throughout this twenty minute period, several dogs gradually began barking with greater and more frequent intensity. It was interesting to contrast the difference in the dogs barking to the complex patterns of the alleged Sasquatch noises. The sounds were more structured, they had a greater range of expression and caried further through the forest. The next day, I went out on foot to the spot and found the broken and trampled branches, the ripped tarp, the coyote carcass, the dog food bowl and the unknown animal scat. I surmised this was a form of territorial marking. Perhaps the Bigfoot picked up the items from a backyard or killed the coyote. There didn't appear to be any recent human activity there. There were no regular trails, the terrain was steep, and slippery, the nearest house about 800 feet away. Tommorrow I am planning to return with my camera and a flash, extra film and a ziploc bag or two to collect any samples, and document the site.","In dense lowland forest, the ravine behind my property, which is semi-wilderness about a mile from the city limits where the real wilderness begins.","Grays Harbor County","Washington","Winter","Report 10062: Man Hears Evening Vocals in Prior Sighting Area",46.988,-123.8647,"2004-12-18",10062.0,"Class B","c0rgm3ukzq",58.85,52.195,45.54,47.07,0.91,0.41,0.25,0.0007,0.5,"rain",1028.71,"Overcast in the morning.",1.0,8.91,87.0,5.22,"RES.SEASON"], [2952,307,"This is a somehat long story but i will try to shorten it the best i can without leaving out anything. I also reported this to the Western New York bigfoot association and contacted back and forth with thier director Mike George. He was suppose to come down and meet me so that i could take him out to the location this vocalization occurred , unfortunatley he never made it down. This happened to myself and my long time friend and hunting partner back in winter of 2001. We were out grouse hunting one day in an area know as \"Michigan hill\" , a state owned piece of land 13,000 acres big near Richford , NY . We had hiked a mile and a half or so off the road with no luck finding any birds when we came upon a large thickly wooded gorge with a creek running through the bottom. We decided to head down the very steep hill into the gorge hoping that in the thick pine and old apple trees would be a few grouse. Once reaching the bottom and crossing over the creek we were both stopped dead in our tracks by a sound which made both of our hairs stand on end. A series of screaming growls which i can only describe as i have before as a 700 pound hyena with a serious bad attitude had stopped twop grown men with guns instantly. i will tell you as i told the WNYBIC , I have been hunting for over twenty some years and have never , and I mean never heard anything such as this in my life.Well anyway , after two or three of these vocalizations ,which were coming from only about 30 yards away or so through the very thick trees , we decided to move a little closer. What happened then was what really put the scare into us , As we split about 10 yards apart and started to move towards the sound it seemed to move around my partner almost as if it were flanking him , when it moved you could here it walking through the snow and breaking branches and smaller tree limbs , it definitley weighed alot more than in my opinion him and i put together. We moved a little more before it vocalized a few more times and moved to our left evn farhter as if it were trying to get behind us. Needless to say with all this happening and the constant barking of the dogs from the farm up by the road we were actually getting scared and nervous, whatever was in those trees didnt want us there . after about three or four minutes i glanced over at my friend whom at that time was down on one knee with his gun shouldered as if whatever was there was heading for him . He looked at me and i motioned to him that i thought it was time to leave that area and whatever was down there and headback to the road and truck as quickly as possible. We did just that moving very quickly but cautiously, the whole time looking back over our shoulders till we made the truck. We never spoke to much about what happened but never went back to that place. A year or so later i told something of the story to another friend and huning partner of mine , he was playing with me and said \"hey maybe it was bigfoot\" , up until then i never thought about that at all, then one day the same friend played me some supposed recording of bigfoot that he found on the internet and my jaw dropped , a sound i hadent heard since that day a little over a year earlier was playing in front of me , belive me when i tell you the chills were enough to kil ya. I had him record the sounds and i called my hunting partner who was with me that day (he had moved to florida ) , i played the sounds over the phone and he had the same chiiling feeling. It was indeed , 100% positive , the exact same vocalizations we experienced that day hunting. A month or so later i contacted the WNYBIC and he i sent them this story along with the tape explaining that the sounds on the tape are exactly what we heard that day , i wanted to know exactly what they were. They responded with two of their own tapes which contained even more supposed bigfoot vocalizations. i could not believe i was hearing the identical sounds we heard that day , then They even top it by telling me that there have been several other sightings and vocalizations from that area and that they would like to come down and check it out for themselves , that was the last contact i had with them , a letter along with the tapes from 2/4/02. I just wanted to share our story as i have never in all my years been a believer in a creature like this but will tell you my mind has remained totally open since then. I am not exactly sure what we heard or what was there , but i will guarantee that it was there.","State land area known as \"Michigan hill\" in Richford , NY main road )travel out of newark valley on route 36 , you turn right of route 36 just after fishing access area. go about 1/4 mile and hang a right on michigan hill road go up th mountain approx 3 or 4 miles and hang left on access road.","Tioga County","New York","Winter","Report 7890: Two hunters experience vocalizations and encounter very large unknown animal",42.40489,-76.17366,"2001-01-01",7890.0,"Class B","dr9c4xs43h",19.57,13.235,6.9,10.44,0.8,0.59,0.21,0.0002,1.0,"snow",1022.07,"Light precipitation until afternoon, starting again overnight.",1.0,6.71,312.0,9.51,"RES.SEASON"], [2967,4918,"Myself and two buddies were bow hunting a tract of land we had used for quite a few years. This is about a 500 acre patch of hardwoods that borders the Kentucky Turnpike. We always camped in an old abandoned barn right off Nelsonville Rd just a few miles out of Boston. It was a cool November afternoon and we had decided to do some scouting. We had walked a set of railroad tracks about a mile back into the middle of the area we always hunted. We made our way off the tracks and were slowly working thru the woods. The area is mainly gentle rolling hills and bottoms. We were spread out about 100 yards apart and had just topped a small ridge. About 200 yards down in the next bottom something caught my eye. I noticed something black moving quickly through the woods and it was out of site in a matter of seconds. I thought it was pretty odd as there were no bears in this area of the State back then. And we had never noticed any farm dogs or other livestock this far back in the woods. When we met on the tracks to head back to camp I asked my buddies if they had noticed anything strange while scouting and neither of them had seen anything. I casually mentioned what I had seen and left it at that. Later that evening back at the barn, we had finished supper and had turned in to our sleeping bags to call it a night. It was cool and clear and the local farm yard dogs were carrying on pretty good and the katydids were really putting up a fuss. As the area was really loaded with fox and everything seemed to be pretty active I decided to try and call one up from inside the barn. I pulled the cellophane off a pack of smokes and squeezed it between my thumbs and started a series of calls, sounding like a rabbit distress call. This tactic had worked well for us in the past. This evening it worked a little too well. After about 5 minutes of me screaming on the call the local dogs were really worked up good and sounding off like crazy. What happened next, I’ll never forget till the day they lay me in the ground. From way off in the distance a low moan started up that grew into a load mournful roar that sent shivers down my spine. We all sat up in silence for a few seconds and noticed that not a single dog or katydid was making so much as a peep. The woods had become dead silent. Not believing what we’d just heard I let out one more blast of calls from the makeshift varmit call. Again it started up low and grew into that same roar like sound. This time really put the fear of the Lord in us all. My buddies were begging me to stop and it really didn’t take too much convincing. The hair on the back of my neck and arms was standing straight up and goosebumps had come up all over me. I put the cellophane away and got as deep down in my bag as I could. None of us said another word and sleep was nearly impossible. We all three lay in that barn dead silent till morning light. Needless to say not a one of us dared head out that next morning in the darkness for any deer hunting. We got up, packed and headed out of there as fast as we could. I was 17/18 years old at the time and had spent nearly all of this time in the woods and on the water and had never ever heard anything like what we did that night. I am now 48 and have moved off to another State but still spend every possible minute I can in the woods. To this day I have never heard anything like we did that night until I came across your website. When I listened to the 1994 Moaning Howl from Columbiana County Ohio chills ran down my spine. Absolutely 100% no doubt that this was the EXACT same sound we heard coming from the patch of woods that night. My wife and kids think I have lost it when I tell this tale to them and play that recording back over and over to them. But I can say with certainty that what I heard some 30 odd years ago in that old barn is a perfect match to the Ohio recording. .","Highway 61 ends into Boston Road..Take a left on Boston Road, down about 1/4 mile take a left on Nelsonville Rd. We were about 3 miles down Nelsonville Rd","Nelson County","Kentucky","Fall","Report 23730: Bowhunters get unexpected response near Boston",37.7755,-85.67188,"1978-11-15",23730.0,"Class B","dnenfkzdhx",47.57,46.58,45.59,40.88,0.81,1.0,0.53,0.0481,1.0,"rain",1024.03,"Heavy rain until afternoon.",2.0,4.49,42.0,7.95,"RES.SEASON"], [2968,2638,"I had just moved to an area called Green Bluff Northeast of Spokane with my Grandparents. I was 14 years old at the time and was fascinated with the area having moved there from Louisiana. Mount Spokane can be seen on a clear day from where we lived and I asked my Grandparents permission to hike up the mountian some weekend. I was told NO due to the distance and the winter conditions. The next weekend I walked up the \"Day Road\" that led me to the top of Mount Kit Carson. I could see the top of Mount Spokane from the peek of Mt. Kit Carson and it looked increbibly close. Thinking no one would know I decided to hike to the top of the mountian. It was snowing very hard and I was cutting a fresh trail waist deep as I hiked above the timber line toward the top of the mountian. After reaching the summit I decided I better follow my tracks back so I didn't get lost in the storm. About 300 feet above the timber line I discovered tracks leading away from mine going on around the mountian. Something with HUGE feet had followed me from the timber line part way up the mountian. The tracks looked like bear feet but were very big and it was obvious the (thing) was walking on it's hind feet. I had never heard of Big Foot so could only think it was a huge bear. Then other thoughts came to mind! It's the middle of winter -- shouldn't bears be hibernating? He must have gotten hungry!! I ran down the mountian as fast as I could in the deep snow and soon saw when the (thing) had found my tracks and started following me. It looked like the (thing) had been walking on it's hind feet the whole time and had stayed just below the timber line until it found my tracks. It didn't take me long to get off the mountian and back home. I couldn't tell anyone what had happened as I would have been in trouble for going up there. I've told a few friends about this over the years and most doubt that it would be a bear that high up in the middle of the winter.","East side of Mount Spokane above the timber line (NE of Spokane Washington)","Spokane County","Washington","Winter","Report 1691: Tracks found in deep snow",47.92528,-117.1153,"1961-12-28",1691.0,"Class B","c2s8wux0zx",23.6,22.54,21.48,19.13,1.0,1.0,0.71,0.0102,1.0,"snow",1022.22,"Heavy snow (1–3 in.) in the morning and afternoon.",1.0,2.19,83.0,1.1,"RES.SEASON"], [2969,926,"Creature 7 to 8 feet tall was sighted by my wife and son at 9:15 pm 01/09/02 near Multnomah Falls. It crossed the freeway in front of their vehicle before going over guard rail toward the Columbia River. They nearly hit it in the westbound lane. She called me from her cell phone and told me what just happened.","Update from earlier report( 01/11/02): On return trip from Portland today,It was determined that the creature actually crossed at mile marker 29 on west bound side. Appoximately 300-500 feet west of marker. I-84 -Andrew B.","Multnomah County","Oregon","Winter","Report 3624: Nighttime sighting by motorist on I-84, west of Multnomah Falls",45.55364,-122.1884,"2002-01-09",3624.0,"Class A","c2155sc15v",49.8,43.935,38.07,41.18,0.89,0.64,0.88,0.0002,0.44,"rain",1024.96,"Foggy in the morning.",1.0,5.57,26.0,0.67,"RES.SEASON"], [2976,2119,"It was early July of 1988, and I was a Boy Scout at Worth Ranch for Summer Camp in Palo Pinto, Texas. I didn't see much but a white figure shooting behind a grove of trees on top of a nearby rocky ledge. We were camped near the river bottom, my troop and I, and I was all by myself at the camp site. I heard a rustling noise up top, following by a few screams. I see two of my fellow scouts come running down the hill, shaking. The told me of a large, humanoid white ape creature with long arms walking a cow trail. They said it screamed like a woman and ran off when they made eye contact with it. The boys were shaking for hours afterward and were afraid to sleep at night all week. I only saw it from a distance, but I could tell it was upright, white and mobile. The two boys who saw the creature deny it ever happened, dismissing it as the result of overactive, juvenile imaginations. But I know there was something. Whether it was a Boy Scout camp staff member in a costume trying to scare us, or an actual creature, I will never be sure. But it did match several legends of an albino ape in the area -- one of which, Hugo's Monster, is a totally ficitious, Frankenstein-genre tale. But it could be based on some degree of truth for all I know. That is all I can recall.","Near Possum Kingdom Lake.","Palo Pinto County","Texas","Summer","Report 8861: Boy scouts have possible encounter near Possum Kingdom Lake",32.83333,-98.38333,"2004-10-31",8861.0,"Class B","9vf4c1pkn2",69.91,64.75,59.59,61.43,0.96,0.64,0.61,0.0112,1.0,"rain",1008.46,"Rain until afternoon, starting again in the evening.",4.0,8.02,294.0,0.85,"RES.SEASON"], [2982,2013,"I was driving home it was about 3 in the morning .Just turned off hwy 64 on to FM 279. I always drive below speed limit because of deer as I was driving over a bridge on 279 entering Vanzandt county had my bright lights on to the right saw this big hairy thing carrying a deer it kind of scared me never saw nothing like that I just took off.","Crossing over the Neches River Bridge on Farm Market Rd 279","Van Zandt County","Texas","Fall","Report 57712: Motorist has night time visual of an individual carrying a deer near the town of Edom",32.31565,-95.48672,"2015-10-30",57712.0,"Class A","9vspg4usq1",63.87,63.97,64.07,57.94,0.87,0.69,0.62,0.027,1.0,"rain",1010.36,"Rain starting in the afternoon.",4.0,8.75,128.0,3.66,"RES.SEASON"], [3000,526,"I listened to the alleged Bigfoot howling on the BFRO website and have came to a conclusion that I'm hearing almost exactly the same type of howling in the woods behind my northern Portage County Ohio home. The last time I heard this sound was two weeks ago and when I was out working in the backyard. We often hear it at dusk.","Off of State Route 44 in northern Portage County.","Portage County","Ohio","Fall","Report 5406: A family is hearing howling behind their home identical to the howls on the BFRO website",41.3235,-81.22745,"2003-11-02",5406.0,"Class B","dpq5pdeyz4",71.99,62.59,53.19,57.83,0.88,0.82,0.3,0.0003,0.45,"rain",1022.1,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",2.0,4.95,210.0,3.98,"RES.SEASON"], [3005,591,"My name is Christie Sproull, am 39 yrs old. I live in Scio,Harrison Co., Ohio. In the summer of 2011 My friend was staying in a tent in my yard for about 2 months. She said she could hear something big walking toward her tent. Then one night i was in the house on Facebook around 2 am and my girlfriend was on her laptop in her tent on Facebook. She messaged me to come outside right away that something was sniffing loudly and breathing heavy walking around her tent. I walked outside thinking she just was freaking herself out thinking she was hearing things. I kind of laughed it off, open the door and yelled if she was ok. She yelled for me to come to the tent so I grabbed a flashlight and walked down. I didn't see anything. If there was something there it ran away. I told her it was a deer. She was not convinced. In the summer of 2012 both of my daughters, 16 and 17, came in the house after taking our dog out around 11 pm shaken and scared saying they seen something really big once standing by our tree in the back yard which leads to the woods. Then again walking to the house up the driveway around midnight came in scared and said they had seen the same thing walking around our pool then walked into the woods. I never really believed them. I tried to convince them that there was nothing there, that it was there imagination because they overheard my friend talking who camped in my yard. I told them the dog would bark and growl if something was out there. Then on Nov.27th, 2012 around 11:45 pm I took our 5 month old pup outside to go do his thing. I walked out the door turned right with the pup on a leash toward the wood line maybe 20 or 30ft. from the door. As i started to get closer, maybe 3 feet away, I heard something big shuffling in the briers. I turned thinking it was a deer. When i turned around it stood straight up. It was very big, very tall, very wide. My guess would be at least 7' tall. Very broad chest which was all I could see besides the outline of its body. It was very dark and it blended right in with the darkness except the chest or stomach, not sure which, it happened so fast. As it stood up that part of it was light it showed in the moon light. I screamed very loudly and ran to the house dragging the pup behind me which I don't believe the pup even realized it was there. It scared me so badly I was shaking and crying. My husband and 21 yr old son, who also did not believe the stories from my daughters, and my friend, went outside with a small flashlight and a knife for protection to try to find out what it was. My son said it was still out there and that it was behind the tires wing. He seen its shadow and it ran from him toward the spring on the hillside which is nothing but briers. He said he couldn't see it after that but it was there because it quit running but he couldn't see it or hear it. He had this eerie feeling it was staring right at him. They both came back inside my son had the same description as me very very tall, very, very wide but he only seen the back of it as ran up the hill into the briers. My husband thinks it was curious, whatever it was, because it snooped around but ran away. I truly believe that it was a bigfoot. It was hanging around for over a year that we know of.","we live behind the school right before you get to the skating rink. which is right on city limits line, in North township our yard is at the wood line of the forest. scio is on St.RT. 151 and ST. Rt. 646.","Harrison County","Ohio","Fall","Report 37793: Family reports several encounters over several months on the outskirts of Scio",40.40192,-81.08803,"2021-02-03",37793.0,"Class A","dpnmffcqpz",31.77,20.25,8.73,19.02,0.74,0.73,0.73,0.0008,0.08,"snow",1015.4,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",2.0,9.578,300.0,8.87,"RES.SEASON"], [3013,2853,"This may be just a small thing, but if it helps you tie anything together, then it's probably worth it for me to share this. First, I must say that I am not easily taken to believing \"out there\" kinds of stories, but I feel I can explain most things in my environment while other things simply put, defy explanation. I lived in a 22 ft. travel trailer in the woods just outside of Port Townsend, Washington at the time, which - for this report I will say roughly - was about summer 1998 or so. It was long after dark and I was inside writing or something and heard a strange bellowing noise just off through the woods. It was so different than anything I'd ever heard since I moved there a year or so before that I got up and opened the door and stepped out onto the open porch. It was a clear and still night and out in the country there it is very dark and very quiet. I could see the stars so well. When I heard it the second time I was immediately perplexed by what I was hearing, followed by the kind of sensation where they say \"the hairs on the back of my neck stood up\". It sounded like a call from a large beast. I study music technology and am well familiar with timbre, frequency, and volume and I can honestly say that the type of voice mechanism and size of it's vocal chords/chest cavity had to be at least the size of a large buck to an elk or bear. I am also a long time, studied and experienced singer. I do very well at imitating voices and I was struck by this bellowing as being from not only a large animal, but also an animal which must be nocturnal AND trying to communicate. But with what or who? So, I only heard the two bellows and after waiting a few minutes, I decided to get a flashlight and walk up the dirt road where the noise was coming from. I didn't find anything, but I did hear other voices through the woods in the vacinity from which the noise came and I recognized them as coming from a nearby yurt, just on the other side of a small lake from me. It was in comparison of these voices that I determined that the crys I initially heard were coming from a distance of about 100 to 150 yards. The only other thing I should mention about the instance is that I lived on the edge of a green belt that runs, unbroken, from Port Townsend city limits, all the way into the Olympic National Park. Furthermore, my good friend, Todd, living on the same green belt was sleeping outside one night and heard a creature of large size come lumbering up, sticks cracking and brush sweeping and all, and get very close to where he was in a tree- loft, then sat quiet for several minutes before crashing off through the brush, the way it had come. Please understand, I have hiked the deep Olympic Mts. avidly for 12 years. I've even worked out there at times, and I've never heard anything like the bellowing I heard that night. And at the risk of sounding cliche or hoaky, that voicing sounded more like wookie, without the rattling throat sound that any other known sound. But it's true also that after years of hiking and tracking in the mountains, I've never seen a bear or cougar, nor their remains and though I know they are out there, I have only but chanced to stumble upon a fresh cougar den along the Lyre River but nary a single cat in sight. Call it what you will, I say had a sasquatch experience and some of my trusted friends can report similar strange occurances. Bigfoot, Sasquatch, Browns and Blacks, whatever they call them out here, they're real. And researcher Grover Crantz recently moved 35 minutes down the road from here in Sequim. So \"something's\" up, anyway.","Traveling into Port Townsend on State Route 20, you pass a sign that says \"P.T. 4 miles\". A mile or so later you come to a left turn onto Jacob Miller Rd. You follow that for a few miles, passing the county landfill, and you come to Hastings Rd. You turn right, and less than a mile later, you turn left on Cook Av. perhaps half a mile later you round a curve and find Elmira Rd. On the left. This is the general vacinity from which the bellowing came from. The location of the friend's occurance would be the same turn onto Jacob Miller, but then a quick left onto Old Discovery Rd. and taking, I believe, the second right onto Arcadia Rd - then a quick left down this dirt road which I think is unmarked except for red fire markers. That dirt road goes for a few miles into the woods. His Tree loft was next to a small cabin and Gazebo at least a mile back in there.","Jefferson County","Washington","Summer","Report 3613: Late at night, man hears powerful vocalizations south of Port Townsend",48.09725,-122.8241,"2004-10-10",3613.0,"Class B","c289t5f4z1",59.76,55.7,51.64,51.61,0.89,0.89,0.88,0.0001,0.09,"rain",1024.21,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,9.96,148.0,2.4,"RES.SEASON"], [3021,2187,"On January 9th, 2015 @ about 5:20-5:30 p.m. at Canyon Lake, Texas, my family and I were backing out of our drive way, and the weather was bad that day, kind of hazy, misty rain, and it was about 37 degrees. I had my high beams on because it was beginning to get dark outside. As I backed out of the driveway my lights caught the attention of a very big creature about 9 foot tall grayish blonde in color with a 4 to 4 1/2 ft across from shoulder to shoulder, standing in front of an oak tree, it turn towards me from about 40 yards away, and it stood with its arms down at it's side, I asked my son to look and I looked away briefly, when I looked back it was gone. The following Friday my wife and step daughter, while walking along the shoreline of the lake, discovered a bloody and strange deer kill site (fresh kill), the deer's neck was broken and twisted all he way around, lungs, heart, and liver were gone and the deer's intestinal content was thrown about, the back half of the deer was eaten,the front shoulder was eaten,but not the other shoulder. I called the BFRO and left a message, J.D. from San Antonio came out and took pictures of the scene, I asked him if I should roll the deer over because of the shoulder bone sticking out. After rolling over I pulled the hide back and there was a sharp edged stone underneath the hide with flesh and blood on the stone--I kept this stone--there was also a 10 feet dragging kill-blood streak across the rocks, then it abruptly stops, and the deer's carcass seems to be thrown about 15 feet from that spot with no blood stains in between the two spots. Upon further investigating I discovered a 5 foot long stick about 1 1/4 in diameter-rigid, with a sharp end on it, and the end of it had deer hair and flesh on it, like it was used to either stab the deer or just to hold it down, then it broke the deers neck, the kill was made from the waters edge side not the woods side, meaning the thing that killed the deer was hiding in the water...I also discovered tracks some were 19 inches long but were not castable, not enough definition, also found some tracks that were 14 inches long, and some 11 inches long along the shoreline down from the kill site, all of them were not castable it had also been raining that whole week off and on. Upon even more research we discovered At least 5 other deer carcasses in the general area. Called area fish and game warden out and she walked the area and observed all of the evidence on Sunday January 18th..","Canyon Lake near Startzville, Texas","Comal County","Texas","Winter","Report 47702: Early evening sighting near a home and strange deer kills investigated at Canyon Lake",29.52533,-98.15854,"2015-01-09",47702.0,"Class A","9v4pyqgjs0",39.53,36.385000000000005,33.24,29.41,0.72,1.0,0.64,0.0012,0.71,"rain",1029.86,"Overcast throughout the day.",3.0,9.02,26.0,3.6,"RES.SEASON"], [3022,2505,"OK fellas - here goes. In 1977, I was an Army instructor at Ft Lewis, WA. We had to take lower ranking enlisted men to the woods for part of the month long training, while in the NCO Academy. During one of these exercises, (a patrol or something)we had set up an observation post along this trail in the woods. I moved away from the troops so as I could better observe them and therefore, \"grade\" them on their skills.Sometime during the early morning hours, I began to smell this foul odor ( kind of like garbage or rotten eggs - whatever). A few moments later I heard this rustling of brush and braking of branches and tree limbs. All this was taking place, PROBABLY, about 25 to 30 meters in front of me. Keep in mind, it was very dark and only a little illumination from the moon. As I tried to focus on the location of this \"event\", I recognized that there was a pair of \"eyes\" looking directly at me. This creature was moving from my left to my right, staring at me. It was evident to me that \"it\" could see me clearly. I was frozen in place and panic set in immediately. I even crouched down in the bushes to try to hide myself. This \"thing\" kept moving and eventually moved out of our area. When it left, the odor disappeared, there was no more tree branches breaking, and I was petrified. I know this sounds like a load of crap - but, this happened and I have no reason to even mention this after all these years.But, do with it what you want. I just thought I'd let you know about my expereince. Thanks for your time. (Name edited out)","Somewhere in the backwoods of Ft Lewis. This are is full of deadfall, creeks, ridges, thickets, swampy areas, small caves, and is very inhospitable, and can be dangerous if you get lost.","Pierce County","Washington","Fall","Report 28197: Man recalls his possible nighttime encounter while instructing at Ft. Lewis",46.98578,-122.6997,"1977-10-01",28197.0,"Class B","c22ercsb1b",59.17,47.645,36.12,46.44,0.8,0.73,0.64,0.0029,1.0,"rain",1024.1,"Foggy in the morning.",3.0,7.06,354.0,0.97,"RES.SEASON"], [3040,4642,"I was sitting at a picnic table eating pizza. I notice four kids running back and forth on a trail. Once they were gone I witnessed what I would call a juvenile sasquatch sneaking down the same trail at approx. 80 yds. The squatch was 3 and a half to 4 tall. It had long brown reddish hair. However it was stocky and I could see dark tanish colored skin threw its hair. Shortly after the kids returned on the trail. The squatch then returned behind them squatted down in the brush and disappeared. I was in total amazement at what I had just seen. ","I took a picture of where this happened at camp site # 54.","McDonough County","Illinois","Summer","Report 36406: Daylight sighting by a camper in Argyle Lake State Park",40.45273,-90.79664,"2012-08-09",36406.0,"Class A","9zpqju5yhz",84.77,71.97999999999999,59.19,65.98,0.76,0.42,0.75,0.0006,0.67,"rain",1011.52,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",6.0,6.63,334.0,2.79,"RES.SEASON"], [3044,1394,"I was bowhunting for deer yesterday (September 17th, 2005) in the swamp bottoms of West River in Churcton, Maryland when I heard what I can only describe as jibberish hollering coming from behind the deer blind that I was in at about 100 yards or so. It moved east to west hollering jibberish and moving closer and closer to where I was. I unzipped the back of the deer blind to try and see with my field glasses what was making all that noise and scaring the deer away. I saw nothing. The sound was getting closer and I began to feel nervous even though I had permission to hunt there. Thats when the smell of damp musty roadkill mixed with dirty diapers hit me. I had to exit the deer blind for fresh air and an overwhelming sense of fear gripped me. It was more of a safety issue that made me exit the deer blind and nock an arrow in my bow and leave the area as fast as I could before I came in contact with whatever was making the noise. I was unnerved by the aggresive tone in the jibberish and hollering. The fact that it was close by and I could not see it coupled with the smell and the tone of its voice, made me realize that I had best leave the area, and quickly. As I exited the woods, I walked briskly towards my vehicle and was approximately twenty five yards from my truck when I heard more loud jibberish coming paralell from me about twenty yards in the woods. Whatever it was was following me and that unnerved me even more and I headed straight for my truck with my bow fully drawn and ready to fire at whatever was stalking me. Again, I saw nothing. No movement in the woods and I made my way to my truck and released my draw without shooting my arrow. I put my bow in the back seat of my Suburban and cranked up my truck and left immediately. I have never felt that way in the woods in my entire life. I have hunted bear, wild pig and deer all of my life and never have I ever felt the need to flee the woods. Until now.","Incident occured in Churchton, Maryland on Shady Side Road between Shady Side Road and West River in the West River swamp bottoms. Hardwood forest with chokecherry and underbrush thickets. Some old growth trees exist but mainly medium growth scattered with pines and red oak. Swamp vegitation and gallberry trees are abundant. Area condusive to wildlife habitation and wildlife is abundant. Deer, turkey, owls, foxes, woodland game birds like dove have been spotted in the area. Rails,coots, snipe and waterfowl found closer to West River area along with raccoon tracks and large preditor cat paw prints have been sighted.","Anne Arundel County","Maryland","Fall","Report 12601: Bow hunter hears vocalizations, smells foul odor",38.81639,-76.54514,"2005-09-14",12601.0,"Class B","dqcsf4m9bg",83.83,79.78,75.73,71.83,0.81,0.83,0.37,0.0001,0.2,"rain",1015.52,"Humid and mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,8.91,138.0,1.91,"RES.SEASON"], [3055,4499,"I had a strange occurrence happen on August 8, 2020 at approximately 9:30 PM when I was camping on the Saint Joe River in Idaho. It is the second time I’ve had an experience by the Saint Joe River. I would rather give a verbal explanation to someone rather than trying to type it out. Basically the first one was about 8 years ago a neighboring camper was chopping wood for about 10 or 15 minutes and after he quit I heard two wood knocks above the road and above the campground that kind of freaked me out. I got up and went and looked and there was something on the road above us that was staring down at me don’t know what it was but it was there. This last weekend August 8 I heard three Whoops or long group calls over the sound of my music when I turn my music off I heard nothing I would like to give a verbal description of what I encountered so if you’re interested call me. No one was camping within 1/2 miles of me and that’s what made me wonder what is going on.","Close to Prospector Creek","Shoshone County","Idaho","Summer","Report 65924: Camper hears Wood Knocks, Whoops and has a possible sighting on the St. Joe River",47.23444,-115.6292,"2020-08-08",65924.0,"Class B","c2mu8yc2s3",76.04,63.375,50.71,46.16,0.61,0.4,0.67,0.0006,0.07,"rain",1016.6,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,10.0,244.0,4.75,"RES.SEASON"], [3060,474,"Since this spring my family noticed several unusual things in our area. First was a very strange set of 3-hoofed or 3-toed prints that we found and my 10 yr.old daughter followed with her feet down a path and into the woods coming away from a large lake people fish at alot. It is located in a nature reserve area right next to my home here in Huber Heights, Ohio. Friday, Labor Day weekend, I took my children to a secluded place on the Miami River in Tipp City, Ohio. We were just going to play in a very shallow area and mess in the river.I was with my 10 yr. old daughter and my son who is 6, and their friend (male) who is 10 also. I knew something was weird when we first went down the path to the river because it was so dead quiet. You could hear your voice echo and nothing else. No Crikets or birds or bugs. Was very eary! None the less we found a path that led right to the river. We stood there and besides this tree with a bunch a sticks laying under it. The kids picked up large sticks and began hitting the tree with them. We then turned to leave the area and try to get closer to the rocks we wanted to get to. As I left, my 10 yr.old saw across the river a set of bushes and a tree shake like something hit it. It spooked her and she ran up ahead of me. The kids then found a pond further down the path and were throwing rocks in it, when I decided to walk back towards the car. I still was not feeling comfortable at all about the silence.I then heard out of this silence, a very loud chirping-whistle coming from somewhere so I stopped and turned to face the river. I heard the whistle first to my left,then immediatly to my right. Then it seemed to travel away to the right and get fainter.For some reason, Im not sure why, but I whistled at it. It then whistled back and when it did, it changed its tone and went down an octive. ( I have studied music my whole life and I couldn't hit its tone or pitch.)But it answered me back really scaring me. I called for the kids to come over by me and I then told them I thought it was time to go. I stopped and asked if they heard that chirping which seemed to be moving off down stream to my right still. I said to them \"listen I'll whistle and then it will answere me back.\" I whistled again and instead of the sound I thought it would make, It began to chirp on our side of the river it seemed. The sound kept getting louder and louder. Moving closer to us when all of a sudden, we heard this enourmous tree being literally pushed to the ground to our right.Right infront of us! I screamed \" RUN!\" We all turned and ran, but my 6 yr. old didn't run. My oldest daughter said she looked over her shoulder to see where he was when we were running. She noticed he wasn't with us and he was standing frozen with his fists clutched to his sides.His eyes were really big and he looked so scared.She then yelled at him and he turned and ran.I only noticed him not being with us we all were in the van with the doors shut, car started, and he was then on the outside screaming to get in. In those seconds he didn't run, this is what he said he saw: He told me that when the tree fell, something caught his eye so he turned to look.(to the right)He said it walked out of the woods and turned on the path looking straight at him. It took 3 steps stopped, and tilted its head to the side. It then took 4 more steps, paused and began moving even closer to him. It was then that he heard us yelling. He swears that he NEVER heard me scream run and he never heard us screaming and running to the car.He said that it was about as tall as his sister who is ten. It had a very large head that was round but it was sorta pointed on top. It was completly covered with brown fur or hair even the face had hair on it.Its eyes he couldn't see until it was closer and then he said they were round and black. His nose was black and sqwished to its face. Almost flat like.Its mouth was very wide, big, and looked like it was frowning. ( Or sad as he put it) It had very long arms that hung passed his knees and swung out very far in front and back as it walked.It was hunched over when it walked too. Big shoulders and a \"VERY\" big chest. He said when it got really close to him he then smelled it and it smelled like rotted garbage form the garage(haha)He even said he noticed clumps of mud hanging from its arms on the fur or hair. It never growled or made a sound. It just kept walking towards him and looking at him. He has been in serious distress at times since then. Fear, saddness, and anger are the bigger ones. He felt as though it was sad because of the face. Anger, because for a day and half we wouldn't listen to his story. He kept trying to tell us all somehing but we wouldn't listen. Fear, because it was incredibly scary to be standing alone and seeing this walk to you. I have had contacted our pediatrician and he is checking up on him and has been great in believing our story. We contacted someone who had a simular experience with his family in Oregon, and he has talked with my son and has helped us in dealing with all the anxiety in this whole situation and has be-friended him as well. We have made this a positive thing for him saying \"How many people actually see a bigfoot! What a cool kid you are!\" Plus allowing him to express how he has been feeling about this whole thing. He is excited about it, then very reserved about it too. He also picked up a strange stick which I'm sending off to be evaluated. It looks as though something has used it for something. It was sanded down smooth by something and has tan and black animal hair fibers in certain parts of the wood. Something exists and we heard but our hero, Brian saw it!","You go to the center of the town of Tipp City. Turn left onto 3rd St. coming from I-75. Go down past a large Park, swimming pool, and highschool football stadium. go another mile or so down the road and to your right is a little nature reserve sign and gravel drive way. Turn right and go back the drive way to the gravel parking area.","Miami County","Ohio","Summer","Report 257: Mother describes possible observations by children near Tipp City, along Miami River",39.9784,-84.1735,"2000-09-01",257.0,"Class B","dph5ktfep3",86.07,77.93,69.79,71.0,0.82,0.48,0.12,0.0031,1.0,"rain",1015.9,"Rain in the evening and overnight.",5.0,8.87,95.0,2.54,"RES.SEASON"], [3061,4607,"Foot prints in the snow. I took some pictures. we had a moderate thaw, but we could see definite toes and a human-like shape, definitely bipedal.","1 & 7/8ths of a mile off highway 84, on our rural property.","Whiteside County","Illinois","Winter","Report 33264: Photos taken of possible footprints found on rural property near Albany",41.73534,-90.22054,"2012-01-23",33264.0,"Class B","9zrv6vxmvp",34.14,30.065,25.99,29.55,0.89,1.0,0.02,0.0016,0.56,"snow",1003.72,"Foggy in the morning.",2.0,5.38,267.0,8.63,"RES.SEASON"], [3067,3184,"I parked up the road a ways so any cops or ranger patrols didn't see my car. It was 1am with a 3/4 moon. The water was very low this day. I was fishing and there was about 4 Beaver-Tail slaps on the water so I knew there would'nt be any smallies hanging around. I took a few more casts and caught a Dace. Its like a sucker with the body of a trout. Very silver in color and unedible. I was trying to get the fish off my hooks when I heard something heavy about 45 yrds away from me cracking sticks as it approached from the road onto the freshly cut brush (from the work they did around there, days prior). It sounded like a human walking, and I thought I was in trouble with the law. My flashlight was dying and I was having trouble seeing just getting the fish off my 2 treble hooks. I asked, \"Who's There?!?!\" and I just heard a stick snap really loud as it stood still. I hit my flashlight in order to make it brighter and I seen big eyeshine and a dark sillouette of what looked to be shoulders. I started yelling at it to get out of here and at this point, I'm thinking deer... or worse, maybe a bear standing up. I heard a few more big snaps as it walked onto the paved road and that's when it cried out in this terrible noise that I've never heard before. It echoed thru the mountains and it scared the bajesus out of me. It wasn't a bear, or a deer, that's for sure. It was huge, and the sound it made sounded like a shrieking demon baby. That's the only way I could describe it. A loud shrieking howl. It wasn't a roar or a deep growl. It was more high pitched. I cut my line with the lure still in the fishes mouth and kicked the fish half hazardly into the water and ran as fast as I could to my car which was the scariest run/walk/stop & listen journey to my car I've ever encountered in my life. I was waiting for a werewolf to jump out and get me or something. True terror that I've never experienced to this day.","After 9-11, the government closed the thru-way that runs along side the reservoir that feeds Springfield its water supply. These mountains have been off-limits to hunters, hikers, fisherman, and the public for years before 9-11. Now its completely blocked off. Lots of deer and wildlife in this large expanse of protected mountainous terrain. The Reservoir holds lots of Small-Mouth bass, Rainbow, Brook, and Brown Trout. My Uncle, worked at the Pumping Station, he let me and my cousins fish there. I stayed there for weeks at a time. As an adult, I couldn't help myself to go fishing there still. I respected the land and put all fish back and wouldn't throw any trash around. I packed it up and brought it back with me. I fished there all day sometimes but mostly at night with top-water poppers for Small-Mouth bass. Fun,fun!","Hampden County","Massachusetts","Fall","Report 38386: Night fisherman has possible encounter at the Cobble Mountain Reservoir",42.12302,-72.89154,"2000-10-01",38386.0,"Class B","drkptk602h",67.09,56.35,45.61,46.91,0.88,0.38,0.13,0.0005,0.62,"rain",1021.84,"Foggy in the morning.",5.0,6.89,183.0,2.61,"RES.SEASON"], [3068,75,"My family and I have been camping out on the edge of the Lolo Nat. Forest (Rattlesnake Wilderness) for the past few weeks. During the past several nights we have been having encounters with some sort of animal which we first thought was a bear. However, durring the daylight hours we have been finding many young trees literally being broken which we have numerous pictures of. We are camping in an area which is 9 miles up a dirt road near the Sheep Mountain trailhead. Several of the broken trees that we have been finding are very close to our campsite while others are up and down the road. There has not been any strong winds in this area for well over a week but yet these trees are broken several feet up from the ground which as anyone well knows, is not normal. We keep hearing something large and heavy walking through the brush and rocks have been thrown at one of our tents. We are all very much in the belief that we are being visited by a sasquach.","8.6 miles up Forest Service Rd. 2119 off of Gold Creek Rd.","Missoula County","Montana","Summer","Report 59607: Campers describe stalking, rock-throwing and snapped trees in Lolo National Forest",46.93335,-113.8334,"2018-06-19",59607.0,"Class B","c2r4cxvn9d",56.92,50.39,43.86,47.5,0.93,0.89,0.24,0.0031,0.92,"rain",1019.3,"Possible drizzle in the morning.",6.0,9.997,311.0,3.72,"RES.SEASON"], [3074,547,"This incedent took place in the mid to end of summer of 1999. We were in the woods south of town in the hopes to find the plant \"gensing\". The timber in the area is very old with dense undergrouth. Now before I continue the story I have a few other things to let you know about this area. There are stories of coon hunters hearing this sound and having there dogs come running back to them with their tales tucked. They say that what ever it is, it is not anything they have ever heard. All of the things I am telling you are very true. They have all happened within 5-10 miles of each other. back to my Dad and I. We were walking through the woods when this very loud, sort ofrumbley growling howl. I dont know but I have spent many many hours in the woods and have never ever heard a sound like this. When we heard this sound all of my hair stood up on the back of my kneck. I turned to my father and with fright said, \"what was that\". With his eyes enlarged he replyed, \"i dont know\". Needless to say that had ended our hunt for genseng. On our way out of the woods we heard the same sound three times. It was almost like the sound was that of letting us know we were too close to what ever it was. Now listen to this. Believe it or not the next summer my dad had returned to the same stretch of woods about 2 miles from the previous year. Again he was hunting for genseng and goldenseal. He had come home early from his hunt which is not usual. When he came home I had asked him if he had found anything and he said, \"no but I saw something that shouldnt have been there\". He said that he was walking through the hills and had to cross the creek bottom. There in the creek bottom was a footprint. He said that he looked at it for a minute and then said to himself, \"there shouldnt be anyone out here in bare feet\". the closest house is about a half a mile from where he said that he was. Needless to say that was the last time that we have ever went to those woods. Ocassionaly we walk the railroad tracks that run adjacent to the milesw of woods that run that creek bottom. Every time we are in the area we get this fealling that something is watching us. You know what I am talking about. All the hair stands up on your kneck and you get the fealing that that you are not welcome there at the time. Wtihout ignoring this feeling we just turn and walk away. I hope I am interesting you because I really believe \"bigfoot\" to be real. Now here is why I strongly believe on top of all these things I have told you about. My brother was driving down the road at a late hour of the night. He was driving down the raod with two girls in the car, lucky him. The same roud that runs north and south of the sight were my father seen the footprint. As he came to crest of a small hill he said that he ahd seen this set of redish looking eyes. To the right side of the road is a corn field that boarders the woods. Mind you the corn is at full growth. As he got closer to the eyes he said that what ever it was stood up and was at least one foot above the corn. The two girls turned and emediately started crying in fear of what they had just seen. He said that she just kept telling Justin, mybrother, to take her home, take me home now is what she told him. Justin said that as they approached the eyes they stood above the corn. In aww he stoped the car a faced the headlights at the creature. He said that the animal turned and looked back at them for about three seconds. he described the animal as being fury and having a greyish light colored \"V\" shape of hair down its chest. He said that as it turned he was amazed by the size of the creature. To this day one of the girls that was with im will NOT talk about what she seen that night. The other girl will slap you if you even bring it up because it scares her soo bad. My brother still has not hunted or fished that area scince he has seen that creature. Three years later my mom was on her way to work. It was early morning, just light enough to see without headlights. When she crossed the bridge, the same bridge that crosses the tracks that run down these woods, she said that she saw this very large man lookinmg hairy thing walking down the railroad tracks. She said that what ever it was, it was not human. She said that it had to be atleast 8 feet tall and very hairy. She said that she thought about turning around to see just what the heck this thing was but she could not build up the courage. I really do know with out any doubt that bigfoot is real. The type of cover that i have seen on the internet that people have described as bigfoot teritory is the ide4al cover around these sightings. I hope you take my stories serious and i would like to know if you fallow up on the study of these in the area. ","South of New London close to SR 60.","Huron County","Ohio","Summer","Report 11248: A series of sound reports, footprint finds and a sighting from a family living near New London.",41.0672,-82.41861,"1999-08-01",11248.0,"Class B","dpm3ss09g0",85.12,73.16,61.2,67.28,0.76,0.35,0.64,0.0017,1.0,"rain",1013.36,"Light rain in the morning.",9.0,8.37,357.0,6.02,"RES.SEASON"], [3076,69,"In mid july 2004 I was on my back porch it faces east and it faces a mountain I live in the woods on the side of my house where the creature was the house is scarecly wooded and the land is flat. The sun was shining. The reason I went out side is this, my dogs started to bark and run through the house they got half way through the dog door stopped an whined. I thought that was odd so I went and sat on the back porch. Then I saw the tree to my left move and the tree was about 300 yards away from me or less I am bad with measurements. So I watched the tree to see what caught my eye and then I saw the creature. It was behind the tree looking out from behind it. It's head was in the banches and it was hunching. Is's head was large and it had a definate brow I thought I was seeing an oranatang. Except it was about 6 and ahalf feet tall. It was moving it's head aroud the tree to watch me as I stood up to get a better look. It's hair was a rust color like to color of dead pine needles, It's eyes were haunting. And it was completely silent. It was watching me while I was watching it. I sat back down. I watched outside for about 6 minutes and didn't tell the person on the phone. Then I went in the house and watched throught the window to make sure it wasn't a trick of shadow. Then the creature moved in front of the tree, staying hunched over but watching me in the window. I watched a few more minutes and then went to the back of the house when I went back it was gone. While this was going on my kids were in the front yard playing in the water. I think if the creature had been aggressive it would have made some sort of move. but it d=seemed peaceful. It seemed to be curious I think it was young to be in such a vulnerable open area. When my husband came home we went out to the tree and all of the knapweed was completely trampled down around the tree. We didn't find any hair though. I look every day To see if it ou t there again but to no avail.","We live just inside the Flathead Indian Reservation near Evaro.","Missoula County","Montana","Summer","Report 9873: Woman reports sighting at the edge of backyard",47.06032,-114.0717,"2004-07-20",9873.0,"Class A","c2qgsppd0x",73.35,63.03,52.71,52.85,0.71,0.41,0.1,0.0013,0.56,"rain",1015.77,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",8.0,9.96,257.0,1.63,"RES.SEASON"], [3084,3276,"We had things happen that we did not realize were possibly Bigfoot related. 1. There was a owl that would hoot every night. Louder than any owl I have ever heard in my life. We used to joke that it must be as big as a man. It was also slightly off sounding. Also, it called like this all year long. Not seasonally. 2. Our kids became afraid to sleep in their rooms. They said someone was watching them. They never saw anything, but said they just felt weird. So they slept in our room with us. One night around 2 a.m. we were all woken up by a pounding on our house. Pounding so hard on the other side of the house that our bedroom windows were rattling. My husband yelled and it didn't let up at all. Just a rythmic pounding. Our gun case was in the room closest to the banging. My husband jerked that door open, grabbed his gun and ran outside with a flashlight. There was nothing there. He ran around the house and still didn't see anything. The next day we walked around the house looking for prints of some sort and there were no visible prints. The grass was very thick and lush at the time. Our nearest neighbors were over a mile away. This was about June 2002. 3. We had a momma goat that gave birth to twins. We found her and one baby dead by a pond about a mile from the house. Not much left of either except the hides. We thought it was coyotes or maybe a mountain lion, but even then it seemed unlikely. More like they were carried there. No drag marks anywhere. 4. Our new neighbors and their children came over for dinner. My husband and our neighbor went to check Gates and cattle in a pickup. The kids were playing outside in the yard and the wife and I were talking in the living room with the door open so we could hear the kids. About 45 min before sunset her 13 year old son came up to the house and told us he was scared. His mom asked why and he said he heard something weird in the woods. He was starting to tear up while he was telling us but his mom said oh stop that, go play. And he did. I yelled at the kids and told them to come closer to the house and stood with the door open listening. I thought I heard something off in the distance, but I thought maybe it was a bull and sounded odd because we lived down in a narrow valley. I stayed in the doorway watching the kids and chatting and heard the sound again and told the kids to come on in, because it was kind of creeping me out. I was feeling on alert but still wasn't exactly worried. My husband is a prankster and I thought he was trying to scare me. By now it's right at sunset and the woods about 100 yards from the house are too dark to see into. I heard the call again and I have never before or again heard a sound like that. By now the kids are freaked out, crying and telling me to come inside, my heart is pounding and I'm thinking- that's not my husband.... The sound started low and slowly went high, I have no idea how long it went on but the thing that made that sound had to have MASSIVE lungs. It wasn't a monotone sound. Almost like there were two sets of vocal cords sounding at the same time. A couple of very low sounds, almost like I could feel them in my chest more than I could hear them, and then it yelled again. It sounded like the call came from the other side of the creek about 150 yards from the house, directly in front. I was more stunned than scared at this point, but my eyes were watering and I did feel strangely sad suddenly, and I had backed all the way up to the door. Right then the guys came back, from the opposite direction of the calls. We told them what we heard and they listened but heard nothing, grabbed some flashlights and ran down to the creek and followed the creek about a quarter mile but didn't see anything. I didnt hear it again after that but our kids never played outside close to dark after that either. After that we had some stuff moved around or missing. A couple of dogs disappeared and one night it sounded like rythmic tapping on the water pipes in the house in the middle of the night. My husband even crawled under the house to find out what was going on but saw nothing. The next day we saw the pin was pulled on the latch for the well house (by the creek) and the door was standing open. Just odd things like that. We didn't spend time outside at dusk or night after the August incident.","The Google maps directions are accurate. The house is still there, but we moved two years after this incident and have not been back.","Madison County","Arkansas","Summer","Report 59520: Family describes the strange activity at their former rural home near Wesley",36.1655,-93.5515,"2002-08-14",59520.0,"Class B","9ymmxptzk1",74.83,71.235,67.64,64.27,0.87,0.85,0.22,0.0264,1.0,"rain",1013.7,"Rain in the morning.",5.0,8.56,203.0,3.54,"RES.SEASON"], [3088,1762,"In the years of 2015-16 I had encounters with a creature in the Mississippi River bottoms at a place called Drinkwater, a flood control pump station on the Mississippi levee system east of Charleston, Missouri. The first encounter consisted of hearing high pitched, long drawn out echoing of the concrete walls of the pump station. The sounds were from far off so I paid them no mind at the time but I did find them to be quite odd. The second encounter happen a few months later as a few friends and I were bowfishing one night. We were down by the lock gate shooting fish when I happened to look up on the levee to our right and noticed something standing on the levee watching us about 200 or so yards off. Even though it was dark, you could see the outline of the figure standing upright in the faint light caused by a semi truck weigh station on the highway that crossed over to Cairo, Illinois. It didn’t stay long but it left an eerie feeling over us at the time, we left shortly afterwards. The third encounter was the most interesting one of all. One of my friends and I were bowfishing again one night at the pump station when we began hearing the high pitched sounds again. My friend, who was holding a spotlight so that I could see to shoot began to go into a panic and started shining the light in the woods to our right which irritated me at the time because I couldn’t see the fish without the light. While trying to calm him down to get the light back to the water something grunted off to our left. At 25 yards or so stood a creature of a height between 8’ and 9’ foot tall covered in dark brown to black hair at the very edge of the tree line in full view of the spotlight. The creature watched us for a little under a minute time with one arm gripping a tree limb the size of my forearm as if he were using it to keep his balance. When the creature departed he let out several loud grunts and at a steady walking pace left the scene while breaking any tree limb in it path, whether it was dead or green. We left after the encounter terrified and what we had just witnessed.","The location is a the very end of county highway J. The highway ends at the levee. The pump station is to the left of the highway.","Mississippi County","Missouri","Summer","Report 65691: Three incidents in marshy zone outside Charleston next to Mississippi River",36.9897,-89.25555,"2016-08-01",65691.0,"Class A","dn8d2vy0dg",87.39,79.99000000000001,72.59,73.84,0.91,0.44,0.97,0.0105,0.67,"rain",1016.4,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",6.0,9.377,188.0,1.99,"RES.SEASON"], [3112,1264,"i had already put one report in , but i thought i would put a separte one in for this. here latly at my house both myself and my parents have heard nioses at night and in the day time around our house. once when my mom and dad were at aunt's house and it was close to dusk i heard what i thought was someone banging on my window. another time i heard what sounded like grunting out side my bedroom window. the other night while my parents and my self were out side we heard a load howl from across the road , we hear what appears to be growling and moaning to but we never see anything. the person who lives across the street says she has never heard it but she is either always gone or either has people over . in fact the other night my parents saw they hear a banging outside the back window. dad said it sounded as though someone wanted very badly to get in. my dog that is in the house never even growled. dad said that it was funny because he said that rocket (my dog) never got out from under the covers , and he heard it because dad said he felt him moving closer to him. one time while i was out feeding my cats at night i heard something running very fast across the road , i never saw anything. there have been serval times that i have heard grunting and rocks hitting the side of the house. my dogs in the back never even bark. i have 2 labs and a mix and he's huge but he never came out of his house unless someone was out there with him at night. when me and my friend were outside talking one night we heard what sounded like breaking limbs. what ever was jumping or walking on the limbs was huge and when we walked behind the house to see known of my dogs were out and the noise stopped. then as we started back around the house it started again. but as we turned on his spot light the niose stopped. my mom said that she saw red eye crossing the road the other night but could not see anything. one after noon while my aunt , my mom and myself were walking in her small group of trees on her side of the road right in front of house. i walked on ahead and came to the fence that seperated her line from the other owner . i say what looked like one of the teepee formations , but i did not get a good look becuase it was on the other side of the fence. i am not sure that this was one of the teepee that these creature make , but i wanted to metion it.","the small commuity isn't big it's just one road (dirtroad). our house sits in front of some woods. theres a creek close to our house that runs all the way around and crosses the road. there is also a bridge , and many mini springs.","Covington County","Alabama","Spring","Report 8635: Possible repeat approaches to a rural residence at night outside OPP",31.29,-86.255,"2007-09-12",8635.0,"Class B","djddj0pj2y",91.54,82.515,73.49,72.47,0.8,0.56,0.04,0.0063,1.0,"rain",1011.73,"Rain starting in the evening.",7.0,8.28,234.0,2.06,"RES.SEASON"], [3114,955,"I heard something funny while running my computer. Out the back window --- I saw a bigfoot looking at me!! --- I said hello (to him?) but he just turned away and went out toward the field. An update from John (12/20/02)--I went around the place and did find a footprint on the bank behind the house. It was pointing toword the house and I took a tape and it was 16\" long with it being 6/7\" wide and on the heel. I could see dermal ridges. (John was encouraged to cast the track. -tp) I also asked the neighbors if thay heard/seen anything. One said they had heard the same weird voices, like a talking, but not making any sense.","It was here at the house.","Umatilla County","Oregon","Fall","Report 5505: Rural Oregon resident sees a bigfoot look into the window",45.46571,-118.875,"2002-12-17",5505.0,"Class A","c256wuvbgw",44.44,35.95,27.46,27.44,0.75,0.26,0.43,0.0006,1.0,"snow",1003.76,"Mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",1.0,9.63,158.0,3.48,"RES.SEASON"], [3116,1273,"It was a hot afternoon in august. I heard sirens in the distance. the local rescue squad was responding to an incident. curious about what was going on I decide to go and see. when we arrived, I found out that 2 bham men had went canoeing and had not been seen since. the sherrif wanted to call for a helo to search the river. I piped up and told them that in was not a good idea. the trees cause a tunnel affect over the river. the helo wouldn't be able to see under the growth. on top of that the sun was starting to go down. he agreed and sent 6 men in 2 canoes down the river. 30-45 minutes passed and we were told that they had been found at a local bar in b'ham. my friend and I volunteered to pull the rescuers out of the river at a mid point near the road. we set off. the light was almost gone. as we made our way down the trail to a place where the stream and the cahaba meet my friend took off ahead of me. he knew the area better and i could see his light moving ahead of me. as I entered the bottoms where a bamboo thicket grew, I heard brush breaking and grunting noises to my left. I quickley made my way across the stream. I felt much better and safer once I crossed the stream. as I rejoined my friend at the intersection of the stream and river, I told him about what I had heard. he said it was probably a boar rooting for acorns. we sat for about an hour waiting. the moon was out quarter waxing, and hot as hell 100% humidity 90 degrees. after waiting I said to my friend that we must have missed the rescue team in the night. so he went to find out and he left me there on the bank to make sure they were not just slow getting down the river. another 30 minutes went by and I started seeing a light up the bank approaching my position. I pulled myself up into the foliage to camo myself, just in case the light was moon shiners or pot growers. they are notorius for bibb county. minutes passed and I heard my name being called. I made my way back across the stream and through the thicket. the grunting and brush snapping sounds still happening. as I climbed up the hill to the large over hanging rock i paused to catch my breath holding onto the tree. all of the sudden something large much taller than myself( I am 6'8\"tall) rushed me. more of the limbs breaking and a vocalization sound like an excited baboon and a fierce growl. My friend was 10' in front of me. we ran quickley away from it. i even jumped a 10' ravine to get away. but it did not pursue further.","smelled of a wet goat on it's charge. it was dark couldn't see clearly yet it towered over me.","Bibb County","Alabama","Summer","Report 21714: Rescue workers describes possible stalking on the Cahaba River outside Montevallo",33.1,-86.86,"2007-09-12",21714.0,"Class B","djfhr3wmrr",84.01,76.27000000000001,68.53,69.89,0.83,0.62,0.04,0.0007,0.76,"rain",1016.18,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",6.0,5.15,332.0,1.09,"RES.SEASON"], [3143,160,"I live near Asheville NC. I own a landscaping & Irrigation company. I grew up about an hour east. My parents had 30 acres that was surrounded by 6,000 acres of game land. I've played in the woods, hunted, and camped my whole life. Plus my business also allows me to be outside year round. I was starting up a irrigation system in a large gated & wooded golf community in the mountains of Arden NC basically 15 mins from Asheville. This community joins Pisgah National Forest, approximately 300 square miles of forest. This was around April or June of 2016. I was standing in the back yard facing the control box which is attached to the house. So my back was to the woods maybe 25 to 30 yards to the tree line. And I hear this large crash. The same sound a large tree makes as it falls through other tree limbs when its falling. I turned quickly to see a massive Beach tree rocking back and forth. Leaves were floating down but no tree was falling. I've been in trees this size. I'm 6'2 250 pounds. There is no way I could make this tree rock like this. But i didn't see what did it. So watched for probably 30 or 45 seconds. Nothing happened so turned to finish my work. Then it happened again but a different tree. This time I knew something was up. Bears don't jump from tree to tree like that. So I walked to the edge of the yard and watched for a few minutes. No movement in the trees. The canopy is really thick here. The only way I could have really seen anything that was hiding would have been to walk to the bottom of the tree and look up. But I wasn't about to do that. So after a while I walked back to the control again but I walked backwards. Seems silly but I felt whatever it was it was watching me. When I reached the control I turned to face it. Then turned back to the woods again quickly to see if I could trick it or catch it jumping. But nothing happened. So I started working again assuming the show was over. Then it happened again, a third big tree was rocking after the loud crash. At this point I was freaked out so ran to the truck and left. Rescheduled the job. I've been in the forst my whole life. I've never been afraid in the day time. Bears don't do that. They climb up and down. Cats don't make loud crashes if they would have they would have run after the first one. What ever did this has to be huge. I couldn't make those trees rock if i wanted to. Plus it was watching and waiting for the perfect time to jump so I wouldn't see it. Bears here aren't that worried about being seen. They know they can't be hunted in those developments. You have to make them leave. This was something different. I wish I had the balls to walk to the base of the trees. But I don't. I was afraid. I've been training to handle myself. I always carry a gun. But this wasn't something I could handle. I just know .","I can't give the street or address. This is a high end gated community.","Buncombe County","North Carolina","Spring","Report 69464: Large trees shaking 15 miles SW of Asheville",35.2725,-82.65414,"2016-06-15",69464.0,"Class B","dnm0xjjj4y",83.74,75.13,66.52,68.59,0.85,0.57,0.36,0.0155,0.27,"rain",1013.6,"Humid and foggy throughout the day.",7.0,8.727,247.0,0.83,"RES.SEASON"], [3146,3241,".","North side of Sioux City (Woodbury), IA at 616 17th St.","Woodbury County","Iowa","Summer","Report 1274: Bigfoot creature being seen & heard throughout night and footprint evidence found",42.50817,-96.40213,"1997-08-09",1274.0,"Class A","9ze3y66h59",78.64,67.945,57.25,63.1,0.84,0.46,0.2,0.0005,1.0,"rain",1012.32,"Mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",7.0,7.7,164.0,2.91,"RES.SEASON"], [3151,133,"We were headed to Uwharrie National Forest in North Carolina for a day trip on 6/18/20 and was on Hwy 109N appx.1 to 1 1/2 miles north of Mt.Gilead. Were parallel to Railroad tracks on the right, woods on the left. I was focused on the road. It appeared appx 200 ft. in front of the car. I didn’t see it come out of the woods but saw it right before it crossed the road in two bounds. It was large, maybe 8 ft., covered in black hair or fur. There was a difference in color in the face and hands. They were lighter in color. Once it crossed the road, it headed toward the railroad tracks and was gone by the time I got there. This all happened within a span of five to six seconds.","Appx. 1 to 1 1/2 miles north of Mt. Gilead NC heading toward Uwharrie National Forest.","Montgomery County","North Carolina","Summer","Report 65677: Road crossing sighting on Hwy 109 near Mt. Gilead and Uwharrie National Forest",35.24749,-79.97967,"2020-06-18",65677.0,"Class A","dnr0s08ed8",79.52,71.655,63.79,63.77,0.84,0.45,0.93,0.0049,0.65,"rain",1018.1,"Possible light rain in the evening.",8.0,9.814,173.0,3.74,"RES.SEASON"], [3167,1230,"When I was about 8 or 10 yrs old, I saw a Bigfoot. It was on Green mountain near Huntsville, Ala. It was unpopulated then. Now there are million dollar homes there. I was on my way home from my uncle's house on a gravel road. I was on one side of a hill. The road went down this hollow and back up the other side. In the ditch line was Bigfoot, about 8 ft. tall with arms that looked like they reached down past his knees. It was slightly leaned foward looking straight at me. It scared the daylights out of me. So I went back to my uncle's house and told him. He got his shot gun and we went back. It was still there looking at us. Uncle threw up the gun to shoot and I told him we needed to get closer. So we went down the hill and as we did we lost sight. When we got back up the other side it was gone. ","In Huntsville. Just ask where Green Mountain is.","Madison County","Alabama","Summer","Report 7235: Recollection of an afternoon sighting on Green Mountain",34.7325,-86.52105,"2004-05-28",7235.0,"Class A","dn4mx4v73r",75.96,69.615,63.27,66.6,0.85,0.79,0.3,0.0037,1.0,"rain",1012.31,"Light rain in the afternoon.",6.0,8.62,259.0,2.09,"RES.SEASON"], [3171,655,"I am a photographer who lives in northeast Ohio. A few years ago while I was out with my camera one afternoon I heard what I thought were Bigfoot howls or moans in Beaver Creek State Park. Some time later I heard them again in the very same place. The reason I have not reported this before is because I do not want to be laughed at or thought to be crazy. In April of 1999 while I was walking in the park again I started up a hill and was overcome with the sense of being watched. As I walked out of the park I had noticed there were no other people located in my vicinity. I also noticed the spider webs were still across the trail, so no one had been there before me that morning.","The area is in the back or southern part of the park by the Gretchen's Lock trail heading downstream.","Columbiana County","Ohio","Fall","Report 7493: Outdoor photographer hears a howl/scream on two separate occasions that were identical to the sounds on the \"Sightings\" television show.",40.72943,-80.59236,"1997-10-01",7493.0,"Class B","dpnxwnd6ju",56.22,45.925,35.63,40.6,0.67,0.63,0.99,0.0048,1.0,"rain",1015.53,"Light rain in the morning.",4.0,9.67,327.0,8.76,"RES.SEASON"], [3194,2005,"I was coming back from fishing at Big Ridge State Park with my mom, dad and small son. We were walking along a trail that led from the lake we were fishing at to the parking lot through the woods. My son and I were in front of my mom and dad and I had turned my head around to tell them something and when I turned back around there it was. It was about 20-25 feet in front of my son and I. It looked to be about 8-9 feet tall. I didn't see a neck on it and it looked straight ahead of it. It swung its arms when it walked and its strides were about 4-6 feet long. The trail itself was about 4 or 5 feet across. It was walking at about 5 mph. It was black with some brown mixed in. It walked very stiffly and the terrain it went on after walking in front of us was flat but thick with bushes and trees and I couldn't see it anymore. I gasped and turned around real fast and told my mom and dad that I had just seen bigfoot. We did not go look for tracks because it was just getting dark and we kept walking. We didn't hear any sounds after the encounter. It went so fast I just got a glimpse. I know it wasn't a human.","Off of highway 61 in Big Ridge State Park.","Anderson County","Tennessee","Summer","Report 35114: Recollection of spotting a tall figure cross a trail at dusk near Norris Lake",36.2635,-83.918,"1988-09-16",35114.0,"Class B","dnkq63sf0y",77.26,70.235,63.21,68.39,0.91,0.98,0.17,0.0039,1.0,"rain",1022.93,"Rain starting in the evening.",4.0,3.73,10.0,3.42,"RES.SEASON"], [3204,3304,"In early November 2002, I decided to get in an afternoon of squirrel hunting before deer season opened and the woods got full of hunters. I drove to an oil well location that is located south of town off the main highway and parked my truck there. I left the location and walked down an old road and headed east into the woods to hunt along the ridge and wooded area that joins the swamp. I'd walk the road and then leave it and wade through the bushes looking for squirrels then head back to the road and follow it for a ways and then leave the road again. I'd been hunting for a good while and had gotten to an area where the briars and bushes had taken over the old road. I decided to turn around and hunt back toward the truck since it was getting late, and I hadn't seen but one squirrel and that was soon after I got into the woods. Just as I started to head back, I got a whiff of the most foul odor that I have ever smelled. It actually made me gag, because I have a very weak stomach. I figured it was a dead animal or a wild hog, but I'd never smelled any hog that stunk that bad. I knew I couldn't stay there with that smell, so I turned to head back down the road. As I did, I heard something make a couple of growling type sounds in a clump of bushes off to my left, and saw the bushes just shaking like hell. I still figured it was a hog, but I'd never heard one that sounded like that and figured if it was a hog it would grunt instead of growl. I was getting nervous about meeting up with a big boar, or maybe even a big cat, so I took off at a fast pace back up the road. After I'd gone a ways, I heard what sounded like three squealing hoot type sounds, still to the left of the road. I was very spooked by then thinking that can't be a hog, and picked up my pace even more. After a ways, I stopped to listen and when I did, I heard something out to my left take a couple of steps and stop. It sounded like someone walking out in the bushes, and it didn't sound like it was too far away from the road and I could swear I heard heavy breathing. I headed for the truck again wanting to break into the clearing before it got completely dark. Just as I got within sight of the well location, I heard the walking sound again and looked behind me thinking I'd see a person following me on the road. What I saw was a tall reddish looking creature cross the road behind me about 20 yards. It was moving in a hurry and I only saw it for a second or two. It stepped completely across the road in one step, then it sounded like it was running away from the road through the bushes. I took off for the truck at a full run and when I reached the truck, I jumped in and got out of there in a hurry. I don't know what it was that I saw, but I'm sure that it was at least a foot taller than my 5'8\" and it looked massive, like a giant hairy man with long arms and long hair all over it's body, and the fastest moving thing I've ever seen or heard. I've been back to the area since then with my nephew, but the timber has been cut in that area and it's no good for hunting anymore. I didn't smell, see or hear anything when we went back to those woods.","South of El Dorado, AR on Hwy 167 there is an oil well location about 300 yards off the highway to the east. I parked at this location and continued into the bottom/swamp for another 1/2 mile or so.","Union County","Arkansas","Fall","Report 10913: Squirrel Hunter has encounter south of El Dorado",33.14663,-92.61493,"2002-11-05",10913.0,"Class A","9vyhs6pv5e",53.78,47.485,41.19,48.13,0.92,0.95,0.03,0.0316,1.0,"rain",1009.82,"Rain in the morning.",3.0,7.4,303.0,3.7,"RES.SEASON"], [3214,778,"My wife and I traveled from our home in the Dallas area for a 5 day trip to Hochatown, OK on Oct 26, 2020. It had rained all day and had gone to drizzle by the time we arrived at our cabin around 4:30 pm. We unlocked the cabin and went inside and looked around and then went out right before 5 to start unloading our SUV. My wife grabbed some items and headed inside. Right as she got inside I heard a siren go off in the area of Beavers Bend State Park to warn about water being released from the dam. Immediately I heard a load deep growl. After a few seconds the growl turned into a deep howl. This went on for about thirty seconds and was immediately followed by a loud high pitched scream. This was followed wooooing sounds that lasted about 2 minutes. My wife came out while this was going on. We didn't discuss it as I didn't want to tell her what all I had heard. We grabbed up some items and went into the cabin. Upon coming back outside the sound was gone. I heard the siren go off many more times while we were there but never heard any other sounds. I am an army veteran and also former scoutmaster and have spent a lot of time in the woods but have never heard a combination of sounds like this. I'm still not certain if this actually was one or a coincidence of several animal calls occurring one after the other. My wife thought the woooing sound was wind blowing in the forest when we discussed this after we got home. But at the time there was little to no wind blowing and we never heard that again although it blew quite a bit as it rained the majority of time we were there. I originally sent this sound combination to Cliff Barackman and mentioned the Ohio howl and after looking it up it did sound similar to that. At the time I hadn't really thought much about Bigfoot since back when I was in junior high in the 1970's but after this have become really interested in it after this.","The cabin was located on Rose Lane at the border with Beavers Bend State Park. There was open area across the street leading to the park.","McCurtain County","Oklahoma","Fall","Report 67746: Couple describes strange loud animal vocalization near Beavers Bend State Park",34.0775,-94.4095,"2020-10-26",67746.0,"Class B","9yhcget5g4",54.65,51.57,48.49,50.84,0.91,0.99,0.36,0.0101,0.91,"rain",1018.4,"Rain throughout the day.",3.0,9.59,67.0,6.34,"RES.SEASON"], [3219,2902,"I was hiking at Little Si in Washington State with a friend who was visiting from out of town. It was pouring rain so we left our phones but we went anyway and started our hike sometime in the morning. We got to an interesting little part off the trail where a little waterfall was pouring off from a cliff above, maybe like 20 feet up. We turned back after that spot and started heading back but while we were walking we heard what I first thought was an alarm, but it sounded organic. At the end of the “alarm” was a very strange vocalization like an ape mixed with human. The alarm sound happened over 10 times and at the end of each sustained holler was the strange vocalization. After the second or third alarm sound and vocalization I started making the sounds back to whatever it was. My friend and I both listened intently trying to identify what the sound could possibly be. We ruled out human right away because whatever was making that sound had a huge lung capacity and we both immediately knew it couldn’t be human. As we listened, and I kept responding, the way the mouth moved made us also rule out a wolf or coyote. It sounded like it had lips...I know that sounds strange but we both said whatever was making the sound had a mouth like a human or ape. I responded three or four times before I realized what else it could possibly be. “Amy, we gotta go. NOW” I said. She asked why and I said, “I think I’m hitting on a Sasquatch. We have to get the hell out of here.” I know I’m making it sound like a joke, but I grew up hearing about Sasquatch stories and I never thought they could be actually real. So I was a little joking when I told her I was hitting on a Sasquatch but the sound was so large, reverberating through the mountainside, I also thought whatever that is sounds like it’s getting closer and the only thing it could possibly be, however unlikely, was a large beast with lips like a human or ape. So, we ran. We ran the rest of the way down the trail and got to the car where our phones were. We didn’t see anyone else on the trail. When we got our phones out I googled Pacific Northwest wildlife sounds to try and find out what it “really” was. We looked up wolf, coyote, elk, and anything else we could think of. So I finally said, “We have to look up Bigfoot sounds...it’s the only thing left.” She looked at me and nodded. She didn’t grow up hearing any stories of Bigfoot because she is from the Midwest. I found a few recordings and immediately the hair on our arms and neck stood straight up. This was 5 years ago but just writing this I’m getting goosebumps all over again. I was at an art sale today in Leavenworth and a man was selling art. We bought a painting with a Sasquatch standing behind a tent and it reminded me of this story. That artist doesn’t really know much about Sasquatch but said since painting them he’s heard countless first hand stories from people out there and so I shared mine with him. It made me want to see if there was anyone else who would want to know, and my brother sent me here. Anyway, thanks. It feels good to get this experience out to the right people. I’m still skeptical but cannot deny what I heard, and I still have no explanation for it. The vocalization I heard was very similar to the Sierra recordings (forgot the name of the guy who recorded them) but the sustained big barreled “alarm” with the sounds at the end was a bit different than those recordings. I was going to change the date because it happened on October 31st, and I thought no one would believe me. But it is what it is. Also, we were so freaked out that I left a note warning other campers and made an email address asking if anyone else heard it, to contact me. No one has (I haven’t checked it in years, however).","I have the exact location of when we first heard it. It was by the little cove area on the trail. I have no idea how far up the trail but I would be able to find it again.","King County","Washington","Fall","Report 65650: Possible vocalizations on Little Si Trail outside North Bend",47.49488,-121.7555,"2015-10-31",65650.0,"Class B","c23qjqhmep",58.32,52.23,46.14,52.31,0.94,0.95,0.67,0.1102,1.0,"rain",1004.7,"Rain throughout the day.",2.0,9.88,116.0,6.58,"RES.SEASON"], [3220,4887,"I was headed home from work at around 11pm or later. I remember it was a bit on the cool side. I believe it was late fall or early winter. I was not far from the old sanitation department off the highway when I caught with my headlights a large upright creature that straddled the fence without missing a beat. The fence was near a ditch and the fence was still about 4 feet high. The closest homes were only about a half mile down the road. This was mostly intersecting fields. A blonde bigfoot is the closest I can get to describing what I saw that night. It made me so scared that it took hours to calm down when getting back to an empty house. I grew up on the farm and love hiking to this day. I am very observant and in my life I have seen more than a few mountain lions, white squirrels and even a black deer...so I pay attention and get out a lot. I have never been able to convince myself it was anything else. It was upright and appeared to be a dark blonde color in my headlights and very fast.","Near intersecting property fences. Country. Not far from the sanitation department and the old Ron Olsen's car dealership.","Miami County","Kansas","Winter","Report 63795: Motorist sighting on Hwy 169 between Paola and Osawatomie",38.53062,-89.89167,"1994-11-04",63795.0,"Class A","dnb54qqchk",68.63,63.995,59.36,64.43,0.96,1.0,0.06,0.0366,1.0,"rain",1012.3,"Rain throughout the day.",2.0,7.647,184.0,11.6,"RES.SEASON"], [3229,1674,"Me and my girlfriend's son are up at Barton City, Jewel Lake. At 2 am night fishing on the boat close to shore. Rocks were being thrown at us..... I have been up here for 37 yrs plus, never had that happen. These were big rocks. Big kerplunks and splashes. And only when we got to a certain part of the lake. Never have had this happen in all my years coming here. This happened less than an hour ago and we are freaked out contact me. My name is Mike.","On Jewel Lake near Barton City","Alcona County","Michigan","Summer","Report 41770: Huge rocks thrown at night fishermen on Jewell Lake",44.68047,-83.61314,"2013-07-31",41770.0,"Class B","dpuw1mff8e",70.1,62.81,55.52,59.55,0.87,0.73,0.81,0.0001,0.62,"rain",1017.18,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,9.76,192.0,2.63,"RES.SEASON"], [3232,2888,"I had an experience in 1984 which closely resembles the report filed # 1385. Their report evidensed hearing a very loud scream...etc. Back in August of 1984 I was camping above the Alpental Ski resort at an alpine lake I believe is referred to as Snow Lake (not certain this is the correct name however). It is a fairly exhaustive hike with substantial elevation gain and mileage from the trailhead. I took my brothers black lab for companionship and we found a spot at the lake near the trail. As I was setting up camp that evening I met a young couple that stopped briefly to ask for camp site reccomendations..As I recall we were the only people up there that evening. As night progressed it got dark and fairly cold..I had a camp fire going and could see the other site a few hundred yards down the lakeside. At approximately 10:00 PM that evening I saw my lab sniff the air and get extremely irritated as if another dog were in the area. Within seconds the dog was up and pacing the campsite and acting very nervous (hairs were stanging on his back). At that same time I heard a very loud scream that was high pitched but also changed octives to a low gutteral roar at the end. This sound continued for at least a couple of minutes and then nothing was heard after. I realize that a lake can carry sound fairly well but this noise sounded as if it were literally just outside my camp. The following morning I got up and stirred the fire. Around 6:00 AM the same couple that I met that previous night came up to me to ask if I had heard the sound. I admitted that I heard something I couldnt describe other than a loud scream-roar. The people then described to me that they heard it right outside their campsite. As they described their experience they mentioned that the creature was passing near their site and making the sound.They could actually hear tree branches snapping outside their camp. The couple indicated to me that the 'animal' was pacing around their camp for a few minutes while it was wailing and roaring. These people were most certainly scared by something that evening..as was I.Apparently they had'nt slept the entire night and it looked like it to me. They appeared emotionally and physically exhausted to me. They never gave their name but they made the effort to come to me and inform that they were leaving immediately and I would be 'solo' up on the lake. I realize that there are several animals in the northwest that make various noises..mountain lions for example. This noise was nothing like I've ever heard. I have sampled the audio recordings you have on your site but they dont compare to what I heard. The screams are very similar but there was most certainly a change of octive as I described to a low roar. If instinct tells me anything this was a territorial 'notice' or noise...needless to say I left not long after the couple and havent returned since. I would actually like to exchange any information on audio experiences similar to mine for that area. Feel free to post this if you deem it appropriate. I always wondered if that same couple may have posted their experience. Hopefully I'll get another chance to get back there..I feel privelleged to have had the experience even though it scared the H... out of me.","Take I-90 east of Seattle..Alpental Ski Resort..the trailhead starts above the ski zone and travels up to the treeline where it ends at the lake.","King County","Washington","Summer","Report 8670: Hiker hears roar north of Alpental Ski Resort at Snow Lake",47.46312,-121.4454,"2004-05-25",8670.0,"Class B","c23wh2qhtn",61.01,51.715,42.42,39.84,0.79,0.39,0.2,0.0076,1.0,"rain",1016.01,"Rain starting in the evening.",10.0,8.32,238.0,0.65,"RES.SEASON"], [3252,237,"My brother and I camped overnight in High Point State Park, New Jersey, the other night. Driving around the park, the camping sites were labeled with numbers. We wanted to set up in a place as far away as we could from the other people. I myself, have known the existence of Sasquatch to be real for quite some time. Not from a personal experience which was yet to come, but because of watching so many people tell their stories of encounters, and just seeing the genuine fright and truthfulness in their eyes when they tell their stories. My brother however, always laughed at the subject of Bigfoot, and was a complete skeptic. So, my brother and I has set up camp on the edge of what I'm assuming was the only lake in the park. We walked through the forest in the daytime, and indeed found many peculiar structures and tree breaks I had seen before on Bigfoot TV shows. As night fell, we made a fire, and watched the numerous stars reveal themselves as the night got darker. Around 12 o'clock at night I went over to a rock right by the edge of the lake and looked up at the stars, while my brother tended the fire. I'm an astronomy fan, so before I knew it I had been sitting there for two hours when I checked my phone and it said it was nearing 2 in the morning. Just then my phone ran out of battery. While sitting on the rock, I began to feel a weird sensation that someone or something was watching me, I checked to see if it was my brother but he was staring into the fire. I dismissed this feeling and told myself I had just brought it on myself. I looked back up at the stars and got lost in some train of thought when all of the sudden, something made a very loud noise that could only be described as a very large man exhaling aggressively towards me. I jumped up and ran to my brother, and we heard the thing walk towards the forest, all the while breaking branches and continuing to make the same aggressive noise I heard so close to me. It got quiet, and my brother and I were standing looking in the direction where all the noise had came from when it made the noise again. Now, I don't speak Sasquatch but that thing was telling us to get the heck out of there. I don't get scared easily at all, and I was shaking like I never had before. I felt so much negative energy and decided I was too scared to stay outside, so we went to the car and sat inside, praying whatever made that noise didn't come back. My brother described the sound as sounding like someone ripping a tent. Whatever the noise was, absolutely no common animal could have made it. After a sleepless night, when it got light out again around 5:30, we built up the courage to go back where we heard the noise to see if there were any indications of what made it. And when we got there, I was shocked. There was a makeshift bed made from giant leaves that was fit for a very large creature. I could see the exact spot where the thing that had made the noise was watching me, and where it walked away, as there was a clear path of flattened grass and plants leading up the forest. The area was wet and muddy, and indeed there were footprints. But, as I was taking pictures the path leading from the bed to the upper forest, it happened again. The thing made the same exact noise, this time it was so close, I nearly fell. We ran back to our campsite and listened. But nothing made a sound. We stayed there for about 30 minutes until I decided to go back and see if there were fresh prints or anything I could take back as proof. I took more pictures, and i was standing on the trail leading back to our campsite looking at the pictures I had taken when again, the thing made the same noise! This time it was on the side of me that I would have to run past it to get back to the campsite. As soon as I heard it, it felt like my heart literally dropped and my legs became wobbly, but I summed up my courage and once again ran back to the campsite in fear. It was only about 10 seconds away, and when I got there my brother was standing there wide eyed asking if I had heard the noise. Whatever it was, it was not happy and we heard it walk up into the forest breaking branches and exhaling aggressively as it headed deeper into the forest. At this point my brother wanted to get the heck out of there, but I needed to see it. I went up to the road right before the forest where we had heard it go in, and looked around, but saw nothing. I was so confused on how the heck it ever got so close to me without me seeing or hearing it walk at all. While I was walking on the road, I saw my brother walk up from the campsite looking around. When he spotted me, he sighed in relief and told me he though I was getting attacked because he heard a bunch of human like screams coming from the forest. I walked towards where he was and started to hear them too, but by the time I reached him the screams started to sound like some kind of weird chatter. My brother, the skeptic, was so scared he told me were packing up and leaving right away. I have no doubt in my mind that we just happened to pick a campsite right next to where a Sasquatch was sleeping, and he was just not happy about that. I know what we heard was a Sasquatch. My brother entered a skeptic, but left a full believer in Bigfoot.","If you drive into High Point State Park, past the left turn and sign that says Park Ridge I believe, and keep driving all the way to main lake, keep passing campsites until you reach campsite number 19. When you get to the campsite, there is a path leading to the lake. Go down it, turn right, and keep going until you see another campsite that is right on the lake's edge.","Sussex County","New Jersey","Summer","Report 49096: Campers have possible encounter while staying in High Point State Park",41.29453,-74.68758,"2015-06-23",49096.0,"Class B","dr6fumqnj4",82.1,70.38499999999999,58.67,67.94,0.91,0.2,0.23,0.003,0.79,"rain",1010.77,"Humid throughout the day and mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",10.0,9.54,240.0,1.18,"RES.SEASON"], [3273,4690,"I had actually put most of the details out of my mind, until a friend asked me a few months back if I had ever had a sighting. It was October '04 between 9-9:30pm, heading south about 3/4 of the way to Springfield Il. after passing the interchange to go to Lincoln, not sure which county. There weren't many cars on the road. We were in the left lane, I was the passenger. At the very far edge of the high beams I saw what looked like one of those big black 50 gallon lawn bags sitting with a bunch of garbage right off the side of the road between where the pavement meets the grass. It looked like someone had dumped trash... I was wrong! Grant you this all took place in like 8-9 seconds. As we got closer I saw the garbage was fast food bags and the black garbage bag had arms and a head! When we were maybe 5-6 car lengths away it swung its arms out in front of it and shot straight up, taking a small step backwards. My friend and I both said 'what the hell is that?' As he slowed down a little. In the split seconds it was full on in the head lights standing I saw a medium build, not massive at all, but thick, hair was 4-6\" and flat black in color with just a little bluish silver reflection from the headlights and the face was a lighter shade than the hair like charcoal grey, I don't recall seeing breasts and the hair seemed thinner and shorter on its front. Facial features at that speed were impossible to make out, but its chin seemed to jut out from where the collar bone area would be on a human. My friend owned a Mitsubishi Montero at that time. It rode about as high as the smaller big pick up trucks do. I'm 6'4\" and I had to step up slightly to get into the seat, and as we passed it close up, in the windshield and out the drivers side window its waist was as high as the top of the hood, probably 4 1/2 feet, and the rest was at least that much. My friend asked me; \"Dude was that Bigfoot?!\" at the same second I yelled \"That was Bigfoot!.\" Funny I have read countless books on the subject from the time I was in grade school, and let me tell you... All the information in the world beforehand does not prepare you for a sighting.","I could return to the area or close to it, but the only thing I can add was that it was on a stretch of I-55 where the northbound lanes were a little closer to our side.","Logan County","Illinois","Fall","Report 30203: Nighttime sighting by motorists along I-55 near Lincoln",40.14471,-89.41959,"2004-10-30",30203.0,"Class A","dp0kmhneus",64.09,51.82,39.55,46.69,0.62,0.25,0.58,0.0097,1.0,"rain",1005.09,"Breezy until afternoon and partly cloudy in the afternoon.",3.0,9.79,242.0,13.12,"RES.SEASON"], [3283,2643,"I’m not sure what/if I saw. In December of 2020 I was driving my kid to work at 5am. I was on a back road near the Spokane River at Seven Mile, which is part of the Riverside Park area. As I came up a small hill with a turn, on the left side of the road, just off the road, I saw what appeared to be the silhouette of a sasquatch. I frequently drive this road and had not had a sighting before or since. What I saw was slightly taller than a speed limit/road sign. I looked away to check the road, and when I glanced back over there was nothing to see. I have tried to explain this as being tired, but I am awake at about 4am every day, so I’ve ruled that out. I checked this page and saw the report from the gal near the old golf course, which I live on the other end of that course. This sighting was not far from where she was when she heard her strange howl. What makes me say “if” I saw is that what I saw was gray, but I did not see any defining features other than that it was a straight on back view.","Take highway 291 northwest from town. Left at seven mile road (orv park turnoff) about 1/2 mile from the river after crossing the bridge.","Spokane County","Washington","Winter","Report 67585: Possible sighting of a gray Bigfoot in Riverside State Park at 5 am, near Spokane.",47.74207,-117.5302,"2020-12-15",67585.0,"Class B","c2krte1jey",39.56,35.765,31.97,32.23,0.9,0.99,0.06,0.0077,0.66,"rain",1019.4,"Possible light rain in the morning and afternoon.",1.0,4.988,179.0,5.83,"RES.SEASON"], [3284,2757,"I am european and I enjoy hiking alone in the American National Parks (I've been in Yosemite, Death Valley, Arches, Canyon Lands, Mesa Verde, YellowStone...). I've already seen bears (black bears and a grizzly in YellowStone). Last year in October 2000 I visited Olympic National Park and the last day of my stay I hiked on a loop trail begining at \"Obstruction Point\". I let my car at the park located at the end of Obstruction Point road which is about 6 miles long and is a not very good track (no tar and some holes). At the beginning of this road near Hurricane Ridge Visitor Center there was a pannel indicated that overnight stays were not permitted. When I arrived at the car-park around 10.30AM, there were no other cars. I hiked to Grand lake and Moose lake that I reached at about 12.30. I stay there about one hour and then I return via the \"Badger Valley trail\". At about 4.45PM I was at the bottom of Obstruction Peak just bellow the car-park and I decided to stop to have a rest before climbing. So I looked around and noticed two \"hikers\" who where walking on the \"Elk Moutain trail\" towards the car-park. I looked at them with my binoculars because I didn't see anyone for the whole day and I was curious. They were at about 500 meters from me in the late afternoon sunshine and I was in the shadow so I think that they couldn't see me. My binoculars are not very good but I immediately noticed that they carried no equipment (no bags, no sticks...)and that they seemed to be very tall. There were no trees on the trail to confirm that impression but they really seemed to me very tall, specially the second one. Then I notice that they were \"dressed\" in a uniform dark colour from the top of their heads to the tip of their hands and legs (I couldn't see their feet because I was below them). I could not see any other colours on them even on their faces or their hands. I thought that they were looking like giants dressed as the police special forces men! I decided to look specially at the second one because I could not see the two of them in the same time in my binoculars. I noticed he had a strange way to walk: His head was down like he was looking at his feet and his arms which seem very long (the hands were at the same level than the knees) were moving amply. It was like he was tired (because of the position of the head) and alert (because of the movment of his arms and legs) in the same time! At one moment the first one who was walking about 10 meters ahead stopped to look at the second one but didn't wait for him and continue to walk. Then I began to think that these two hikers were really strange and I realise that they were walking in the same direction than me so I climb to the car-park as fast I can to check if they had a car there. I was thinking that if there was another car beside mine it would prove to me that everything was OK and that these two \"hikers\" were just like me. But when I arrived at the park there was no other car so in a very short time I thought that: 1- it was almost the end of the day. 2- We were 6 miles from the concrete road. 3- It was forbidden to make an overnightstay in this area. 4- These two strange looking \"hikers\" didn't carry anything on their back to spend a night in the outback. And I thought about the patterson film I saw on a TV show some years ago so I decided to get out of there very quickly. I did not see any car or people until I reach the concrete road and the Hurricane ridge visitors center. I know now that the patterson movie is maybe not the hoax I thought it was. Sorry for the bad english, feel free to correct the mistakes.","SE of Hurricane Ridge ranger station, on Elk Mt. trail.","Clallam County","Washington","Fall","Report 1106: French hiker observes two bigfoot in Olympic National Park",47.9261,-123.3769,"2001-01-04",1106.0,"Class A","c2828kxtvb",29.57,28.66,27.75,27.18,1.0,0.99,0.32,0.0694,1.0,"snow",1018.55,"Snow (9–13 in.) starting in the afternoon.",1.0,3.49,205.0,0.98,"RES.SEASON"], [3287,3302,"I live in rural part of Sevier County, Arkansas. On 2/6/11 I went out to feed my dogs. They are tied out about 150 yards from my house. As I was feeding the dogs I noticed a large barefoot track measuring about 13.25 inches long and 5.5 inches at the widest part and 4 inches at the instep. I saw only one right footprint as the snow was melting quickly. I found another track west of the house about 300 yards from the first one. It was more melted so the toes were not as clear. Track was also right foot. I called my two grandsons to take the pictures with their camera and cell phones.","Tracks were heading Southwest.","Sevier County","Arkansas","Winter","Report 28839: Possible footprints found in snow at a home near Lockesburg (w/photos)",33.94073,-94.09966,"2011-02-06",28839.0,"Class B","9yj14dwxnf",53.5,45.065,36.63,32.12,0.71,0.51,0.11,0.0023,0.96,"rain",1012.04,"Overcast starting in the afternoon.",4.0,9.25,5.0,0.74,"RES.SEASON"], [3291,1387,"I was not in any way aware that these creatures existed in Maine, firstly. I am from Connecticut however I have spent years in desolate oilfields across the U.S. including places like West Texas, the upper Peninsula of Michigan, and the Everglades of Florida. I have a vast knowledge of wildlife as I have always taken an interest to it and spent years IN the forest. My point is, what I experienced this day has shaken me to the core as I know my encounter was nothing \"normal\". In the Northwoods of Maine in a town called Greenbush, (population 1,400) I purchased 80 acres of wilderness with virgin forest on the back half of the lot. (meaning not even loggers have been there, it's that desolate.) I had rented an excavator and for this entire day I had been cutting a road through swamp, hills and forests to a high hill I call Hope Hill on the virgin most desolate corner of my land where I want to build my cabin. I had made it halfway and in the swamp I realized I was out of fuel. I shut down the machine and get out. I step down onto to road and was admiring my work and just relishing in the whole idea of pioneering this new path. Suddenly about 50 yards into the tree line I hear a bang with a stick on to a tree. Like someone was hitting a wooden bat against a large tree trunk as the percussion was unmistakable... At first I thought \"Oh crap there is a moose\" because it is mating season for them and they are known to ram their antlers against trees to intimidate their foes. Suddenly, the sound happens again. Now I am certain this is no moose as no branches are breaking, there is movement, no grunts, nothing... Just this wooden thump just through the trees where I can't see. I begin walking further away because I'm obviously freaked out. Again, but now 2 knocks... I grab a large branch I had just ripped down with the machine and smacked it against a large tree trunk. Immediately I received a knock in response. I wait around 45 seconds.... I knock again, BANG it knocks right after me again... I knock again 5 seconds later, it responds again right back.... Now I am shaking because I know what I presume this creature to be. It's obviously strong because the bang was very loud. Intimidating... I knew there was a certainty I was interacting with Sasqauch. I went back to my trailer on my qaud which was parked about 200 feet down the trail. I FLEW home. I calm down, now I am questioning reality and am quite, scared I guess. This is my land, I'm only halfway through making the road, these are my thoughts, so I decide to ride back... I knock again. It responds. I take my phone out. Turn on record on video, I knock, it goes away... Almost as if it knew I was recording. Regardless it was incredibly perplexing. I got back on the quad and went back home knowing for sure what I just experienced was legitimate. I brought a feather bead string thing from a dream catcher and brought it out there as a gift. It's been 3 days. I haven't gone back to see if it's still there.","Heavily wooded wilderness miles off Route 2 into the old logging camps. [Large property near the end of Cedar Ridge Road]","Penobscot County","Maine","Fall","Report 66224: Distinct wood knocks heard 18 miles NNE of Bangor",45.04943,-68.63222,"2020-10-19",66224.0,"Class B","f2p0q0zxcq",61.23,52.425,43.62,39.18,0.77,0.46,0.13,0.0006,0.12,"rain",1028.4,"Possible light rain overnight.",3.0,10.0,170.0,3.66,"RES.SEASON"], [3305,3662,"Last Sunday (November 16, 2003) My friend, my dog and I traveled from Portland, OR to Northern California for some late season backpacking. We stopped at the Aikens Creek campground (West of Orleans, CA and just west of Bluff Creek on HWY 96) at approximately 6:00pm, as it was too late to hike in anywhere that evening and the Six Rivers NF website listed it as one of the campgrounds open through November. As we neared the pay station a sign deferred us to render payment directly to the campground host, and as we approached the host's site it became clear that the site was vacant with just a few small items left behind. So, we took the liberty to drive in and explore the portion of the campground that was open. Driving near the Southern edge (nearest to the Klamath river) we smelled a pervasive \"skunky\" odor, but thought nothing of it at the time. Eventually we pulled into a campsite (second or third from the entrance at the foot of a large hill). Our intent was to get out of the pickup (leaving the dog inside), get on our rain gear and set up the tent as quickly as possible, as it was already quite dark and raining. Just after donning my rain gear, however, I heard some distinct \"hoots\" from within the woodline which were decidedly not owl-like nor quite human-like, but could be most accurately likened to those of an ape. I asked my friend if he had heard that, but he had not, as he had two hoods pulled up over his head. I quickly scanned the woodline with my head lamp, seeing nothing out of the ordinary through the dark and rain. We began setting-up the tent when I heard it again. \"There.\" I said, \"Did you hear it that time?\" \"No.\" he responded, but he did pull his hoods down. Shortly thereafter we both heard another set of \"hoots\". \"What do you think that is?\" he asked. I have had a casual interest in the Sasquatch phenomenon since childhood and find its existence to be scientifically plausible. I am also quite comfortable in the wilderness, having spent much of my life in the outdoors from Alaska to Costa Rica professionally, academically and recreationally, but I never honestly expected to experience anything first-hand with such a creature. So, being educated and reasonable, I declined to respond. As we continued, we began hearing other noises. First we heard \"whacking\" sounds of wood against wood (more probably stick against tree). Perceiving this \"hooting\" and \"whacking\" as a less-than-friendly display, we became a little nervous and contemplated leaving; but curiousity and the dread of packing up, moving to an unplanned location and reconstructing in the dark, while already soaked; compelled us to stay. So, we continued constructing the tent between periodic scans of the area. The \"whacking\" continued and we noticed it would come from different locations in short sequence (too short for one individual to move from point A to point B). Again my friend asked: \"What do you think that is?\" I gave the guarded response: \"I'll tell you what, I've spent alot of time in the woods and observed alot of animals, but I've never heard anything like this.\" I assume he read through the evasion to the meaning of my response, given the ubiquitous usage of the word \"Bigfoot\" , and images thereof, in the surrounding communities and some casual conversation we had had on the subject during our drive. Shortly before turning in for the evening, I heard a short series of what sounded like heavy footsteps on the rocky terrain of the hillside, in the rhythm of a two-legged walk. Turn in we did, however, with senses piqued and dog tucked securely within the tent. We slept intermittently and restlessly hearing sounds throughout the night. Most frequently we heard the \"whacking\"; most regularly a rather hollow-sounding report originating from a point some distance to our Northeast and up the hill. We would, however, periodically hear closer and clearer \"whacks\" from varying locacations to our general Southeast; once hearing a disturbingly close and firm \"whack\" from our South/Southwest. I awoke, once, at approximately 3:00am and heard distinct, single-note \"whistles\" from the general direction of the distant, hollow \"whacking\" which were, again, decidedly unbirdlike, yet not quite human. Soon thereafter we were all startled upright by a \"crack\" followed by loud rockslide, terminating distressingly close to our location. My friend informed me he had heard two other, smaller slides earlier that night. After all was quiet for some time (except the perpetual \"whacking\") we eventually slumbered down again, awakening to sunlight and (finally) quiet surroundings. In the daylight we observed that the hillside was quite steep, rocky and slightly parabolic in shape, and the rock slide ended up in our South adjacent campsite, leading us to conclude that: 1. Inspection of the hillside would be dangerous and turn up little or nothing in the way of footprints; 2. Sounds could have originated from well up the hill and carried down the \"amphitheater\" hillside; 3. If it were people playing a prank, they must be extremely dedicated to risk their lives negotiating that hill in the dark and rain and to wait in the woods any given night for the off-chance campers might come by in November; 4. Though rock slides may naturally occur there on occasion, they certainly must not occur on the order of three a night or someone would implement measures to ensure no one camp in that location; 5. Maybe that \"skunky\" smell we had encountered just previously was not a skunk. At any rate we drove on the next morning to the Willow Creek Ranger's Office (making no mention of the events) to inquire as to open trails. We were instructed that much of the back country road system (and corresponding trails) was closed due to the Port-Orford Cedar Root disease, but that we could drive into the Horse Linto Creek area and hike along the closed roads. We took that advice and spent the next five nights uneventfully. We decided to return to Aikens Creek for the final night (Saturday, Nevember 22) to take advantage of the open, flat space to dry wet equipment and see if we could observe anything further. We picked an open site midway between the foot of the hill and the highway, layed out equipment for drying, then decided to day-hike somewhere nearby. We drove up Bluff Creek Road to its closure at the road junction to Fish Lake then hiked 1.6 miles down that road. I payed close attention to the steep clay roadsides, and once noticed what could have been a partial footprint of a large, humanlike foot from the heel (about 4\" in width) to a point about 6\" forward (and perceivably midway along the length of the foot. I found, however, no other footprints or enough context to draw any real conclusion about the impression. That night, back at the campground, we kept a large campfire and kept some down and dead cedar boughs nearby to throw in for quick brightness if needed. At one point , my dog suddenly barked and charged towards the trees at the edge of the campground just below the freeway. I halted him and went to investigate, but found nothing unusual. Though better prepared we neither saw nor heard anything further that night. We returned home however with a new awareness.","Aikens Creek campground, immediately West of Bluff Creek on HWY 96","Humboldt County","California","Fall","Report 7452: Campers Hear Unusual Evening Sounds",41.23528,-123.6581,"2003-11-16",7452.0,"Class B","9r24d4duvm",51.63,49.66,47.69,45.18,0.84,1.0,0.74,0.0178,1.0,"rain",1017.86,"Light rain throughout the day.",2.0,6.86,150.0,0.28,"RES.SEASON"], [3306,2690,"I was living in Whatcom County 5 minutes from the small town of Everson, WA. I worked on a dairy farm out in Custer, WA. I had to be work at 6:00 AM to feed calves, however, I did my best to get there a half-hour early just in case a cow had a calf in the night so that I could tag it, Vac it, tube it and move it before the other calves woke up for their morning feed. I got out of bed at 4 AM and got ready to go, ate a small breakfast, and left the house at 5:05 AM to head for the farm. As I started down my road I got a funny feeling. I came to a Stop sign and got ready to turn when I caught sight of movement in the headlights. At first I thought that a deer was preparing to jump over the blackberries and onto the road until I focused on what it was I was looking at. The creature blinked and reached up its hand to grasp a limb of a tree. It was sickly skinny! It’s elbow joints protruded, and I could see the clavicle bone and the shoulders had a dip between where the arm connected to the body. I could see a massive rib cage and a sickly sunken stomach on this animal. I could see the tops of this animal’s pelvic bone protruding. It had a very clear thigh gap. The sides of the head were sunken in on either side and the face was gaunt with high cheekbones. The animal leaned against the tree it was holding onto for support. I was shocked and scared, but I knew what I was seeing was real. So I tried to take in as much as I could. The animal didn’t seem too keen on moving. He just stood there staring back at my car like deer in the headlights. It was anywhere from 8’5” to 8’9” tall and about 3'6\" wide (I came back and measured a week later based on the tree branch it held on to). It was covered in dark medium length fur with patches of gray around the face and peppered throughout the body. It’s head road low to the shoulders with very little neck showing, and it’s eyes glowed yellowish greenish white in the headlights. It’s head had a high cranial ridge, making it look pin headed for lack of a better word. Its arms were very long with the fingers of the creature just above the knee. Its eyes were forward facing and quite round and deep set with a broad, protruding forehead. It’s nose was flat, with a thin lipped slightly protruding mouth like a gorilla but not as angled with the mouth. Its face had deep set wrinkles. Thinking back now I believe this poor animal didn’t have the energy to run. He just stood there staring back at me. I finally decided to turn onto the road and head to work. As I hit the gas going towards this creature he startled and bared his teeth at me. I know from documentaries that when a monkey bares it’s teeth it is a sign of aggression. The thing that struck me is that its mouth was missing a bottom canine and the rest of them were worn nearly flat. The other teeth were chipped with a few broken close to the gums and nearly gone. I hit the gas at that point because I was turning left and had to go right past this animal within about 10 to 15 feet of it. The reason I didn’t report this sooner was because I was worried how people would react, and also I wondered what this animal was doing there in the first place. After thinking it through, it hit me. There was a chicken farm in the area. I truly believe this Sasquatch was older and starving to death. It happened to be a really awful Winter, with the most snow that part of Washington had seen in 20 years, with several ice storms, and heavy snows and with temperatures plummeting into the low teens. I think it had come down from the foot hills into the town outskirts to try to snatch a few chickens as an easy meal. I think I surprised him, thinking that no humans would be out that early in the morning. A week later I saw the chicken owner while I was walking my dog. I asked how their chickens were and they told me that the week before, they believed that a few coyotes had gotten in and had snatched two of their hens that were sleeping in the outdoor shelter. There is a thick dense forest that goes on for miles straight up into the mountains. It is home to deer, black bear, coyotes, and the occasional mountain lion. I was born and raised in Montana. I hunt and fish and I have seen a lot of animals both wild and domestic. I am also a huge animal lover and have watched countless documentaries on every animal you can think of. So believe me when I say that I know animals and what I saw was not cougar nor was it a bear. I have seen them both in the wild, in zoos, and on documentaries. I would not miss identifying a bear for what I saw.","Exact location has been kept confidential in order to protect the privacy of surrounding property owners.","Whatcom County","Washington","Winter","Report 63451: Sickly sasquatch observed by farmhand around 5am, 5 min outside Everson",48.90147,-122.3347,"2017-01-21",63451.0,"Class A","c29n0nnxdy",49.55,43.245,36.94,38.14,0.82,0.84,0.82,0.0004,0.2,"rain",995.4,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",1.0,9.962,54.0,2.88,"RES.SEASON"], [3311,4398,"My wife and I were returning from TMT Farms Christmas display when a bigfoot crossed the road in front of us. At first I wasn’t sure what I saw but my wife asked me if I saw that. It was a big creature, 7-8 feet tall, and crossed the road from left to right in 4 steps. It crossed the road and made its way into the woods.","[Investigator Note: The road crossing happened on Lakeview Road almost precisely one mile south of Blitch and eight miles north of Statesboro. Coordinates for the spot: 32°34'31.4\"N 81°47'01.6\"W]","Bulloch County","Georgia","Winter","Report 69052: Motorists’ sighting at night 8 miles north of Statesboro",32.5754,-81.78378,"2019-12-20",69052.0,"Class A","djvc6fnv7y",61.69,52.02,42.35,20.89,0.45,0.23,0.82,0.0007,0.07,"rain",1031.9,"Clear throughout the day.",3.0,10.0,50.0,5.85,"RES.SEASON"], [3314,2727,"I am writing this report for a family member of mine. The witness to the bigfoot was driving in her vehicle on her way home from work. The route she takes is all country back roads. She was going up a hill with her brights on and notices something was hiding behind a tree on the left side of the road. So she slowed down and it looked around the tree right at her and then poked back into hiding.The witness stated that it was very tall over 6ft tall and had red eyes and a man like face. The witness remembers going through her head questioning what it could have been and soon realized it was something, she had never believed in a bigfoot. She couldn't get over small little details from the little she seen of it. The height, color of eyes, and the way the eyes were set on the face, so human like, unlike an animal, and the face it self more flat like a human not pointy like a deer or bear. The thing that bothered her most was that it was intentionally hiding from her vehicle's lights and peeked out from the tree then hid once seeing her.","We went to the location a couple of days later to look for evidence but none was really found we had alot of rain in the following days to the incident.","Waukesha County","Wisconsin","Summer","Report 28008: Possible nighttime sighting while driving next to Kettle Moraine State Forest",42.97569,-88.44846,"2010-07-05",28008.0,"Class B","dp9h7r3z99",83.91,79.225,74.54,69.45,0.73,0.59,0.79,0.0001,0.25,"rain",1011.3,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",8.0,9.84,203.0,4.42,"RES.SEASON"], [3322,1300,"I’m Gladys Andresen from Grovesprings, MO. 65662 About 9:30 to 10:30 am, I left my home on HYW TT heading to the town of Lebanon, MO. Beautiful day, just past junction NN driving about 40 miles an hour. As I looked to my left there stood a huge Bigfoot. Reddish brown long hair, about 3’ 1/2 ‘ wide across his chest. His arms hanging to his side, his hands were long enough to go past his hips. Stunning creature. As I passed, he had already cleared the tree line, stood as to look back and fourth for traffic. We locked eyes and looked at each other till I was past him. He wasn’t startled, he just stood there as if he knew me. I smelled a musty odor in the air. He definitely was an Alpha Male. No fear. About 9’ tall. Huge. If I would of stopped, I feel like I could have shook hands with him. No photo. But I keep my phone on camera from now on. It’s day time sightings. Not night time. Gladys Andresen","Cedar Tree line off each side of the 2 lane road. Grovespring is South of Lebanon, MO OFF Hyw 5. Turn left on O. Following till Hyw TT. About a quarter mile before Junctions NN going South. [Exact location of incident (copy and paste these coordinates into Google Maps): 37.463917, -92.522421 ]","Wright County","Missouri","Fall","Report 66158: Motorist's daylight sighting in farmlands 45 miles northeast of Springfield",37.46392,-92.52242,"2020-10-05",66158.0,"Class A","9ywjns55pk",68.47,57.64,46.81,37.79,0.61,0.0,0.63,0.0006,0.03,"rain",1022.2,"Clear throughout the day.",6.0,10.0,167.0,7.56,"RES.SEASON"], [3332,501,"My friend lives outside of Cardington. It was about 6:00 P.M. when I got to his house and we decided to build a small camp fire just for the sake of fun. He lives right next to a small wooded cliff that follows a tiny river. Right behind his house next to the cliff that leads into the small woods is his security light that stays on all night. It was about 9:40 P.M. that night and we had a really good camp fire going when he said “we are just about out of wood… do you think you could take the flash light and pick up some small twigs to keep this fire going.” At the time I really didn’t think anything of it and being a hunter and all I’m not scared of going into a woods at night. So, I said “sure” and took the flash-light and proceeded down a cut path on the face of the hilly cliff. The first step I took heading down that hill I will never forget for the rest of my life. As I took my first step onto the path I saw a massive black object/thing at the bottom of the cliff in a wall of weeds taller than me. Now, I’m about 6’ 1” and this black thing was a good 8 feet in height or taller. The weeds at the bottom were it stood are a good 7’ in height or longer themselves. With said, I just stood there froze in fear asking the same question in my head ‘what the hell is it?’ As I stood there it just moved side to side like a large animal studying it’s pray for the kill. At that time it looked up at me with its red eyes and that is when my heart dropped to the bottom of my small intestine. The red eyes on this thing glowed off the security-light at the top of the cliff and I was just scared shitless. After about two minutes of just standing their motionless, I finally managed to move my arm in a backwards motion to touch my friend on the shoulder. When I did that Josh said “what” and turned towards me where he got a fearful look at this thing as well. He then yield “shit” and took off for the door to his house leaving me just standing their thinking ‘o-shit he just left me hear by myself with this thing.’ About that time this large bear/human looking thing just took off running in a mad run for the riverside; crossing it towards the field on the other side. When that happened I took off towards the house door as I fell over myself just turning around. As for what I seen that night I really can’t say. But I do know one thing and that is it was no person or animal I’ve ever seen. I would also just like to add that later this past week myself, my friend, and some college friends took a walk down into the woods in the middle of the night where we discovered and photographed three large footprints coming up out of the river bed.","Just outside Cardington.","Morrow County","Ohio","Winter","Report 10863: Two young men have a sighting while tending a campfire near Cardington.",40.50945,-82.87663,"2005-01-13",10863.0,"Class A","dpjn6ne0ds",63.6,45.615,27.63,47.17,0.79,0.57,0.12,0.024,1.0,"rain",1005.93,"Breezy until afternoon and rain starting in the afternoon.",2.0,8.21,199.0,11.67,"RES.SEASON"], [3336,937,"It was September 1997, 8 people and myself were camping in the Tillamook County forest. Well anyway, I got up about 6am, got out my 22 and started out on a hike. Before leaving, I heard a friend say \"wait up and I'll will go with you\" I said \"fine but no talking I want to check out the game in the area before they check us out\". About 5 minutes up the road I noticed about half way up a hill was a large rock outcropping with a black stump about 9 feet tall. It was around 400 yards from us. I ask my friend \"do you see that weird shiny stump on those rocks up there?\" He said yes. Then I said \"look at it through your scope\". Then the gun went off. He said he didn't mean to fire and that he couldn't find that stump any more. In disbelief I looked and didn't see it any more. When looking in the only areas something could go, I saw it walking very fast, long arms swinging, one basic black color. I said \"Sh*#$@& you shot at that person!\" or what ever it was. We ran back to camp and didn't say much because we did not want to get in trouble. Later I showed a friend who camps there all the time the place and he said no one could climb up there early enough to be up there by 6 am. I agreed. He also pointed out that there were no other camper around this area. It is in the Cook Canyon area, very steep rocky country, great for elk hunting. I am convinced that this was a bigfoot. I've always been a non-believer of bigfoot, but now I'm convinced. I'm always in the woods elk and deer hunting or scouting camping etc. I've never seen any thing like it, including bears standing on there rear legs, both black and brown in Alaska.This thing was tall, slimmer than bear. Thank you.","The easest directions: Look on page 64 of the Delorme Oregon Atlas in section 2C and the location is in the ridges south of Anderson rd, north of Anderson creek. Our camp was on the creek, west of the gaging station","Tillamook County","Oregon","Summer","Report 2102: Two hikers have early morning sighting near Tillamook",45.75449,-123.866,"1997-09-13",2102.0,"Class A","c0pum37e1p",68.98,63.400000000000006,57.82,53.2,0.85,0.49,0.39,0.0061,1.0,"rain",1006.44,"Rain starting in the evening.",6.0,8.75,103.0,3.5,"RES.SEASON"], [3350,2921,"We had driven into Milk pond, up Chinook pass, about 30 miles from Yakima, Washington. We were headed to Milk Lake, thats up about 5-7 miles above the pond, we got into the spot late, so we just drove past the pond and found a small area we could part our truck and cabover camper. We ate a quick dinner, and went to bed, we never walked around or made any noise, so I don't think they evey knew we were there. You couldn't see our truck from the pond. In the middle of the night, The frogs from the pond stopped croking, and this loud whistling and clicking noise started, I asked my Husband what it was, and he said he thought it was a Bigfoot. It went on for about 15 min. Then stopped. The next morning I walk all around the pound, hope to see a foot print but didn't. We then went up the hill to the lake. No other people were aound, and while we were fishing we heard the strangest thing, it sounded like someone picked up a 55 gallon metel drum and threw it on the ground, I went in the direction of the noise, but could see or hear anything, but we had thet feeling of being watched. very creapy. So we left. Keep up the good work, i think they are very interesting, would like to meet one, and give them a bag to carry thing in, I think they would like that. Dyann","I haven't been there in years, but an area map would have Milk Lake on it, and the pond is on the way up to it, they clear cut the area, about the time we stopped going there, wasn't as pretty any more.","Kittitas County","Washington","Fall","Report 77: Couple hear vocalizations while camping at Milk Lake",46.98333,-121.0922,"1983-09-01",77.0,"Class B","c23gk3p3ep",57.85,53.345,48.84,45.6,0.76,0.68,0.8,0.0472,1.0,"rain",1014.03,"Rain in the morning and overnight.",4.0,4.9,251.0,9.77,"RES.SEASON"], [3355,4773,"My sighting of what I believe to have been a sasquatch was quite brief, though I did get a decent look. My mother and I were visiting my aunt and I was asked to go out to the car to get my mother's cigarettes. I went outside and walked over to the car and grabbed the cigarettes. When I got back out of the car and went to close the door, I noticed something moving in the field next to my aunt's property. A very large and definitely bipedal animal was walking down the field towards the woods. It walked with a long and sort of slouched gait. It was either covered with really dark brown or black fur and had rather long arms that swung loosely as it moved. It crossed the distance of at least 200 feet in less than 20 seconds. As soon as it reached the woods, I walked into the house and must have sat for at least half an hour trying to process what I'd seen. I was only 13 at the time.","From SR 135, go to Dutch Creek Rd and from there, turn on to Falling Creek Rd.","Washington County","Indiana","Summer","Report 10678: Youth has daylight sighting near New Pekin.",39.4862,-86.161,"1999-06-12",10678.0,"Class A","dp48xk5rz1",87.86,78.425,68.99,67.56,0.72,0.44,0.96,0.0019,1.0,"rain",1018.77,"Light rain starting in the evening.",7.0,6.92,5.0,0.76,"RES.SEASON"], [3362,542,"My family bought a farm back in 1966 on county rd 28 (now Headleys Mill rd).There was an old farm house on there and before my father built our new home we would camp out in the farm house on weekends. The farm was 21 acres, mostly in a hollow and you could see the county road 60 yards from the farm house. It was pretty rural back in that time with maybe 4 houses within 4 sq miles. On that weekend nothing abnormal happened until the next morning. What I remember was waking up and seeing my father pacing back and forth with some kind of farm tool in his hand. My mother was crying and holding my baby sister in her arms, and I asked my dad what was wrong and he said look out the window. What I saw was a very tall black hairy thing walking down the road. As it walked across the bridge, its head was at least 2 feet above the rail which was at least 6 foot high. At that point my father ran out of the house after this thing and I followed. The thing walked across the bridge and into the woods, and we have never seen it again. To this day my father will not talk about what happened, but my mother will admit we did see something and that she remembers the incident similarly to what I just described.","Headleys Mill Road, Pataskala Ohio, Licking County","Licking County","Ohio","Summer","Report 4953: Family has sighting on farm along Headleys Mill Road",40.00915,-82.67252,"1968-08-01",4953.0,"Class A","dpj5werwnw",77.91,69.34,60.77,66.17,0.81,0.97,0.25,0.1413,1.0,"rain",1016.45,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,6.98,279.0,1.94,"RES.SEASON"], [3364,578,"I was driving on Rd 1 in Salt Fork State Park from the back entrance. I was around 30 yards from the turn off for Hosak's Cave when I saw a hairy, brown figure move into the brush on the right side of the road. Now I know what a deer backside looks like and it wasn't a bear. When I went back later after work is when we found a foot print.","Salt Fork State Park, Rd 1, back entrance off of Freedom Rd. Right before the road to Hosak's Cave.","Guernsey County","Ohio","Winter","Report 56800: Possible sighting and casting of a print near Hosak's Cave in Salt Fork State Park",40.14003,-81.49033,"2017-02-12",56800.0,"Class B","dpnh3ek89e",55.8,43.56,31.32,41.96,0.79,0.85,0.56,0.014,0.96,"rain",1011.37,"Rain in the morning.",3.0,2.96,285.0,3.08,"RES.SEASON"], [3366,1954,"Earlier this year i was camping by myself in the Citico Creek area. Around Ten oclock P.M. i was in my hammock (i dont use a tent,i go lightweight)when i heard something,i guess you could say running down a steep hill across the trail from me.At first i thought it was a deer or some other animal but it stopped and started moving parallel with the trail. So i get up and get my fire going again to try and spook what ever it was off. Whatever was moving (ill just say IT from now on)went down about fifty yards and crossed the trail over to my side. I was kind of freaking out because it was so overgrown with vegatation that a flashlight was almost useless.I could hear IT cross back over the trail and move up the hill and come back the way IT came. It went past my camp about fifty yards or so and crossed the trail this time above where i was.About this time i figured out that it wasnt an animal so i was freaking out a little.This went on for about four or five hours off and on.When the sun came up i got out of there.I told some friends about what happened they thought it was probably a deer or maybe a dog but it sounded way to heavy for either of those.I done some research and came across your sight and kind of got it out of my system you could say but i saw where you guys had a expedition to North Carolina and saw some articles where people had encounters around the N.C. and T.N. border well thats where i was.","From 165 take a right to Indian Boundary campground take the first right before you get to the campground go about four miles on the gravel road,its the first pull off on the right follow the trail for about a mile or so my camp was on the left","Loudon County","Tennessee","Summer","Report 16995: Man in the Citico Creek area has an unknown animal circle his camp for several hours",35.40472,-84.05056,"2006-07-22",16995.0,"Class B","dnk1rmhpry",78.14,69.375,60.61,66.88,0.93,0.56,0.92,0.0157,0.86,"rain",1012.24,"Rain in the morning.",10.0,9.38,249.0,0.71,"RES.SEASON"], [3370,1277,"Sunday morning around 9 am I was driving on the beach express heading north. It was a beautiful morning. Sun shining and clear. There is an area of nothing but trees and brush which goes on for a mile or two. After that the road goes into a \"s\" turn which is probably a mile or so in length. Coming into the last right hand part of the s turn, I saw what I first thought was a man running from the left to the right across the highway. I thought, \"what is this guy doing running across the highway out here?\" I could see shoulders moving and arms swinging. It was upright and fast, but I couldn't see any other detail from my distance. It just seemed really dark brown or black. I couldn't make out shoes or clothing or skin. Whatever it was, it did not slow down once it had made it across the road. It continued at the same speed into the trees. I slowed down almost to a stop where it appeared to enter the trees. I could see into the trees a good distance, but saw nothing. It was gone.","off of 180 to foley beach express [Investigator (MM) Notes: Location Coordinates: ]","Baldwin County","Alabama","Fall","Report 71896: LAST SUNDAY: Possible road crossing sighting of a sasquatch 5 miles NE of Gulf Shores",30.31786,-87.64934,"2021-11-21",71896.0,"Class B","dj3smrpwq6",72.68,67.09,61.5,60.08,0.86,0.45,0.58,0.0001,0.06,"rain",1021.3,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,9.874,98.0,7.18,"RES.SEASON"], [3373,707,"I took my kids camping at our camper and decided to do some sight seeing at a couple of places by the camper. We went to a place called Fort Hill in search of a stone wall the indians built encasing 40 some acres of forest land. It has not been touched since then. While hiking on the paths we seen what looked to be a bigfoot print in the mud on the path that we was on. It was about half way up a 400' hill we was climbing. While we was hiking, we heard a big crash that sounded like a tree falling and also had something follow us through the woods for a while. We never seen anything but could hear twigs breaking and leaves shuffling. I did take a picture of the print with my daughter's foot next to it.","This is a state park in Ohio. It is off of Rt. 41 between Hillsboro and Peebles.","Adams County","Ohio","Summer","Report 30369: Photo of a possible footprint taken by campers in the Fort Hill Area",39.11929,-83.40022,"2011-08-08",30369.0,"Class B","dnuww1my6h",87.93,78.72,69.51,69.94,0.8,0.29,0.33,0.0076,0.53,"rain",1006.67,"Rain overnight.",9.0,1.01,247.0,0.76,"RES.SEASON"], [3374,4088,"I was out in the woods with two of my sons (16 & 18) and as we were leaving I saw some movement didn't think much of it. As we got up the trail by where I saw movement one of my sons noticed some foot prints, that were larger than normal and right next to some deer tracks. Then my other son described exactly what I saw even though I never described what I saw. Earlier in the day we saw a strange \"footprint\" in the mud also.","\"twin lakes\" off the power lines","Volusia County","Florida","Spring","Report 35574: Possible sighting and footprints found by father and son while setting turtle lines outside Deltona",28.91605,-81.32394,"2012-05-28",35574.0,"Class B","djnht2j8ny",84.61,78.945,73.28,71.19,0.87,0.45,0.25,0.0109,0.96,"rain",1011.46,"Rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",6.0,9.06,191.0,2.97,"RES.SEASON"], [3379,1282,"I don't know if what I saw was two bigfoots or something else, but one thing I know is they were things I've never seen before. I also know they weren't bears. I worked in the coal mines near a small town called Amigo. What I used to do (my job description) was coal sampler. I would drive around all day collecting coal for chemical analysis, from the high walls to the deep mine. The deep mine is more remote since they just put the belt head in. It is so far from the plant to the deep mines it would take me about 30 to 35 minutes driving in the mountains. Last week I was driving back from picking up a sample and noticed something running back up in the woods. It was two does. Then I noticed something was laying on the ground. I beeped my horn thinking it was a bob cat and up jumped this light tan (just a little bit darker than the deers skin) thing. I froze. It was definitely wasn't a man or bear. All I know is it was walking upright. It did something that looked like it clapped its hands. Then I watched it kneel down and crawl into an airshaft for an abandonned mine. To my surprise, another one appeared out of nowhere and ran past it. I could tell this one was only a couple inches taller than me (6-7). I do know it was something I’ve never seen before. The second one kneeled down and crawled into the same airshaft.","Heading to the deep mine Poca #2, the airshaft would be on your right hand side. Look a little past the bridge where the stream flows south. All this is private property.","Wyoming County","West Virginia","Winter","Report 13237: Daylight sighting near an abandonned mining chamber near Amigo",37.58135,-81.29745,"2005-12-03",13237.0,"Class A","dnwjy13p0p",35.86,35.075,34.29,18.87,0.64,0.71,0.07,0.0042,1.0,"rain",1018.66,"Rain overnight.",2.0,9.41,145.0,1.02,"RES.SEASON"], [3393,1821,"I was going to Settle's Ford conservation area with my girlfriend to look at the stars. We pulled up to a gravel parking lot with fields to the east and a tree line to the west. My girlfriend and I felt uneasy for some reason when we got out of the car, but it had only been our second time there and we didn't bring her dog this time around. I have a pretty powerful little spotlight flashlight with a zoom lens to really get a distant read on eye shine. I decided to do a quick look around with it and almost out it down when I thought i saw something out of place in the field. I don't know why it caught my attention, as I had just skimmed over it with my flashlight before bringing it back around to decipher whether or not I was looking at an animal or a tree. But I noticed it was a little more... white? I shined the light on this thing for no more than 3 seconds before it started moving west. This was 50 yards away, but the first thought that came to my mind was it was a man, and told my girlfriend to immediately get in the car. Once I jumped in I realized that it is nearly 1 am, there are no cars here, and nobody would be in a field dressed in white at the hours. It just doesn't make sense. I then pulled my car around back to the road in it's direction to try and take a closer look, but only 40 feet or so down the gravel road, the fog started to get heavy. Feeling incredibly creeped out, me and my girlfriend high tailed it back home. From the distance in the fog, I could tell it was white, upright, somewhat slender and VERY tall. The head was distinct from the rest of the body and it seemed to move at a little more than casual pace once it realized I could see it standing there. I know this was not a deer because I would see the rest of it's body and I know it wasn't another person because a singular person would be out of there mind to walk out into a field to hang out in the middle of the night. Plus it was way too tall. I will not be going back to this area.","Cass county side of Settles Ford on the north side of the river, 2nd parking lot coming into the conservation area before reaching the river","Cass County","Missouri","Summer","Report 65808: Couple sees a white sasquatch at Settle's Ford Conservation Area.",38.46156,-94.14297,"2020-07-23",65808.0,"Class A","9yv4c9xnvf",92.43,82.08000000000001,71.73,73.85,0.78,0.11,0.12,0.0025,0.17,"rain",1015.9,"Humid throughout the day.",10.0,10.0,118.0,4.18,"RES.SEASON"], [3407,4862,"I was 10 yrs old roughly my dad and cousin and I were fishing on the Kansas River west of Topeka between Topeka and Silverlake. I was about 125 yards away from them on a sand bar when I looked to the west of me and saw a large dark hairy figure in the water splashing itself as if where bathing. I froze for a minute then it looked at me and stood there. I took off running back to my dad and cousin scared out of my wits. Finally my dad was spooked too so we left the area. To me it looked like a big bear in the water but I remember its arms were way to long.","Just past Fleming Foods and Payless Shoes Distribution Center.","Shawnee County","Kansas","Summer","Report 12067: Youth has sighting while fishing on Kansas River near Topeka",39.072,-95.747,"1978-07-08",12067.0,"Class A","9ygym0z4vh",96.71,85.29499999999999,73.88,67.78,0.72,0.3,0.1,0.0021,1.0,"rain",1015.41,"Humid and partly cloudy throughout the day.",9.0,9.3,133.0,5.22,"RES.SEASON"], [3411,621,"while fishing early in the morning at Eastfork Lake near batavia,ohio,my nephew and I heard first an owl hooting a couple of times and I told Cody that I'd never heard one there before.It was around 3 am,After a few more hoots all of a sudden a loud noise came from the woods.A noise that I've only heard in a jungle scene in a movie.The sound was of chimps in trees,warning of danger present,it was very strange.After about an hour had pasted,we heard the owl noise again and then broke out in a loud low scream,over and over we heard this scream.then it went into what sounded like dogs barking,maybe a few dogs and then the barking went into yelping like they were being hurt.Then it stopped.We didn't hear anything again.Occasionally we'd hear the sound of a large rock being thrown into the water about 100 yards away.We left alittle later after all that went on.","we were fishing on a sandy clearing just to the right of the floating dock at the Northshore boatramp,EastFork Lake State Park","Clermont County","Ohio","Summer","Report 26149: Fishermen experience possible early morning vocalizations and rock throwing at East Fork Lake",39.03501,-84.1317,"2009-06-16",26149.0,"Class B","dnunjd15mm",78.24,72.895,67.55,65.13,0.78,0.48,0.78,0.0368,1.0,"rain",1013.77,"Heavy rain starting in the evening.",10.0,2.26,130.0,1.12,"RES.SEASON"], [3418,1799,"On a real nice night in June about 9:30p.m. myself and some other guys were talking after a softball game on what we wanted to do. So one of the guys suggested that we go to the \"old resort\" to see if anybody was partying there. The old resort was a abandoned piece of land that had a strectch of driveway from a road that went over a hill down a low part and up again. And on top of that second hill was a old empty in-ground swimming pool and a couple of small collapsed buildings. I havenever been there before but heard of others talking about having a \"kegger\" there a time or two. So we all loaded up in Dave's van and off we went, there were 6 or 7 of us. When we arrived there we went over a gate down the hill and up the 2nd hill to the old resort. No one was there but I wanted to see this place for myself, the moon was real bright and your eyes adjusted real well to the lighting conditions and after about 20 min. of \"exploring \" we decided to head back to the van. Now there was 2 guys ahead of us, myself Mike and Gene, and 3 guys in back of us, at about a distance of 25 feet between each of the groups. The two others that were walking with me was Mike and Gene, I'm about 6' 3\" and Gene is about 6' 5\" and Mike was short. As we were walking west towards the van in between the two hills with woods on both sides of the path back to the road. I started to smell the worse odor that wasn't chemically produced. Something like real bad B.O., musky like and fecal. At that point I said \"Gene, what is that smell ? \" and Gene said \"It ain't a skunk but it's just as bad.\" Thats when Mike stopped in his tracks and began looking at our right .We stopped as well and Gene looked where Mike was and said \"Oh my god, look!\" I looked and saw a figure about 20' from our location staring right back at us. Couldn't make out facial features because the moon was behind it but it stayed behind some brush just checking us out. I looked ahead of us and the guys in front were there and looked behind me and those guys was acounted for also. I said \"What is that?\" and Gene said \"I don't know but I can't handle this!\" Off he went with me and Mike. After him passing by the guys in front and when Gene got to the gate he climbed it with 2 steps and didn't stop until he got to the van. I know this because I was right behind him. We waited for the rest and told them what happened. Then I began to rationalize that maybe we just smelled a dead animal and maybe it was just a cedar tree swaying in the breeze. So Dave and I went back to the spot and there was no smell and no tree at the spot where I saw it. Whatever we saw was taller than both Gene and I by about a good half foot.","Wooded area near Lake Sprinfield, which is connected with James River","Greene County","Missouri","Summer","Report 2036: Multiple witnesses encounter bad smell, three observe creature hiding behind sapling",37.07354,-93.13545,"1988-06-01",2036.0,"Class A","9ytfbthc48",82.76,69.255,55.75,61.15,0.74,0.86,0.54,0.0034,1.0,"rain",1014.87,"Rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",5.0,8.12,148.0,4.84,"RES.SEASON"], [3420,3946,"A large human-like footprint by Helmets Peak. The area around the footprint was very rough.","On the west side of Helmets Peak. A little ways up from the base.","Montezuma County","Colorado","Fall","Report 6755: Another large footprint in SW Colorado high country",37.4125,-108.1292,"2003-08-30",6755.0,"Class B","9wehg6wxx5",61.47,50.805,40.14,45.24,0.84,0.28,0.11,0.0061,0.9,"rain",1016.96,"Rain until afternoon.",8.0,10.0,47.0,1.2,"RES.SEASON"], [3433,4498,"We were camped along Marble Creek at Donkey Creek near Avery, ID. July 2019. It was a weekday, so no other campers were within miles. Deep mountain valleys and dense woods. I was chopping food for dinner. My husband and small children were fishing at the loud creek. I'm an avid birder. Obsessed. I must know every call I hear. And that evening, I heard a call that sounded like an old fashioned crank police siren. It was echoing through the valley and came from a higher altitude. Howls of the same timbre and pitch, but slightly varying length. I thought it was an owl I must not know. Wolves and cougar don't sound like that. My dog didn't bark. She hid under the table. I also considered that maybe some kids were playing with an old police siren. But then I realized there was no way kids could have been way up near the ridge with something that heavy, plus, no one else was up there. When I got back into cell reception, I searched through owl calls and found nothing similar. But I found that call on the BFRO site. It was the Ohio howl.","[47.192729, -116.077882]","Shoshone County","Idaho","Summer","Report 65369: Family hears \"Ohio Howls\" in the historic Marble Creek drainage, 47 mi SE of Coeur d’Alene",47.19253,-116.0776,"2019-07-13",65369.0,"Class B","c2mkqx4u7v",84.86,71.38499999999999,57.91,50.84,0.51,0.29,0.41,0.0068,0.38,"rain",1009.8,"Rain in the morning.",9.0,2.207,273.0,3.14,"RES.SEASON"], [3441,2859,"Last month I went on a backpacking trip in the Buckhorn Wilderness, to a small alpine lake about two hours into the wilderness; called Lena Lake. I went with my mother and we accompanied a group of people on this two day backpacking trip. When we got to the lake everyone set camp and it was time to start preparing dinner. I went down to the shore of the lake to explore while everyone was at camp. When I got there I was surprised to see tons of barefoot tracks everywhere. But what caught my attention was how these tracks were so unusual, they did not look like some random people were walking around barefoot in the mud. It wasn't exactly the size of them that caught my attention but how deep they were in the mud. Whatever it was must of been at least around 200-300 pounds or more because I'm around 130 pounds and jumped as hard as I possibly could in the mud, and I barely made an indent. Whereas the prints I was looking at were around 4 to 5 inches deep. Also what struck my attention was the raised area of the foot. I looked up Bigfoot footprints online and they described it as the mid-tarsal break. All of the footprints I was looking at by the lake had a mid-tarsal break. I looked up photos of Bigfoot tracks and one of mine looked very similar to the track photographed in the Hoh Rainforest in 2005. All the tracks seemed to come from a family, for some were very small and others were larger. The tracks lead into the water and out from another shore of a shallow part of the lake and I followed them up into the gravel as they disappeared into some boulders and large rocks by the lake. I couldn't understand how people would walk around barefoot in the rock and gravel especially when it was a very cold time of the year. The tracks looked about a few days old because I could tell they weren't fresh, but they were so unusual and looked so like the ones online that my instincts told me that these were not human footprints.","Lena Lake, Buckhorn wilderness.","Jefferson County","Washington","Fall","Report 42304: Camper photographs possible footprints at Lena Lake in the Buckhorn Wilderness",47.61922,-123.1592,"2013-09-21",42304.0,"Class B","c22qvky4n9",56.48,52.11,47.74,50.41,0.97,0.86,0.58,0.0008,0.54,"rain",1005.17,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,9.67,203.0,0.74,"RES.SEASON"], [3446,3811,"My wife and I were hiking for the afternoon in the Mokelumne Wilderness in Alpine County, California. Our destination was Granite Lake, two miles from the outlet of Upper Blue Lake. We reached our destination, had lunch and were returning, following the trail back the way we had come. When we reached a pond, about 1/3rd of the way back, I expressed a desire to my wife to take a hike southward across the same elevation level as the pond, to another lake called Evergreen Lake. There is no trail or pathway to this lake, and I thought it would take about 20 minutes to reach it. My wife declined to accompany me, so I told her I would return in a while. I began walking, trying to keep my position along the same contour line as the pond. The forest was fairly dense, and generally well covered with pine needle duff, generally underlayed with decomposed granite. After a short walk, I realized that very likely few people had ever gone where I was headed, as there were no signs of previous travel, and the going was sometimes difficult. I tried to stay on the contour, but kept slipping lower down I went. After a while - more than 20 minutes, I realized that I wasn't going to find the lake, so I started back. As I walked back I took a different route, trying to regain the elevation I had lost on the trip out. I came across a section of forest floor where there was mostly decomposed granite, and as I followed this - which was a bit easier to travel on - I come across two sets of footprints. The first set looked almost human, except they were wider and longer than usual. Noticeable were the toes, and a definite arch. The second set of prints were from a larger creature, and left a deeper impression, especially in the heal area. This track was wider still than the first, and looked similar to typical casts of Bigfoot prints. There was no noticeable arch, and the toes were not especially evident. Both set of tracks were superimposed at points, indicating that one creature was directly following the other, stepping in the same spots at times. The tracks quickly were lost in the pine needles further ahead. It had snowed two days before, and the ground was damp, but most of the snow had melted. These tracks were fresh, likely less than 24 hours old.","There are no other directions to give, aside from what was given inn the narrative.","Alpine County","California","Fall","Report 12818: Hiker leaves main trail and finds two sets of footprints",38.6167,-119.9501,"2005-10-15",12818.0,"Class B","9qfewmzn84",41.9,37.165,32.43,27.95,0.68,0.23,0.44,0.0017,0.5,"rain",1010.17,"Partly cloudy overnight.",5.0,10.0,243.0,0.76,"RES.SEASON"], [3447,1481,"Last night on Sept 2nd my friend was outside with with her 7 pound dog when I stepped out to smoke with her. We both heard a grunting sound, we got scared and ran inside. The next day we went looking in the area where it had come from and we found bushes pressed down at what appeared to be a heel print. I took a couple photos of it. That night we went out and tried to do wood knocks and howls after about five sets off knocks (I was doing knocks of two and three hits) we heard a distinct wood knock back, it sounded like when a baseball player hits a ball solid. I proceeded to knock and howl and we heard thuds like something hitting the ground. We also heard movement thru the woods and in a stream. We are going to go back and try some more knocks to see if we can add to the story.","East Fouch Road, Traverse City, MI","Leelanau County","Michigan","Summer","Report 42056: Possible activity at a cabin outside Traverse City",44.83369,-85.72845,"2013-09-02",42056.0,"Class B","dpgp11wrnm",59.31,57.98,56.65,52.52,0.8,1.0,0.91,0.0013,0.55,"rain",1011.92,"Overcast throughout the day.",4.0,9.33,314.0,4.03,"RES.SEASON"], [3448,2882,"Three co workers and I were putting up communications lines on telephone poles in a bucket truck. We heard high-pitched sounds, almost like an ape, so I started to mimic the sounds. Just then, my co-worker asked me what kind of sound that was that I was making. Then, as he was up in the bucket, he said a man crossed the road. I thought he was just fooling around. As we hung more interduct, I noticed a large hairy animal which crossed the road. At first, I did not think anything of it, but this thing kept walking back and forth out to the middle of the road looking at me. I had my hand over my eyebrows trying to get a better look and to cut the glare off from the sun. This animal was not walking with a limp or bent over. To me, it walked straight up and down like a man. It was looking at me as if I had puzzled it with my impersonation. I would say it was a good 70 yards away. I tried to reason it to be a man, but all the men working in the area had hard hats on with reflective vests-us also.This thing was walking back and forth like you see a wild animal in the zoo. It did pause several times in the middle of the road to look at me, as if it had some kind of intelligence. For some reason I felt it was female. The arms were long and hung at the animal's side. The hips were wider than the shoulders","It was somewhere near Carnation and Fall City. There was a water treatment plant or reservoir.","King County","Washington","Summer","Report 4335: Vocalization, followed by sighting near Carnation/Fall City",47.6068,-121.9008,"1999-06-15",4335.0,"Class A","c23qf4d99q",67.83,61.465,55.1,54.49,0.8,0.68,0.08,0.0011,1.0,"rain",1013.3,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",7.0,9.97,203.0,6.68,"RES.SEASON"], [3450,3962,"On Saturday afternoon on August 4, 2018 at approximately 2pm my boyfriend and I were driving from Berlin to Woodbridge about halfway there I was staring out the passenger side window as my boyfriend was driving. In a clearing of the woods I saw what looked to be an extremely tall man with shoulder length dirty blonde hair. As I focused in I realized this 8 ft tall creature’s arms, chest and legs were also covered in the same long dirty blonde hair. He was walking north with the back of his hands facing forward, swaying like a gorilla as he walked on two legs. As we passed him I jumped out of my seat and turned around and kept my eyes locked on him as long as I could. My boyfriend asked me why I did that and I told him, “I think just saw a Sasquatch. I just saw the weirdest thing and it was not a human.” And went on to describe what I saw.","Spotted in the woods on the southbound side of the road (Wilbur Cross Parkway)","Hartford County","Connecticut","Summer","Report 60892: Afternoon sighting by motorist, Wilbur Cross Parkway, approx midway between Berlin and Woodbridge",41.42178,-72.85863,"2018-08-04",60892.0,"Class A","drk5wh9gqg",80.56,74.64500000000001,68.73,72.54,0.87,0.71,0.75,0.0273,1.0,"rain",1018.46,"Heavy rain until afternoon.",5.0,9.21,196.0,3.85,"RES.SEASON"], [3451,138,"We were conducting Marine Corp Training exercises. Our last training event was a mock war to apply what we had learned. So, my squad was over on top of a hill ridge over looking saddle. We were waiting for the enemy to come up the hill so we could engage them, but then we heard a noise from behind so we turned around to see what what it was. We thought it was a bear about ten yards but it seemed like it was taking a knee so we stared at it for about a minute then it got up onto its feet and started walking to our position and we did nothing as it walked between our fighting holes which were about 15 feet apart. As it passed by us, it knew that we were there because it didn't keep his eyes off of us, he looked down at me directly as it passed by then he stopped about 15 feet away, and turned around, but not completely, he turned at his waist to a look back and disappeared. It was big, at least 7 feet tall. I mean his body was muscular. It was the biggest thing I had ever seen","Camp Lejeune military base","Onslow County","North Carolina","Winter","Report 24334: While training a U.S. Marine witnesses a large creature near Camp LeJuene",34.40434,-77.23759,"2005-02-10",24334.0,"Class A","dq15drj7c9",58.54,44.405,30.27,38.15,0.62,0.57,0.07,0.001,0.52,"rain",1008.08,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",3.0,6.78,307.0,9.4,"RES.SEASON"], [3452,703,"Date of Experience: 10/16/2020 Time of Experience: 6:15 am Location of Experience: Collinsville Oklahoma Personal Property. I went archery hunting on my 11 acres on 10/16/2020 and as I approached my tree stand around 6:00am I noticed a tree that was by my shooting lane had been pushed over. The tree was approximately 2 or 3 inches in diameter and absolutely no strong winds to push it over the whole week while I was hunting. I do know that it was standing and not pushed over the day before. Seemed strange but continued to harness up and climb into my deer stand. Still being very dark that morning I nocked an arrow and settled in to my stand. Approximately 15 minutes after I shut my headlamp off, I heard a distinct knock on a tree about 100 yards or so from my tree stand deep in the woods. It sounded like someone hitting a large stick or baseball bat against a tree. It knocked about 4 times then stopped and a few minutes later it knocked two times. It was the strangest thing I have ever heard and the first time I have ever experienced it. I know that nothing could have made that sound other than a person. I’ve been an avid hunter all my life and have been in the woods many times, but never before have I heard anything like it, and hope I never do again.","I wish to not share my exact location. However, it was around hi-way 169 and 156th St North.","Tulsa County","Oklahoma","Fall","Report 66198: Possible knocks heard by hunter before sunrise NE of Collinsville",36.37919,-95.80589,"2020-10-16",66198.0,"Class B","9y7ygysk0u",70.55,59.385,48.22,30.92,0.44,0.09,0.01,0.0002,0.05,"rain",1026.0,"Clear throughout the day.",5.0,10.0,223.0,4.79,"RES.SEASON"], [3471,4598,"My pitbull was barking in terror. I went out to check on him and shone my light just on the other side of the fence I put up around the orchard and he was standing there clear as day staring at the dog and me . Twenty yards away. Flat face. Reddish brown fur. Eyes looked orange in the light. He disappeared into the woods. I've seen him many times. I live surrounded by the national forest.","Shawnee National Forest. Behind my house","Union County","Illinois","Fall","Report 50341: Home owner gets a good look at his frequent visitor one night near Jonesboro",37.4351,-89.30203,"2015-11-21",50341.0,"Class A","dn8kzyu5rb",42.69,33.18,23.67,29.99,0.7,0.73,0.35,0.0056,0.92,"rain",1019.03,"Light rain in the morning.",2.0,9.72,301.0,4.39,"RES.SEASON"], [3476,525,"I myself have had many different occasions with the creature I have dubbed \"Fang\". I have come to understand through self experiences that there is more than one creature in our area. I go hiking quite often in the same area and know exactly where they usually are, as they tend to follow me most of the times I am there. My mother told me today about your web site and I felt obliged to write. I fear of people coming to our area and trying to find Fang and his clan. I feel somewhat of an understanding and a protective closeness, and I feel they should be left alone. Anyone who has had the wonderful experience of seeing one with their own eyes knows the truth. The world would only want to capture and destroy them if given the chance I fear. I would be willing to talk to someone about my experiences, but I do not really want to tell everyone, due to my beliefs. My children have heard their cries out in the woods, and we have gotten rather close enough for their smell many times. Just last week my younger son and I found footprints in the woods by a thicket too dense for us to walk into.","(edited)","Portage County","Ohio","Fall","Report 7224: Ongoing Encounters with \"Fang\" on old family land",41.13356,-81.17155,"2003-10-10",7224.0,"Class A","dpq60bhsmg",72.54,62.885000000000005,53.23,57.02,0.8,0.87,0.52,0.0007,0.84,"rain",1020.35,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,7.21,102.0,1.81,"RES.SEASON"], [3478,1555,"My name is Michael, and I am 17. I had a Bigfoot sighting in Michigan. I was fishing one day and I was all alone because I walked up and down the river for almost a mile and a half. I was fishing and all of a sudden a huge rock hit the water like 50 feet down from me and make quite a big splash. This is in the Whittemore Area, and I looked down the river and then this big giant apelike creature looked out over the river at me and literally scared the crap out of me it had really long hairy arms and big broad shoulders and the head on this thing was way bigger than a human. The creature stood at least 11' in the air. Then it turned and started walking into the woods, but it walked toward me. it made like 5 steps and stopped. When it walked you could hear the sticks and leaves cracking under its feet. It got quiet but too quiet. Even the birds stopped chirping. It was getting scary. So I packed up my fishing gear and started walking curiously toward the trail. I was yelling into the woods and asking \"Is there anybody there?\" but nobody answered so I started walking down the trail. on the quarter mile back to the main road. I started walking back and then I kept getting this feeling that someone was watching me or something. I turned around and as I turned around this big giant thing jumped over this barbed wire fence and ran up the hill leaving this big stump swaying aggressively. It was up and over the hill in like 5 seconds. This thing was freaken Fast! I ran up the hill but on the other side was a big field. It was gone by then. I later bumped into my Aunt my brother and my cousin. They said that they heard something walking up by this pond then they heard a low growl and then it walked away. I really hope that you guys investigate this case because I did some research and the last sighting in Iosco county was in 1985. Was it the same Sasquatch? Please help me understand what I saw? Please?","location was: Whittemore Area off of W. M-55","Iosco County","Michigan","Spring","Report 40204: Daylight sighting by a young man fishing near Whittemore",44.2725,-83.89001,"2013-04-11",40204.0,"Class A","dpu7g594j0",32.49,31.375,30.26,27.12,0.82,0.86,0.04,0.0057,0.9,"snow",1016.17,"Snow (1–3 in.) starting in the afternoon.",4.0,7.96,69.0,8.6,"RES.SEASON"], [3485,2935,"I was walking in the woods behind the resort. It was pretty quiet, all I could hear was the Cle Elum river down below. I looked through the trees and saw an auburn colored Sasquatch walking. At first I thought it couldn't be a Sasquatch, there are people at the lodge. But as I looked again it's whole body was covered in shaggy auburn hair. I then thought it couldn't be a person, I've never seen anyone wear a snow suit that looks like that.","I noticed that it's hands hung down by it's knees. It looked bulky/muscular. It's auburn/red hair stood out in the snowy environment. I was shocked to see it so close to the resort.","Kittitas County","Washington","Winter","Report 56932: Hiker has an afternoon sighting behind a mountain resort in Cle Elum",47.20113,-121.0161,"2016-01-27",56932.0,"Class A","c23uw0wy82",40.01,38.59,37.17,32.54,0.8,1.0,0.62,0.0002,0.34,"rain",1027.01,"Foggy starting in the evening.",1.0,4.29,111.0,0.53,"RES.SEASON"], [3489,4754,"I had previously written an Email to BFRO and explained my encounter with a sasquatch that we called the big muddy monster at a pond called A-41. Well guess what, I was just watching TV and they just ran a story about the same monster that I had encountered while I was going to Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. I was the bartender at the Midland Inn in Murphysboro, Illinois. This thing was in the wooded area behind where I was fishing. I kept hearing the brush breaking behind me but thought it was squirrels or deer or turkey. Then it started breaking whole trees, snapping them like they were twigs. I started getting very scared as the area I was fishing was miles from my truck or any roads. you had to trek in. Then a huge chunk of rock splashed into the water in front of me, then another. I turned around and it was standing there looking very pissed off that I was there. It immediately let out a scream. I can still imitate this scream. It starts out as a high pitched siren type scream that makes every hair on your body stand up. Then it gets higher pitched and is so loud you cant believe what is happening. With one step this thing could have reached out and twisted my head right off my shoulders. I knew I could not out run it so I just froze. I could not believe what was happening or what I was seeing. This thing was 5 feet wide at the shoulders. I was on the lower side of the hill so I could not get a real good estimate on height but I'm going to say it had to be at least 7 feet high. Nothing but pure muscular athletic bodybuilder outlined upper torso. A couple seconds after it screamed I was trying to think of an escape and turned away from it. It retreated back into the woods so fast that I lost sight of it against the wooded background almost immediately. I grabbed whatever gear I could and started running back down the trail as fast as I could. I don't know what I left there or what I took with me. I ran as far as I could until all I could do was a fast jog all the way back to the car. I was playing rugby for SIU at the time and was in pretty good physical shape. The whole time I was running I was thinking that it could have over took me at any time. There is more to this story. I had been fishing for bass with large shiner minnows for a couple hours. I was hearing something behind me in the brush. I kept fishing, something was stealing my bait off the hook time after time but I could never hook anything. A fat black water moccasin surfaced around the bank so I switched hooks to a #5 treble hook and snagged it. When I set it down on the bank and beat its head in with a stick, That's when all hell broke loose. To me it seemed that the creature was watching me the whole time I was fishing. After I killed the snake and wrapped it around a branch I pinned it to a tree. Right then is when the huge rocks hit the water, trees started snapping and I turned around to the scream. This is a true story. I fished this small lake several times before this happened but have never returned. My memory will never forget this spot on the lake, the snake, the scream, the creature. It has been over twenty years. Story has always been told the same. I told this story to a BFRO rep. about four years ago and I think it was the guy who covers Jackson County, Illinois. I told him about the A41 lake and that he could find what he was looking for right there. He asked me to make a report on the site but I did not. Now after seeing this episode of Monsters and mysteries in America and the guy from the Murphysboro salvage yard describing the scream exactly I knew I had to come forward. This is true and it really does exist.","This is a small lake on a map created by Illinois Department of Conservation. I was fishing this lake because it had a 21 inch length minimum limit. Listed as lake A-41 in Jackson County Illinois.","Jackson County","Illinois","Spring","Report 44003: Close encounter while fishing remembered near Giant City State Park",37.63264,-89.17177,"2014-05-14",44003.0,"Class A","dn8w4fg450",51.53,48.93,46.33,49.78,0.96,1.0,0.49,0.0386,1.0,"rain",1018.36,"Rain until evening.",5.0,5.46,343.0,4.98,"RES.SEASON"], [3493,4521,"someone should call me about this....i have a great deal of information to relate.....autumn night....weather was warm but very foggy....area was at my house which was in a glen near the kishwaukee river. very dense forest area within a couple hundred yards. figure DID NOT look like a big hairy ape.....very tall, slender and very large eyes...color appeared simialar to a local deer. was hiding behind tree watching me...i have extremely good hearing and night vision. it made noise as i was getting into a car. with the door of the car open i reached in and turned on the headlamps. it was peeking around a tree....it froze in the light but recovered quickly. we made eye contact which it held for several long seconds. it then turned and ran...within 3 or 4 strides it was able to hurdle a 5-6 foot fencing without breaking stride. i was able to watch it run for several hundred feet, although my vision was hampered by the fog. at that time i worked from home in my garage often at night and had heard many odd things before and after. contact me for further information...i believe this creature to still exist and i plan on looking for it this summer. I would be pleased to talk your organization, however i would prefer not to have this sighting listed just yet.","Near the bridge where Interstate 39 crosses the Kishwaukee River.","Winnebago County","Illinois","Fall","Report 19910: Nighttime sighting by property owner near Kishwaukee River.",42.1846,-89.022,"1994-10-22",19910.0,"Class A","dp2xyr2pj5",71.72,55.705,39.69,46.37,0.74,0.34,0.6,0.0021,1.0,"rain",1009.73,"Partly cloudy in the morning.",4.0,9.87,218.0,4.18,"RES.SEASON"], [3496,1815,"My ex girlfriend and I were bored one day so we went for a leisure drive (she was driving) down old highway 94 in Callaway county Missouri. We were 2ish miles down the road when I see a huge brown object 20ish feet off the side of the road in the yard of a house that no one lived in. I see a humanoid creature on it's hands and knees in front of a big round hay bale. left arm straight down, right arm extended picking up something off the ground. Right knee straight down, left leg extended as if to counterbalance itself. I saw it so clearly that I seen the expression on its face(soft looking, lighter brown hair on the face with a black nose)from a profile angle. It was totally engrossed in what it was picking up off the ground. From the extended arm I saw long darker brown hair maybe 12 inches long blowing in the wind. The hair was not matted and seemed to be clean and shiny. I quickly surveyed the surroundings to get a idea of the size of this thing. it's extended arm stretched maybe 2 feet in front of the hay bale, the extended leg probably 3 and a half feet the other way. It's back was flush with the top of the hay bale. I was unable to speak for a couple of seconds. When I regained control of my vocal cords I told my girlfriend about what I saw. She looks in the rear view mirror and seen the creature by the hay bale then exclaimed she was turning around! Some cuss words followed with the threat to throw her out of the car if she stopped. The creature didn't even seem to notice us or care about anything but what ever it was doing. we was in a small car (94 Mazda 323)and who knows what would have happened if we startled the thing and it came after us. ","http://www.mapquest.com/?le=t&hk=dGV8IE&vs=","Callaway County","Missouri","Summer","Report 28689: Memory of a daylight sighting as a passenger on Old Hwy. 94 east of Jefferson City",38.56724,-92.07335,"1999-06-30",28689.0,"Class A","9yye2ufnrq",80.24,74.025,67.81,64.16,0.8,0.77,0.55,0.0007,1.0,"rain",1008.19,"Light rain starting in the evening.",6.0,10.0,137.0,6.16,"RES.SEASON"], [3509,614,"Mid August 1985 Elyria Ohio- property butts up to Lorain County Metro parks. My husband XXX and I had recently moved into our newly built home. We both worked during the day and Jim had already left for work. We had two large dogs at the time, both over 100lbs and I was taking the dogs out to their kennel. It had been raining that morning which turned into a light mist and a slightly clearing sky. I had just arrived back into the house when I heard the dogs ferociously barking. I went to see why the dogs were barking and noticed they were jumping in the pen both looking in the same direction. I looked in the direction the dogs were barking to see a large reddish brown hairy bipedal creature running away towards the creek. As it ran I noticed it had a slight bend in the knees with long arms slightly swinging. It also had a small point to the top of it's head. I watched it for approximately 30 seconds from my kitchen window viewing it from the side and then from the back as it jumped from the drop off into the creek. Needless to say I stood in disbelief trying to sort out in my mind what I had just seen. The only thing that made any sense was that I had just seen a \"Bigfoot\".","Approximately one mile north of Midway Mall in Elyria, Ohio.","Lorain County","Ohio","Summer","Report 49813: Woman remembers being shocked to see a running, hairy biped in her backyard in Elyria",41.40985,-82.11172,"1985-08-15",49813.0,"Class A","dpmeed2jf5",81.37,74.125,66.88,68.08,0.83,0.95,0.97,0.03,1.0,"rain",1014.29,"Heavy rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",5.0,5.46,236.0,3.93,"RES.SEASON"], [3517,2125,"My girlfriend and I were parking at the edge of a creek flowing into the back of the lake. It was dark and under the cover of trees where we were parked you could not see your hand in front of your face. We had the windows cracked little and were in the back seat of the car when we heard something out of the ordinary. We had been there before so knew the usual night sounds in the area. A owl lived in the big tree near by and hooted all the time. The hill in front of the car went down to a swamp with a creek in the middle going to the lake. There was crickets, frogs and locust all making there normal sounds that night. But we heard something coming through the leaves in the bottoms, it sounded like it was heading to our car. I have spent a lot of time in the woods hunting, fishing and trapping growing up so I don't get spooked to easy. At first I thought it was a cow, but then we noticed all the night sounds were gone, no frogs, crickets, owl - dead quiet except the foot steps. They were on 2 feet a step and a drag step like it had a hurt foot or something. Then being a kid I thought of all the horror movies I watched and figured it was a guy who jumped the train and was coming to kill us and take our car. As the steps got closer I got really bugged, it was coming up the hill right at the car. Finally after what I thought was an eternity I flew over the front seat and started the car, the only problem was it was a new car she just bought and I never drove it. She was screaming about dieing or something when I threw it in reverse and stomped the gas. I was there before and new the road opened up behind me so as I was going backwards I hit the light switch. This was a big mistake because it turned out to be the cigarette lighter, as soon as we came out of the tree cover we got some moonlight and I found the headlight switch. This all happened really quick, but I looked up and there was this animal leaping over the hill going into the creek, it was really wide at the shoulders and had almost no neck. I thought at first it was a bear but there was not any bears in this area. I saw a big brownish black creature running through the trees. I saw two shoulders and the back of the head go between two trees, later measured to be about 4.5 feet apart. It covered between them easily. I asked my girlfriend did you see that, she said she saw a brown spot in the lights like a bear on two legs. I think the car scared it, so we went to town for help. After we got more people, truck's with lights and some equipment we came back. We left the truck lights shining in the bottoms and looked around for tracks with our flashlights. We started to look for footprints, the ground was dry and covered with leaves but we did find large scrapes going up the hill to where the car was parked, they looked like it was where the animal jumped over the hill. They were very far apart, I had to stretch as far as I could from the one on the bottom to the one at the top. I am 6' 4\" with a 38\" inseam, this was a large stride. This is when the whole woods went quiet again, it was nuts, 5 pretty big guys all standing in a circle like a herd of buffalo back to back, scared I guess, none of us moved a muscle. Flashlights and guns pointed out at the dark we listened to the dead quiet of the woods. Then all of a sudden a tree limb snaps - loud, and then everything gets back to normal. Then one by one the frogs, crickets, owls all started making noise again. Really strange night for sure. The next day my brother and a friend went to walk the creek with buckshot in our shotguns. We walked about a half mile down the creek spread out like small game hunting. We came to the area where the railroad tracks were up on the hill, my brother was at the bottom, I was in the middle, my friend was on the end farthest from the hill. Then we heard a lot of racket and looked over to my brother, he yelled my name in a really scared voice as something was going up over the hill. I remember seeing trees bending back as if being used to help something get up and over the top. When I got to where my brother was he was on one knee and had his gun pointed up at the hill. I said what was it and he said I DON'T KNOW, BUT IT WAS BIG. We found 2 marks on the really steep bank going up to the railroad tracks, I tried to climb it and could not. The marks were in the middle of the hill and at the top, something very strong and powerful went up the hill. It had a big stride also. The hill was about an 80% incline.","Near Sunshine Lake.","Parker County","Texas","Winter","Report 9810: While parking near Sunshine Lake, teens have late night encounter",32.78611,-97.83334,"2004-11-20",9810.0,"Class A","9vf6t8xbvv",66.89,63.32,59.75,57.75,0.94,0.86,0.3,0.0063,1.0,"rain",1015.49,"Rain in the evening.",3.0,4.67,97.0,3.29,"RES.SEASON"], [3547,95,"Last September a friend and I went to scout a place to deerhunt up close to the Pee Dee River.I am disabled from a heavy equipment accident and i needed to kill deer to feed my son and me so we were trying to find a place that i could hunt and be comfortable and not too hard for me to access.We noticed a strong smell and my friend has hunted this place 30 years and i ask him if he had ever smelled anything like it and he said no.Opening day of regular gun season on October I parked my truck at the gate and my friend went by boat to his stand.As I was going in I noticed that stinking smell again as I got to my stand it sounded like something was following me the whole time on the way in there and it sounded like someone hitting trees with baseball bats.I hunted there everyday a lot of times by myself one day going to my stand I saw one just one track about 23 inches long and it was compacted in the ground about 2 inches I weigh 300 lbs. and my track only went down about half an inch. I contacted John Shaw with the N.C Wildlife Resource Commision he a Biologist he came down and met me and i showed him the track he said he could see what i was saying but the track was contaminated so we left it at that. About 2 weeks later i was hunting a stream right down from this spot and heard a huge splash in the water and i thought it was a deer so i waited,but never saw anything about 20 minutes later I went up the creek a few hundred feet and in a place in the creek I saw 1 track again on a rock bottom creek very hard my track didn't show up when i crossed the creek but this track 20 plus inches was down about an inch into the hard rockbed bottom of the creek since it was only one track again I didn't bother calling the biologist back,but i saw other signs like stick formations,large patches of vegetation that looked like it had been rolled over by a steam roller,several tracks in the leaves with long strides about 4 feet,found where 2 animals had been killed looked like something put a deer up on a big limb about 8 feet of the ground you coud see the deer hide all over the limb and found where an animal had just been freshly killed one day hunting in there was only person up there that day and something killed an animal near the river it looked like a pile of manure had been steamed rolled into about a four foot wide area on the road about eight feet long and a lot of blood on the ground but no guts and no corpse and that strange smell was there every day.I have hunted a lot of places since i was 5 years old I am 44 now,but this is the only place i have ever hunted that gives me the creeps,I know of a few sighting close to this place,it's not far from the highway 220 incident yall reported and not too far from where the one in Montgomery county was spotted.I don't care to be interviewed by the media please but i believe I can show you where you can actually find Bigfoot","Take highway 74 west to cartledge creek road turn left on grassy island road go across mountain creek bridge and the 1st place is before the 2nd bridge to the right hand side just follow the creek,the 2nd place is up to the curve on the hill and there is a huge yellow gate back off the roads you can se where people park walk to gate and follow road around to the right,I can show you the places if you need me to .Please don't post on website directions","Richmond County","North Carolina","Fall","Report 26013: Deer hunter finds possible footprint near Ellerbe",35.0554,-79.88049,"2008-10-18",26013.0,"Class B","dnppqm8u98",61.65,53.02,44.39,48.72,0.8,0.95,0.64,0.0081,0.92,"rain",1018.31,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,9.4,12.0,4.52,"RES.SEASON"], [3549,4596,"I am an avid outdoorsman and bow hunter in southern Illinois. I have hunted all over the U.S. seeing many animals and all kinds of terrain, but this day was not like any other I have ever had. I was heading to some public land that adjoins to the river to river trail. I drove between two orchard fields to get there I have hunted this spot many times I have seen numerous mountain lions, bobcats coyotes etc. in this location. I unloaded my gear and set off to a part of the public land rarely visited by people. If not for me I doubt anyone would ever go back to the spot. It was right around 1130 am I had been walking approximately 30-45 mins into the woods. I came to around 900 yards from my spot, it was pretty open the leaves had fallen off the trees and I could see a good distance. I started walking and I heard a snap of a branch other then mine. I believed it to be a deer so I stopped behind a big white oak tree in which I was behind and leaned against it. I went to peer around it and I couldn't believe my eyes, it's like nothing I have ever seen before. I was approximately 78 yards away according to my range finder I thought my eyes were playing tricks on me as to what I had seen it was gray with a slight bit of tan and brown mixed into its coat. It looked to be around 4 n a half to 5 feet tall. It did stand on two legs. But I believe it smelled me when the wind picked up and blew towards it an it dropped very, very low to the ground. lower then a bear could go and I ducked back behind the tree. When I looked back from behind the tree it was gone. I believe it was a baby Bigfoot as I have heard rumor and stories of this public land from countless people and friends of being chased up trees, rocks thrown at them, and their stands being ripped to shreds.","I can not explain directions but could show by map the names of the roads are not on the signs","Union County","Illinois","Fall","Report 57880: Juvenile observed during the daytime by a bow hunter near Alto Pass",37.56937,-89.36241,"2013-10-29",57880.0,"Class A","dn8mwx232y",57.05,57.29,57.53,50.64,0.99,0.7,0.83,0.009,1.0,"rain",1022.59,"Rain in the afternoon and overnight.",3.0,5.17,128.0,1.16,"RES.SEASON"], [3550,2939,"The incident took place during the summer of 2017 in the Teanaway area of Kittitas County, just outside of Cle Elum WA. Our group was built of 4 persons staying the night in a free camping area. I do not remember the exact date only it was late August. The campground only had one trailer in the entire area, and it was a family with two small children. We were in two tents. I had drawn the short straw and was sleeping in the back of one of our vehicles. The campground is very remote (no cell service) one road in kind of situation. And runs along a river. It also coincides with free-range area for cattle. We spent the day playing games and hanging out at the river. The night was spent by the fire, typical camping trope. We all retired to our sleeping quarters. It was about 3 in the morning when I woke to rustling outside. I was in the back of the jeep had taken up, the windows were down, and the doors unlocked. It was pitch black outside and when I sat up and looked out. There hunched over the picnic table was a large black mass going through our stuff/trash. Yes I understand the variables at play in this situation. We had left our trash out, racoons or bears being the best bet. However the argument I have and what I know for a fact and what plays over in my head. This mass was almost leaning on the bench seating, and hunching over and cycling through our bags and trash. Not to mention later that morning once we had all got to go out and inspect the area. There was no mess, no trash scattered, or a scene that happens when animals do come into camp. When I saw it at first my natural instinct was (Bear) so I slowly rolled up the windows, and locked the doors. I watched this thing from about 15 feet away. An Absolute black mass in pitch dark forest, move from one side of the camp to the other. I didnt have a flashlight. Even if i used my phone, I was shaking with fear, for myself and my friends who were feet away in tents. I laid down and closed my eyes and just waited till light broke through the trees. When I sat up again with barely an hour of sleep, it was now 8 in the morning. And to my left was a massive Bull (Cow). It meandered around camp for a few minutes but didnt do anything. At first I chalked thats experience up to it being a cow. But the cow left distinct hoof marks and and the length of the cow was not what I saw. Not to mention this figure I witnessed was tall, I couldnt put a number on it. And it showed a certain dexterity only a \"biped\" sort of thing could. I wanna note that I have gone every which way to make this a bear. In my head I play it back and try to make it out as a bear and bear only, but it just does seem possible as such. Only till now do I see it as something else.","Free Range Cattle Area Free state campground","Kittitas County","Washington","Summer","Report 69553: Possible encounter in darkness outside Cle Elem",47.21551,-120.9383,"2021-08-27",69553.0,"Class B","c23uxgr6m2",67.42,55.835,44.25,49.02,0.75,0.33,0.69,0.0003,0.11,"rain",1017.8,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,9.846,283.0,8.71,"RES.SEASON"], [3556,1629,"We went on an all girls camping trip June 20 - 22 of 2008. We were up having a fire, making smores and having a few drinks. There was a total of 6 girls on the trip. Everything was fine until we went to bed at around 3:45 in the morning. 4 girls slept in one tent while my best friend and I slept in another tent. About 15 minutes after we finally got settled in we heard some loud screaming/grunting. I knew that I had never heard anything like that before. My friend and I were totally silent and listened again. We heard it again but it was moving fast thru the forest. We agreed that after that we would not be able to sleep by ourselves. We left our tent, grabbed the hatchets from our campsite and slept in the tent with the other girls. I did not sleep at all that night until after sunrise. I was scared out of my mind! I stayed awake with the hatchet in my hand for the rest of the night and the following night. Later on that same evening/morning I heard something walk thru our campsite but I didn't even move. I was too scared. In the morning I thought I heard our cooler open but I was much too tired and thought it was one of the girls. When I got up all of our water was gone out of our cooler, but the beer and food was left. We never woke the other girls up that night and we didn't tell them until morning. I was on high alert the second night but didn't hear anything except what might have been a small raccoon or something rustling around in the brush. I know what we heard was not any normal animal. I was really scared and I will never forget it.","We were camping in Gulch Lake Campground in Paul Bunyan State Forest.","Hubbard County","Minnesota","Summer","Report 24089: Witness hears loud screams and foot steps while camping near Laporte",47.1589,-94.83755,"2008-06-21",24089.0,"Class B","cbks3cj2sb",75.61,63.765,51.92,47.88,0.58,0.21,0.59,0.0001,0.14,"rain",1016.91,"Partly cloudy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",7.0,9.31,313.0,6.12,"RES.SEASON"], [3561,4200,"My family moved to Charlotte County in 2000, bought a house in a quiet area and have been pleasantly surprised with the amount of wildlife in the area. We had moved from Ft. Lauderdale and would frequently exercise, bike ride, walk, run or rollerblade. It was January 2001 or 2002, sunny day, a cold front just went through the area. It was mid-afternoon, about 65 degrees, wind was out of the North, North East. I even remember what I was wearing. My wife and I decided to go Rollerblading that day, and we had a basic route we skated. As we made our way away from our house we got to one of our favorite roads, Koala, and proceeded down to the end at an easy pace. About 2-3 blocks from the intersection of Koala and Collingswood we stopped and saw what I first thought was a very large dog, on all four legs, in the swale about 20 ft. from the intersection. I looked at the animal and I thought I was looking at the profile of a dog, a really BIG dog. Although I did not see a tail or a head I did not give it another thought. I remember saying to my wife, \"We should have brought a lead to see if someone lost a dog. I would hate to see it get hit”. As she was agreeing with me, we just started to move towards the animal and all of a sudden its head rose up and stared right at us. The animal was not in the swale in a profile view on all fours, it was on all fours facing us. It had a dark face which did not register with me. The hair was long, reddish-brown. As the animal looked up at us there was about a 2 second delay before it took off at an alarming pace. RIGHT FOR US. Fight or flight sense kicked in. It started running, I looked at it as it gained speed and its hair was flowing in the breeze, there was no standard locomotive process. It seemed to float. The shoulders did not break a plane. We turned around and started to get the heck out of there. We feared that this animal was after us. As I kept checking back at it, thinking I may have to confront it, I saw it move from the swale to the roadway effortlessly. Again it appeared to float up the bank to the road. Once in the road I could see the hair moving in the wind as it chased after us, I could see the front legs moving but the shoulders never broke a visual horizontal plane. It took up a quarter of the roadway, 3-4 feet across, I would estimate 4-5 foot at the shoulder. The animal drifted off into the woods to the north side in to an area that appeared to have been an opening made through the brush. Maybe we were too close to its lair. I don’t know. I do not know what it was, I thought perhaps at first it was a dog, then maybe an exotic large cat, or a bear but I ruled them out just due to the unbelievable speed, overall size (huge) and locomotive process this animal executed. It just appeared to float. The whole thing lasted probably 20 seconds. I still get the chills thinking about it and when I go past that area.","On Koala just east of intersection of Collingswood. North side of Koala","Charlotte County","Florida","Winter","Report 45137: Husband and wife have close encounter while roller blading outside Port Charlotte",26.9745,-82.1475,"2001-01-20",45137.0,"Class A","dhv96ww1be",66.29,49.19500000000001,32.1,57.18,0.84,0.6,0.88,0.0055,1.0,"rain",1019.24,"Light rain until afternoon.",3.0,9.83,291.0,6.5,"RES.SEASON"], [3563,4292,"It was on thanksgiving night in 99. I was driving home from my daughters apartment in Cleveland Ga. When suddenly I thought I saw a man crossing the road on hwy. 75. I hit my brakes and realized that it was wearing no clothes and was covered in hair like a bear, but it walked upright and hunched more like a man or a huge ape like thing. It was definately not a bear. It was large and long armed. It turned it's head and looked over at me, then swiftly jumped down a huge drop and dissappeared into the woods. It all happened so fast. I was shocked and went home not sure of what i believed i had seen at the moment. Before then I had never been sure something like that had existed and I tried to rationalize what I had seen, but now I am convinced that it was in fact neither man nor bear nor simple ape. I cannot prove what it actually was, but I can say that it was quite amazing. Either that night or the next morning I callerd Animal Control saying I saw a bear, believing that it wouldn't be taken serious if i said what i know I saw. There were cattle near by that needed protection.","it was near Duncan Bridge, between the turn off for that road and Hwy. 17.","White County","Georgia","Fall","Report 7237: Evening sighting by motorist on Hwy 75 near Duke's Creek",34.672,-83.714,"1999-11-25",7237.0,"Class A","dnhmppc743",62.05,58.455,54.86,59.23,0.97,0.99,0.59,0.1131,1.0,"rain",1015.5,"Heavy rain throughout the day.",2.0,3.48,109.0,4.7,"RES.SEASON"], [3567,461,"My family owns a home on Chazy Lake in the northeast corner of the Adirondacks. I spend many weekends there and often wake up early on Monday morning in order to get into work (about 1 hour away). In February of 2005, I had gotten up and left the house at about 6:30 am. Approximately 2 miles down the Chazy Lake Road, headed toward the Town of Saranac, is where I had my sighting. A ditch (approximately 3 feet wide and 2 feet deep)runs along side of the road. There was probably a foot of snow on the ground. As I was driving, I saw something dark stand up from inside the ditch and head into the woods. When I saw it, it was probably 150-200 yards in front of me. It appeared to have a human shape but was slouched over. I could not tell the height nor could I give an approximate weight. The sighting lasted probably no more than 5 seconds. I saw the upper 2/3 of its body which appeared to be dark brown or black in color. I told my wife about it that night and we joked about it for a bit saying it must have been Bigfoot. In all honesty, I thought I had either seen or bear or my eyes were playing tricks on me. I hadn't thought about the sighting for quite some time until I read about a sighting in Clinton County (1998) on this web page and noticed it was in almost the exact same location as my sighting.","Take Route 374 from Dannemora heading west towards Lyon Mountain. Turn Left on to the Chazy Lake Road heading towards Saranac. Approximately 2-3 down the road.","Clinton County","New York","Winter","Report 14035: Possible night time sighitng by motorist on Chazy Lake Road outside Saranac",44.66399,-73.73606,"2005-02-15",14035.0,"Class B","drgw44g497",41.1,36.64,32.18,31.92,0.83,0.9,0.24,0.0001,1.0,"rain",1012.75,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",2.0,9.87,205.0,5.22,"RES.SEASON"], [3571,780,"A hairy bi-pedal creature carrying a calf or deer carcass over its left shoulder crossed the road from East to West, approximately 150 yards in front of my pick-up truck during a brief rain storm. A part-time rig hand with me in the truck also witnessed the creature. The following day we found several partial footprints along the creek bank on the West side of the road. We lost the tracks after 10-15 yards in the dense undergrowth.","A creek where the creature crossed the road and a Federal WPA water impoundment a 1/4 mile to the West.","Muskogee County","Oklahoma","Spring","Report 8591: Oil well owner and rig hand have road crossing encounter.",35.7575,-95.60667,"2004-05-03",8591.0,"Class A","9yk52mmqe1",67.09,58.435,49.78,39.4,0.61,0.0,0.46,0.0072,0.36,"rain",1022.67,"Clear throughout the day.",10.0,10.0,125.0,3.24,"RES.SEASON"], [3572,517,"I lived at the Kent Village Apartments as described in Reports #4967 & #7832 around 1985-86. At that time there was a small wooded patch between a residential road that led back to a small housing development and the road that led to the apartments. I would often walk from the Music and Speech building at KSU late at night after play rehearsals and cut through a little path in the trees as a short cut home. It was a warm night and very foggy, I walked home with another student who had been in rehearsal with me. We joked about the creepy weather \"nice night for a murder\" and chatted about this and that as we walked along. We walked throught the patch in the woods and halfway through we heard the most unearthly shriek. We looked at each other and bolted out of the woods to the parking lot of the Giant Eagle grocery that was there at the time. I was so scared a remembered the incident for years. Although I put it down to some animal, like a wildcat. I discovered the website and read report #4967, but never put two and two together until listening to a vocalization recording that sounded exactly like the scream we heard that night. Then report #7832 showed up and their encounter took place around the same time I lived there. I just felt I needed to tell someone that I heard something too. I also believe something followed my father and I in the Mohican State Forest as we walked along the river one hot summer day. The land sloped upward from where we were and I thought something was up there above us because the bushes kept moving as if something was making it's way through the brush parallel to us. I got scared and wanted if we could go back to our cabin. I told my Dad I was tired and hot and couldn't walk anymore. This was late 1970's, I was probably 11 or 12 at the time.","The area is located on Rt.59 just east of the Kent State University campus.","Portage County","Ohio","Spring","Report 12736: Student hears vocalization near the Cuyahoga River",41.15845,-81.33134,"1986-04-16",12736.0,"Class B","dpq4jk8m67",41.37,39.48,37.59,31.85,0.81,0.93,0.23,0.0041,1.0,"rain",1012.28,"Rain overnight.",4.0,7.5,306.0,8.64,"RES.SEASON"], [3573,4804,"I was driving home from a girlfriends house in the early hours of the morning on a late summer night. Patches of ground fog were scattered about over the fields. As I drove up to a ninety degree turn in the road my headlight shown on a figure in a bean field that boardered a corn field. The headlights caused the eyes to shine red and I could make out the shape of a large figure. It was standing in an area of the fog and its head and upper body were above the fog. It was as tall as the corn in the field next to it. Since the figure was next to the corn field (standing in the beans) it gave frame of referance for height. It was as tall as the corn which in Indiana at that time of the year is at least seven to eight feet tall. I could not make out facial features or hair because of the fog and the fact that it was at least twenty yards into the field. I turned at the curve and punched the gas. My hair was standing up on my arms and head and it really scared me. I was by myself so I was not about to hang around. I did not tell anyone as I thought that I would be ridiculed.","Smithland road in southern Shelby county. It was at a ninty degree turn in the road where I think it changed from East to North direction.","Shelby County","Indiana","Summer","Report 10153: Motorist has nighttime sighting of animal in soybean field near Flat Rock",39.365,-85.8486,"2005-01-23",10153.0,"Class A","dnfzyqnvwx",19.32,12.35,5.38,-1.83,0.58,0.04,0.45,0.0008,1.0,"snow",1031.42,"Clear throughout the day.",3.0,10.0,348.0,2.73,"RES.SEASON"], [3581,859,"My friend B.P. and I decided to spend an evening at Eagle Creek State Park along the Columbia River on I-84 at milepost 41 East of Portland, OR. We had a cook out camp fire in the Community Kitchen there. It was on April 9th, 2001, a Monday, which we purposely chose to avoid the crowds. Not that there are many people out there in the Winter but a Monday evening will usually guarantee no others will be around. It was cold out, just above freezing, and it had been raining quite a bit earlier. We had a nice dinner. We had cooked on our portable BBQ earlier in the evening which had included BBQ steak. We had already picked up and put away all of our gear so we were ready to go when we wanted to. At 11:50 PM we had just looked at our watches thinking it was time to go, when from across the creek, about 200 yards away, came a shrieking yell that both startled and shocked us. The yell came from across the creek, up on a ridge due west of us. At first I thought it was an emergency siren going off at nearby Bonneville Dam, but the siren quality of yell quickly turned into a very breathy roar of some very large animal. It lasted about 10 seconds. We stared at each other in disbelief. Before either of us could utter a word, another yell, just like the first, came from behind the Community Kitchen no more that 100 feet from us. This was the first time that I had ever experienced the hair standing up on the back of my neck. I thought I would have been able to identify any animal that lived in the forests of Oregon but this call was completely new to me. We stood there silent, listening for about 5 minutes. We knew that we were right in the middle of the two calls so maybe these two animals were going to meet right where we were standing. We then decided to leave. I was so glad. When I was inside my truck we locked the doors right away. We did leave our left-over food behind for them in case they were interested in that. I was skeptical about Bigfoot before but I try to keep an open mind. The only place I have heard the same exact calls since was in a film that was a 70's Class B movie called The Bermuda Triangle. Another thing to note on that occasion was that the snow line was unusually low still for that time of year. We thought that maybe this had driven these bigfoots down low in search of food. We were up there a few more times that year with our recorders but never heard another thing.","Was right inside the lower park south of the ranger station and fish hatchery at the Community Kitchen.","Hood River County","Oregon","Winter","Report 22742: Hikers hear possible vocalizations near Cascade Locks along the Columbia River",45.38736,-121.5134,"2008-05-23",22742.0,"Class B","c21d4ys8s9",40.72,39.795,38.87,37.76,1.0,0.95,0.61,0.0112,1.0,"rain",1003.91,"Rain in the morning.",5.0,9.66,292.0,1.19,"RES.SEASON"], [3593,1789,"I had just dropped my father off at his home at 1:50 AM in De Soto Missouri as I made my way down from Highway B onto NN heading north to my hometown Pacific MO. I was taking my time down NN traveling at around 30 mph to avoid any deer collisions due to the fact it is deer season. I had seen frequent deer so I am very keen with knowing what animals in a field look like, especially through the peripheral vision of car headlights. I was about 5 miles from the Franklin County line when I saw a rabbit dart across the road and I slammed the brakes to avoid hitting it. I was at a 5 mph rolling stop when I looked where the rabbit had run from and I saw a 7 to 8 foot tall ape like animal running on it's hind legs at my vehicle as if it were aggressively charging at me. I did not get a look at it's face other than the clear outline of the creature. I was very frightened at the site, and the sense of knowing it was an animal not native to Missouri, and it had just made me start to reconsider what I had just seen. I have recently heard of the Missouri MOMO, and I have been very skeptical about it. I would like to know what animal in Missouri could run at that speed on it's hind legs, surely a Bear cannot. I also cannot understand why I would have angered a Bear in anyway from just stopping in the road. I debated on whether or not I should report this, because a lot of people treat you like an idiot when you tell them what you saw. I thank you for taking the time to read my report. ","http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=cedar+hill+mo&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Cedar+Hill,+Jefferson,+Missouri&gl=us&ei=YFQKS92QOIO6NY-v3LYK&ved=0CAgQ8gEwAA&ll=38.387688,-90.725956&spn=0.044335,0.076475&t=h&z=14","Jefferson County","Missouri","Fall","Report 26919: Early A.M. sighting returning home from family event",38.4063,-90.7357,"2009-11-24",26919.0,"Class B","9yz6rr8kbv",53.68,49.415,45.15,46.33,0.87,0.9,0.25,0.0095,0.94,"rain",1012.74,"Rain until afternoon.",2.0,7.71,207.0,2.63,"RES.SEASON"], [3621,1182,"My husband and some others were preparing a field for planting when he noticed a pile of pooh in the field. He walked over to it and stated that he wondered what might have made such a large pile. As he looked around for horse or cow tracks, another person walked over to look at it and said \"Look at the size of these foot prints\". They all began looking around and found tracks coming out of a grassy area onto a dirt road. The tracks went about 20 feet then turned left into the freshly plowed field (plowed the day before). They proceded about 30 feet into the field. There you could tell where it paused to squat repositioning it's feet to do so and did it's business. While in this position it dug up some turtle eggs in front of it and ate them leaving broken shell behind. The feces were the consistancy of horse droppings in that they were of high fiber content and contained undigested muscadines(a kind of wild grape). But the droppings weren't in the shape of horse manure,(round ballshaped piles) but were long and cylindrical like that of a dog or human. The feces(2) were about 18-24 inches long and about 2 1/2-3 inches across. Rather large I must say. The tracks then turned left again into an area of tall grass, small pines and other small trees that lined a field at the edge of the woods. I wasn't able to follow them very far due to dead branchs, briars and undergrowth that blocked my progress. Plus I was wearing only sandals, shorts, and a tank top. Not prepared to trek through the woods. I took pictures of the tracks and the feces with a yardstick for size comparison. I also took a specimen of the feces and turtle egg shells which are still in my freezer. I have a cast of a left and right foot. The right one broke trying to pick it up but is still n pretty good shape. The left one is completely intact. They measure approx 18 inches long, 8 inches wide at the toes and 4 1/2 inches at the heels. The stride measured 3 feet from the toe of one foot to the heel of the next step. Each foot has 5 toes. A humanlike large toe on the inside of the step and each toe following being smaller than the last. There is an arch to both, showing it is not flatfooted. I took these samples to the Univesity of Alabama and showed them to a professor who is an anthropology professor in forensics. I walked away disappointed to hear him insist that what I had were Bear tracks. But he had been on a bear trip since I had spoken to him a few days prior about my find. When I arrived at his office, before he even looked at the cast he was talking bears and showing me books and pictures of bears and bear tracks. I tried to say Bears don't have a Big toe, but he tried to make up reasons that these tracks of a \"bear\" had a big toe. I realized this person was not going to believe what he was looking at was not a bear. It either frightened him to think it was a possible Bigfoot out there or he was embarassed to say he didn't know what it was. Just a \"Bear\". Well there is our encounter of a Track sighting. When I was looking through the internet for sighting reports in the Alabama area I was excitedly surprised to find the one on your sight (report#245 Class A) which is in the same general area as ours.","Withheld at witness request","Tuscaloosa County","Alabama","Summer","Report 6938: Tracks and feces found in freshly turned field",33.21145,-87.35664,"2003-08-30",6938.0,"Class A","djcuujuydz",90.0,81.03,72.06,73.43,0.85,0.6,0.1,0.018,1.0,"rain",1020.25,"Heavy rain starting in the evening.",9.0,9.65,185.0,1.11,"RES.SEASON"], [3623,3867,"We were at Lake Tahoe the first week of may this year - 2005. While walking on the beach looking for pretty stones, my friend noticed this print in the beach gravel. What really caught our eye was the depth of the print (3 inches) and how the stones on the bottom had been incredibly compressed as if done by a great weight. Other prints were visible, but not as good as this one. We were south of Tahoe City, and north of Sugar Pine Campground.","We were south of Tahoe City, and north of Sugar Pine Campground.","El Dorado County","California","Spring","Report 11837: Man sees and photographs large print on shore of Lake Tahoe",38.96,-120.0969,"2005-05-05",11837.0,"Class B","9qftehkn7q",45.75,40.535,35.32,37.23,0.87,0.99,0.92,0.0069,1.0,"rain",1009.0,"Light rain in the morning.",6.0,9.26,220.0,1.47,"RES.SEASON"], [3632,1222,"This is NOT a joke, I'm well known here married to a funeral home director my brother n law is a law enforcement officer. I saw it clearly crossing the road right in front of me, I'm 6'4\" so is my brother n law this creature was considerably taller than me probably 6'8\" shuffling like an orangutan but more human-like but not like a man. It was covered in long hair maybe 4-6 inches long. It was not walking but not running... quickly shuffling. The most distinguishing feature was its arms, slump shouldered and its hands were below its knees. Now here is the deal, I don't drink I don't do drugs, I'm 55 yrs old as of May this year, have three grandbabies and two sons. I'm a christian and have NEVER, EVER, believed in bigfoot. I don't know what this was but i do know this.... it was NOT human, no costume but not 100 percent animal. I SAW IT CLEARLY MYSELF. Please take this seriously! I don't care if you contact me personally or not but please check this thing out there is something out there i saw it myself. Is it \"bigfoot\" I've no idea but its something... thank you for your time","Co. Rd 9 Lamar County Alabama","Lamar County","Alabama","Summer","Report 35475: Daylight road crossing near Vernon",33.41574,-88.12475,"2012-05-21",35475.0,"Class A","djcq4ejsb3",81.25,70.72,60.19,64.35,0.82,0.4,0.02,0.0013,0.94,"rain",1016.97,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",9.0,9.74,326.0,0.69,"RES.SEASON"], [3635,2956,"Hello This is something that had happened twice in 2 years .But in the same month of August. I believe in August of 2010 at night I had smelled something very very bad like body odor at night. It was an august summer night my dogs (2 labs) just looked at the window and didn't even bark or move. But I remember earlier that night the dogs wouldn't even go outside.So it was about 2 in the morning and I got up and closed my windows because of the smell. That was the only time I had smelled anything like that ever. Then last summer 2011 in august again I was out hanging clothes to dry (I work 2nd shift) on the line. I could hear the coyotes barking from the other side of the lake which I live on and the coyotes barking out behind a horse pasture behind my place . My dogs were over by the lake.Then all of a sudden they came running to the driveway facing the pasture . They wouldn't go past the light of the house.And the weird thing was all the noises I was hearing like the coyotes and the night noises stopped. The dogs kept looking up the driveway and at the little bit of swamp next to the house.So after I got my clothes hung up I got into the house as fast as I could. One thing that made me think about what had happened was from watching your show. And even know I haven't seen one I do believe . I have also seen a wolf up here that was as large as the front of my car 4 feet tall at the back .It was the biggest wolf I have ever seen.","Were I live I am about 4 miles from an Indian reservation (The Menominee res.) I live on a lake that has a small river system that runs in and out of the lake .There are alot of forest around and swamp. The Reservation is big woods that nobody is allowed to be on but it makes me wonder what is in there.","Langlade County","Wisconsin","Summer","Report 35184: Couple has possible experiences on their property over time near Phlox",45.0255,-89.02036,"2017-08-15",35184.0,"Class B","f008nk9ke3",74.17,65.98,57.79,56.84,0.8,0.42,0.78,0.0006,0.23,"rain",1014.67,"Overcast in the morning.",8.0,9.75,25.0,2.95,"RES.SEASON"], [3638,428,"My incident occurred on the 4th of july in 1995 in the CVNRA in Boston Twp(?), Ohio. I was in the Army, home on leave at the time. Three of us(myself, cousin, and a friend) had just left the Independence fireworks and decided to go for a night hike on the railroad tracks which run paralell to Riverview Rd. near Brandywine Ski Resort. This was a hike we have made several times before in varying locations along the same road without incident. On this particular hike, we parked in a public lot on the corner of riverview and vaughn rd. and headed north on the Cuyahoga Valley Line tracks. I would say the time was around 11:30p.m. and the sky was clear with a very bright moon. We hiked approx. 1/4 mile when all of a sudden we heard a distant, high pitched scream from the west... across riverview rd. The scream sounded similar to that of a coyote or peacock...only it was raspier and lasted about 5 sec. in duration and did not waver. We shrugged it off as some sort of animal and continued on. As we hiked the tracks, we got to a clearing that has a marsh/swamp to the west between the tracks and the road and tall weeds/brush/trees to the east. As we passed through this clearing, you could see beavers swimming in the swamp and hear typical summer insects and frogs. We entered a heavilly wooded area where some railroad cars and equipment were parked, nosed around for a few minutes and decided to head back. We were talking amonst ourselves as we entered the clearing again when a second, VERY powerful, angry roar came from the middle of the swamp. Once again, it was higher in pitch than what one would normally associated a \"roar\" to sound like, only this time, it lasted much longer(about 8 to 10 sec.)and was very close(approx. 50 to 75 ft.) The three of us froze dead in our tracks an barely uttered \"what the F*** was that!?!) when a very large creature came charging through the swamp right at us. All we could see was a silhouette, but it was definitly upright on two legs, swinging its arms and a massive torso as it was running through the water. This thing was actually making waves and moving extreamly quick for being chest deep in muck, water and cattails. The three of us sprinted back towards the car, occationally looking back to see if it was following us. We could see the silhoette at the edge of the swamp, but it never left that spot or climbed up onto the tracks. This happened over eleven years ago and I remember it as though it were yesterday. I would also bet that this was no prank...given the shear size and the power at which it muscled through the water. Not to mention the scream it made. I still live in the area (Richfield) and pass through this spot on a regular basis. Although I have never seen or heard anything like this since, it still gives me goosebumps when I drive through the area... my wife thinks i'm nuts!","From RT.82 in Brecksville, OH., Head south on Riverview road approx. 5 miles. Vaughn road will be on the left with a bunch of yellow houses/buildings belonging to the park service. There is a public parking lot on the NE corner.","Summit County","Ohio","Summer","Report 15885: Possible confrontation with hikers at night in Cuyahoga Valley National Park",41.29621,-81.5745,"1995-01-04",15885.0,"Class A","dpmfztxrb7",14.52,9.415,4.31,6.32,0.73,0.82,0.12,0.0006,0.76,"snow",1026.15,"Snow (< 1 in.) overnight.",1.0,4.82,251.0,14.44,"RES.SEASON"], [3643,2692,"It was the second weekend in September 2018, my father and I went for a drive up Sumas mountain like we've done many times before when we decided to stop at this clear cut over looking the valley. It was about 9pm in the evening and we were scanning the clear cut with our flashlights when we first saw the eyeshine in the distance approximately 150 to 200yards. We saw 3 pairs of eye shine and at different heights thinking at first we are seeing  a mother bear and cubs but after shining our flashlights in their direction the larger creature charged up the hill along the tree line grunting and hollering then stopped and waited for the other 2. Thats when we got our flashlights on it and it was large and brown. Then the larger one turned into the woods heading towards us breaking down branches and saplings then it just stopped and everything went silent. As my dad and I sat there the other 2 sat on the edge of the tree line just watching us they walked around a bit but every time we made a noise they would stop what they were doing and just watched us. The eyeshine was an orangeish glow. It also seemed as if one was small cause you would see its head pop up behind stumps and logs, this went on for 3 hours. At about midnight the larger creature came out from the tree line. We got our flashlights on it. That's when my dad and I  saw this creature step over a log and proceed to walk down hill on 2 legs and that's when the other 2 followed it. I hollered at it and you could see it turn and look at us and you could see the head bob just like when a person is walking down hill. You should know there are no brown bears on Sumas mountain. a","Main street in everson turns into south pass rd","Whatcom County","Washington","Summer","Report 62354: Son and father observe possible bigfoot family 17mi NE of Bellingham, near Sumas Mountain. See map.",48.92982,-122.2018,"2018-09-15",62354.0,"Class A","c29n75rkge",53.4,50.665,47.93,48.49,0.97,0.95,0.21,0.0075,1.0,"rain",1011.13,"Light rain in the afternoon.",3.0,4.05,112.0,2.04,"RES.SEASON"], [3651,4681,"Earlier this year I had a sighting near Marseilles, Just this past week I had another sighting in the same area, just a bit further down the road. Again I was coming home from work on the motorcycle, it was about 2:30 a.m. I made my left turn onto Marseilles Blacktop off Route 71. Since my last sighting I take those curves much more slowly, and keep a good watch on the fields. I was coming around the second curve and I noticed a strange eye shine about 100ft ahead of me to my left (east side of the road). What caught my attention was the size, color, and height of the eyes. They were quite large, much larger than a deer, and yellow. There is a small hunting area on that side of the road that borders the corn. These eyes were right on the edge of the corn and the hunting field. This time I slowed down. As I got closer I could make out a large human like figure, about a foot taller than the corn. It began walking slowly away from the road and turned its head and looked east. As I got even closer it looked back at me, then walked into the corn. This time around it did not make any sounds, nor did it seem too concerned about me.","South of Route 71 on Marseilles Blacktop (County Hwy 15) just past the second curve heading south.","La Salle County","Illinois","Fall","Report 30896: Second nighttime sighting by motorcyclist north of Marseilles",41.4209,-88.706,"2011-10-20",30896.0,"Class A","dp2gtkqq0r",48.55,41.08,33.61,35.87,0.71,0.97,0.77,0.0011,0.52,"rain",1005.37,"Overcast throughout the day.",3.0,10.0,321.0,8.93,"RES.SEASON"], [3654,56,"Saw very large humanoid footprints (two) in the hiking trail. The striking feature was the toe imprints -- very clear and pronounced. Photos available upon request.","One (1) mile from the Trail Creek trail head.","Gallatin County","Montana","Spring","Report 51959: Possible tracks found along hiking trail outside Bozeman",45.61331,-110.7897,"2016-05-30",51959.0,"Class B","c815qztkuc",55.02,44.135000000000005,33.25,34.43,0.63,0.65,0.8,0.0007,0.57,"rain",1015.75,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",7.0,9.8,290.0,4.14,"RES.SEASON"], [3655,2647,"I observed and took pictures of footprints on the road on my property in Eastern Washington. I would like to have someone take a look at my pictures (I have scanned them and can e-mail them to you if you'd like).","Until I show these pictures to someone, I'd rather not, but when the time comes, I can show you exactly where the prints came out of the woods and aproximately where they went back in.","Stevens County","Washington","Fall","Report 3673: Woman finds large tracks on her property near Clayton, Wa",47.981,-117.6454,"2004-10-17",3673.0,"Class B","c2s2fytjx6",46.77,42.885000000000005,39.0,44.7,0.99,0.97,0.13,0.0269,1.0,"rain",995.62,"Rain until afternoon, starting again in the evening.",2.0,8.23,50.0,2.07,"RES.SEASON"], [3658,4127,"I was in my car going south on ___ towards ________ to run errands on a bright sunny Saturday morning. I came around the last curve of the road where it straightens out towards ________. I looked down at the temperature on my car and it said 86 and I saw a blue SUV coming towards me in the other lane. I thought nothing of the SUV until this tall creature stepped onto the road and in two steps had crossed the lane I was driving in and was into the left lane and my view of it was then obstructed. It was completely covered in thick hair, all the way to the pavement. I couldn't see any feet and it was about 1/8 mile away so I didn't see any facial features. The head did not bob up and down as it walked. It just went straight across the road. I have never seen anything move so quickly. I've seen lots of animals cross the road in that general vicinity because there are not many houses or much development, and I have NEVER seen that. I did not believe in Bigfoot and teased my husband because he believed. I will never doubt another sighting report. The hair of the chest was slightly orange in the bright sunshine. It moved so fast I was unable to see it's face but I saw the right arm swing back and the left arm swing back and then it stepped out of view. I kept driving towards it and the SUV and I thought I might flag that SUV down and ask if they saw it but when it got close to me, but decided not to. The hair kind of stood up above the head. I would say it had a sort of flat forehead and kind of a pointy head. The hair seemed to be standing above it's head but there wasn't any wind. I would be happy to show some BFRO person exactly where this happened and explain it to them if someone wants to contact me or come here for a visit.","Omitted due to ongoing investigation.","Lake County","Florida","Fall","Report 50462: Possible daylight road crossing by a blueberry farm in Central Florida",28.20249,-81.45163,"2015-09-26",50462.0,"Class B","djn06w0erm",88.88,82.0,75.12,74.65,0.85,0.35,0.45,0.0003,0.64,"rain",1013.7,"Humid throughout the day and partly cloudy until afternoon.",7.0,9.96,87.0,1.44,"RES.SEASON"], [3671,1962,"While on a day trip to a very remote local cemetery in the pine barrens near Appleton, Tennessee my family and friends observed a freshly fallen tree across Sugar Creek about 150 yards south of the Mt. Zion Church entryway. Visitors have to cross a low water bridge on Sugar Creek at this point. Was a very pleasant day in May (31st), with blue skies and a light breeze. After about a half an hour we heard what could only be described as the most unholy sound any of us have ever heard coming from the area past the fallen tree on Sugar Creek (about 1000yds away from us). It was no cow, donkey, horse, etc. My wife and best friend heard this sound and in fact captured it on our camcorder. It is nowhere as loud as it was in person, but I do have it recorded.","From Hwy 43, turn onto Rabbit Trail Rd. continue about 30 miles to Blooming Grove Rd., turn left and continue to Revilo Rd. Stay left until you reach Mt. Zion Rd., turn right and continue until you cross the low water bridge and you arrive at the Mt. Zion church.","Lawrence County","Tennessee","Spring","Report 23916: Family records possible vocalizations in daylight near Mt. Zion Cemetery",35.0228,-87.2352,"2008-05-31",23916.0,"Class B","dn1znztq8e",86.59,78.34,70.09,68.75,0.75,0.22,0.88,0.0001,0.36,"rain",1016.26,"Partly cloudy until evening.",10.0,7.17,233.0,2.15,"RES.SEASON"], [3677,32,"After getting online to your site we decided to go to a known sighting area as an afternoon excursion since the day was nice. After walking up several steep inclines and falling often we came up to another ridge that was very difficult to climb for us. We spotted a foot print actually my boyfriend did. I knew he had found something when he called for me to come quick and climb up the last area. I climbed up and there it was a foot print. I did not really believe in Bigfoot but now we are having second thoughts. Mind you we drove two hours one way, and walked for at least hour up hill off the trails. We even went back the next day which was today 11/1/09 and made a cast of the print. Of course it was not as deep as yesterday but we still took the print and have pictures from yesterday on the cell phone.","Wayne National Forrest","Washington County","Ohio","Fall","Report 26830: Group finds possible Bigfoot track in Wayne National Forest - w/photos of track and cast",39.42635,-81.37085,"2009-10-31",26830.0,"Class B","dpn0k37e1u",69.01,51.715,34.42,49.55,0.77,0.81,0.42,0.0158,1.0,"rain",1011.48,"Rain until afternoon.",3.0,1.97,189.0,3.94,"RES.SEASON"], [3678,4941,"My encounter took place while leaving the Lake Barkley Resort. My family and I were driving back toward the main road that leads to Cadiz, KY. I was going about 50 miles per hour when I saw a deer run across the road. I thought I saw a tree next to the road but it was running. It was taller then the top of my mini van and looked right at me, we passed it in about 3 seconds. I was not really sure what I saw so I turned around to see if it might have been a tree or something but there was nothing there. I remember afterwards that it was a large creature, with tanish/brown fur around 7 feet tall with an almost Neanderthal brow and flatish nose. It was hard to tell what color the fur was exactly since my headlights are tinted yellow. My son who was in the back seat also saw it and commented on it. The animal was running upright along the edge of the road. it seemed to be chasing a deer that had run in front of our van literally seconds before. It kept pace with me for about 3 steps then dropped back. When I looked in the rear view mirror, it had run off.","From Cadiz, KY - follow 68 West heading towards Land Between the Lakes. Turn right on1489 to the Lake Barkley Resort and Marina. The incident took place about 2 miles up the KY-1489 road from the KY - 68","Trigg County","Kentucky","Summer","Report 33322: Nighttime sighting while leaving Lake Barkley State Park",36.8216,-87.93167,"2010-08-15",33322.0,"Class A","dn93rp4j7e",95.14,84.015,72.89,74.83,0.78,0.29,0.21,0.0032,0.91,"rain",1012.87,"Light rain in the morning.",9.0,9.89,225.0,0.3,"RES.SEASON"], [3684,4756,"Me, my wife, and another hiking buddy (a female) had just hiked seven miles from the entrance of Red Cedar Trail, at Giant City State Park, to the primitive campsite where we set up our sleeping arrangements. My wife set her tent against the northwest part of the site. I was sleeping in a hammock and cocoon with a hammock tarp as my shelter southwest of her. My friend was also in a hammock/tarp southeast of my wife's tent. After setting up our sleeping arrangements, we started a fire with some fell wood that we found laying around the site. Once the fire was going good, we say down and reconstituted some dehydrated food that we hiked in. We drank tea and ate until our bellies were full. Afterward, me and my wife went to bed, while my friend stayed up and played on her phone. After a few minutes, she went to bed as well. To be perfectly transparent, I want to share a detail which may be of use to critics, but I know better as it relates to my story. Where I had my hammock, walnuts occasionally fell from the tree and hit my tarp and rolled off onto the campsite grounds. This was a common event and one I'm used to hearing as an avid hiker. I'm no novice to forest sounds and behaviors. The night progressed and the fire burned out. I remember poking my head out of the cocoon and looking at the fire to see how dim it was becoming. Because the campsite was so remote, I knew it would soon be pitch black. I remember a walnut falling the tree and striking my tarp. It rolled off into the darkness and found its resting spot. The fire grew dimmer and dimmer until I grew bored of watching it. I zipped myself within the cocoon and fell asleep. Sometime later, a loud thud woke from my sleep. \"Maybe another walnut,\" I thought. Only it wasn't. It couldn't have been. Nothing ever hit the ground. Nothing rolled away off the of my pitched tarp. My heart raced. As I said before, I am an avid hiker/camper and I always look out of my hammock and under my tarp to see what's in the cap, but this time was different. I froze and couldn't move. It was like an involuntary fear that I've rarely experienced. I stayed that way until I calmed down, but never mustered the courage to look outside of my cocoon. The next morning, the first thing my wife tells me was that a bi-pedal creature was walking around her tent last night. My friend said, \"Mine, too!\" I tell them, \"Something slapped my shelter.\" I go on to explain that it wasn't a walnut that fell on my tarp, because it never it hit the ground. My wife then tells us both that she heard two howls several minutes later and that they were about 15 minutes apart. According to her, the howl sound like a sign that paused at a very high pitch then broke into two small howls, then paused and two more small howls. That repeated itself another time. Me and my friend did not hear not, likely because we had fallen back to sleep. We left that campsite knowing we had an unexplainable experience. Although my friend is hesitant to believe it was the big guy, she does not deny that something with two legs was walking around her that night. As for me, I remain convinced that something slapped my tarp. My wife believes it was because I was a man, while her and my friend were female. Regardless, something with two legs entered our camp, in the dead of night, in pitch blackness, and left us unharmed, but fearful to look outside. We all shared that sense of fear and dread that we felt, but left the park not seeing the big guy, but at least two of us believing we were in close proximity to it.","The event occurred at Red Cedar's primitive campsite about a half mile west of Shiloh Road and roughly two miles east of state route 51. There's one primitive campsite on Red Cedar Trail, at Giant City State Park. It rests about midway through the trail, no matter which direction you hike the twelve mile loop.","Jackson County","Illinois","Fall","Report 66182: Hammock Slapped, Bipedal Walking, and Two Vocalizations Experienced by Trio of Campers",37.59461,-86.13757,"2020-10-12",66182.0,"Class B","dndtzgus3p",79.67,61.93,44.19,63.96,0.88,0.74,0.85,0.0054,0.34,"rain",1010.0,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,8.849,233.0,7.45,"RES.SEASON"], [3690,3021,"It happened in 1989 on a hunting trip in the middle region of West Virginia. We were on our yearly deer-hunting trip in the remote mountainous area of Randolph County. I was about 24 years old and was in on leave from the military on the family-hunting trip. My family and friends have hunted this area for many years and I was very comfortable and familiar with the area. The road back had not been traveled for years and was very washed out and overgrows with brush. It was about 7-8 miles back before we came to the impassable areas of the road and it was then that we geared up and proceeded on foot. I would estimate we had gone about another 2-3 miles on foot before we reached the crest of the mountain and decided to find our hunting spots. The light had just begun to peek over the mountaintop when I cleared my spot and settled in. I had worked up a pretty good sweat on the steady pace up the mountain so it was not too long after setting and listening to the first morning light waking up the rest of the forest, I began to nod off to sleep. After going in and out a few times I decided to get up and move around a little to try to wake myself up. After about 20 minutes of walking around I stumbled on a very old wooden tree stand. Although I could tell it had been there for many years, I remember thinking it was in the best spot overlooking the very visible and open woods just under the crest of the hilltop. Not too long after I ate the apples and oranges I had brought. After a while the warm morning sun took its toll on me and I nodded off again. A bad smell woke me right up. The forest was completely quiet around me and all I could think of is what the hell that awful smell is? As I became more alert, I could hear the slight rustling below me and what I thought was some faint grunts and whines. I decided it was time to lean over and get a visual on it. It was about 25 feet below me on the slope and directly in front of the stand. It was not aware of my presence above it. It was about 5 feet tall with long dark, reddish-brown hair. The hair from its head down its body was of equal length, about 2-3 inches long. The hair went down its arms and hands as well as its feet. I could barley see fingernails and toe nails. Not claws but nails like a human. Most of its hair was tangled and matted in spots as if it had wallowed the ground or a tree or something. I watched it smelling the orange peels and apple core then tasting them. It looked around at one point as if to wonder where they may have come from. I wondered how long it would be before it became aware of my presence and what it would do when it did. Then I heard the rustling coming down from the top of the hill, loud rustling, and I could tell something was coming at a pretty rapid speed. I saw the one below me turn and look in the direction of the noise. It froze for a few seconds and looked almost like a statue. I could not see at this point what was coming down the hill. I was leaning to my right and looking down. I tried to move my eyes to the left but my view was blocked by the trees that was holding up my stand and partially by the full-brim hat I was wearing. I kept my eyes moving between the one below me and the direction of the disturbance coming down the hill. As it moved toward our position it began to make noises like I have never heard before. I would ordinarily not be able to describe the noise but I have read where other people have described it as a record being played backward. I would have to say that is a very close description. It is as if it were speaking a language but nothing like I have ever heard before. The one below me sprang to its feet and then moved about 15-20 feet to the right of me. It moved very rapidly, kind of between a run and a leap, all on its feet though. It did not use its arms. It then started to bellow back at the one coming down the hill and it sounded almost like they were arguing. That is the impression that it left me with anyway. It wasn't until the one above me came into clear view that I started to feeling very scared. As it came into my immediate area it moved toward the first one and began to slow to what seemed to be very cautious movements. Its attention seemed to move between the first creature and its surrounding area. I felt at this moment that it was alert to my presence. This second one was much larger than the first and it seemed very irritated. The bigger one was covered in very dark hair, almost black. It was very muscular and its arms were noticeably long. It stood with a slight bend but an upright posture. I had to be about 8-9 feet tall. It was much larger than a human. As these two creatures squabbled (communicated?) back and forth their gestures were extremely human-like. I was under the impression that the larger of the two was scolding the smaller one. They moved about 40-50 feet to the right of me. At this point the larger one had its back to me I could make out facial features of the smaller one. It had very human-like features but a different nose. Hair covered most of its face but it looked to be thin hair, not like the rest of it. Then the smaller creature spotted me because it went into a crouched and then squatting position and looked up in my direction. Their chattering began to quiet and then the larger one, with its back still to me, went into a squatting position for a few seconds. The smaller one then began to howl and bellow very loudly. The larger of the one, with its back still toward me began to howl very loud also. The larger creature then pushed the smaller one and the smaller one sprang to its feet and rapidly ran off across the hill to my right. It ran in long leaping strides and moved very fast like nothing I had ever seen. I never noticed it to ever look back. As the smaller one ran the larger one stood up and slowly turned toward me. It had its arm bent above its forehead as if it were shading or hiding its eyes. It stood very straight and tall and looked directly at my tree stand. All of the fear from before overcame me again and I prayed that thing did not try to come up my tree. I thought for an instant that I would yell at it, jerk or jump and maybe frighten it away but I could not bring myself to move. I could not even bat an eye. I could feel my legs starting to shake and I became very hot all over. For an instant I though I was going to pass out or become physically ill. For a brief moment it was looking right at my face. From what I could see it had very large human-like eyes and very large round nostrils. I could not make out lips because of the hair on its face but I would guess that they were thin lips because the hair did not stick out. It did not have much of a protruding mouth or jaw like an ape. It had a flat fairly face like a human. It put its arm to its side and began to look around. It swiveled at the hips and looked in every direction. After a quick glance back at me it then began to walk off in the direction the smaller one had gone. It did not run or act scared at all. It made very long howls as it walked and turned a few times and looked in my direction as it walked away. I watched it and listened until it became just a black figure moving through the woods. I could here it howl and bellow for a few more minutes. Then I heard what sounded like something beating a tree or log with a limb or stick or something. After about 30 minutes I decided that if it meant to do me harm, it sure had the chance, and it was probably safe to get down out of the tree stand. I made my way back toward my friend that I had left earlier that morning. I never even thought to check the ground for evidence or anything. After about an hour I walked up on my friend and could see his blaze orange through the trees. I very carefully made my way in his direction. As I approached him I could see that he was staring at me. He was sitting against some downed trees and he did not move a muscle. As I walked closer to him I smiled and asked him if he had seen anything. He was very pale and I could tell he was a little scared and puzzled and then he answered to me the he was not sure what he had saw. I jokingly said, “You look like you saw a Bigfoot!” and he jumped to his feet and asked, “Did you see it?” I nodded to him, yes, then he began to tell me what he saw. Apparently the larger creature had moved across the hill in front of him crashing through the trees about 40 to 50 yards away. He said at first he thought it was a bear but after observing it, he could plainly see that it was moving very fast and walking up right, like a man. I said we should try to track the two creatures but it really didn’t take too much for him to talk me out of it. This really happened, 16 years ago in Randolph County, West Virginia.","Southern Randolph County","Randolph County","West Virginia","Winter","Report 12959: Sightings by two hunters in tree stands outside Elkwater",38.6685,-80.03149,"1989-11-24",12959.0,"Class A","dnz5fz6u74",31.52,20.98,10.44,14.86,0.71,0.31,0.89,0.0005,1.0,"snow",1026.68,"Mostly cloudy in the morning.",3.0,7.79,235.0,6.37,"RES.SEASON"], [3694,2358,"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 from coming on in my pack, as I usually hunt all day until after dark in the evening. I had settled down and was waiting for shooting light. Quite some time had passed, enough time for everything to grow quite and me to cool off from the hike to my tree stand. Without any warning, directly underneath my stand came the most horrible sound imaginable. It started as a low guttural roar, somewhat as a lion or large cat might make. Then ascended in the scale until it was a horrifying, piercing, scream, that lasted several seconds or at least seemed to. I cannot describe how scary, and unnerving this scream was. Words do not convey it. After gathering my wits I comforted my self that I had a loaded 30/06 and nothing on earth could survive the 15 foot climb up that tree. I sat very still and strained every sense I had for whatever it was to reveal itself. I made no attempt to retrieve my light and reverse the batteries. I really thought I was about to be attacked by something that only the word MONSTER would convey. The night was a totally moonless night, absolutely dark. But the leaves were very, very dry and crunched under foot. I absolutely knew that nothing could move that close to me without revealing it's whereabouts via sound. I sat and waited until daylight and saw nothing. The area was somewhat dense at ground level with laurel, my tree stand was above the growth. I am a life long hunter and have spent thousands of hours in the mountains. Nothing could have moved that closely, under those conditions, without sound, BUT IT NOT ONLY APPROACHED MY TREE STAND, IT ALSO LEFT WITHOUT A SOUND. After daylight I searched for tracks, spoor, hair, in the area. There was nothing. Up until that day I always walked to my tree stands with my rifle unloaded and never loaded it until I was in my stand. Needless to say that has stopped, I would no more walk in those woods with an unloaded gun than I would attempt to fly. I was embarrassed and did not wish to be labeled as someone that told tall tales. But I did tell those that hunted with me in that area. For one reason, genuine concern for their safety. I know what I heard. It was large, it was horrible, it was menacing. The thing I heard was no laughing matter. Words cannot convey the seriousness of what I heard. I also drove to the Peaks of Otter and told a Ranger there and asked if anyone had ever reported strange sounds, as I had heard a monster. He said they have had reports. Then tried to convince me that I had heard an owl. This is insulting. I have hunted all my life and killed most every type animal in Virginia, this was no owl. Even if it was a large bird of some kind, I was so close that I would have heard wing beats, or the rush of air as it flapped to get air borne. I heard nothing but the Roar/scream. I might add that it became a matter of courage to continue hunting in the area, but I did. And in the general area killed a deer and a black bear that year. No one hunting with me heard anything that day. But later on in the season, I think the same week, two people heard the same thing on a ridge above the car after hunting all day and returning to the car after dark. The reason I am supplying the story now is that while recently at the YMCA working out I overheard a conversation about someone encountering what they thought was a \"bigfoot\" in that general area. Apparently they also smelled the thing. I however did not smell anything. But what I heard was enough.","George Washington and Jefferson National Forest off of the Blue Ridge Parkway in Amherst County Virginia, White Oaks Flats area.","Amherst County","Virginia","Fall","Report 1768: Lifelong hunter hears strange screams in early morning twilight directly under tree stand",37.53434,-79.49707,"1988-11-01",1768.0,"Class B","dnxmx0bj2h",52.69,42.62,32.55,33.88,0.82,0.56,0.76,0.0189,1.0,"snow",1012.37,"Light snow in the morning.",3.0,7.45,323.0,4.08,"RES.SEASON"], [3696,3931,"My wife and I were about to start a fire for a barbecue at our ranch south of Leadville. We had just got the fire started when we heard something like a holler or a yell in a very deep tone. The first vocalization lasted about 5 seconds. Then after a moment it hollered again. We have a large pasture behind the house where we graze our horses. After the second vocalization the horses were running \"full blast\" towards us. When they got to us they were very spooked. Then it hollered again, stopped, and then uttered a few short very gutteral noises. We put out the fire and left, since the sounds seemed to be very close, at the tree line on the end of the pasture. I would estimate the distance was no more than a quarter mile away. The noise this thing made is hard to describe or mimic. It had to be felt as much as heard. It was deep low frequency holler that vibrates in your bones and literally shakes your guts. You could tell it was a very large animal that was making the noise. We have had our ranch for a number of years. This is not the first time we have heard these noises. This was unique, because it was the longest, lasting over a three to four minute period. We have also heard what appeared to be rocks \"clacking\" together, and then \"clacking back from a farther distance as if they are answering each other.","Witness requests anonymity. But the location is generally south of Leadville, east of the National Fish Hatchery, North of Highway 300 and west of Highway U.S. 24.","Lake County","Colorado","Summer","Report 3604: Rancher, wife startled by vocalizations near Leadville",39.225,-106.3625,"2001-07-30",3604.0,"Class B","9wur5stnnj",74.59,62.0,49.41,35.98,0.44,0.31,0.36,0.0001,0.14,"rain",1009.48,"Mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",9.0,10.0,178.0,2.43,"RES.SEASON"], [3711,4259,"The incident happened two years ago in the Richloam Hunting Area in centeral Florida. The Green Swamp. My friend and I had been awake for fifteen minutes. We were sitting around the fire. I had just stoked the fire and added some more wood. That is when we heard something walking toward us in the woods. After it came to the road, it continued through the middle of the campsite, which led to the river, and then the other way into the woods. The animal ran down towards the water then turned around, ran back up the road and into the woods. At this time it went on the back side of the campsite. My friend and I were shocked, we thought it might be a bigfoot but decided to go hunting. Once we got out of the stand we went to go investgate what had happened, and that is when we saw the footprints left in the sand. The foot prints were proably 16\" long and far too wide to be human. There were five toes.","The incident occurred at the Richloam Wildlife Managament Area in the Green Swamp on the west side of 471 off of center grade (road) back in the campsite.","Hernando County","Florida","Fall","Report 22074: Possible early morning encounter by hunters in the Green Swamp",28.54028,-82.11083,"2005-09-01",22074.0,"Class B","djjd7e8env",86.44,81.47999999999999,76.52,76.84,0.89,0.2,0.93,0.0003,0.25,"rain",1014.26,"Humid throughout the day and partly cloudy until afternoon.",8.0,8.37,262.0,1.39,"RES.SEASON"], [3716,4687,"I seen something tall and black, about 7 feet tall, run real fast across 12th Street in Lawrenceville about 3 weeks ago.","What ever it was it came from the left to right by some grain bins across 12th Street. It took just seconds to run across the road going west. We are rural here at my location.","Lawrence County","Illinois","Winter","Report 31858: Motorists have nighttime sighting on outskirts of Lawrenceville",38.71682,-87.68468,"2011-12-19",31858.0,"Class A","dncsk8jvyf",49.88,46.455,43.03,39.41,0.77,0.99,0.82,0.0097,1.0,"rain",1019.32,"Rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",2.0,8.01,204.0,7.59,"RES.SEASON"], [3717,3164,"I had stopped my boat along Black Bayou to go look at pond that usually contained ducks on the other side of the levee. As I was approaching the Levee I caught a glimpse of something to my left it was about 200 yards away. I stopped behind a tree and peeked out to have a good look. On the edge of the levee was a creature that appeared to be about 6ft tall. It had shaggy dark brown hair and was walking upright. The creature was walking directly towards me. I was still watching the creature when it was about a 100 yards away. I wasnt scared at all because My shotgun was fully loaded. The Creature stopped about 100 yards away and looked directly in the direction that I was hiding. From the way it acted I think he smelled me or something because I didnt make a sound or move. The thing paused for about 3 or 4 seconds then bolted directly over the levee headed for the big woods. I immediately ran to the top of the levee to get another look at the thing. When I got to the top of the levee the thing was entering the edge of the woods which was about 200 yards away. This thing covered 200 yards to my 50 yards and I was at a dead run. I was trying to sneek up on this pond that was on the other side of the levee and possibly kill some ducks when I seen this thing walking the edge of the woods along the bottom of the levee","Caddo Parish, Oil City, Louisiana, adjacent to Black Bayou","Caddo Parish","Louisiana","Fall","Report 1313: creature walked directly towards witness.",32.7817,-93.9467,"1987-11-15",1313.0,"Class A","9vv4qpwp5p",71.16,66.655,62.15,62.59,0.86,0.98,0.81,0.1184,1.0,"rain",1012.01,"Breezy until afternoon and heavy rain starting in the evening.",3.0,6.78,138.0,11.56,"RES.SEASON"], [3731,1589,"I was sitting outside on my patio this past summer. It was midafternoon when I heard a sound in the woods behind our home that reminded of sounds that bigfoot researchers make on television shows when they are calling to see a bigfoot is in the area. It really gave me goosebumps. Last night around dusk I heard a screech from the opposite direction. Again, it was different than anything I have ever heard.","This took place on our farm five miles North-West of Alpena.","Alpena County","Michigan","Summer","Report 30789: Possible vocalizations heard from woods on a family farm outside Alpena",45.1365,-83.5175,"2011-11-03",30789.0,"Class B","f0h8g8b7jj",45.89,38.365,30.84,36.16,0.81,0.49,0.28,0.0046,1.0,"rain",1020.45,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",2.0,9.89,352.0,4.81,"RES.SEASON"], [3745,1963,"My husband and I saw a what we believe to be a Sasquatch on the night of June 12, 2021. We were driving home together with our daughter at approximately 9:30 PM when we turned onto our street. Mind you, we live in the deep country side outside of Lawrenceburg Tennessee. My husband turned the wheel slightly to turn onto our street and there was an animal with fingers touching something on the ground, picking at it with its fingers. When the animal saw our headlights turning, it intentionally averted the headlights and ducked underneath them. It was only about five feet from the front of our vehicle at one point when we turned toward it. It was fully in the headlights. The animal bounded across our neighbors yard. It did not run on two feet the way a human would. We thought the animal was a gorilla at first because of its movements but it looked extremely human like. It bounded with its front legs in the same way that a gorilla does except it’s arms were so long and it moved unbelievably fast. Of course we considered that it could have been a person dressed in a hairy costume but it moved way too fast to be a person. It was definitely not a bear. It was more like a gorilla or person covered with hair. It was covered in dark brown or black hair. The animal cleared our neighbors 250-300 foot grass lawn in about six seconds and then it disappeared from view. Our daughter who is four did not see the animal as she was playing on her iPad. When we pulled up to our house a minute later I was absolutely terrified to get out of the vehicle because we had no idea what we had seen, and because it was so fast that it could have turned around and been to our house in about 10 seconds. I got up the courage to run to my house door and unlocked it and we all ran inside. We were terrified. We both saw the animal, however it was my husband who saw that it had fingers and it was observing something on the ground. I did not see that part. I just saw the part where it started to run and when it cleared our neighbors lawn. We had considered that maybe it was a bear but it was too ape like to have been a bear and it was too fast and slim and did not run on all four of its legs exactly the way a bear would have.","Intersection of glen springs road and ridge lane. [Investigator (MM) Notes: GPS coordinates for this location: 35.221487, -87.390609","Lawrence County","Tennessee","Summer","Report 69641: Close-range multi-witness sighting 3 miles west of Lawrenceburg",35.22149,-87.39061,"2021-06-12",69641.0,"Class A","dn3b77uh51",89.02,79.10499999999999,69.19,74.85,0.87,0.58,0.08,0.0061,0.42,"rain",1011.0,"Humid and mostly cloudy throughout the day.",7.0,9.643,318.0,4.61,"RES.SEASON"], [3753,580,"What myself and brother in law found was a structure built of mainly blackberry vines. We were scouting for deer on an abandoned farm in an area that had been stripped for coal 35yrs prior. Deer were plentiful, but not as much as present day. When came across it when we both were following a path that materialized and split in two directions around a spoil bank. My brother in law went one way I the other, both paths lead to the top of the spoil were we came on the structure. We were in total amazement noting it was kind of an igloo shape with an opening to enter. The briars where woven together to form the walls and the inside had been cleared like it had been mowed. We stood amazed at what could have made it. We had never heard much about a Bigfoot at that time. Nobody in they’re right mind would have been in the area fighting thorny vegetation and biting insects to create such a thing. Than about a month later the same brother in law and his cousin were walking out of a hollow near dark when they heard the strangest animal they had ever heard. When they would try to tell the family about it they got laughed at. Neither ever forgot it or entered the property in the dark. It wasn’t until maybe 20 years later when I happened on a Bigfoot program showing such a structure that a bell went off as to what we’d saw. Also around the time other people had reported seeing things peeking in windows around the county","Putney ridge rd. 1/2 mi. West of rosedale rd. Strange animal sounds occurred on Rosedale Rd","Guernsey County","Ohio","Fall","Report 69398: Two men find unusual brush structure while deer hunting 10 miles east of Cambridge",40.01452,-81.34529,"2021-07-06",69398.0,"Class B","dpn5suqjmr",91.43,80.45,69.47,72.09,0.78,0.2,0.91,0.0002,0.03,"rain",1017.4,"Humid throughout the day.",8.0,10.0,237.0,4.81,"RES.SEASON"], [3755,846,"Three strange things in three days: I woke up one morning and went into the trailer to get a cup of coffee and we had two dogs and I let them out and the little dog took off somewhere. I decided to go and look for her. I started walking up the hill right behind the trailer and I got up to a rock face were I could look down on the other side of the hill. I couldn't see anything and I was tired from walking up the hill, so I sat down to have a smoke. I sat there for about five minutes and was looking at the great view. Then I heard the dog bark and I turned my head and looked back and all I saw was a 7-8 foot tall black streak running down the hill. I jumped up and started following it; I couldn't see it but I could here it crashing through the brush. I got down to the bottom of the hill were there was a clearing. When I got down to that clearing, the crashing noise stopped. Then on the second day, I decided to go for a walk early in the morning. I walked to the top of the hill and walked down going north. When I got to the middle of the hill, the hair on the back of my neck stood up and I got goose bumps. I looked behind me and beside me but didn't see anything, so I started walking again. I walked across the top of the hill and then walked through another clearing that would take me back to camp. I walked through the clearing and saw the trailer and my little brother- he was sitting out side - I waved to him and I walked back up over the same hill. I didn't see anything at all but when I got back to camp, my mom, her boyfriend and my little brother said that my little brother saw something orange in color walking on two legs, following me. My mom said she had never seen him that scared before and her boyfriend was out going to the bathroom and when he walked back to camp my little brother saw the top of his head through the trailer window and he had long hair and she said my brother freaked out and said that it was coming to get him. On the third day, after I knew that something was following me, I walked back up the same hill and when got half way up it, I could hear something. I looked up the hill and there were branches of trees about 2-4 inches thick and about 3-4 feet long being thrown down the hill at me. My mom's boyfriend has heard three very loud screams come out of the canyon only about a 3/4 mile away from the trailer.","About 10 air miles N. of Granite, just east of North Trail Creek. The area is also about 4 miles east of the North Fork John Day Wilderness Area.","Grant County","Oregon","Fall","Report 9604: Campers have several visual encounters",44.9723,-118.3692,"2004-09-15",9604.0,"Class A","9rgzf6ynts",53.21,44.0,34.79,42.59,0.91,0.79,0.04,0.0007,0.64,"rain",1013.89,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,9.91,213.0,1.39,"RES.SEASON"], [3762,290,"In the fall of 2003 my husband and I were living in Bordentown NJ. We were on our way home from Yardville NJ, driving down Hogback Rd heading towards Ward Ave. This road is located in Crosswicks NJ. As we came around a bend in the road we noticed what seemed to be a primate looking creature running across the road. It was upright but crouched over useing it's arms to propel itself across the road. This was no oversized monkey. It was dark, but it looked to be a dark brown color, and the body covered in a thick shaggy looking coat. It was roughly 5 foot in height hunched over. It's startling feature was it's broadness. We only saw a side and back view, so we could not make out any frontal features. As we passed the point were we saw it crossing the road, we looked in both directions of where it had ran to, and from where it had come. Looking in the direction of where it had come we saw a dog standing at the edge of the property barking. There was no sign of the creature in the direction it ran. My husband and I saw the same thing, both being startled and trying to think of logical possibilities. Trying to think of logical explainations, and none could be thought of.","Take US 195 and get off the exit for route 130 south toward bordentown. At the light for Groville Rd you make a left. Go down until you come to Hogback rd. Make a right. The road will go straight for a while. Where it bends around to the left that is the approximate location where we saw it. If you come to the youth correctional center you passed the site.","Burlington County","New Jersey","Fall","Report 11168: Late night sighting by motorists in Crosswicks",40.16465,-74.68135,"2005-12-10",11168.0,"Class A","dr4ukxf8n3",34.93,27.85,20.77,18.72,0.68,0.04,0.33,0.0001,0.3,"snow",1017.08,"Clear throughout the day.",2.0,8.82,249.0,1.76,"RES.SEASON"], [3770,2158,"I live in Greenville, Tx, north of town, just off hwy 69 North. I have lived here 12 years and have had strange things going on at my house since I moved here. But in the last 2 to 3 yrs, things have really started happening more. I live down a dirt road off of hwy 69. There are a lot of woods around me, also have several neighbors around me too. In late summer of 2017, I was jolted awake in the middle of the night by a loud banging on my house. I knew I wasn’t dreaming because I shot straight up; and at that exact moment, my two little dogs flew off my bed barking and carrying on. I stumbled into the kitchen wondering what could be happening and it was 2:38 am. My two big dogs outside were not barking, which I thought was odd. To make a long story short, I called the sheriff's department. Two deputies came out and found nothing. From that moment on, every 2 or 3 months, I have several incidents for a week or two, then nothing for another month or two or three, then things happen again. This past winter from Nov. 2019 to Feb. 2020, I have had several things happen. On three separate occasions while I have been propped in bed watching TV, I have heard a loud growl outside my bedroom loud enough to hear over the TV. It was loud and guttural. I have had tapping on the back of my house during the night. It is usually always around the same time of night. In Jan 2020, I was once again propped up in bed watching TV and over my TV, I heard something rubbing on the back of my house on the wall where my bathroom is. My bedroom and bathroom run together. My two little dogs jumped off the bed into bathroom at the back wall barking. I’ve had rocks thrown at my house. I’m home alone most of the time. But this past Sat. night, April 18, 2020, my husband happened to be home. Between 11:00 and 11:30 pm, my dog started barking and wouldn’t stop, so I got up to holler at her to hush. As I got to my bedroom door, my cat was laying in my rocking chair next to my door. I paused to pet her and about that time, I heard that same loud, guttural growl at my back door. My cat heard it, wheeled around, and looked at the back door. I went and woke my husband up. He looked out the back door and saw nothing. I went to the front door and opened it and called my dog. She would not get close to the fence and was barking, looking towards the back of my house towards my neighbor's home behind me. All of a sudden, she jumped back, like whatever it was was coming towards her. I ran to my guest room to look out the window facing that direction; and back towards northwest, I saw something huge and dark in color going across my neighbor's back pasture, moving fast. My neighbor behind me lives alone, and she has had the same things happening at her house. Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone","Off Hwy 69 about a mile. At my home","Hunt County","Texas","Summer","Report 65366: Woman home alone north of Greenville claims unusual nightly visitor",33.2,-96.17,"2020-04-18",65366.0,"Class B","9vgsgeghh8",69.15,64.85,60.55,46.77,0.75,0.43,0.88,0.0065,0.41,"rain",1016.3,"Rain in the evening.",7.0,9.977,83.0,7.12,"RES.SEASON"], [3772,2950,"Incident happened at around 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 10, 2010. I was on County Road J, somewhere between Harrisville, WI and Princeton, WI. Exact location unknown, because I was kind of just following the car in front of me, driving on \"auto pilot.\" It was very foggy and we were both going about 30-35 mph. Suddenly, the car in front of me slammed on the brakes, and I did the same. Running across the road in front of the car in front of me, in about only two strides, was a large black figure, about seven feet tall, with long arms; humanoid form, thinner body type. I can't be sure but I believe it was hair or fur-covered, not clothing. It appeared and disappeared very quickly because of the fog. When I passed by the area into which it ran, I saw nothing.","County Rd. J Princeton, WI.","Marquette County","Wisconsin","Spring","Report 27429: Motorist observes possible road crossing near Princeton",43.8708,-89.18135,"2010-03-10",27429.0,"Class B","dpb9ddkjgv",41.82,39.84,37.86,38.56,0.97,1.0,0.84,0.0087,1.0,"rain",1003.98,"Light rain in the morning.",3.0,0.74,65.0,3.87,"RES.SEASON"], [3783,55,"I used to own a horse boarding facility which was/is located about 3/4 of mile south of the West Gallatin River and about 4 miles north of Belgrade, Montana on the south side of I-90. One night at around 11 pm I was outside just before going to bed and I heard what I thought was a very loud screams from a woman west of me toward the river. I was ready to get in my truck and investigate the screaming but the screams were not human. All of the horses in my boarding pens were snorting and looking west toward the river. My Australian shepherd dog was also acting very strange; growling and his hair was standing up. A large number of whitetail deer lived along the river and routinely came down to my place to feed on any hay left over on the ground. They were a real nuisance. I did not see or hear anything else but I will never forget that sound and the way the horses were acting; similar to smelling a bear. Even the next morning, Butch, my dog was continually looking toward the river and acting very wary.","Approximately 4 miles west of Belgrade, Montana and 1 mile south of I-90. 3/4 of a mile east of the West Gallatin River.","Gallatin County","Montana","Summer","Report 50297: Horse boarder hears possible vocalizations late at night west of Belgrade",45.7922,-111.3637,"2015-11-26",50297.0,"Class B","c80u9b5qvs",20.49,12.919999999999998,5.35,1.46,0.65,0.08,0.54,0.0002,0.21,"snow",1037.98,"Partly cloudy in the morning.",1.0,10.0,130.0,0.4,"RES.SEASON"], [3784,2366,"I am a Civil War re-enactor and I was participating in an event on the grounds of Hildene Mansion, which is Robert Todd Lincoln's home near Manchester, Vermont. We were camped on the front lawn of the mansion, which is bordered on two sides by woods. The whole area is somewhat off the beaten path, the house is probably a half mile from the main road. In the middle of Friday night, I would guess around 1-2 a.m., I woke up and was walking to the building beside the main house to use the rest room, and as I left my tent and was walking toward the restroom I heard footsteps walking near me in the woods. They seemed to follow me as I went to the rest room and as I walked back from the rest room they walked back with me to my tent. The whole time walking back I had an uneasy feeling like I was being watched. The next night, Saturday, I was sitting around the campfire around 11:00 pm talking and we heard footsteps coming from the woods which we were right next to, but the noises were coming from inside the woods. We shined a flashlight on the area that the noise was coming from and it stopped immediatly and as we turned the flashlight off we heard the noises again heading away from us. Both times that I heard the noise it sounded like a large animal and from what I could hear it sounded like a large animal walking on two feet. While there were other groups at the event I don't think that it was another person as there were trails that were clear that they could have used. Also of course it was so late at night and there was no light from a lantern or a flashlight.","You need to get on Vermont Route 7A and the turn-off for the park is labeled. I am not sure of exact directions before then but if you reach the Equinox Hotel you have gone too far.","Bennington County","Vermont","Summer","Report 13345: Possible stalking at Hildene Mansion grounds, near Manchester",43.1635,-73.0723,"2005-08-25",13345.0,"Class B","drsj91wmeg",77.38,63.095,48.81,52.41,0.75,0.08,0.71,0.0001,0.43,"rain",1023.65,"Partly cloudy in the afternoon.",7.0,9.15,346.0,0.94,"RES.SEASON"], [3787,4299,"My husband and I live in Sautee, Ga., just outside of Helen. My husband can't sleep very well at night and as such he is up at all hours. For about the last three weeks he has heard strange sounds late at night. He has got me up several times to listen. Whatever we are hearing is not anything we have heard before. All of the dogs go crazy and whatever it is seems to move very quickly, attracting the dogs as it goes. It is very loud and it more of a howl or scream; it does not sound like a bobcat or bear or anything else we have heard since living in Northeast Ga. We have lived in this area for nine years and my husband has hunted all his life and is used to sounds in the night, just not this one. When he woke me up to hear this we jokingly said \"maybe it's a bigfoot\". I got curious as to whether or not there had been any sightning in our area and found this website. After reading reports from this area I thought that maybe we had heard something out of the ordinary, hence the report.","[Omitted]","White County","Georgia","Winter","Report 25693: Husband and wife hear characteristic vocalizations in the Sautee-Nacoochee Valley",34.70107,-83.6746,"2009-03-15",25693.0,"Class B","dnhmrvnh2s",58.24,54.165000000000006,50.09,45.99,0.89,0.98,0.66,0.0518,1.0,"rain",1019.9,"Rain in the morning.",4.0,7.84,83.0,0.46,"RES.SEASON"], [3802,672,"My husband and I were driving home down Winchester Southern Rd toward St Rt 22 around 9:00pm on 12/20/2019. It was completely dark outside by this time. We were going around 60mph. My husband was on high alert for deer. We were just talking to each other when we approached the right hand turn off to Wyandotte Rd. My husband fell silent. He saw a very large, very tall, bipedal creature running toward the road from the left hand side. Within a split second I also saw this creature as it continued approaching the road at a full run. It entered into the peripheral of our headlights and came within 2-3 feet of the driver side window. Comparing the creature to our truck, it had to have been nearly 8 feet tall, as it was slightly slouched while running and was a head taller than our truck. It had blondish red fur and domed shoulder/head area. Since we were going around 60 mph as all of this happened, it ended up barely missing our truck and crossing the road behind us. We didn’t speak for 15-20 seconds until my husband finally said “What was that?!” We immediately turned around and traveled down Wyandotte Rd, in the direction it went behind us, but did not see or hear anything. We also used a spotlight from the truck to look along the road on both sides where we initially saw it but did not see any disturbance. The next morning we stopped at the exact spot again and looked for anything on the ground in the area but did not see anything.","The intersection of Winchester Southern Rd and Wyandotte Rd","Fairfield County","Ohio","Winter","Report 63981: Two witnesses to road crossing Sasquatch, 23 miles south of Columbus, near Stoutsville",39.6279,-82.83647,"2020-01-20",63981.0,"Class A","dpj17n034r",26.88,19.965,13.05,12.18,0.72,0.53,0.87,0.0006,0.1,"snow",1034.0,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",2.0,9.963,317.0,5.27,"RES.SEASON"], [3807,770,"My wife, daughter, son, and I were fishing at a lake near Guthrie Oklahoma. It was the end of May and we decided to do some night fishing but arrived well before dark. We got our poles in the water and were enjoying being outdoors when some doves started calling back and forth. Our daughter began imitating the calls and did a fairly good job of it. As it began to get dark, I attempted to light my old Coleman lantern but couldn't get it to generate so we packed up and moved over closer to the boat ramp where there was some light from a street lamp. Once it was dark, the noise from the frogs and insects was loud enough for us to comment about. A couple of owls also began hooting back and forth and our daughter began imitating them too. This went on for some time until one of the owls flew right in front of us - close enough to see it in what little light we had. Almost as soon as the owl was past there was in incredible roar from the direction the owl came from. It was so loud and forceful that I felt it vibrate in my chest. It lasted about 5 seconds and then it became dead silent. No frogs, no bugs, nothing except my wife and daughter looking at me and asking, What the hell was that? It took a bit but the frogs and bugs slowly began their chorus again. I spent 21 years in the military and never in my travels heard anything like this. What ever made this noise had to be huge and it sounded angry. I spent time in Central America and have heard Howler monkeys at close range. They are loud but never did one rattle my chest. We stayed a few minutes longer and then packed up and went home. I've spent a lot of time outdoors in various parts of the world and have very seldom felt uneasy - this rattled me a bit. Our son had gone to the vehicle and fell asleep about 45 min earlier and didn't wake up for this. ","Near boat ramp on east side of the lake","Logan County","Oklahoma","Summer","Report 59414: Family fishing is roared at in Logan County",35.68081,-97.26022,"2003-05-16",59414.0,"Class B","9y6ffz3rb9",71.91,64.97,58.03,63.33,0.89,0.88,0.54,0.0075,1.0,"rain",1003.7,"Rain throughout the day.",6.0,8.576,37.0,12.76,"RES.SEASON"], [3809,4959,"I was standing in my front doorway changing a light bulb and I heard a popping/cracking sound that I had never heard before I looked down and both of my cats were running up the sidewalk to me maybe a minute after I looked up across the highway behind my mailbox and there was something about 7 to 8 feet tall just walking by calm as could be. It was huge it's color was very light white/brown it's arms was at it's knees and I was not the only one who seen it that year our county sheriff seen it at his house as well I know the sheriff very well and I know he would not lie about somthing like this he tracked it for about a mile behind his house and found some of it's hair on his fence","the location was in a hay field on new zion on 587","Jackson County","Kentucky","Winter","Report 24131: Large bipedal animal strolls past home near the Daniel Boone National Forest",37.49582,-83.89224,"2006-12-22",24131.0,"Class A","dnsm6czscp",57.39,48.3,39.21,51.87,0.95,0.93,0.07,0.0195,0.8,"rain",1014.22,"Rain until afternoon.",2.0,6.38,186.0,1.01,"RES.SEASON"], [3810,2172,"Hello, I was talking to my wife, who lived in Mexico City at the time, by cell phone. This happened about a year and a half ago. I drove from my house about 2 miles up the road. I live on farm land so the neighbors are far away from each other. I got to a hill where the road goes left and right. I stopped the car and had the motor turned off. Right before I hung up I heard a yell coming from the woods that were to my right. I told my wife, who is a vetenarian what I heard. She laughed a little and we said good bye. Before I turned the key I heard it again but it was getting really close. Im talking about 200 feet.I did not want to find out what was there so I turned around and came home. I got on the internet that day and found a site that describes different animal sounds. A coyote, a donkey and a bear. The next sound was that of a bigfoot. It matched perfectly. I live about 20 miles south southeast of a town called Seguin. I went back listening the next day and several times after that. I have not heard it again and I really dont care to. Mikey","Drive to exit 612 off of Interstate I 10 east about 7 miles from where the Seguin exit is at. After the ramp ends turn left. Turn right after the road dead ends. Go a couple of curves until you see a runway the Air Force uses for touch and go. This Highway is Alt 90. Turn left. Go to the 1st yellow blinking light and turn right. This road is 1123. Go 3 miles to a 4 way stop. This is 466.Turn left here. About 10 miles farther you will come to a sign that says . This is the Vivroux Ranch RD intersection where the noise came from.","Guadalupe County","Texas","Summer","Report 6583: Unusual screams pierce evening at rural property near Seguin",29.385,-97.81083,"2003-10-08",6583.0,"Class B","9v4rnm2k43",83.5,78.87,74.24,71.46,0.83,0.79,0.45,0.0057,0.58,"rain",1013.47,"Light rain overnight.",4.0,6.43,110.0,4.09,"RES.SEASON"], [3816,3366,"Heading west on I-40 today at 0930 my wife and I saw a Bigfoot 100-150 yards from the hwy heading north. It was not running, but walking. It never looked at the hwy. It must have been 7-8 ft tall. It was thick, as in well built ! There was a rock outcropping behind it which made it very visible. There had to be other travelers who saw this also. We got a long look at it. 15-20 seconds. It was west of Houck AZ. GPS 35.179152, -109.465490 In Apache County, Arizona We were traveling in a 30 ft motorhome so I couldn’t stop. There was other cars behind me. A red motor coach towing a car. With a woman driving. I’d like to add that it was like seeing any other type of natural wildlife on the side of the hwy. They are real and I’m a believer now. It’s hard to explain it to even family. I’m 62 years old and have nothing to gain by reporting this, except the fact that they should be documented and protected at all cost. They are truly one of Gods creations.","Original witness note: \"Near dead end rd beside I 40 west\" [Investigator (MM) note: The dead end frontage road is McCarrell Road. It is a few miles west of Chambers, AZ. The coordinates for where the figure was walking: 35.179152, -109.465490 For the Google Maps link to this location,","Apache County","Arizona","Summer","Report 69323: 20 miles east of Petrified Forest National Park -- motorhome driver and wife report daylight sighting from Interstate 40",35.175,-109.25,"2021-06-10",69323.0,"Class A","9w621gqt4r",92.47,70.775,49.08,6.25,0.08,0.19,0.02,0.0006,0.02,"rain",1012.4,"Clear throughout the day.",12.0,10.0,233.0,10.79,"RES.SEASON"], [3824,3033,"I was working with my friend Brad B. for about a month at a private camp near Spruce Knob, the highest point in West Virginia. Brad and I were clearing brush repairing paths and fences and doing general labor, Brad and I were the only people for miles around. Every night we made a fire after a big dinner and hung out and talked. After a week or so I felt real paranoid that someone was watching us as we worked throughout the day. One night sitting around the fire we started hearing these amazing noises, yelling, screaming, loud squealing. I'm from West Virginia and had never heard anything like this. Brad talked with the caretaker on the phone and asked what he thinks the noises were. He said it was a screech owl and he had heard them before while staying there. After hearing them again a few more times, one night it got real close but sounded like it was keeping its voice down low, then I heard three distinct grunts directly behind me, turning to look I could see nothing at all with the fire blazing and my eyes not adjusted to the dark. I yelled for Brad and he said \"what” from at least thirty yards away in the completely opposite direction across from the fire. When Brad got back and sat down I told him that there was someone messing with us and they were in the woods behind me. After a few minutes the noises started again real low like it was close and trying to keep its voice low. Brad immediately took notice of what I was talking about and we planned to take action we both had our knives on us. I already had mine out. We both jumped up at the same time and yelled and ran towards the woods kind of just to see if we would hear anything and we sure did, it sounded like a large person tearing thru the woods we both stopped and Brad hit the flash light only to see nothing. Later as I was trying to go to sleep I heard the noises again loud and far away. The noises never got as close as they did that night, on the second to last night as I was sleeping I awoke to what sounded like heavy breathing out side of my tent. It could have possibly been a cow that had got loose during the night, that sometimes happened but had never heard them breathe. I’ve never talked to anyone about this and I feel as if the noises were very strange .The whole time I was working their was very strange.","go up Spruce Knob road","Pendleton County","West Virginia","Fall","Report 13122: Possible repeat approaches outside Circleville",38.7016,-79.52835,"1996-10-11",13122.0,"Class B","dnzknm3jpj",41.35,30.915,20.48,33.39,0.94,0.8,0.97,0.0017,1.0,"rain",1027.85,"Light rain in the morning.",3.0,9.21,313.0,1.92,"RES.SEASON"], [3828,717,"It was June 18th, 2021 about 4:00 pm at Mohican State Park, Loudonville, Ohio in Ashland County. My best friend and Idrove into the picnic area at the Covered Bridge, and there were no campers, hikers, or people fishing, so we drove into Campsite B, its a narrow road that is parallel to the Mohican River. Then we reached the end of this road where there is a turn-around, so we parked the car and shut off the engine. The front of the car was facing towards the Covered Bridge and the Mohican River was on the driverside of the car, and the thick woods were on the passenger's (my side) and to the rear of us. Also, it was an unusually chilly day for the month of June and it was very cloudy, with no sun and a slight drizzle of rain. So, we sat in the car with the windows down, we could hear birds chirping and the soft babbling sounds of the river. We sat there for about 30 minutes, talking away as women do and I mentioned that I watched a Bigfoot show on tv and we should do \"bigfoot calls\". So, jokingly I started doing whoop whoop calls and it echoed in this small area, we laughed for a couple of minutes then took a drink of our pop and we heard two tree knocks, not loud but not soft. Instantly, I was scared because the sound was very close to us, it was about 30 feet up in the thick woods, and it was very steep, almost straight-up. I knew this was not a person because it's too dangerous to climb. This spooked both of us so we started the car and went back to the Covered Bridge picnic area which is more of an open area. Also, there were a few cars so we did not feel alone, and my friend had to use the restroom and I stayed in the car. The woods were still on my right side and I could hear birds chirping loud and fast then all of a sudden they stopped. Then a rock that was about 6 inches wide came tumbling down on the ground of this steep cliff along with dry leaves falling behind it. So I looked up and about 15-20 feet away I saw the left side of a foot, calf, thigh, and hip of an animal. It looked like it was slipping on the leaves and was trying to gain traction and its leg went straight up and behind a tree. This leg looked like a bodybuilder's leg with short black hair and was about 3-4 feet in length. Then my friend got into the driver's side of the car and we left. So, when I got home I looked up videos on youtube of bears. My leg sighting does not match a bear leg because the hind leg of a bear or dog has an odd angle from the pad of the foot to its leg. But what I saw was a human-like foot with hair that connected to a calf, to a knee, to a thigh then to a hip, and it was super muscular. Also, there have been NO bear sightings in Mohican State Park for many decades.","Take Rt. 97 to Park Rd then turn right at the Covered Bridge onto Pleasant Hill Lake Trail Rd","Ashland County","Ohio","Summer","Report 71751: Possible sighting in Mohican State Park near Loudonville",40.61309,-82.31692,"2021-06-18",71751.0,"Class B","dpjrnc6sks",82.45,74.91,67.37,64.44,0.8,0.66,0.28,0.013,0.88,"rain",1012.3,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",6.0,10.0,203.0,9.08,"RES.SEASON"], [3832,2674,"My dad got drawn for a big bull elk permit in the Mill Creek Watershed. He harvested a bull on November 1, off of Green Peak. We were packing out meat on Tuesday, November 4 in the late afternoon. We were taking our time following the trail back to Lewis Peak. There was about an hour of light left. We stopped at a rock outcropping to take a breather when I saw motion out of the corner of my eye. I told my dad that there was something coming across the openning we had just previously crossed. I was not sure what it was, as it had moved behind a tree. As it continued across the ridge, I noted that the animal was walking on two legs. The distance from where we were to the animal was approximately 500 yards. It was very clearly a bi-ped. We are very experienced hunters (20+ years for me, 40+ years for dad), with a lot of time in the field. We have harvested many, many deer, elk, and bear. This animal walked upright, and very quickly covered the distance across the openning, which was over a steep, loose-shale part of the trail. The trail was covered with packed snow from foot and horse traffic, and was fairly slippery in the cold weather. We had just crossed it, and had to take our time with the backpacks to make sure we did not slip. The animal crossed this openning very quickly, with no apparent difficulty whatsoever. It appeared to be approximately 7-8 feet tall and very dark from head to toe. It did look our direction, but did not stop to observe us. After a quick debate about what the heck we had just seen, noting that we were not carrying firearms at the time, it was heading in our direction, and that we had two loads of elk parts on our packs, we quickly left the area. I watched the trail as my dad tied the packs to the 4-wheeler, but did not see anything come down the trail.","Walla Walla Mill Creek Watershed. On the intake trail between Green Peak and Lewis Peak. Sighting occurred on an open, rocky face, within 1/4 mile of Lewis Peak, just before leaving the National Forest boundary.","Walla Walla County","Washington","Fall","Report 7406: Father and Son Hunting Mill Creek Drainage Near Walla Walla, WA see biped walking across slope",46.0573,-117.9793,"2003-11-19",7406.0,"Class A","c2hn526p5p",51.88,38.04,24.2,30.19,0.78,0.54,0.85,0.0048,0.83,"snow",1010.36,"Snow (< 1 in.) starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",1.0,9.46,223.0,7.94,"RES.SEASON"], [3838,3067,"Dear sirs, On July 04,1987 Saturday evening at about 11: 30 Pm, myself and 2 others had a close-up visual sighting of 2 Bigfoot. I was standing inches away from my friend when we both encountered this. I grew up spending a lot more time in the woods than most of my associates, and I have seen countless bear and cats in the wild. I was never so scared of anything in my life as I was that night.The thing that over-whelmed me was when I shined the flashlight in its face, the eyes were yellow, the exact same color as a deers eyes at night. That told me that this thing was nocturnal. I would be forever trying to write everything down that happend that night, so I would like to speak to someone that is highly experienced in this field. I would greatly appreciate it if you, or someone in this field would call me. Thank you.","The siting was in the Canaan Valley area .I have more information that could be very helpful to you. I will be more specific with a phone call to me.","Tucker County","West Virginia","Summer","Report 7188: Two men shocked to see hairy figure close on trail in Monongahela National Forest",39.0417,-79.43762,"1987-07-04",7188.0,"Class A","dnzw07763k",78.92,69.91,60.9,55.96,0.72,0.94,0.26,0.0028,1.0,"rain",1015.04,"Light rain in the morning and overnight.",5.0,5.17,330.0,2.72,"RES.SEASON"], [3841,3732,"I went to Mono Lake with my father early in the morning to capture some long exposure photos of the sunrise. We arrived at the lake around 6 AM right at golden hour. When we got to the parking lol there was one other car parked in the lot. After grabbing my photography gear (camera bag/tripod) we began walking down the path towards the lake. I was looking off to my right hand side and clearly saw something that was all black and bipedal walking parallel with me about 15 yards away. It ducked behind a small tufa as I was watching it walk. I told my dad that I saw something walking on 2 feet and he said that he saw something moving over in that direction as well. I knew that there was a person in the same area as us since there was a car parked in the lot when we arrived so there was still a possibility that what I saw was a person dressed in all black, although it would be strange for a person to be walking off the path in the area where I saw this thing since we were still away from the lake where all of the points of interest are. My dad and I continued to walk towards the lake to shoot the sunrise. As we approached the lake there was another photographer who had their camera mounted on their tripod and was taking photos. At this point I realized that what I saw walking was not a person since the owner of the car who was parked when we arrived had just been accounted for. I did not think I would ever experience something like this in my lifetime. I wish I would have gone to the area where I saw it and looked for some evidence or footprints but I was too scared to stray off the path since it was able to disappear in the brush / tufas so easily.","Mono Lake","Mono County","California","Summer","Report 65849: Possible sighting at Mono Lake at Sunrise",37.97761,-119.1291,"2020-07-28",65849.0,"Class B","9qg211sgdg",83.75,69.885,56.02,41.27,0.42,0.04,0.31,0.001,0.03,"rain",1012.4,"Clear throughout the day.",11.0,10.0,241.0,5.12,"RES.SEASON"], [3863,2361,"About 5:30 am on Rte 9 heading east in west Brattleboro VT my husband and I saw a small (I don't know what) running across the road. It was about 3 to 4 feet tall, long dark brown to black hair, running on 2 legs. I caught the animal in my headlights very clearly. The one thing we both said was that it was fast. Faster than any animal we have ever seen. It was crossing the road into the swampy area near the small whetstone brook. There were tall reeds there and it disappeared into them. We did not stop. in retrospect, I wish I had. It might have answered some questions we both had.","We were heading east on Route 9 heading into Brattleboro this happened just after the Dollar General. There is a large swampy area there. This area is very close to Green Mountain National Forest","Windham County","Vermont","Fall","Report 49993: Couple have possible early morning sighting while driving outside Brattleboro",42.86222,-72.60887,"2016-04-05",49993.0,"Class B","drs7gdzfd8",33.45,23.965000000000003,14.48,8.54,0.55,0.03,0.93,0.0019,0.48,"snow",1024.47,"Light snow (< 1 in.) in the afternoon.",7.0,5.89,348.0,1.56,"RES.SEASON"], [3871,4626,"It was Xmas eve 12/24/1980 app. 7:00pm. It was very very cold. I had just turned onto IL. R.R. 4 4 heading north and was picking up speed when I saw something in the middle of the road. There was no other cars in the area so i turned my bright lites on and started hitting my brakes. As I got closer i saw a bigfoot just standing in the middle of the road looking at me as if it was blinded by my headlights. I came to almost a complete stop as I looked at it and moved the car into the opposite lane to avoid hitting it. I came within inches of it and was looking at it the whole time. It was standing up but seemed to be kind of bent over at the waist and its was holding its right arm up against its chest (like if you would have your arm in a sling). I estimate it was well over 7 foot tall-(at the time i had a brother 6'8\" and I know it was much taller than he was). I keep saying it because I'm not sure of its sex. I was in amazement and not sure what to do. I decided to go to the next road and turn around but it was gone when I returned (app.1-1/2 -2 minutes later). The best I can remember the temp. Was around 0-fr. Or below. This is a very rural area and there is no reason anyone would be standing in the middle of the road on Xmas eve in that kind of weather dressed up like a bigfoot - esp. Who's that tall to begin with? I am a hunter and have spent many hours in the wood but, have never seen anything like that before or after.","App. 1/4 miles north of Hwy 40 on IL. R.R. 4","Madison County","Illinois","Winter","Report 25267: Memory told of a sasquatch standing in headlights on Christmas Eve west of St. Jacob",38.72226,-89.80125,"1980-12-24",25267.0,"Class A","dnbhk90tx0",28.0,15.44,2.88,17.75,0.78,0.75,0.61,0.0006,0.12,"snow",1028.28,"Foggy in the morning.",2.0,5.54,328.0,11.64,"RES.SEASON"], [3875,4594,"I saw a creature running on top of a levee just on the east Peoria side of the river.It was all tan from head to feet. It had to be running at least 30 mph. While running its knees were bent.It did not look like a man running in a race, like a sprinter. The levee was just on the river side of cat building ss (Caterpillar Heavy Equipment Company). I saw the tan man for maybe 5 or 6 seconds. The speed at which it had was awesome. I could see the hair moving on its body but its head did not move. I just can not get over the speed tan man had, unreal.","The levee just past building ss cat plant","Tazewell County","Illinois","Winter","Report 40075: Daylight sighting along levee in East Peoria",40.67577,-89.60034,"2013-02-26",40075.0,"Class A","dp0r3hg18c",33.77,32.53,31.29,30.9,0.88,0.93,0.53,0.0045,0.6,"snow",1001.97,"Foggy until evening.",3.0,2.57,49.0,6.79,"RES.SEASON"], [3882,1570,"This occurred in western Michigan November of 1978, when I was about 13 years old. I lived in Cedar Springs, Mi on Myers Lake Road near 17 mile rd. The land today is a golf course. At the time, this was all rural farm land and woods. I hunted all around western Michigan when I lived up there. One evening while whitetail deer hunting, I was sitting in a cut corn field with about 5 or 6 inches of snow on the ground. It was just turning dusk. I had been sitting in this field for about an hour and a half. I was sitting on the ground leaning against a fence post looking over the field. There was a low wooded area behind me. All of a sudden, the hairs on the back of my neck stood up and I felt very uneasy as if something was watching me. I did not see anything although I was trying to be still while hunting. This feeling was not going away and I moved to look behind me and at the edge of the trees there was a Sasquatch standing there looking at me. It was dark brown, about 7 ft. tall, with hair about 6 or 7 inches long and the face was a little lighter than the rest of the animal. I turned back around quickly and thought to myself that what I saw couldn't be. I had not known anything about big foot at the time. I had a .35 Marlin rifle with a Tasco 3x9 scope on it. I turned back around to get a better look and it was still standing there just staring at me. I looked through the scope (he was standing about 150-200 yards away from where I was) and it definitely was a Sasquatch standing there. We looked at each other for about 2 or 3 minutes and I got increasingly scared of it, although it never made any indication of hostility. I got up and ran out of the field and across the road to my house. I did not tell anyone about the sighting until I was about 23 years old and was hunting with one of my best friends. There were reports of a 'Skunk Ape' on our hunting land in Southern Georgia on the edge of the Okefenokee Swamp. We often heard it screaming at night and supposedly the DNR cast foot print molds of it in the area. I then told my friend of my sighting as a child because I didn't think I would be ridiculed.I moved to North Florida in 1979 and have resided here since then. I know absolutely without question that they exist due to my experience. I really hope that it is proven some day.","Just West of Myers Lake Rd and South of 17 Mile Rd.","Kent County","Michigan","Fall","Report 22802: Man recalls spotting a sasquatch watching him while hunting deer north of Grand Rapids",43.21,-85.41,"2008-10-06",22802.0,"Class A","dpemb6nk6z",55.33,49.74,44.15,45.23,0.83,0.96,0.23,0.0045,1.0,"rain",1027.91,"Light rain in the morning.",3.0,7.78,105.0,2.96,"RES.SEASON"], [3883,226,"Me and 2 friends were walking up the gas pipeline to fish a natural spring on the mountain, now privately owned by a hunting and fishing club. As we crested our first hill, all three of us all stopped at the same time. We saw a Bigfoot about 200 ft up the pipeline. I would estimate it to be over 7ft tall, brown and very shaggy. After about 30 seconds it ran into the wood line. It covered about 30 feet in three strides and disappeared. As we got to where it was you could see four spots where the tall grass was was pushed down from its steps.","Gravel road off of North Hill Road","Somerset County","New Jersey","Summer","Report 63569: Teens observe a Bigfoot in daylight on a gas line route between Hillsborough and East Amwell townships",40.45815,-74.77675,"2008-07-25",63569.0,"Class A","dr4y4mjjz3",85.2,73.705,62.21,58.13,0.64,0.12,0.76,0.0001,0.05,"rain",1018.9,"Clear throughout the day.",9.0,9.916,266.0,1.91,"RES.SEASON"], [3886,162,"Was driving home tonight from a fishing trip. I saw something reddish brown looking over a guard rail. Could only see the head and part of the shoulders, for the rail was at the top of a hill. It wasn't a bear, or have never heard of a brown bear in the area. We do have some black bear here and there. The encounter/sighting was only for a few seconds as I drove by with high beams on.","Close to Lake James where I have seen some other strange happenings and limbs being broken","Burke County","North Carolina","Summer","Report 41506: Fisherman reports possible sightings and activity around Lake James",35.78043,-81.77603,"2013-06-26",41506.0,"Class B","dnmge1ss07",86.66,77.71000000000001,68.76,66.27,0.74,0.26,0.62,0.0009,0.3,"rain",1013.98,"Partly cloudy until afternoon.",10.0,8.92,224.0,0.32,"RES.SEASON"], [3889,2154,"While hunting in east Texas I saw a large hair covered, 7 ft tall, 275 lb. something ape/man like creature vault/leap over a fence, land on 2 legs and step off the trail into the forest. Through the 9 power rifle scope it looked exactly like some of the sketches I have seen. This occured 25 years ago and I just now started looking into other peoples sighting.","This area is near the Trinity River bottoms and National Forest.","Houston County","Texas","Fall","Report 20685: Hunter observes large Bipedal Creature jumping fence near Austonio",31.1683,-95.59745,"2007-12-20",20685.0,"Class A","9vs12dh09b",72.0,56.525,41.05,51.02,0.64,0.38,0.38,0.0067,1.0,"rain",1011.08,"Rain in the morning.",3.0,9.18,244.0,4.69,"RES.SEASON"], [3895,1231,"I was staying at the Marriott hotel 6th floor in Huntsville Alabama at the Space and Rocket Center-At 5:40am on Feb 24th 2009 I went on the balcony to drink my coffee as the room was too stuffy and hot. I was out there just thinking and staring off at the woods when something caught my eye--after refocusing on it I realized there were legs, then arms, then I could clearly make out his face. The creature stood 6-7ft tall and was staring directly back at me-it seemed to have fine hairs all over -grey color hair that got more black as the hair got closer to the skin--the tips of the hair were much lighter--the face (lips, eye lids, etc) were more of a very dark brown-it stood very erect, was very muscular, and did not seem to have the apelike protruding mouth and nose but more flat faced human like--after 30 seconds he started rocking back and forth--I then realized this was moving and could in no way be mistaken for a dear or bear or anything else--this was a fully erect apelike animal that seemed to want me see him --he was rocking back and forth from side to side. After the initial 30 seconds he rocked for about 10-12 seconds then stood and stared at me --I was on the 6th floor about 120 yards away in decent lighting due to hotel lights and street light behind loading area of hotel-he then would stare back then he would remain face forward with feet only about 2 feet apart would lean over to his left with his right arm would start pulling bark off a very large pine tree--it looked as if someone were in a sawing position--then he would stand up stare at me then rock and then pull bark--this was done in that order 3 times over a 5-6 minute period--after five minutes of re-verifying what I was looking at I felt this creature was docile and smooth moving--I decided I would try and get a closer look--as I opened the sliding glass door he stared and I stared back--I ran out of the hotel room and there was security in our hall laying the morning news at the hotel room doors--I asked him to come with me and asked for back up since he had no gun--we ran around the corner outside - as we were running I Finally got the nerves to tell them what I saw--we get to the reference points I had chosen and there were a lot of fresh bark removed from the large pine tree--I tried to pull bark from it to no avail -- it was too hard--I am 6'4\" 300 lbs. I went back after 7am (light) -- I did notice what looked like scat --it took the form of explosive diarrhea and looked like a hundred birds had pooped in a small area--like in a shotgun pattern-heavy in the middle and lighter to the outside perimeter-I put a large handful in a Marriott laundry plastic bag--It looks like feces and digested berries and seeds. (It was dry although it had rained the night before) One of the Marriott employee's saw two large footprints --more like deep indention's in the pine straw--I took off my shoe and placed my foot in it and there was about a one inch area all the way around my foot in order to fill the indention--Something very heavy had to make these indention's--I tried and I am 300lbs and could not. I am 100% positive of the above discription--I watched this clearly for 5-6 minutes!","I was on 6th floor of Marriott Hotel facing the Rocket Center--(room 614)--creature was 30-35 yards from parking spaces where the loading docks and dumpster area is if you are facing hotel it will be the area to the left where there is a walking trail","Madison County","Alabama","Winter","Report 25559: Exec on business trip has sighting from balcony of hotel near Huntsville",34.71139,-86.6575,"2009-02-24",25559.0,"Class A","dn4mkp1btb",52.54,47.815,43.09,22.84,0.51,0.39,0.99,0.001,0.75,"rain",1028.18,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,10.0,124.0,1.5,"RES.SEASON"], [3896,4333,"I think I might have seen a big foot on May 30, 2012. I went outside to put my trash can at the street at about midnight. The only light was the porch lights on the house behind us. When I walked around the corner of the house, I froze because I saw what looked like something standing at my neighbor's fence. They have a fence that is fenced in on three sides, just not at the front of the house, and what I saw was standing at the back of the fence, I think on my side of the fence, but not sure. All I could see was the silhouette of a person/thing, but it stood 1 1/2 to 2 feet over the top of the fence. All I could see was the silhouette of the shoulders and head and hair sticking up over the fence. It had long hair and it was not really moving. Only the hair would move. At first I thought it was a person who had stopped and stood still when it saw me. Then I realized it was way too big to be a person. I admittedly have bad eyesight though, even with glasses on at night. On top of that I am a logical person with a master's degree, so I don't rush to conclusions, especially fanciful ones. So I told myself it was just the shadows and light playing tricks on me. I figured that something was propped up against the fence and just looked like a head and shoulders in the dark and that maybe the hair was some spanish moss caught on whatever it was. But I still felt uneasy and ran inside as fast as I could. The next day (today) I went outside and looked for whatever it was that might have looked like a head and shoulders. But there as nothing there. No plants, no trees, nothing propped up against the fence, no spanish moss, just a fence. We went back outside tonight to look again and see if there was anything casting a funky shadow. While that corner of the yard is dark and lights barely shine there from the windows, there was definitely nothing taller than the fence and nothing that looked like a head and shoulders. I would estimate, given that the fence is about 6 feet tall, that it was at least 7 1/2 to 8 1/2 feet tall. It was broad shouldered. And it had long hair or fur on it's head. I am not saying it was a bigfoot, because I could not see it well enough to say that for certain, but I don't think it was a person. If it was a person it was a very large, very tall, very hairy person. Also, when I came back inside, my dog (a lab/border collie mix who is about 90 lbs) started growling. He kept growling until I let him out of his kennel and he immediately ran to my back door. I let him outside and he shot off. Our yard is fenced in so he cannot leave the yard. But ten minutes later when I went to let him back in, he wasn't near the back door. It took several minutes for him to come back to the door after I called repeatedly. That is not like him. He usually is begging to come back inside and doesn't hesitate when I call him. After that he was very restless all night.","It was in a residential neighborhood. Huntingdon Subdivision. The exact street was Chukar Ct. This neighborhood is off of exit 5 for N Jefferson (Old Leesburg Hwy) just past Lovers Ln and the Lee Co. Line. We are also close to Lake Cheehaw and Keechafoonee Creek. The next big highway is Hwy 19.","Lee County","Georgia","Summer","Report 35631: Woman sees a tall figure at night outside her home in a subdivision south of Leesburg",31.62608,-84.16016,"2012-05-30",35631.0,"Class B","djs5uvk7q0",91.46,79.33,67.2,65.72,0.69,0.1,0.32,0.0125,1.0,"rain",1010.43,"Rain in the morning.",11.0,9.83,281.0,2.22,"RES.SEASON"], [3903,394,"well here is my sighting. on june 20th 2004, [near] rochester [and] greece, me and 2 friends where out on a bike ride like we do three times a week. we start at 104 and fetzner rd in rochester new york and travel down the bike trail too the [parkway] and iland cottage rd. we always stop at the pond and [our] bike rides are well into the night around 12 - 1 am. we hang out for a while then head back home. what would make it a 15 - 20 mile bike ride. while standing talking we all noticed something standing behind tree. it was about 7 - 8 feet tall tan in color or gray fur. it stood out in the black background. one of my friends start[ed] heading towards it and so did the other and then me with my headlight. when the first friend moved the thing started off too the woods on 2 feet. my one friend said he seen it turn around and look at him. i just seen it go into woods. when we got too the woods which woul be heading west next too parkway, one went in a little. me and other stayed on edge. we stood still and heard alot branches and then silence. don’t know if it was related too [our] sighting but seemd like the only sorce at the time because [of] what was seen. it was pretty chilling and strange. felt very weird like it wasn’t happening.","location ny interstate 390 north too the ny state pkwy going west at or over iland cottage rd there is a little pond in the middle of entrance and exit from 390 to pkwy and iland cottage rd is on the norteast side","Monroe County","New York","Summer","Report 8905: Three men have a late night encounter with a bi-pedal figure",43.2696,-77.664,"2005-07-27",8905.0,"Class B","dr8y0syz9w",70.64,64.17,57.7,65.73,0.91,0.89,0.73,0.0398,1.0,"rain",1009.85,"Rain until afternoon.",4.0,7.63,334.0,1.79,"RES.SEASON"], [3910,3309,"I was six at the time. my family on a bus coming from memphis ark. to ft.smith ark. sister and I was in back of bus on the long seat so we could sleep. bus driver stopped bus to use the woods. he jump back in bus and said hold on every body there is a big ape out there that almost got me. as the bus started to move my sister and I looked out the back window and saw what I beleive to be big foot crossing the road. at the time I didnt know about big foot so we thought it was a ape that had excape from a carnival. it looked like an ape that we had seen in a carnival once. it took long strides crossing the road and was not leaning over on its hands to walk. it was more like a real big man in a ape costume. the picture til this day is still fresh in my mind. and it wasnt an ape that I have ever seen in zoo,s or carnivals","I dont remember the name of the little town we stopped so the driver could report it. but he said we would be in little rock in about fourty five more minutes. this has been to many years gone by to make a diffrents. just wanted to say I know he is real.","Lonoke County","Arkansas","Fall","Report 2494: Bus driver encounters ape like creature during an unscheduled stop",34.787,-91.735,"2001-08-11",2494.0,"Class A","9ynvbsb8gw",90.74,82.91499999999999,75.09,74.42,0.84,0.81,0.73,0.0269,1.0,"rain",1015.81,"Light rain until afternoon.",7.0,6.73,216.0,4.24,"RES.SEASON"], [3924,4182,"My husband and I were sitting in the woods hunting in northern Florida, about an hour from Alabama. We were sitting in the brush and heard a loud crunch, thinking it was a big buck, when my husband and I turned to look about 80 yards out we see a massive human like figure that was covered in meduim longish brown hair looking from behind a large oak tree at the end of a bottom, towards the entrance of a branch head. About 30 minutes later we heard another load crunch and right behind a pine tree we looked and another 80 yards out heading towards the bottom we see the same large hairy human figure turning and heading deeper into the creek bottom.","Go up 85 north and turn down an off road towards Duke Field. Once you take that exit, turn right at the light and immediately on your right take that turn and you come to the Eglin Hunting Grounds. Go to Jackson South.","Okaloosa County","Florida","Winter","Report 67412: Couple observes a sasquatch YESTERDAY while hunting deer on Eglin Air Force Base",30.6098,-86.4945,"2020-12-26",67412.0,"Class A","dj6qpu2eh0",54.1,42.19,30.28,17.77,0.46,0.0,0.41,0.0007,0.02,"rain",1024.1,"Clear throughout the day.",4.0,10.0,359.0,2.85,"RES.SEASON"], [3935,2483,"On the day after Christmas of 1992, I and my ex-husband were driving on the Deep River Mainline headed towards Naselle, Washington. At the time my ex had an old Mercury Cougar, so you know that the front end of the vehicle was pretty big in width. The time of the day was evening and it was pretty dark and the only lights was coming from the car headlights. And it was snowing, too. So as we were heading to our destination, we saw something leap from one side to the other. I knew that a bear could'nt of done that, because first they are in hibernation. And if they were'nt it would have taken more than one leap to get across that narrow back road, and especially in front of a moving vehicle. And yes it was bigger than a bear!","If you're coming from Rosburg, Wa. on hwy 4, headed westbound before the bridge which turns off to the town of DeepRiver, Wa. Turn right then follow that road til you get to a stop sign. Turn left, there is an area to the right and it look like an old logging road. go along that road. The road is narrow, but not at the beginning. But as you can tell only one car at a time.","Pacific County","Washington","Winter","Report 23300: Couple sees bipedal creature jump across a logging road near Naselle",46.35099,-123.6886,"1992-12-26",23300.0,"Class B","c20p9muwnd",47.72,40.7,33.68,40.35,0.91,0.83,0.09,0.0066,1.0,"rain",1013.63,"Light rain in the afternoon.",1.0,8.46,243.0,6.94,"RES.SEASON"], [3946,484,"Through the years I have had several sightings and interactions with what appears to be a bigfoot and family. We own the better part of mystic woods in Columbiana OH. When the gas and oil companies started installing pipelines years back we started having encounters. I’m an engineer by trade and my wife is a banker. Tonight yet another sighting by our pond. My wife and I were at dinner and as we arrived home about 8:30 PM a very large fast gray/ silver lite brown (covered in fur/hair) bigfoot darted from bushes in our front into the cat tails in our pond on all fours. We both looked at each other and said did you just see that?!! The subject was down low and bent in the middle as it moved. Unlike a dog, it’s undulating movement was not as fluid as a dog. It was not a bear. It appeared to be from 4-5 feet at the back and torso built like a barrel. When it went into the cattails we were no longer able to see it.","[Investigator Note: Address: 14199 Columbiana-Canfield Road, Columbiana, Ohio Coordinates: 40.911992, -80.709115 For Google Map pin to the location","Mahoning County","Ohio","Summer","Report 69469: Couple returning home spots a bigfoot crossing their driveway outside Columbiana",40.91197,-80.70913,"2021-07-17",69469.0,"Class B","dpq8erv3kz",76.27,67.785,59.3,68.25,0.97,0.95,0.27,0.2058,0.98,"rain",1016.3,"Heavy rain in the morning and afternoon.",5.0,9.217,254.0,4.53,"RES.SEASON"], [3948,225,"I was driving home from my girl friends house in Pennsgrove, NJ. I was between Pedrick Town and Auburn when I was approaching a stop sign I noticed something reflective by a telephone pole. I thought it was reflectors on the pole itself but as I grew closer I realized the size and stature of the figure. What I thought were reflectors were eyes and it took off into the woods. I got out of the truck right at the pole and heard grunting a screech and a grunt off into the woods. Anyone familiar with the area knows it is woodsy and remote.","About 1 mile from Auburn Fire Co.","Salem County","New Jersey","Winter","Report 40462: Night time road crossing near Woodstown",39.70852,-75.38251,"2012-12-29",40462.0,"Class A","dr43ussnuh",34.53,33.35,32.17,28.17,0.83,0.82,0.54,0.0025,0.59,"snow",1007.92,"Foggy until afternoon.",2.0,2.76,337.0,1.53,"RES.SEASON"], [3960,1260,"well me and my cousin were deep in the woods deer hunting close to our little camp site when we heard some very loud popping sounds maybe 35 yards away, we froze, tried to figure out the sound but couldnt. We started walking it was getting late almost dark we started to smell something. It smelled awful deader than dead my cousin hears something walking heavy, we turn around look down the logging road and see this thing step out of the treeline, it was a good 40 to 45 yards away it had dark brown hair, walked on two legs was very big 9 to 10 feet tall and it just stood there. Out of being so scared we couldnt move either, I couldn't of shot it if I wanted to but we stared at each other for about 3 or 4 mins and when it took a step into the woods we ran. 1st time ever saw anything like that. I told some people but they laughed and asked me how much I had been drinking but I dont drink so I saw the sight and decided to get this off my chest. I've been holding for years and I havn't been deer hunting that far in the woods since.","off hwy 72 you will see baker lane, go down baker lane you'll see emmette holland road, go down that road it'll open up into fields and woods and you are there","Colbert County","Alabama","Winter","Report 27568: Daylight sighting of a Bigfoot outside Muscle Shoals",34.70112,-87.77686,"2005-01-12",27568.0,"Class A","dn1t6t4udv",68.22,64.325,60.43,58.97,0.81,0.8,0.09,0.0002,0.58,"rain",1014.15,"Overcast throughout the day.",2.0,9.08,174.0,8.43,"RES.SEASON"], [3965,2566,"Last fall I lived in Eatonville, WA on Mashell Ave S just north of Alder St for about 7 months in an apartment at the edge of town. It was about 8:15pm in late November 2014 so it was dark, chilly, and clear outside. I had just gotten home and walked up to my front door and was about to push my key into the lock when I heard, what I can only describe as, a “hooting” noise like “Hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot” in rapid succession. I paused and turned around slowly and walked to the edge of my doorstep listening closer and it happened a second time “Hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot-hoot.” Following the second vocalization, all of the dogs in town began barking and howling incessantly. The noises did not sound very close, but it was extremely loud and sounded like it carried over from the mountain just south of town. I waited a little longer, but heard nothing more and so retreated to my apartment. It sounded extremely ape-like and I have never heard anything like that before or since. The closest resemblance to those noises that I can find are in vocalization clips found on The Gorilla Foundation website www.Koko.org/vocalizations, only the vocalizations I heard had more “scream” to them and were much louder and very powerful. The sound went right through you and came from something with a huge chest. This was no coyote, elk, owl or otherwise, none of those can make a vocal this powerful. No one else was around at the time.","As described in my account and in enivronment","Pierce County","Washington","Fall","Report 49869: Possible vocalizations heard at night in southern Eatonville",46.86113,-122.2669,"2014-11-20",49869.0,"Class B","c2349dzcye",49.9,47.215,44.53,43.46,0.93,0.99,0.94,0.0031,0.71,"rain",1014.54,"Overcast throughout the day.",1.0,9.83,91.0,0.2,"RES.SEASON"], [3966,1197,"I and my cousin were walking down Harris River from the Harris River camp ground. We were walking about 30 to 45 minutes when my cousin thought he saw something standing in front of us about 100 feet or so away. When he asked me if I could see what it was, I told him I couldn't see because I didn't have any contacts on or glasses. So he told me it was just a stump so I was like ok.. Then we went over to where we thought the thing was and in the sand about an inch deep there was a footprint like a man's. In shoe size it looked like it might have been like a size 13 or 15, There were 3 foot prints and about a minute later we ran for about ten minutes and we started walking and then we got to the road, about a mile away from the picnic area, where we were having a Mother's Day picnic We started to race each other to the picnic area where our family members were. Then we told them about it and we just kept it to ourselves for some odd reason.","From Klawock drive southeast on the Klawock -Hollis Road to the Harris River campground, approximately 4 miles west of Hollis.","Prince of Wales County","Alaska","Spring","Report 8797: Two boys find footprints on Harris River bank",55.4555,-132.7333,"2001-05-13",8797.0,"Class B","c1ce7x6e9y",47.66,45.035,42.41,36.98,0.79,0.94,0.7,0.0122,1.0,"rain",1007.08,"Light rain throughout the day and breezy in the morning.",4.0,9.17,136.0,11.54,"RES.SEASON"], [3969,959,"My teenage sons and I were camping in a dispersed site off of NF-3102 for a few days. On the morning of the 12th just after 6am I was making coffee when I heard a guttural growling that rose to a higher pitch scream and then became a whooping sound, after which it dropped back down to a growl. This sequence repeated three times. My dog freaked out barking, but would not go past the saplings on the east edge of the camp, which is strange because he usually pursues deer, elk, and bears several hundred yards into the woods. I grabbed my bow and walked past the line of saplings, into an open forest that sloped down to a ravine with areas of dense vegetation. I called my dog to follow, but he would not come. The forest in this area is full of downed trees, where my sons and I had gathered firewood the previous afternoon. I believe the sound came from the vegetation / trees at the bottom of the ravine, which we had been within 30 feet of when gathering downed wood. I only walked about 20 feet past the saplings, and stood on a log for a better view, but did not see anything moving. I then decided to go back to camp, being a bit worried because my dog wouldn’t leave the area of our tent. For the next hour and a half I sat with my bow next to me, the dog sitting between my legs, and listened to many instances of downed branches cracking beyond the saplings. When the cracks stopped, it was abruptly, not fading as if the cause were moving away. These were large branches being broken, similar to the sound of a bear breaking wood. My dog is not afraid of bears and has chased away several, including one the previous week in eastern Idaho. About half an hour after the cracking sounds stopped the dog went out in the forest to investigate, and everything seemed to return to normal. It was then that I again heard the squirrels angrily chirping and chittering at the dog, and realized that I had not heard it at all during the noises or cracking. I have never heard anything in the Blue Mountains, Rockies, or Cascades like this sound. It sounded nothing like deer, elk, moose, bear, mountain lion, or bobcat. The only thing I could possibly think is maybe a mountain lion was killing an elk, but it repeated three times with just about the same length and cadence. And the whooping part of it reminded me of those plastic bellows hoses that you swing in the air to make a whistling / whooping sound. While in Pendleton a couple days later I was describing the sounds to a local hunter when an older native woman overheard and said she thinks it was a Bigfoot, and that she’s heard them on the Umatilla Reservation.","Near NF-3102, before Red Saddle (45.4502371, -118.3243227)","Umatilla County","Oregon","Summer","Report 65970: Camper hears vocalizations near Meacham, region with history of \"Umatilla Screamer.\"",45.45024,-118.3243,"2020-08-12",65970.0,"Class B","c25fe3yygf",64.0,55.64,47.28,39.17,0.51,0.53,0.79,0.0007,0.12,"rain",1013.3,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,10.0,267.0,5.88,"RES.SEASON"], [3974,575,"Back in 2010 I and a friend were at Salt Fork Lake fishing at about 9:30 p.m. That evening we heard some banging of trees and the next thing we know rocks as big as my fist were bouncing off the ground. After 6 or 7 of them we grabbed our stuff and left. We never saw what it was but the rocks were being thrown from a great distance. I'm 6' 3\" and 260 lbs, and there is no way I could of thrown these rocks any distance.","Salt Fork Marina","Guernsey County","Ohio","Summer","Report 31439: Possible rock throwing display while night fishing at Salt Fork State Park",40.11682,-81.4936,"2010-07-18",31439.0,"Class B","dpnh1x41mm",87.32,78.025,68.73,69.71,0.79,0.41,0.26,0.0082,0.74,"rain",1014.01,"Rain starting in the evening.",8.0,1.81,242.0,0.64,"RES.SEASON"], [3985,1999,"I heard 2 distinct wood knocks in am area that I had hunted for 7 years. I sit on the ground at the exact same spot every year. It was the saturday after thanksgiving around 9am sunny and around 45 degrees. The area is very active with wild life, deer, turkey, squirrels, and birds. I sit in the same spot on the ground every year. It is on the side of a ridge overlooking a creek. Everything got eerilly quiet no birds singing no squirrels playing and calling. I had just noticed how quiet it was when I heard 2 knocks to my right. Back up the creek I was over looking. While trying to figure out what I heard there came a response to my left very faint and far away. It freeked me out and I realized that I was sitting at a natural intersection. I didn't want to see what was making all the noise. So I left the area rather quickly.","Very end of the main road leading thru the WMA property This is the only WMA property in the county.","Cheatham County","Tennessee","Fall","Report 29794: Deer Hunter hears possible wood knocks in the Cheatham Wildlife Management Area",36.1874,-87.0886,"2008-11-29",29794.0,"Class B","dn6jf78nbs",54.58,48.805,43.03,33.16,0.58,0.95,0.06,0.0001,0.18,"rain",1007.5,"Foggy overnight.",2.0,9.87,91.0,0.28,"RES.SEASON"], [3987,2340,"At around 11pm on July 26th my wife and I we're night fishing on the backwater of cranesnest river in Dickinson county Virginia. My wife's head was hurting so she decided to take a nap we had heard something large walking in the woods but wrote it off as a bear or deer as both are plentiful in our area. She had been asleep for about an hour when I heard a large knock about 50 yards up in the tree line then about 15 to 20 seconds later several hundred yards up the ridge there was another knock. Both sounded as if someone had taken a 4x4 post and struck a tree with it. Then about 10 min later there was a splash in the water about 20 feet away from our boat. This splash sounded like something weighing 20 or 30 lbs had struck the water waking my wife. It's not unusual to hear large fish jumping at night but this was different after the splash no more than a couple minutes had passed and there was 2 more knocks. And they were closer than the first one. We pulled anchor reeled in our lines and as we were leaving we heard 2 more knocks. My wife said she heard the knocks up on the ridge but I didn't hear those, just the sound of a large animal walking up the river same way we were traveling as if it was following us. When it came to a shallow cove where it would have had to swim we stopped hearing the walking sounds. This is the second time we encountered this animal we had an experience about a month and a half earlier we heard a big animal walking around and had big splashes in the water as if it were throwing things at us on that night as well.","You travel rt 83 east from clintwood Virginia about 2 miles then turn left on cranesnest river Rd. then travel appointmently 5 miles to the end of the road then it would be across the river. [Investigator Note: - Here are the coordinates: 37.174330, -82.399624 - Here is the map pin: ]","Dickenson County","Virginia","Summer","Report 69503: Possible sasquatch tree knocks TWO NIGHTS AGO along river outside Clintwood",37.17433,-82.39963,"2021-07-26",69503.0,"Class B","dnt7kzqkjm",86.17,76.515,66.86,72.87,0.88,0.61,0.61,0.0057,0.59,"rain",1015.5,"Humid and mostly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,9.999,256.0,3.36,"RES.SEASON"], [3993,4645,"I was walking down my street and heard what sounded like a guy off in the cornfield yelling, approximately 600 feet away. It was sort of a grunting yell, very deep and it echoed through the neighborhood. It sent the hair up on my neck and scared me a little because the only thing between me and the yelling was a row of houses. This is not the first time I've heard what I think might be a Bigfoot in the area. I have heard what seemed to be three of them sort of locating each other the week before Thanksgiving. Again, I was out walking late at night in my neighborhood, around midnight. I heard a fox call at the end of my block but that sound was cut off by what sounded like a woman trying to imitate her from a little further away. Then a few seconds later, a \"man\" let out a yell about 3 blocks away. This yell was a deep guttural long yell, too long to be a human. It made the hair on my neck stand up and it also echoed through the neighborhood. Not a few seconds later, a faint \"howl\" came from what sounded like across the lake. By this point, I had gotten back to my porch and entered the house to find all three of my cats wide eyed and standing in the middle of my living room. Out of curiosity, I decided to go sit on my porch to see if the howls continued. The sequence of howls and yells continued on for about 20 minutes. First the \"woman\", then the \"man\", then the faint one across the lake until they were far enough away that loud vehicles drowned them out and I went back inside. I wish I'd have thought to use my cellphone camera to record it.","I was walking westbound on Hiawatha at 2:55am. The row of houses is on my right, north and the cornfield is just behind the row of houses. It sounded as though the howls were going north through the cornfield. When I reached my front door I decided to just go in and not hang around to see if it was coming back my direction. I was 3 or 4 houses east of mine when the howls started. There is no fencing between the cornfield and the houses that I had just walked passed.","McHenry County","Illinois","Winter","Report 67486: Possible vocalizations after midnight from cornfield near Wonder Lake",42.38553,-88.35001,"2021-01-09",67486.0,"Class B","dp91js13xe",34.3,28.19,22.08,22.71,0.82,0.78,0.89,0.0029,0.71,"snow",1027.1,"Snow (< 1 in.) in the morning and afternoon.",1.0,10.0,336.0,6.09,"RES.SEASON"], [4014,3169,"Approx. summer of 2000, I was on Negus Mountain in Rowe, MA (Franklin County) with my wife, sitting on the tailgate...we heard something in the woods, about 100 yards away, walking towards us. As it got closer, it started to walk faster. As a life long hunter, I at first told her not to worry, it's a squirrel or something. As this creature got closer, my ears and experience told me that this was a biped, only 2 feet crunching through the leaves. My wife was so freaked out that we had to leave immediately before I could investigate more. Fast Forward to 2006, I was driving to work one night for the 2300 job in East Deerfield, MA. I remember I was running a little late, so I was probably speeding, and the time would have been 2230ish. It was raining lightly. In West Charlemont, at the end of so-called Tea Street Extension, there is a bridge that carries the road over the railroad tracks. This is about 2-3 miles (the way the bird flies) from the encounter above. What I saw was something standing perfectly still behind the guardrail. It was about 6, maybe 6 and a half feet tall, had long brown hair all over it's body, and was stock still. I drive this route almost daily (or nightly, in my case) for over 12 years, I know what belongs and what doesn't. This did not belong. I turned around and went back, and it was gone. Being late for work, I turned around again and went to work. I have never had any doubt that I saw a Sasquatch. I haven't reported it because I don't want people to think I am a crackpot. I just recently told my father about it, who told me to look into any organizations such as yours.","See my post, near MP 410 on the railroad track, overhead route 2 bridge","Franklin County","Massachusetts","Summer","Report 46780: Possible nighttime sighting while driving over a bridge near Charlemont",42.64809,-72.91994,"2015-04-20",46780.0,"Class B","drs4sev74h",44.56,44.49,44.42,37.15,0.82,0.82,0.07,0.0164,1.0,"rain",1012.19,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",4.0,9.16,115.0,5.07,"RES.SEASON"], [4016,2825,"My boyfriend E. P. and I were with our good friend D. I. who was driving an F150 pickup truck. We had gone up onto the logging roads for the boys to teach me how to shoot a shotgun better. It is very desolate and has very thick forests. We went in near the Elma/Satsop, WA area and drove for hours. We ended up getting lost but knew the A and B line roads (which we were on from what the Garman told us) came out somewhere near Capitol forest. By this time it was pretty late and we were ready to go home. We ended up turning around somewhere in between and found ourselves going around a corner with a hill coming down on the left hand side that had lots of tall pine trees and low laying brush/stumps. The next few moments all kind of fade together so I will try to type them out as clear as possible without the cursing involved. I was sitting in the middle seat and I saw a flash of HUGE eyes first in the headlights. By this time I had said \"holy **** look at that\" and D. I. had stopped the truck and opened his door and gotten out because whatever it was was at about a 35 deg angle on the left side not even 100 yrds away from us and my boyfriend sitting on my right had no clue what was going on. Let me just say that both boys I was with have done lots of hunting and are familiar with animal reactions and their sizes/eye shape, etc. I am still sitting in the middle of the seat and my boyfriend has gotten out now too and I am FROZEN in fear. I feel like 5 minutes go by that I am staring in to the largest greenish glowing eyes I have ever seen. I felt like time literally stopped. D. I. with his door open to my left is so shooken up that he cannot even get the bullet into the shotgon, or even hold it. All of the sudden my boyfriend said I started shrieking and screaming, and I felt like I was snapped out of a trance and I saw its outline. What sticks out the most besides the eyes was huge forearms that it seemed to be proping itself up on. I didn't notice color. It was atleast 700/750lbs. I kept screaming and now crying(I never even knew I was) and both boys jumped back into the truck, my boyfriend was still wondering what D. I. and I had both saw. My nose started gushing blood (the first nosebleed I've had in many years) and I don't know if it was from the absolute terror of the moment. The thing didn't move the whole time which is so strange even for a bear or elk in the headlights. We drove off and it RAN up the hillside that was slanted up to the left. The next hour in the truck was so weird and D. I. didn't want to talk at all about it. All he would say over and over was \"that was huge, the eyes, huge..\" We all wanted to get the hell out of the woods. The next day he came over. He said one really weird thing was he woke up with a nose bleed and he hadn't had one in many years too. We talked more about it and it kept getting more strange to him. He is the type of person who talks himself out of things like this to not seem like a pussy. I am not the type of girl that gets scared easily. I never scream or cry I have grown up camping and backpacking in the woods and have seen many animals. Never in my whole life have I experienced something so strange, shocking, and terrifying all at the same time. This happened a couple of days ago and I still cannot sleep a whole night through without thinking about it.","Please keep the specifics about how to get to the location confidential. We consider this a very special place.","Grays Harbor County","Washington","Spring","Report 23558: Friends lost on backroads west of Olympia are stunned by a creature with large green eyes",46.98278,-123.1742,"2008-04-05",23558.0,"Class A","c227m0gq90",43.76,39.815,35.87,35.21,0.95,0.8,0.98,0.0031,0.95,"rain",1014.35,"Light rain in the evening and overnight.",4.0,9.88,174.0,1.2,"RES.SEASON"], [4018,2586,"It was early afternoon on a hot summer day. I was up looking for oyster mushrooms in the hills west of Baker Lake Rd by Grandy Creek. I have had several experiences in the fall time over several years. Anyway, as I was walking in on a wooded hillside and happened to look down and saw an impression in a mossy patch that looked like an old sasquatch track. The ground is not good for impressions except for the mossy patches. It measured 15 inches long. It was broad at the toes, and had a wide heel, There was even a rise, in the middle of the track, as if from a mid-tarsal break. It may not be a track, it may be a track. If a track, it had been there for some time, as it had small debris sitting in it. I was up there this fall,and the possible track was still in the same condition so it should still be able to located. BTW I got a good haul of oyster mushrooms that day. I have heard deep rhythmic grunts, followed by a tree shaking in the creek bottom. My dad and I heard this breathing that was loud and angry sounding. Possible it could have been a grizzly, but it was somewhat different than sounds I have looked up on the internet. I had small rocks thrown at me. My wife and I heard 3 wood knocks one after the other from 3 different but close locations. All these incidents happened from about 2008 until present. I only wish I had a visual but I think the rock throwing was the incident that nailed it down for me.","It is about a mile before Grandy Lake Campground on an open logging road on the left hand side. There is a wooden sign for posting info. At the entrance there is an area off to the left where people have been camping. The spot is approx 1 mile up the road with a pullout area on the left. It is hard to tell the exact driving distance to the exact spot without going back and get an accurate mileage from the main road to the spot.","Skagit County","Washington","Summer","Report 62403: Mushroom picker has ongoing activity in same area over many years near Grandy Lake.",48.56245,-121.8588,"2018-09-15",62403.0,"Class B","c29k7090u0",54.8,52.98,51.16,47.93,0.85,0.9,0.21,0.006,1.0,"rain",1011.93,"Light rain in the afternoon.",4.0,10.0,153.0,2.89,"RES.SEASON"], [4023,483,"I I was going coyote hunting in North Lima on my in-laws property. I was grabbing my gear out of my trunk and through the treeline I could see about 5 turkeys in a field. About 50 or so feet to the left of them was what appeared to be an albino something, and it must have been sitting or lying down at time. By the time I was ready to get in woods the turkeys and that thing were out of sight. Upon entering the woods, almost immediately about 60 yds in front of me was this white fuzzy thing standing on 2 legs looking directly at me. We gazed at each other a minute at least and I began approaching. It wasn't intimidating. In fact was only at most 4ft. tall. It began backing as I approached and then soon fled. Couldn't wrap my head around what the hell I just saw. Tried to shake it off and kept walking. Within no time it just appeared again. About 60 yds. I tried looking at it better through scope but my hands kept shaking and didn't feel right putting a rifle up at something I didn't understand. I would get within 40 yds or so. It would back up. Then flee. Then popped out a third time. Got weird feeling of cat and mouse. Animals don't act like this. It was playing with me. I felt I was being lured into something. With creature still in sight I turned and went home.","Fall woods and farm. Small creek temps in 40-50","Mahoning County","Ohio","Fall","Report 58702: Coyote hunter's possible encounter with white furred juvenile.",40.94825,-80.69776,"2013-11-12",58702.0,"Class A","dpq8gwmsvg",34.32,30.095,25.87,26.0,0.85,0.77,0.34,0.0016,0.39,"snow",1029.7,"Foggy in the morning.",2.0,2.22,334.0,2.46,"RES.SEASON"], [4028,4936,"This is the second incident I've had at my family's property in Stanton Kentucky. The first one was scary and all (had a rock thrown at my dads truck and made a huge crash in the dark) but this one has basically scared me away from my parents house at night! This was right before Christmas and we had record high temps close to 70 so I was hanging out on their front porch. Last time I was there I smacked some wood planks together and got a response so I figured I would try again. So I stood up and grabbed a piece of wood (we just built their deck so there are pieces laying around) and hit the hand rail of the deck 3 times very slow. I waited not even 15 seconds and got 3 hits back. I was shocked because it sounded like it was no more then 50 feet away. My mom and dad keep a big spotlight style flashlight right by their front door because I refuse to get out of the car without them shining the light for me lol. I'm a chicken I know. But I ran and grabbed the light and started shining it along the woodline and saw tree branches moving... There was no wind so I know something had to be there. Well I went back in freaking out and sat on the couch... I waited about a hour and went back out and was just standing there and heard footsteps off to the side of their house. Again no more then 50 feet away. This time I didn't get the light because I didn't want it to run away... I sat out there for probably 15 minutes and something walked basically back and forth the whole time. I tried to take a video with my phone but it just sounds like someone breathing...","I would have to talk with someone to explain because it's way out in the country. It's on upper Cane Creek in Stanton KY so its easy to Google.","Powell County","Kentucky","Winter","Report 50746: Possible aggressive behavior at new rural cabin site near Stanton",37.53918,-83.46014,"2015-12-22",50746.0,"Class B","dnstscf1tf",61.69,59.47,57.25,54.85,0.9,0.72,0.4,0.0094,1.0,"rain",1012.78,"Rain in the morning.",2.0,9.58,172.0,2.37,"RES.SEASON"], [4032,2872,"We were walking (my hunting partner and I) down the road trying to spot a grouse that we had just seen fly from the area of the swamp to the timber across the road from it. We were standing on the north side of the road looking up in the trees and trying to figure how to get off the road in the dense underbrush to get a shot at the grouse. I got a funny fealing that something was watching us and could smell a strong smell kinda like a wet elk. (That season was open too and that was basically why we were hunting). I turned around and walked to the other side of the road away from Joe and looked in at the swamp. I didn't see anything at first, then I saw something very big move. It looked like the back of a bull elk so I spun around and gave a loud whisper to my partner (ELK)! By the time he walked the half dozen steps or so from where he was, to me the thing had stood up. I know it heard me even though I know I was pretty quiet. It scared the heel out of me when it did this. I knew right there and then it wasn't an elk. As it stood up, it came from a position from squating between it's legs to a full stance. Just then he saw it and remarked to me, \"what the hell is that thing\"? I said you ain't gonna believe this but that is a Bigfoot. He was worried about our safety and said, should we shoot it? Can we kill it? I said I don't think we should, we might get in big trouble with the law and he had been there before. So we watched it for a few minutes. It was very warry of us and kept rocking back and forth nervously. If we made any movements it would duck it's head a few inches and stare at us. He was worried about it attacking us. It made a posturing movement like it meant business so I said let's shoot into the road and see if we can scare it off, so we did and it did. It took off like a bat outta hell in the direction away fro us. He said, ain't nobody in hell gonna believe us, they'll lock us up in the nutt house if we do. We agreed right there and then to stay silent. This happened in the mid 1980's and I haven't said anything about it to anyone but the wife and kids and a few people I trust.","Logging road that connects the county road with the Weyerhauser haul road from the watershed.","King County","Washington","Fall","Report 1382: Creature observed by hunters",47.2831,-121.9258,"1984-10-17",1382.0,"Class A","c23kcx8k4b",49.28,42.565,35.85,35.51,0.78,0.75,0.75,0.0002,0.32,"rain",1014.16,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",2.0,8.2,192.0,3.69,"RES.SEASON"], [4033,3967,"i was a security guard at drug reability place in caannan ct. my duty there was to patrol the area every half hour. at 3 am in the morning i went out the back door to do my walk around and as i stepped out onto a deck the loudest scream i had every herd made all my hair stand up.it sounded female and was only 100 ft away .i no this becaus right behind the building is a mountain that has a trail that runs parallel with the mountain.i wated till the sun came up and walked to ware the trail was and seen foot prints that i measured to be 18inches long and 5 inches wide..iwent home and check out the scream i herd on youtube and emiedatly i got a hit.it was the same sound i hurd and my hair stood up again.i no this isnt like a sighting but you had to be there to hear it. thanks dean","happened near a facility on US Route 7 (S Canaan Rd) in Canaan, CT. Abuts hills and forests. Housatonic River is across the street about 500 yards away.","Litchfield County","Connecticut","Summer","Report 61150: Security guard on patrol in Canaan area (Summer 2010) describes loud screams and 18-inch tracks",42.00356,-73.32587,"2010-07-13",61150.0,"Class B","dr7ygqt8rr",81.25,75.195,69.14,68.78,0.87,0.79,0.07,0.0098,0.82,"rain",1011.99,"Rain in the evening.",6.0,9.49,160.0,0.85,"RES.SEASON"], [4047,4689,"My wife and I went Franklin Creek area for hiking and we found a bigfoot track by the creek. Its about 2 miles from parking lot. We have to walk about 2 hours back to parking lot before dark and heavy rain on that night. Creek flooded and the footprint gone.","Creek, lot of forest and hills. lot of kind of mushrooms, berries and plants.","Lee County","Illinois","Summer","Report 11121: Hikers find large footprint along Franklin Creek.",41.86395,-89.34285,"2003-06-14",11121.0,"Class B","dp2qnvne0t",80.67,68.955,57.24,58.62,0.69,0.24,0.51,0.0024,0.4,"rain",1015.11,"Mostly cloudy starting in the evening.",10.0,8.84,55.0,3.97,"RES.SEASON"], [4054,976,"Driving tractor and trailer on US 6 appox. 6 mi east of Coudersport Pa. on May 7th at appox. 10:30 pm. Going up Denton Hill just past the ski area, there was a car in front of me appox. 100 yds. There was lightning to the west of my location but not yet raining where I was at. The highway going up the hill has a passing lane. The car in front of me was in the driving lane and then swerved into the passing lane as if to miss something. After he swerved I noticed a large black figure beside the road. It was standing upright on the shoulder of the road on my right about to go up a steep incline to the woods. Just saw it for a second then it disapeared. Took a second for me to make out what it was. The car in front of me did not stop or put on it's brake, so I'm not sure if I really saw something or it was my imagination. Appeared to be appox. 7 to 8 feet tall. using the car as a reference point for height. Total black with long arms and legs.","6 mi. east of Coudersport PA. on US 6. I was coming up Denton Hill, just past ski slopes.","Potter County","Pennsylvania","Spring","Report 8633: Trucker has nighttime sighting on Denton Hill east of Coudersport",41.7655,-77.8768,"2004-05-09",8633.0,"Class A","dr2teg5vej",68.82,62.515,56.21,54.84,0.86,0.71,0.68,0.0515,1.0,"rain",1019.45,"Rain in the morning.",8.0,8.26,226.0,3.23,"RES.SEASON"], [4073,1283,"My family and I went to Ludlow, Vermont for Columbus Day weekend since we enjoy the northeastern woods. We all enjoy observing the local flora and fauna in their natural settings and we often drive and/or walk the back roads looking for deer, moose, bear and whatever else we can spot. One evening we went \"Moose Spotting\" on Tyson Road since during a summer trip to the same area, earlier, we had observed eight moose in one evening. As we drove along Tyson Road I saw a large bipedal form cross the road in two strides. I asked one of my daughters, \"Did you see that? Tell me what did you see.\" I purposely didn't say what I'd seen since I wanted to know if she'd seen what I'd seen. I wanted to be sure I had not imagined it. Very quickly she said, \"I don't know what it was but it was real big, maybe eight feet tall, hairy and crossed the road in two steps.\" She saw the same thing I did. It crossed the road about 50 feet ahead of us and judging from the trees where it crossed the road I'd say her height estimate is accurate +/- 20%. My other daughter didn't see it since she was in the back seat and was looking out the side windows of the car. I still don't quite believe it but I know what bear, deer and moose look like in natural settings since I've been hunting for 40 years. It wasn't anything I had ever seen in the woods. It walked across the road in two strides, was heavily built, covered in short dark hair and, as stated previously, approximately eight feet tall. One more thing. The day before, we had driven the same area, didn't see anything at all, no fauna at all, but we did hear some very odd vocalizations that sound very much like the recordings available on your website.","It's off Rt 100 outside of Ludlow Vermont. It crosses some very heavily wooded, desolate areas.","Windsor County","Vermont","Fall","Report 13285: Evening sighting by motorists on Tyson Road, off Route 100, outside Ludlow",43.4654,-72.7051,"2005-10-08",13285.0,"Class A","drsr389u23",58.23,51.335,44.44,52.08,0.98,1.0,0.17,0.1225,1.0,"rain",1011.68,"Heavy rain throughout the day.",3.0,4.73,343.0,2.69,"RES.SEASON"], [4076,293,"When i was 14 i was camping in Wharton state forest north of Hampton furnace.I was alone.Just before dark I was out walking,I became aware that something was shadowing me back in the brush.It followed me to camp and began to circle.It was very stealthy, it circled while I cooked and got ready for the night.I finally crawled in the tent and tried to sleep.After awhile I heard a faint sound behind me, I was about to look out the back window when this thing started screaming,I have never heard anything that loud in the woods The volume was like a car horn up close.people tell me it was an owl,well I have heard alot of owls and they can't even come close. I lay there for a long time to scared to move,I thought I heard it moving closer and I started screaming.It just stopped and walked off.After a very long night I packed up at first light and got out of there.The area behind the tent was covered in pine needles and I had no desire to look in the brush for tracks.","Edited out at the request of the witness.","Burlington County","New Jersey","Fall","Report 14232: Possible Nightime Encounter In Wharton State Forest",39.8234,-74.70135,"2006-04-07",14232.0,"Class B","dr4fs1shh7",67.53,61.75,55.97,43.44,0.72,0.49,0.32,0.0002,0.18,"rain",1006.47,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,9.3,201.0,3.25,"RES.SEASON"], [4081,3772,"Cabin at 11,000 feet southwest of Fairplay, Colorado, 44 acres. Strange sound one night. Dog-rooster best describes it. First thought was dog hit by a vehicle, then changed to more rooster sounding. Next few days, found and photographed two footprints. Wife noticed \"skunk\" smell.","8.8 miles west of Hwy 285, south side of Park County Road 18 (4-Mile Creek/Horseshoe Basin)","Park County","Colorado","Summer","Report 529: Couple hears strange cry, finds big footprints in Pike National Forest near Fairplay",39.2026,-106.1143,"2000-09-21",529.0,"Class B","9wux129gtw",53.92,44.015,34.11,32.42,0.81,0.68,0.78,0.0083,1.0,"rain",1003.38,"Mixed precipitation in the morning.",4.0,9.25,345.0,2.19,"RES.SEASON"], [4089,2816,"My experience happened a few years ago on a logging road between Wishkah, WA and Montesano,WA. The logging road we were on takes you out to the Wynoochie lake. A friend of mine and I were driving out to meet some friends who were camping. They were a few miles back off the paved road. We stopped the truck to get out and check the bed to make sure we had everything before we got too deep out in the woods. Like food, beverages etc.. It was just getting dark so we had the headlights on and the dome light lit up everything around us, so we couldn't see a few feet (10+ or so from the truck). We both get in the truck about the same time and close the doors, dome light goes off and we notice something standing roughly 15-20' ahead of us, in the middle of a single lane logging road. We were in a lifted Toyota Tacoma, I'm about 6'4 and the truck was taller than me. What we saw was grey-ish brown colored and fully covered in hair. The part of the road we were parked was cut out from a small hill. The banks were roughly 6' high on each side of the road. Before we could take a picture, honk, do anything at all, from a standing position it jumped up and was up and over the bank. The headlights didn't show the exact height but in my guess it had to be at LEAST 7'. I'm over 200lbs and it made me look like a baby. To this day, I still haven't gone down that logging road. If you'd like to know the exact place, it is called the A-Line on top of 13 corners. We were traveling from Wishkah side so the road was on our left. I've always been a believer in Sasquatch, my grandpa was a logger a long long time ago and actually worked while they were building roads to the dam. He told me all about the weird knocks, sounds that he would hear while staying in the cabins out there. I'm in my mid 20's and have lived in the country for the past 10 years. Love camping and being in the outdoors. I tell all my friends about my experience and still after all these years it still gives me goosebumps when I tell it. I'll never forget that.","Traveling from Aberdeen,WA. Head out B Street to Wishkah road. Follow Wishkah road for 10 or so miles. Wynoochie-Wishkah road will be on your right side. It is only a few miles at most to the top of 13 corners. There is no sign postings for the logging road but it is the last pull over area on the left side of the road before you start going down the hill.","Grays Harbor County","Washington","Summer","Report 36326: Nighttime sighting by campers stopped on remote road near Wishkah",47.08824,-123.7194,"2004-07-15",36326.0,"Class A","c225bsnkch",70.13,64.3,58.47,55.57,0.83,0.93,0.95,0.0004,0.85,"rain",1017.62,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,9.75,244.0,2.49,"RES.SEASON"], [4090,2952,"I worked for the marathon county parks department as a seasonal summer employee. My job was to go to all the county parks by myself most of the time and do routine park maintenance. I had to do everything from mow grass, to build shelters, and pick up garbage. Parks included were; eau pleine, mission lake, eau claire dells, amco park, cherokee park, big rapids, and man made lake. One early morning around 6am, I left to go to Amco park to clean it up in time for the weekend. Nobody else was with me, or at the park. I arrived around 6:20am. It was warm and pretty foggy at the time. The park was pretty clean so it didn't take long, only about 5-10 minutes to clean and take care of. As I was pulling out of the only road that leads to the road, to my left I saw something standing on the right side of the road up ahead. I stopped the truck, and sat there for about 10 seconds. Whatever this was looked my direction and took off across the road, towards the river, which was only hundred yards away. I sat there for a couple minutes wondering what it was that I think I had just seen. I hunt so I am for damn sure it was not a deer or bear. It was way too big to be a dog, coyote, fox, wolf, etc. It also moved very fast. This thing was big, hairy, and tall, your typical stereotypical sightings. I was at the time too freaked out to take time and check it out where it went. All I know is that it took off my direction behind me, towards the river. Everybody just laughed at me when I told them what I had seen, but the next time I went to that park a week later, no noises, no foot prints, nothing. I should have checked right away, but I was too scared, plus who knows what it was, and if it would come back? Supposedly, people living in that area, have seen something for awhile now, but are weary of saying anything, because you know how people are. They don't want to get teased, or laughed at.","this happened about 100 yards away from Amco park, along the road that passes it. there is a river along the park, and a bridge, which this happened. Amco Park is located on the Rib River in Marathon County.","Marathon County","Wisconsin","Summer","Report 15050: County parks employee's early morning sighting near Rib River",45.0902,-89.9905,"2006-06-25",15050.0,"Class A","f00080qvmq",68.87,59.99,51.11,55.95,0.81,0.82,0.02,0.0006,0.41,"rain",1020.24,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",5.0,9.12,67.0,5.9,"RES.SEASON"], [4096,979,"It was December,2007. My husband and I and our two dogs were home and My husband was lying on the couch with our dogs,he was reading the newspaper and watching tv. I came into the living room to tell him something, as I was leaning over him,something caught my attention out of my periphiel vision. I saw what looked like two red spots at the _top of my blinds on our living room window. I turned to look at it further and soon the two red spots formed eyes, very large eyes, I kept watching from where I stood and the eyes looked right at me,we were looking at each other. I wasn't frightened,just astonished to what I was seeing,and then what ever it was it turned it's head and walked away from my window. Just to state a fact of point,my mini-blinds were white, down all the way and the blinds themselves were folding downward,so,anyone outside can see in,but,if they are up you can't see in. Mind you,Our moble home is 14' high and 70'long on two acres of land in a rual area.outside of Montrose,PA. We sold our property in Feb.2008. I never went outside to investigate what I saw, I figured that I would leave well enough alone,just let whatever it was be on it's intended journey. Although, I am amazed that niether dog reacted to it.","it is on rual route 706west out of Montrose, in Jessup township. dense woods off of our property and a mountain behind them. a creek on property also.Heavy deer population in this area.","Susquehanna County","Pennsylvania","Winter","Report 25085: Woman witnesses eyes peering into her living room near the rural town of Montrose",41.79985,-75.9799,"2008-12-19",25085.0,"Class B","dr3vz13ju0",26.62,21.275,15.93,22.02,0.86,0.84,0.76,0.0056,0.51,"snow",1016.7,"Snow (1–2 in.) in the afternoon.",1.0,5.5,76.0,1.15,"RES.SEASON"], [4102,2985,"I know it has been almost two years since this incident, but a friend of mine encouraged me to report the sound I heard in the north woods of Wisconsin. After harvesting a whitetail deer earlier in the evening near my cabin, my father and I decided to transport the deer to a friends cabin about 6 miles northwest of our cabin to field dress the animal. We did this as we did not want the entrails to be left near our cabin for our dog or any other wildlife to pick through. We arrived at the cabin about an hour after nightfall and I began to clean the deer. I was standing in a small ditch that runs off the back of the gravel driveway. Behind me is a dense pocket of evergreens and between myself and the cabin which is about 40 yards away was my father holding a flashlight and the truck also with its headlights in my direction. To my right was a small storage shed. Past my father is the driveway leading to the cabin and lining the outside of the driveway was a stance of evergreens which block my view of a small field with underbrush and small pockets of bushes. On the other side of the cabin is more open forest which is privately owned and surrounded by national paper land. As I began cleaning the deer I heard a loud whoop come from just the other side of the cabin. The whoop was loud and became louder as it ended. Following that were three shorted whoops that were fairly similar to one another, but much sorter than the first. It did not last more than about 7 seconds and was calm again. What was so frightening about the sound was the purity and intensity of the sound, it felt as though it engulfed your entire body. The sound frightened us so badly that my father and I both quickly returned to the truck, bloody knife and all and shined the flashlight in the general direction, it scared us enough that when I asked my father to drive up to the cabin to have a look he refused. After about 15 minutes in the truck I quickly finished the cleaning and we headed out of there, both pretty shaken up over what we had heard. Now, I have been hunting in the north woods since I was 12 years old and I have heard some pretty odd sounds in my time, but this one was unlike anything I have ever heard. I have listened to coyotes and heard their strange screams and cries and have listened to many owls both up north and at my home, but I can honestly say they were nothing alike. I decided to post this after listening to the two first recorded sounds you have on the website and find them to be pretty close to the sound I heard, yet a bit different. Ever since I have told this story to my friend he has been fascinated by Sasquatch research and this site. With some research and encouragement fro him, I decided to finally add this sound. I realize it is hard to explain the sound, but I will never forget it and neither will my father.","Specific directions omitted.","Florence County","Wisconsin","Fall","Report 28065: Possible vocalizations heard while cleaning a deer near Florence",45.95359,-88.38782,"2008-10-26",28065.0,"Class B","f01jkttgnd",45.17,38.025,30.88,35.17,0.81,0.61,0.93,0.0016,1.0,"rain",999.46,"Light rain in the evening.",2.0,9.96,281.0,5.44,"RES.SEASON"], [4106,676,"My name is Mark. On Memorial Day weekend in 98 me and a friend went camping in Wayne National Forest. We arrived friday late night, and set up camp in an overhang. The first night was uneventfull. The second evening we had a big steak meal on the open fire. After we ate and cleaned up dishes, just for fun and giggles, I howled like I heard on one of the web sites (the howl that sounds like an air raid warning) while my friend was making sounds like a monkey. We did this for about fifteen minutes. The time was now 7:15 pm. My friend then proceeded to chop up fire wood for the nights fire. I went and sat down in a chair and turned on the the portable radio about half volume. At 8:00pm my friend was done choping wood. He then sat down to relax. At 9:10pm I heard what sounded like a tree being snapped in half over the radio, so I turned down the radio and said to my friend \"did you hear that?\". My friend said no. So I turned off the radio for the night. At 9:15pm out to the left of the over hang in the woods there was this loud crash that shook the ground beneeth our feet. We looked at each other and grabbed our guns and loaded them, and got our flashlights and started combing the woods with the light. After about an hour of looking and listening we went back to relaxing. During the time we were looking in the woods all we heard was a whipoorwill moving about and an owl hooting. My friend then proceeded to drink beer, while I sat there gazing at the fire. I was wondering about the sounds that I heard earlier in the evening. The sound of the crash was like something picked up a 300 pound rock or a fallen tree trunk and slammed it to the ground, kind of like a warning to get out of the woods. About 12:30 am my friend passed out on a cot. My friend started snoring heavily. I went and put more wood on the fire. After that I went and put my chair in the dark area of the overhang, and blocked the light from the lantern so it would not shine on me or get in my eyes. I would shine the flash light out in the woods about every fifteen minutes. At about 1:00 am,out to the right side of the overhang in the woods a tree started shaking violentley back and forth for about 20 minutes.while this is going on , I have the flashlight on pointed in the direction of the tree being shaken. I could not see anything - just hear the sounds of the tree. Then it stopped. I then ran over and woke my friend up and said there is something out in the woods and I am scared. Then my friend sat up looked around then passed back out. At that time my heart started to pound a little heavy. I grabbed my gun and put it on my lap as I sat back down in the chair. I then started hearing sounds of little twigs being crumbled and snapped. I grabbed the flashlight and panned left to right, As I got almost directly out in front of me about 60 feet out in the woods I came across a pair of eyes eight feet off of the ground. The eyes were the size of golf balls,further apart than humans. The color of the eyes were blue,and the pupils were fully open and i could see the whites of the circumference.then the eyes disappeard. I then ran over and woke my friend up again. I said there is something out there in the woods. My friend sat up looked around half dazed about 5 minutes and then passed out again. It was 1:45 am. I then shined the flashlight back in the woods looking for what ever owned them eyes, but to no avail. I now gave up on my friend for help. I then sat there and listened for more sounds. At 2:08 am I heard loud crashing foot steps coming from the right side of the woods down the hill in front of me. I grabbed my camera and pointed it towards the sound and snapped a picture. Then the stepping noise would stop for about 5 minutes at a time. Then it would start again and I would count about 5 steps and snap another picture in the direction of the sound and it would stop again. This went on for about 40 minutes. What ever started walking from the right of me was now to the left of me up on the hill. The sound of the foot steps was like a huge thing moving thru the woods. You could literally hear twigs and branches snap as each foot hit the ground. It was a horrible sound. I was realy scared now. It got deathly quiet. It was now 3:00 am. Then out to the left of the overhang where I heard the tree branch snap earlier in the evening, there came this voice of something trying to talk or comunicate by mimicking human language. It was saying 'mark roc roc, mark roc roc\" over and over six times in a deep low voice. This went on for 5 minutes. I was terrified at this point. Then it got quiet again. At 3:30 am what ever was out to the left of me ,was now directly above me on top of the overhang. There came three deep grunts. kind of deep grunts you would hear an alligator make down in the swamps of the south. The grunts were low and deep. At that time, I turned the volume up to the highest setting on the stereo then turned it on for about a minute. Then I turned it off and listened . I did not hear any thing for another 20 minutes. Then all of the sudden there came this huge sneeze. It then coughed 2 times. The sound of the cough was deep lunged, like a horse or a rhinoceros. This was still on top of the overhang where this came from. The smoke from the fire was rising in the direction of the coughing. I think the thing was trying to get a wiff of us or something, instead it got a wiff of smoke. At this time I turned on the stereo and let it play for about 5 minutes. I wanted this thing to just go away. Then I turned off the radio and listend but I did not hear any thing. Then all of a sudden came this crash of lightning.kaboom then it started to rain real heavy. All I could hear was rain drops hitting the leaves on the forest floor. I then started pacing back and forth with my gun praying for the sun to rise. It rained for about 2 hours.nothing else happend untill the sun came up. My friend finally woke up at 8:30 am. My friend looked at me and said why are you walking back and forth for? and I said we had company last night. My friend said I thought you were joking with me. I said why would I wake you up twice in the night and say that i am scared and something was out in the woods for no reason. My friend said I don't know! I told my friend to watch my back as I ran out in the woods to look around. I did not see any thing untill i went up the trail to the left of camp. I found this tree that used to be 12 feet tall. At 8 foot high on the tree trunk was this snap break. The thickness of the tree was 4 inches in diameter. Then the tree was pulled down to within a foot of the ground. At that time my friend came to the tree and said what did that? I then said I told you we had company last night. Then my friend got close to the ground and said oohhh what is that smell?then I got close to the ground and said oohh what is that smell also. The smell was that like rotten vomit, very putrid it made you want to vomit from the smell. Then we saw these marks on the ground by the tree.they were 7 feet apart markings on the ground. like what ever was there had 7 foot gait to it's walk. I then followed the markings on the ground that led directly to the top of the overhang. At that point I found flies on the ground at the spot where I heard the grunts and cough. I got down and sniffed the spot that the flies were at and it was the same putrid smell as the one by the tree. I then found one spot going up the hill that was a footprint of the front of the toes.the toes were probably an inch wide each and in line together unlike a humans front toes that are angled. There was 5 toes in all. I took a picture of the print along with a picture of the trashed tree. At this point I am convinced that bigfoot had been the visitor during the night. Me and my friend went back to camp to eat breakfast and discuss what we have found. We decided that we would do a survey of the area. Way on top of the hill that is probably a quarter of a mile to the top we found that on top of the hill there is a gas line right of way. Probably 20 yards wide and miles long. The grass was thick and 3 to 4 feet high. We found an opening up there on the opposite side that was 8 feet high and 5 feet wide going into those woods. It looked like something big was moving in and out of those woods for some time. We went in a little ways but then we decided to go back to camp. It was too dark in there and it was the middle of the day. We sat around camp and gatherd up more wood for the nights fire. After our evening meal my friends girlfriend showed up with their dog. We told her nothing about what happend last night. The dog ran around about an hour then it was tired. The dog and my friends girl friend went to sleep in the tent at 9:00pm. I told my friend to put on some coffee that you got the watch. I need some sleep. I have been up for too long now. I laid down at 10:00pm. I was just about to sleep when out to the right side of the hill came this thing running at least 35 miles per hour. At that time I was up with a flashlight looking down hill for what ever was running thru the woods. It was like a train moving non stop until the sound disapeared to the left. My friend looked at me and said what was that? I told him that was what had visited last night. He was surprised at the sound. Then I got me some coffee this was going to be another long night. At 12:00am the thing came running from left to right. Same thing at 35 m.p.h..then at 1:00am it came running down from top of the hill to the bottom of the hill. Then that was it for the night. My friend went to sleep in the tent with his girl friend at 2:30am. I stayed up all night again fighting sleep. I was wondering why this thing would come running by camp. Then it dawned on me, it smelled the dog and probably was trying to lure the dog out to get an easy meal. I have hunted and camped a long time and never encountered any thing that has happend to me that has happened on this week end holiday.","in wayne national forest,southeast of oak hill in south east,ohio","Gallia County","Ohio","Summer","Report 3686: Another nighttime incident near Hoadley, off Hoadley Road (Wayne Nat. For.)",38.79833,-82.54968,"1998-05-25",3686.0,"Class A","dnvk9x10th",76.05,68.145,60.24,64.14,0.83,0.32,0.99,0.0005,1.0,"rain",1013.04,"Foggy in the morning.",10.0,6.87,248.0,4.89,"RES.SEASON"], [4114,1769,"I was letting my dogs out to go to the bathroom before I left for work. It was 3:30A.M. I drive an hour to work and get there by 5 so that’s why I was up so early. All was quite and peaceful. Heard a owl off in a tree line. Then about 5 minutes later I heard off in the distance something I had never heard before. I hear coyotes all the time. I’ve heard a bobcat screaming before, but this was far different. It sounded like it was quite always off whatever it was, but sounded very big and deep. The only way I can think to explain the noise was like a big burley man yelling AWWWWWWWW for about 5-10 seconds long. Then nothing else. It caused a neighbor dog down the road to start barking but didn’t seem to phase my dogs. The direction that the noise came from is about 2-3 miles of a combination of timber and farm land, then becomes a big river bottoms and the grand river. I don’t think whatever made the noise was 2-3 miles away, maybe a mile. I have never heard anything like that before in my life and I’ve been a outdoors guy my whole life. I’ve watched different Bigfoot shows hear vocalizations on them and that’s the closest thing I can think of that this sounded like. However I feel like recorded things on TV doesn’t give you the same feel of the power this thing seemed to have, it sent chills down my spine. If it would of been closer I definitely would of gone inside for a gun.","Address from where howls were heard: 6729 HWY 190 Chillicothe MO 64601 Howls were coming from 1-2 miles south west of that adress. Coordinates 39.83808455839538, -93.651295780673","Livingston County","Missouri","Summer","Report 69316: Possible sasquatch howls heard around 3:30am by resident 6 miles NW of Chillicothe",39.83804,-93.6515,"2021-06-11",69316.0,"Class B","9zj6sum13u",92.75,81.485,70.22,72.22,0.75,0.39,0.05,0.0015,0.19,"rain",1009.2,"Humid and partly cloudy throughout the day.",8.0,10.0,150.0,6.42,"RES.SEASON"], [4122,4792,"My 17 year old and I were coming home from my best friend's house in Lockport, IL,151st to Wolf Road, to 143rd we were driving east on 143rd going to La Grange Road, at 12:20 am on the left hand side of the road, along side the road from the forest preserve was this 7-8 ft all black ape-like creature standing there, I slowed down but didn't come to a stop, I couldn't believe what my son and I saw, my son told me to turn around which I did, we headed back and saw nothing it must have headed back in the woods, my son and I both saw, broad shoulders, long arms it was huge, almost tempted to get out of car and look but we both said no and went home, I did call the Orland Park police dept next day to report and operator said that's a new one on him he never had a call on that before, all I know what we saw wasn't human.","143rd west of La Grange Rd in Orland Park off forest preserve.","Cook County","Illinois","Spring","Report 35593: Possible nighttime sighting by motorists along border of Orland Grove Forest Preserve",41.63039,-87.86476,"2012-05-29",35593.0,"Class B","dp3sbddfde",82.89,68.58500000000001,54.28,49.32,0.44,0.3,0.29,0.0002,0.34,"rain",1009.0,"Partly cloudy until afternoon.",9.0,10.0,273.0,4.04,"RES.SEASON"], [4125,4853,"On Friday, April 2, 2004, at about 5:00 PM my wife was returning by herself from a trip to drop off our daughter at a friend`s house west of Waubee Lake in Milford, Indiana. She was travelling east on County road 1100 North. She approached the intersection with County road 300 East, which leads into Oswego, and came to a stop at the stop sign. She looked left, right and briefly ahead. Before beginning her turn she noticed movement directly ahead on road 1100 N. She saw crossing the road from left to right,(heading south) approximately 250 feet ahead, two large, black, hair covered figures, taller than an average man walking on two legs at a hurried pace. Her first reaction was to say out loud \"what the heck was that?\". The way they were walking very close together and hurrying suggested that they were aware they were exposed in the open and wanted to get back to cover quickly. By the time she saw them they were in the middle of the road but she saw them take 5 to 7 steps over several seconds. They were stooped forward and looking down and swinging their long arms quickly. After this they entered the woods. She said they were close enough to have scared her if they had looked her way. Also, they were close enough to see they were not just men in black clothing as there were no divisions where shirt, pants and a hat would be; only solid black from head to toe. My wife, who is a college educated professional, then made her turn onto 300E thinking she would then have something interesting to tell me immediately upon arriving home. When she reached home however, something else unusual happened. Instead of telling me, she apparently blocked out or repressed the experience from her memory, as if in denial. I have been a Bigfoot enthusiast for many years and have read of this happening before to people seeing a Bigfoot. It is like your mind refuses to believe what the eyes are telling it because it is so new, different and without a reference point. About 2 days later we were talking and I said something that brought it all back to her suddenly. She then told me the whole experience in detail, showing signs of alarm and even imitating the way they walked. Of course I wasn`t about to believe her without asking questions. After all I was the Biology major in college, I'm the outdoorsman and I'm the bigfoot enthusiast - I'm the one who should have seen them! I asked all the typical questions that the BFRO interviewers asked and she answered them all correctly, even adding additional detail. I asked if they might possibly be some young high school guys in all black Gothic clothes, as some of them like to wear. The answer was \"they were absolutely not men in black clothes\". The thought also occurred to me that she was messing with me - playing a joke to mislead me, so I asked. This was the last straw; she got hurt and angry with me for not trusting her after 27 years of marriage, and I got the silent treatment for 2 days and had to do a lot of apologizing. I'll have to just agree with her - based on the evidence, she saw 2 Bigfoots crossing the road. Wish I had seen them! Hopefully, by learning as much as I can about this creature I will be able to remain calm enough to stay and observe it, if I ever see one, instead of freak out and run as most do. Some may say \"your wife learned all this from listening to you go on and on about what you read on the internet. Believe me, when she tells her story you can tell it was a very real experience for her; whether anyone believes her or not she knows what she saw, and will say so.","300 feet east of the intersection of county roads 1100 north and 300 east. This is east of Waubee Lake in Milford, IN.","Kosciusko County","Indiana","Spring","Report 9642: Motorist has daylight sighting of two animals east of Waubee Lake.",39.3579,-85.61,"2005-01-21",9642.0,"Class A","dngpguusqk",26.02,22.665,19.31,10.75,0.68,0.37,0.39,0.0013,1.0,"snow",1019.84,"Snow (< 1 in.) in the afternoon.",3.0,9.91,68.0,7.96,"RES.SEASON"], [4135,3185,"Westfield , MA 3am Couldn't sleep and went outside to have a cigarette. Heard howls in the distance that I never heard before. I've worked as a wilderness counselor for the past 10 years and heard all sorts of animal noises in the night foxes, coyotes, owls etc.. This sound had a lack of clarity but power in its voice. I knew that it came from a long distance away. I remember listening to Bigfoot calls years back and on a hunch ran inside found the EXACT same howls on the net sounded like the Snohomish, WA 1978-79 calls. I woke up my friend who has been hunting western mass for 30 years and he said he never heard anything like it. He heard it and he said it gave him the chills. The howls trailed off as if he creature was moving. Incident lasted for about 10 minutes. I google mapped the area the sound came from and its a huge swath of wilderness that stretches into Vermont and south into Connecticut.","Calls came from south west of Westwood Dr.","Hampden County","Massachusetts","Winter","Report 28667: Resident hears possible early morning vocalizations near Westfield",42.08179,-72.82665,"2011-08-14",28667.0,"Class B","drkpquc20n",68.66,66.785,64.91,64.26,0.92,0.98,0.53,0.0197,1.0,"rain",1013.36,"Rain starting in the afternoon.",4.0,8.04,154.0,0.49,"RES.SEASON"], [4139,2650,"My husband and I live in the back woods of Clayton, Washington. We were driving around our property which is the side of a large heavily wooded hill/mountain. We were trying to find a place to build our cabin. We drove to the top stopping about halfway to look over the edge of what we call the pixie stix. A bunch of trees that had been fallen by previous owners stacked on the side of the hill like pixie stix. We noticed something had been moving logs and stumps around. Probably a bear though we saw one stump out of place for a bear. It had been pulled straight up out of the ground tap root and all still intact. No sign of the rocking motion that a bear does to remove roots. No claw marks. So we looked around for bear tracks and really didn't find much. We went back to the truck and continued to the top of the hill removing trees and branches with the chainsaw to get through. When we got there we removed some more branches and scoped the area for our cabin all the while there was something staying just out of visual contact but walking around behind us on the neighbor lot. We left when we were done. We went back down the hill and started up another road that my husband had built with our dozer a few months earlier, as we started up the road which is not that long, I was startled when I was looking at a tree that I didn't remember was there and it turned and quickly moved out of sight to the left. I yelled at my husband asking him what that was? he said \"what?\" I asked him if he saw it, he said no. The branch about 8-9 ft above the ground was still moving rapidly from where the head, I assume it was the head, hit it (I saw that happen). He stopped next to where it was and we could not see anything. We continued up farther on the road and got out and I was talking to him and he said to hush. He had heard something about a minute or two later just as he literally started to say \"ok I heard a \"woop\" just once. Again he was talking so I did not hear it. He wasn't believing that I saw something. So we looked around this area for another possible cabin site. After about 20 - 25 minutes we went back down to the bottom of the hill (home). That night we started hearing things. This time hubby heard it too. Later that evening when we went to bed and lights were out there was banging on the side of our cabin and then a short time later things were hitting our cabin. Not rocks really don't have any around so it had to be sticks. My husband is a believer now. He was scared. I'm nervous to go outside when I'm here by myself. The next day I did go out and look for footprints around our cabin and found a huge print behind our cabin but it was an older print. It looked like a huge flat footed huge toed person. I showed my husband and he started looking in the area and found another it looked about the same age. So my husband has been leaving food out for it but we don't know what is taking the food. We think maybe due to the fires here in Washington they are on the move but we also have been hearing strange howl/growl sounds that are very loud for months. Our cat would always be in the same area as the sounds as if it was talking to our cat. Yesterday something went after my chickens and so there was a lot of commotion and then I kept hearing branches breaking and woop woop sounds. What do we do?","Please call me for this information","Stevens County","Washington","Summer","Report 49664: Property owner has daytime sighting, hears vocalizations for over two months north of Clayton",48.03062,-117.5429,"2015-08-30",49664.0,"Class A","c2s3jpxyeu",64.39,56.625,48.86,46.1,0.68,0.51,0.54,0.0064,1.0,"rain",1011.57,"Light rain until afternoon.",5.0,8.94,203.0,4.09,"RES.SEASON"], [4158,301,"At approximately 7 PM on Wednesday, November 16, Jon E., Dan F., Dan W. and James O. and I met at my house to watch a Philadelphia 76er's game. While watching, Dan F. noticed a human-like creature walking in the street in front of my house. From the living room window, we all observed a creature which appeared to be just under six feet tall walking away from my house. The creature was about 150 feet away and passed under a street light, which gave us the ability to get a decent look at it. It was long limbed, but clearly not human. Because of the lighting it was in silhouette, but we could see that it was covered with hair. It was walking with its shoulders hunched forward, and did not appear to be in any distress. We watched it pass from view as it went behind trees and into the woods on the far side of the street. I live in a quiet neighborhood that is located in a wooded area. My house is on a street that is a cul-de-sac, and there is very little traffic. There is a quarry less than a quarter mile away through the woods. In the 14 years that I have owned this house, I have routinely heard animal calls that can't be identified as dog barks, etc., and have seen droppings and footprints in the woods that have not been from any animal such as a deer, etc., that would be seen in this area. This is the first instance in which I have seen a creature that I believe is a bigfoot. Because we were all shocked by what we saw, we did not attempt to pursue this creature, but we were able to observe it for 5-7 seconds before it passed from view. In the minutes that followed, we all discussed what we saw. While my friends, who do not live in this neighborhood, were initially reluctant to acknowledge that it was a bigfoot, after I explained the things that I have heard and seen around my house over the years, we all agreed that the creature was not human, and clearly fit the description of a bigfoot. Please contact me so I can provide further information about this sighting.","Please see report.","Cape May County","New Jersey","Fall","Report 55961: Men see upright creature walking in front of a home at dusk near Ocean City",39.22348,-74.69759,"2016-11-16",55961.0,"Class B","dqfzhhqv7f",60.4,53.51,46.62,39.74,0.69,0.34,0.58,0.0001,0.23,"rain",1010.34,"Mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",3.0,9.86,267.0,2.77,"RES.SEASON"], [4159,964,"My partner and myself were elk hunting in the \"Saddle Mountain Unit.\" It was approximately one hour after daylight. We were standing near our vehicle on a pullout off an old logging road trying to spot elk. I then heard a loud wailing scream tapering off into an agonizing moan. My partner just stood there looking into the canyon.I didn't speak to him. After another couple minutes passed, the scream occured again. I knew that he had heard it both times. I asked him what he thought it was. He asked what I thought it was. I told him that we both know it's a sasquatch. The sound was very loud. If I were to guess it was 250-300 yards away. Over the next ten minutes, the scream occured 2-3 more times. It seemed that the sound was directed to different directions the last couple screams. My hair was sticking up and it quite literally scared the hell out of me. No more screams were heard.(more to story)","Vernonia Rd. to Clear Crk. Rd. to Columbia River Mainline. North to Rocky Pt. Rd. and West approx. 3/4 mile. R5W- T4N This is approx 3.5 miles north of Four Corners on Hwy 26.","Columbia County","Oregon","Fall","Report 7957: Two hunters hear repeated loud screams.",45.82565,-123.296,"2003-11-09",7957.0,"Class B","c20kdq69fb",53.74,46.55,39.36,39.7,0.86,0.42,0.52,0.0038,0.73,"rain",1013.94,"Mostly cloudy starting in the evening.",2.0,9.61,262.0,0.52,"RES.SEASON"], [4162,577,"6/17/13- Salt Fork State Park Bigfoot Ridge. Me and my girlfriend went to bed at about 10pm. Off and on we heard really weird loud screams. At about 1 am she woke me up in terror because it was outside our tent just feet from our heads pulling handfuls of grass. She was frozen with fear and waited for it to walk away. When it did she opened the tent where she heard twigs cracking and shined the flashlight in that direction when she saw its really big yellow eyes. They were close together and it turned towards the wooded tree line. We believe it watched us grab our stuff and end the trip early. We left our tent and hauled it out of there fast. We are completely traumatized over the experience and would like to talk to someone who believes. We also believe we attracted it because I was knocking trees just after sunset.","Site 3/4 in the primitive camp site on Bigfoot ridge","Guernsey County","Ohio","Summer","Report 41452: Couple flees their camp site after a possible late night encounter at Salt Fork State Park",40.12719,-81.50403,"2013-06-17",41452.0,"Class B","dpnh32ftf6",81.68,72.94,64.2,64.74,0.81,0.41,0.29,0.0014,0.5,"rain",1014.08,"Foggy throughout the day.",10.0,1.43,193.0,0.6,"RES.SEASON"], [4163,1923,"In late spring of 1970 while traveling south between Gatlinburg, Tn and Cherokee, N.C. on Hiway 441 somewhere near the state line in the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. We sighted a very tall hairy creature. We were crusing down the road wondering if we would see any bear and as we rounded a curve there was this creature coming from the right side of the road down grade from some small trees and bushes that still had leaves. It moved across the road directly in front of us and after entering the bushes on the left side of the road angled off the same direction we were traveling. We could still see it's head for a few seconds before it dissapeared. I would guess the height to be somewhere in the 7+ foot tall range. It had a very long stride and walked like a human swinging it's long arms with it's stride. It covered the distance of 100 ft or so in seconds. It never looked at us, there were no noticable features that stood out. It was tall, slender, smooth clean straight hair that coved the whole body and it's head just seemed to come out of the body with no noticable neck. We were flabergasted at the sight of it and tried to convince ourselves it was a bear. But we knew it could not be because of the way it walked and it's height, no nose protruded nor could we see any facial features as it never even looked at us nor showed any sighns of us being there. We were crusing along probably around 45 MPH with almost no other traffic on the road that day. It happened so quickly that my wife never had time to pick up the camera in her lap and get a picture.","From Gatlinburg,take Hwy 441(Newfound Gap Rd) towards Cherokee,NC.Just past the park entrance sign is where the sighting occurred.","Sevier County","Tennessee","Spring","Report 23645: Sighting by motorist in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, not far from the park entrance.",35.68449,-83.53575,"1970-04-01",23645.0,"Class A","dnke505j5z",59.87,57.8,55.73,37.74,0.62,0.95,0.84,0.0304,1.0,"rain",1011.65,"Rain until afternoon and breezy overnight.",4.0,5.81,28.0,3.77,"RES.SEASON"], [4169,1396,"Can't remember exactly when it was but it was sometime in the mid-90's over in the far western portion of Anne Arundel County - Laurel to be exact where 3 counties come together - Anne Arundel, Howard, and Prince Georges. We lived up off of Brock Bridge Road parallel to the Baltimore-Washington Parkway and one evening out with the dog out back - our home backed up to woods - I hear a rustling noise behind what was a drainage pond for our community. It was summer and the sun was getting ready to go down so it was dusk-like -- I turned - and by the way so did the dog - our Labrador Retriever - and could not believe my eyes. I observed a large - I am guessing 10-11 feet high - ape-like figure stalking in the woods behind the pond - I would say it was about 100 yards away. I just froze - and so did our dog. No one else witnessed this and we just both stood there for what seemed like 2 minutes - until the creature turned and looked our way and then slowly turned and dashed back off in to the woods....never to be seen again. I remember this like it was yesterday but did not know about this site until today when my awesome nephew, AB, told me about it.....so....here I am today...reporting this incident so everyone can be aware and know the truth.","From Brock Bridge Road follow River Bridge Way west to left on Forest Bridge Court then right on Serene Court. Sighting occurred adjacent to retention pond at end of cul-de-sac.","Anne Arundel County","Maryland","Summer","Report 27702: Man recalls seeing a tall dark creature behind his house at dusk near Laurel",39.08414,-76.82731,"2010-08-15",27702.0,"Class A","dqcq7g019g",77.02,74.60499999999999,72.19,69.97,0.86,0.96,0.21,0.0098,0.93,"rain",1016.12,"Rain until afternoon.",4.0,4.32,173.0,1.9,"RES.SEASON"], [4196,350,"Witness received a text message from a friend at 10pm. He needed vehicle assistance. As he was driving Eastbound, towards Vermont, on US 4, he noticed a \"Log\" on the side of the road where the white line is. Witness then noticed a second log next to the other. He then realized it was a black haired creature, approximately 6 foot tall, 2.5-3 foot wide shoulders. No neck, the hair from the head went down to the shoulders. He only saw the back of the creature, he did not see the face or front. As he approached, he saw it step over a side railing about 3 feet high with little effort and descend into the woods towards a high power line. He had to continue to assist his friend. The next day he contacted a local Whitehall Bigfoot researcher Paul Bartholomew whom visited the site with the witness and took plaster casts of the two footprints on the side of the road.","US Route 4, one mile West of the Big Apple Diner. Whitehall, NY.","Warren County","New York","Summer","Report 59838: Motorist sighting at night approx 2 miles from NY/VT state line outside Whitehall",43.55915,-73.34116,"2018-08-07",59838.0,"Class A","drezg1dw7n",87.29,78.635,69.98,69.18,0.8,0.31,0.86,0.0032,0.54,"rain",1013.84,"Mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",8.0,5.73,212.0,1.27,"RES.SEASON"], [4202,2642,"Heard: at approx 2:15am my labrador retriever started barking at something outside. This is not unusual as we live on a closed golf course which is adjacent to Riverside State Park and we often have varying types of nature near our home. After letting the dog out to relieve himself I returned to bed. Outside temp was approx 55-60 degrees and we had the bedroom windows open. Our bedroom faces the closed golf course. What I heard next was a loud howl. At first I thought it was a police car or ambulance traveling on highway 291 that had turned on its siren, but then the sound simply went from soft to loud to suddenly stopping. So, it was not a siren. I listened intently to try to figure out what was going on and about 2 minutes later I heard a similar but more faint \"siren\" sound. This was not a coyote or a wolf, nor was it the sound of a neighbor's dog. The sound was different and as I said, it sounded like a siren with only one whooooooo. I noted the time (2:20am). It sounded like it could have been a few blocks away (I thought around 7 Mile Road). I have been checking local websites and facebook groups to see if anyone else heard it, but so far nothing. I can't be the only one to have heard this. Perhaps a person was making the noise as part of Big Foot hunting?? The other thing I'd like to report is that we feed birds and squirrels in our yard. Approx 6weeks prior we had our squirrel feeder torn off the tree at night. We heard a crash outside and couldn't identify anything that particular night but the following morning we discovered the feeder's lid which is crewed into the top on a heavy hinge, was ripped off. We jokingly said maybe we should look for Big Foot prints or hair in the area. Anyway, the howl was definitely something not of the ordinary. Thank you.","Sound/howl seemed like it was a couple blocks away, perhaps closer to 7 Mile Road and near the Spokane River.","Spokane County","Washington","Summer","Report 66003: Howls heard near Spokane River",47.75026,-117.5152,"2020-09-02",66003.0,"Class B","c2krtusj3m",90.91,72.975,55.04,49.23,0.44,0.06,0.53,0.0006,0.03,"rain",1012.0,"Clear throughout the day.",6.0,10.0,252.0,7.28,"RES.SEASON"], [4219,2285,"As I was watching the show on tv. They showed the dash cam vid. It gave me chills. A few years back two friends and I saw The exact figure that was displayed while driving in The mountains of bountiful ut. All three of us will give you the exact same account. Even if interviewed apart. For years we joked about big foot till I saw that movie. The creature started off crouched on the of a steep hill on the side of the road as I turned on my brights it stood up, ran across The road and vanished up the mountain into thick trees.","We where headed down the road just below buckland trail. We where headed west it crossed south to north.","Davis County","Utah","Winter","Report 29690: Driver and passengers have late night sighting on mountain road in Bountiful Canyon",40.91689,-111.8038,"2004-03-04",29690.0,"Class A","9x22zbdynt",28.15,23.985,19.82,21.62,0.93,0.89,0.42,0.0002,0.33,"snow",1010.82,"Foggy starting in the evening.",4.0,5.55,289.0,1.05,"RES.SEASON"], [4231,4751,"I was traveling along the road when I saw a tall thin hairy bigfoot along a railroad track. He was off the tracks, he was off to the side. I thought, holy mackerel he is awefully tall.","Along Illinois Route 3 west of Murphysboro.","Jackson County","Illinois","Spring","Report 36306: Motorist has daytime sighting near railroad tracks west of Murphysboro",37.71917,-89.48784,"2011-03-05",36306.0,"Class A","dn8qedsfn4",43.1,37.7,32.3,40.16,0.9,1.0,0.03,0.0371,1.0,"rain",1018.12,"Rain in the morning.",3.0,7.9,324.0,6.92,"RES.SEASON"], [4233,4775,"My Fiancé and I decided to hike the Spurgeon Hollow Loop Trail in Washington County Indiana. The Trail is a 9-mile loop starting at Spurgeon Hollow Lake looping north towards Delany Creek State Park then continuing east and south connecting to the Knobstone Trail. (The Knobstone Trail is rugged state-maintained trail that winds approximately 60 miles through the Southern Indiana hills). The trail then turns west diverging from the Knobstone Trail to return to the trailhead at Spurgeon Hollow Lake. The Spurgeon Hollow Trail is situated in the middle of the Washington-Jackson State Forest. The Spurgeon Hollow Trailhead is reached from a county road a few miles off state highway 135, then a half mile off the county road down a dirt/gravel lane crossing through a couple of dry stream beds. We arrived around 1:30 pm on Friday June 12, 2020. It was a sunny day with low humidity in the upper 70’s (which is why we chose to hike this day). From the trailhead the path continues for a quarter mile or so and parallels the lake on your right and steep thickly wooded hills on your left. At this point, the trail splits to begin the Loop. You can go left up the steep hillside (several hundred feet climb) or continue on your right along the Lake. On this initial Trailhead path, I heard two distinct knocks. We had gone most of the quarter mile. I heard the first sharp knock. Then a second or two later, the second knock. Both in the same general area – up the steep slope to the left. I stopped at the looked, but could not see anything because of the dense vegetation. There was no other sound. The knocks were sharp and moderately loud. They sounded like the report of a baseball coming off a bat. There were no other people on the trail. No one at the Lake. My Fiancé stopped and looked back at me. I asked her if she heard those knocks. She of course made fun of me and said “Oooo it’s a Squatch”. She hadn’t heard anything. We continued on. We took the left trail up the steep slopes and for the next 6 miles went up and down steep inclines and declines. Crossed several creeks. Then about 3 hours later, the trail turned left diverging from the Knobstone Trail heading back towards Spurgeon Hollow Lake. The trail at this point parallels a large creek bed at the bottom of hills. We had gone a mile or so (about 2+ miles to go to reach the Trailhead). There was a knock. A very loud, very sharp knock. We both stopped dead. My fiancé’s eyes were wide as saucers. She said “that was loud”. I laughed and said “so what do you think that was?” The knock sounded again like the crack of a baseball coming off a bat. A huge baseball and a huge bat! It came from the steep hill top above us. We scanned the ridgeline, but could not see much. It was just too thick. I heard the brief sound of something moving in the brush up high, but that was it. My Fiancé said “Let’s Go”. I asked her “don’t you want to stay and see if something else happens?” She said “No I want to Go”. So we starting walking. A couple of times I would stop and scan the hills. She would say “Just keep walking”. We returned to trailhead with no further incident.","The Spurgeon Hollow Trail is off of Delaney Park Road a few miles east of State Road 135 north from Salem, IN. Then the trailhead is about half a mile off Delaney Park Road","Washington County","Indiana","Summer","Report 65589: RECENT: Knocks heard in daylight near Spurgeon Hollow Lake, 10mi N of Salem",38.71342,-86.04386,"2020-06-12",65589.0,"Class B","dnfu4p8f08",85.83,72.365,58.9,54.71,0.56,0.02,0.74,0.0004,0.02,"rain",1023.0,"Clear throughout the day.",10.0,10.0,335.0,4.6,"RES.SEASON"], [4236,1668,"Went hunting south of Buhl about a half mile from the cemetery. In the wildlife refuge I made my way to a large swamp. Seeing nothing I headed back and jumped onto old railroad tracks. I heard something howling in a spruce swamp to the west of me. Every time I stopped it would get quiet. I started walking again and heading north when I noticed something on the road ahead of me about a half mile or so. It was black and at the distance I couldn't make out what it was. The closer I got I assumed it was a bear. But then it stood up and very quickly ran into the ditch and stood in the brush and looked at me. I couldn't believe what I had just saw. Long arms long legs, dark black and about 7-8 ft. tall. It was big and fast. I looked at it and I got the impression it was nervous the way it was acting ... Being a mile from my truck and having 2 of them to the front and back of me and the nervousness I was feeling I decided it was best to head off it was a long walk out.","Morse Rd to the west and Hwy 169 to the north, a large swamp to the west and east. I was facing north when I saw it. Ten seconds before I saw it is when I heard the howling in the swamp to the west of my position.","St. Louis County","Minnesota","Fall","Report 46817: Hunter scouting locations has a possible encounter near Buhl",47.47025,-92.75357,"2014-10-23",46817.0,"Class B","cbqn13dyjp",58.49,49.260000000000005,40.03,44.69,0.85,0.67,0.99,0.0009,0.61,"rain",1014.3,"Foggy starting in the evening.",2.0,7.31,181.0,2.5,"RES.SEASON"], [4242,1256,"Me and my best friend were riding down a dirt road right past the oil well rd. we seen a roughly 7' tall big \"something\" in the road just as our headlights hit it it threw something down and jumped into the woods. we stopped to examine what it was and found it to be a half eaten rabbit. the rabbit was like you had sheared it off with a knife. i saw no foot prints, but i did notice a strange musky odor in the air.","the location is between the oil well road and the country store","Clarke County","Alabama","Fall","Report 24451: Two friends have a possible nighttime sighting on a rural road outside Madison",31.20325,-87.5047,"2008-08-31",24451.0,"Class B","dj9c8b3h0e",85.3,79.645,73.99,72.67,0.85,0.32,0.03,0.0107,1.0,"rain",1013.16,"Rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",7.0,9.16,32.0,8.15,"RES.SEASON"], [4243,1024,"On the morning of August 6th, at approximately 6:30am, at a location off Dutch Canyon road in Scappoose, while pre-season scouting, I was observing several deer, 4 bucks and 2 does. While watching the deer for approximately 15 minutes, I watched all six deer look towards the east into a tree line about 1000 meters from my location and the location of the deer. Within 30 seconds of watching the deer look over a bellowing scream came out of the wood line. I knew exactly what it was from my prior reports from the Salmonberry area. In was on queue with the Ohio recordings. The scream started at a low tone and progressively and increasingly became louder until it became a loud type of moaning growl. The deer at that point became intensely agitated, their tails went up and they took off heading west into an adjacent tree line about 300 meters from my location. They did not stop for anything or anybody. At that time, I focused my binoculars on the tree line that the scream came from and waited, and observed for almost 2 hours with no physical sighting. I have gone up several days now with nothing further to report. Being that the season opens up this coming weekend I will keep an eye on the area and animal behavior for anything out of the ordinary.","Dutch Canyon Road west of Scappoose.","Columbia County","Oregon","Summer","Report 9204: While scouting, hunter hears morning vocalization west of Scappoose",45.7492,-122.9546,"2004-08-06",9204.0,"Class B","c20s607hqj",69.42,63.23,57.04,55.38,0.79,0.72,0.71,0.0053,0.92,"rain",1014.22,"Rain in the morning.",4.0,9.48,192.0,2.62,"RES.SEASON"], [4245,4425,"My parents reported to myself that another howl was heard on June 16. This was similiar to the howl that was reported on May 18 in same location. The howl occurred at approximatly 2pm during a heavy rain storm and lasted only about half as along as the first reported howl. The dogs in the neighborhood responded in the same manner of howling and barking in response to the unknown howl.","Acworth, near Lake Allatoona","Bartow County","Georgia","Spring","Report 2094: Second report of scream by resident near Red Top Mountain State Park",34.1088,-84.6971,"1999-06-16",2094.0,"Class B","dn5f09m6nt",80.41,73.22,66.03,68.96,0.93,0.98,0.11,0.0489,1.0,"rain",1013.88,"Heavy rain throughout the day.",5.0,4.31,49.0,2.3,"RES.SEASON"], [4260,1132,"The Saturday night before Easter 2020, I was sitting outside by a crackling fire, all alone. Was about 11:30 at night, and I had some music playing low on a small Bluetooth speaker. From way deep in the valley below me, and I mean it’s a huge expanse of woods back there, a couple miles to the next road, I heard a bone chilling ethereal howl. Then I heard it again. Turned my music off, and listened intently. I heard it three more times over the next minute or so. Too faint to record but loud enough to hear beside a crackling pine fire. Each instance was three or five seconds long, sounded “WHOOOOHRRRLL”. Started soft, picked up in intensity, then tailed off. Whatever it was it was very loud, very powerful, almost resonated like a train whistle does from a distance. I could also tell the sound was projected in different directions on a couple of the howls. I have spent a lot of time in the woods in my life. I'm an avid hunter, and an all around outdoorsman. I'm familiar with the animals that live here in PA and I know I didn't hear one of them. I know what barred owls sound like, coyotes, dogs, people... Pretty sure this was none of those. Whatever made that sound was large and powerful. It stood the hairs on my neck. I sat listening for another half hour or so and didn't hear it again. That's when my mind got to wandering. I spent pretty much the entire next day (Easter Sunday) listening to recordings on YouTube and the like and a few sounded a lot like what I heard. A supposed bigfoot recording from Westmoreland County PA and the 1994 Ohio Howl in particular were eerily similar. What I heard was slightly higher in pitch than the Ohio sounds, but almost identical in tone change, cadence and duration. It's worth noting that I actually I live about 15 miles east of the area where that was recorded.","DO NOT POST LOCATION PLEASE. I do not want the landowners bothered. [Note from Matt Moneymaker: The witness provided the road name for the specific hollow but he does not want the road name posted. Suffice it to say, it is a hollow connected to Raccoon Creek in Raccoon Township, PA. It is north of West Aliquippa.]","Beaver County","Pennsylvania","Spring","Report 65880: \"Ohio howls\" heard not far from where recording was obtained in 1994",40.60946,-80.3293,"2020-04-11",65880.0,"Class B","dpnzh09zr8",54.57,46.85,39.13,28.89,0.59,0.19,0.65,0.0007,0.07,"rain",1015.9,"Clear throughout the day.",6.0,10.0,256.0,5.94,"RES.SEASON"], [4263,2765,"I was accompanied by my wife and 15-yo son. We has built a fire and when the sun had set I mentioned to my wife that Sasquatch's are known to answer howls. I am on the BFRO site 4-days a week to track sightings and am a firm believer after reading Dr. Meldrum's book: Sasquatch-Legend Meets Science. I made a howl like the 1994 Moaning Howl Ohio call recording on this site. I am a trained vocalist and can project my voice loudly. I cupped my face and let out a howl. Its was answered. I was facing east and let out a howl every 30-60 seconds that was answered progressively closer. Astonished, I kept it up and the return was always closer. My wife fled to into the RV in fear. My son would not come out. I was not in fear but in hopes of seeing a Sasquatch. I did not have my cell phone with me to record the sasquatch returning howls. I grabbed my .44 magnum revolver (just in case) and a flashlight scanning the trees in hopes to see a illuminated red pair of eyes. As soon as I had my pistol in my hand there were no more returning howls. I was never in fear but in awe. There must have been 10-12 howls and returns. With the first reply. I would guess that the Sasquatch at least a mile away and with the last, maybe a 1/4 to an 1/8 of a mile if not closer. On 6/30/2020, we returned home and I had my wife and son listed to the 1994 Ohio howls. They were shocked that that was what they had heard.","On June 22, 2020; I was parked just outside the Swan Bay launch site at Ozette Lake on a logging road. About a 1/4 mile from the launch site heading east take a left onto the logging road into the clear cut. I parked approx a 1/4 mile in and my RV could be seen by the road.","Clallam County","Washington","Summer","Report 65667: \"Ohio howls\" at Ozette Lake in NW corner of Olympic Pennisula",48.11949,-124.5989,"2020-06-30",65667.0,"Class B","c0x3sxvu75",60.57,56.82,53.07,51.52,0.85,0.84,0.35,0.0041,0.28,"rain",1015.7,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,9.488,264.0,9.28,"RES.SEASON"], [4271,4738,"The following phone interview was conducted by Stan Courtney. Because the witnesses do not have Internet access, the information was entered with their permission. The first names of the witnesses have been changed. Tom: I told John about my sighting of the 2nd of June 2005 and he and his son went with me to the location. This was about a week after my first sighting. Right about 30 feet before the bend in the road I parked my car there and I was showing John where I saw the animal the first time. And we heard some commotion over in the woods and we were looking down into the trees. John was the first one to spot the silhouette and he asked me to come over, I guess my eyesight is a little better, and he said \"Hey, what does that look like to you?\" And then that was the time when we both saw its arm move and so I get on the hood of the car and I tried to get a better look 'cause I was going to see if it was either a shadow or three dimensional. I was trying to get looks of it from all angles without losing sight of the thing. It was standing motionless on the back side of a tree and you could see the majority of the body, he wasn't hiding behind a tree he was more leaning against it. That is when after we noticed the arm movement I'm on top of the hood of the car. Something caught my notice out of the corner of my eye to the right of the silhouette. Out in plain sight, plain as day there was an actual fur bodied, walking, probably 10 to 20 feet away from the silhouette I saw a smaller one and this one was starting to walk where the trees thin out it started to make its way to where the trees get thicker, and just walking. So at this time, I tell John, \"There's another one.\" And he says, \"Where, where?\" And I point in the general direction, I jump down off the car and run into the woods after it. It didn't run until I got about 20 feet in, that's when its pace picked up. It brought its elbows real high as it was running. And then I lost sight of it, because I didn't know that the ground actually sloped down. By time I got back to the hill I couldn't see it. Stan Courtney: Okay, when you started chasing the smaller one what had happened to the bigger one? Tom: I really couldn't tell you. I made a beeline straight for the one in front of me. John and his son were watching the big one. Stan: When you first saw the big one and you just saw a silhouette why did you think it was a bigfoot? Tom: At first I didn't know what to think. If anything it could be a man in a suit. When I saw the second one in the clearing as plain as day, I guess I don't know how to explain it but I just knew it wasn't a man at that time. Stan: What about the first animal? What did you see? John: When a truck came down the hill and around the bend the animal turned its head very slowly and smoothly and watched it pass by. Then it slowly turned its head back. Tom: I didn't see the head turn. Stan: What about the hand movement? Tom: Actually we saw the silhouette of the body, and as we were watching this thing the arm comes up as if to touch its face. And then we see the hand go back down. And I mean this was slow motion, it moved up as slow as it went down slow. Stan: How long did you watch it? Tom: From the time we saw the silhouette of the big one in the trees till the time I saw the little one was probably five minutes. I remember telling John \"We could stand here all day and this thing is going to wait longer than us.\" John: I kept looking at the first, larger animal. I concentrated on watching it. When Tom got half-way into the woods I glanced over to see where he and the smaller animal were. When I looked back towards the larger animal it was gone.","This is on private land.","Grundy County","Illinois","Spring","Report 12439: Three men have daylight sighting near Seneca",41.3368,-88.562,"2005-06-10",12439.0,"Class A","dp350tph7f",87.87,78.95500000000001,70.04,69.27,0.72,0.19,0.12,0.0006,0.66,"rain",1011.79,"Partly cloudy until evening.",9.0,9.16,182.0,4.39,"RES.SEASON"], [4274,3969,"Place: New Preston, CT., hillside Lake Waramog, Date: 2/16/15 Saw: Looking over lake from riding in a car on RT.45 the hillside saw a black tall figure just walking along so easily, the figure crossed a driveway from the forest to the other side and continued slouching along swinging arms heading towards powerlines approximately 800 yrds away. It did not have a hat or any other clothing and snowshoes. The head just sat on the shoulder. I thought it was a man but then realizing no man could walk on such a steep slope without poles, etc. It lasted a few minutes do to the car moving. The black figure stood out against the white snow and sunlight of day.","location: Hillside above Lake Waramog looking from east to west angle New Preston/Washington line in CT.","Litchfield County","Connecticut","Winter","Report 48101: Passenger has possible daylight sighting near New Preston",41.68669,-73.35194,"2016-08-13",48101.0,"Class B","dr7v4ufdxf",92.54,81.98,71.42,74.6,0.82,0.22,0.34,0.0015,0.62,"rain",1011.61,"Rain overnight.",7.0,10.0,214.0,0.59,"RES.SEASON"], [4275,4912,"November 20, 2011 Was deer hunting on the farm behind my house like ever year before. That season I used my hunting blind that I had setup a few days before. It had been raining that morning so I used the 4 wheeler to get back to the blind. I parked it beside the blind and took my stuff in. I poured a cup of coffee and opened a bag of donuts and loaded the gun. I could hear something step over the fence (normal sized person could not do that) this fence is double wide with extra electric wire. Then the foot steps continued to come closer to the blind. The foot steps sounded really heavy. The foot steps came to the side of the blind and stopped. I could hear heavy breathing and then it leaned over the blind . I could see a impression of a nose pushing down on the top of the center of the blind. The blind I have is 6 feet tall, this means he had to be at least 8 feet plus tall. The nose imprint began sniffing and leaning more on the top of the blind. This point I was getting really nervous, so I took the safety off on the gun and said (\"if you are a person you better leave, if your a bigfoot then you better not growl or howl our push any harder on the blind cause I'm gonna start blowing holes in something\". Then the sniffing stopped while I said my little speech, but then started again more aggressively. I told myself to stay calm ,and then the subject stood upward and walked around the blind and then over to the woods. I tried looking out the window but could not see anything.. Scared the holy-**it out of me ..","Jacksonville,outside of Bagdad, KY in north Shelby county","Shelby County","Kentucky","Fall","Report 36230: Hunter gets investigated while in his blind outside Bagdad",38.24361,-85.03827,"2011-11-20",36230.0,"Class B","dng98fj10t",58.52,55.83,53.14,55.06,0.9,0.98,0.83,0.0223,1.0,"rain",1020.76,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",2.0,7.25,209.0,5.63,"RES.SEASON"], [4283,4753,"It was in the summer of 2012 around 7 pm. It was very hot outside and we had been in a long drought. The nearest town is Makanda IL. The nearest road is Progress Lane which is off of Water V vcalley road. I believe it is near Union county. I had been told from a friend about some weird creature he had seen in the woods around this area. He claimed to have seen it once directly and heard it stalking him another time. He never said he thought it was a Bigfoot but I was still curious so I went out there to look around and see what he was talking about. He had told me that he had been out there many times and most of the time there was nothing strange. However, his girlfriend’s grandfather had told him that there were weird creatures out in the woods. He described them to me as being 7 to 8 feet tall with glowing eyes and only moved at night for the most part. I have never seen any creatures out there but on one of my several trips out there in search of anything weird I could find I came upon a few trees with branches that had been snapped. I’m 6’4 and 230lbs and tried hanging on limbs in similar trees and couldn’t even come close to breaking them. I took pictures of one of the trees with my friend who is 5’3 standing next to the broken branches for reference. I thought that it was awfully strange that they were broken the way they were. It was as if something had broken them. We kept walking through the woods and about 10 yards past the trees with broken limbs; we found a poorly crafted hut. It was just big enough for me (being 6’4) to fit in. It was made out of very large logs and tree limbs. They were big enough that I couldn’t move them at all. They were leaned together perfectly to create a shelter. While I was sitting in this shelter wondering how it could have been put together so well so far out in the woods I noticed a path leading out of it and into the woods. I followed the path and it led me to a place where water runs to when it rains to form a watering hole. I walked back to the shelter and took a picture of it. Sadly it isn’t a great one but I know it is still standing and can walk to it. It began to get dark and so we headed back to the truck and left. It was months later I saw an episode of Finding Bigfoot where Matt and Bobo found something very similar to what I found only the one I found was much bigger. It occurred to me that my friend who told me about the weird creatures and personal experiences I have been told relates to the behavior of Bigfoots. While investigating more about this area and its history, I found a map of the area in which all this occurred and the area was very close to a lake that I fish often with a friend. On several of our fishing trips we would stay out late after dark and catfish. While we were fishing those nights we kept hearing very strange sounds coming out of the woods. They were strange enough that both of us were a bit nervous about them because out of all of our fishing trips we had never heard these sounds. Shortly after we talked about them and kind of brushed it off as “the woods” we heard a giant splash in the water, as if a big rock was thrown at us. It was close enough to us that I jumped grabbed our spotlight and tried to see what happened. It sounded like it was within 30 or 40 feet of us but I couldn’t see anything. I remember joking about it being Bigfoot trying to warn us away from his area then hearing more strange noises and another giant splash. It was a slightly windy night and very dark and with only one light I couldn’t see where the splash came from or anything in the woods. Shortly after that we decided it was time to call it a night and left. This happened on at least 3 occasions in about a month’s time. Every time the conditions were the same, it was a cool night slightly windy and very dark. The lake we were on was Little Grassy Lake. In the area of the lake we were on there are many lily pads and a large area of very shallow water. On those nights we thought we could hear something moving around in the water but it was far enough away that the spotlight couldn’t reach it. We stopped fishing there because the water level dropped so low that there was no water to fish in or even to put a boat during the rest of the year. The incident at the lake took place in early April of 2012. It was during the summer of 2012, only a few months later, that I found the shelter and broken tree limbs. The way it looks to me is that a Bigfoot was in the area at the time of the fishing trips. There was plenty of water, food and shelter in an unpopulated rural area. When the summer came we experienced the longest drought in over 50 years. It would make sense to me that the Bigfoot would move to a different location because all the water in the area dried up. When I was out there was in September of 2012 I was taking my friends out there to show them the shelter and see if it was still there. While standing in a nearby graveyard I heard a large amount of chattering. I couldn’t determine where it was coming from but it was like voices off in the distance. At first I thought I had to be people talking, but as I walked around trying to find them I realized I couldn’t understand anything being said no matter how close the voices sounded. While watching an episode of Finding Bigfoot I heard them talk about Bigfoots chattering and how it sounded like people that you couldn’t understand. I believe that there are Bigfoot that inhabit this area. I went out again March 1st, 2013 at about 11pm to try and do a night trip. I had never been out at night and wanted to try and see if I could find anything different than what I had already found. We walked about a mile and a half out into the woods staying near a beaten path. After we reached a certain point where the woods open up a bit we went off the path and started wandering. We took a break and were standing quietly talking about where to go next or if we should stay. It was lightly snowing and very cold so we weren’t sure how much longer we wanted to stay being as it was already 2:30am. While standing there I was talking to my friend who is a marine and another guy said “is that a… moan?” we stopped instantly and all 4 of us hear loud groaning or moaning sound. Its hard to describe but it put all of us on edge as it stopped. We decided to continue searching around a little longer and we walked down along the edge of the woods and I shined my light into the woods maybe 50 yards (not 100% sure on distance) away from where we were when we heard the moan only 5 minutes before. When I shined my light into the woods I say what seemed to be a thumbtack on a tree, there are many thumbtacks on trees in this area and I’m not sure why. As I watched to make sure it was a thumbtack a head turned and looked at me and I could clearly make out two eyes. I stared at them and they stared back and I said “guys… guys… I see eyes are you seeing this?” My friends ran back to me, I never took my eyes off of the eyes, my marine friend made it to me first and the eyes were still just staring at me. As he started looking for them and more flashlights were turned on I watched as the head disappeared behind the tree it was standing next to. I have seen many eyes from deer having grown up in southern Illinois and these just didn’t seem like deer eyes. The way they were positioned on the head wasn’t right. They were closer together than deer eyes. Usually deer will run when there are multiple people moving around them as closely as we were. The eyes seemed to be about 40 feet away and it was like they sidestepped behind the tree, never looking away from me. I’m not sure if they can but I have never seen a deer sidestep. The eyes seemed to be 5 to 6 feet off the ground. I was also looking downhill at them. I went into the woods within 45 seconds of them going behind the tree and never heard anything run away but we were unable to move through the woods quietly at all. When we reached the tree I believed they went behind there was nothing there and we could find no tracks in the half snow half dead leaf covered ground. At this point it was nearly 3 and we decided to start making our way back. What I believe happened is that a Bigfoot saw us up the hill and made a call which was the moaning sound we all heard. I don’t know that was I saw was a Bigfoot but I can’t explain it saying it was for anything else either. I find it hard to believe a deer would have acted the way what I saw did. The eyes didn’t seem like a deer but there are no other animals in this area that have eyes that big that could be that far off the ground. The angle of the head wasn’t right for it to be an animal like a raccoon on the tree. It was as if something peaked out as we were walking by and I just happened to see it. The eyes stayed in sight for maybe 45 seconds and disappeared behind back behind the tree and the height of the head never changed. The next night I went out with almost the same group of people. We got there at 1:30am and left at roughly 4am. It was much colder and not snowing. We walked the same path we did the night before. All the way to the spot where we heard the moan the night before it sounded like something was moving through the woods. At first I didn’t think anything of it but we walked for a solid mile and constantly heard something moving to our left. The two people in the back occasionally claimed to hear something on the right that sounded almost like a pig snorting or a horse sighing heavily. I never heard these things but I was also at the front of the line and 15 feet in front of them. I almost turned around and left several times because I had the strong feeling something was stalking us. Constant twig snaps and I heard one woodknock all from the left side of the path. Like I said we walked at least a mile and I heard these things the entire way. Once we reached the area where we had heard the moan the night before we heard nothing. We stayed and walked around the area just as we did the night before and heard nothing and saw nothing and after the cold really started to get to us we decided to leave. It was not as interesting as the night before that but the sounds from the woods were very strange to say the least. I’ve been in the woods, those woods, many times and haven’t heard the twig snaps or a woodknock before and I’d never had such a feeling of being followed/watched.","Its hard to explain how to get there unless you know the area. Its near Little Grassy and Devils Kitchen Lake in the Crab Orchard Wild Life Refuge","Jackson County","Illinois","Winter","Report 40120: Possible vocalizations and rock throwing east of Makanda",37.61335,-89.15173,"2013-03-01",40120.0,"Class B","dn8tgr39wh",34.83,31.675,28.52,30.33,0.92,1.0,0.63,0.0017,0.9,"snow",1019.51,"Foggy until afternoon.",3.0,1.89,316.0,4.61,"RES.SEASON"], [4284,4612,"The following incidents occurred between the years 1984 and 1986 around our woods which is located just south of the intersection of E300 N Rd 300 and county road 1425 Northwest of Atwood Illinois. At the time we lived in the 15 acre woods which is at that location. The Lake fork river runs just behind that woods and there is a bottom land just north of the woods which floods every fall. At the time I was a teenager and hunted, fished and trapped along a several mile stretch of that river. The encounters we had were not visual. The first instance was about 10pm on a winter evening when I was going to let our poodle out before turning in for the night. There was only what I could describe as a combination of a Scream/howl which came from just on the North side of the house. Our dog was so frightened it would not go out of the door. He was not afraid of anything and to see that fear in him was shocking. The volume of the howl was immense. My mother was home and heard it as well. Even from inside a well insulated Illinois home it sounded as if it was right next to you. I had the door open and it felt like I had been hit in the chest by the sound. The second instance was just south of that woods about a half mile down from where the river bends. I was returning from hunting about 5pm in the evening and heard the exact same howl. It came from the smaller wood which is right next to the river just south of our woods. The 3rd instance was a series of footprints along the bank of the lake fork river. Just to the west of the road intersection mentioned above, the lake fork passes under a bridge. Just south of that bridge the river bends and flows east. I was fishing along that bend on a spring day about 10 in the morning. I felt that there was something not right and then realized that there were no animal sounds. Typically there are all sorts of sparrows and red winged black birds, but there was nothing. I looked down as I was walking and noticed that I was walking next to a line of footprints in the mud. I wore mens size 12 hiking boots and these prints were 5 toed and 2\" wider and 3\" longer than my boots. They were very fresh with dirt still loose on the edge of the track. I looked up and down the river but did not see a thing. The river banks in that area are steep with tall grass. The forth instance was while deer hunting on the east side of the large woods just to the north east of that bridge. I had gone out bow hunting and had set up a blind on the east side of the woods. I had walked from our house and was set up in a blind in full camo by 45mins prior to sunrise. Just before light I heard the same howl which I estimated came from about 50 yards away to my north. It was so powerful that it shook me. I waited for several minutes and it howled again. Only having a bow and not a gun I literally walked backwards the few hundred yards back to the county road with an arrow knocked and ready to go. Not that it would have done any good. You could tell by the volume of the scream/howl that this was a very very large creature. The 5th instance was around 10:30 at night in the back of our house. We kept a large horse tank in the back where we would dump and burn trash. It was approximately 35 yards behind the house. I was taking the trash out and had just dumped it when I heard a \"Hmph\" from the edge of the tree line which was about 10 yards away. I head another \"Hmph\" and then something large taking off down the side of the hill towords the bottom land, I headed quickly in the house. The next morning I checked the area and could see the same size prints mentioned above. I couldn't see them clearly as before due to thick ground cover of leaves. The Howls around our house were heard by my mother. I do not know of any other people in the area having the same instances. at the time there were only 4 families living in that area. Us, my uncle who lived across the river, a family that lived in the house by the bridge and another that lived just east of the road intersection mentioned above.","Exact locations provided in the report.","Piatt County","Illinois","Unknown","Report 47469: Memory told of possible vocalizations and footprints found near Atwood",39.8352,-88.47835,"2015-01-02",47469.0,"Class B","dp14deu0c5",37.96,35.72,33.48,24.65,0.76,0.59,0.42,0.0003,1.0,"rain",1024.92,"Mixed precipitation overnight.",2.0,4.14,190.0,2.31,"RES.SEASON"], [4286,4396,"MY brother and I were fishing on wolf creek in a area known as high shoals. This area is heavily wooded with steep terrain and a rushing waterfall. We had park our truck at the top of the hill and walk down the trail to the creek below. We had been fishing about a hour and had no luck when we decided to move upstream. We got our gear together and starting walking up the shoals and heard a large splash hit the water up ahead. We first thought it was a rock that had rolled of the side of the steep terrain when suddenly a large black/brown human like creature was slashing at the water with it's long arms. The creature never new we were there and we must have viewed him for 2-3 mins playing around in the water. We never moved only making eye contact with each other. Suddenly it darted off to the right up the steep terrain not knowing whether it had seen us or not. We never got a good look at it's face. It must have been 6-7ft. around 300-400lbs. and look very healthly. We were around 25-30yds from it. We kept this to ourselves for quite a while only shareing it with family members . We have returned to the area several times and have never seen it again but have seen unexplained markings when no bear is to be in the area.","The area is steep terrain in some places clear cut in some and very wooded in others. This is a very remote area with several thousands of acres. There is plenty of game in the area and a well known whitetail hunting area.","Carroll County","Georgia","Summer","Report 7113: Brothers have close, long sighting of \"thing\" in Wolf Creek",33.5388,-84.869,"2003-10-26",7113.0,"Class A","djgwuc838v",67.09,64.15,61.21,61.71,0.92,0.85,0.04,0.02,1.0,"rain",1019.27,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",3.0,4.86,121.0,0.81,"RES.SEASON"], [4287,4446,"Well in total I've had 5 encounters the first one being about a year ago I was bow hunting and this big hairy man like thing just came up and sat right under my tree stand I was thinking about shooting him but I didn't want to scare him out of the country so I sat there quiet as possible then he just got up and trotted off. The second encounter was 5 months ago I was riding on my four wheeler and I went past a big patch of woods and he just stood there and watched me. The third encounter was 2 months ago I was driving home from work and he was retreating into the woods by a telephone pole. The fourth encounter was about 5 days after the third encounter and the bigfoot was walking through one of our old knocked down barns and I was out on my porch just watching him and he looked at me then he ran off and hurdled a five foot barbwire fence. The last encounter was just about three days ago and he was goin down a trail in our woods","well if you can find the Fillmore golf course or the Fillmore Bar and Grill u can find Simon road","Dubuque County","Iowa","Fall","Report 51678: Multiple sightings on family property near Cascade",42.33531,-90.93558,"2015-11-30",51678.0,"Class A","9zx2fdytp3",39.54,35.9,32.26,33.88,0.91,1.0,0.67,0.017,1.0,"rain",1018.28,"Rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",1.0,6.34,96.0,4.17,"RES.SEASON"], [4288,3237,"On 11-13-12 my wife and I just returned from the store and I stayed out by the car as she walked in the house after a couple minutes of me messing with her phone and some slight music playing on speaker, I heard the most blairing scream I have ever heard in my life and to follow. 4 blasting knocks. I screamed for my wife and told her I believe I just heard a squatch, she rolled her eyes and said if you would stop trying to call them after you watch the show they wouldn't come and then 4 more loud knocks. She went back into the house and while I stood there I could here the trees moving around, I have been watching the show and joking with the kids and wife with calling them in the rear of our wooded lot but after hearing this I can honestly say they are out there. This couldn't have been 100ft away from me and was so loud that it felt like it was next to me, I don't know if it was the light music playing that had it let me hear it or the practice calling in the rear yard but there are definitly BIG FOOTS IN DELAWARE","When you come from Milton on route 30 heading east towards Millsboro you come to xxxxxxx Rd and take a right the home is in the wooded area down about 1/2 mile. The whole area in surrounded by wet lands and Pine trees","Sussex County","Delaware","Fall","Report 37386: Couple hear possible screams and knocks at their home near Redden State Park",38.71,-75.36536,"2012-11-13",37386.0,"Class B","dqfkjnbw5g",48.56,42.745000000000005,36.93,44.19,0.85,0.92,0.99,0.0018,0.96,"rain",1026.23,"Light rain until afternoon.",2.0,4.48,330.0,3.55,"RES.SEASON"], [4307,509,"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 it in all honesty. More recently we have stumbled upon small trees (4-5 inches in diameter) that were twisted/broken in ways that a human could not achieve (in our opinion). All these instances combined over the years have not really made us feel unsettled or afraid, nor did we think it was anything too worthy of note; however, our most recent experience, which occurred over a period of a few days in September 2020, was unexplainable and I cannot go without reporting this any longer, as it has truly been bothering me since it occurred. In September 2020, my husband and I were on an evening hike (approximately 4:30-5:00 pm) at the Stone Church Horse Trail System, which is a part of the Wayne National Forest in Shawnee, Ohio (Perry County) when heard what we can only describe as a “howling/roaring” sound. The noise occurred twice, and there was approximately a minute of silence between the two “howls/roars”. Sadly, I was unable to get my phone out quickly enough to record the instance, as it all happened so fast. My husband and I have never heard anything like it before. I was a bit unnerved by the sound and we quickly left the area and headed back home. We spent that night looking up the calls of animals native to Ohio, but none of the sounds we listened to even remotely resembled the sound that we heard that evening. A couple of days later, we went back out to the same trail system where we heard the noise. We stopped along the trail to allow our dog to get a drink of water. My husband was preoccupied with the dog, and I was just taking in the scenery. I happened to hear some rustling on the ridge above us, and when I turned to look, I saw what I can only describe as a very large, bipedal creature, walking between the trees and brush. The creature was far enough away that I could not make out its features specifically, but it was very large. It had dark colored fur/hair, dark brown or black in color. I cannot give an exact height measurement, but the creature appeared to be approximately 6 ft tall—This estimate is based upon our survey of the surrounding trees where the creature was sighted on the ridge. I called for my husband to look over at the creature, but it disappeared over the crest of the ridge into the forest before he was able to see. Additionally, more recently, specifically, February 13, 2021, at 4:57 pm, I unintentionally recorded a wood knock while recording video of my dog. This instance also occurred on the same trail where my husband and I heard the howling/roaring and I saw the bipedal creature in Sept. 2020. I do have that footage, and the wood knock can clearly be heard.","Directions to the General Stone Church Trail System Campground, as per the US Dept. of Agriculture’s website. To find this campground and trailhead west of Shawnee, OH: •\tTake State Route 93 out of Shawnee. •\tTurn left on County Road 38. •\tThe Horse Camp and main trailhead is on the right, the old primitive campground trail head is further on to the west. GPS Location (Site of encounter(s) on the trail): [39.632544, -82.264629] GPS Location (specific trailhead of Stone Church Trail System): N 39 37’ 49”, W 82 15’ 19” [Investigator Note: For the Google Maps pin for the location where the witness was standing, click .]","Perry County","Ohio","Fall","Report 67875: Sighting by dog walker and more recent incident on Stone Church Trail (Wayne NF) NW of Shawnee",39.63255,-82.26463,"2020-02-15",67875.0,"Class A","dpj92nbsr4",40.31,36.25,32.19,10.18,0.51,0.36,0.75,0.0017,0.06,"snow",1029.1,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,10.0,168.0,5.84,"RES.SEASON"], [4315,4762,"Me and my son and daughter were hunting deer during the 2006 youth deer season. My son shot and wounded a deer and it ran into the woods. We all three went into the woods looking for it. Something started to beat on a tree making a hollow pounding sound. Then a lot of thrashing noise and tree shaking. I got scared but did not want to scare the kids so I said lets go. We got about 100 yards from the truck and smelled a real foul odor exactly like rotting meat. I mean real bad. At the truck it smelled so bad it was hard to breathe. I know there is something out there. My kids both saw this creature. It was black and hairy and it climbs trees. About six foot, broad shoulders, no neck, a lot like a man but hairy.","Three miles south of Sorento, along Dry Fork Creek bottoms.","Bond County","Illinois","Fall","Report 23395: Deer hunters have close sighting along Dry Fork Creek.",38.946,-89.582,"2006-10-16",23395.0,"Class A","dnbm99bkuh",56.29,53.865,51.44,45.92,0.77,0.99,0.83,0.0296,1.0,"rain",1008.11,"Rain throughout the day and breezy in the afternoon.",3.0,6.99,127.0,9.43,"RES.SEASON"], [4320,1793,"I was in the woods with my friend, it was 6:29pm, and the ground was wet. From 10 yards (or so) away between two trees a blackish figure (8 feet tall) moved and I saw it directly for only a split second. The cat we were with was on a tree stump near by and was looking right by where we saw it and her hair was all puffed up. Then we heard two splashes together (it crossed a puddle). Then the neighbor's dogs ran up to the fence (out of sight) and one barked, then the sound was repeated but in a more girthy tone, and then it was repeated over and over again on different sides of the lake. then everything got louder and very intense and we heard a cow moo from across the lake and they don't have any cows, then we went inside.","Carter Buschardt knows how to get there","Lafayette County","Missouri","Spring","Report 41012: Two girls have a daytime close encounter on their family farm near Oak Grove",39.30745,-94.59565,"2013-04-27",41012.0,"Class A","9yuxx7tw3x",54.24,47.21,40.18,47.24,0.9,0.96,0.57,0.0075,0.88,"rain",1019.48,"Light rain in the morning.",5.0,9.45,57.0,1.41,"RES.SEASON"], [4325,3035,"A buddy of mine and I had wanted to hike and camp in the Dolly Sods Wilderness in West Virginia, in the Monongahela forest. Basically, it was a weekend camp, hoping to spot game and look for trout water. Any thoughts of Bigfoot, (there had been previous reports) were largely in the back of my mind, although the prospect of possibly encountering or seeing evidence was exciting to consider. The area is quite remote, and the terrain fairly rugged. We had parked the truck on a forest service road, and hauled our gear into the woods. We spent the early afternoon scouting about, after pitching our tent in a small glen surrounded by pine trees. We spotted some deer and raccoon tracks along an adjacent small stream, and looked for whatever sign we could find, then headed back to camp. As we sat there, the atmosphere of such wilderness led my thoughts to Bigfoot. To amuse myself, I got up and started to peruse the woods a bit. About that time, I heard footsteps behind me and turned to see a couple of men walking down a trail carrying garbage bags on their backs. They stopped at our camp and my buddy and I talked with them a few minutes. They had been collecting ramps. Ramps are like wild onions. And they had a good haul, about 40 lbs worth between them. Half jokingly and half serious I asked them if they had heard tales of Bigfoot in the area. Their eyes kind of flew open for a second, then they gave me a look like I was crazy. They didn't say anything for a few seconds, then looked down at the ground, kind of averting their eyes. I quickly told them about the reports I'd read, but they seemed like they didn't want to discuss anything. We talked a bit more about ramp selling and Appalachian festivals and such; and I asked them where the ramp patch was and they told us it was on the backside of the hill fronting our tent. Soon they had to leave, but curiously enough, as they were walking away, one of the men turned and said, \"Y'all watch fer them Bigfoot now!\" in a matter-of-fact kind of way. Well, after awhile, my buddy and I decided to take a little foray up one of the trails, and had an enjoyable time--spotting hawks, many birds, bobcat sign, squirrels, and even a Great Horned Owl. We also heard a Barred Owl. We sat in the woods and talked, and planned to do some predator calling after nightfall. I think it was about six o'clock by this time, so we headed back to camp get something to eat. We rustled up some food without cooking anything and the sun was lowering, the night was soon to be coming on. We were debating where we should go try to predator call. Not long after, I head what I can only describe as howls and chatter-like sounds emanating from behind a hill. My buddy had gone back to the truck to get a flashlight we had left behind. As I listened, I could differentiate three separate sources for the sounds. It seemed like they were near each other, not calling to each other from a distance. I also noted that hound dogs were barking off to my right and in behind me from maybe a half-mile away. The howl-like sounds lasted only 30 seconds or so. I just sat there astounded. My buddy soon showed up, and I asked him if he had heard anything. \"Hound dogs\" he replied. I didn't say anything more to him about it, because I thought he might think I was gettin'nervy. Anyhow, I was primed for excitement that night. After supper, we sat up until late listening to the sounds of the night. Nothing unusual happened. Finally, went to sleep, but I'll admit I was catnapping most of the night. The next day passed much as the previous one, spotted wildlife and nice hike up to the \"plains\", and then back to camp. We milled about the camp area, and planned to predator call that night....After predator calling, without much response except for two owls, we cooked up some ramps and potatos and talked 'til about midnight. We never bothered to make a fire. After the day's hiking, a good sleep was welcome. About 2:30 a.m. I was awakened by the sound of our cookware being rattled. I lay there listening, and heard a buck snort. Then he stamped several times. The buck was after the ramps we had leftover from supper. Alright, I thought, back to sleep. I lay there waiting to drift off, listening to the buck mill about the camp. Then, I heard the buck snort loudly. Suddenly, I got an innate sense that something sizable was peering at the tent...I felt a presence there in the pines, which were about 15 feet away. The buck, after slowly moving away, finally bounded away from the glen. I fumbled around for the flashlight, not wanting to awaken my buddy. I couldn't locate it. Of course, I was still listening intently for whatever was there in the pines. I heard no movement. But that feeling of being scrutinized was raising the hair on my neck. I deliberated what to do. I had no weapon, except a machete. No means of startling what I felt had to be Bigfoot. It was just standing there, there was no discernable movement. I was 'paralyzed' as to what to do. Finally, I decided to do nothing, just lay there. I've had bears sniffing my tent and checking out my campsites before, and found that not confronting them is a good policy. I lay there waiting to see what would happen next. Maybe five minutes later, I heard tree branches moving and a few twigs snap. Then, nothing...I drifted off to sleep. Next morning, I awoke eager to check out the pine stand and campsite. I told my buddy about the buck visit, and decided to tell him about the strange presence lurking in the pines. He listened without saying anything. I wanted to look around, and evidently my buddy's curiosity got the best of him, and he joined the search. After a few minutes, I found a footprint. It was about 16 inches long and maybe 5-6 inches wide. The big toe was quite clear, and the other ones just slightly less defined. The big toe was maybe two inches wide. The soil where the footprint was dry, kind of grainy not loamy. It was hard-packed and there were pine needles surrounding. The footprint was visible but not deep in the soil. My buddy was quite intrigued by the footprint. We talked about what I had experienced, and dawdled over the footprint. But, it became evident my buddy didn't believe tht Bigfoot had made the footprint. Or better stated he wouldn't accept what he was looking at. He even smudged the toes to make it undiscernable. Of course, I was caught off guard by that and made somewhat peeved. Further thoughts: In retrospect, I feel kind of stupid for not having tried to look at the creature. At the time, I thought I was doing the right thing, it could have precipitated an attack. However, I could sense the largeness of what had to be Bigfoot. *I noticed the breathing,the inhalations of the creature as well, which further informed me of its size.","Occurred in the Dolly Sods Wilderness, which is north of Seneca Rocks on Hwy 55. Nearest road to our camp was Forest Road 75 (?)","Pendleton County","West Virginia","Summer","Report 3826: Night time visitor screams and leaves imprint near campers in West Virginia",38.90203,-79.33517,"1999-07-01",3826.0,"Class B","dnzt69vuu8",84.37,76.91,69.45,64.33,0.79,0.2,0.58,0.0027,1.0,"rain",1015.98,"Light rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",10.0,5.68,184.0,4.93,"RES.SEASON"], [4327,1499,"I WAS WITH MY FRIEND RICK. HE WAS DRIVING US DOWN COUNTY RD SW IN WELLS TOWNSHIP, HEADING WEST TOWARDS COUNTY RD 557. WE HAD BEEN MOVING ALONG SLOWLY TOWARD 557. I COULD SEE THE PAVEMENT AND THE SUN WAS SHINNING BRIGHT ON IT. THERE WERE SMALL TREES THAT HAD GROWN TALL ALONG THE ROAD BEFORE YOU GET TO THE PAVEMENT.THEY KIND OF TURNED IN TOWARDS THE ROAD AND CASTED A SHADOW ON THE ROAD. THE ROAD WAS WIDE ENOUGH FOR TWO VEHICLES TO PASS EACH OTHER IF YOU WENT SLOW. THE SUN LIGHT ON THE ROAD HAD ALL READY CAUGHT MY ATTENTION WHEN I SAW A TALL, MUSCULAR, HAIRY,BROWN,HUMAN LOOKING THING WITH A BIG HEAD. IT CAME OUT FROM THE SMALL TREES BETWEEN US AND 557, THERE WAS ABOUT 200 YARDS BETWEEN US AND THE ROAD. THE THING WAS ABOUT HALF THAT DISTANCE. IT CROSSED THE ROAD IN ONE STEP! IT LOOKED TO BE ABOUT 9-10 FEET TALL! AT THE SAME TIME IT WALKED ACROSS THE ROAD RICK HAD SLAMMED ON THE BRAKES IN HIS PICK-UP TRUCK. WE DID NOT EVEN LOOK AT EACH OTHER AT FIRST, THEN HE STARTED MOVING FORWARD AND WE WERE BOTH A LITTLE SCARED .WE TRIED TO LOOK FOR TRACKS WHEN WE WENT BY THE PLACE WHERE IT CROSSED. BUT HE WOULD NOT STOP AT THE PLACE WHERE THE THING WALKED ACROSS.","CO RD 557","Marquette County","Michigan","Fall","Report 20100: Daylight sighting by hunters near Gwinn (Upper Peninsula)",46.09045,-87.48289,"1990-10-01",20100.0,"Class A","f01y1q8bkf",54.37,43.825,33.28,40.18,0.82,0.72,0.4,0.0108,1.0,"rain",1011.56,"Rain in the morning and breezy starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",3.0,8.33,269.0,5.7,"RES.SEASON"], [4332,519,"I have just read \"A.D.'s\" April 1997 report about a loud animal-like noise in the wooded area behind an apartment complex on the East side of Kent. I have lived in this same apartment complex for nearly twenty years and have often heard this incredibly loud howling sound. I agree with A.D. that the sound is difficult to describe. It is a very loud, somewhat high-pitched sound that originally suggested an animal in pain. I have recently taken up an interest in Bigfoot, and after some books on the subject began to wonder whether the sound I heard was perhaps one of the creatures. Then this morning I ran across A.D.'s report and thought, \"Ah-ha! So I am not the only person who has wondered about these cries.\" After giving thought to the possibility that the cry is that of Bigfoot, it crossed my mind that rather than a cry of physical pain it might be instead a cry of emotional pain, the cry of a lonely being hoping to hear an answering cry. I have only heard the cry at night, and not as I recall in winter. For many years the cry was fairly frequent. I have not heard it now for more than a year. The area behind the apartment complex is heavily wooded. There is a dirt roadway that goes back (north) a hundred yards or so to a gas well drilled about four or five years ago and then capped off and left untended. Another fifty yards or so north is a railroad track with frequent trains. Beyond the track is more woods, within which is the remains of a toxic waste dump that was cleaned up by the EPA eight or ten years ago. Beyond that the woods ends into some homes and the town of Brady Lake.","In the woods behind the Kent Village apartments, Route 59, Kent, Ohio.","Portage County","Ohio","Summer","Report 7832: A man has heard similar cries in the night for over 15 years that were noted in another BFRO report from the same location",41.16187,-81.37181,"1987-07-01",7832.0,"Class B","dpq4hm6c72",70.16,66.815,63.47,59.67,0.8,1.0,0.17,0.0405,1.0,"rain",1017.32,"Heavy rain until afternoon, starting again in the evening.",5.0,3.88,114.0,4.15,"RES.SEASON"], [4340,2875,"I was driving a truck while hauling a dozer on a trailer. My task was to deliver the dozer to a logging site. It was early morning and I'd driven east out of North Bend, WA along the Middle Fork of the Snoqualmie River on SE Middle Fork Road which turns into NFD 5060 Road east of Mt. Si. I then took a logging road on my way to the drop off site. As I drove down the logging road, up ahead along the side of the road I saw two tall people walking in the direction I was heading. My first reaction was that they were really tall and must be basketball players. As I got closer, it looked like they were wearing dark colored full body wetsuits with hoods. I tried to make sense of what I was seeing and thought maybe they were bow hunters wearing a special suit. As I drove closer I could see that they both had unusually long arms and that one had a more female shape and stood about 7 feet tall compared to the other which had a male shape and stood about 8 feet tall. The subjects then reacted to my approach by stopping and turning around toward me and stood in the middle of the road in a slightly crouched position. They seemed agitated and with their feet stationary they turned and looked at both sides of the road by rotated their upper bodies at the waste back and forth, back and forth while swinging their arms at their sides. When they did this, they looked very ape like. As I closed to about 35-40 yards away, the female jumped and ran off the left side of the road toward the river and disappeared into the brush. The male stayed in the road a little longer shuffling to the left side of the road. Finally, as I got even closer, in one step from the edge of the road he jumped a distance of around 20 feet and easily cleared what I now could see was a thicket of thorny blackberry vines at least 8 feet tall, and he was gone. They were both dark brown in color from head to toe. Their faces were dark brown also. I didn't really notice if they had fur or hair. Perhaps the fur or hair was wet and matted down from the rain. I didn't notice any odor or sounds. I continued to the drop off site 1-2 miles further down the road and began to unload the dozer. Another driver who was less than a minute or so behind me on the same road arrived. After unloading and somewhat composing myself, I asked the other driver if he'd seen anything strange along the logging road on his way in. He said he had not. I then left the drop off site and stopped at the encounter location. I looked around but did not find any large tracks in the thin layer of snow along the side of the road. There was no snow on the dirt/gravel logging road itself. I didn't want to battle the blackberry vines to follow the creatures' escape route into the forest, so I took off. The only explanation I have for what I saw is that the creatures must have been sasquatches. Because no human could be that big and jump like that and I know they weren't bears. ","Travel east on SE Middle Fork Road where it turns into NFD 5060 Road then heads east into the Middle Fork Canyon. The logging road where the sighting took place, was off the NFD 5060 Road.","King County","Washington","Winter","Report 24755: Truck Driver recalls daylight sighting east of North Bend",47.48176,-121.6548,"1990-12-03",24755.0,"Class A","c23qpev9m9",45.07,44.055,43.04,41.33,0.93,0.97,0.56,0.0014,0.21,"rain",1021.13,"Overcast throughout the day and breezy overnight.",1.0,7.34,156.0,10.07,"RES.SEASON"], [4351,4090,"I live in Lake Helen, Florida and we have had several incidents that I didn't put together until I ran across the story of the Cassadaga sightings. My daughter and I share our home with 2 golden retrievers and it's not uncommon for my female to not want to go outside to do her nightly business for no apparent reason. Now, maybe there is. My daughter and I were in my bedroom around 9pm one night, when something slapped the side of the house so hard it shook. We looked around outside, from inside and saw nothing. 3 days later at around 3 in the morning, my daughter in her bedroom (directly above my bedroom, sharing the outside wall) woke up to a loud, house shaking slam followed by a loud growl. Her feet hit the floor upstairs at the same time mine hit downstairs...We assumed a bear, but never could figure out why a bear would hit the house and how it could hit hard enough to shake the house, waking us both up.","I-4 to Lake Helen exit 118...five minutes due east","Volusia County","Florida","Winter","Report 40901: More possible activity from the \"Mole Man\" at Lake Helen",28.96416,-81.21989,"2013-02-24",40901.0,"Class B","djnhzbc2rq",72.89,68.145,63.4,65.63,0.89,0.61,0.46,0.0029,0.3,"rain",1014.08,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,8.35,19.0,0.18,"RES.SEASON"], [4364,1364,"I went on a 6 mile hike starting at the Marble Mountain Sno-Park via the worm flows route south of Mount St. Helens. At 9:30am 1/2 mile up the trail I stopped for some water and stepped over to look at the rock pit. While stepping back to the trail I heard loud wood knocking sounds for about 10-15 seconds. I listened for a few more seconds and then got my phone out to record the knocking sounds. In my recordings you can hear one powerful knock followed by faint knocking sounds. In my longer video I believe three different knocking locations can be detected. Starting with one loud strike of a tree followed by faint knocking and then a more muffled hit followed by the same faint knocking sounds. Hoping to video anything moving around, I decided to continual my hike going up another 2.5 miles until inclement weather rolled in. I made it back to my truck at 4pm without seeing or hearing anything else. With me being the only one parked at the Sno-Park when I started my hike it's clear nobody was near me at the time of the knocking. Forest road 83 is gated for the winter with only the Sno-park open.","Near the Marble Mountain Sno-Park going up the Worm Flows Trail.","Skamania County","Washington","Fall","Report 67407: Possible wood knocks heard near Marble mountain Sno-Park",46.13657,-122.1692,"2020-12-16",67407.0,"Class B","c21n7yzj52",43.21,38.895,34.58,37.35,0.92,0.99,0.09,0.0498,0.96,"rain",1012.8,"Rain throughout the day.",1.0,4.586,161.0,7.65,"RES.SEASON"], [4369,1086,"While fore of us were exploring an abandond farm house heard one loud roar that was so loud it echoed. the sound lasted about ten seconds and only happed once. it came from a tree line in a field at least 3oo yards from where we stood. we stoped turned around and got into our car and drove away.","go north on 208 from 80 pass newmansvill and take a right. next right turn right and drivr into the Allegheny National Forest. first left on paved road, turns to dirt and dirve two miles.","Forest County","Pennsylvania","Summer","Report 6836: Early afternoon vocalization heard by four people",41.47511,-79.3178,"1980-07-03",6836.0,"Class B","dpregn6d12",80.64,68.385,56.13,60.81,0.75,0.74,0.69,0.0087,1.0,"rain",1015.68,"Foggy in the morning.",7.0,5.07,302.0,3.15,"RES.SEASON"], [4379,3742,"After reading report 7804, I suspect that my son may have seen a bigfoot in early December, 2003. His mother and I are divorced and where she lives outside of Grass Valley. There are houses out there that are close together but also big areas of wooded lots. He told me that he thought he had seen Bigfoot while walking home from his bus stop. Normally, my ex-wife picks my son up at the bus stop, but he had asked to walk home this day. It is about 1/2 mile from the bus stop to his house. As he was cutting across the woods, about 100 feet from the bus stop and 20 feet off the pavement, he jumped up onto a stump. Below him he saw a black figure, taller than 5'10\" (my height). It was about 15 feet from him and breathing very heavily. It had its arms to its side and was rocking slowly, side to side. My son was afraid, but didn't want to scream in case the animal reacted badly to the noise. He just slowly backed up the hill, keeping his eyes on the creature and when he got to the pavement, ran home. He said the creature turned its head to follow his movements, but otherwise didn't move. When my son got home, he immediately told his mother and then later, me. Neither of us believed it at first, but after seeing report 7804, which was in the same area, I thought I should submit the incident.","The sighting was near Grass Valley.","Nevada County","California","Winter","Report 8026: Child has daytime sighting near Grass Valley",39.21667,-120.8983,"2003-12-02",8026.0,"Class B","9qfp0ght9m",56.53,49.77,43.01,43.77,0.85,0.53,0.32,0.0018,0.78,"rain",1025.81,"Mostly cloudy until afternoon.",2.0,7.91,134.0,0.88,"RES.SEASON"], [4383,557,"My story goes back to mid-August of 1980. I was around 13 years old and my best friend was 12. We had been badgering our parents for walkie-talkies for a couple years because we used to play in the woods so often. Much to our delight, my friend's father was cleaning out their attic and found a set left by the previous owners of the house. He cleaned them up, got us new batteries and we were on our way. There were very few houses in our area at the time and plenty of wooded areas to play. We headed down to where a new road was being cut. The crews had basically ploughed a rough dirt \"road\" almost 1/2 a mile into the dense forest off of our road. We got almost to the end when we headed back into the woods (west). We started heading toward the direction of an old quarry that had been abandoned for many years. We had gone in about 100 yards when we agreed to start walking in opposite directions, but parallel to the \"road\", so we could test the range on the walkie-talkies. We were alternating our responses for about 40-50 yards when my friend stopped responding. I could still see him in the breaks of the foliage, so after several attempts to reach him via the walkie-talkies, I just called out to him. He came back across the radio and told me not to shout or move. I asked him what was happening and he told me to be very still because he saw something behind a large tree that had fallen about another 40 yards further in. It had just stormed about a week earlier and many trees in the woods had fallen. This particular tree had its roots exposed, but was still suspended, on the \"leaf-end\", about 3-5 feet above the ground due to a tangle of vines. He said that he could \"feel\" the \"something\" watching him and he was scared to move. I told him that I didn't see anything and I would walk towards him. He warned me again not to move and said that the \"thing\" was shifting its weight and started moving toward \"my end\" of the tree. I stood there looking at the root disk and suddenly saw what appeared to be a dark face and broad shoulders. I too could \"feel\" this \"thing\" watching me. The creature, if you will, moved back and forth as if studying my friend and me. The height was undiscernable, but had to be above six feet tall. It was hard to see the legs, but those also appeared to be dark in colour. After about 5 minutes of this \"thing\" alternating vantage points, I had enough and was ready to make a dash for the road. My friend reluctantly agreed to move toward the spot we started while keeping an eye on the fallen tree. We finally met up and began to back up. We had only gotten a few yards when we saw the creature rise up and put its hands on the trunk by the root-disk. My friend and I screamed at full volume and started to run for the \"road\". We turned only once after hearing a loud crack of wood, possibly a branch or something underfoot, to see this creature running almost noiselessly in the opposite direction. It, again, was very difficult to see, but appeared to be completely black, powerfully built and running on two legs. We ran all the back home and said we would keep this incident between us. A few days later, my friend's father said he had read an article in the Geauga Times Leader (a local paper) stating a woman in a nearby town had seen a Sasquatch. We asked what a \"Sasquatch\" was and his dad laughed, saying it was a cross between an ape and a man and it wasn't real. We read the article and it sounded exactly like what we had seen! My friend's older brother said that he had heard something following him along the Chagrin River as he was going to a friend's house a week before and joked that it might have been the same thing as what was reported in the newspaper article. I never spoke of this incident until I was into my adulthood and had moved out of the area. I still haven't gotten over that sensation and think about it every time I take a walk in the woods.","The area is about 6 miles east of I-271 in Geauga County.","Geauga County","Ohio","Summer","Report 3301: Daytime sighting in a wooded area a few miles east of Interstate 271",41.47349,-81.3726,"1980-08-15",3301.0,"Class A","dpq5uq428f",75.4,66.995,58.59,63.7,0.77,0.91,0.15,0.0026,1.0,"rain",1015.11,"Light rain in the morning.",5.0,9.0,359.0,6.63,"RES.SEASON"], [4408,238,"We were at Octoberfest in October 1998 at Great Gorge in Vernon NJ. We were out on the back deck which boarders the mountains and the golf course. My brother in law and sister with me. Out of the corner of my eye I saw an approximately 7 1/2 - 8 foot large figure that walked with a long steady gate, with long arms and a thick chest. It walked steadily down the mountain side glancing at us and continuing to walk. We all looked at each other before running inside. We all saw the exact same thing.","Rt 94 to Great Gorge resort condos.","Sussex County","New Jersey","Fall","Report 39329: Trio remember observing a tall biped figure by a golf course in Vernon",41.17838,-74.52625,"2015-10-02",39329.0,"Class B","dr742079kw",49.33,46.775,44.22,44.1,0.86,0.82,0.67,0.008,1.0,"rain",1023.57,"Light rain in the evening and overnight.",4.0,9.92,45.0,2.81,"RES.SEASON"], [4415,3075,"There are three encounters that I have had not in the physical or in another words I did not have a visual sighting but had heard weird behavior in the woods. To begin with I am a 40 year responsible adult male and I have not told anyone about these encounters or experiences that I have had for fear of being ridiculed and/or being labeled as loony by my friends, family and the community. I found this website many years ago on my own by accident and was surprised to read about others who had the same experiences as I had. I finally found the courage to tell you what had happened to me. I have been in and lived near the woods all my life. In my family hunting is a tradition. All the animal noises and natural sounds of the woods I know and am familiar with and have honed over time a very acute sense and perception that most hunters have or any outdoors man would have honed. I would go sqirrel hunting often after work along some railroad tracks that ran just a quarter of a mile from my home at the time. One late fall afternoon I was just walking with my .22 mag rifle at the ready quietly along the tracks when I heard a noise or a rustling of leaves in the woods when I suddenly stop and stood motionless while I scanned the woods with my eyes looking for the source of the noise thinking it my be a large gray or fox squirrel. After awhile I did not hear nothing more so I moved on. Now I have hunted alone many times and had never been afraid of anything but just after I had moved on I began to hear what sounded like foot steps in the woods just behind me and parelling me 50 to 75 ft. away. At first I thought of deer or a dog or a person walking up in the woods and after a few minutes I decided to call out to who ever may be there and let them know that I was where I was there for safety precautions. Well there was no reply and I called out a couple more times just to be sure. No reply. So as it was about 1/2 hour before sunset I was compelled to call it quits for that day and head back to my truck which was parked about a mile back near the RR. Whatever it was proceeded to follow me keeping pace with me at a parallel distance of 50 ft. It became more and more clear that what ever it was was heavy and big for several times along the way back I heard loud heavy branches breaking and heavy footfalls that I know could not have been a deer or bear (there has not been a bear seen in the area that I was hunting for as long as I can remember nor have I had ever found any sign of one in that area.). Every time I would stop it would stop and when I moved it moved this when on until I came to the area near where my truck was parked and was an opened field. Whatever it was followed me right up to where the wood line was about to end and the field begin. The other encounter happened in the same area only a year or two later and this time the unknown animal was shadowing me on the other side of the tracks between the tracks I was on and the river. There was a heavy growth of rhododendron bushes that ran the entire length of the shelf of land that was about 50 yards wide from the river to the tracks. There is an embankment that is an accent of 75 ft. from the rhododendron bushes to the tracks above where I was at. I could see the wake that this thing was making from time to time through the rhododendron bushes for it was right in the middle of them as it was keeping up with me, which was remarkable to me how it did that without exposing itself in some manner, but again I thought through all the possibilities of what it could be for there are few animals that would follow you for a mile stopping and starting in sync with your every step. I never saw any part of it as it moved through the brush and even though I could see a wake made by the branches as it moved through the thick brush it was only here and there, mostly it was if a large contortionist where moving through the heavy with the brush with the utmost of ease. The third time was near spruce knob in Pocahontas County, WV while on a field trip for a summer class I was taking in the spring of 2003 some of my fellow classmates and I were outside one night trying to call in Bard Owls. After some minutes later we heard a few in the pine trees near our camp returning our calls. We were having fun with our success with calling them in and after 30 minutes we had called in 4 or 5 more in the pine trees that bordered the road across the road from our camp. Then all of a sudden while in the act of making more calls we heard a huge commotion up on the hill about 75 yards. from us it sounded like a couple of huge guys romping around and making the Bard Owl call, we all stood there trying to make out what it was but could not see anything. Someone shined a flashlight in the direction of the sounds and they ceased immediately. We did night hear anything more on that hill that night. I do not know for sure what it could have been but would not rule out that it could have been a bigfoot.","Northeast of Morgantown, WV","Monongalia County","West Virginia","Spring","Report 15475: Hunter describes being paralleled along railroad tracks northeast of Morgantown",39.6716,-79.9442,"2003-05-10",15475.0,"Class B","dpp1svfrv4",70.09,67.46000000000001,64.83,63.78,0.91,0.85,0.3,0.0312,1.0,"rain",1010.99,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",6.0,6.84,197.0,3.94,"RES.SEASON"], [4427,658,"My mother and I went riding that day. Weather was nice and clear, just the right temperature to take a leisure ride through the park. Even the wind was with us, blowing behind us and keeping the bugs off. Since we didn't have anything to do that day we thought we'd take a longer trail. It's a stand of white pines. Not the one that leads to a campground, but one adjacent to a field. I don't remember the color designation or the exact name, we call it the hangman's trail due to a tree, but it may be the whispering pines. I was deep in thought, not really paying attention to my surroundings. I turned to see if my mother was alright, seeing as she was quite a ways behind me. My gelding tensed, which instantly had me turning around to see what was wrong. My first impression was an object standing vertically. I figured a tree top had fallen down and was being propped up by a log. I waited for Goke to figure this out and settle. Boy was I wrong. It moved, we moved. Goke swirled around and went off at a dead run. He generally starts and stops, like running in place when he spooks. He stops, settles, and investigates. Even when a dog was attacking him he never ran so fast and so uncontrolled a gallop. He practically bulled over mom and her horse, and soon the mare was following and the two horses didn't stop until we were halfway back to camp. So whatever it was scared the shit out of him. While Goke was running I still had my head turned looking at the object. It ran off towards the field, whether it exited the forest or not I'm not quite sure, we entered the pines blocking my vision. A break in the forest directed sun in my face at the initial sighting, so more or less I got a blurred perception of the creature as we both changed position. But it was enough to tell me this was no deer or man. One, whatever it was ran upright. The proportions looked wrong for a man, bulk in the wrong place. Height was also an issue. We still use that trail and the landmarks are still there for comparison. Looking at the log it was standing behind I'd say it was 7-8 feet. It was dark, but the 'halo' around it made the edges appear a dark chocolate. Mom said I was white as a ghost and Goke was jittery for the rest of the ride. We must have been pretty shook up seeing as mom told a friend to explain what was wrong. It's just not in her nature to relate things such as this.","I'm sorry, but it's been a rather fruitless search online for the bridletrail map. I know they have a pamphlet with the trails but I haven't found it online. So I'll try to describe how to get to the point. You follow orange trail until you come to large opening that leads to a section of the creek. across from the opening you can see high cliffs. Cross it and you come to a large island, which you go right off of into a small trickle of the creek and onto a rather stony bed. Which you cross another creek to a forested area full of hemlocks. There is (or was, I haven't gotten down there this year) an old tree with a phone set in the middle. If you see that, you're on the trail. You just follow the trail until you come to a fork. In front of you is a straight path, usually mowed, stating no tresspassing. The right is a trail I've never really been on, and the left is the trail to the pines. Naturally you want to go left. Go through the white pines, and when you come out of them there should be an old log lying on its side right in your line of sight. That would be the place.","Columbiana County","Ohio","Summer","Report 15969: Possible daylight sighting on horse trail in Beaver Creek State Park",40.725,-80.616,"2007-01-10",15969.0,"Class B","dpnxttc0r4",28.85,24.105,19.36,16.8,0.7,0.66,0.73,0.0025,0.2,"snow",1027.72,"Foggy in the morning.",2.0,2.34,284.0,3.57,"RES.SEASON"], [4428,4334,"I was in military stationed Ft. Stewart Ga we were conducting wargames my squad was moving through the woods when we started to hear a very low growl then a hi pitched scream as soon as we came out of the woodline to the south of my squad we saw what we thought was an an opposing force we were about 250 feet from the animal so be again to close in on it we called out twice to it and again we heard the growl it then stood up and we realized that it wasn't human it was between 7 and 8 foot tall and realizing that we were in danger we began to back away at this point it began throw rocks toward us and then took off there was about 300ft between it and the wood line and it took it about 20 seconds to make the distance the rest of the night we heard strange sounds from the woodline from what thought was multiple creatures","we were just south of the di-ped","Liberty County","Georgia","Summer","Report 28526: Encounter by a squad on maneuvers while training at Fort Stewart",31.9853,-81.61756,"2004-07-15",28526.0,"Class A","djtvywxzvh",91.38,79.66999999999999,67.96,73.8,0.83,0.61,0.94,0.0089,1.0,"rain",1010.46,"Rain in the evening.",6.0,7.12,239.0,7.19,"RES.SEASON"], [4437,3672,"I was driving home from Brookings Oregon on 1-23-21. I was south bound on highway 101 south of Garberville, Ca and south of the Benbow Inn. The road makes a few turns and the speed limit drops in the area. As I rounded a sweeping right hand turn I saw a figure on the south bound shoulder of the highway. I was the only vehicle in the area about 8:15 PM. My speed was about 45-50 MPH as I passed the figure. The figure was laying on the shoulder of the road on its right side. I estimated the height to be about 7’. I was looking at the creatures back and noticed it had broad shoulders and was thick torso shape. While the shape similar to a human it was not human. It was not a bear either. I could see muscular features in its glutes and a head on the shoulders that was somewhat tapered toward the top and being held off the ground. It’s hair was a chocolate brown and very course. The hair was not fur like of a bear at all. I turned around a distance past the spot and returned to where I had seen it. No other vehicles had gone north or south from the time I saw the creature to the time I returned to its location (2 minutes estimate). When I got to the spot where I had seen it, the creature it was gone. As an avid hunter and fisherman I spend a lot of time in the woods. I spent every summer camping in that area as well as a kid. I have never seen anything like what I saw just this evening.","[Investigator Notes: Longitude / Latitude: 40.035268, -123.787606]","Humboldt County","California","Winter","Report 67556: Possible night sighting by motorist on Hwy 101 six miles south of Garberville",40.03527,-123.7876,"2021-01-23",67556.0,"Class B","9ppgz0hw7g",57.16,47.815,38.47,39.49,0.8,0.18,0.35,0.0032,0.22,"rain",1015.8,"Clear throughout the day.",2.0,10.0,357.0,6.35,"RES.SEASON"], [4441,219,"2 weeks ago i went into the pine barrons in manchester nj ,deep in forest to shoot a pistol. i left the gun in the car and scoped out the area before i started shooting. i started down a trail and when i turned the corner i heard heavy heavy footsteps run away from me and smell a skunky/homeless person type oder. i looked around area but saw nothing. then i walked in another direction and found a stream or pond. then something threw a rock into the water making a good size splash. i now went back to the truck and got my gun when i went back to the trail. i saw nothing but thought this might be a bigfoot. couldnt stop thinking about it so i went back a couple days later with a bigger gun and an axe. when i got to the spot where this hapened i heard a loud call like choom choom choom choom. this startled me and i cocked the hammer. i then heard footsteps coming tawards me in the thick vegitation. it came within 15 feet away and stopped. i could not see it through the brush. with my gun pointed in its direction it threw a large stick that landed along side of me. i said \"hello ?\" any body there, but no reply. i almost emptyed the gun into the bush but desided not to because i cuoldnt see the creature. i could smell it ,feel it, here it, and it threw something at me twice! i backed off and walked back to my truck the whole time ready to shoot if it atacked me.when i reached the truck this thing let out another call only much louder and much closer choom choom many times. a small bird on a tree branch began to act crazy. i took this warning and left. this sunday i went back with food, i took food to the spot where it threw the stick and backed away. then i heard some vocalizeations and got one of them on mini disc recording. sounds kinda like / coo coo kaa kaakaa coo coo ka kakka. went back to the trail to see if food was gone and was met by more stange bird behavior. many birds fleww rapidly out of trail as if some thing scared them out. when i looked down the trail i heard a loud snap of a tree or branch being broken. i backed away and soon after heard some low moans and groans, much too low to be a person. i also smelled the same oder again. this thing has an exeptional abilty to hide. all three times it was very close to me but for some reason i could not see it. i am convinced this is a sasqatch or more than one of them. i can take you or researchers to this place in nj pine barrons. this story is not a hoax and i dont beleive a person would be dumb enough to throw sticks and rocks at a man with a gun! i saw alot of good size trees (5or6inchdiameter) broken in half.","Edited out at the request of the witness.","Ocean County","New Jersey","Summer","Report 15062: Possible intimidation in the Pine Barrens",39.934,-74.3966,"2006-07-27",15062.0,"Class B","dr555jf03t",89.01,80.445,71.88,71.5,0.79,0.42,0.08,0.0055,0.65,"rain",1014.63,"Rain overnight.",6.0,8.0,208.0,3.63,"RES.SEASON"], [4445,538,"In mid August to early September 1998, G.G. and friend reported to me that during this 3 to 4 week time period they were setting animal traps for their fur trade hobby. During this period, usually during the evening hours, these men would hear ear piercing cries in the forest around them. They had no clue what was making the screams, but were very impressed by the volume and intensity of the screams. At some point, the screams were almost musical, kinda like whistling. About a week before the actual sighting in the area they were frequenting, they noticed 3 or 4 very large five toed human like footprints in the soft soil going up the hillside. He estimated the tracks were at least 15 inches long with huge strides even going up the hillside. Finally, on a very quiet afternoon, the men encountered the track maker. They observed it at a distance of about 100 feet. It was covered with medium length brown hair all over its' body except its face. It watched them for a few seconds, then took off up the hillside into the forest away from them. Both men agreed it had a low forehead, small dark eyes, huge hands, bulky body and a nasty smell. After the incident, the men collected the last of there traps and have not returned since. (This report was published in The Monthly Bigfoot Report, October 1998 edition)","Between Butler and Bellville, Ohio. The closest road was State Route 97.","Richland County","Ohio","Fall","Report 4973: Tracks and vocalizations lead to sighting by trappers in Bellville area",40.61236,-82.48699,"1998-09-01",4973.0,"Class A","dpjr4cqb1u",76.17,68.405,60.64,53.92,0.73,0.22,0.33,0.0001,1.0,"rain",1014.55,"Light precipitation in the evening.",8.0,9.95,228.0,2.14,"RES.SEASON"], [4459,196,"BACK IN THE SUMMER OF 1977,MY HUSBAND AND I WERE LEAVING HIS UNCLES HOME LATE AT NIGHT.WE WERE IN THE AREA OF MENDEM,N.J.(I BELIEVE THIS IS THE CORRECT SPELLING.)WE WERE ON A VERY REMOTE DIRT ROAD.WE HAD MADE THIS TRIP TO MY HUSBANDS UNCLE NUMEROUS TIMES AND I ALWAYS ASKED MY HUSBAND TO LEAVE THE INTERIOR LIGHT ON IN THE CAR,BECAUSE IT WAS THAT BLACK AND SOME HOW,I FELT SAFER. THIS ONE NIGHT AS WE LEFT,WE SLOWLY WENT ALONG THIS REMOTE TRAIL SLOW AS USUAL WHEN SOME THING CAUGHT OUR EYE.\"IT\" CAME FROM THE FRONT LEFT DRIVERS SIDE OF THE CAR,STOPPED DEAD CENTER IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR CAR WITH OUR HIGH BEAMS ON IT,AND THEN CONTINUED TO MOVE QUICKLY TO MY RIGHT INTO THE WOODS AGAIN. THIS HAPPENED SO QUICKLY,BUT MY HUSBAND AND I STOPPED THE CAR ALITTLE FURTHER UP TO ASK EACH OTHER WHAT WE JUST SAW.JUST FOR YOUR INFO,I AM A BELIEVER,AND MY HUSBAND IS THE SKEPTIC IN THE FAMILY.HE SAID EXACTLY WHAT I HAD BEEN DESCRIBING TO MYSELF: ABOUT 6 FEET TALL.HAIRY BROWN,WITH UNUSUALLY LONG ARMS THAT SEEM TO SWAY MORE LIKE AN APE.WHEN IT STOPPED IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD DIRECTLY IN FRONT OF OUR CAR,IT'S FACE LOOKED MORE APE/MONKEY LIKE THAN HUMAN HOWEVER FEATURES WERE THERE THAT MADE IT APPEAR HUMAN LIKE.IT RAN/WALKED QUICKER ONCE IT SAW US. THIS HAPPENED SO MANY YEARS AGO,BUT IT SEEMS LIKE YESTERDAY TO US. MY HUSBAND IS NOW A BELIEVER BECAUSE HE WITNESSED SOMETHING VERY STRANGE.MANY MANY YEARS LATER WHILE BROWSING THROUGH A NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC MAGAZINE,I SPOTTED A PHOTO OF SOME PRIMATES.ONE IN PARTICULAR WAS VERY SIMILAR TO WHAT WE SAW THAT NIGHT IN NEW JERSEY. I AM NOT ONE TO WRITE IN,AND EVEN AFTER WE TOLD MY HUSBANDS UNCLE WHAT WE SAW THE FOLLOWING DAY,HE LAUGHED AND SAID IT WAS PROBABLY A BROWN BEAR.WE DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT BEAR,BUT I HAVE NEVER SEEN A BEAR WITH ARMS THIS LONG SWINGING THEM SIDE TO SIDE. SO WHAT WAS IT? MAYBE SOMEDAY WE WILL FIND OUT. I AM SHARING THIS EXPERIENCE WITH YOU BECAUSE WHAT WE SAW BACK IN 1977,WAS SIMILAR TO A \"BIG FOOT\" THAN ANY OTHER ANIMAL WE HAVE EVER SEEN,OR READ ABOUT.WE'RE OLD ENOUGH NOW TO TAKE A GOOD \"RIBBING\"FROM OUR FRIENDS,BUT IN 77,WE BASICALLY TOLD VERY FEW PEOPLE WHAT WE SAW THAT NIGHT. THANK YOU.","I AM WRITING TO YOU AT 1:30 AM. MY HUSBAND IS SLEEPING.HE COULD GIVE YOU EXACT LOCATIONS AS HE WAS THE DRIVER. I BELIEVE THE AREA WAS CALLED MENDEM/MENDAM...NEAR BERNARDSVILLE. SHOULD YOU NEED ADDITIONAL LOCATION INFO I WILL GLADLY HAVE MY HUSBAND PROVIDE IT FOR YOU.","Somerset County","New Jersey","Summer","Report 2750: Driving along a secluded road at night, couple's car almost strikes creature crossing road",40.7446,-74.6215,"2004-04-23",2750.0,"Class A","dr4zvcq63p",58.57,52.1,45.63,50.05,0.82,0.9,0.13,0.0026,1.0,"rain",1018.26,"Light rain overnight.",4.0,9.77,50.0,3.45,"RES.SEASON"], [4461,279,"Summer of 2020 (quarantine year), in late July, I was hiking with a friend along Rio Chama. Although we were just on the other side of the river from town, the railroad was not running, the campground was closed, and the majority of the town was empty. This was a short day hike as we are seniors. We had a dog accompanying us (pit bull mix) for part of the way. Before we reached the river we had to return the dog to the car- she became unusually excitable and fearful. Note: my friend and the dog live up on the mountain, the dog is used to wildlife and has treed a bear before. Anyway, windows down and dog much happier, we returned to our walk. We had crossed the river and was on the trail that runs by the bank when we heard a series of hollow knocking sounds. These were loud and resonate, not woodpeckers or falling branches. A short time later they were repeated at a distance- the knocks sounded lighter in tone, like a hit on a more solid wood. The knocks close to us responded- and we decided that it was in our best interest to leave the area.","This is probably not accessible now- we were able to walk back to the area due to everything closed by COVID. Parked at the rail yard, crossed tracks and walked through the salvage yard area (unused railway equipment). Followed path to Chama river, crossed at a rocky ford. Continued on the path along the river approximately a quarter mile.","Rio Arriba County","New Mexico","Summer","Report 69437: Possible Sasquatch wood knocks in forested riverbed beside Chama during lockdown",36.90237,-106.5784,"2020-07-20",69437.0,"Class B","9ws1ytzgzk",82.63,67.47999999999999,52.33,47.08,0.54,0.11,0.01,0.0016,0.16,"rain",1012.8,"Clear throughout the day.",11.0,10.0,350.0,5.42,"RES.SEASON"], [4483,2538,"Im a gunsmith in Seattle WA. I was out deer hunting on 11/16/02 east of GREENWATER WA. off of FSRD.73 approx. 12 mi. in off of RT.410 high up on a mountain 200 yds from Mt. Rainier N.P. Approx. 8:30am I was slowly working my way down the frozen dirt rd watching for any movement when about 300 yds down the road my eye caught a movement. It was black & coming toward me. At first glance I thought it was a bear but as I watched it I could see it was walking upright so I assumed it was a man.& I thought \"What the hell is this idiot doing up here in the middle of nowhere during deer hunting season dressed like that without a stitch of blaze orange on..God, he's even wearing a black stocking cap He's just begging to get shot. It kept walking towards me and I was taking small quiet baby steps toward it. All I could see that wasn't black was a kind of round lighter gray area where its face was. I didnt think it could see me cause I was headed down hill & the uphill road was at my back.It was windy & overcast& was even snowing on the peaks above & behind me.After it walked toward me..some 50 yds.to about 250 yds..all of a sudden it stopped & I froze in my tracks cause I knew it had seen me. In the blink of an eye it leaped from my side of the road( I was in the left tire track walking downhill) All the way across the road cleared the road & 4 or 5 ft. to the thick trees & disappeared. When it lept or bounded, I could see no distinction between the two legs. So I quickened my pace as I thought \"What the hell was that!!\" I got to a small grass road where there was a place where another campsite was About 60 yds from where this thing hit the trees,I made a mental mark where it went in, The grass road went in about 40 yds and then I was looking straight down off the ridge. I sat down on a pile of big deadfall and waited, figuring it would either come toward me or away from me..as it sure as hell wouldnt go over that ridge. After 20 mins. or so, I walked back out to the dirt road and went down to where I thought it had gone into the trees..as the mud in the dirt rd was frozen, I couldnt find any tracks..hell, I wasnt even leaving any tracks..I searched up & down the tree line it was so thick w/ under brush I couldnt find any tracks there either..But I knew that if it was a bear or any big animal w/ claws, it would have left at least claw marks when it leaped!","East on Rt. 410 out of Enumclaw WA. Past Greenwater to FSRD. 73 turn right on 73 go across bridge over Huckleberry creek(approx. 5 mi.) keep going straight uphill to mile marker 9 50 yds. past the mile marker go left on the dirt rd.about a mile I saw it about a half a mile from the end of the road","Pierce County","Washington","Fall","Report 5331: Upright creature walks on two legs towards hunter near Mt. Rainier National Park",47.0019,-121.6279,"2002-11-16",5331.0,"Class A","c23e2k3mbt",39.3,36.26,33.22,32.17,0.94,0.61,0.4,0.0082,1.0,"rain",1011.72,"Mixed precipitation starting in the afternoon and breezy in the evening.",1.0,7.7,269.0,2.97,"RES.SEASON"], [4492,4253,"On Saturday, 11/21/09 I went squirrel hunting in the Escambia River Management Area in Escambia County Florida. I began to walk into the woods at approximately 6:00am. The area I chose to hunt is a section of woods bordering the river. As I was walking, I heard a low, guttural vocalization that sounded almost like a native american dialect, only in a much lower range than most people would speak in. It reminded me of the Samurai chatter that I have heard on your website and others. I heard the sounds for about 10 to 15 seconds, and then once again a few minutes later. On Wednesday, 11/25/09, my oldest daughter and I returned to the area to hunt squirrel. We hiked back into the woods for about a mile, and found a log to sit on amidst several promising looking trees with squirrel nests. On the way into the area, we walked a game trail and smelled that \"wet deer\" smell that you often encounter around white tails. Almost immediately upon arriving, my daughter asked if I heard what she did. I asked her what it sounded like, and she said it sounded like someone walking through the woods. I told her I did hear it, did she think it was a deer, or wild hog, or some other animal. She said \"no daddy, it sounds like a man walking\". I had noticed myself that the steps sounded bipedal. Upon leaving the area, I decided to take the opportunity to show her various signs of wildlife in the area. The game trail goes throught the middle of a small meadow. The meadow contained tracks from deer, wild hog, turkey, armidillo, racoon, etc.. There are many fallen logs in the area from hurricane Ivan a few years ago, and they have become prime locations for grubs to inhabit. This is probably why so many different types of animals are making use of the meadow. One track in particular caught our attention. It was the bare footprint of what appeared to be a large man, toe prints included. My size 13 boot is 16 inches in length, and this print was approximately an inch longer than my bootprint. The print was made in a soft mound around an ant bed. I placed my boot print in the mound as closely as I could. The surrounding ground was too hard for tracks to show. My daughter immediately assumed that it was a bigfoot track. There are stories of \"swamp boogers\" in this area, so it really did not surprise us. I took a photo with my cell phone, which as soon as I can figure out how to download to the computer, I will be glad to provide. I put a 3\" shotgun shell in the print crossways to show the size. It was about 5\" wide in the heel, and closer to 7\" to 8\" broad just before the toes.r","Take U.S. 29 north from Cantonment, Fl. approximately 15 miles. Take first right upon seeing the town of Bogia sign (that's pronounced Bo Jee, but there really is no town there any longer). Go to end of road where camp site and boat ramps are. Hike north along the river following two track that beomes a game trail.","Escambia County","Florida","Fall","Report 26947: Hunter and daughter hear chatter and find possible tracks near Escambia River",30.9725,-87.265,"2009-11-21",26947.0,"Class B","dj9bnnrefh",66.88,61.385,55.89,50.98,0.79,0.65,0.16,0.0118,1.0,"rain",1014.06,"Rain starting in the evening.",4.0,9.05,64.0,5.92,"RES.SEASON"], [4494,1574,"The creature was not tall by any means probably in the low 6 foot range, I would compare to my current height of 6'1\". The hair/fur was a rather rusty brown and wavy or matted. It didn’t look like a recently cleaned coat if you were to compare it to cleaning your dogs coat etc. It looked like it was unkept and even sort of dread-locked appearance hair. I do recall that some of the hair on the body was rather long about 10 inches and I could see it move as the creature walked away. It looked a lot like of the reggae/rhasta type hair styles but not completely covering the body but just various strands of it throughout (maybe shedding from winter??). The creature had a rather glum face or expression, like a lonely old man who didn’t have any friends. I do recall its eyes sort of reminding my like that of an orangutang and sunken in. It by far didn’t look evil, or mad in any way even though we were terrified. I think we may have woken it up and it was surprised and maybe a little irritated that it had to leave its comfortable seat next to the creek. The hair around its head sort of drooped down on the sides. There didn’t seem to be much hair on its face but it did have some. The nose may have been flat. I don’t recall any details about the mouth or ears etc. Its possible it had a slight cone shape to its head but not drastic. I don’t recall any smells or odors associated with it. There really wasn’t a neck and when it moved its legs just seemed to float forward without any obvious effort. The animal appeared confident, agile and very graceful. Once it disappeared into where-ever, I don’t have clear details into the rest of the moment. I know we walked over to the site and I felt the tree where it was sitting and recall it was warm to the touch. I think we looked around for tracks and there may have been some but it was so mucky and swampy it wasn’t clear, but I’m fairly certain we could at least see that the ground and brush was a little disturbed etc. There was not a lot of vegetation between me and the creature as far as having part of my vision blocked. I could see the entire creature for the most part except for minor sticks and things in the way as it moved. We more than likely hung out at the spot for sometime recalling what we saw as young kids do. I think back now though, that I don’t recall each of us sharing exactly what the other one saw because I think we each thought that we saw the same thing. As far as arm size or length I don’t recall a big size comparison but I think they were a little longer than a humans. It seemed to walk with its arms to its side with maybe the forearms slightly facing out/forward like a jogger but its arms didn’t swing at all to my recall. I was totally aware of such a creature as Bigfoot back then, even through I don’t recall us saying it was “bigfoot”. I think I believed in this creature the moment I had seen the Patterson film in the early 70's maybe a few years before my sighting. It just seemed real even through what I saw didn’t resemble that one very much. Its possible what I saw was rather old. It just had the sense that it was wise and old. I don’t feel that my prior belief or viewing of the Patterson film caused in anyway to make up what I saw in any way or influence/convince me in seeing what I saw, since they were slightly different in appearance etc. There were other reports in and around N. Michigan the entire time I grew up there. In fact a year or two after my sighting there had been accounts in the local newspaper (Crawford Co. Avalanche) of strange sighting and incidents by members of the National Guard. I heard that about 40 people watched a creature on the artillery range with binoculars for awhile and that something was jumping on a tank and banging on the outside while there were soldiers inside. They did not see what it was because it was nighttime but the story’s I remember is that it was being called the “tank-banger”. There have been many numerous sighting in and around the Grayling area through the 70's. I had briefly mentioned my story to the other friend who was with me about a year ago just to see if he remembered it. I think he was surprised that I did too and seemed to not have as vivid of a recall as I feel I have. In fact he was unsure of what he saw and sort of felt it was a human. Anything is possible and I respect what he claims to have seen, but I have no doubt that what I saw was how I described it above. I never felt at the time it was a human or a bear, it felt like something unknown to my mind and creepy. Since we never talked about details after our sighting, I just assumed they saw exactly what I saw and they felt the same about me, unfortunately we didn’t compare our stories the moment it happened. I don’t recall who my third friend was but I’m certain there was one other with us. Some of the minor details have faded since this is about 35 years ago but the appearance of the animal has always been clear to me.","You can reach the location by traveling N. from Main Street In Grayling, going past the hospitol and elementary school and proceeding north down Roberts Road. Just past West Dr. about a 150 yards, turn west (left) into swampy cedar swamp. There is a small creek crossing the road, follow this creek upstream approx. 150 yards or about 5 minute walk.","Crawford County","Michigan","Spring","Report 23530: Man recalls childhood incident near Grayling",44.7,-84.71,"1973-05-01",23530.0,"Class A","dpgy23kh3g",60.08,55.8,51.52,48.35,0.93,0.95,0.95,0.0151,1.0,"rain",1011.59,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",4.0,3.08,124.0,5.91,"RES.SEASON"], [4496,602,"Our trail cam took a picture of something with long hair. Whatever it was stood right up in front of the lens, so you can't see a body shot, but the picture shows brownish-reddish hair hanging down in front of the camera. There were a few large tracks - barefoot - the toes were clearly visible. We took pictures of the tracks with a tape measure alongside them.","We have 39 acres just east of State Route 60 in New London, Ohio. This occurred toward the back of our property.","Huron County","Ohio","Summer","Report 49614: Strange game camera photo leads to finding possible footprints outside of New London",41.06939,-82.36591,"2015-08-24",49614.0,"Class B","dpm3tsqyx1",72.61,63.99,55.37,55.46,0.72,0.41,0.31,0.0039,0.85,"rain",1012.89,"Foggy until afternoon.",7.0,2.39,249.0,3.0,"RES.SEASON"], [4512,2763,"My three friends and fellow soldiers recently spent a three day camping trip into Olympic National Forest Elwha River Trail. We had to return to cell coverage, so myself and my buddy headed out of the forest and north on the main trailhead. The night before was a heavy thunder storm so the trail was very muddy. I was a leading us out and stumbled upon a very clear muddy print of a left foot. I wear a size 11 mens boot and to me this was clearly a size 14-15. The print seemed recent and had clearly defined toes and arch. We only had a cellphone to take the picture with and regrettably only took the one. The tracks, that seemed to be from the same source (none as clearly defined), went on heading north on the trail an additional 25-30 feet. That night we decided it was in our best interest with the horrible weather to make camp at one of the historical cabins on the trail. We retrofitted a poncho in one of the open windows to shelter us from the rain and wind. We secured it by weighing the bottom half down with a 2x2 piece of wood. During the heaviest gusts of wind it seemed to hold up. At approx 0100 hrs the tarp was opened and something knocked the piece of wood onto one of my fellow campers. Being woken up by this, I saw the tarp movement with no wind source being observed. These events could have easily been a bear... I do note, however, that the large garbage bag that was littered with foodstuff was untouched throughout the night. I include these occurrences to make sure and give you a thorough recording of events substantial or not.","About a mile and a half into the Elwha River Trail.","Clallam County","Washington","Winter","Report 28739: Hikers find large barefoot prints on the Elwha River Trail",47.94485,-123.5436,"2011-01-16",28739.0,"Class B","c280u8n6cr",50.14,46.795,43.45,45.64,0.94,0.98,0.39,0.0184,0.91,"rain",1006.0,"Light rain until afternoon.",1.0,9.5,242.0,0.65,"RES.SEASON"], [4513,2573,"Sound sighting only summer of 2016 on a fishing trip in Mt. Rainier National Park. A friend and I started our hike from Forest Service road 73 into Mt. Rainier Nat'l. Park via the trail that goes past Lake Eleanor. This was the closest we could get to our fishing destination, (Oliver Lake) due to longtime road closures in the area. We hiked in on maintained trails through Grand Park and down to the White River and then up Lake James. From that point it was a cross country bushwhack past Lake Ethel along Mosquito Flat onto Marjorie Lake. Our plan was for two nights at Oliver Lake but with some route finding difficulty we stayed at Marjorie lake for one night. The next morning we hiked for about fifteen minutes and located Oliver lake, set up camp and then began fishing. As we fished around part of the lake from approximately 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. I found it odd that I did not see any sign of other human evidence of any kind, ie; fisherman trails, trash, areas previously camped in, etc. By the way the fishing was fantastic all catch and release except for the last one, a nice 15 inch rainbow trout which was dinner. Later that night at in the tent my buddy and I were sharing, my buddy was fast asleep and I was tossing and turning trying to get comfortable. Suddenly I hear guttural low pitched screams coming from the ridge above us, which I estimate about three hundred feet up. Every inch of my body is at attention now and I am trying to figure out what is making the noise. The screams came in quick succession and total about 8-10 screams. By the time I wake up my buddy the screams have stopped and I explained to him what I heard. We continued to listen and did not hear anything else and eventually went to sleep. I am writing this now because it jogged my memory from watching a bigfoot show on TV last night and it really struck a chord with me and to reach out and report what I heard. I have been an active hiker, camper and fisherman for many many years and have stayed in many remote places here, Canada, Europe and South America and have never heard this type of low pitched guttural screams. I have come across bear and cougar and did not attribute this sound to any of those species. No one else in the area knew where we were going except for the park staff that gave us the permit at Carbon River Ranger Station.","Mount Rainier National Park","Pierce County","Washington","Summer","Report 63900: Possible sasquatch vocalizations at Oliver Lake in Mt. Ranier National Park",46.9805,-121.7464,"2021-01-15",63900.0,"Class B","c237m8dcpr",37.41,32.0,26.59,32.81,0.95,0.79,0.1,0.0156,0.85,"rain",1028.7,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",1.0,4.9,253.0,5.48,"RES.SEASON"], [4516,1006,"I am submitting this report for the witness. The sighting was viewed from the witness’s home, through the window. The creature was viewed at a distance of approximately 130 feet when a car’s headlights backlit the creature as it ran from left to right across the road from the witnesses perspective. The occupants of the car where not identified or contacted, but did stop a short distance from the creature, insinuating that the driver also observed the sighting. The creature was running fast, upright, very hairy, humanoid in appearance, and estimated to be 7 feet tall (definitely larger than the witness who is 6’3”). The local dogs were barking excitably, which is why the witness looked out the window. A search for footprints with flashlights was unsuccessful for finding clues or footprints. However, the ground is moist and soft, and it is currently not precipitating, so there may be fresh prints or evidence still available in the morning.","Go East on #26 to Rhododendron, turn left before the Mt. Hood Foods store. Road immediatly continues left and parellels the highway for 100 yaards, then right. Sighting was about forty feet from the small outhouse looking building on the left another 50 yards up the raod.","Clackamas County","Oregon","Winter","Report 3441: Oregon resident near Mt. Hood catches glimpse of a bigfoot in his neighborhood",45.33175,-121.9139,"2001-11-29",3441.0,"Class A","c213cu3h84",42.59,39.575,36.56,39.67,0.96,0.95,0.46,0.0216,1.0,"rain",1003.57,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",1.0,8.85,221.0,7.41,"RES.SEASON"], [4544,2979,"I was traveling down Highway NN when I glanced over and saw something upright. It was NOT a bear. I know what a black bear looks like and this was huge and on two feet. I slammed on the brakes and backed up to the location (to view down the road where I saw it). I stayed there for a few minutes to see if I could hear or see anything. It was so dead quiet not even birds were heard. I was rather freaked out about the situation and was a little scared.","From Hayward, take Highway B to Highway NN. It was probably about four to five miles down NN, located near the clearing that was formerly a dump.","Sawyer County","Wisconsin","Spring","Report 59421: Possible daylight sighting while driving outside Hayward",45.95919,-91.30911,"2018-05-06",59421.0,"Class B","cbpj6nwext",70.1,57.69,45.28,38.06,0.51,0.28,0.71,0.0001,0.12,"rain",1018.98,"Overcast in the morning.",9.0,10.0,10.0,1.49,"RES.SEASON"], [4564,3069,"I was hunting West Virginia's late antler-less deer season in the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge when the sighting occurred. I had gotten to the area shortly after 3:00pm that evening, and after parking my vehicle in the \"Camp 70\" parking area I hiked up what appeared to be an old logging trail directly behind the parking area. I had already gotten a late start and wanted to get afield as quickly as possible, so I decided to stalk along the logging trail until I got further into the river bottom. After hunting the trail for roughly 30 minutes I was able to see a long distance in the river bottom to my right, so I decided to move into the bottom in hopes a deer would emerge from the thick along the river at dusk. I came across another \"road\" after leaving the logging trail, so I started walking further into the valley on it. The road was frozen and crusted over due to the cold temperatures, which made traveling quietly impossible, so after a short distance I found a small group of trees a few yards from the trail and set up in them. Shortly after arriving I heard what sounded like brush breaking 150 - 200 yards below me, towards the river. I readied myself in hopes it was a group of deer moving into the flats to feed, but nothing appeared. A few minutes passed by and I heard the sound again, and again, nothing materialized. I decided to move closer, and positioned myself in another group of small trees 100 yards or so below my first site. I had been in this grove of saplings for 5 - 10 minutes when I caught movement in a cluster of trees that was about 80 - 90 yards below me and to the left. I could see the movement with my naked eye, and immediately upon seeing it I scoped the group of trees and to my surprise saw nothing. A few minutes went by and I caught the movement again, I quickly scoped the trees, and this time I was shocked by what I saw. At first I thought it was a large man, as the first thing I saw through my scope was a vague silhouette, but when my eyes focused I could see what appeared to be a primate-like creature standing upright and staring directly at me. It only broke it's stillness to slightly move the upper portion of it's body in an up and down motion. It would bend it's knees as if it was going to sit down, then immediately straighten back up. This went on for what seemed to have been over a minute, then the creature exited the group of tree's and moved to my left (the creature's right), towards the mountain behind me. It walked across an expanse of river basin that I would guess to be 70 - 80 yards long before entering the timber and exiting my field of view. It kept watching me the whole time it was walking, only breaking it's stare on me a few times to look directly ahead of it. I initially thought of attempting to locate it's track's, but my nerves got the best of me and I started moving towards the parking lot as quickly as I could. Though the creature never actually made any threatening movements, I didn't feel safe enough to continue hunting and remain in the valley any longer after the sun went down than I had to. I immediately left the area and had no further incidents on the way to my vehicle.","I do not know the name of the road that leads to this area of the refuge, though it is easy to find. Simply turn left off of US Route 32 in front of the small shopping center clearly visible as you start to exit Davis, upon turning left continue on a straight path until you cross a small wooden bridge. After crossing the bridge stay on this road and it will lead directly to the Camp 70 parking area.","Tucker County","West Virginia","Winter","Report 25301: Hunter has close sighting of a primate-like creature in the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge",39.10023,-79.4593,"2008-12-28",25301.0,"Class A","dnzqrvgx25",57.16,42.07,26.98,37.99,0.74,0.14,0.04,0.0047,0.95,"rain",1018.3,"Rain until afternoon.",2.0,9.87,246.0,4.41,"RES.SEASON"], [4569,1171,"Me and a couple of friends had been bored, when I decided we should take a walk through the woods behind my house. I didn't think much of it, as me and my friend have done it many times before. There were four of us, and we set out at about 11 o'clock at night. It was rather dark, but there was light from the moon. The weather was rather cold, as we did this in the winter. The area we walked on was game trails (trails that moose walk on) as well as trails used for mushers, runners, cross country skiiers, and that sort. We had walked about 2 miles from my house to another entrance where most people enter. On the way we had talked about unexplainable events or things such as bigfoot, and UFOs. When we reached the bridge where most people come in, one friend had smoked a cigarette. We then saw a light and decided to go on. On the way back, we heard wild dogs barking wildly, and decided to pick up the speed. It eventually became a sprint, whereafter we walked. When we walked, we continued talking about it. It was then I had realized, some thing had been following us, as well as testing us, or even harassing us. It was much earlier, I just didnt think about it. I had thought it was my friend Warren, who is sometimes clumsy. I had thought it was him who had made noises such as slipping, but it was really something throwing stuff at us. I had realized this about half way back. I asked if Warren kept slipping, when he told me it wasn't, and he thought I could have been pulling a prank. We stopped for a minute to listen when I told the others something strange was going on. We stopped, and shone a flashlight around, hearing noises such as steps, and branches moving and breaking. The leader had thought I had been playing a joke when I told him seriously, I wasn't. He decided to walk behind with me, when something threw snowballs, and nearly hit us on many occasions. It was then he realized that this was no joke, and we picked up a light jog, for most of the way. When we were almost out of the woods, we had again heard dogs, and maybe 20 ft away, the branches breaking, and again, something throwing stuff at us. By the time we left, it was about 3-3:30 in the morning. I did not go directly to my house because I didn't know if it was still following us. I know this was not a prank because the snow is more then 5 ft deep in the woods, and someone would have a extremely hard time to play a prank like that.","Few houses on the way, a power relay station. To get to it our way, go down Dowling Road(left off of Lake Otis), where you will walk a trail. Follow it all the way down, but there are multiple entrances and trails.","Anchorage County","Alaska","Winter","Report 8792: Four nocturnal hikers get pelted with snow near Anchorage",61.09085,-149.7667,"2003-12-12",8792.0,"Class B","bdv7xcppyz",24.67,21.3,17.93,20.83,0.94,0.67,0.62,0.0003,0.19,"snow",980.34,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",0.0,9.88,38.0,0.13,"RES.SEASON"], [4571,4010,"I moved to a small, rurual area outside of Orlando, FL (from Missouri)just a few months ago and I'm still learning my way around the area. Subsequently, my wife and I often drive around on the weekends to get better familiar with our new home town. Today, (Saturday Sept 2, 2006) we struck off to go to a shopping mall called Waterford Lakes and it was en route to the mall that I saw something peculiar. My wife was driving today, so I was relaxing looking out the passenger side window at the various swampy patches that are so common in central Florida and I must confess that I'm always looking for wildlife. My wife teases me because she knows that I'm primarily looking for aligators and thinks that it is such a \"tourist thing\" to be doing. However, on a couple of occassions I've actually spotted aligators sunning themselves, as well as numerous deer and turkey, so I feel justifed enough to keep looking. Well, we were traveling south on the Florida Turnpike and just saw a sign for the Ocoee exit when off to my right I saw a man walking in a very swampy & rugged section of meadow about a hundred yards to the right of the turnpike. As he was going in the same direction as we were heading, I was able to watch him for about 5 to 10 seconds and really didn't think too much about him other than he was pretty gutsy to walk in that area all by himself, considering that he seemed to walk with an odd gait. Another strange thing was that he seemed to be dressed in all brown from the head down to his knees (the tall grass covered his lower legs, so I can't say if this guy was wearing shoes or socks). Please note, this took place at about noon, on a very clear Florida day and I believe that the temp was about 93 degrees, so seeing a guy walking around such an area without a hat, or short sleeved shirt is unusual. Well, by this time we passed the fellow and I kept looking off to the right to see where he might ultimately be headed, but for the next few miles all I saw was more swamp and grass. As I stated, my wife was driving and didn't see the man, but I was talking with her about it as it happened and she asked me a few questions (she thought he was probably homeless). When I started describing the man to her, I started to question whether or not the \"fellow\" I saw was necessarily human. For example, either his hair was very, very bushy, or this guy didn't have much of a neck. Actually, his head looked a little pointed. He must have been fairly big, because I could clearly see him even at 100 yards distance, yet try as I might, I couldn't identify a single article of clothing on him. Finally, I couldn't even confirm his skin color, because I literally only saw dark brown over his entire body, including his hands. I must confess, I'd be thrilled to think I might have seen a bigfoot, but I just don't know because my first thought was that this is just some poor idiot who was going to pass out from the heat in the wilderness. But on reflection, I think could be wrong. One thing I can say for sure is that he didn't seem frightening or monsterous in anyway. I would imagine a bigfoot encounter to be much more exciting than this. However, I was at a very safe distance and in a moving auto, so I might feel differently if I met him on foot. Any thoughts? ","Feel free to post, but also let me know what you think I may have seen.","Orange County","Florida","Fall","Report 15694: Possible daytime sighting by motorist on FL Turnpike outside Orlando (near Ocoee exit)",28.5465,-81.5545,"2006-09-02",15694.0,"Class B","djn42htz6m",91.48,82.72,73.96,72.94,0.78,0.35,0.31,0.0005,0.35,"rain",1013.79,"Humid throughout the day and partly cloudy until afternoon.",8.0,9.97,216.0,1.27,"RES.SEASON"], [4574,4365,"I was driving home from work at about 11:00pm. As I rounded a curve in the road I saw something walking across the road in front of me. It was tall, not slim but not thick and covered in grayish - brownish hair. It never turned to look at me and just loped across the road and off in the dark. I was traveling about 40 mph and slowed quite a bit to ensure it would make it across without me hitting it.","Lee's Mill Road","Fayette County","Georgia","Summer","Report 26313: Motorist has late night visual encounter near Tyrone",33.49565,-84.5317,"2009-07-17",26313.0,"Class A","djgys3tyk9",86.12,74.425,62.73,69.47,0.75,0.44,0.83,0.0002,0.17,"rain",1012.68,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,9.56,267.0,3.2,"RES.SEASON"], [4575,5007,"well it was really dark outside and i could not make a good visual of the creature but it was unlike anything i have ever seen before in my life. If was about 8ft tall and i would say about 450 pounds. it was walking like a human kinda but not exactly. It was very hairy looking and was making some weird grunting noises. Then when it saw me i about **** my pants i was so scared i thought about running but i was too scared to run so i stayed and then it left i was so relieved. There is such a thing as bigfoot i took pictures of his foot prints in the mud and i think that they should send researchers out here to look for it i believe that you will find it actually i promise you will find it.","Start at Raceland Super Quik \"Gas Station\" on US23 and head towards Greenup until you get to the caution lights on the highway. Then you will see on the left about 1 mile up the road a set of gates on the left. It used to be addingtons landfill. But now it is abandoned and there is just alot of forest back there now. After you go through the gates you stay on the main road which is blakctoped and you stay on that road for about 2 miles and then it turns to gravel. Follow the gravel road until you come to another set of gates and go through them. Stay on the gravel for about 2 miles then there is a dirt road to the left follow it to pine thicket and then you go up this real steep hill and that is the area where i saw bigfoot.","Greenup County","Kentucky","Winter","Report 1265: Sighting of 8-foot tall, upright creature",38.53187,-82.7989,"2001-01-04",1265.0,"Class A","dnv55ye8mv",30.56,29.05,27.54,22.9,0.81,0.94,0.31,0.0002,1.0,"snow",1020.63,"Light precipitation until afternoon.",2.0,8.64,236.0,5.94,"RES.SEASON"], [4579,4733,"I had been at my camper out past Canton Lake on N. Martin Rd. finishing a sculpture which was my project for the day. It had just gotten dark so I can guess the time. Having no flashlight I stepped into the road to begin the long walk back to Canton. I lit a cigarette and heard a small knock in the thin group of trees behind me. I turned, looked in the trees, seeing nothing I began walking. Down the road I went. It was a bit chilly. I knew walking would warm me up. I had just enough light to see the road ahead, the night sky was a shade lighter than the trees. About 10 minutes of walking I had just become more at ease with the night time walk when a great noise happened in the road ahead of me (about 30 ft.), like a cow falling into the loose gravel. I strained my eyes to see what it was. A crumpled shadowy figure stood up. Human? I thought to myself, \"that must have hurt.\" Yet I hadn't heard any groan or speech during the fall. It walked calmly across the road. This is when its legs were seen, a lighter shade of road behind them. Biped for sure, but, too muscley. Some light glinted off the fur. It was animal. I know when I am seeing an animal, and not a snowsuit. Biped! I just seen sasquatch (a strange thin, tall, muscley one). And I still had to get on by where it disappeared into the shadows again. A house to the left had a garage light, which dimly lit up the yard, nothing crossed the yard. My impression was that thing ducked behind a bush and was still laying there when I finished walking by. I think these creatures are mostly nocturnal and curious, but they really just want to be left alone. I didn't want it to feel cornered or provoke a defensive attack, so I just kept walking.","Drive east of Canton Lake on E Middle Lake Rd. Turn right onto Wilson Rd and then left onto N. Martin Rd.","Fulton County","Illinois","Winter","Report 28569: Wood knock and possible nighttime sighting east of Canton Lake",40.5634,-89.95824,"2008-12-27",28569.0,"Class B","dp0nbbq6vj",62.44,44.2,25.96,50.77,0.96,1.0,0.01,0.0632,1.0,"rain",1004.8,"Rain in the morning and afternoon.",1.0,6.85,192.0,6.41,"RES.SEASON"], [4583,10,"I was on my way to Claremont from Lebanon on Rte 120 and was passing by some reeds in a marshy area next to the road that sounded like a huge flock of birds. The creature came out of the reeds and was crouched down looking at me through them. Surprisingly it got out of the reeds from crouched to standing turned around and ran towards the wooded area up a hill and was moving with it's arms brush and tree branches out of the way. It was incredibly fast runner and I got a good look at its coconut shaped head as it ran away. It was light brown/brown. It had incredibly broad shoulders. I went back the same day. The marsh went up to my knees and I could smell a bad odor like garbage. Myself and a friend went back to the sighting. We found a footprint and a hair sample. I could hear wood knocks when my friend James did a call and we also found a large bed of branches and some tree structures. The following month I went back to Claremont and I heard screeching in the woods while I was traveling Rte. 120 on a bicycle.","Close to Claremont down 120 not far from Kingston road.","Sullivan County","New Hampshire","Summer","Report 55269: Dawn sighting at Stevens Brook outside Claremont",43.41549,-72.33093,"2016-06-07",55269.0,"Class A","drswfpd1x1",74.69,64.245,53.8,54.64,0.79,0.61,0.1,0.001,0.7,"rain",998.87,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,9.7,262.0,0.49,"RES.SEASON"], [4584,3000,"A guy of friend and I were fishing and spending a couple of days in northern Wisconsin. After a day of fishing we were driving back to the cabin at around 6 or 7 pm. After just passing(heading east) the Tahkodah golf course, I was looking out the back seat (on the drivers side) and saw this brown figure kneel down behind some bushes as we drove by. Due to the curves in the road, we were probably going around 25-35 mph. It lasted only a split second, and something didn't register right with what I saw. I was going to remain silent until the driver of the Jeep said, \"Did anyone just see that?\" He had seen the same thing-a brown figure kneel down, like a human, to hide behind the tall bushes. I affirmed that I saw it, but didn't know what it was, so wasn't going to say anything. I've seen bears fall from their hind legs to all fours and this wasn't the same falling forward motion. It was as though someone standing upright and then kneeling down, in a straight fashion, to a crouching position. We didn't go back to investigate b/c we were too scared.","We were staying in a cabin on Hwy D, just north of Lake Namekagon. We were fishing on Lake Owen, which is to the west of Lake Namekagon. To get to our boat, we took Pioneer Road to Lake Owen. The sighting was just east of the golf course on Pioneer","Bayfield County","Wisconsin","Summer","Report 24508: Possible early evening sighting near Lake Namekagon",46.25961,-91.10812,"2008-08-18",24508.0,"Class B","cbppnv31fb",79.89,64.505,49.12,59.91,0.74,0.3,0.56,0.0001,0.07,"rain",1013.72,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",6.0,9.91,351.0,1.21,"RES.SEASON"], [4586,1911,"I witnessed a 8-9 ft tall upright hominoid creature with black hair and brownish grey skin apparent on its face chest and abdomen. There was also noticeable scraggly matted hair hanging from its arms. It had wide bold shoulders and hair partly covering its forehead. The eyes were wide set and large. I witnessed this creature while on route to the Nucor Steel plant to deliver some steel coils from Canada while long haul trucking in spring of 2021. I saw it just for a few seconds as I was driving a big rig and there was water on either side of the road.","The route I took that time was through the back country due to google maps trying to give the most economical route. To the best of my memory it was near Hwy 41 and Steed Creek Road. [Investigator (MM) Notes: During our converstation the witness looked at aerial images and clarified the location. It was not far from intersection of Hwy 41 and Steed Creek Road, but was actually on Cainhoy Road (also called State Road S-8-98). The spot was basically halfway between the Cooper River and Quinby Barony Ave. GPS coordinates: 33.093199, -79.810204 or 33°05'35.5\"N 79°48'36.7\"W For Google Maps pin click .","Berkeley County","South Carolina","Spring","Report 71700: Trucker's daylight sighting of a Sasquatch in Francis Marion National Forest",33.0932,-79.8102,"2021-03-15",71700.0,"Class A","djzhrb7vze",66.03,60.955,55.88,49.43,0.71,0.67,0.08,0.0007,0.08,"rain",1022.9,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",7.0,9.969,78.0,8.61,"RES.SEASON"], [4589,785,"I live outside of Mannford Okla. in Creek county.6 miles south on Highway 48. By 87th place. I was outside about midnight September 8th 2009. I was talking on my cell phone out in the driveway of Our house. There are a few trailers around Us and the one directly behind Us keep their porch light on most nights. The moon was very bright and there were clouds but mostly a clear sky. I was chatting on the phone when I noticed movement that was shaped like a man walking across the field in front of some medium sized trees...The head was about halfway up to the top of the trees, which would have made them about 7-8 feet tall. I told the persons that I was on the phone with and then preceeded in telling someone in the house to turn Our back lights on...I saw the being being followed by a smaller or a hunched over second being. They crouched into the tall grass and then I lost sight of them until they walked off into the darkness and more trees...all I could see was a dark outline and the gait was very apelike..arms swinging at the sides...Their body seemed to turn at the waist to look my way... There have been an abundance of Bigfoot sightings in this area the 2 years We have lived here. We often hear screaming in the woods. The last incident was last Summer for about a week.","Off highway 51 that heads out of Tulsa okla., You head west through Mannford and turn south onto highway 48 and go about 6 miles to 87th.","Creek County","Oklahoma","Summer","Report 26554: Man has nighttime sighting of two bipedal creatures behind his home near Mannford",36.03501,-96.36707,"2009-09-08",26554.0,"Class A","9y7kzpgxhs",89.62,80.325,71.03,67.6,0.73,0.35,0.63,0.0013,0.91,"rain",1013.55,"Mostly cloudy starting in the afternoon.",8.0,9.66,157.0,3.99,"RES.SEASON"], [4606,1678,"This happened a long time ago, I just found your website and I thought I might as well talk about our incident. Those of us involved do not talk about it much, I probably the most. There was 6 of us and we were camping on the Otter Creek south of the airport in Cloquet, MN, Carlton County. It had to have been in 1977. I was 16 and the others were 15-16 years old. This was my fishing and camping site on the pipeline and I had built a lean too and we were all out there that Friday evening drinking some beer and going to fish for trout in the morning. We had a camp site with a fire pit and we had a good bon fire going. We were sitting around the campfire it must have been around 9-10 P.M. We were not drunk out of our minds. In the distance we heard this walking coming from the east in the woods following the creek. I had been chased by a bear out there on occasion so I felt it was a bear coming down the creek. Then it sounded like a person walking through the woods so we thought it may be the Game Warden, who knew all of us kids and he may be checking for trout lines. Then came the odor, Worst case of B.O. I have ever smelled to be honest. I again thought this is a bear because of the smell and I started to get a little nervous because we had food out there but it was hung up in a tree. As it approached us, it came far enough into the light to show a shadow. It was on 2 legs standing up, very tall, every bit of I would say 8 foot, and walking in very huge strides, swinging it arms, making alot of noise. It stayed enough away from us and circled to our south and stayed close enough to see the shadow. Once it circled us it was back on it's line heading west as it had been the whole time we had heard it coming, following the creek bed. We were all so scared as to who or what it was we sat in silence around the fire as it passed, watching, and not sure of what we were watching. Again I can tell you the smell was obnoxious. To be honest, I have smelled bears before and since, and they really do not have that kind of obnoxious odor. As I said before, I am the only one that really talks about it, seeing your web site I see back in that time period there were several sightings in St. Louis County which is a county bordering Carlton County. I had no idea there had been sightings in this area before. I can not say for sure what it was because all I seen was a shadow. But a srange type of shadowed figure to see in the woods. A bear could not walk that long on 2 legs, plus a bear does not take the strides that this creature did. The only thing I can come up with is that we had an experience with a Big Foot. We never did go and look for foot prints the next morning. I think we were all glad it did not come into our camp because we had no clue as to what it was. I have no reason to tell a story about this and I am not known by people as a story teller. Seeing your web site, I felt it belongs here.","Off of Moorehead Road, you come to the Pipeline and go North untill you come to Otter Creek. We camped at the south bank on the west side of the pipe line.","Carlton County","Minnesota","Fall","Report 9796: Man recalls multiple witness incident as a teenager camping south of Cloquet",46.69303,-92.49979,"1977-09-03",9796.0,"Class B","cbq1xh5wwe",67.65,60.015,52.38,46.0,0.69,0.37,0.69,0.0192,1.0,"rain",1021.44,"Rain starting in the evening.",6.0,9.69,103.0,3.61,"RES.SEASON"], [4610,2915,"I used to live in Suquamish, WA. during 1994-2002. My house was located at the top of center street in the middle of the suquamish tree farm. My family and I during those years of residency had seen and heard quite a few times what we believed to be sasquatch. The first time I saw one was in early 1995, and I was 8 years old at the time. It was a fairly chilly overcast winter day. We had few neighbors at the time and there was noone outside, so it was very peaceful. My mom had instructed me to pick up some cans from the backyard alone. The backyard was connected to the woods. I was at the edge of the woods and started heading back towards the house when I heard something very large running in the woods about 20 feet away. I quickly turned around to look and I saw what I thought was a bear at first, but it was running on two feet and it stopped quickly as it saw that I turned around. When it stopped, it stood straight up (on two feet like a man), and held its arms and hands close to its side. Ferns were covering parts of its legs. It was about 10 feet from any trees. I got the impression that it was hoping that I didn't see it. As it stood still there, I stared at it for several seconds trying to figure out what it was. It was about 6'5\". It was very muscular, and very hairy except for I did not see hair on the face and on the fingers. Its fur was a dark brown color. To be honest I cannot remember exactly what the skin color was, but I think it was light tan. Its eyes were directed toward me. The facial features were very similar to human features. I remember them being a lot more human than ape-like. Its face was not course and scary! I stared at it for about 10-15 seconds until I finally figured out what it was, and then I bolted back to the house as fast as I could. There was a few more occasions that I have seen a Sasquatch, as well as my mother and my brother. We not only had sightings but almost every night we heard branches being broken in the woods and being hit in patterns, hollars and/or \"woo woo\" vocalizations coming from deep in the woods or close to the edge of the woods near our house. We often heard the \"woo woo\" sound between 2 or 3 sasquatches (I believe). My brother and I had gone out in the woods a lot trying to recreate the \"woo woo\" vocalizations and we would hit sticks on trees in patterns. I can only remember two ocasions that we actually got a response. The first time was when we were in the woods at the edge of our property, and we were beating a stick on a tree in a pattern of 4 strikes each. After doing this for about 20 minutes not very far away from us we heard a very large tree branch being broken off of a tree following by 4 loud strikes on a tree. It responded in with 4 strikes a few times and then it stopped. The other time was when my brother and I were in the yard at about 9 o'clock at night, and it was very dark. Jokingly to my brother I did the \"woo woo\" vocalization, not expecting a response, but about 3 seconds later near the edge of the woods that were infront of our house we heard a loud and somewhat dragged on \"woo\" .","Center Street is the only road that runs along through all of Suquamish. The sightings ocurred west at the very top of the hill. At that time the forest was owned by the Suquamish Indian tribe, but this may have changed I don't know.","Kitsap County","Washington","Winter","Report 16295: Mutliple daylight sightings in Suquamish",47.45411,-122.3219,"2008-01-28",16295.0,"Class A","c23jbqzbjp",36.69,35.8,34.91,31.17,0.88,0.96,0.71,0.0026,0.58,"snow",1005.75,"Overcast throughout the day.",1.0,10.0,188.0,2.03,"RES.SEASON"], [4617,1547,"I have three encounters with what I believe to be Bigfoot or an unknown crpytid. 2008- In late fall I accompanied my wife, daughter, and my mother to stay in a rental cabin near island lake, situated near the manistee national forest in northern lower michigan. As an avid mountain biker I brought along my bike and had planned several rides. The second day of my stay I set off on a ride about 6pm and entered a thick pine/cedar forest on what appeared to be a game trail. After roughly 1.5 miles of riding (I marked a way point on my GPS before entering the woods so I could easily find my way back) I noticed my front tire was very low on air. Shortly after I came to a very small clearing in the woods, it was clear cut purposefully with exposed stumps and new undergrowth. I set my bike against a pine stump and began to repair my front tire. To my right roughly 50-60 yards was a partially destroyed and burnt old RV. Seconds after glancing at it, a very loud thump came from within the camper. All I can describe it is as a \"head\" appeared in a broken window, which had to be over six feet from the base of the camper. From my distance all I could see was jet black fur and no noticeable ears, the eyes were not noticeable or black as well. It cocked its head to the right slightly as I mounted my mountain bike. I rode off quickly following my GPS map back to my starting point. Whatever it was I saw I believe followed me back to my cabin, as very foul and pungent odor lingered outside the next morning. 2009 For a short time while finishing my bachelors degree my wife and daughter lived with my dad. His house was at the end of a very long drive which backed up to hundreds of acres of woods and a large state recreation area called Waterloo in southern lower Michigan. After my parents divorced my mom who is a nurse moved in with her mother to provide care who lived right next door. December 3 I arrived home from school about 7pm. Shortly thereafter (I lived in an apartment in the basement) I hear a knock on the sliding glass door. It was my mother who looked very disturbed and frightened, and says she has been hearing howls all evening. I assumed coyotes as they were very abundant there. She was unshakeable in her opinion that it was not a coyote. I stepped outside onto the patio and shut off the exterior light. What I did notice immediately was a very strong odor being whirled around in the wind. I waited nearly 5 minutes and then I heard it, it was very near the tree line. Howling like I never have heard from a coyote, deep penetrating bass notes that sounded ragged and throaty. It was very windy and beginning to snow, and the howls seemed to occur in different locations. Due to the snow falling overnight no tracks or signs were observed. Thank you for reading my encounters, I appreciate your time.","First encounter was at a rented cabin. The second encounter was at my fathers house which he has since sold. My mother still lives next door.","Grand Traverse County","Michigan","Fall","Report 32976: Possible daylight sighting by a mountain biker in the Pere Marquette State Forest",44.685,-85.433,"2008-12-03",32976.0,"Class B","dpgnpytsfz",33.11,27.285,21.46,28.95,0.93,1.0,0.18,0.0066,1.0,"snow",1009.49,"Snow (< 1 in.) starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",1.0,4.22,223.0,1.76,"RES.SEASON"], [4618,4235,"1979 or 1980 I went back in the swamp and woods in naples off of floridian ave where i lived and we came acrossed a metal cage trap a tall trap where if you go in and touch the meat the door will slam behind you Iwonderd about the trap i knew there wasnt no bear in the area but we were around the caGE AND THATS WHEN WE HEARD A LOUD KIND OF ROAR WE RAN OUT OF THE SWAMP AND TOLD MY MOM AND SHE WANTED TO GOBACK THERE BUT IWAS TRYING NOT TO","E MAIL ME ILL TALK TO YOU","Collier County","Florida","Summer","Report 13889: Man describes incidents in teen years in swamp area outside Naples",26.09729,-81.71505,"2007-07-15",13889.0,"Class B","dhtukwbgtr",91.8,83.19999999999999,74.6,72.66,0.74,0.16,0.04,0.0006,0.4,"rain",1016.2,"Humid throughout the day and partly cloudy in the evening.",11.0,10.0,168.0,0.21,"RES.SEASON"], [4623,2820," My buddy and I went out deer hunting on 10/15/05 opening day. We were going to a favorite spot of his on [a particular road in the area]. Anyway, we got to the spot at about 6:00am still dark, we sat in the truck till it got light enough to see better. We were at the start of the spur truck not running, windows down. We were talkin when I noticed a loud sound on my side of the road, it was stick beating. There were loud 7 slams in a row. It stoped for maybe 5 seconds then 7 more from further off in the distance. This went on for aprox 8 minutes. I asked my buddy if he was hearing it and he said yes but he thought it was just a hunter trying to spook up deer. I don't think so ... why would somebody do that back in the woods an hour and a half before daylight? At one point later on a low bed truck came down the road, most likely to pick logging epuipment. When the truck got closer the driver of the truck stopped, then quickly shined a spotlight in the timber around where we heared the beating. He then took off grabing the gears fast (I know because I drive a log truck too.) The stickbeating stopped after that. However, when we did hear the beating, they were very hard and heavy bangs. I'm 6'2\" 250 lbs and I tried to make the same sound, to describe to my brother in law what I heard. The loudest knock sounds I could make weren't even close to what I heard. I haven't been back since due to my work schedule. So there it is, Tell me what you think...","Just west of Aberdeen, on the way to Westport.","Grays Harbor County","Washington","Fall","Report 12876: Deer hunters hear wood knocks near Aberdeen",46.93755,-123.8358,"2005-10-15",12876.0,"Class B","c0rgn09x09",58.08,55.13,52.18,51.54,0.88,0.96,0.44,0.0019,0.85,"rain",1009.04,"Overcast throughout the day.",2.0,9.91,86.0,2.8,"RES.SEASON"], [4627,3059,"I'll be brief since this was only an audio. We were backpacking in the Otter Creek Wilderness near Elkins WV. It was the first week of Jan. '07. It was unseasonably warm. We were out for about 4 days, 3 nights. The third night we were camping by Yellow Creek. It was Saturday night at about 4 30 pm. It was starting to get dark and we were working diligently to start a fire. It had rained on and off the entire time we were there so everything was wet. As I used a small log to hammer my hatchet through another log ( splitting kindling), I heard something howling way up the hollow. It was pretty far off by my estimation and at first I mistook it for a coyote. I kept hammering away as my buddy, who works for ODNR Div of Wildlife, was talking. He hadn't heard it. I then heard it again. The same call. This time something struck me as strange. It wasn't a coyote. There are several reasons I quickly came to this conclussion. The call was long and drawn out without the typical undulations and yipping associated with a coyote. It was also very far off. If it had been a coyote, it would have had to been at least 3 or 400 lbs. to produce that kind of volume. I stopped hammering. My friend looked at me and immediately asked what I was listening for. Then we heard it a third time. It resembled the scream of a woman ( for lack of a better comparison ). It was quite long, perhaps 5 or 6 secs start to stop. It definitely resembled a primate call of sorts. Coyote have never made the hair stand up on my neck before and I can identify about every call in the woods in this part of the country. I looked at him and asked if he could tell me what we had just heard. He said he could not and we both agreed neither of us had ever heard anything like that. I have heard similar recordings on websites devoted to the north american great ape theory aka; bigfoot. He and his fiance had also taken their dogs. She hadn't heard it but the dogs had been acting strange since we arrived at that campsite, several hours earlier. At one point they were barking at what seemed to be nothing. One of the dogs hair was standing on end from the base of his tail to the back of his neck as he sniffed the wind and repeatedly barked in the upwind direction. This was about an hour before we heard the call. It was still daylight and we saw and heard nothing. It was obvious to me that whatever he was smelling was scaring him. After going to our tents for the night and the fire had burned down, I heard more noises closer to camp. It sounded as if someone was stomping around in the rotodendrin and was not trying to be quiet at all. I also heard branches snapping and they sounded pretty large. This was in the direction of Yellow Creek. Perhaps on the other side of the creek. My friends did not hear this. They somehow had gotten to sleep. This only lasted a few minutes and then ceased altogether.","Otter Creek Wilderness area around Yellow Creek. I believe the trail was called Yellow Creek Trail. The campsite was in a small stand of pines approx. 75 yds from the creek.","Randolph County","West Virginia","Winter","Report 17449: Possible vocalizations heard by backpackers in Otter Creek Wilderness",39.9433,-79.665,"2007-01-09",17449.0,"Class B","dpp75pmwwf",35.13,29.26,23.39,24.18,0.73,0.96,0.7,0.004,1.0,"snow",1013.59,"Snow (< 1 in.) until evening.",2.0,6.22,260.0,6.99,"RES.SEASON"], [4645,923,"The story I have to tell is not a single sighting but three events that took place during the fall of 1979 and the winter of the same or the year of 1980. During this time I was working, living as a resident of the Portland Job Corps, which is located on the banks of the Sandy River, which enters the Columbia River at Troutdale, Or. The camp which is about 4.5 miles up the Sandy, I'd say, where the students live and worked at the time. I'm not sure if the camp is still there or not. The Sandy River takes a turn to the south [at the confluence with a small tributary] and goes up into the westside of Mount Hood. This is where the camp is located. The kids or students who lived and worked there were able to cut holes in the fence and play and explore in the woods, which we did. There was a path that led to the place called The Falls, which was about a half mile from the camp where a lot of students would go to hang out party etc. On the way to the camp was a structure the kids had made. I remember one of the people who constructed it. He was Jim Hinkly, an Indian, whom I knew to be a likeable sort of guy. It was nothing more than a framework made of poles or cut trees about three or four inches in diameter, put roughly into a big lean-to, using trees for support, covered with plastic to keep the rain off of us while we sat and smoked chatted etc. This place was used on a daily basises for a couple of weeks or so and every thing was cool till one afternoon, Jim came into the welding shop and told me someone or thing had destroyed the shack. Strange, I thought. So as soon as class was out, I went over to look at it. There was a structure about ten foot deep by about fifteen feet wide, nothing more than trees lashed to the standing trees to make a full roof basically at a slight angle to shed water to the back. The place had a strong smell, very bad, and the place was a wreck. The main trees/poles that formed the roof were broken in two, snapped like toothpicks. I'd personally hung on them many times and they hardly swayed under my weight. Chairs, broken metal, I might add, and the table broken like someone had hit it in the middle of it and broke it. There was hair around the trees also but no one thought to gather; it reddish in colour, about three inches long. The main things were the smell and the fear a person felt when close to the area. I'd say this was in August or September. The next one was probably in October or November. A group of us was out back above the football field at night partying with the full moon. It was cool and foggy, with the fog moving quickly and low to the ground so the moon was seen but the landscape would be changing - sort of a nice night; the hill, a gradual one, was covered with long grass and we were having a good time with lots of noise, carrying on, probably a group of 8-12 kids, me being one. I would have been about 19 at this time, as were most of the others also. The party was going on when all of a sudden the entire group went dead quiet at the same time. We sort of all started looking around at each other and Martin, who was an Alaska Indian, standing next to me, said: \"What is that?\" Through the fog one could see the form of a large biped close to us, about 30-50 yards away, in the fog. We saw it long enough to know it was not a human, too big, too muscular. I'm a hunter, also have been that from the time I was 6, raised in the woods. I know bear, deer, elk etc., none of the above was what we saw. With the fog moving, it was an eerie scene as the thing would be visible, then fade and then show again. The moon was behind it, so it was a shadow that showed up fairly easily when the fast moving fog didn't obscure it from view. Martin said \"Let's go see what it is\". I said, ok, a couple of girls screamed, and we took off toward it and the girls and some of the guys took off the other way. What happened next was interesting. As we were moving toward the spot where we last saw it - briskly, I may add, I in the lead, all of a sudden I couldn't go any futher. My feet wouldn't move and as the fog moved away, it was about the same distance away, looking at us. Martin was close to me and as I turned to look where he was exactly, when we looked again it was gone in the fog. Total time elapsed was only about one to two minutes from the time we first saw it to the time that it was gone. We moved probable only 100 feet before we couldn't go any farther. The third event happened that winter in a snowstorm - a bad snow storm, I might add. The camp had been stranded for about two days and it had been snowing steadily. It was about 7-9pm. I was dorm leader at this time. Two of the students came in the back door and both where white and moving fast. I said: \"What is wrong with you guys?\" One said nothing and another wouldn't say anything, either. Part of my job as dorm leader was to look into things like this so I followed them to their bunks and lockers where I got one - I forget his name - to admit that they were outback smoking on the football field when something scared the hell out of them. Rocky, the other person, wouldn't say much, just was white and scared. The other kept saying something out is there. Me being the fool I am, said \"Bull\" and headed upstairs to get my coat and boots on and headed out into the snow storm to the football field to find out what was up. Too much snow, about waist deep - I'm 6'2\" tall - for a cougar etc. to be wandering around, I thought. So I headed out across the football field, being the brave fool I was. Things were going well until about 20 to 30 yards from the edge of the field, where the physical training stations were located. This camp used to be an FBI training camp, I was told, and it had a track and training stations around the football field and farther down the hill towards the creek where the road and the town of Troutdale sat. As I said, things were going well until about that far from the edge, when I suddenly couldn't go any further forward. It was not that I didn't want to; I couldn't and in the flying snow I kept being drawn to a large clump of blackberry bushes below the situp station. So I stayed there and played with the feeling. I could back up and it went away, I would come forward and it was present. Strange, I thought. I had a feeling about what I was feeling and what created it. No one else wanted to come out and play from the dorm. They thought I was nuts so I stayed for a while and then went back as it was snowing hard. I won't fill out much more of the details below except name and contact info. If you like I'd tell you the same thing I basically told here. A long time has passed and although I still remember it, I don't know where anyone else is or even if the camp is still in operation. This is in response to reading the Locals book which I found quite interesting and it is something else to add to you list of sightings. The one thing I found most interesting was the inability to move any closer in both situations and the definitive line where this happened. Subsonic sound I don't know, but whatever it was it worked quite well.","From I-84 take the Troutdale exit and go up the Sandy River to the Job Corps camp. On the left side of the road there is a large sculpture of a dragon made by a student at the gate.","Multnomah County","Oregon","Fall","Report 7789: Members of Job Corps group have several encounters",45.5145,-122.3352,"1979-10-15",7789.0,"Class A","c214bjwjpj",67.19,58.955,50.72,54.48,0.87,0.95,0.84,0.003,1.0,"rain",1019.22,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,7.23,130.0,1.48,"RES.SEASON"], [4653,1149,"I was driving west on I-80 at 65 MPH, in the right lane with cruise control set at 65. We were returning from a wedding in NY. We had been in a an area of mountainous/hilly forest close to road. The country started to open up with some farmland. My wife dozed and I was rather lost in thought. I diverted my sight to about 30 degrees to the right and was startled to see something that got my attention and kept my attention until about 60 degrees to the right. It passed quickly out of view because of the speed of the vehicle and a bank and some foliage obscuring the view. The road is two lane, one way and I could not return to the area without backing a long distance. There was no other traffic in sight at the time. What I saw was a figure, only from about what I would assume was midway from between the elbows and wrist upward. The figure was what I think of as being the wrong color, it was the color of a kraft paper bag except slightly more reddish. ( seemed the wrong color from reports I have read). It was long hair covered and I could not see a face. It was not moving during the approx. 3 seconds that I was able to view it. It was in front of some woods, not dense, standing about 150 feet away on the other side of a strip of narrow, fallow, farm field. It seemed to be facing the highway although I could not see a face. I assumed the field had high growth in it as I only saw the upper portion.It was only the upper body and head with the hair obscuring any sign of a neck.I could not estimate size but it was stocky. Among my reactions, I was imaging something or someone had put up a mannikin. I rethought that, as there did not seem to be habitation nearby and a mannikin would likely have been a full figure to get maximum startle value. I know I saw something that I can accurately describe and draw a rather accurate picture. ( I am a retired industrial designer ) From the briefness of the sighting I can only say what I saw and think that this sighting would only be of value if there were other sightings in the area. When I saw the figure a strong chill went down my spine that lasted several moments. This sort of thing is not in my normal experience. I have been an instrument and glider pilot for 48 years and am rather used to making quick, fairly accurate observations in relation to that. I also have been trying to convince myself that I did not see anything. It was unsettling.","Westbound lanes of I-80 approximately 15 miles west of the town of Clearfield.","Clearfield County","Pennsylvania","Summer","Report 24731: Brief sighting by motorist on Rt. 80 just west of the town of Clearfield",41.12782,-78.5826,"2008-09-13",24731.0,"Class A","dr21gz1fut",72.58,70.27,67.96,66.24,0.94,0.91,0.44,0.0051,1.0,"rain",1014.59,"Light rain starting in the afternoon, continuing until evening.",5.0,4.96,238.0,3.33,"RES.SEASON"], [4655,562,"I had been told about recent Bigfoot sightings in this area, so I’d been on the lookout for Bigfoot and sign ever since. I knew that many sightings had occurred after rainfall. One night last August, after a day of bad storms that ended by evening, on a whim I decided to drive to this park at night. It was an eerie night with distant lightning flashes in the sky. There’s a road that leads to a parking lot. At one point the road sharply veers to the right into the parking lot. If you were to go straight, you would be driving down a private drive. As I turned down this road, looking straight ahead down this private lane, I saw big eyes looking back at me. There was one set of very large, close together, blue-white eyes high off the ground. They almost looked cartoonish in shape, they were so large. They were oval and sort of cocked toward each other like a cartoon figure. They were totally unthreatening looking – in fact, my impression was of a gentle and frightened creature. Halfway down this large creature I saw several smaller blue-white eyes. I never saw a “pair”, though. They were just random blue-white dots in several places halfway down the creature. When I first saw the eyes, I stopped my car and just stared in disbelief. The eyes didn’t move for several seconds. Then the tall big-eyed creature’s eyes started to sway back and forth. When it did that, the shorter eyes all started to move, appearing and disappearing and moving around in a smooth and floating manner. I never saw figure shapes or fur. Just eyes. When everything started moving, I panicked unfortunately, turned my car around and got out of there as fast as I could. What can I say? I’m a female and I was alone at night in a park looking at strange eyes. I went to my sister’s house 10 minutes from there and told her about it. She got her son and his girlfriend, and the four of us went back to the sighting area to explore it with flashlights. We saw nothing – no prints or sounds or smells. However, it was a noisy night insect wise, but when we walked in the sighting area, it was eerily quiet. Two things I noticed. By seeing my nephew and sister in the same spot where I saw the eyes, it was apparent that the adult creature was much taller than they are. Also, I was able to clearly see my relatives’ shapes and clothing. I couldn’t see the creature’s shape, so it (they) must have been very dark from top to bottom. My general impression was that I stumbled upon a female with her young children out walking around after the heavy rains that day.","Location edited at the request of the witness.","Geauga County","Ohio","Summer","Report 15088: Possible approach at night near Chesterland",41.50086,-81.28275,"2005-08-14",15088.0,"Class B","dpqhn758n9",73.64,69.295,64.95,68.18,0.91,0.78,0.31,0.0008,0.57,"rain",1014.62,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,6.73,30.0,1.67,"RES.SEASON"], [4659,4056,"Hello, I just found ur web site, have 2 reports. NO B.S. This occured in North Port, Florida in 1999, in the summer. My wife & i were sleeping & about 2am we both woke up and heard something outside are window. We were living at the time on the backside of Myakka State Park. This area of Myakka State Park is very desolate, very isolated. Besides ur regular wild animals only other thing that would be walking around would be ur Florida marijuana growers in the swamps out here. My wife & i have lived in Florida 30yrs and both are avid outdoors types. I hung out in these woods in this area for over 20yrs,and thought I had heard everything, my wife also. Well anyway when we woke up and heard something out are widow, we had a very strong odor of something coming thru are window. My wife & i looked at each other with looks on are face ,with wonder, we both said at the same time, what the hell is out there, right as we said that this thing shreeked almost human sounding, but a real wild shreking...I was going to send our lab & pit bull after it but we couldn't get them out of our room,& they had never been scared of anything.Then I went to check on are little girl,she slept thru this. When this thing screemed in our window, to reach the window from outside it would have to be at least 7ft tall. We did not dare go outside, espically since our dogs wanted no part of what ever it was...","As I said ,this area is swamp area of the park,are street Ruff st. is right next to the large cannal that borders myakka park,no one goes out on this end of the park except ur local pot growers,becase it is very isolated,still is today.","Sarasota County","Florida","Summer","Report 8561: Husband and wife hear early morning vocalizations near back of Myakka State Park",27.1788,-82.20475,"2004-08-05",8561.0,"Class B","dhvd97srfr",87.83,83.72999999999999,79.63,75.38,0.79,0.42,0.68,0.0018,1.0,"rain",1012.75,"Humid throughout the day and partly cloudy until evening.",9.0,9.86,271.0,5.17,"RES.SEASON"], [4664,3895,"A friend and I were hunting on the Grand Mesa on the Lands End side. We had hiked down Kanna Creek Trail to look for game. We had spent most of the day on stand and hiking. We made our way back to my truck. We decided to stay the night so we could hunt in the AM and then go home. We were getting things set up for camp. Building a fire getting food out to cook. I had a Pop-up camper and I had just got it up and situated when my friend said \"What the heck is that sound!?\". He had never spent much time in the woods as I had so he was freeked out instantly. I came out of the camper to see what the problem was. Then I heard it. It is the hardest thing to explain how it sounds but, here it goes. It sounded like a scream. Deep in sound, very loud and it lasted for long periods of time with the sound going up and down in volume. It also sounded angry for some reason. At first I didn't give it much thought. I had heard a Mountain Lion screem and that will make hair stand up on the back of your neck. I have also head bears. But bears do not do that sort of thing. They are quiet most of the time. As this sound is going on and on and on pausing for short moments as if to catch its breath, my friend is realy freeked out by now. I said to him it is just a Lion or two lions or a lion and a bear fighting across the lake. This did not calm him down much. I had my sidearm on me still. So I pulled it out and shot off a round in the air during the screeming. Silence. See I told him, we scared it away. I started to go about getting food out so we could eat. Now it is a little darker and you can't quite see details across the lake but you can still see. not even a minute later after firing a round off in the air, the sreeming started again. This time closer but still across the lake, louder and it seemed more pissed off! As if it was very mad we were here. Now we could here like bush being raked or shook but we could not see it. Just hear it. Now, I am getting freeked out because of what just happened. It came closer! Now, you would think a gun shot would scare game away not bring them closer. My friend is now really freeked out and wants to leave. NOW! I tell him \"We have highpowered rifles and we will be safe\". The whole time we are talking about leaving, the screeming is going on. I gave in to him wanting to leave and started to pack up camp. This took some time for us to do. Maybe 5 minutes or so. During this time the screeming was going on the whole time. Got everything loaded in a hurry buttoned up the camper and we got in and started it up and left. It is now dark and headlights the only lights besides the stars. The drive up and out of the lake has a few switch backs. I stopped at one to see if the screeming was still going on. It was not. We then drove out of there and down the mountain not saying a word. We had stopped to get a bite to eat and we just felt unsure of what we had experienced. Both of us decided not to say anything to anyone. I know I didn't say anything to anyone about it for a long time. I am unsure if my friend has said anything to any one. I have watched shows on TV about BIGFOOT since. Some of the shows had taped sound of what they said was BIGFOOT. To me it sounded like what I had heard.","At Carson Lake. The lake sits on the edge of what is called Lands End on the Grand Mesa.","Mesa County","Colorado","Fall","Report 20028: Hunter recalls unusual and persistent vocalizations at Carson Lake on the Grand Mesa",38.9969,-108.1098,"1987-10-15",20028.0,"Class B","9wgjgghv7j",49.54,38.56,27.58,38.94,0.96,0.66,0.78,0.001,1.0,"rain",1014.24,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",4.0,10.0,359.0,1.22,"RES.SEASON"], [4670,1875,"10/31/2020 9:30pm Car broke down near Molly’s Rock Park on highway 176 between Whitmire and Pomaria near Mount Bethel Garmany road. Was with wife and son-in-law. We heard 3 long vocalizations or howls that were identical to Sasquatch howls you hear demonstrated on tv or online. Did not sound like coyote or cows for sure. This is a fairly isolated area in a national forest. Son-in-law is a hunter who is familiar with animals and sounds in the area.","Near Molly’s Rock Picnic Area. Sumter National Forest.","Newberry County","South Carolina","Fall","Report 67219: Howls heard near Molly's Rock Park in Sumter National Forest",34.39092,-81.54448,"2020-10-31",67219.0,"Class B","dnn58ktjeu",65.55,58.77,51.99,44.24,0.68,0.38,0.51,0.0006,0.05,"rain",1027.4,"Partly cloudy throughout the day.",4.0,10.0,51.0,5.87,"RES.SEASON"], [4686,2537,"It was about 7:30 on Friday the 15th of November. It had been dark for a couple hours and had been raining all day. I was wood working on my front porch. Several houses exist in the woods around me, but the properties are large and wooded, and civilization only diminishes as you head South. Our neighbors live about 20 yards East of us, and ten yards beyond their house are old growth cedars, maples, and firs. They weren't home at the time. I was in the middle of using my cordless drill, when I heard this call come from the woods. I instantly stopped drilling and listened. The first thing I thought was \"That's loud!\". It started in a low moan-like sound and climbed to almost a scream. The sound lasted steadily for three seconds, then was followed by two to three short whooping sounds. At that point I was severely freaked and was already heading inside. I only report it because it seems consistent with other reports I've read. Two days later, I down-loaded a Bigfoot scream, and the hair stood up on the back of my neck when I played it. That is what I heard.","Witness wishes the location to be kept confidential","Pierce County","Washington","Fall","Report 5725: Man hears loud vocalization while woodworking on his porch",47.0586,-122.2864,"2002-11-15",5725.0,"Class B","c2359qcb0q",50.4,44.305,38.21,41.39,0.94,0.68,0.37,0.0006,1.0,"rain",1020.41,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",1.0,7.57,174.0,1.19,"RES.SEASON"], [4688,3283,"A family member was driving west around four am in the morning, when the creature crossed the road in front of the car. She is not inclined to repeat the old stories she has heard all her life and has never thought it was real. Well today she has a new respect for those stories, she has said that she was driving on County Road 10 in Miller County, Arkansas going west about a mile or so from Hwy. 237 in Fouke, AR, when it crossed the road right in front of her car.","County Road #10 about one mile east of State Highway 237.","Miller County","Arkansas","Summer","Report 36498: Pre-dawn sighting on a rural road near Fouke",33.33171,-93.98622,"2012-09-13",36498.0,"Class A","9vvjt7c763",83.21,76.12,69.03,67.33,0.77,0.41,0.91,0.0033,1.0,"rain",1019.08,"Light rain in the afternoon.",4.0,9.91,121.0,1.85,"RES.SEASON"], [4694,906,"January 20th, 2016 about 1100. I was driving towards hwy 126 on High Banks road. I saw a large animal covered in long hair in a field to the right of the road. It was a lot larger than a bear. It was so out of place, in the open field. It was frozen still. I haven't seen any cattle in that field lately. I regret not stopping to take a picture. I was on my way to a doctors appointment and had a car tailing me. I was planning on asking the farmer who owns the property what animals he has had in the field lately.","Field next to the new business park.","Lane County","Oregon","Winter","Report 50901: Still hairy figure seen in a field by a motorist near Springfield",44.05917,-122.9343,"2016-01-20",50901.0,"Class B","9rbdds9zr0",47.4,47.33,47.26,40.1,0.85,0.89,0.39,0.0026,1.0,"rain",1020.29,"Mostly cloudy in the morning.",1.0,9.83,152.0,1.16,"RES.SEASON"], [4699,3795,"On Thursday July 25 my girlfriend and I we hiking in Mayflower Basin south of Co 91. We were up in the basin and Helen had gone ahead to the foot of the basin. I was about 100 yds off the three miner log cabin remnants sitting on a rock enjoying peanuts and water when, looking west, I saw a very large brown biped approach the snow wall / cornice and seek to climb it. The biped was unable to climb up over 20 feet, moved back down laterally to its right, and then down to the ground off the snow. It then walked on two legs very briskly to the right, subsequently out of my view. About 4-5 minutes later a hiker with his dog came walking down the trail. And I later saw this brown biped from time to time walking above the snow cornice southbound. Did not see it again. Helen returned to me, we discussed, then walked down to the locked gated prohibiting cars into the basin to talk with the hiker. His name was Robbie, his dog, Dallas. We agreed to scale up the trail to where I had seen the brown biped. Helen took longer, but Robbie and I reached the area, found hand prints in the snow in an arch, one print lower with three big fingers and one thumb. Foot prints were not descriptive of toes, arch heel. We took Iphone photos and will share if interested. We then traversed to right, north, on difficult terrain. That is quite slanted where the biped moved quickly and easily. No further sighting. This was now about 2:30 pm when Inhad seen the biped about 1:45 pm. Returned back to dirt road and the parking lot by bushwacking through forest.","Stop at paved parking lot off Co 91 to enter dirt road up to Mayflower Gulch. Head south up road. At closed cattle gate, walk to right past wooden barrier fence up trail past two switchbacks. Small white rock just below snow cornice/wall is just beyond where biped sought to scale the snow and could not. Descended laterally and moved briskly along very titled hillside. This was very hard for me, Robert and later Helen.","Summit County","Colorado","Summer","Report 63153: Daylight sighting by hikers at Mayflower Gulch outside Leadville",39.41087,-106.1444,"2019-07-25",63153.0,"Class A","9xh80ws0bn",59.08,49.675,40.27,43.28,0.79,0.77,0.78,0.0072,0.69,"rain",1018.1,"Rain in the afternoon and evening.",6.0,4.567,339.0,4.81,"RES.SEASON"], [4705,1794,"After reading the FAQ section, I have finally decided to tell someone of my \"sighting\". I am not saying for sure it was a bigfoot, but after reading the article you posted about the young bigfoot caught on a game cam that some people say was \"just a bear\" made me realize that what I saw may have been a young bigfoot. My sighting was actually \"the near miss with a car\" experience. I am honestly not positive of the year, but it was near 1991 or 92. I was driving home from work, alone, about 1am. I had just turned onto the road I lived off of and was going down the first hill. Half way down, something ran across the road in front of me. I hit my brakes, natural instinct, barely missing it I was sure, and then I kept going. It was merely seconds, but I knew what I saw was not something normal. It was on all fours, but the body and head seemed parallel to the ground, unlike the bears I have seen in zoos. (They seem to have a downward slope from their hip to their head.) The body was not large at the back half but evenly proportioned. The legs seemed to be easily defined. Not real thick at the top tapering down. The only way I can describe it would be that the legs came from the hip, no flap of skin coming from the belly region to the leg to make them look bigger at the body and it seemed the bending when it ran came from the hip and knee area. The thing that has bothered me all these years, the one thing I knew that separates this from your typical animal was the head. It was the way it looked in my direction as it ran. 1) In my experience, most animals running across the road like that don't even look at you. 2) What has bothered me the most, and I couldn't put my finger on til recently, was when it looked in my direction, it didn't turn it's head \"normally\". It brought it's head up a little, but it turned it sideways to see! (picture yourself on all fours, looking at the floor. Without lifting your head, look to the left. That is how it looked my way.) I did see two eyes and a mouth, it happened too quick to get a detailed look , but I saw a face, a face that did NOT have an extended snout. Lighter colored than the rest of the brown colored body. It seemed hairless, but again, I can't be positive how hairless it was. I had a radio on, so if there was anything to hear, I didn't hear it. The next day I drove past where I saw it and saw no signs of anything. Not then , or since then. I am from Muscatine, Iowa originally. We lived not too far from the river, right beside the levee actually, and back in the seventies there seemed to be a migratory path going thru the area. I recall hearing about an encounter with a neighbors dog, and going fishing at night only to be loaded very quickly back up into the truck by dad to leave the area because of large branches breaking in the woods. But in all the stories I have heard, I never realized that a young bigfoot is known to run on all fours so I never made the connection until I read your website. I have always assumed they walk on two legs all the time.","Directions omitted upon wtiness' request","Lawrence County","Missouri","Fall","Report 24767: Motorist recalls possible early morning sighting north of Mt. Vernon",37.19201,-93.73122,"1991-11-15",24767.0,"Class B","9yt7e4e50m",69.29,58.760000000000005,48.23,56.5,0.9,1.0,0.29,0.0021,1.0,"rain",1017.32,"Foggy starting in the evening.",2.0,4.43,203.0,4.24,"RES.SEASON"], [4706,958,"November 2013 We live near the Umatilla River just 2-3 miles outside of Pendleton, OR on the Umatilla Indian Reservation. It is not a remote area. We are surrounded by farm ground and a couple neighbors within a couple thousand yards or so on a dirt road. We sleep with our bedroom window cracked about 2 inches open so the bedroom stays very cool. I awakened around 12:30AM and sat straight up in bed because I had heard something. It was very quiet in the house and no unusual noise outside but I had heard \"something\" that woke me up wide awake. Listening intently for several minutes, I heard this weird and very loud wailing, screaming, laughing noise that sounded like a cross between a woman hysterically screaming and then quickly changing to hyena-like laughing and almost a \"wooping\" yell. I jumped out of bed and ran to the front door that opens to farmland and low rolling hills. It sounded like several hundred yards out. It repeated 3-4 times, each getting quickly farther away like it was running. I did not awaken my spouse. A couple weeks later, the same thing occurred late at night. Then, a few days later around Christmas/New Years the local newspaper ran a story about \"Bigfoot\" scaring tribal members and people at night. There was also a large number of phone recordings of the same crazy maniacal laughter I had heard. The residents started calling it the \"Umatilla Screamer\".","Mission Highway, between Purchase Lane and Mustanger Lane crossroads","Umatilla County","Oregon","Winter","Report 57323: Memory of hearing the \"Umatilla Screamer\" on Indian Reservation",45.66721,-118.7056,"2012-11-07",57323.0,"Class B","c25efc3nz0",53.8,42.355,30.91,36.69,0.66,0.32,0.78,0.0029,1.0,"rain",1016.8,"Light rain in the morning.",2.0,9.96,240.0,4.37,"RES.SEASON"], [4756,2450,"I was out on the small lake fishing with a friend and we heard something big running through the water by the shore. It was not a deer or elk as it was running fast and heavy through the water. The ducks and heron in the water flew off and then everything was dead silent. When we turned the boat around, to go back to shore on the other side of the lake, I looked back into the inlet where we heard the running. I could make out something very big on two feet standing in the shadows of the trees. It was standing up and it was swaying from side to side. I tried to watch it for a while before my friend made us go back. Also my house is not far from the lake and almost every night between 1a.m. and 3a.m. I hear this roaring sound that is not any animal I ever heard and once in a while something answers back.","[The directions to the private were provided in the original submission but were removed before posting, for obvious reasons. The general location is Lake Cushman]","Mason County","Washington","Fall","Report 16053: Possible daytime sighting on Lake Cushman",47.3978,-123.2008,"2006-11-19",16053.0,"Class B","c22mskxbjq",49.4,44.91,40.42,43.11,0.9,0.83,0.96,0.0468,1.0,"rain",1010.91,"Heavy rain until afternoon, starting again overnight.",1.0,9.86,193.0,1.49,"RES.SEASON"], [4758,1259,"Me and my wife and two girls were going to see my parents who live in Cleburne county AL and my daughter who had not long gotten her drivers license was driving and I was up front in the passenger seat and my wife and other daughter was in the back. We had just gotten of the interstate and had turned down the long back road that takes us to my parents . And as we came over a hill and something huge and black darted across the road on two feet and into the woods about 50 yards ahead . My daughter said what was that I was like I have no idea , it was massive and very wide across the shoulders and it’s head seemed to just sit on top of its huge shoulders, like this thing was taller and wider than anything I’ve ever seen and moved with unreal speed . My daughter didn’t really get a good of look at it she just seen something big zip across the road , but I seen it long enough to see it was standing up on two feet and really big and I guess what stands out to me the most is just how wide it’s upper body was big enough to know that no other animal could even come close especially around here, and it’s height I’m just guessing but it seemed easily 8 feet . I still can’t believe that something like this actually exist I mean how can something that big not be seen more ,you hear the stories but to see something like this that you can’t explain, and you know most people will not believe you but I guess now I’m a believer","You get of at the first AL exit after you go across the GA -AL line on I-20 at where the fireworks stores are take a left back across the interstate and take the first rd to your right that is the road where the sighting took place. [Investigator notes: Longitude / Latitude coordinates: 33.6434123, -85.4196091 ]","Cleburne County","Alabama","Summer","Report 67423: Sighting of a Sasquatch crossing forest road off I-20 near AL/GA state border.",33.64341,-85.41961,"2020-06-15",67423.0,"Class A","djgr2hx74f",80.82,69.03,57.24,60.27,0.74,0.22,0.83,0.0015,0.09,"rain",1021.0,"Clear throughout the day.",9.0,10.0,23.0,3.74,"RES.SEASON"], [4782,2833,"Sept 30, 2013. Route 109 halfway between Hoquiam/Aberdeen and Ocean Shores Washington. I was driving back from Hoquiam to Ocean Shores where I live when a deer ran across the road heading south about an eighth of a mile ahead of me. From experience I know that if one deer crosses the road there is a good chance that another is right behind it and so I slowed way down. Instead of a deer, here comes this guy that makes it across the road in three strides at a dead run. I came to a complete stop, somewhat in shock...like \"what the HELL am I looking at?\" This guy (yup it was a male, no question about that..)stops at the top of the roadside berm, turns around and looks right at me. He gave me a grin that was CLEARLY a threat, turned back around and vanished into the roadside brush. So I got to see a Sasquatch up close and personal. My window was down and I was no more than 20 feet from him. His face was human looking except that he had no chin and he had a somewhat heavy brow ridge. The nose was a human nose and was more european than african looking. The eyes were black, the skin was grey as was his hair and he had more or less human teeth...what was left of them. His teeth were in terrible condition. When he ran, his palms were down, not thumbs up like us, and when he stood his palms faced back rather than thumbs forward like a person. The arms looked a bit longer than a human but not more than half a hand length longer. Also since it was around one in the afternoon and I was looking south at him I could see the shape of his head through the hair in the sun. The hair sticks way up and makes him look like he has a pointy head but really the shape of the head is human. My guess and it is only a guess, is that he was about 7-8 feet tall. I didn't have time to take a picture. It all happened so quickly.","a quarter mile past the iron bridge heading toward Ocean Shores.","Grays Harbor County","Washington","Fall","Report 42448: Motorist has a close daylight sighting of a Sasquatch chasing a deer near Ocean Shores (Sketches included)",47.0562,-124.0556,"2013-09-30",42448.0,"Class A","c0rg9n36pp",56.52,52.290000000000006,48.06,48.56,0.81,0.84,0.86,0.0218,1.0,"rain",1005.95,"Rain until evening, starting again overnight.",4.0,9.41,232.0,6.92,"RES.SEASON"], [4792,4667,"My wife, daughter and I were traveling on interstate 64 about 40 miles southeast of St. Louis. It was late at night when I noticed a big figure walking along the tree line. As I was passing it turned and looked at me with big glowing eyes. It turned into the woods to maybe one or to steps and looked back. There's no doubt of what I saw.","Interstate Sighting.","Jefferson County","Illinois","Summer","Report 65795: Motorists' sighting of a possible sasquatch along Interstate 64 outside Mt. Vernon",38.32304,-88.96978,"2020-07-21",65795.0,"Class B","dnbdp2qpvu",90.7,80.975,71.25,75.52,0.87,0.51,0.05,0.0242,0.91,"rain",1014.8,"Rain and humid throughout the day.",9.0,9.073,185.0,5.67,"RES.SEASON"], [4794,1579,"I was around 12 years old and watching my 4 younger brothers one evening while my parents went out for a few drinks when I heard something that scared me like nothing else I have ever experienced before or since. It scared me so badly in fact that I was too embarrassed to ever mention it to my parents, certain that they would merely ridicule me for lack of any evidence to back up such a wild and unprovable claim. I had sent my brothers all to bed an hour or so before and had been lying on the living room couch watching television around 11pm when I heard a noise outside the window the couch was situated under. It was quite loud and extremely close, just outside the window against the side of the house... close enough that I could hear an intake of breath from the source of the sound. I was horribly frightened by the sound, because I had never heard anything like it in my entire life. It was a howling scream that sounded like something dying and it gradually shifted to a gurgling chuckle or laugh-like sound that lasted maybe around 10 seconds. It did not repeat and no other sound were heard. I have heard many screams from human and animal sources including rabbits, deer, dogs, cats, racoons and possums but this sounded nothing like any of them even remotely, and I certainly never heard anything besides another human produce a true laugh. What I heard did not sound human at all, it actually sounded \"evil\" to me, for lack of a better description, and it scared me so badly that I waited around 30 minutes before mustering enough courage to don boots, jacket and grab a flashlight to go outside and investigate. It was mid-winter and had been snowing since early evening so there was several inches of fresh snow on the ground but after searching all around our house and yard I could not find a single track to indicate what had caused the sound. There is a gap between houses where the sound came from that is maybe 12-15 feet wide with a shrub-line roughly 6 feet from the side of our house, and all the snow was totally undisturbed. This really upset me, because I had been hoping that maybe a boy that lived a few doors down at that time had somehow come over and created the noise as a prank to frighten me, even though I found it nearly impossible to convince myself that the sound could be made by a human, nor reproduced so realistically by any portable recording devices available to teens in the early 1970's. Talking myself into thinking it a prank had been how I managed to dredge up enough courage to go outside and investigate in the first place... so now I was truly frightened and immediately went back in the house and stayed there until my parents returned home. I never associated this event with bigfoot until a few days ago as I was reading a few bigfoot sighting reports on the net, merely as a lark, and was amazed at how similar some of the sounds reported fit the description of what I heard that night. In fact, just reading some of the descriptions has caused me to relive a little of the terror I experienced so many years ago... and I'm not a person that has ever had any phobias or natural fears. The scream was frightening, but nearly as terrifying as the inhuman laugh it became before tapering off. I saw the term \"diabolical\" used to describe a sound heard by someone filing a report and I have to totally agree that this is maybe the most apt description I could ever imagine of the sound I heard that night. I do not mind whether what I say here is ever believed or dismissed as false, I merely wanted to get the information across in the hopes that somebody else has reported something similar at that same place and time in history and what I report might possibly add a little more information to clarify other more credible and evidenced events that others might report.","The area where this occured was bordered on the north by I-94/Exit 23, on the south by Lincoln Towship Public Cemetery (right behind our house), on the east by north-south running railroad tracks with a factory and woods beyond... and on the west by St. Joseph Ave. which leads from the highway into downtown Stevensville about a mile south from there. About half a mile west from the house you find very hilly and wooded dunes area that follows along the Lake Michigan shoreline. Lake Michigan is maybe 1 mile due west from the house.","Berrien County","Michigan","Winter","Report 7386: Observer hears scream changing to low \"demonic\" chuckle",42.0288,-86.5153,"1974-12-15",7386.0,"Class B","dp6rp717x2",43.5,39.565,35.63,35.84,0.86,1.0,0.07,0.0185,1.0,"rain",1006.42,"Rain until afternoon.",1.0,5.61,154.0,13.74,"RES.SEASON"], [4796,715,"My 20 year old step daughter had a visual sighting last night in Ashland, Ohio. The date was 4/24/2021. It was about midnight and she had left a 24 hour gym that has woods behind it. She saw a gray over 7 foot creature after hearing a twig snap. She stated it was way too large to be human and it moved way too fast to be human. She called us from the local Bob Evans parking lot in tears asking for us to come drive her home because she was so shook up. It was a terrifying experience for her. I went and inspected the area briefly the next day. I found many old deer tracks but no imprints of the creature she saw. I am not a hunter or a tracker and only spent about 10 minutes in the area. She is one person I would consider an extremely reliable witness. She is a very responsible college student that is very moral and truthful. She does not drink or take drugs.","[Investigator notes: The sasquatch was spotted at the edge of the treeline behind the Warehouse 24 Gym on the outskirts of Ashland. Longitude / Latitude Coordinates: 40.855698, -82.269722 Or click to see a Bing Maps pin for the exact location where the figure was spotted. The Google Maps aerial image for the location is outdated, only showing the gym while it was still under construction.]","Ashland County","Ohio","Spring","Report 69065: Recent encounter behind Warehouse 24 Gym on the outskirts of Ashland",40.8557,-82.26972,"2021-04-24",69065.0,"Class A","dpm2rvt18w",61.74,52.94,44.14,37.97,0.68,0.63,0.42,0.0054,0.46,"rain",1014.0,"Rain in the evening.",4.0,10.0,163.0,5.68,"RES.SEASON"], [4805,2604,"Hello: This incident has me curious. I did not see a Big Foot, but I may have seen evidence of one. This happened over a year ago, about May of 1999. It was not until a recent conversation with a person who knows a little about Big Foot traces, that it occurred to me that I might have seen the results of a Big Foot. I was working up at Canyon Park, in Bothell, WA, a corporate park that is in a region of rapid transition from country to suburban. There are walking trails around the corporate park, and some are quite wooded. I would walk one of these trails out for lunch each day; the trail can easily bee seen from the road and office buildings on one side. A stream runs on the other side. One afternoon in May 1999, I came across a tree lying directly across the trail. The diameter of the tree trunk was about 5 inches. The tree was freshly snapped off and was about 25 feet long (a young tree). At first I was confused, because it was fresh, not sawed but snapped. I could not find where the original tree trunk was located. It took me a couple of minutes to find the trunk. The tree was snapped off about ten feet up, cleared from the trunk, and laying directly across the trail as to block it. I was completely dumbfounded as how or who could have climbed up there, snapped it, and done that! I brought out a friend from work the next day to look at it, and we both were completely perplexed. It was a calm spring, and there were no winds even close to the strength it would take to snap that tree. There were no markings on the ground to indicate vehicles or a cherry picker bumping into it; we looked. Lastly, it did seem to be placed directly on the trail to block it. We pulled the tree over to unblock the trail. I was telling a friend about it not to long ago, it never occurred to me that it could have something to do with Big Foot. It would have taken Herculean strength to break that tree, and there seems no logic to doing it around an uninhabited corporate park trail. I never bothered to look for footprints. I bet the tree is still lying there. At least the ten-foot tree trunk would still be there. Sorry if this report is so cold; had I known what I was looking at, I might have looked for footprints or even perhaps could have checked for hair samples. What do you think? Big Foot or just some big animal (Bear) or kids swinging in a tree? It is a corporate park completely cut off from where kids play, so I doubt that. Too massive for kids to break as well I think. Very perplexing and very close to civilization too. Murray Stockill Mstockill@aol.com","Off Pacific Rim Blvd, in Canyon Park. Walking trail that skirts office buildings along North Creek.","Snohomish County","Washington","Spring","Report 391: Blocking of walking trail",47.79111,-122.1914,"1999-05-12",391.0,"Class B","c23pgkngqh",50.55,46.695,42.84,42.4,0.83,0.99,0.9,0.0208,1.0,"rain",1018.23,"Rain until afternoon, starting again in the evening.",4.0,9.44,171.0,1.37,"RES.SEASON"], [4812,4013,"My bigfoot sighting accurred on Saturday, October 27th, 2012 about 6:00pm. We were on Highway 50 heading towards Christmas, Florida when we crossed over the St. John's river. I was sitting in the back of the car, we were talking and I just happened to glance over to the right to look at the river when I saw a brown upright figure just walking away from the water's edge. Even though it was a distance away, I could see that it was one color from head to toe and the whole body was evenly shapped like an animal in the distance rather than a person wearing clothing. As I saw it take those couple of steps I could see the arms swing with the motion of the legs. When we arrive at the restaurant I said to my boyfriend that I think I just saw a sasquatch, that it just didn't look like a person. I've been thinking about it ever since.","Christmas is between Titusville and Orlando, Florida. Titusville which is where we were leaving from to go to dinner is about 12 miles from the Cape Canavaral Space Center.","Orange County","Florida","Fall","Report 36826: Car passenger spots a large brown figure at the St. John's River near Christmas",28.54293,-80.94411,"2012-10-27",36826.0,"Class B","djn6qh469e",71.22,66.955,62.69,63.38,0.8,0.71,0.43,0.01,0.84,"rain",1001.54,"Mostly cloudy until evening.",4.0,10.0,313.0,7.36,"RES.SEASON"], [4852,2972,"On Sunday, July 07, 2019, my brother, sister and I took an excursion through Northern Wisconsin. We were traveling north on South Turcott Road, approximately 6.5 miles north of Tripoli, WI. Turcott is a rough, gravel road and we were traveling approximately 10-15 mph in a Chevy Suburban. My brother was driving, I was in the front passenger seat, and our sister was in the right rear passenger seat. The day was clear and cool. Our windows were rolled up because the deer flies were very thick. As we drove through the forest, we came to a clearing to our right, on the east side of the road. The clearing had a lot of brush and fallen logs as it had been logged off. Across the clearing to our east, approximately 100-150 yards away, the forest began again. I was looking out across the clearing when I saw a large, reddish-brown, upright figure running along the edge of the trees in the distance. It seemed to be hunched over as it ran. It was too large to be a deer, and did not have a proper height, or gait, for a bear. I only saw it for a moment before my view was obstructed by brush. I wasn’t sure what I saw so I turned to my brother and said, “I think I just saw…” At that moment, he abruptly stopped the vehicle and pointed out my window and yelled, “THERE!!!” My sister and I both looked, but it was gone. I asked my brother what he saw and he said it was a big, hairy, reddish-brown figure with no neck, nor muzzle - thick, and too tall to be a deer. He said it was standing upright on the edge of the woods. He estimated it to be about six feet in height and he said he saw it look over its shoulder before it ran into the woods. He also said the smaller trees moved aside like it was pushing its way into the woods. After he told me what he saw, I told him that what I saw was exactly the same color and I’d have described it exactly the same way: Big, hairy, reddish-brown, and hunched over.","From Route 8 in Tripoli to sighting location is 6.2 miles. From Route 8, take Ruth road North. Take a left on South Turcott Road. Travel North 4.7 miles and the sighting was in a clearing on the right.","Oneida County","Wisconsin","Summer","Report 63091: Sasquatch sighting by motorists along South Turcott Road six miles north of Tripoli",45.63092,-90.02283,"2019-07-09",63091.0,"Class A","cbpgx6z7kh",82.52,75.995,69.47,61.36,0.71,0.24,0.27,0.0072,0.47,"rain",1014.7,"Rain in the evening and overnight.",10.0,8.03,178.0,5.29,"RES.SEASON"], [4854,2862,"On August 20, 2020 in the evening about 8:10pm my girlfriend and I were in my truck heading to Collins Camp site in the ‘The Brothers Wilderness’ Olympic National Forest to camp for 4 days with my girlfriend’s sister and a few friends. We were on WA- 104 NE and came up to the Center Loop mid-point to get on Center Rd to head to the camp site. We made a right turn on to Center Rd but it curves south under highway and driving for just a few minutes and coming out of a long curve to a long straightway, approaching mile marker (#3) moments passing side road called Dabob Road, a rock no bigger than a small apple came flying out of the tree line and hit my truck on the top of the hood near the passenger windshield wiper. I wanted to stop and get out investigate but my girlfriend was a bit nervous about stopping and did not want to stop. We continued to drive to our destination for a minute or two to process what just happened to us. Then we both spoke the word, “Bigfoot”! We both have no doubt in our minds that it was a Bigfoot that threw the rock. We believed it was not likely any kids throwing rocks due to the remoteness of the area or any close houses. The rock did not tumble off a cliff or hillside because the area was flat and due to the trajectory and speed of the rock, it came right at us. My girlfriend told me she saw something big and black at the tree line just before the rock hit. I did not see anything only the rock as it hit my truck. We both know the Olympics has tons of Bigfoot reports so I would not any doubt it was a Bigfoot that threw the rock. We pulled in to a gas station at 15 minutes later to get gas and I took a picture with my cell phone of the damage. We noticed an approximately (1) one inch chunk of paint missing where the rock hit. All the way to the campsite and for the next few days the thought of a Bigfoot throwing a rock and hitting my truck never left my mind and we continued to talk about it a lot. At some point in the near future I want to place a few game cameras back in the area just to see if I get lucky. There is no doubt in my mind that we had a Bigfoot experience.","Take Interstate (5) North Seattle to (Edmonds-Kingston) Ferry exit- take Ferry to Kingston. Get on WA Highway 104 NE and drive approximately 11-12 miles to Center loop mid point and make a right on Center Road but it curves south under highway to or near Mile marker 3.","Jefferson County","Washington","Summer","Report 67472: Rock thrown at vehicle plus Class B sighting 5 miles north of Quilcene",47.89745,-122.8345,"2020-08-20",67472.0,"Class B","c288kz6wue",76.76,69.67,62.58,61.67,0.82,0.58,0.08,0.0032,0.77,"rain",1010.5,"Possible drizzle in the morning.",6.0,10.0,165.0,7.16,"RES.SEASON"], [4859,3848,"We were on our long vacation from Missouri, in Crescent City, California, staying at the KOA campground. This was our second night at this campground. We were camped at site 401, way back in the isolated section of the campground, far from anyone. I had just finished cooking our supper on the portable propane barbeque pit, which was located on the picnic table. We both went inside to eat. During the time I was cooking, I set up a camp fire, but didn't light it yet. After we finished eating, I started the campfire. After the fire was burning for about 15 minutes, I kicked it into the fire pit from the grate. At that time my wife got a very strong feeling that we were being watched from behind our camper. She said it seemed to move (the feeling) from behind the trailer, from one end to the other. There were trees, and dense foliage behind the trailer. I started to look around with a flash light to see what it was, and after not finding anything, I started the car and plugged in the 12v spot light. Looking around for about 5 minutes, I thought I saw something move in the distance, behind a tree. This was in the opposite area from the trailer, where no one was camped at all. We both were shaken up, and went inside the trailer for the night. After 10 minutes my wife heard 2 whoops, coming from the area that I thought I saw something move at. She was in bed lying next to the window. I didn't hear the sound. One more thing to add, is that the night before we heard dogs bark in the distance, this night it was all quiet no dogs at all. The closet camper was about 100 feet away towards the main office. There was no smell.","KOA campground located just off of Highway 101, 5 miles north of town.","Del Norte County","California","Fall","Report 24929: Husband and wife have a possible encounter in a KOA campground north of Crescent City",41.84998,-124.1417,"2009-01-28",24929.0,"Class B","9prwp4dcb9",52.14,47.97,43.8,40.58,0.78,0.53,0.08,0.0044,0.97,"rain",1034.88,"Overcast until afternoon.",2.0,6.64,343.0,1.37,"RES.SEASON"], [4867,2385,"I am new to the net,found your site in a magazine today at the doctors office.This event takes place about about 15years ago on a hunting trip in the Klickitat-Wahkiacus area of Washington State.Our family has hunted this area for many years on this trip things got a little spookey.There was a total of 7 of us all hunting the same place 2 are now deceased.We started off this saturday morning the second week of October, opening weekend of deer season driving our vehicle down a old abandoned skid trail in the vecinity of the old Woodruff mill,to get into a hot spot where we would park my disabled mother on a stand.When it was starting to get light enough my father and I proceded east from the vehicle to head off on what we called a drive(try to push the deer out of the brush and to my mother). We were walking down the road it was a little soft from the night before rain and dense low fog.W e were loking for sign when we encountered the tracks right on top of where are tires had just rolled something had followed our vehicle.At first we thought it was a big bear immediately we were on alert.As we examined the tracks more closely we determined that bears dont walk on their hind feet for this long of a period of time.There was no front paw tracks!We continued on our drive encircleing the area.On our way thru the thick buckbrush heading west back to the truck we started hearing noises,something was now tracking us.We could smell a strong oder that was like cat urine or a dirty cat box.At this point we were both scared we could hear it smell it but we could not see it.The visibility in this brush was near 5ft.in most places besides the trail we were on where you could see 20ft to the front or rear of you.We started to move faster for the truck as we sped up so did it.The brush behind us was cracking so we took cover behind 2 trees each of us on the oposite side of each other aiming to where the noise was.At this time whatever it was squealed in a high pitch(almost like a woman giving birth)and took off running n.w. of our position.Hoping it was gone and fearing it was heading for mom we scrambled that way.When we got to the truck she was in it with the doors locked.She told us it was N. of her position making lots of noise(thrashing).We went to investigate,we found more tracks and trees about 4inches in diameter were uprooted and thrown down the gullyside,there was no sign of it.We met up with my uncle and cousin and showed them the tracks they could not beleive it.We went back to our uncles camp for lunch when we got there we noticed more tracks it had come into the camp.My cousin is a big guy his shoe size is a 15,these tracks had more than 3-4 inches on him whatever this thing was it is BIG!! I dont tell to many people about this for fear of being laughed at or called crazy but for the 7 of us we will never forget.","North at old Wahkiacus post office for approx. 4 miles there is a school house.From there it is approx. 2mi N.W. on private land.","Klickitat County","Washington","Fall","Report 5953: Family hunting near Wahkiacus is stalked by a large animal",45.88039,-121.1692,"2003-04-23",5953.0,"Class B","c21v48r28u",55.54,46.695,37.85,36.72,0.73,0.3,0.76,0.0127,1.0,"rain",1007.24,"Rain overnight.",8.0,9.83,238.0,2.68,"RES.SEASON"], [4871,4381,"It was around 11pm december 31st 2006. I had just got back from a 9 hour drive from florida and I was sitting on the couch with my uncle watching the end of the bears packers game. My sons mother called and I was talking to her when i heard a sound at the window. The only way to discribe it is a hooting sound something like a monkey. Since the lights were on in the house I couldnt see outside so I looked over to my uncle to see if he was messing with me. He was looking out the window and thought I made the noise. Then he jumped up and said \"Did you see that\"? I looked over to the window and saw the bush moving outside. He grabed one of his guns we were planning on shooting at midnight and ran outside. Once he got outside he could see more movement at the end of the house and I heard a grunting noise near my sisters window. It sounded like it came from a big animal, sounding something like uhhhh uhhhh. His dog max heard my uncle yelling whos there and ran around to the front where he was. As soon as max got there he stopped barking and whimpered as he backed up to my uncle. The dog wouldnt get near the side of the house. We didn't hear or see anything for a while so went back inside. When we came back out at midnight we heard some noises but they were far off. Except for that, we didnt hear anything else all night.","Can give directions later if needed","Hall County","Georgia","Winter","Report 17249: Possible vocalizations and an approach to a residence outside Gainesville",34.37537,-83.77232,"2006-12-31",17249.0,"Class B","dnh7t9yg53",60.95,55.620000000000005,50.29,53.42,0.95,1.0,0.4,0.0525,1.0,"rain",1020.99,"Rain throughout the day.",2.0,3.04,127.0,1.97,"RES.SEASON"], [4874,124,"wood knocks,screams,yodleing,structures,","North Cove","Mcdowell County","North Carolina","Winter","Report 63252: Ongoing incidents in North Cove outside Asheville",35.6644,-81.78065,"2016-12-24",63252.0,"Class A","dnmfgh90hw",60.78,55.135000000000005,49.49,40.34,0.68,0.76,0.87,0.0002,0.1,"rain",1024.0,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",2.0,9.748,225.0,1.34,"RES.SEASON"], [4875,2451,"This incident was originally reported to the BFRO by phone. The witness described a daylight encounter with his son while spotting for deer on private land near the Olympic Mountains. He said he and his son took some photos of the approaching figure with a cellphone. Five BFRO Investigators went to the witness's home to interview him and see the photos. We spoke with the witness for over an hour, then recorded his full account. Here is the transcript of the interview. The blurry cellphone photos are shown below the interview, in the Investigator Comments section. These images do not have enough clarity to show details of the figure, but they do show its approximate size, girth, posture and color. --------------------------------- BFRO Investigator: What were the events that led up to this incident? Witness: We came down the road and turned around like usual and we go very slow down the end of the road. As we come down this road, probably at about 150 yards, maybe a little more out in the woods I could see something moving. I didn't know what it was and we went past a few trees and I ask the boy “WHAT IN THE HELL IS THAT?” He couldn't see it, and I drove ahead about another five feet. Stopped the truck and you could see a form coming. I call it a sasquatch. It kept coming. I said “Look at that!” He said “What is that??” “Well I don't know what the hell it is and I don't even have my camera.” Then he said “You do too have a camera – you’ve got your cellphone.” So I took the phone out and handed it to him. By the time he got the phone working that was when picture 1 was taken. It was about that time that it was fifty yards from us. Then the next picture it was probably thirty yards, for picture 2, and then it turned to its left. BFRO Investigator: Was it aware of you at that point? Witness: It didn't act like it cared if we were there or not, other than it did turn. It was getting brushier between us and it and it turned, then went into an opening. It came into the opening and then at one point it stopped and turned its head, looking right at us. Investigator: Did it turn its head or whole body? Witness: Well, the whole shoulder part - the front portion. It lifted its left shoulder back and twisted and looked at us. Then it just went right back into the angle it was. Investigator: When it looked at you, what was the expression on its face? Could you see any of that? Witness: I don't know. It just looked at us. You know – deer-in-the-headlights type of look. Investigator: Did it look surprised? Witness: It looked more like the same as we were, “What are you? What the heck are you doing here?” I was just looking at the size of it cause it was ... IT WAS HUGE. I kept asking him, “DID YOU GET A PICTURE???” You know, “Did you get a picture???” (Witness's son).. “I GOT A PICTURE THERE!” Then it just turned back and to the angle it was originally going. Then it picked up its stride. It moved a little faster probably half again as fast as it was going. Then he (the witness’s son) got out of the truck, the boy did. Then it paused, like it was going to turn again and look at us but it didn't. It just turned, I don't know if it went around something or what and he got one more picture. Then it came on the road and he couldn't get one more picture before he left. I don't know how long all that took. Investigator: So it cut across a logging road? Witness: The road runs through there. Investigator: And you lost it once it went across? Witness: It stepped right on the road and I don't think it made two steps. The first step and then it was standing, stopped right there and it looked right at us. It was standing more upright. The next step it went into heavy brush - just a deer trail or a little path. The brush just closed in around it. I pulled forward and there is another little road that goes down along the way it went and we never did see it again. Investigator: You said it crossed the road, how many steps did it take to cross the road? Witness: One, two it was across because it just stepped in the road and stepped off it. It's a narrow road. It's just a regular Ford pickup so it's the width of the pickup, brush rubs both sides of the truck so eight or nine feet. Like when deer will jump, hit the road once when they are running. It had the same stride as a deer would running - you know jumping through the woods. Investigator: Was there a trail on either side of the road? Witness: I didn't notice a trail where it came from as much as I noticed a trail from where it went. You know where it came from was bracken fern and salal brush. It's up there above my waist. Back here where it came, turned originally in the opening - there was water even then, probably it's a low spot kinda where it came through probably a foot deep or two feet deep from the rains. Investigator: So would you estimate about 48 inches tall for the fern and the salal? Witness: About that tall. Then it goes in stages but your base layer is at least that high. Investigator: So what we are seeing in these pictures is... ? Witness: Oh his butt was above the brush, it's chest height on me. [the witness is 6 feet tall] Investigator: From that picture it appears the figure is down on all fours. Witness: Don't think so, I don't think the hands were on the ground. Investigator: You don’t think it’s walking with its knuckles? Witness: Everything else moved but the arms didn't. They were just kind of there. Investigator: So you didn't see any big arm movement, like when a gorilla walks quadrupedally? Witness: I didn't see the arms moving at all. Investigator: So it is walking hunched over but not down on all fours? Witness: I didn't notice it being down on all fours. Investigator: Just looking at the angle the torso is in, leaning quite far forward - it would be very difficult to walk in that manner without falling over. Witness: Well I couldn’t do it.. Laugh.. Investigator: Yeah, that is interesting. Witness: I said it's not like he's crawling over logs or windfalls or anything either. He appears to be more hunched over in certain pictures than when he was walking towards us, but he was still hunched over coming towards us. I noticed as he was coming towards us that he walked from side to side. Investigator: He waddled? Witness: Yeah he swayed or something, like every step he would really make a big step,...you know like a little kid being proud or something... but I know, well you just need better pictures, you need to be there.. Investigator: You needed your video camera. Witness: [Laughing] Yeah - I wouldn't have had these if the kid hadn't remembered the camera on the phone. Investigator: So did you try to look for any impressions or footprints? Witness: No actually, I can say no, I didn't. The road is pretty hard. It's all black crushed rock and that's hard as rock. There is nothing there where he came out of. He didn’t leave as much of a trail as I thought he would coming through the bracken ferns and stuff. That's what I thought. It surprised me, because after he came through there I figured you'd see a trail, as even brush pickers and mushroom pickers coming through you can see they're leaving trails. You know breaking them away, and there wasn't one. It was hard to see where he came out on to the road vs where he went in. He went in on a regular old deer trail & where he came out, it was almost undisturbed. That surprised me as a matter of fact. Places I went in there I left more of a trail in the bracken ferns than he did. Investigator: What time of day was this? Witness: It had to be around 10:00, 10:30. Investigator: In the morning? Witness: Yeah Investigator: And it's on the 16th of November (2007). Witness: Yeah a week ago Friday Investigator: There weren't any other cars around? Witness: No, there was nobody else there. Not where we were at. Matter of fact, I didn't see anybody out there.","A logging road in Mason county.","Mason County","Washington","Fall","Report 23160: Daylight encounter with two hunters south of Union (w/ cellphone photos)",47.49865,-123.2182,"2007-11-16",23160.0,"Class A","c22qhng5xy",49.28,44.465,39.65,44.27,0.96,0.93,0.22,0.01,1.0,"rain",1010.69,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",1.0,9.98,185.0,1.69,"RES.SEASON"], [4882,4062,"On Monday, June 30, 2008, between 5:00 a.m. and 5:15 a.m., I had the experience of hearing a chilling and unexplained sound. I was taking numerous boxes and garbage bags from the garage to the end of my driveway at the street for trash pickup. I had made approximately 6 trips back and forth when, after laying a box down at the curb, I heard something that made me stop in my tracks. I experienced what I first thought was the start of a loud siren, a loud and ascending WHOOOOO…, coming from across the street. The sound came from a tree line about 200 feet away at the edge of Horseshoe Lake. There are empty grated lots directly across the street from my house (about 125 feet deep) and then approximately another 25 feet or more of dense palmetto scrub and primarily pines and loblolly bay trees down to the lake shore. The sound continued to ascend in pitch and when the pitch didn’t change like that of a siren and I realized that a siren would not be coming from that direction, but rather from the highway behind our house, I felt somewhat panicked. The sound ended in a booming –OOP. The entire whoop was long in duration and went from a low to high pitch. It seemed to be aimed directly towards me and was extremely far carrying in tone. I immediately felt the hair on the back of my neck stand up. When my brain could not place the sound with any animal or bird that I am familiar with, I became very frightened at thinking that a man was watching me and calling out. I started to take some steps backward towards the garage in anticipation that I would see something moving towards me across the empty lot. Within seconds of the WHOOP, an owl called out with a common hooting from the top of a tree in that same area, as if it had been startled. The owl’s voice was very distinct from the other sound in the loudness and the way it carried, as well as the elevation of the source of the sound. I went back into the garage and waited for about 5 minutes there to listen for any other sounds, but only heard the frogs that are common at that time. Although still dark, there were clear skies at the time, and I could see the silhouette of the tree line. My side of the street was dimly lit by the lights in the garage and street lights a short distance away. I go out at this time every morning to haul trash and to take my dog for a quick walk out to the mailbox, and I am used to hearing numerous types of frogs, owls, and whippoorwills. As I stood there, logic told me that even a large man could not have made the resonating sound that I heard from that distance away. Over the next few days, I told my family members what I had heard and asked if they knew of an animal or bird that made such a sound, but they didn’t. The sound I heard was so unusual, that I couldn’t dismiss it. I felt the need to keep trying to satisfy the mystery of the sound by placing a native bird or animal to it. I read every voice description of Florida bird species entries in my North American bird book, paying closed attention to all owls, loons, cranes, egrets, herons and hawks, that I thought may be large enough to have such a bellowing voice. None of the voices were described as “whoops.” I then went online and searched for “bird sound whoop” and “animal sound whoop.” I spent quite a bit of time on National Geographic’s website listening to voice recordings of numerous birds from this area as well as bobcats, coyotes, foxes, etc. Nothing seemed to match. I then started to notice the many links to the BFRO website as well as a link to a video of our local Channel 13 newscast of an expedition that BFRO had in the Tampa area about a year ago. When I played the news clip, and heard one of the female researchers make a call out like a whoop, I almost felt relieved, like I knew in my heart that I was on the right track. The sound I heard was very similar to the call she made, although the whoop I heard was of a longer duration. After seeing the news clip, I felt more comfortable about researching the information on the BRFO website. I came across the sound recordings, and after listening to several, I became convinced that what I heard matched more closely to some of the Skunk Ape recordings than to any other animal or bird known in this area. I decided to call your organization to discuss what I had experienced. Below are the most similar recordings I found on the website as compared to the sound that I heard: 1974 Whoops and Knocks from California (although I heard only one “whoop” and it was of longer duration) The “Florida Howl” and the 1994 Moaning Howl from Columbiana County, Ohio (the howls in this clip start off like the siren-like beginning of the whoop I heard, but these then descend in pitch as opposed to the one I heard which continued to ascend until ending in a –OOP)","Exact location omitted","Seminole County","Florida","Summer","Report 24134: Homeowner hears possible howls east of Winter Springs",28.63434,-81.14076,"2008-06-30",24134.0,"Class B","djn6csep57",92.12,81.66,71.2,71.15,0.78,0.43,0.91,0.0071,0.52,"rain",1018.97,"Rain in the evening.",10.0,9.78,225.0,1.32,"RES.SEASON"], [4885,2387,"I took my friend out turkey hunting near Mt Adams. We went out the evening on the 15th to camp overnight before opening day. We arrived at our camp and got settled in. I got out my crow call and made a call, I had heard a turkey reply so I felt we had a good chance. We woke up about a half hour before sunrise and headed out. As we were walking to our hunting location we heard a tree limb snap and looked to our left, we observed a large dark in color animal walking away from us. I use the term walking because it did not sound like a deer or elk running from us. We wondered what it was and decided to continue on. We got to our area about thirty minutes later and set up our decoys and got in our ground blind. I started to make turkey calls and had heard a few reply. We sat there still calling when we heard this scream. It sounded like a police siren but only the first note. It lasted for maybe a second and sounded like it came from right behind us. I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and looked to my right to notice a dark in color large animal moving away from us in a rather fast pace. It was big enough to move the small trees that were in its way. We immediately packed up our decoys and left the area. I was very confused by what had just happened and did not want to tell people about it. I felt that I would just get made fun of about it. About four months after it happened I talked to the Washington State fish and game about it and they told me that it was a cougar. I have hunted since i was in high school and am now 33. I have seen and heard plenty of animals that live in this state. I am 100 percent convinced that whatever made that sound and was observed by me and my hunting partner was not an elk, deer or bear and was to large to be a cougar.","i was near Mt Adams so I'm thinking it was Adams County or Klickitat. We were in between Trout Lake and Glenwood.","Klickitat County","Washington","Spring","Report 23315: Two turkey hunters near Trout Lake are screamed at by a large black animal",45.99935,-121.4821,"2006-04-16",23315.0,"Class B","c21tetgmtu",47.52,40.400000000000006,33.28,30.99,0.77,0.14,0.6,0.008,0.45,"rain",1009.89,"Light rain in the afternoon and evening.",7.0,10.0,295.0,0.54,"RES.SEASON"], [4928,2283,"well i was driving down the road late at night headed back to work in vernal utah i was driving over the flaming gorge pass i was somewhere between 1 to 3 miles before the dam turn off when i was driving i seen some eye balls about 6 1/2 to 7 feet in the air so i locked up my breaks backed up to and faced my head lights at it and i seen it my first thought was a bear that was standing on its hind legs but then i noticed it was not a bear by that time he turned around and slowly started walking away from me it had verylong black mated hair and i know for a fact it wasn't a bear by the way it walked it scared me so bad i got out of there and i did not care to go back and look so the next few times going back through been watching every track to see if i could find them but no luck but i know one thing he was not scared of me nore my loud deseil motor","3 miles west of flaming gorge dam in utah","Daggett County","Utah","Winter","Report 25265: Man watches a bigfoot in his headlights near Flaming Gorge",40.86765,-109.5143,"2008-12-07",25265.0,"Class A","9x607zwp7f",47.86,38.34,28.82,20.54,0.54,0.0,0.32,0.0005,0.61,"snow",1019.49,"Clear throughout the day.",2.0,10.0,226.0,0.58,"RES.SEASON"], [4939,98,"I want to report a sighting of a huge Bigfoot. As my husband and I often do, we were taking a short cut across the mountain here in western NC, heading home. As I was driving along the river, there was a very strange looking, what I thought was an odd looking man, and as we passed it, I said to my husband, \" That is a strange looking person,\" and as I looked into the rear view mirror, it stood up on the road and was watching us driving away, and that is when I realized what it really was. I told my husband that it is a Bigfoot!!! In a panic I drove away and my husband insisted that we turn around and go back. I was in tears from the fear, but we found an area to turn around and I do so. As we approached that area, we saw it on the side of the road watching us. He was HUGE!!!! My husband got out of the car to get a better look and he couldn't believe what we were looking at. It had to be at least 8-9 feet tall, covered in long black hair all over it's body. It was massive. We were about 100 yards away and nothing was obstructing our view. I yelled at my husband to get back into the car and I managed to turn my jeep around and I got the heck out of there!!","Needmore Road is off of highway 74 West. Travel SW on Needmore road to the location","Swain County","North Carolina","Winter","Report 64024: YESTERDAY motorists in Smoky Mts. observe a Bigfoot along Little Tennessee River",35.33783,-83.52992,"2020-01-31",64024.0,"Class A","dnk951p3gb",45.65,40.155,34.66,38.05,0.89,0.81,0.22,0.0029,0.65,"rain",1021.4,"Possible light rain in the morning and afternoon.",2.0,9.23,137.0,3.22,"RES.SEASON"], [4942,1885,"For years our neighbors would tell us that there was a bigfoot that roamed the woods where we lived. We thought that it was a way to keep us from wondering off and finding the illegal plants they may have been growing. The only reason we somewhat believed them was, the grandmother who told us the same thing was a minister at a local church. She is no longer with us. The day i saw what i believe to be a bigfoot was a summer day around 7:45 to 8:30ish. My sister and i was going to visit our friends. She was driving. We travel this route all the time. During the school year the bus travels this route also. The reason i say this is to let you know, im familiar with the area. As we aproached the small brige that crosses a pond that we call a swamp we both noticed it in the middle of the road. At first i thought it was a bear. As she slowed the car and hit the horn; it stood up looked in our direction and took off across the swamp. I have seen many bears, twice too close for comfort. I had one to stand up in front me in my grandmas back yard. I think it was spooked as much as i was. We both ran. It ran away on four legs. So i know what i saw was not a bear. I remember being amazed watching this thing run off.I asked my sister to turn around and go back. She locked the doors and turned around. When we got back there was something in the road that it must have been eating. A rabbit,opossum some type of small animal. Probably road kill. It was dark brown at least 6 to 7 foot tall. It happened so quick, i was not able to get a good look at the face. All i remember was it was big, harry, large back with no neck. I was 16 yaers old at the time, my sister was 18. No one believed us. Not even our neighbors. I am now 34. I can still see the image in my head. What made me recall this, was the footage; where the men on horses record it walking away. Seeing that thing walking back into the woods looking at the large back and the muscle, man!","just off hwy 24. back road to fairplay.","Oconee County","South Carolina","Summer","Report 13170: Daylight sighting by motorists on Hwy 24 near Seneca",34.65375,-83.11639,"2005-12-05",13170.0,"Class A","dnhvhss2xx",53.01,42.12,31.23,45.77,0.85,1.0,0.15,0.04,1.0,"rain",1013.34,"Rain until afternoon.",2.0,4.02,52.0,1.11,"RES.SEASON"], [4944,4120,"To this day I cannot honestly say this was a sighting or not. I will leave that conclusion to those with more knowledge of Sasquatch behavior to decide. At the time my knowledge of Sasquatch, Bigfoot or the skunk-ape was limited only to what I had seen on t.v. or read in the papers rarely. In fact, I was under the belief that the Patterson tape had been debunked and bigfoot was probably a myth. It was a clear March day and I being off from work decided to take a day hike in Rock Springs State Park. The park is not heavily used I think mainly because its reputation for a healthy black bear population keeps city dwelling day hikers well clear of it. I have hiked many time in bear country and the idea of a bear encounter wasn't a worry. I decided on a loop trail approximately 2 miles in length basically as a warm up then planned on hiking different parts of the area. The woods very basically slash pine and palmetto with clear scrub meadow and shallow swamp areas a little deeper in. A well defined trail led through the palmetto. About 1/2 a mile in I noticed the woods had become very quiet and I began to feel as if I was not alone but being watched. In the middle of the trail I came upon a very large of very fresh scat. It was directly centered in the middle of the trail and the stools were incredibly large and long approximately 3 having lengths of between 9 and 11 inches. This was not bear scat as I have seen piles of that before and never saw continuous lengths of stool such as this. Again feeling that I was not alone I developed the strangest feeling that this was there for me to find and that it was meant as a warning not to go further. The fear I felt became almost irrational but I had no doubt I should turn around and leave this area. I have spent many hours in the woods but had never felt this type of flight or fight feeling. I now know that primates have used scat to mark territory and warn others away. Could this have been a warning left by a primate to me? I honestly don't know.","SR 46 west. The park is south of SR 46 just past the Wekiwa River and north of the main Wekiwa River State Park. Trail is on the west side of the main park road approximately 1/4 mile past the main gate.","Lake County","Florida","Spring","Report 22358: Hiker Discovers Possible Bigfoot Scat in Rock Springs State Park",28.80455,-81.45354,"2007-03-15",22358.0,"Class B","djn5f7xqdv",83.68,75.375,67.07,60.84,0.71,0.44,0.87,0.003,0.66,"rain",1016.86,"Light rain overnight.",7.0,9.29,161.0,2.32,"RES.SEASON"], [4958,482,"I have never told this story to anyone besides my immediate family members because I tend to doubt myself. I believe there could be such things as Bigfoot, although I am not sure. I even went on an amateur investigation with my family last year in Salt Fork--we never saw anything but heard what we think were some other explorers whooping like us. I have hesitated to say anything because I don't want people to think I am making it up since I have been very vocal about my fascination with the subject to my students and friends. But seeing that someone else thinks they saw a Bigfoot near Meander Reservoir makes me want to tell my story too. Anyway, I am originally from the Youngstown area, although I live in Cleveland now. My husband, daughter, and I often travel to Youngstown to visit family in that area. On a drive home last year (it was in late March--the last time we went home before my father died) I swear I saw a huge figure standing flush with the treeline overlooking Meander. I was in the passenger seat so I got a decent look. We were driving over the bridge heading toward the turnpike to go back to Cleveland. The figure was huge--very tall and hairy. It was standing up and holding onto a tree looking out over the water. The location was among the trees along the bank closest to the bridge, if that makes sense. I'm not good at distances, but I was close enough that I could see it wasn't a person just from the massiveness of it. I have seen a lot of bears, and although some have been making their way into Ohio lately, it definitely wasn't a bear. I was in disbelief--I have always wanted to see a Bigfoot but I was speechless at the time it was actually occurring. I did say to my family \"I think I just saw a Bigfoot!\" but they didn't believe me. I talk about it once in a while, but since it happened so fast, and mostly since I had no clue it was possible for them to be in this area, I have convinced myself that I must have been mistaken. Now I don't think I was.","I-80 bridge over Meander Reservoir--heading West toward the turnpike. The sighting was on the West bank of the reservoir, right at the tree line, close to the open area beside the bridge. I think there is also a linked fence near there.","Mahoning County","Ohio","Spring","Report 40715: Possible daylight sighting by a passenger traveling along I-80 over the Meander Creek Reservoir",41.11447,-80.14099,"2012-03-24",40715.0,"Class B","dpr1bkej5s",65.18,59.075,52.97,57.62,0.88,0.9,0.07,0.0149,1.0,"rain",1012.04,"Rain in the morning.",4.0,7.86,125.0,2.22,"RES.SEASON"], [4961,4068,"Me and my father were hunting at richloam wildlife management area. we had been walking through the swamps all morning and on various occasions there was a really fowl smell that would come and go. At that time I just figured it was the swamp. When we got out of the swamp we were thirsty so we decided to run to the store since we had some time before we went to where we were going to hunt the afternoon. While driving out to the store we came around a curve in the road there was something really big that stepped half way behind a scrub oak alongside the road. My dad was only going about 10 to 15 MPH and as we went by we got a good view of what it was or at least what it looked like, as he hit the brakes I could not belive what I saw. I asked my dad what that was after we went by it. And he asked me what I saw and i told him and he said the same thing and we turned around to take a look at where it was but it was gone. It left a nice size trail the way it ran. It was about 7 1/2 ft. to 8 ft.tall, about 4 ft. to 4 1/2 ft. across the shoulders, covered with dark brown hair with a Reddish tint standing on two legs. it looked to be really muscular. The face which was covered with short hair. we were able to see its eyes which were dark. the nose was flat and wide, and the mouth was wide but in proportion to its head.","center grade by the power lines","Sumter County","Florida","Fall","Report 28200: Father and son have very close daylight sighting in the Green Swamp",28.44926,-81.95577,"2009-10-10",28200.0,"Class A","djj9z518un",89.99,81.97,73.95,75.21,0.82,0.3,0.72,0.0007,0.14,"rain",1016.9,"Humid throughout the day and mostly cloudy until afternoon.",5.0,9.66,235.0,0.79,"RES.SEASON"], [4963,4251,"Right on the northwest corner of New World Ave. and Normandy Blvd. FSCJ owns approx. 135 acres. When things are slow I take our electric golf cart thru the woods just to look around and maybe spot wildlife as I go. Between the college and the city pool which is west of the college are numerous ponds, wetlands, and pine tree flats on forestry land. There are also alot of training areas left over from the Navy days and a few old roads that are similiar to power line right aways running mostly north and south. Now to the day in question: We were allowing a contractor to drive thru our property to gain access to the forestry land and I went to talk to them to get an update on the project. It turned out they were not working that day so I was riding around just looking for wildlife. I came up to one of the old roads and when I looked north on the road there was something in the road sitting on it's hunches and it appeared to have one arm in the air and the other was scratching it's side. I was traveling kind of fast and could not stop until I was about 10 feet past the road. I put the cart in reverse to back up and it was not in the road any longer. I looked just past the spot where it was in the road and it was on the side of the road and was bending down a limb from a 4 or 5 foot pine tree peering out at me. This lasted for maybe 3 or 4 seconds and it ran in from what I could tell was an upright position. The small pines hindered my view when it was running but I am fairly positive it was running up right. What ever it was, was about 2 maybe 3 foot tall judging by the trees and was very black and resembled a primate. I worked at the Jax Zoo in maintenance for a few years and one of the exhibits I was responsible for was the Great Apes so I am very familiar with several different primates and it reminded me very much of a bonobo. I was fairly shaken up and I did not go look for tracks, signs, or anything. Now to present, a few weeks ago forestry had a timber company thinning the pines in the same area, I went back there to talk to the job foreman as they were using our property to gain access. They were two or three hundred yards back in the woods and I did not want to drive my cart back there because of the road. I got maybe thirty yards off the road down the skidder trail and I am not sure what it was but the hair on my neck stood straight. I had a strong sense something was out there watching me. It may have been my imagination but I really believe I was being watched.","This is a close military base in an area rumored to have held nuclear arms.","Duval County","Florida","Summer","Report 26577: Brief daylight sighting of a small primate type creature in a pine forest near Jacksonville",30.25389,-81.8992,"2009-06-18",26577.0,"Class B","djmu07dcdm",84.47,78.295,72.12,73.85,0.86,0.61,0.85,0.0022,0.83,"rain",1014.4,"Humid and mostly cloudy throughout the day.",9.0,8.65,236.0,0.55,"RES.SEASON"], [4965,2667,"On wed march 20,2012 My 2, sons J and T, and 2 friends S and T along with myself, went out to target practice outside the town of Rainer, Wash. It was about 5:40 when we came through a hay field and stopped to decide where we should go next. I was looking across the field scanning the tree line that runs along the edge of the river. At the far southwest end of the field I notice a figure getting up out of a blackberry patch. It was huge and dark. I couldnt tell how tall it was but I could tell it was massive. Big shoulders long arms and wide body all covered in brown hair. The hair on it head looked like it went to its shoulders. It stood up and walk from the center of the patch to the trail in front of it. I brought it to the attention of the others with me as it crossed the trail and stood next to a fir tree it looked back at us. It turned and walked south into the next hay field and towards the southwest corner. We ran to were we saw it. We found nothing. The blackberry bushes looked like something used it as a bed, all the branches were bent down flat. We compared the fir tree with my son T to get an idea of how tall it was, my son is 6ft and the creature was at least 8.5 we took pictures then followed the grass trail it left behind (We could see where it went across the field in bent grass) and into the second field and stopped at the edge of the third and noticed that ahead of us the birds flew out of the trees making alot of noise. a few minutes later we heard dogs barking in the distance but not to far. Then we heard a load knocking sound for 5 or 6 beats. Everything went real quiet then we heard what sounded like a popping sound followed by several hoots. We waited in the trees for several more minutes but heard and saw nothing out of place","(Exact location details edidted by the investigator to protect the location)","Thurston County","Washington","Spring","Report 34710: While target shooting a family observes a large bi-ped in a blackberry patch near the town of Rainier",46.78571,-122.7515,"2012-03-20",34710.0,"Class A","c22dntp4d8",43.68,38.815,33.95,37.36,0.88,0.93,0.94,0.0078,0.95,"rain",1007.93,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,9.69,194.0,4.23,"RES.SEASON"], [4972,3687,"I lived in the High Desert of California in Ridgecrest, CA in Kern County from 1980 to 1985. I did a lot of hiking in the Sierra Nevada Mountains. I never saw or heard anything unusual during that time. MY Mom, Sister (& Family), and Brother and his Family still live there. My 19 year old son and I were visiting various family members from Sept 17 through Sept 27 2007 in Ridgecrest, CA. My sister took me and my son up to the Siebert family gold mine, cabin, and mining equipment on the 24th of September. We had spent about an hour at this location and we were preparing to leave. My sister was in the Port-a-Potty and my son and I heard this high pitch scream like a woman hollering, and it sounded just like the ones we heard on your sight. Just like the sound that was reported in the BFRO Report # 9426 (Class B), which is only 7 miles from that site. We yelled back thinking it was a woman in trouble and there was no reply. I asked my sister if she heard it she said no. I told her what we heard and she told me that she had horse backed and hiked through this area and had never heard anything that would make that kind of sound. She has lived and in this area since 1980. I asked her Husband who’s an avid hunter, horseback trail rider and hiker in these mountains and he said that he knew of no animal that made a high pitch scream in this area. My brother- in-law also has lived in Ridgecrest, CA area all of his life. In searching for the animal that made this sound on the internet, I found this site with the sound that I had heard. It is located in Kern County, up Indian Wells Canyon Rd, off California Highway 14, at Latitude 35°41'47.44\"and Longitude N117°57'54.36\"W, near Owens Peak.","The Sound originated at higher elevation than ours. to the south of us. Distant was unavailble to us","Kern County","California","Fall","Report 22598: Possible vocalizations heard outside Inyokern",35.7,-117.9667,"2008-01-07",22598.0,"Class B","9qk55dgr8d",39.37,32.4,25.43,28.83,0.9,0.38,0.97,0.0011,0.39,"snow",1014.69,"Partly cloudy in the morning.",2.0,9.77,286.0,1.04,"RES.SEASON"], [4977,2465,"I have a picture of some VERY convincing tracks. I could mail it to you if I get an email address...","Near Buckhorn Mt.","Okanogan County","Washington","Fall","Report 3623: Two deer hunters find tracks near Buckhorn Mountain",48.40611,-118.9844,"2001-10-12",3623.0,"Class B","c2e7kkn4n8",50.06,35.65,21.24,35.0,0.84,0.54,0.85,0.0008,1.0,"rain",1016.15,"Breezy and mostly cloudy until afternoon.",2.0,10.0,163.0,4.98,"RES.SEASON"], [4984,607,"My wife and I were newlyweds having just been married about six weeks prior to the incident. Likewise, we had only lived in this house for the same amount of time. The incident occurred on a dry, warm day in early June (late spring). It was around 9:30 PM and I was having my last cigarette of the day before getting ready for bed. I preferred smoking in our garage which is on the backside of our house attached to the basement, directly facing the woods of the ravine. I sat in a chair while I smoked and noticed it was getting dark quickly. Within a minute or two from sitting down, I suddenly began to feel really uncomfortable and could not shake the sense of another presence or the feeling of being observed from the woods. I kept looking into the trees, but it was much too shadowy and dark to make anything out. I then began to feel very nervous and a strong sense of fear developed. My heart was beating rapidly, and I was in a state of extreme vigilance. I felt powerless and vulnerable. It was an awful, dreadful terrible feeling and I could not take it anymore and quickly extinguished my smoke, shut the garage door and went into the house. I immediately felt physically safer in the house, but mentally and emotionally I was still very shaken and upset. My concern now went for my wife, who was upstairs preparing for bed. I did not want her to be scared and decided not to tell her what had happened to me. We went about our routine and finally were in bed with the lights out shortly after 10:00 PM. We were having a conversation, and while my wife was speaking my attention was drawn to sounds coming from the open window in the back room of the house (facing the woods). This whole time I was still in shock from my experience in the garage. The sounds were faint at first and were strange. I thought I could make out words, maybe even hearing my name but it did not sound right or normal. My wife had not noticed the sounds yet and was still speaking when I asked her to be quiet and listen. She heard the sounds also which were becoming more bizarre and diverse. We got out of bed and went to the back bedroom window to have a better listen. It was now pitch black outside and we couldn't see anything. The sounds began to vary from short \"bird calls\"and babbling to the sound like an infant crying to a higher pitched human-like sounding voice to escalating screaming/screeching with an unbelievable volume. The sounds were extremely disturbing and seemed to be of a supernatural, ungodly nature. Around this time we noticed a flashlight beam coming from a neighbors house. When this happened, whatever was making the screams seemed to became super agitated and the screams were now in a frenzied state. At this point, even though looking out a second floor window, we felt fearful and unsafe and shut the window and went back into our bedroom. Shortly after, we heard nothing else. The whole incident lasted about three minutes. The next day I told my wife about what had happened to me when I went out for my last smoke of the day. This whole incident left us disturbed and spooked for days since we could not come to any explanation as to what could have made the sounds other than they were supernatural and possibly demonic. About a year ago I watched \"Sasquatch, Legend Meets Science\" and as soon a I heard the supposed Bigfoot vocalizations and realized that there were sightings all across the country I believed that the sounds we heard and the presence I encountered could very well have been a Sasquatch. I discovered the BFRO website and especially researched the Ohio information. Without telling my wife my newfound possible explanation of the origin of the sounds, I played the Ohio \"Scream\" for her. Instantly chills went down her spine and she said that sounds like what we heard in the back woods. She also believes it could have been a Sasquatch that made the sounds. To this day, we both are leery of being in the backyard after dark. I have been wanting to fill out this report for some time. The recent surge in Ohio reports being verified and posted have inspired me to add this one.","South of State Route just off of Sunset Blvd.","Jefferson County","Ohio","Spring","Report 8006: Strange vocalizations heard near a ravine just outside of Steubenville.",40.3725,-80.67828,"2001-06-01",8006.0,"Class B","dpntsjefgg",73.52,63.39,53.26,53.99,0.8,0.72,0.35,0.0362,1.0,"rain",1008.02,"Heavy rain in the morning and afternoon.",8.0,8.56,188.0,5.31,"RES.SEASON"], [4986,2880,"My friend E and I found a great spot to fish, the only problem was the place was the Seattle watershed which is off limits to the public. The best way to enter was in the middle of the night this way you could avoid the patrol they have there. I believe it is a 5 mile hike to where the best spot is, right by the crib dam. The first 2 miles is uphill then its flat. We of course used the service road, the first couple of times we actually hiked to the lake via no road or trail just straight up. By now we used our bicyle's which made the journey much more easy. It was the summer of 1996 September was the month the weather was warm no breeze just a great northwest day. We had gone in at about 4am in the cover of darkness. We had fished until around 11am then hung out until around 8pm so we could use the darkness to get out. On our way out riding on the road we hit a wall of this smell that we had never encountered before. It was rancid. Both of us hunt and have been around dead animals, been close to black bears and other things. We searched both sides of the road and could not find a thing. Remember there was no wind and we had passed this spot a few hours before. Then both of us at the same time got this sence that we where being watched, it was crazy, there was nothing moving no birds or anything. It was a 6th sence but we both had it at the same time. I get hairs standing on my neck right now just typing this. Anyway we made it out fine, have not been back. I know this is not a sighting but I know how I felt at the time it happend.","Park at Rattlesnake Lake and walk north across the street to the Seattle watershed road. Except its a no trespass. Its the Chester Morise watershed.","King County","Washington","Summer","Report 1478: Worse than something dead smell encountered by two fishermen",47.4317,-121.7731,"1996-02-17",1478.0,"Class B","c23mufxt9j",52.42,50.43,48.44,48.46,0.99,1.0,0.96,0.0108,0.43,"rain",1009.34,"Light rain in the morning and afternoon.",2.0,6.56,135.0,6.03,"RES.SEASON"], [4992,983,"i was driving home late from dropping off my girlfrend about 11pm i was approaching an intersection on a back road when a movement caught my eye something crossed the road in front off me. it took about 3 to 4 steps to cross the road. all i made out was a huge manlike form about 25 to 30 yards away then disapear through the trees on the other side of the road. i stopped. at first i thought that maybe it was aperson but quickly realized there was no vehicle except mine. i have lived in the area all my life. im not crazy i have had every animal known cross in front of me while driving from a mouse to a bear and nothing absolutly nothing moves that fast or looks the way it did. i have been past that spot hundred of times and never seen it again. i did return the next morning and although there were no tracks there was a clear path through the field were it crossed. i from the waist down was clearly in view the uper half was shadowed. everybody said oh deer or bear.i say no not on 2 legs. i can take enybody to the exact spot where it happend. im and not lying just interested in sharing my sighting","route 780 from new kensington towards apollo turn left at alcoa research go about 1 to 2miles to intersection see sign oak lake golf course your there","Westmoreland County","Pennsylvania","Fall","Report 14677: Late night road crossing near Apollo",40.5258,-79.6575,"2006-09-02",14677.0,"Class A","dppqe37pvs",57.86,56.53,55.2,53.76,0.94,1.0,0.31,0.0256,1.0,"rain",1017.83,"Rain in the morning.",4.0,6.67,24.0,2.21,"RES.SEASON"], [4999,3156,"I am 45 years old, have spent my whole life in the woods. I have been hunting and fishing since I was very young. On June 28th my wife and I decieded to take a walk in the woods. We were heading to a secluded resivior located aprox. 2 miles in the woods. We came upon a spot in the woods that seemed liked someone was watching us. We heard a noise come from some bushes. I thought it was a grunt from a buck. We both expected to a deer come outof the brush. I said, maybe it was a Bigfoot. She told me to shut up and keep walking. We walked for another 15 minutes and realized we were on the wrong path to the lake. We stopped, ate lunch and headed back into the woods. We had stopped at some power lines and sat in some shade. It was over 94 gegrees that day, and this was about noon time. As we walked back, we both noticed some very DEEP foot prints that did not look right. They were clearly 5 toed \"Human\" prints. In between the prints, was some deer tracks. The tracks clearly looked like the Human prints were chasing the deer prints. We both looked at each other and said, why would someone be running Barefoot, in 100 degree weather in the middle of the woods on a Tuesady afternoon? There were no other people in the woods at that time. The tracks were not there the first time we passed this spot, the noise was, the tracks were not. At this point I became very concerned that what ever made the prints was still in the area. I grabbed a big rock and told my wife to take some pictures with her cell phone. The tracks were about 6 to 7 feet apart. I could tell the first print was a right foot, that jumped out of the woods. The sixth and final step was a left foot that looked like it pushed off into the woods. No other tracks were before or after these six prints. We both became very nervous and started talking loudly and whistling. I did not want to run into this \"person\". We became a little confused and ended up on the worng path home. We walked for a couple hours, no way were we going back the way we came. Did not notice any smells or sounds. Just very quiet. No animal sound at all.","Leominster state forest, back side of No Town Res.","Worcester County","Massachusetts","Summer","Report 28017: Hikers observe and cast possible fresh footprints in Leominister State Forest",42.54334,-71.80123,"2010-11-08",28017.0,"Class B","drsfn0gbyj",43.07,41.2,39.33,36.9,0.95,1.0,0.09,0.0195,0.98,"rain",1000.84,"Rain in the morning.",2.0,6.7,345.0,3.48,"RES.SEASON"], [5006,4975,"We’ve had several noises occurring over the past month. Some loggers just started cutting on the property next to us. So I think has made them angry and it seems that they are mad at us. We didn’t own the property. We are not people who want the trees cut down. But here lately we’ve had knocking on trees, slapping the side of our house footsteps and growling right outside our house. When I walked down my driveway I heard what sounded like a stick being hit against a tree trunk. Heard running around my house late at night.","Bells Trace Road","Lawrence County","Kentucky","Fall","Report 61108: Farmer family frightened by ongoing Class B activity around rural home in hollers 12.5 miles south of Grayson",38.195,-82.868,"2018-10-20",61108.0,"Class B","dnv1631q58",60.96,48.42,35.88,45.87,0.75,0.94,0.37,0.0043,1.0,"rain",1013.16,"Mostly cloudy throughout the day.",3.0,5.1,277.0,5.6,"RES.SEASON"], [5017,2684,"This was a long time ago. In the summer of 1972. My cousin and I were spending a weekend fishing on the South Fork of the Nooksack River. The exact location was at the end of the Strand Road off of Highway 9 between Sedro Wooley and the Mt Baker Highway. We were both going into the 8th grade. Our parents dropped us off on a Friday and would pick us up Sunday. Crazy werent they! We set up camp fairly close to the end of the road, about 50 feet from the river. We spent Friday afternoon fishing and came back to our camp and built a fire. Finally we went to bed. We both stuck our pocket knives in the sand next to us in case we needed them at night. I was startled awake in the middle of the night by a sound and as I awoke sleeping in my sleeping bag saw the silhouette of something on the other side of a small fence, and slightly above us. It was about 20 feet away. There was a full moon behind which created a perfect silhouette image. This creature made a series of long hissing type sounds. The best discription is a hissssssssssss. Then it would stop for a bit and do it again. It did this 5-6 times. The silhouette was from about the waist up, it was broad shouldared with no neck. It had a sloping forehead and not noticable ears that I could detect. It rocked slightly from side to side as if it was smelling us or trying to see us laying there a bit better. It could not have gotten right us without going through this fence and under some small branches. It appeared that it was likely crouching down maybe on one knee. I was obviously petrified. It was there for probaly 3-5 minutes. When it left it kind of pivoted its entire body to its right and was gone. I would estimate this to be about 3 in the morning. I heard nothing as it walked away. I layed there for the rest of the night frozen stiff with fright, to the point that my body began cramping up! I did not hear anything as it left, nor smelled anything. I did hear shortly after it left, from the direction of the river and sounding like across the river a series of clicks with what sounded like rocks being hit togethor very rapidly. They were hit togethor 3-5 times very fast. I heard this a few times firt fairly close, then farther off as if going away from us. My cousin did not hear a thing.. sleeping away. We stayed there the following night without incident. although with a big fire going and fishing line tied to each others wrist, should we need to wake each other! In the morning I told my cousin and we looked for tracks, but did not see anything. The field that this thing was on was hard packed and it was very hard and dry, so no indentations. I know what I saw! It was not a man nor a bear, nor someone trying to scare us making a growling sound or something.. None of that! It makes the hair stand on my neck as I recount this incident even though it has been nearly 30 years ago!","Heading South on Highway 9 from the intersection of Highway 9 and the Mt Baker Highway, past Van Zandt about 5 miles to the Strand Road. Turn right on the Strand Road, going about 3/4 mile until it dead ends at the South Fork of the Nooksack River.","Whatcom County","Washington","Summer","Report 5771: Silhouette awakens boy while camping near S. Fork Nooksack River",48.76075,-122.2156,"2003-04-23",5771.0,"Class A","c29j6ut7fn",50.51,47.79,45.07,43.66,0.85,0.87,0.76,0.0148,1.0,"rain",1007.52,"Light rain throughout the day.",4.0,9.38,87.0,2.7,"RES.SEASON"], [5019,1220,"One evening my wife and I decided to go to my hunting club property to a place where we used to go sit and talk. We got there just before dark and had been there for several hours when it happened. The place where we were is on a large power transmission line right of way.There is a small stream that crosses the clearing, and a very steep hill on the side where we parked. In fact, so steep that it is difficult to drive a four wheel drive down to the stream. On the other side of the stream there is a low level spot that then becomes another steep hill. I would say that the hills are a good 50 feet higher than the stream. I had parked my truck on the hilltop, and we sat on the tailgate facing the stream. Around 11:00 pm we heard a very loud snorting noise coming from the bottom of the hill, and the sound of brush moving and breaking. I thought that it was a wild hog, because they are plentiful in this area, so I told my wife to get in the truck, because I was afraid it would attack us. She got in the truck while I tried to find my flashlight and my gun. When she slammed the door, I heard a loud, low growl/grunt and it sounded like something large started running up the hill towards us. I was standing in the bed of my truck by now trying to shine my light down the hill, but the batteries were weak and I couldn't see very far.There was a very bright moon out so I turned off my light, and could see a large shadow moving around about halfway up the hill towards us. I was listening to it move around and make the same growl/grunt noise. I could also hear what sounded like breathing noises. I then caught scent of a strange, musky, sour odor and heard more brush breaking and what sounded like stomping noises. I was certain by now that this was not a wild hog, but couldn't figure out what it might be. So I told my wife to start my truck and rev the engine a few times and when she did, I heard what sounded like something crashing through the brush heading down hill and moving fast. We were both a little spooked by now so we left. As I pulled out onto the dirt road off the power line trail, I turned toward the bridge that crosses the small stream (the road roughly parallels the power line) a large number of deer ran at high speed across the road,heading away from the stream. I tried to convince myself that it was just deer that I heard,but couldn't explain the shadow I saw.","Moved to private investigatiors section.","Lee County","Alabama","Spring","Report 18033: Possible stalking of couple parked at power line cut outside Opelika",32.6825,-85.2222,"2002-05-30",18033.0,"Class B","djg3utxj6g",83.62,72.515,61.41,64.15,0.76,0.32,0.65,0.0154,1.0,"rain",1010.51,"Heavy rain in the evening.",9.0,9.21,84.0,4.65,"RES.SEASON"], [5021,816,"My wife and I were driving through Cogar, Oklahoma in the afternoon on our way to her parents house. We were about 100 yards from approaching an intersection when I saw a [dark hair-covered, manlike] creature on two legs crossing the intersection we were about to turn on. It was running fast and it looked like it possibly stepped over a barbwire fence. I also saw something black about 25 feet from the fence as if it had come to a sitting position and i kept my eyes on it and when i got to the intersection i turned to see if it was there but didnt see anything. I dont think what i had my eyes on was what i saw crossing the road but i did see something about 5-6 feet tall cross the intersection fast and step over the fence. My wife did not see it but told me that many sightings have been reported around there and so did her dad when we got there. There has also been known to be a black panther in that area but this did not look like a panther. I was really amazed at what i saw that day. I never thought I'd see something like that. The road we were on had trees to the right and a farm to the left. When I saw it crossing the road it could have been hiding in tall grass afterwards.","Go through Union City. Get on highway 152, drive about 15 minutes until you get to the Cogar \"quick stop\" and trun left on a road. Go straight until you get to an intersection. (I saw it crossing from the right to the left)","Caddo County","Oklahoma","Summer","Report 6513: Daylight road crossing sighting by motorist in Cogar",35.33389,-98.13028,"2003-06-13",6513.0,"Class A","9y61nbrdyd",84.27,75.82499999999999,67.38,67.3,0.83,0.26,0.47,0.0176,1.0,"rain",1009.31,"Rain in the morning.",11.0,10.0,97.0,2.61,"RES.SEASON"] ]}