Bigfoot's Realm

MoMo the Monster

2011-11-12T09:23:00.001-05:00

The MoMo is a local legend of Missouri. The name 'MoMo' is a shortened from 'Missouri (MO) Monster.' It is reported to feature a pumpkin-shaped head with hair covering the eyes and body. The fur/hair covering the creature is black colored. It stands approximately 7 feet tall. The MoMo resembles a man and emits a terrible odor. It has been reported to eat dogs.
The first sightings of the MoMo occurred in 1971 when several people reported seeing the creature up and down the banks of the Mississippi River. Joan Mills and Mary Ryan were the first to see it. For about two weeks in 1972, tracks were found and submitted to Lawrence Curtis, the director at the Oklahoma City Zoo and Botanical Garden. He deemed the tracks a hoax. The tracks are unique in the fact that they only show three toes.

An illustration depicting the creature.

The sightings of the MoMo persist in Missouri and the surrounding areas. Although it seems that sightings of the more generic Sasquatch outnumber the sightings of the MoMo.

There are two sightings of the MoMo that generally stand out. in 1971, a group of picnickers spotted the MoMo come out of the woods. They locked themselves in their car, while the creature ate their food. In 1972, local children reported seeing the creature walk past them carrying a dead dog. Soon after a farmer reported a flash of light, growls, and the MoMo's stench.

Some people believe that the MoMo is an alien due to its sudden appearance and strange behavior. There has also been some speculation that the creature is related to the occult. Apparently the creature seems to have a distaste for Christianity.

To read more about the MoMo, head on over to Bigfoot Encounters or The Cryptid Zoo.

Cryptomundo » Gigantopithecus News

2011-11-11T10:43:00.000-05:00

Cryptomundo » Gigantopithecus News:

Fishing guide with clients approached by a Florida Skunk-Ape in the Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge

2011-08-09T10:48:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2011

SEASON: Summer

MONTH: May

DATE: 4/15/2011

STATE: Florida

COUNTY: Brevard County

LOCATION DETAILS: North Mosquito Lagoon

NEAREST TOWN: New Smyrna Beach

NEAREST ROAD: A1A

OBSERVED: I'm a fishing guide in Florida for over 25 years and spend apx 200 days on the water a year. On a charter last month I had a Delta pilot and lawyer on my boat. As we poled into a remote area of the Merrit island National Wildlife Refuge,I noticed something bent over and walking up a sand bank,apx 100 yards from us. It was just after good daylight. I thought bear?,hog? as it walked closer,one of my clients noticed it and said,"what the f(*& is that?" I was speechless,it walked to within 40 yards,stood up and faced us for about 15 sec. It took 3 steps,turned sideways and looked at us over it's shoulder for another 10 sec,then walked into the mangroves. The pilot said that was a F(*& Sasquatch! It was apx. 6/7 ft tall,long reddish brown hair, and was built like a side by side fridge,very square. It's face looked more cave man then ape. The wind was in our face and we were silent in my flats skiff,I think that is why he didn't know we were there as he was hunting the sand beach for food.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by permission.

To read more about this report, click here.

The nearest town of New Smyrna Beach has a population of 23,161. Merrit Island National Wildlife Refuge covers over 140,000 acres of land. There is one other report in the BFRO database for Brevard County. (1989) New Smyrna Beach is located in Volusia County.

Possible footprint found on edge of Chatham, Illinois

2011-08-05T14:11:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2011

SEASON: Spring

MONTH: June

DATE: 15

STATE: Illinois

COUNTY: Sangamon County

NEAREST TOWN: Chatham

NEAREST ROAD: Walnut Street

OBSERVED: We happened to notice a large complete footprint under an apple tree in our backyard measuring about 18". We live at the edge of a subdivision that backs up to a deeply wooded stream that eventually leads to a large man-made lake. Our lot is rather extensive and towards to back we have several varieties of fruit trees including apples, peaches, nectarines, cherries, and pears.

The foot print was found under the most mature and biggest of apple trees with a level muddy area under it amongst a sloping yard that leads to the stream. Coincidentally, the area on the apple tree directly above the print was devoid of apples while the remainder of the tree was more abundant with fruit. We've also noticed in years past that we see fruit growing on all of our trees but by the time it's near maturity it all disappears. We just figured it was raccoons but apparently not.

Our next-door neighbor has a cuddly german-shephard who roams leash-free around his yard but rarely comes into our yard unless accompanied by our neighbor. After we showed the neighbor the footprint, he told us that his dog darted out in the backyard one night then immediately came running back and cowered near his owner for the remainder of the night. Ever since he is leery to roam the yard and has even been sleeping in his owners bed, which he never did before. Our neighbor also reported hearing high-pitched catlike shrieking noises in the last few weeks.

After the discovery of the footprint we discovered a decapitated rabbit. The head was completely torn clean away from the body as if it had been "popped" off. It wasn't shredded or otherwise bloody, just simply guillotined. We've recently learned this could have been a gift from our large-footed visitor as appreciation for munching on our fruit.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by permission.

Click here to read more about this report.

Chatham, Illinois, has a population of 11,500 with a density of 1,728 people per square mile. It is located near Route 66. Sangamon County has a total population of 197,465 with a density of 218 people per square mile and is the home of the state capital, Springfield. There are three other reports in this county recorded in the BFRO database.

Man and dog enjoying the evening on a river have rocks thrown toward them near Yelm, Washington

2011-08-03T16:48:00.002-04:00

YEAR: 2011

SEASON: Spring

MONTH: May

DATE: 20

STATE: Washington

COUNTY: Pierce County

LOCATION DETAILS: Nisqually River area on south side of Joint Base Lewis McCord.

NEAREST TOWN: Joint Base Lewis McCord

NEAREST ROAD: Range Road

OBSERVED: Went out near Nisqually River with dog to build camp fire and enjoy nice night weather alone. In a remote spot on the river on Joint Base Lewis McCord I was with my dog Oscar. The fire had just started to catch up and my dog started barking toward the river ferociously. This is very out of character for him. I told him to be quiet and come back to me. I then heard large rocks being thrown into the river. I went to inspect with my flashlight and saw nothing. They were large rocks because I could hear them hitting the rocks on the bottom of the river. There were more than 5 rocks thrown. The experience was so creepy that I immediately put my dog in my Jeep and left.

I am an avid outdoorsman and notice details always, on the way in I observed that no one had been in the area since the last rain because there were no tracks. In this area there is no access to the other side of the river other than walking in. I observed no evidence of other humans such as lights, fire, or sounds.

I had heard of the rock throwing on TV shows about bigfoot sightings so I immediately thought of this and I left.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by permission.

To read more about this sighting, including a follow-up investigation report, click here.

Yelm, Washington has a population of 6,848 with a population density of 954 people per square mile. The BFRO database lists this report as being in Pierce County although Yelm is in Thurston County. Thurston County has a total population of 252,264 with a population density of 347 people per square mile. Pierce County has 59 reports in the BFRO database. Thurston has 15.

Possible observations using thermal imager southeast of Equality, Illinois

2011-08-01T09:48:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2011

SEASON: Spring

MONTH: April

DATE: 15

STATE: Illinois

COUNTY: Hardin County

LOCATION DETAILS: Shawnee National Forest

NEAREST TOWN: Equality

NEAREST ROAD: Hwy 142

OBSERVED: The evening of April 15, 2011 I was with fellow BFRO investigator Eric L. and BFRO enthusiast Sam. We were on a trail in the Shawnee National Forest southeast of Equality, IL. We were using Sam's thermal imaging monocular (L-3 Comm. X200xp ). We had traveled on the trail up a slight incline and occasionally either doing a howl or some whoops. When we got to our point before we decided to turn back. During our return we started getting some return howls four to be exact over about a five minute period. This was confirmed by several others in our camp. Shortly after, on our way back to base camp, I saw a heat signature. This was rather a bright heat source, different from any of the deer heat source we had observed both before and after this. This "Heat source" was behind a tree first observed on the left side of the tree. It then disappeared only to reappear on the right side. This continued for about a minute or so and it was playing "Peek a Boo" more or less.

During this observation Sam looked through them and all he said was " Oh My God". He said it was a squatch. Both Eric and Sam decided they wanted to move closer to the heat source. As they got closer to it, it got smaller and then moved from right to left through thickets or something. It then was gone. I was not able to make out any thing other than what appeared to be the head peeking out from behind different trees.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by Permission.
Click here to read more about this encounter (as well as the usual follow-up investigation report).

Equality, Illinois has a population of 721. Gallatin County has a population of 5,589 with a population density of 17 people per square mile. The BFRO lists this report in Hardin County, although Equality is located in Gallatin County. This was the first report from Gallatin County in the BFRO database. Hardin county has two other sightings in the BFRO database.

Cryptomundo » Finding Bigfoot Makes a Big Impact in its First Season

2011-07-31T09:54:00.000-04:00

Cryptomundo » Finding Bigfoot Makes a Big Impact in its First Season

It looks like Finding Bigfoot will be back for a secondseason that will air early next year. Enjoy the Squatching!

Cryptomundo » Bluegrass Bigfoot and the Erickson Project

2011-07-29T11:06:00.000-04:00

Cryptomundo » Bluegrass Bigfoot and the Erickson Project

I found this video at Cryptomundo, but was unable to find an embed code. So I just used BlogThis and here is my post. Enjoy.

The First Part of Fox's "Calling Bigfoot"

2011-07-28T13:03:00.002-04:00

Apparently, there was more to the story than the video I posted a few days ago. Here is the first half. Enjoy.

Calling Bigfoot. A Fox Report

2011-07-26T10:49:00.000-04:00

FoxNews had this interesting video on their website today. Check it out and let me know what you think. Even the large media corporation is risking more attacks by the liberal media by airing this video. Maybe believing in the Sasquatch isn't so crazy anymore.

Rancher startles a bigfoot while burning trash outside Daingerfield, Texas

2011-07-26T10:07:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2004SEASON: Fall

MONTH: October

DATE: Monday

COUNTY: Morris County

STATE: Texas

NEAREST TOWN: Daingerfield, Texas

OBSERVED: It was in the early autumn,while I was burning feed sacks out behind the bunk house. The sacks were damp so I tossed a cup of gas on the still small flame and it made a roaring sound and flames shot up in the air about 5 feet. It was immediately after that, I heard a noise behind me. It can best be described as a (gasp/startled) sound and limbs breaking. I turned quickly and saw a very tall, maybe 7 feet, reddish-brown bigfoot running back into the woods. As I said it was tall, rather lean looking, barrel chested, no neck. The head, from the side view seemed to be slightly pointed, but that could have been a trick of the light. It had a slim waist, compared to the size of the chest. It had a very long stride, for it didn't take 5 to 10 seconds before it was in the thick woods and I lost sight of it.
I waited until the fire was going good, went and got my gun, I wasn't aiming to shoot it, I just felt safer with the gun, and I went out to where I saw it and found no tracks, because of the thick leaves and ground clutter. At the time forest was virgin and could not pick up a trail.
Earlier that year, late summer, something broke a big limb, about 4" in diameter, off a sweetgum tree not 15 feet from where I burned the feed sacks. But this was done at night and no one saw or heard anything.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by permission.

To read more about this encounter, as well as previous encounters by the same individual, and a follow-up investigation report, visit the BFRO.

Morris county has a total population of 13,048 and has had negative population growth at many of the U.S. Censuses. Daingerfield has a population of 2,517. Morris County is a dry county. No alcohol is sold in this county. The BFRO database records one other sighting in Morris County.

White Bigfoot Filmed in Pennsylvania?

2011-07-24T09:53:00.000-04:00

I think I'll let you decide what you think of this video. Personally, I think this is a hoax, a good attempt though. It is quite original, actually. Who would think of filming a white Bigfoot at night? This lends the video a small degree of authenticity, I suppose. What also could lend more authenticity is that fact that there have been several recent sightings in the area. Residents have also reported hearing strange noises, especially at night.

It seems slightly more than a coincidence that the person filming the creature actually got it on film. How many times have trained and experienced researchers gone into the woods with state-of-the-art equipment, including FLIR cameras, had unexplainable encounters, and come away with little or no evidence, let alone good film such as this? However, when the subject in the video runs from the light and/or the camera, it seems to make very little noise and appears to be very smooth; something that Squatches are known to do. Another point, the person who took this video had a strange reaction. After the subject runs from the frame, he doesn't attempt to follow it for very long. He whispers, "What was that?" I know if I had seen that, I would have been running for the nearest high-powered rifle, but that's just me.

Final reaction - I don't think that this is a real Squatch. There is a small chance that it is real, but I wouldn't bet any money on that.

Cryptomundo has more videos and analysis as well as discussion on the matter.

Possible sighting by duck hunter near Wakaw, Yukon Territory

2011-07-16T14:47:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2005

SEASON: Fall

MONTH: September

DATE: 15

PROVINCE: Saskatchewan

COUNTRY: Canada

LOCATION DETAILS: go down 41 highway past alvena turn on the grid road heading to st. isidore de bellvue...travel about 10 miles ...find the ducks unlimited ...wawryk property and you are pretty much there...

NEAREST TOWN: wakaw

NEAREST ROAD: #5 highway

OBSERVED: I went out duck hunting to a spot near Wakaw Saskatchewan that i have been going to for a few years now. It had rained heavily on the day before i went and the fields were quite wet and muddy. while walking to a good shooting pond i stumbled across something that was very strange.

The crops had been cut and the swaths were still laying in the field..as i stepped over a swath i noticed that there was something white under it. I lifted the swath and found seven dead terns...(small, black headed seagulls..) they had not decomposed at all and looked as though they had not been there for long. they were packed all together in a big lump and not scattered about at all and there were no visible injurys on them. At first i didnt know what to think..then i just figured somehow a raccoon had caught them and stashed them there..because they have tendancies to do things like that with there food...not thinking any more about it i went on to shoot a few ducks and started back to my truck to go home because it was starting to rain...then my luck ran out...as soon as i got moving my truck slid off the shoulder of the mud road and into the ditch...i was stuck...bigtime...so i started walking to go find a farmer top pull me out.

As I walked along the main grid road that connected to the trail my truck was stuck on...i saw something i will never forget...it was raining pretty good and i had my face lookin down toward the road but some movement ahead of me caught my eye...i saw something...it didnt seem really tall...but i was a couple hundred yards away from it..but it was big...i mean real big...wide across the shoulders and no neck just like a big giant head sittin on huge shoulders and short little legs and long arms it was moving extremely fast but not running...it was heading down the ditch at this little valley i was walking through...i saw it for 3 or 4 strides then it disappeared into some trees that were at the bottom...the valley was very narrow but also very long and trees cover the whole bottom of it...it freaked me out...it had to have crossed the road right in front of me but i had my head down and didnt see it till it had crossed the road and was heading into the valley-bottom. When i got to the spot that i figured it must have crossed i found one huge footprint in the muddy sand at the shoulder of the road...it was soaked real good so the footprint was full of water maybe 16 inches long..but probably 5 or 6 inches across at the ball of the foot.

The thing i saw was dark brownish reddish unusual color...I have never heard of sasquatch sightings in the area and i have not told many people about this because i fear being thought of as some kind of nut. I dont know if the dead birds have anything to do with it but they were found only a few hundred yards from the top of the small valley that creature disapeared into.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by permission.

To read more about this report, as well as a follow-up investigation report, click here.

Southwestern China "Wildman"

2011-07-15T10:40:00.002-04:00

A new report coming from Chengkou county in southwestern China was accompanied by a photo of an alleged "wildman" footprint. (seen below)

A farmer found five of these footprints while fertilizing his corn field. He claims that he was approached by the creature (approximately six feet tall) which made a sound that was like "the bark of a dog." There have been many reports of the "Wildman" coming from this area. The Global Times has the full story. Also, Destination
Truth traveled to China in search of the Yeren. I have included the link off to the side. On yet another note, I have also added the blog "Bigfoot Evidence" to the "Other Bigfoot Blogs" section.

Young girls remember seeing a hair-covered creature running under a streetlight near Belmont, New York

2011-07-14T16:42:00.001-04:00

YEAR: 1999

SEASON: Winter

MONTH: January

STATE: New York

COUNTY: Allegany County

LOCATION DETAILS: Going out of Belmont, towards Alfred, after the hill just after the left turn to go down Baker Valley Rd.

NEAREST TOWN: Belmont, NY

NEAREST ROAD: 244

OBSERVED: It happened when my friend and I were 13. When I found out about this website, about 5 years later, I tried to post it on here but something must have gone wrong with the connection or something. Anyway, It was late winter and storming badly outside. We were outside playing, in front of her house and out of the corner of my eye, I saw a huge shadow and I remember saying "What the hell is that?" to my friend and before she could respond we both saw the "BIGFOOT" running (on two feet) on the side of the road from approx. 50ft away. We thought at first that it must be a very tall human but when it went under the streetlight, we saw fur from head to toe and it was approx. 7 to 9 ft tall. It also was running faster than I have ever seen anything else run. We both stood there in shock, unable to move or speak. I remember trying to scream but nothing came out. After it ran out of sight, we both looked at each other and ran inside to tell her mother, who obviously didn't believe a word of what we were saying. We didn't go back outside afterwards because we were terrified. To this day, we both remember it like it was last night, but no one believes our story.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by permission.

To read more about this encounter, as well as a follow-up investigation report, click here.

The town of Belmont has a population of 1,952 with a population density of 952.9 people per square mile. Alfred, New York, has a population of 5,140, with a population density of 163 people per square mile. Allegany County has a total population of 48,946 with a population density of 47 people per square mile.

Possible vocalizations heard by campers In Lake Luzerne area, New York

2011-07-13T12:36:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2009

SEASON: Summer

MONTH: July

DATE: 24th

STATE: New York

COUNTY: Essex County

NEAREST TOWN: Lake George

NEAREST ROAD: rt 9n

OBSERVED: while camping in the Lake Luzerne/4th lake area we heard several hoot-whoops on July 24th at approx 0130--200.prior to hearing these whoops, I heard something large walking approx 20-30 ft away from our camp. a distinctive "cracking" noise was made as if something very large either broke or stepped on a large branch these vocalizations were between 2, and possibly a 3rd animal. they were heard moving away from our area. I almost wonder if they were herding prey for hunting purposes. approx 02 hrs later I heard them again as they moved back into our area.I have heard these noises before and I immediately recognized the sounds as they are so unique.there were 7 people in our tent. 4 teenage girls (my wife myself and our 10 month old son.we all heard them and needless to say the girls and my wife were a little startled.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by permission.

To read more about this sighting as well as a follow-up investigation report, click here.

Daytime sighting behind a cabin near Westport, Ontario

2011-07-07T12:57:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2008

SEASON: Summer

MONTH: August

DATE: 15

PROVINCE: Ontario

COUNTRY: Canada

NEAREST TOWN: Westport

NEAREST ROAD: County Road #10

OBSERVED: I had just woken up and it was a lovely sunny August morning - so I pulled up the blind and looked out of window on the 2nd floor at the back of our cabin.I said to my husband "there is a man walking through our woods". He said "Let's go and see who it is".
Then it happened I suddenly felt really fearful and said "No".

After that statement I have been replaying the sight like a full internal video - with plenty of questions in my mind (like there were no clothes) and am now glad to find your site.

As soon as I looked out I saw a large dark figure stride out of the forest and into a small grassed clearing about 40 to 50 metres from the back of our cabin. The figure was over 6 feet and was mostly medium brown - with different coloured brown patches and one patch of hay coloured yellow on its side that stood out in the sun. It walked with a fluid grace and in three long strides crossed the clearing. Then it turned its face towards me for a split second and it had a dark grayish flat face - which to me had no brown patches.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by permission.

Westport, Ontario has a population of 645. It is located in southeastern Ontario which is neither densely populated nor sparsely populated. There have been a few other sightings in the area. To read more about this report, as well as read a detailed and informative follow-up investigation report go to the BFRO.

Motorist traveling near the Ohio River has bigfoot sighting outside Chesire, Ohio

2011-07-05T10:39:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2011

SEASON: Winter

MONTH: February

DATE: 22

STATE: Ohio

COUNTY: Gallia County

LOCATION DETAILS: It is about 2 miles out Little Kyger road off of Ohio state route 7 in the cheshire ohio area, over a dip in the road just past the old high school (River Valley )..

NEAREST TOWN: Cheshire, Ohio

NEAREST ROAD: Little Kyger Rd

OBSERVED: I was traveling on Little Kyger road toward Ohio state route 7 when I popped over a steep hill located one this stretch of road and as my headlights shown back down on the road as I topped the hill, along side the road there is a tree and a road sign, thats when I noticed this large very dark figure along the road with what appeared to be either very dark brown or black fur/coat?? it was a head taller than the road sign that it was walking in front(6 to 7 foot tall) of, it looked as if it was getting ready to cross the road out of a very wet swampy marsh area over into more wooded hills. As my lights hit it as with out thinking it turned back the way it had come very swiftly, but another interesting thing that i noticed was as it tuned to go back into the swampy area I could plainly see the entire bottom of its foot wich was very very large and light in contrast to the rest of the creature and void of any fur/coat would very much put you in the mind of a humans foot only much much larger. and within just flash was gone.I did stop the following day to see if I could see any kinda of tracks and saw nothing but the composition of the ground would probably not yeild a good footprint next to the road as for the marshy area I didnt venture in..Very strange indeed.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by permission.

To read more about this sighting, as well as a follow-up investigation report in which BFRO investigator Russ Jones brings up some good points, click here or the title.

Multiple Reports Coming from Boise County, Idaho, 2009-2010

2011-07-04T16:06:00.000-04:00

All incidents occurred near the town of Crouch, Idaho. You can find the first report here. A couple is witness to several events at two different campgrounds. They experience woodknocking, see a creature swaying between trees, hear what appears to be a boulder drop, and find footprints. The BFRO website has a few pictures of the terrain and surrounding area. It looks like good Squatch country.

You can find the second report here. Another couple witnesses a "huge, hairy, and fast" creature running up a mountainside as they are riding ATVs.

These reports are very intriguing to me. Both seen to be credible and occurred in very good locations. I can't help but wonder how many other reports will come out of this area.

As usual, click the links above to read more about each siting, as well as the report itself. Also view location photos and follow-up investigation reports by the BFRO.

Camper sees large bipedal creature leave her camp heading to the river in Oklahoma

2011-07-03T10:02:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2009

SEASON: Fall

MONTH: October

DATE: October 4th

STATE: Oklahoma

COUNTY: Johnston County

LOCATION DETAILS: Camping area 2 in Tishomingo State Park. The park is locked down at 10 PM.

NEAREST TOWN: Tishomingo

OBSERVED: Several of us old hippies meet once a year in October at Tishomingo, Ok to camp and enjoy each other. This October (the first week-end) we met as usual at the Tishomingo state park. There were 15 of us at the campsite on Saturday night. It was around 9:30 pm when I was leaving the burning embers and people behind me to walk to my tent alone. When I got about halfway to the tent, someone ran across in front of me in front (close to) the tent. I knew all of the campers were at the site and most of them cannot run. I don't drink or do drugs and so I stopped for a moment and thought about who it could have been. My tent was facing the Blue River. I stopped, turned around and decided to try to get back to all of the people. When I reached them, I asked for someone to walk me back to the tent with a flashlight. Two of my friends, males, made fun of the sighting I informed them about and told me it was probably a deer. Deer run on four legs! Then they told me it was probably one of the brown bears. Brown bears can't run with the stride of a man and they aren't that tall (around 6' or more). I got in my tent and loaded my gun and slept with it under my pillow (my hands making sure the steel was touching the gun all night long). I had two small dogs with me that I felt would alert me to any other encounters with something outside of the tent. I know I saw the stride of a man as he ran from West to East. There is a large light towards the South end of the camping area that allowed me to see the creature. I am positive everyone was at the campsite when the "Thing" was seen running. When I told my girlfriend in Florida about the sighting she said I ought to tell someone and therefore I am telling you (whoever you are.

Property of the BFRO. Used by Permission.

To read more about this sighting and view a Follow-Up Investigation Report, click here.

Sasquatch Calls in Comparison to Known Animals

2011-06-30T14:45:00.000-04:00

This is a clip of a bull elk. While it does sound similar to some of the recorded Sasquatch calls, it is very distinctive and I feel as though people would be able to tell an elk call from a Sasquatch call.

This next clip is of wolves howling. Once again, similar, but too distinguishable as a wolf howl.

These are just a few animals that could potentially be mistaken for a Sasquatch.
For audio recordings of purported Sasquatch calls, click here.

Season 2 for Finding Bigfoot?

2011-06-30T12:32:00.000-04:00

According to Finding Bigfoot cast member Bobo, there's going to be a second season. You can read more about it here.

Matt Moneymaker Defends Finding Bigfoot

2011-06-29T12:28:00.000-04:00

Matt Moneymaker has issued a statement as to why Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot cast seems to attribute everything to Bigfoot activity. You can find it here. Makes good sense to me.

Witness spots sasquatch approaching camp near Warwoman Dell, Georgia

2011-06-28T14:49:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2009

SEASON: Winter

MONTH: February

DATE: 22

STATE: Georgia

COUNTY: Rabun County

LOCATION DETAILS: You can find it. Its a state run campsite.

NEAREST TOWN: Clayton

NEAREST ROAD: Warwoman Rd

OBSERVED: I was asleep in my tent when something hit me. I woke up and realized that my tent was being bombarded by rock which I thought was being caused by one of my friends. I poked my head out of the tent because my buddy and I had forgotten to zip it. I looked around and I was about to pull my head back in when I saw a strange figure slightly in the brush staring at me. I yelled not knowing what to do and woke my buddy who was in my tent up. I proceeded to tell him what had happened and he didn't believe me. In the morning we proceeded to get up and investigate. We found no foot prints but the brush had obviously been disturbed, there were also several stones by the side of both tents that seemed to have been thrown there. Although we had planned to stay another night, we left promptly after I shared my story with everyone.

To read more about this encounter, as well and a Follow-Up Investigation Report, go to the BFRO.

Mother and son observe creature standing in road Northwest of Ulen, Minnesota

2011-06-28T14:36:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2009

SEASON: Spring

MONTH: March

DATE: 4th

STATE: Minnesota

COUNTY: Clay County

LOCATION DETAILS: Address not shown to protect the location

NEAREST TOWN: Ulen,MN

NEAREST ROAD: County Highway 34

OBSERVED: Back in January of 2007 we found some foot prints that were not identifiable. They seemed to look almost human like and were quite large. It seemed that about every two weeks there were new sets of prints.
In March of 2009 my son and I actually saw some type of large hair covered creature that we caught in the headlights of the car. We estimated that this creature was 7-8 feet tall, hair covere it's body and it had quite long arms.
These incidents happened around the Ulen, MN area, in a wooded area and next to the Wild Rice river. I quite honestly had been a bit of a non believer until I saw with my own eyes in March.

To read more about this encounter and to read a Follow-Up Investigation Report go to the BFRO.

Border Patrol Sasquatch Sighting?

2011-06-27T12:27:00.000-04:00

A Second Season for Finding Bigfoot

2011-06-27T12:23:00.000-04:00

It looks like there's going to be a second season of Finding Bigfoot on Animal Planet. Let the Squatching continue! Read more about this on Cryptomundo.

Australian Yowie Story from 1984

2011-06-24T15:38:00.000-04:00

I think that it can be beneficial to mix things up a little. So I found this encounter in Australia. To find this particular story, you'll want to go to bigfootencounters.com, click on "Stories, Sightings, Encounters, Letter" part of the page, and find "Australia, Southeastern Queensland, 1984." Australia has a long history of Sasquatch sightings. Only in Australia, Bigfoot is called "Yowie." To read more about the Yowie, you can go to Wikipedia or Australian Yowie Research.

Possible footprints found near Metropolis, IL, by local minister

2011-06-24T15:29:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2011

SEASON: Spring

MONTH: May

DATE: 3

STATE: Illinois

COUNTY: Massac County

LOCATION DETAILS: (please do not post location online)

NEAREST TOWN: Metropolis

OBSERVED: 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.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by Permission.

To read more of this report, including a Follow-Up Investigation Report and the witness's photos of the footprints, go to the BFRO

Sasquatch Family Group Footprints Found in New Mexico

2011-06-23T11:51:00.000-04:00

I was looking around Cryptomundo to see what's new, and this post caught my eye. Let me know what you think!

Possible vocalizations heard while cleaning a deer near Florence

2011-06-21T13:42:00.001-04:00

This is the most recent report of Bigfoot from Wisconsin.

YEAR: 2008

SEASON: Fall

MONTH: November

DATE: 26

STATE: Wisconsin

COUNTY: Florence County

LOCATION DETAILS: Specific directions omitted.

NEAREST TOWN: Florence

NEAREST ROAD: Duck Lake Rd

OBSERVED: 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.

To read more about this encounter, and to view the Follow-Up Investigation Report, go to the BFRO website.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by Permission.

Bigfoot Links Deleted

2011-06-20T09:07:00.001-04:00

While going over routine maintenance, I discovered several links that no longer worked. These were our links to Biofourteen Review, The Virginia Bigfoot Research Society, and one other link that is escaping my memory at the moment. Additionally, I updated the link to the American Bigfoot Society. They have a rather nice new site. Also, I have removed the blogs "Creatures of Time" "Blogsquatcher." I am also happy to announce that I have added Alliance of Independent Bigfoot Researchers and the Mid-America Bigfoot Research Center in the "Bigfoot Links" section of the blog. Bigfoot in West Virginia is also new to the "Other Bigfoot Blogs" section. Enjoy your Squatching!

Animal Planet says Finding Bigfoot is legit

2011-06-18T16:00:00.001-04:00

The title says it all. Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot took the TV world by storm by pulling in numbers like 1.3 million viewers. A Cryptomundo reader contacted Animal Planet about the integrity of the show and got this response. It's a good show and provides some good in-depth looks into the world of squatching. Even though Matt Moneymaker is just a little to hasty to attribute every little thing to Sasquatch behavior, the rest of the team seems to be forthright and trustworthy. Overall, I guess Finding Bigfoot gets 4.5/5 stars, which would rank it just below Monsterquest, which I would give 4.75/5 stars. I'm looking forward to seeing how the show progresses. Finding Bigfoot airs Sundays at 10 PM on Animal Planet.

Bigfoot Investigators Hope DNA Test Will Confirm Existence Of Two Man-Beasts

2011-06-18T11:02:00.000-04:00

Once again, someone thinks that they have found forensic evidence of Bigfoot. Personally, I almost never take any kind of hope in these kinds of discoveries. There are just too many variables. The article talks about how it could be a homeless person's hair, or for that matter, anythings hair. I just don't think that the existence of Bigfoot will be confirmed by DNA testing.

1. Any forensic test on purported Bigfoot hair has either been shown to be another common animal's, artificially colored human hair, or just not even hair at all.

2. The way that this story broke is a little strange. AOL Weird News? Never even heard of it. Maybe a little shady?

Anyway, I just don't think that this 100% legit.

Sasquatch Face Print?

2011-06-17T16:13:00.000-04:00

This is weird... Cryptomundo has this rather strange post. To me it actually looks like the face of the Bigfoot used on Animal Planet's Finding Bigfoot. Or even like a Turian from the Mass Effect series. My initial response? Fake or misinterpretation. Loren Coleman also has some good thoughts on the subject. Head on over to Cryptomundo.

Motorist has possible roadside sighting at night west of Alliance

2011-06-17T14:08:00.002-04:00

YEAR: 2010

SEASON: Fall

MONTH: October

DATE: 22

STATE: Ohio

COUNTY: Stark County

LOCATION DETAILS: Once you get out of Green, it its before you get to Malboro on the backside of the airport before you get to 44.

NEAREST TOWN: Green, Stark County

NEAREST ROAD: greensburg road

OBSERVED: On October 22, 2010, I was driving home from work, it was approximately 8 pm at night, and I was driving on a country road out behind canton airport when my headlights hit something huge standing at the side of the road..my mind couldnt make sense of what it was, all I knew was the hair stood up on the back of my neck and I felt the need to get past this thing very fast..so I sped up..and it was just standing...right at the edge on the line at the side of the road towering...it wasnt moving..yet there was some sort of movement like the wind blowing something..I was so terrified that as soon as I got past it..I checked my rearview mirror and whatever it was was gone..the next morning in the light..I checked the whole area on my way past to work and there were no trees, as was suggested by friends..nothing but farm fields and a low hedgerow..I know without a doubt what this was..this was Stark County, Ohio.It was as if this thing was just watching, I know this isnt funny but it reminded me of the snuffaluffagus on sesame street..thats how huge it appeared..I called my daughter right away and had her talk to me until I could calm down. Ive had others say..it could have been a cow..or a tree..and I say..does a cow stand upright alongside the road just chilling and watching...and how does a tree move from a field onto the edge of the roadway?

OTHER WITNESSES: Im not sure if anyone else had seen it, all I know was I kept watching behind me to see if any other cars came behind..but nothing...

OTHER STORIES: Ive grown up hearing stories like this but never expected to see anything like this..and especially just chillin by the side of the road..like it was not afraid of my car..

TIME AND CONDITIONS: 8 pm, it was dark, and dry, and that is why when my headlights hit it..I saw it..

ENVIRONMENT: It was a farming area, residential where the homes are not close together...and this thing was standing by the side of the road.

Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Brad Bacon:

I spoke with the witness in a telephone interview and can include the following information. The witness travels Greensburg Road for her daily commute and is very familiar with everything along her route. While Greensburg road does travel just north of the Akron/Canton Regional Airport, her incident occurred further east in a more rural area, west of Alliance, OH. The witness was traveling east on Greensburg en route to her residence when her headlights illuminated the figure standing just off the side of the road. She instinctively slowed down. The figure was to her right on the south side of the road. The witness said, "It looked like a big, huge, giant person." "It had a head, big arms and lots of hair." The witness also said, "I felt like it was staring at me." The witness added that she was overcome with a feeling of she had to get past this thing so she sped up and moved on. After she was clear, the witness said she became very emotional and had to find a spot that she could pull over to call her daughter and recount what she had just experienced.

The witness is a lifelong resident of the area and has spent the last 25 years in her current residence. I found her to be credible and sincere in her accounts. Though it was dark and her encounter brief she is convinced she saw a Bigfoot and says she never wants to see another one.

~Property of the BFRO. Used by permission.

Other notes:

Stark County, Ohio, has a total population of 378,098 (2000 census) and a total land area of 581 sq. miles. This leads to a population density of 656 people per sq. mile.

"It's a man in a costume." Says the BFRO

2011-04-19T11:56:00.000-04:00

This video was shot earlier this year in the Ukraine. Many people thought it was real, others did not. The BFRO seems to think it is fake. http://www.bfro.net/news/ukraine_video.asp

Bigfoot Evidence has this video:

What do you think?

Extended daylight sighting from tower at Kelly's Bog in Kouchibouguac National Park, New Brunswick

2010-08-02T09:34:00.004-04:00

YEAR: 1997

SEASON: Summer

PROVINCE: New Brunswick

COUNTRY: Canada

LOCATION DETAILS: [See description of location in the body of the report]

NEAREST TOWN: Kouchibouguac Village

NEAREST ROAD: Within two kilometers of parking lot near lower campgrounds.

OBSERVED: Hello,

My name is Steve and I would like to share my sighting with the group. Before I go any further I would like to say that this is a fantastic web site and if I would have seen it in 1997 I would have posted then. Having looked through the site I noticed other sighting in the New Brunswick area one around the same time as mine.

Durung the summer of 1998 (July or August?) I set out on a solo vacation from the Ottawa area to travel the eastern provinces. I first visited a friend in Red Banks N.B where I left my car and trailer. The next day I got on my motorcycle and headed to Kouchibouguac Provincial park on the recomendation of my friend.

The next morning I got up early and decided I would like to take avantage of what trails the park had to offer. I picked the bog. This was the largest bog I had even seen. It is something like 1.5km wide by .75km [across]. You walk along a short trail through the forest and then wow!, you are presented with this incredible bog.

I climbed this small viewing tower located at the start of the Bog and took in the spectular view. I remember saying to myself "Lets see what animals I can spot" and then seeing something and saying to myself "theres one".

I pride myself in having exceptional vision and I focused as best I could on this animal. It was directly in front of me at an estimated distance of 500'. It was a greyish brown colour from head to toe. It was walking away from me.

I never once thought is was a Man as it's colouring was too close to its surroundings and too uniform. The only problem I had was that it was walking upright. I watched it until it was out of my sight desperit to get an identifaction.

Once I couldnt see it anymore I decended the tower and walked along the boardwalk through the bog in the same direction as the creature. At the end of the boardwalk I thought about going into the bog to look for it and fear of the unknown caused me to turn back.

Before leaving the bog I went back up the tower and it was exactly where I saw it the first time except this time it walked right across my field of vision from right to left. It was close enough that I could see light between its legs as it walked and noticed its lower leg and arms seemed longer than a humans.

It appeared to be picking things up as it walked. It didnt need to bend over or stop as it picked up some kind of plants. I watched it for about 20 minutes and it seemed to me like I was looking at a shadow. I felt like it knew that I didnt have either my binocculars or camera to get a closer look at it. It was just out of my visual reach to make a definite identification.

During my vacation I walked alot of trails and on two ocassions I walked off the trail into the bush. I noticed a light from deep into the bush as if there was an opening and sure enough I found what appeared to be a natural road /trail about 20' wide and as far as I could see either way. Being in these openings felt strange so I would turn back and continue on the main trail.

At one opening I noticed an impression in the ground that appeared to be in the shape of a foot print. Athough it wasn't clear if it was a foot print it seemed odd because it was about 1" deep like an impression of a rock but there was no rock.

Well it feels good to add this to your web site. I have always thought that Sasquatch existed from a young boy in the growing up in the seventies but it was furthest from my mind when I woke up that morning.

OTHER WITNESSES: No other witnesses

Two Sightings in Minnesota in April of 2010

2010-07-27T13:27:00.000-04:00

These reports come from the BFRO database. I find it very interesting that two different reports come from the same county in the same month. Both reports have attached mp3 files that are excerpts of interviews with the witnesses.

Report #28013

Report #27991

Witness watches tall biped cross her backyard, GA

2010-07-26T14:51:00.001-04:00

YEAR: 2004

SEASON: Fall

MONTH: October

DATE: 5

STATE: Georgia

COUNTY: White County

LOCATION DETAILS: my backyard

NEAREST TOWN: Helen

NEAREST ROAD: Highway 17

OBSERVED: 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.

OTHER WITNESSES: no people just my dogs

OTHER STORIES: I reported seeing one in 99 about two years ago.

TIME AND CONDITIONS: daytime

ENVIRONMENT: Open valley

Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Tony Seichrist:

The witness seemed extremely genuine and was clearly shaken by her encounter. I also noticed tree markings when I arrived.

Note: There have been a series of encounters in the witness’s immediate area.

~BFRO

Local people record strange primate vocalizations in remote woods north of Nimrod, MN (w/ recordings)

2010-02-18T12:15:00.000-05:00

YEAR: 2008

SEASON: Summer
MONTH: August
DATE: the 11th
STATE: Minnesota
COUNTY: Cass County
NEAREST TOWN: nimrod
NEAREST ROAD: 18 off of 227
OBSERVED: Three nights ago some friends and i were out and about at a spot where we usually search for these creatures. and at least fifty percent of the time we can get audible results. But on this night it was the best. We could hear them out there for about an hour and a half vocalizing. the next night we couldn't go out again and waited until last night.
we brought a friend with us who never "bigfoot hunted" before but was curious about our stories. she being a experienced hunter and knowledgeable about the woods. That night was the best to date, and we thought that three nights ago was good.
at one point they were so close to us. i would say less than 75 yards. the sounds they make at that distance seem right on top of you. we could feel our chests vibrating.
my friend G had a digital camera with so we recorded the vocalizations. that night our curious friend agreed and told us nothing she has ever hunted makes those kinds of noises. we were afraid the camera might not pick up all the sounds. to our pleasant surprise it did. we would like to send you guys the recordings, to get the professional opinion though. thank you
ALSO NOTICED: sometimes we hear knocking as well. and about a month ago i stayed by the car but G and some of the others were chased out by something that seemed to be pacing in the woods and then was chasing right behind them. all of them got the feeling it was time to go but not that it wanted to hurt them. what it was is still unsure obviously they ran and didn't stay to find out. but they said it seemed to just want them out of there.
OTHER WITNESSES: three nights ago me(D) my wife(J)our friend(G) and new comer OUr friend(Av)
Last night me, J , G, and our hunter friend (Al)
OTHER STORIES: lately north of staples someone claims to have hit one in a van the articles are even published in the "Review Messenger" menahga newspaper. I dont know if i believe all of the details of the story though. i think that if it was a hoax though everybody even the people reporting were in on it. cause i can't imagine a hoaxer that would take a hit from a van and get shot at and not come forward at the sound of bullets coming your way and say ok the jokes up i was just having some fun dont kill me. Right now thats pretty big news up here anyway.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: off and on from11:00-1:00 lots of moonlight calm and quiet almost no wind perfect for listening
ENVIRONMENT: pine forest and bushes and brush some farmers live in the area and consequently there are also cow pastures and fields.

Investigation report and recordings can be heard here.

~BFRO

Witness recalls face to face encounter with creature near Myrtle Point, Oregon

2009-11-11T13:01:00.000-05:00

YEAR: 1971

SEASON: Fall
STATE: Oregon
COUNTY: Coos County
LOCATION DETAILS: The house was later sold by my parents (years later) and that same house burned down.....the new owners built a new home on the same site and cut back many othe the trees.
NEAREST TOWN: Myrtle Point, Oregon
NEAREST ROAD: [Omitted]
OBSERVED: [Editor's Note - Matt Pruitt: Even though the incident occurred many years ago, I have omitted the details that describe the exact location of the incident, as the area is private, and is still occupied.]

This was in 1971 and I was 19 at the time. The location was outside the town of Myrtle Point, Oregon on [omitted] where my parents lived on 10 acres. I didn't live with them at the time, but had walked to their place from town that day and met them on the road as they were driving into town.....they were going out for the evening and told me I could spend the night at the house and they'd see me later on.

It was late in the afternoon when I arrived at the house and just went in and watched TV for awhile. After about an hour or so, I heard the dogs barking.....they often barked at deer that would come near the house, so I peeked out the window behind the couch where I sat to see if I could see them. I didn't see anything, but smelled what I thought was the septic tank.....it was awful. Back to watching TV....it was getting darker now and I could hear the dogs again, but they were screaching and saw them run past our front door (the door was all glass panes) and heard them run into the garage. That smell again and it was stronger and I looked out the window again to see why the dogs ran away, but still saw nothing.

Soon I heard a noise outside the window I had been looking out of. Someone was walking on the plank just outside the window and sounded like he was headed toward the front door, so I sat back and looked to see who it was.
I saw a tall, dark figure walking past the door, but in it's stride, it's head turned and saw me watching. It stopped at the door and turned toward me. It stood there watching me and in my fear I must have passed out, because the next thing I remembered was my parents picking me up from the floor....how I ended up there, I'll never know, but my folks said I was white as a ghost and were afraid when they saw me, that I was dead.
My dad ran out the door right away with flashlight in hand, when I was able to tell them what happened, but I was sure it had been hours past and it had rained. He came back with nothing.
The creature was taller than the door, but was slightly hunched when it was walking past the door. The eyes were small compared to the size of its head and piercing. It had hair all over, but I could see its skin easily and I could see that it was a female by its breasts, which had less hair. Its face was rather flat and the head was long. It had a short neck. I'll never forget those eyes.
I can't really remember the season or month, but it was a couple of months after I graduated for highschool.
OTHER WITNESSES: There were no other witnesses....I was alone
OTHER STORIES: I had heard of former owners who reported seeing bigfoot in the same location....their name was [omitted], and their story was in some report I found at a local library after the incident I had.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: This happened just before dusk
ENVIRONMENT: This area was covered in pines and shrubs. A creek ran behind the house. The house stood between two ridges and you had to drive down the road to get to the house.
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Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Kristi Sanders:

The witness was very credible, and she vividly recalled the incident. Below is an excerpted interview I conducted with her, providing more details:
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"It was walking past the glass doors and it saw me, and it stopped and turned towards the door. It was only 10 feet away, and it was taller than the door. It was a bit hunched, and it could see into the house. Both of us made eye contact, and I fainted. My parents found me on the floor; pale white."

"I could tell it was female, because there were breasts. It seemed like a young animal, and I could see the skin on the creature. It had sparse hair on the front part. The skin was sort of a tan color."

"I estimated it to be about 7’5”, based on height of the door."

"The thing that stood out the most was the eyes. The eyes were small in proportion to rest of the face. It had a long face, like somebody with an elongated head, maybe two-thirds larger than a human face."

"The eyes were almond shaped, like a monkey's. The eyes looked to be brown."

"It had a flat nose, flatter than a human's. I didn't notice any eyebrows. I did notice small ears. They weren't stuck out; they were more pressed against the head."

"It turned its head, looked in the house, and then it stopped and it saw me. It froze, and then turned the whole body toward me. It looked like a healthy animal."

"It seemed intelligent, and it did not look afraid. It looked curious. I did not feel as if I was going to be attacked."

"I had never even heard of bigfoot when I saw the animal, and my parents told me there was something that people had seen that was similar to my description. I went to the library to read about the animal. I saw a guy on television who said he saw one across the lake that the thing that stood out to him was the eyes, and I definitely agree."

"After getting over the fear, the incident was burned in my mind, and I remember it very vividly."
~BFRO

Daylight sighting by motorcyclist near Atwater, Ohio

2009-08-06T11:59:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 1994-95
SEASON: Summer
STATE: Ohio
COUNTY: Portage County
LOCATION DETAILS: from the corner of 183 and 224 in atwater,you follow 224 east till you come to Porter Rd.Its only about a few miles.Turn right and go down 3 houses on the left.The big blue house is still mom and dads.from there,the mines are behind the house.Since then,they have dozed most of the area so it doesnt resemble much of what it looked like.
NEAREST TOWN: ATWATER
NEAREST ROAD: 224 AND 225
OBSERVED: This incident occured in the town of Atwater,OH.
One day in the late afternoon my sister and I climbed on my motorcycle and headed back to what was once strip mines.I frequently rode there and knew every bit of it.We had just rounded a corner and were headed north when we noticed South of us 2 "people".I immediately assumed it was my one friends with his dad..They are big guys.Well,I turned the bike around and headed toward them.At this point, they were quite a distance away.As we got closer,a strange transformation took place in my mind.What had been my friend took on a different appearance altogether.I remember feeling strange because my previous thoughts were being replaced as we got closer.At some point, we realized it was not my friend, and within seconds after that,saw them enough to get the details.They were indeed large,covered with hair,and looked human.They were not bears for 2 reasons.Their faces,and the way they left, on 2 legs.When years later I saw the Patterson film,the first thing that struck me was the way that animal looked at the camera.When these 2 beings looked at us,they also turned their upper body with their head to see us.As soon as I realized that we were looking at 2 huge, 2 legged things looking at us,I immediately got scared.Right after they looked at us,they were gone into the woods.We coasted up to the spot,and my sister reached up and turned off the bike.I protested! In the distance we heard distinctly branched breaking as if something snapped them as it ran.I also remember thinking that the snapping sound was deeper,as if whatever was breaking was larger than the typical twig.We re-started the bike and ran for home.It wasnt until later that we even thought about Bigfoot.But i must stress,we saw them in the day,and we saw them close enough to know what we saw.
ALSO NOTICED: nothing that we noticed.I remember a few days later returning to look for footprints,but it was so hard back there,i dont think anything could have left a print.Needless to say,i found none.
OTHER WITNESSES: 2 witnesses..
riding a motorcycle
TIME AND CONDITIONS: It was hot and dry,middle of summer I think.Probally around 5 in the afternoon.
ENVIRONMENT: The area was once stripped mined,but at the time was mostly grown over with woods.There are numerous lakes back there and berries and the like.
~BFRO

Unusual howls recorded in the Black Hills southwest of Rapid City, South Dakota

2009-08-01T11:54:00.002-04:00

YEAR: 2008
SEASON: Winter
MONTH: February
DATE: 18 & 20
STATE: South Dakota
COUNTY: Pennington County
LOCATION DETAILS: (Edited for privacy at witness request.)
NEAREST TOWN: 7 mi South-Southwest from Rapid City, SD
NEAREST ROAD: (Edited)
OBSERVED: Sorry if duplicate, I keep hitting some key that throws me out of this page.Auditory report.Returned home after Vol Fire Dept meeting and heard weird howling. Got my digital voice recorder from inside the house and obtained roughly 4.5 minutes of it on tape. Ululating howl with some echo off of nearby cliff face. I estimated the sound to originate (nearby). I am an avid outdoorsman and have lived in the Black Hills for over 40 years. This sound was odd, did not fit the pattern of any animal species I am aware of. We have Coyote, Mountain Lion, Big Horn Sheep, White Tail deer (occ. Mule deer) frequenting my home place. Bobcat, skunk, etc. Elk are within 1-2 miles. Wild animal park (Bear Country USA) is (nearby) and has Black Bear, Grizzly Bear, and Wolves to name a few. We often have sounds from there drift in and what I heard was not any of them, either. Would like someone there to listen and render an opinion on the origin of the sounds.On 20th sound was more distant, perhaps 1.2 to 2 mi, fainter and without the echo. It appeared to be originating North-Northwest that night.
ALSO NOTICED: Dogs did not seem to like to hear this.I have a digital recording of these two incidents available on contact, as well as a written summary with maps.
OTHER WITNESSES: Myself on 18th, wife also heard on 20th.
OTHER STORIES: Yes. My wife and I heard the same thing back in late Oct or early Nov of 2007 coming from South-Southwest of our home. My son and brothers and I heard a similar sound 9-10 years ago near Hill City while fishing around 0530. We are 9-12 mi (by the crow flies) from a class A sighting near Mt. Rushmore, a few more from the Blue Bell Lodge sighting. Other anectdotal reports in Black Hills as well.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: 18th: 1915-1920 hrs, cold (16 F), clear (few high scattered clouds), still (calm winds) with approx 1 inch day-old snow on ground. 20th: 2020 hrs, cold (20F) overcast (?1500 ft ceiling) with calm winds.
ENVIRONMENT: Dense Ponderosa pine forests with scrub Oak groves scattered. Some open meadows and pastures. Steep difficult terrain with many deep ravines, deep canyon country, limestone cliff faces and limestone caves. Inumerable places for seclusion. Ridges nearby. Big Horn Sheep wilderness preserve (nearby). Essentially an island of pristine Black Hills forest with suburban encroachment. No doubt about it being rural, though. Closest water is Spring Creek (*) in Spring Canyon.
Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator David Petti:
I first interviewed the witness the day after this report was submitted. During our long discussion, his enthusiasm about recording these unusual vocalizations, similar to those that he had heard previously, was clear and he was eager to offer them for the consideration of others. He thought it possible that the audio might be sasquatch-related given the other reports in the general area, because they sounded somewhat like some other supposed possible bigfoot recordings, and because he did not have what he considered to be any other likely explanation. The recordings were forwarded immediately thereafter. After review by myself and several other associates, I also considered them sufficiently unusual to merit their public release for the review of anyone so interested. I visited the location the following August, shortly after two additional and similar recordings were obtained, as part of frequent follow-up in recent years to many various reported observations in southwestern South Dakota. Due to many direct and credible witness contacts, personal and on-location visits and interviews, a fairly-thorough familiarity with the region, and an almost-certain sighting of my own, it is my opinion that the Black Hills and Pine Ridge Reservation region apparently provides a suitable and continuing habitat area for some of these creatures and further investigative efforts are intended.
~BFRO

Two elk hunters & tall bipedal creature startle each other at Chalk Creek east of Coalville

2009-07-20T20:48:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2004

SEASON: Fall
MONTH: October
DATE: September
STATE: Utah
COUNTY: Summit County
LOCATION DETAILS: It's a CWMU known as Thousand Peaks.
NEAREST TOWN: Coalville
NEAREST ROAD: Chalk Creek Road
OBSERVED: I was hunting Elk with my Bro in Law. Up in Chalk Creek. That is in Summit County in Utah. We had been in this deep canyon for some time. It was getting dark, so we heeded out of it. I can still see this in my head,..We were climbing up out of a small draw onto a flat meadow. As we got to the top of it. We both saw something very black in color move into a small stand of pine trees. It let out a huge Whoooff sort of sound as it went in. Also it moved a pine bow that flipped from the ground to about five feet in the air. My Bro in law said " What the Heck was that"!!! As he put a shell into the chamber. This stand of pines was no bigger than a front yard. There was a clearing behind it. I have thought on this for some time. I think that we came in contact with it. And we surprised each other. The Creature was to our left, and we had a Beaver Dam to our right. The thing was about 30 feet away from us in the pines. We were on a Deer path between the pond and the pines. We backed up, and this thing let out a low gutteral growl at us. You could hear it's teeth chatter also. I have felt fear in my life, but a sense of evil came over me. On the way home we talked about what we had saw. We were so close to this thing. I know for a fact it was not a Bear or Moose. A Bear does not move that fast on it's hind legs. I used to work at Lagoon in Farmington. It's an amusement park. I used to feed the animals down there. They had a Leapord that would growl at you when you walked by it's cage. That growl was almost just like what I heard on that mountain. I have been in the hills all my life, and have never seen or heard anything like that. Please give me a call.
OTHER WITNESSES: My brother in Law
OTHER STORIES: Yes I was at an Archery shop last Fall, and I told this story to a freind. Half way through the story. He said " Your not going to tell me a Bigfoot Story ". I had not even mentioned it to him. He told me that I was the second person he had heard to see one, in the same area
TIME AND CONDITIONS: It was at dusk
ENVIRONMENT: Pine forest, and Quaken Aspen
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Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Todd Strong:

After interviewing this witness, the following can be added to his original statement. The witness has worked as a licensed hunting guide and a wildlife artist. When the incident occurred, it was still light enough to be considered shooting light. They surprised the creature by walking with the wind in their face. The animal could not see them because of the grade of the hill until the pair of hunters stepped into the clearing, whereupon the animal "whoofed" at them, moving a pine bough out of its way as it walked into the trees. They could not see the entire body of the creature, only from about 5 ft. off the ground, or from its hips on up. Estimated height was about 9 ft. The witness is adamant that this was an animal moving upright, on two legs. They never saw the creature again, but then they heard it growl. At the end of the growl it clicked its teeth together. The witness said it reminded him of the way a cornered dog would growl at you, and how some dogs finish a growl by chattering their teeth together.The animal's coat looked like jet black hair, not fur. It scared them enough that they left. I found this witness to be credible and an experienced outdoorsman.

This area is made up of several small, private ranches. Like most large tracts of private property, there is an abundance of elk and deer. The witness is willing to take me to the location next Spring.
~BFRO

Couple reports possible stalking near abandoned rural graveyard outside town of Valley, Alabama

2009-05-10T10:10:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2007

SEASON: Winter
MONTH: January
DATE: 01/30/2007
STATE: Alabama
COUNTY: Lee County
LOCATION DETAILS: Take Hwy 29 East from Interstate 85 The area is near Halawakee Creek in Lee County, Alabama and is between Hwy 29 and Hwy 280 East.
NEAREST TOWN: Valley
NEAREST ROAD: Intstate 85 and Hwy 29 and Hwy 280
OBSERVED: First of all I would like to say that I am a city girl and educated in medical science and not familiar with such things as Big Foot.

I will say that I moved to Alabama 6 years ago, met and married my husband and he familiarized me with "the ways of the wild"...ie sounds, smells, woods, etc. I learned as much about the outdoors as I could and visit them often to this day.

The experience I am about to share occured in January 2007. My husband belonged to a hunting club and we spent most of our free time enjoying waterfalls and creeks....looking at stars...sitting and talking, absolutely everything slips away when you go into the wild.

We decided not to go to the hunting club this night, but to an old abandoned grave yard. An elderly couple used to go there years ago and keep it clean from debris and weeds but since they died it is grown over. It seems to be such a peaceful place full of history and romance.

We had been there often and this particular night my husband was, to say the least, enebriated, and we were just sitting in the car talking...the moon was very bright and the stars were all out. I kept hearing branches breaking, to my left, I was in the driver seat of the car and my husband was in the passenger seat. I thought it was probably a rabbit or another critter of the night...but I started to get a very creepy feeling...as if I was being watched...I felt this for a time before my husband asked me why I was looking to my left constantly. I simply said I feel like I am being watched and shrugged it off. The feeling did get stronger and I continued to look to my left into the surrounding woods to find out exactly what was giving me this eerie feeling. This went on for quite a while...I also noticed a foul odor but could not pin point it's source..I thought it was my husbands usual bout of, well to put it delicately, indigestion...I eventually saw a very tall figure and told my husband that someone was in the woods and he was standing between two tall pine trees...He thought I was crazy and laughed it off...I never stopped looking and saw this figure sway from side to side...from tree to tree..never approached...never made a sound. I looked for about 5 or 10 minutes before I was just too scared to stay there anymore, so we left.

A similar experience happened to my husband 5 years ago right after I moved here. It is currently posted on this site.

I have been encouraged by Mr. M. Collins to post my experience..throughout this experience my husband never witnessed what I saw. He says he could not see anything out in the dark because of the glare of the dashboard lights (we had the radio on low).

I am not sure what exactly I did see...I just know that I have frequented these woods for years and have never felt like that before...I do not intimidate easily and I was extremely ready to leave that night. I have gone back to the graveyard, but not nearly as often as before the incident. I am always on guard there.

I know I saw something and I don't believe it was a man.
ALSO NOTICED: No..I did NOT go and investigate!
OTHER WITNESSES: No...just my husband but he could not see it.
OTHER STORIES: Yes...another by my husband 5 years earlier about 1/2 mile away and it is also posted on this site.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: Between 8pm to 1000pm
ENVIRONMENT: Pine Forest...graveyard..very grown over but the woods did not have lots of growth...only trees and distance between each tree is easily distinguished.
~BFRO

Campers report harassment on the Mogollon Rim near Knoll Lake, Arizona

2009-02-28T08:38:00.000-05:00

YEAR: 2008
SEASON: Summer
MONTH: July
DATE: Sat the 12th & 19th
STATE: Arizona
COUNTY: Coconino County
NEAREST TOWN: Christopher Creek
NEAREST ROAD: 300 - Rim Road
OBSERVED: These events took place over two consecutive weekends. My husband and I like to escape the summer heat of the valley (Phoenix) as much as possible, and our usual means of escape is up to the Mogollon Rim in Coconino County. We have been going there for years, and we know most of it like the backs of our hands, including all the sounds and wildlife in the area. We generally stay away from the populated lake areas and travel further into the deep woods where there are fewer people. In fact, some weekends we may not see anyone at all, but most of the time maybe at most a couple of other campers riding ATVs or something.

Two weekends ago we were at a fairly remote campsite. We were pretty closed in by the trees. It wasn't a large open space like many campsites there. It had been raining on and off most of the day, and we spent the day reading and napping.

I was sitting in the front seat of our conversion van reading while hubby was back on the bed napping. I started hearing what sounded like an animal ripping bark from a tree and moving around in the dense growth. This went on for about 15 to 20 minutes. I was so sure there was an elk or other large animal nearby that I sat my book aside, grabbed my camera and waited. It was absolutely silent (besides a few snores from the back of the van) that I was hoping whatever it was out there would break the clearing and I'd get a great photo. After about ten minutes of silence and no other movement I went back to my book, figuring whatever it was had smelled us and moved on.

Not five minutes after I had put my camera down and resumed reading a branch about 4 feet long and 3 to 4 inches round came shooting out of the trees directly at the van like a javelin. It hit the side mirror dead on center, pushing it in towards the van. (It is hard to even move this mirror by hand. The force it took to force it in towards the van had to be tremendous). The force was such that it shattered the side mirror into many pieces. There's still a dent on the back metal portion of the mirror from the impact.

I had glanced up just a second or two before impact, whether it was from noticing movement in front of me or just glancing up by chance, I don't know. I saw the trajectory, and it was NOT a limb FALLING from a tree. It came straight at us, like I said before like a javelin being hurled at us.

I jumped over the front seat into the back and [my husband] woke up immediately. He saw what happened while I was babbling away like an idiot. His first words were, "Somebody threw that at us? Who was it?" We listened and watched for a while but didn't hear anything else. A while later I did think I heard movement in the forest, but by that time my senses were so alert I wasn't sure of what I was hearing. This happened in the mid-afternoon on Saturday, July 12, 2008.

The incident rattled me and that night I had a restless night sleeping. We usually sleep in the back of the conversion van with all the slider windows open and other windows popped out but the front two windows rolled up. I have no idea what time it was, but I woke up in the middle of the night to the sound of something sniffing at the small slider window by my feet. Whatever it was, it was very LARGE. It was taking deep, deep breaths like it was smelling inside of the van and then -- for lack of a better description -- sort of huffing/grunting out the breath. Each breath in sounded was deep and long. . .much longer than a human can do it. The only way I can think of to describe the breath out is like when a horse sometimes exhales and blows its lips together to make that sound. It wasn't exactly that, but similar enough to use it as a vague description.

I laid there frozen, barely breathing, my heart absolutely pounding out of my chest. I kept poking at my husband trying to get him to wake up, but he didn't. I didn't want to say anything, I don't know why, I guess because I didn't want whatever it was to know I was awake. It was pitch black but I could sense it was large and aware of what it was doing. This smelling went on for a few minutes, of course it seemed like forever but was probably less than five. I was laying on back back and vaguely glanced a moving shape in the driver's side mirror but that's it. Weird thing is, I never heard it move away at all and it seemed like I laid there for a long time after the smelling stopped. Maybe I'm attributing things to something that I shouldn't, but I sensed a bit of curiosity in the creature by the way it was smelling at the window. Although I didn't feel entirely safe, I didn't feel extremely threatened either, or not enough to force my husband awake.

When we woke up in the morning the first thing we noticed is that the kitchen had been raided ... but very politely, neatly raided. It wasn't destroyed at all like it would be if it was a bear or a coyote or an elk or even a bird. We had a packet of biscuits in aluminum foil that had been what seemed like very carefully opened and all the biscuits removed and missing. Not a crumb left like it would be if an animal would have gotten into them and eaten them on the spot. Out of all the stuff on the table, that was all that was taken. Also something had gotten in the trash and removed only one thing. . .a Jimmy Dean sausage container. It was laying a few feet away near the edge of the clearing. Only something with a lot of dexterity could have opened that aluminum foil without ripping or tearing it at all.

We talked about this incident all week and went over what it could have possibly been, then decided to go back this weekend. We discussed the possibility of a "Big Foot", not knowing what in the world else could have done all this, been so precise, so aware. I've lived in Arizona my whole life and never even knew there had been Big Foot sightings here until we linked to your website through Google Earth.

To link this all together, we decided to go back this weekend to the same spot. While we personally had nothing occur at our campsite on this weekend (July 19, 2008), both our husband and I heard sounds in the late afternoon very similar to the recordings on your website.

It was Saturday afternoon and some people down the road a ways started shooting. Target practice, I assume, since it's not hunting season. All of a sudden we heard these horrible screams echoing through the woods. Like I said, they were very similar to the first three recordings on your website, only much angrier. We heard the sounds approximately three or four times, each incident in conjunction with the shooting. Each time it started, the howling/screaming/raging sound started. We have both spent a lot of time outdoors in Arizona and neither of us has ever heard anything like it. What ever it was, was very, very loud and long. The lung capacity was amazing. The sounds were spread out over approximately a 30 minute period.
ALSO NOTICED: The second weekend, the sound coincided with the shooting taking place down the road, but was much further away.
OTHER WITNESSES: Two witnesses.
OTHER STORIES: Just after the first incident on this website.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: Mid afternoon and middle of the night on the 12th/13th. Late afternoon on the 19th.
ENVIRONMENT: Dense coniferous/aspen forest. Lots of logging taking place in the area.
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Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator TF Zamiski:

After speaking to the witness on the phone I had the opportunity to visit this location. I found it using GPS coordinates the witness provided. Some pieces of glass from the broken mirror were still laying on the ground as she said. The trees were quite thick around the campsite at eye level which verified that she could not see what caused the bark tearing sound or what threw the branch. I wandered just a few yards into the trees in the direction the branch was thrown from and was unable to clearly see the campsite. In general the trees and underbrush are very thick around the whole area.

The witness said the biscuits were taken from a two piece foil wrapper with the biscuits sitting on the bottom piece and the top foil was crimped around the edges to the bottom piece.

The next morning they found the top foil was laid next to the bottom without being torn, biscuits gone and no crumbs left. A bag of chips and their coolers were undisturbed.

During a phone conversation after visiting the site I asked the witness about the thrown branch and what they did with it. Unfortunately they burned it, at the time not thinking anyone would need to see it.

The witnesses intend to return to camp there again.

Wasn't this all shown to be fake? (Patterson/Gimlin film)

2009-02-14T13:00:00.002-05:00

The Patterson footage has never been debunked as a hoax. No one has ever demonstrated how it was done. Neither the original "costume," nor a matching costume, has ever been presented by honest skeptics, nor by various imposters who claim to have worn the costume.

Large amounts of money have been spent trying to make a matching costume. The best Hollywood costume design talents have been brought to the task, but have never succeeded. The British Broadcasting Corporation spent the most money so far. They failed miserably. The side-by-side results are shown below.

Every attempt and failure to make a similar costume strengthens the case for authenticity of the Patterson footage. Comparing a man in a costume side by side with the Patterson creature in motion helps highlight the striking anatomical peculiarities.

If you hear debunking claims in the future, be ready to ask the obvious questions:

Where is the costume?
If the original costume is gone, why can't they make an identical costume and do it again? Why is that so hard?
Why does the news media always trumpet every half-baked "man in the costume" story that comes along without asking for the obvious proof, which should be so simple to provide?

Visit BFRO for more info.
FAQ's used by permission.

Father and son witness early morning road crossing of two animals, Delaware

2009-02-14T09:11:00.000-05:00

YEAR: 2003

SEASON: Summer
MONTH: June
DATE: 7
STATE: Delaware
COUNTY: Sussex County
LOCATION DETAILS: My son and I plan on returning to better pinpoint the location this weekend, June 14-15. The distance between Coolspring and Gravel Hill is approximately 4 miles. We will return to the intersection of Rt. 1 and Rt. 404 and get an odometer reading from that location to the sighting area.
NEAREST TOWN: Between Coolspring and Gravel Hill
NEAREST ROAD: On Rt. 404
OBSERVED: BACKGROUND
My 18-year old son and I departed Cape Henlopen State Park on the Atlantic Coast near Lewes, Deleware at about 1:30AM, June 7, 2003, after a day of fishing from the park's 1/4 mile long pier. We had intended to catch a couple of hours sleep in my extended cab pickup before starting the two-hour return trip to our home outside of Annapolis, Maryland. However, we both managed to catnap in our fishing chairs throughout the day, did not feel the least bit tired, so decided to depart immediately for home. Route 404 is the most direct route from Lewes to the Chespeake Bay Bridge and Annapolis, meandering though the Deleware and Maryland countryside, with only two small-to-middle sized towns (Denton and Georgetown) along the route. The remainder of Rt. 404 is bordered by farmland (chicken and dairy production) and woodlands.

DETAILS

I was driving and my son was in the passenger seat. We departed the park via Rt. 9, headed north a short distance on Rt. 1, and picked up Rt. 404 West . There was very little traffic on this secondary road at this time of morning, so I drove with my highbeams on and set the cruise control. Within a few minutes I saw a movement along the right side of the road about 100 yards ahead and began braking. A doe stepped onto the berm of the road and crossed from right to left. I continued braking, almost to a complete stop, in case more deer followed the doe, but she apparently was alone. Another few minutes passed before we saw a car approaching from the opposite direction. We could see its headlight glow before we could see the car itself because we were approaching a gentle curve in the road to the right. I flicked my headlights to lowbeam and in a matter of a few seconds saw the silhouette of a large biped cross the road, from the center part of the road, across our lane of travel, and enter the woods to our right some 100-150 feet ahead. My son immediately exclaimed, "What the heck was that?!?! I asked him if he saw it too and he said, "Yes, there were two of them!" "Two??, I asked and he said, "Yes, a tall one in front and a shorter one 4-5 feet behind." My truck has almost slowed to a complete stop by this time because my foot was on the brake as soon as I first spotted the creature. My son and I slowly drove by the spot where they appeared to enter the woods, but we could see nothing. The car that was approaching passed us at this point, without slowing down or stopping. I asked my son to describe what he saw. He said a large thing walking on two legs with another, shorter thing following behind. He added that the shorter one was about chest high on the larger one. My son is near 6' tall and he said the larger one was taller than him. I saw the taller one, side profile, as a silhouette -- almost a shadow. It moved across the road quickly, in a purposeful manner. I could see no arms or arm swing. It did not turn its hear to look toward us. I could discern no color or body features beyond a head, torso, and legs. There was no accompanying odor. When we passed what we believed to be the creatures' entry point in the woods, my son's passenger side window was completely down and mine was partially down. A normal moist, woodsy night time odor was all we noticed.

Additional observation by my son, in his own words: My father saw one thing cross the road, while I saw two. I use the word "thing" because I truly have no idea what I saw cross the road that night. They were NOT quadrupeds. The larger one walked upright and at a smooth pace...no bouncing around. It didn't seem to speed up as our truck approached. When the oncoming car drew closer to the curve in the road, I then saw the second, shorter one in the glow of the other car's headlights. This second, shorter thing followed closely behind the larger thing. I could see that it wasn't standing straight up, like the larger one, but was slightly leaning forward. The siloette of both things appeared fuzzy, like a picture out of focus. My Dad said he didn't see arms or arms moving, but I could see long arms moving back and forth on both things. The arms didn't move very much, but I could see them. I don't mean to make a joke out of what we saw, but the big thing could have looked Yao Ming, the Texas basketball player from China, eye-to-eye.
COMMENTS
When I first put this encounter down on paper, I described what I saw as a shadow, not as a silhouette. While silhouette might be a more appropriate word, I cannot put the illusion of a shadow out of my mind. After talking this over with my son, we believe that the creatures that we saw did, in fact, have hair on the body and that a combination of (back)lighting from the car approaching in the opposite direction and my own lowbeam headlights caused the outline of the creature that I saw appear shadowy or diffused --perhaps a result of light shining on or though its hair. This, perhaps, can be supported by my son's description of the silhouette of both creatures appearing fuzzy or out-of-focus.
ALSO NOTICED: None
OTHER WITNESSES: Two, my son and I. We were quite alert, watching for deer on and adjacent to the road. There are two types of deer on the DELMARVA (Deleware, Maryland, Virgina) peninsula. White tail and smaller sitka deer. Both can do significant damage to a vehicle if struck.
OTHER STORIES: No
TIME AND CONDITIONS: 1:30AM
Dark, wooded country road with very light ground haze in some locations.
ENVIRONMENT: The area is predominately farm land interspersed with woodlands. This area of Deleware is primarly flat, coastal.
~BFRO

Hairy Gorilla-like Creature Seen

2009-02-13T20:34:00.002-05:00

A man (Bread delivery driver) reported to police at St. Mary's that at 5 AM. Monday by railroad tracks at the [southeast] edge of Delia, that he saw something around 5 foot tall, extremely hairy, on the tracks. He stopped his truck, and it ran off into the weeds. It walked in the position of a gorilla. Later Sheriff and game protector could find no sign of it. Later a farmer said that something had killed 16 of his 18, 50 pound hogs, by biting them in the neck.

Topeka Daily Capital (Topeka, Kansas)

Tuesday, July 21, 1964

WILD MAN, 1897

2009-02-12T16:25:00.002-05:00

The Salem Daily News

Salem, Ohio, Tuesday evening, February 2, 1897

WILD MAN

People of Danville Terrorized – Schools Closed – Small Children Seized

Coshocton, February 2 – Word has reached here of the queer doings of a wild man who has been terrorizing the village of Danville and vicinity. He is described as being more than ordinary height, with a long flowing mane springing from between his shoulders. He is clad only from his hips down with the pelts of sheep.

George Walker, a farmer, first saw him and gave pursuit, but was distanced. The man was tracker to a hut and when the posse went to it he was absent. When he returned those who had been keeping watch reported it and the wild man was pursued by men on horseback, but he escaped. The cabin was fitted up with sheep pelts. Once when chased he eluded his pursuers, although carrying a sheep under his arm. The schools in the terrorized territory were closed, as the people were afraid to send their children after the man seized a child going to school and ran with it a half a mile before releasing it.

Is it Wild Man or Beast? (1891)

2009-02-12T16:21:00.004-05:00

The Salem Daily News

Salem, Ohio Thursday, August 27, 1891

Is it Wild Man or Beast?

MARTINS FERRY, O., Aug. 27 – The farmers near Negee, this county, have organized to hunt down the wild man or animal that has been killing and devouring sheep, hogs, chickens, etc., in that section. Many of the farmers are afraid to work in their fields, go out after their stock or go to sleep at night, fearing they will be killed. The wild man or whatever it is has been seen by Samuel Crow and others. Crow says it is covered with dark reddish hair, has large ears, small eyes, teeth like those of a wild boar, huge mouth and paws, measures about five feet in height and weighs fully 200 pounds. It is said that the animal walks and runs as well on two as four legs, can climb a tree or hill quickly and is only seen in the morning and evening. Farmers and their families in the vicinity are very much frightened.

Ohio’s Ape Is Again Seen In Fremont Vicinity, 1930

2009-02-11T19:57:00.003-05:00

The Coshocton Tribune

Thursday Evening, June 12, 1930

Ohio’s Ape Is Again Seen In Fremont Vicinity

FREMONT, June 12 – Interest in the “ape mystery” which has gripped this county for the past week, was heightened today when Frank Binder of Rice tp., near here, reported that he saw the prowling anthropoid.

Posses of farmers and deputies from the county sheriff’s office organized immediately and started an intensive search in the district. It was believed the animal is in thickets several miles north of this city.

Binder described the beast as a large gray animal. He declared that he chased it for some distance thru a corn field but finally lost trace of it. The animal had a “peculiar style of running,” Binder said.

The strange animal was first reported seen on the western outskirts of Norwalk. A group of tourists from Detroit told city authorities they saw an ape. A motorist from Mansfield made the next report which was followed by numerous stories from truck drivers and tourists.

A thoro search by a large posse last week-end failed to reveal any trace of an ape.

Update on Report 0001

2009-02-10T16:29:00.005-05:00

This was in reply to an email I sent.

All he remembers about the weather is that it was cool enough for fog to be rising out of the creek but not cold enough for him to have his windows in his truck up. He thinks there was a moon because he could see the fog rising from some of the ponds along his route home and he wouldn’t have if it had been a moonless night. Our area is mostly heavily wooded knobs with some rolling farmland. We have 28 acres with the majority of it being wooded with the exception of about 10 acres. Our house is clustered with about six others along the stretch of road at the top of the hill and then it’s pasture mixed with woodland again. There is a lot of wildlife such as deer, fox, raccoon, and even coyotes. The thing he saw was coming from the steep wooded hillside across the road at the base of the hill. That would take him through a field of tall corn at the time and then to the creek and woods on the opposite side of the creek. We had just bought our farm the previous summer and at the time we bought it there was no livestock on the place and everything was grown up. At the time of the sighting we had cleared most of the pasture and had four horses on the property. We have never seen anything else that made us think anything other than deer, coyotes and other normal wildlife was roaming around the property.

Sasquatch Sighting 0001

2009-02-09T16:25:00.020-05:00

This is an exact copy of an email I received today from Borden Indiana. The FIRST report to be emailed in!

I was reading about the sighting near Pekin, Indiana and I just had to send you the story my husband told me one morning. We live in Borden, Indiana, which is about 10 miles down the road from Pekin, IN. It was in the Fall of 2004. My husband worked the 2nd shift at GE in Louisville, Kentucky and he quite frequently worked overtime which would have him driving home in the wee hours of the morning. This particular night he said it was about 3:00 am when he got to Borden. To get home, after he leaves the main road (highway 60), the back road takes him along a creek lined with woods on the opposite side and then an area with a field on each side and then up a steep wooded hill. The hill is almost entirely woods with the exception of the power lines that cross it near the top. Just as my husband reached the base of the hill, he said his headlights hit a large hairy creature. He said it walked across the road in front of him. He said he would have thought it was a man had it not been so large and he is sure it was covered with hair instead of clothing. He said it hurried across the road as soon as the headlights hit it and it only took it two steps to cross. It disappeared into the field heading toward the creek. He said there was no way a man could cross the road in two steps. He was pretty shook up about it and didn’t bother to stop to see if it was still around. He had no desire to meet it face to face. He said he sped up the hill and home. It’s something he never tells anyone about because he thinks they will think he is crazy but to this day he insists he saw something that night. I try to convince myself he was just tired and saw something explainable but after reading about another sighting just down the road, I am wondering if he was right on the money about what he saw. A few months before his encounter, a very strong tornado came through this area, devastating the forestry around here and I guess it could have driven a creature out of it’s normal habitat.

Notes:

Town: Borden
State: Indiana
Time: 3:00 AM
Environment/Conditions: Recent tornado

Property owner describes activity near South Portsmouth, Kentucky

2009-02-05T16:38:00.005-05:00

YEAR: 2008

SEASON: Spring
MONTH: April
DATE: 11-1-2008
STATE: Kentucky
COUNTY: Lewis County
LOCATION DETAILS: IN THE WOODS BY MY HOUSE AND HUNTING PLACE
NEAREST TOWN: SOUTH PORTSMOUTH
NEAREST ROAD: FIRERBRICK
OBSERVED: HELLO, I LIVE IN LEWIS COUNY KY. AND FOR THE LAST (3)OR(4) MONTHS ME AND MY KIDS HAVE SEEN SOMETHING BIG AND IT'S NOT A BEAR AND IT HAS A SMELL THAT IS STRONG AND THE DOGS ARE SCARED OF IT.WE HAVE HORSES AND WHEN IT IS CLOSE THEY GO NUTS.I HAVE SEEN IT BUT NOT UP CLOSE.I HAVE LOST SOME LIVE STOCK AND I DO NOT KNOW WHAT IT IS BUT IT WILL GET ME UP LATE AT NIGHT.CAN YOU LET ME KNOW WHAT TO TO KEEP IT AWAY. THANKS

ALSO NOTICED: THE SMELL IT WAS REALY BAD
OTHER WITNESSES: MY KIDS SAW IT WHILE WALKING DOWN TO GET ON THE BUS FOR SCHOOL
OTHER STORIES: SOME BUT THEY DIDN'T WHAT TO TALK ABOUT IT
TIME AND CONDITIONS: WOODS, STREAMS, AND HILLS
ENVIRONMENT: IT WAS IN THE FOREST AND RIDGE
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Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Harold Benny:

I spoke to the witness by phone and found him to be credible. His main worry was for the safety of his family, but now he is not as concerned as he was at first because not much has happened since he has reported the activity.

At a distance of only thirty feet, he briefly (five seconds) watched the seven to eight foot tall animal walking through the valley near his home. It weighed over 400 pounds, had no neck, and was covered with a grayish-black hair. The bipedal animal had a smell of mingled skunk scent and rotten meat.

[Note by Matt Moneymaker]

When rural residents with children become very worried about these animals coming too close to their homes, we instruct them to put up more lights near their house and their livestock.

Bright lights seem to deter these animals from approaching homes, as if bright lights hurt their eyes.
~BFRO

Sasquatch, 1941

2009-02-03T15:42:00.002-05:00

Lethbridge [Alberta] Herald

November 28, 1941

ECHO OF THE OGOPOGO

Living at the coast, I was wondering to myself whether being in the vicinity of the ogopogo I would come across this monster. But the ogopogo seems to have died a natural death after creating quite a sensation for a time. I wonder if anyone has really seen an ogopogo.

In place of the ogopogo another monster has now appeared. It is the Sasquatch giant monster of the Harrison Lake area. Three canoes of Indians who arrived terror-stricken at Harrison Hot Springs, after a flight from Fort Douglas at the head of the lake, are prepared to swear to that.

The huge hairy monster is said to have disappeared for several years, and his sudden arrival struck terror into the hearts of the Indians.

When it comes to “seeing things,” Indians are not the exception when we remember the seeing of a monster some years ago in a Scottish loch.

~Cryptomundo

Sasquatch, 1934

2009-02-02T13:13:00.007-05:00

Lincoln Star

Lincoln, Nebraska
July 29, 1934

Are they the Last Cave Men?

British Columbia Startled by the Appearance of “Sasquatch,” a Strange Race of Hairy Giants

By Francis Dickie

It is peculiarly in keeping with the topsy-turvy year of violently varying weather, universal human unrest, droughts, grasshopper plagues and other phenomena that there now comes from various eyewitnesses the report of seeing some of the “Sasquatch,” those weird hairy men reported for twenty years to dwell in the tremendous and unexplored mountain region of British Columbia, Canada.

Their reported return is particularly in keeping with this unusual year, as remarkable for the number of appearances of various startling monsters sighted from Scotland to the Caribbean, from the Pacific to the Mediterranean, the reality of which is affirmed by scores of eyewitnesses. Moreover, the statements of some of these people, in so far as curious denizens of the oceans are concerned, have been borne out, for within a short time of each other, at a dozen places on the European coast, the remains of incredible monsters of the deep have been cast up.

Of all these mysterious earthly visitants, perhaps the “Sasquatch” is the least known, by reason of the rarity of their appearance and the reluctance of those who have seen them to talk.

THE existence of a troglodyte race inhabiting the mountains of British Columbia in many of the vast caves is a tribal legend among the Chehalis Indians and those of the Skwah Reservation, near Chilliwack, in the Harrison Lake district, about a hundred miles east of Vancouver. Among the Indians the race has been known for centuries by the name “Sasquatch,” or hairy men.

But reports of these creatures being seen frequently at various times over a period of the last twenty years, and more frequently in recent weeks, have caused a number of people to raise the question if these strange creatures may not be more than an Indian legend of the past, and that some of this race of cavern dwellers are still living in the unexplored fastness of British Columbia.

The Sasquatch have been seen, according to the statements from both white men and Indians. The wild, hairy men have mostly been reported in the Harrison Lake district, but also as far east as the mountainous region of Yale, on the main line of the Canadian Pacific Railway.

The repeated reports of eyewitnesses of seeing one or more of the huge hairy men in recent years, and more particularly in the last month, and the mounting number of the reports of eyewitnesses now seem to point strongly that the old tribal legend, long contemptuously flouted by the white man, is true, and that at least a few of this mysterious race may still inhabit the solitudes nearby where once they were numerous. The possibility of this is further borne out when it is recalled that the remains of a giant race of men recently have been unearthed in the mountainous region of Mexico.

The chief difficulty, in fact the whole task of an investigator, in matters of such phenomena as Sasquatch or sea serpents, is, of course, the credibility of the witnesses. If untruthful, what motive lies behind their story? In the case of the Sasquatch, the element of credence is heightened because in most cases the witnesses have been reluctant ones, some of them not revealing their stories for years.

From a careful comparison of all eyewitness statements to date, all are closely in agreement as to the following facts: The Sasquatch are gigantic men, varying from six and one-half to seven feet in height. One, and only one, witness states the nose of them to be very broad, and the arms long, reaching below the knee. All but one are agreed as to the hideousness of the face.

However, as in most instances the Sasquatch were not seen close up, it is natural the descriptions remain very general. Those people who have been close were so terror-stricken that their accounts are vague. Yet, aside from one of the most recent happenings, in only two other cases have the Sasquatch shown themselves hostile.

THE fact that some of these strange people have just been reported close to civilization at this time accurately compares with dates noted by the Chehalis Indians. The Indians have oral records covering three generations. According to them, members of the tribe have seen in the Springtime every fourth year the light of a great fire on one of the highest peaks in the Chehalis Range. The fire burns for four nights, riding in a very high, thin column. Sometimes it is suddenly extinguished, to rise again a little later. That this is some periodic mark of a return to a certain place of worship at some ancient shrine, or a communication with members in some remote mountain fastness, are possible conjectures.

These periodic returns to some ancient gathering place do bring these people close to what are now civilized areas.

A few days ago, a middle-aged Indian, Tom Cedar, was trout fishing from his canoe on Morris Creek, a tributary of the Harrison. He was near a rocky terraced bank. Suddenly a large rock struck the water so close to his canoe that he was drenched by the splash. Looking up, he saw with amazement a huge hairy man above him just as he threw another rock. This also barely missed the canoe. Cedar paddled rapidly upstream to the settlement.

By way of noting an odd coincidence, this particular stream, now called Morris Creek, was known as Saskakau when the white man first arrived, and is so called on old maps. Nearby are caverns which were investigated by Captain Warde, forty years a resident in the district. He states they bear evidence of habitation. Upon the walls are some crude drawings. In this region, according to the Indians, two large bands of Sasquatch fought a long time ago until both were brought almost to extinction.

THE other evidence of hostile intention of some of these creatures dates back twenty years and consists of the statements of two Indians, Peter and Paul Williams, of Chehalis. The following is very much a condensed resume:

“On an evening in May,” states Peter, “I was about a mile from the reserve, near the foot of the mountain, when what I at first took to be a bear rose up in the underbrush. It was between six and seven feet tall, covered with hair. I turned and ran through the underbrush to my dugout. The hairy man came after me. I paddled across the stream, which is not very deep, and the man waded after. I reached the house where my wife and child were inside. I bolted the door. Presently the hairy man arrived. It was growing dark. He prowled around, grunting and growling, but after a little while went away.”

About the same time Paul was chased from a creek where he was fishing. But the giant did not run after him very far, and apparently the action was only to drive the man away to get the fish he had taken.

On another occasion in the next year, Peter and another man came upon two giants so close as to distinguish a man and a woman. Though the Indians ran, they were not pursued.

Charley Victor, now living at Chilliwack, relates that he and a little group of companions, while bathing in a mountain lake near Yale, suddenly looked up to see a huge man, naked and hairy, looking down upon them from among the trees.

“His big eyes looked very kind, and I was about to speak to him when he drew back into the trees,” related Charley.

Here we have the only witness who gives a favorable reaction to sight of the mysterious race.

This took place many years ago and at a point about a hundred miles from where the majority of the Sasquatch have been reported seen in recent times.

THE next account of which any fully recorded evidence is now to be seen deals with September, 1927, near the little mountain town of Agassiz, which is very near the points at which all the other Sasquatch have been reported. A party of hop-pickers were picnicking here. On their way to this[,] a man, named Herbert Point, and a girl, Adeline August, were walking when they saw a strange creature approaching. “He was twice as big as the average man, with hands [arms?] so long they nearly touched the ground, and his nose seemed spread all over his face. His body was covered with hair like an animal. He stopped within fifty feet of us. We ran away as fast as we could.” The lines in quotes are excerpts from a letter written by the man in answer to a query of what he had seen.

Within recent weeks Emma Paul and Millie Saul, two other members of the Chehalis Reserve, saw one of the Sasquatch near their home on the fringe of the woods. Several nights later he was heard prowling around the home of Millie Saul, and one rubbed his hand over the window frame.

To date, the last report was from Harrison Mills, a small hamlet on the Harrison River.

The woman, on hearing a humming noise, looked up to see a big man covered with hair on the edge of the clearing. She was frightened. Taking a backward step, she fell into one of the half-full laundry tubs at which she had been working. When she had extricated herself and looked again, the man had disappeared.

Such, in brief, are the legendary and eyewitness stories regarding the Sasquatch.

THE scientific board connected with the Museum of Vancouver is skeptical regarding the existence of any such remnant of a race that once might have roamed the forested regions.

An objection that the climate is too rigorous for a naked race, no matter how hairy, might be answered by pointing to the Fengians, who live in a much more inhospitable one.

The eyewitness reports have always been reluctantly given. There may be many more. The chief objection among the natives to telling white inquirers is fear of ridicule. This sensitiveness is much stronger among natives than whites.

Here, for the present, the matter must rest. Perhaps further witnesses may be heard in the future. Remembering, however, in judging the possibilities of the existence of the Sasquatch, how many people have seen sea serpents and that remains of strange creatures have been recently washed on various shores. It is quite within the bounds of probability that just as there are unknown forms of life in the boundless depths of the ocean, equally so may there be in the enormous wilderness stretches of British Columbia wild hairy men roaming.
~Cryptomundo

Sasquatch, 1940

2009-01-30T18:17:00.002-05:00

Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg, Manitoba
August 24, 1940
Cavemen Roam the Rockies?
By Edgar D. Smith
Canada, despite the advent of the airplane and other modern transportation facilities, remains one of the least known and certainly one of the least explored parts of the world. And in this great dominion the biggest mysteries are still sealed up securely in that vast Canadian enigma - the Rocky Mountains.

Lake Okanagan in British Columbia is reported to be inhabited by a second Loch Ness monster - the Ogopogo. And now, again from British Columbia, comes the strangest and weirdest tale of all - that of the troglodites, the gigantic and prehistoric cave-men who dwell in the loneliest mountain ranges.

A number of years ago, near the town of Agassiz, a young man and his girl were strolling towards their favorite rendezvous. Suddenly the man stopped and listened. He said he heard footsteps as if someone was following them. He turned to look about him. A second later, both he and his companion were almost shocked out of their wits.

Only a few feet behind the two, stood - something. ‘It’ glared at them and snarled from a hideous, gargoyle face. The creature stood about seven feet high. Its arms, dangling from hunched, powerful shoulders, touched the ground. The monster, naked, was covered only with its own heavy rank-smelling hair. It began to shamble menacingly towards them. They ran before it and escaped. But when they told of their experience to the folks in Agassiz, they were not believed. And no wonder.

An Indian was paddling his canoe when a huge boulder hurtled alongside, drenching him. Terrified, thinking it might be an avalanche, he looked up. There, high on the cliff, glaring down at him like some obscene demon, stood a grisly apparition. The monster, with a roar that resounded over pine forest and distant crag, prepared to plunge into the water and grab him. The Indian, reversing his sodden canoe, paddled away in hysterical panic.

More recently, a housewife went out of her tiny cabin beside the railway to hang the washing on the line. Suddenly she heard a deep growl. A bear? But no bear, she knew, growled like that. She turned and almost swooned. A huge, enormous monster was glaring at her from the edge of the clearing. But it made no effort to molest her. Instead, it turned and vanished.

These are all actual witnesses. Many more similar testimonies could be compiled. For according to report, the cave-men have been noticed quite often during the last thirty years. And yet the idea of a Neolithic race of troglodites infesting that region is scoffed at by most people. One explanation given is that the so-called monsters are in reality only bears, bigger brutes than usual, that have come down from some of the remote ranges. And bears, the skeptics point out, often rear up on their hind feet with the front ones dangling. A bear, doing this, might quite easily be mistaken for a huge man under certain circumstances. Especially by impressionable or nervous people.
But, ridiculing this ‘bear theory’ comes the opinion of the archaeologists. They say there is no doubt that such a tribe of semi-human giants could exist. Traces of just such another race of huge monsters have been discovered in other parts of the world, notably in the highest peaks of the Himalayas and in northern Mexico where guides take the curious to caves and point out various and absolutely undeniable proofs. The archaeologist’s task is to prove that a similar race of giants dwell in the Rockies.
According to those who have seen the cave-men, the creatures are enormous, twice the size of the average man and varying in height from seven to nearly eight feet - each monster having the most terrifying, repulsive and savage expression. And so established has the fact of their existence become that they are now referred to as the Sasquatches (Hairy Ones).

The Indians have their own ideas about them. They believe that the Sasquatches are a Neolithic tribe of mountain troglodytes who inhabit only the loftiest and remotest peaks of the Canadian Rockies and who congregate in a vast reunion every fourth year. And they dig back into folk-lore and tell how Chief Calling Loon of the Lonely Pool warned his people, many, many months [moons?] ago, even before the white men came, of the trolls who infest the slimy depths of lonely lakes (might these legends account in part for the Ogopogo?) and of the bad Manitou who dwells on that solitary snow-cap. The presence of these troglodytes has long been a source of pow wow - fact or fable - around Indian teepees. One tribesman, it is said, suggested that a special totem pole should be raised to placate the anger of the creatures.

However, despite the testimony of archaeologists, of the Indians and of those witnesses who swear to having seen the monsters, the Vancouver museum discredits the whole idea and in so doing has aroused much criticism. The scientific staff has been urged to at least make some investigation of the rumors. For many people firmly believe that something should be done. As a popular English magazine once commented about the vast, unexplored regions of Canada, “… the possibility of a Sasquatch tribe living is very great.”
If the tourist should ever visit this part of Canada, he should be sure to look for smoke on the mountains - thin, wraithlike spirals emanating from the summits of the most distant and loneliest ranges. These fires, the guide will inform him, are those of the Sasquatches. Everyone in those parts has noticed them before - often. Another tip. The visitor should not go roaming in certain parts of the forest after night has fallen - not unless he is with someone else who knows the country. And each would be much safer if he carried a high caliber gun.

Men have disappeared in the Rocky Mountains. They have vanished and no trace has ever been found of them again. If marauding animals had attacked them, the question of their fate would be easily answered. Therefore, it is asked, were Sasquatches responsible?

Most of the Rocky Mountains is yet an impregnable barrier, a mighty unsolved secret. What lies in some of those deep gorges, in some of those lonely valleys - awesome abysses, chasms and mist-wrapped mountain peaks? Not to speak of the silent depths of verdant forests. Will their impenetrable mysteries ever be made known to man?

Finally, there is the last witness. The hermit who, cleaning his gun late one night in his mountain shack, heard a weird, wild cry that echoed over precipices and chasm and which brought him hurriedly to the door. But when he looked around, all was quiet and still. Only the last echoes of that fearful howl, ringing bleakly from scarred cliff to towering crag, disturbed the tranquility of midnight.

“It was not an animal,” said the hermit. “No animal could have made a noise like that.”

A Sasquatch then? Only the Rocky Mountains know the answer. And they are strict guardians of a secret.
~Cryptomundo

Sasquatch, 1935

2009-01-29T16:20:00.001-05:00

Fresno Bee
Fresno, CaliforniaOctober
13, 1935

CANADA REPORTS RACE OF MONSTER MEN IN ROCKIES
VANCOUVER (B.C.), Oct. 12. - (U.P.) - Sasquatch men, remnants of a lost race of “wild men” who inhabited the rocky regions of British Columbia centuries ago, are reported roaming the province again.
After an absence of several months from the district of Harrison Mills, fifty miles east of Vancouver, the long, weird, wolf-like howls of the “wild men” are being heard again and two of the hairy monsters were reported seen in the Morris Valley on the Harrison River.
Residents of the district tell of seeing the two giants leaping and bounding out of the forest and striding across the duck-feeding ground, wallowing now and again in the bog and mire and long, waving swamp grasses.
Reported Agile As Goats
The strange men, it was reported, after emerging from the woods, came leaping down the jagged rocky hillside with the agility and lightness of mountain goats. Snatches of their weird language floated on the breeze across the lake to the pioneer settlement at the foot of the hills.
The giants walked with an easy gait across the swamp flats and at the Morris Creek, in the shadow of Little Mystery Mountain, straddled a floating log which they propelled with their long, hairy hands and huge feet across the sluggish glacial stream to the opposite side. There they abandoned the log and climbed hand over hand up the almost perpendicular cliff at a point known as Gibraltar and disappeared into the wooded wilderness at the top of the ridge. They carried two large clubs and walked around a herd of cattle directly in their path.
Indian’s Story Retold
The return of the giants to the legendary stronghold of the Sasquatch monsters recalls the narrow escape of an Indian at the same spot last March. A huge rock narrowly missed his canoe while he was fishing and looking up he saw a huge and hairy monster stamping his feet and gesticulating wildly. The Indian escaped by cutting his fishing tackle and paddling away. The same Indian declares the Sasquatch twice have stolen salmon which he tied to a tree outside his house out of reach of dogs.
The latest appearance of the monsters was peaceful. They avoided the trails usually used by the people of the valley and molested neither cattle nor human beings.
People who have reported seeing the giants on their rare appearances described them as “ferocious looking wild men, nine feet tall and covered from head to toes with thick black hair.”
~Cryptomundo

Yetis in Boise

2009-01-22T15:56:00.000-05:00

Look what they are reading in Boise Weekly in Idaho:

Home » News » Curious Times

JANUARY 21, 2009
CURIOUS TIMES JAN. 21 EDITION

BY ANDREAS OHRT
ISN’T YETI HIBERNATING RIGHT NOW?

This year’s first (and probably only) expedition to find the elusive Yeti began last week as an international team of mountain climbers, explorers and cryptozoologists were dropped by helicopter in Nepal’s Himalayan mountains. The crew will spend two weeks shooting a film of the treasure hunt in a spot about 9,000 feet up the mountains where a Japanese mountain climber snapped pictures of what might be the Yeti’s footprints last October.

Cryptomundo

Second Bigfoot Sighting In Norway House, Manitoba: Nervous Residents Seek Answers, Offer Photos of Evidence

2009-01-08T20:15:00.000-05:00

A second bigfoot sighting has been reported by a young girl, and her play mates in Paupanekis Point, Norway House, Manitoba, which is located on the south end of the same First Nations reserve where ferryman, Bobby Clarke, videotaped a large, dark, bipedal creature walking along the bank of the Nelsen River.

The girls were close to a residential area, which borders the woods, at around 7:30-8:00 pm on May 20, when the encounter occurred. The woods are bordered by knee high grass, which is where the creature was standing in plain view, apparently watching the children play. One of the girls fainted from fright, after seeing "a huge creature." None of the children were hurt, but they are understandably still quite shaken, and afraid to be left alone.

Immediately following the sighting, a search party was assembled to investigate the surrounding area. Footprints were found where the actual sighting occurred, as well as deeper into the woods. Several more expeditions have been conducted since, and have resulted in finding more physical evidence. The size of some of the tracks measure "larger than a man`s size 16 shoe" said one witness, and have a clearly defined outline of the toes. The tracks have been preserved, photographed, and videotaped by Norway House residents. (Photos here)

Hair samples have also been found at several locations, including on the inside edge of one of the footprints, and at another location, clinging to a pine tree where more tracks, and a strong lingering odor was also reported. The odor was described to be a mix between wet dog, and skunk. A witness who has collected some of the hair samples reported, "I thought they would be thick and course and black, but they look kinda longish, half black and half white and (on some) the very bottom looks almost fine and spliced up like a fine razor split the hairs into many on one single strand."

The physical evidence collected following the most recent sighting raises some interesting questions. Where as the Nelson River tracks measured 20 inches in length, with a six foot stride, in Paupanekis Point, tracks measuring 13 inches in length, as well as 20 inches have been found. Also, hair samples given to the ACA`s expedition team were dark in color, according to Cherie Curry, a member of the team, yet the hair samples found after the second sighting are half black, and half white.

Some N.H. residents have theorized that the smaller prints may belong to a juvenile, and that it has possibly wandered away from an adult/parent, which might explain the ongoing incidents surrounding Norway House, including the frequent howls coming from wooded areas close to homes. Bobby Clarke also reported hearing strange howls on several occasions preceding his sighting.

Although details are still sketchy, a third encounter in which the creature is said to have returned to the same area as the second sighting, moving large rocks in it`s path has been reported. I`ll update if/when I learn more. I am also waiting for more photographs of tracks, and hair samples, which I`ll photograph, and post once they arrive.

This rash of sightings is not the first in this area. In 1976, multiple sightings, spread over a length of time, were reported in Poplar River, 76 miles south of Norway House. The following is the report submitted to the Vancouver Lower Mainland Division of the RCMP, following a police investigation. Norway House RCMP Report

"Norway House to Vancouver Lower Mainland Division, attention Sergeant Doane.

It was reported to our office on the 26 July 76 by the chief of the Poplar River Indian Band that many of his people have sighted on the reserve many times a large hairy animal that walks on two legs. Poplar River is located approx. 76 miles to the south of Norway House. An investigation was conducted and the results are as follows:Several people were interviewed and they all stated that the animal was approximately seven to eight feet tall and was very broad at the shoulders. It had the general body structure of a man only many times larger. A foot cast was taken of the foot impression that was left behind by the so-called monster and is held at this detachment. It measures 16 inches by five inches, and has only three toes. It's fur is a glossy gray color and it has white hair on it's head. They stated that it was very powerfully built and one man reported that he saw it swimming. To date there have been no further reports of sightings in our area. It should be noted that this so-called monster seemed very inquisitive towards the people and would come around the houses on the settlement and look in doors and windows."- Excerpt from the 1976 RCMP Report, posted on the BFRO website.

The May 20,05 Paupanekis Point sighting follows a report, and video footage, taken of a large dark creature walking along the Nelson River, in Norway House, Manitoba on April 16, 05 by ferryman, Bobby Clarke. After the videotape was aired on A Current Affair on May 4,05, ACA sent an expedition led by Dr.Franklin Ruehl, to Norway House to look for evidence. Also on the expedition team was ACA producer Brett Hudson, and artist, singer, author Cherie Curry.

An ongoing on discussion Bigfoot, and the Norway House sightings on Blogcritics. - Participating in the discussion are members of the ACA Expedition Team, and residents of Norway House, Manitoba. To view, and/or participate, scroll down to the comments section. All are welcome to join in.

~Blogcritics

Deer hunter hears strange screams and possible stalking near Pigeon Mountain, Georgia

2009-01-07T09:35:00.000-05:00

YEAR: 2003

SEASON: Fall
MONTH: October
DATE: 7
STATE: Georgia
COUNTY: Walker County
LOCATION DETAILS: Take Hwy 136 West from LaFayette, GA. Area of interest is between Wright Mineral Spring and Hwy 341 off of Hwy 136.
NEAREST TOWN: LaFayette
NEAREST ROAD: Camp Road
OBSERVED: Hi me and my friend have been hearing some weird stuff while we are hunting. My friend heard the sonds first. Then I heard them the next evening right before dark. The sounds sound like something screeming. But kind of high pitched screems. My friend also thought he heard somthing throwing stuff around his treestand. The reason I think it is a bigfoot is because there is some property behind ours, and they have been clearcuting all of it. I think it has run the bigfoot on to our property. If I see or hear any thing else I will send you more info, but from what I have already heard I think it is a bigfoot.
ALSO NOTICED: Sounds like wood being hit on trees and sticks being thrown. Also strange whoops and screams usually in the fall of the year.
OTHER WITNESSES: My friend heard the same thing.
OTHER STORIES: Yea on pigeon mountion about 10 miles from my house.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: right before dark, sunny.
ENVIRONMENT: I am hunting in a bottom surrounded by pines on one side and oaks on the other side.
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Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator M. Collins:

I spoke to the witness by phone on 13 May, 2007. During the discussion, he mentioned that he and his hunting partners have heard similar screams and roaring, usually in the early fall, through September of 2006. His theory is that the area is not used outside of deer hunting season and the intrusion of hunters disturbs whatever is in the area. As of last September, he was in the woods with others and heard something moving along the ridge above his position. He began to move toward the sound when he sensed that a stick had been thrown at him. As he continued to move toward the location of the sound, he heard whatever had been on the ridge move rapidly down the far side and away from him. He said whatever it was was moving fast and tearing through the brush. As the leaves were still on the trees, he did not see anything. He stated he was familiar with bobcat calls, owls, turkey, etc. and these sounds are like nothing he has heard in the woods typically.

Walker County has a rich history of strange sounds and sightings. The area has many remote stands of mountains and forest including the Crockford-Pigeon Mountain WMA ,a section of the Chattahoochee National Forrest, the Tennessee Valley Divide and Lookout Mountain. The Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park is in Walker County and has a long documented, history of paranormal occurances.

There are numerous creeks criss-crossing the gaps and low areas around the mountains as well as a cave system. Nickajack Lake and the Tennessee River are less than 75 miles away.

~BFRO

Stand-off with motorist at 6AM in fall, near town of Brant Lake, New York

2009-01-05T16:45:00.000-05:00

YEAR: 1992

SEASON: Fall
MONTH: October
STATE: New York
COUNTY: Warren County
NEAREST TOWN: Brant Lake
NEAREST ROAD: on River Road near Route 8
OBSERVED: It was about 6 am on my way to work at [R**** Ranch] when something came from the right side of the road, out of the woods, and forced me to stop or run into it. It is dark that time of morning so it took a few seconds to get my thoughts together. When I did I couldn believe what I was seeing."IT" was somewhere between 7-8 feet tall (at least)with white or light gray hair from head to toe. "IT" was standing 10-12 feet in front of my car directly in the head lights so I had a perfect view. The creature was standing facing the left side of the road with a slight left twist to it's body in my direction. We stared at each other for what seemed to be minutes but I can't say for sure how long it actually was. I had absolutely no fear of this creature, it seemed to have a sad demeaner.

This creature made no sound at all ( like the screams I've heard about) I do not have any reason to believe it was a male or female. Needless to say I have carried my camera every since but I believe that it was a once in a life time incident.
OTHER WITNESSES: I was alone in my car, no witnesses. I started to tell my mom and sister at work when I arrived but said it was a bear because I knew they would think I was crazy. Many months later I told my family, and sure enough they called me crazy.
OTHER STORIES: I have heard that very large footprints have been seen in the Brant Lake area, more specificly the Pharoah Lake area
TIME AND CONDITIONS: It was late Sept or early Oct. at app. 6am in the dark on a clear day
ENVIRONMENT: . there are pine trees there what else I can't say, it is very close to the Schroon River and there is a bridge close by on route 8.It is between the northway and the .Schroon River
~BFRO

Youth has daylight sighting near New Pekin, Indiana

2009-01-03T15:20:00.000-05:00

YEAR: 1999

SEASON: Summer
MONTH: June
DATE: 12
STATE: Indiana
COUNTY: Washington County
LOCATION DETAILS: From SR 135, go to Dutch Creek Rd and from there, turn on to Falling Creek Rd.
NEAREST TOWN: New Pekin
NEAREST ROAD: State Road 135
OBSERVED: 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.
ALSO NOTICED: In the fields close to the area, I'd noticed several spots where something had bedded down. I just figured it was deer, but I did notice an unpleasant odor around them once or twice. Also, since reading through this and other sites concerning bigfoot research, I did notice some things in the woods. Groups of large sticks stacked in like a tent fashion. I just thought it was the kids in the area doing it, it could still be that.
OTHER WITNESSES: No other witnesses, I was only going out to the car to fetch something.
OTHER STORIES: I did hear that a couple years later some kids said that they were followed by a bigfoot near the woods just 1/4 of a mile down the road from where I had my sighting.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: The time was in the early afternoon and it was a clear, sunny day.
ENVIRONMENT: Overgrown field directly off to the right of the road. There was a small grove of trees near the field. Also across the road from these trees there was a few acres of woods with at least one small creek running through them.
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Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Stan Courtney:

I spoke with the witness by phone. The distance was over a hundred yards but the witness stated that he could clearly see the animal.

The animal was dark brown in color, seven feet tall and very heavily built. It appeared to have weighed about four hundred pounds. The animal did not turn and look at the witness but just walked through the field and back into the woods. He was never able to see the face.

~BFRO

New Year

2009-01-01T08:01:00.000-05:00

It's a new year. A whole 365 days for Bigfoot blogging. It seems strange yet exciting to leave 2008 and enter 2009. This is this blog's second year of operation January 2, tomorrow. I can't think of a better way to say this, but since just about everyone else is saying it.... Happy New Year. A look back on some pictures I posted last year:

A few witnesses see something reach through an open window in Mescalero, N.M

2008-12-27T11:20:00.000-05:00

YEAR: 2004

SEASON: Summer
MONTH: July
DATE: late july
STATE: New Mexico
COUNTY: Otero County
LOCATION DETAILS: all of this happened over different seasons and times. And the locations were brushy and have alot of trees around.
NEAREST TOWN: in mescalero
NEAREST ROAD: the nearest highway is hwy 70
OBSERVED: Around 11:00p.m. my sister in-law ran in to my mother in-law's house from outside and said that she seen something very tall walking on the trail below the house. She said it was walking back and fourth on the trail below before it came up to the house and stood at the corner looking at them sitting there. That's when her and her friends ran inside and told me.

We checked outside around the front but saw nothing. So they went in her room after that. Me and my girlfriend stayed in the living room and watched TV.

When we heard some noise in the dinning room I said,"what was that?". She said I dont know so I jumped up to see. Some of the girls came out to see what the noise was. It was like somebody throwing stuff around in the room. When I got to the dining room I saw a large hand reaching in the window. It reached across a table by the window and pulled out a bowl that had some food in it. We all got scared and I called the conservation office. Nothing else happened after that.

This thing has been hanging around this town [Mescalero] for about 2-3 years now. About 2 years before that, a bigfoot followed my brother in-law home from a friends house about 12:00am

He saw it down the road, about 150 yards away. He got scared and ran home. When he got to the door he started pounding on it. He didn't know it had followed him, but when he looked behind him he saw that the bigfoot was standing there looking at him, about 10 feet away.

When they opened the door my brother ran inside. He said the thing left after about 5 minutes.

Another sighting was about a year ago at the same house. My mother in-law went out to get her clothes off the line. There was snow on the ground. It was about 8:00am. She saw two sets of tracks, a very large set and a smaller set, like it had a smaller one with it. The tracks went between the house and the clothes line. Some of her clothes were on the ground. The tracks went down to the trees below her house.

Now I live in a trailer home up the highway. The closest house is a mile away. One time I could hear loud screams one canyon over from where I live.

One night me and my girlfriend were here without any power and no dogs. We were going to bed and we heard a sound like a rumble on the side of our room. It was like somebody bumped our trailer with a car. It happened just once. I figured it was a bigfoot because we've heard it around here.

ENVIRONMENT: Around the first house there's a lot of trees below and between the houses. The neighborhood is on a hill above Hwy 70.

The other place, where my trailer is, is very brushy . A lot of pine trees down in a valley.
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Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Eddie Flores:

Spoke to witness. He added the following, regarding the hand incident:

The kitchen is in the back of the house. There were several people in the front of the house. They were having a party. The creature had a lighter palm color compared the rest of the arm, which was covered in black hair.

~BFRO

Bigfoot Report from BFRO

2008-12-17T16:46:00.000-05:00

YEAR: 2004

SEASON: Summer
MONTH: October
STATE: Nevada
COUNTY: Esmeralda County
LOCATION DETAILS: It was about 1,000 feet S.E. of the peak to Boundary Peak Mt.
NEAREST TOWN: Dyer Nevada
NEAREST ROAD: Canyon Trail Rd.
OBSERVED: I have been a police officer in Nevada for over 19 years. In 2004 two of my college roommates called me from Idaho, and wanted to set up a climb to Boundary Peak.

Boundary Peak is the highest mountain in Nevada at over 13.000 feet. It is located in the White Mountains East of Bishop, California. One of my roommates is a loan executive for a bank in Idaho, and the other is a farmer.

We left Boundary Peak trailhead on the last Saturday morning of July, 2004 around 0600 am. Around 2:00 p.m. we were several hundred feet from the summit of Boundary Peak. There were two climbers making their way down the trail towards us. The last 300 feet of the climb is steep with lots of obstacles, and the trail is very narrow.

We waited at our location so that the two climbers combing down would have room to pass on the trail. As we were waiting I spotted a lone climber making his way across the rim rock trail between Montgomery Peak and Boundary Peak. He caught my attention, because he kicked a rock off the West side slope of the sheer rock cliff.

When the two climbers reached our location I observed something moving south about 300 feet down from us in a large bowl. The movement was too fast to be another climber, because the area that it was in was full of small shale rock. This rock is extremely hard to walk in and keep your balance on the steep mountain side. There were also several large boulders in with the shale rock where the trail was that this climber was using.

When I first observed this subject, I said out loud; "Look at that guy go. He is wearing a funny hairy climbing suit." My first thought was that he was some expert climber wearing a modern high tech climbing suit.

All five of us looked at what I just pointed out, and there was a dead calm silence among us. We all sat there for about two minutes and watched as this creature made its way to the trees below us.

While I was watching it, I made the listed observation: This creature would run on two legs upright until it came up on a large boulder, and then it would crawl over it on all four legs and run for a while on all four legs. After a short distance, it would stand back up on two legs and run until it came up to another obstacle.

This creature was between 5' and 5'6" tall. Its arms hung down to almost its knees. The head area appeared to have a long hair around the face and head. It appeared to be a light brown in color with darker hair around the head and groin area. Once it reached an area of heavy vegetation, we lost sight of it. It took over 90 seconds to reach the vegetation from the first place that we observed it.

I asked the other climbers if they knew what it was that we just saw. They did not say anything. My first thought was that it looked like an orangutan. I told this to one of my friends and they replied, “Yeh, maybe it escaped from captivity...” Everyone left it at that and we all started back up the summit, while the other climbers made their way down. Before the other climbers left, I asked them where they were from and they said Southern California.

As we were going back up I spotted the other lone climber crossing the divide between the peaks. He was about 1/2 mile south of Boundary Peak. I thought to my self that this climber might have scared the creature from his hiding place when he knocked a rock off the cliff.

Once we were on the peak, the lone climber met up with us. He was an Asian male. I asked him if he saw anything down the South slope of the divide that he just came across. He said he didn't see anything (i.e. anything unusual).

All three of us in our climbing party had cameras. They were all in our back packs when we observed the creature. I initially thought of trying to take my gloves off and taking off my pack to get my camera out. I realized that my camera did not have a zoom on it, and that a regular 35mm would only show a dark spot at a distance of over 300 yards.

When I returned home I told a couple of my close friends about the creature that I saw. I did not want a lot of people to know about what I saw, because I did not want them to think that I was loosing it.

In February of 2007 I bought 10 acres of land about 5 miles from the area that I saw the creature. I did not know it at the time, but this is where I am going to retire. I was talking to one of the local residence and I told them about what I saw up on the mountain. They did not seem surprised, and told me about a local prospector who saw something in the forest that scared him to the point that he does not want to talk about it ever again.
ALSO NOTICED: No; We did not go down to the area where it was observed because of the climbing conditions.
OTHER WITNESSES: Four other witness; Two were climbing friends of mine, and two others were from S. California. The two climbers from Calif. were coming down the trail towards the three of us. When we all met on the trail is when I observed the thing. All five of us saw the creature for about a minute or two.
OTHER STORIES: One of the local residents told me that a miner had mentioned that he saw something in the forest that scared him so badly that he does not want to talk about it.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: 2:00 p.m. Weather conditions; Clear and warm
ENVIRONMENT: Shale rock; Sage brush; Juniper and other small trees and shrubs.

A & G References: Southern California Delorme Atlas, Page 113, Index of B-7.

~BFRO

Sasquatch’s Fingerprint?

2008-11-24T16:28:00.000-05:00

Is this the first clear evidence of an imprint from the index finger of a Sasquatch?

Here is the backstory that I am able to share about this alleged eastern Sasquatch fingerprint:

The source of the print is from a North Carolina human family of three, two adults who have one son. They own cats. One of their cats has appeared to have adopted a local Sasquatch family. When the cat insists upon getting out of the house, they know the Sasquatch, a family of four hairy hominids (e.g. Dad, Mom, one teenager, and a young child) are nearby.

The human residents set up a feeding location. It is a white lawn chair adjacent to the woods at the edge of the yard. The Sasquatch take the food. Sometimes, it is taken daily. Sometimes, it is not retrieved for a week. The food goes when the cat disappears, which is a good indication in this case.

Recently, in May 2008, one of the Sasquatch inspected the human father’s pickup truck, leaving fingerprints and nose prints on the passenger window. A local policeman was called. He collected the fingerprints and palm prints, a full set, but refused to date and sign the card because he “knew what we had” and would not allow his name to get involved with these events.

The humans have a video camera at the location. When it is working, the Sasquatch refuse to collect the food. When the camera quits, the Sasquatch resume their activity. Reportedly, the Sasquatch cannot affect the video or computer recording operations, but certainly they seem to know when the system works and when it quits.

There reportedly exists two fleeting videos of the Sasquatch and nothing more. One is the arm of the black Sasquatch father, and the other is the hand of the white teenager with pink skin.

~Cryptomundo

Ape of Albertson

2008-11-10T17:02:00.000-05:00

THE ROSLYN NEWS

Roslyn, New York [Published out of Mineola, New York]
November 7, 2008 [Correct date, this was a flashback report]
The Ape of Albertson:

In June 1931, Nassau County police officers armed with shotguns combed the woods of Albertson, searching for what newspapers called an ape-like animal that was frightening residents. The animal was described as four-feet tall with a chest covered in brown hair. After three sightings were reported to authorities over a ten-day period, police took action after the animal startled and terrorized a group of boys playing baseball, with numerous witnesses. The animal climbed over an improvised backstop where the boys were playing on I.U. Willets Road, just on the east side of Willis Avenue. The boys’ screaming got the attention of a passing motorist who stopped and chased the animal away by hurling bricks. The animal never harmed anyone, but no explanation is known.

Thanks to Chuck Flood for sharing this flashback.

The 1931 Nassau County reports were widely known, having been published in the New York Times in 1931 and carried in The Books of Charles Fort. I revisited them in a broader context in Mysterious America.

~Cryptomundo

Random Sasquatch Siting from BFRO

2008-11-07T08:10:00.000-05:00

YEAR: 2005

SEASON: Winter
MONTH: February
DATE: 6
STATE: Minnesota
COUNTY: Beltrami County
NEAREST TOWN: Red Lake
OBSERVED: On Feb. 06 2005 Tracks were found along a swamp in Red Lake, Minn. Pictures were taken of the tracks. The tracks were measured 17 inches long. Tracks were also found by the elem school where it went over a fence walking around in school yard, and around several homes. Woman like screams were heard coming from the swamp. Dogs were also barking around 2 a.m.
OTHER WITNESSES: Two people found the tracks others took pictures.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: At night temp. 30 degrees.
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Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Stan Courtney:

I spoke with the witness by phone.

The witness stated that the footprints were found in several backyards and also near the elementary school.

The footprint measured seventeen inches long and six inches wide. The distance between footsteps was as much as five feet. Over a hundred footprints were found. The witness provided me with a series of photographs but there was not enough detail to include with this report.

~BFRO

New BC Sasquatch Sitings

2008-11-03T16:39:00.000-05:00

The outbreak of encounters in the Pacific Northwest continues, with reports of a new one the day before Halloween.

Researcher Brian Vike is communicating that new Sasquatch sightings have taken place in British Columbia.

Vike writes that he “took a telephone call at 9:15 a.m. on October 31, 2008 from a nice lady who resides in Moricetown on a Indian reserve. She gave me the contact information for a witness who had a large Sasquatch walk right in-front of her on October 30, 2008.”

In the midst of several sightings taking place in the area since September 2008, Vike notes that “recently on the same reserve, a Sasquatch was seen looking through the window of someone’s home…[and]…another Sasquatch was observed standing in a field.”

~Cryptomundo

Random Sasquatch Siting from BFRO

2008-11-01T12:55:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2006

SEASON: Fall
DATE: 10/05/2006
STATE: Illinois
COUNTY: Macon County
LOCATION DETAILS: A little gravel road by Spitler Woods State Park.
NEAREST TOWN: Mt.Zion
NEAREST ROAD: Illinois Route 121
OBSERVED: Me and my mom were driving home from dropping a friend off when about a 7 1/2-foot-tall creature ran across the road. It had brownish-red fur, its arms were longer than a human's could ever be. The whole thing lasted about 5 seconds.
OTHER WITNESSES: My mother
TIME AND CONDITIONS: 8:30 p.m. 3/4 moon a little foggy
ENVIRONMENT: Deciduous forest near a creek
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Follow-up investigation report by BFRO Investigator Stan Courtney:

I spoke with both witnesses by phone. The following details can be added to the report:
- The witnesses stated that the animal was very broad but not muscular.
- The animal quickly crossed the road in two or three steps.
- The hair was long and straggly.
- They were unable to make out any facial features.
- The eyes reflected red in the lights from the vehicle.
- The animal was about thirty feet from the vehicle.
~BFRO

Random Sasquatch Siting from BFRO

2008-10-30T20:18:00.000-04:00

YEAR: 2000

SEASON: Fall
MONTH: September
DATE: Not sure
STATE: Colorado
COUNTY: Park County
LOCATION DETAILS: One mile North of Eleven Mile Reservoir on Park County Rd #92
NEAREST TOWN: Eleven Mile Resevoir
NEAREST ROAD: Park County Rd. #92
OBSERVED: I was standing on the front deck of my girlfriend's summer home, looking down at Eleven Mile Reservoir., when I heard the sound of an animal calling.

It was all most human in nature, but unlike any sound I have ever heard in my life. It was spine- tingling. I can not describe it. It lasted about 3 or 4 minutes. It sounded lost or was looking for an offspring. I am 65 an have spent a lot of time hiking & camping over the years an never have heard a sound even close to the one I heard this fall.
OTHER WITNESSES: One, me
OTHER STORIES: No
TIME AND CONDITIONS: About 11:00 AM
ENVIRONMENT: Sound originated in pine forest, about 8,300 ft near top of a peak in the Puma Hills.

~BFRO

Bigfoot, October 1958 & Kerr-Breazele

2008-10-25T07:49:00.000-04:00

The first Bigfoot-Bluff Creek series of events, taking place about 45 miles northeast of Eureka, California, continued after the newspapers published the Jerry Crew cast early in October 1958.

A famous roadway sighting of a Bigfoot has become a typical model repeated often. What if it wasn’t real in the first place?

Capturing the mood of the time, one sees hints about “following the money” in the initial re-tellings. This is the place to begin to unfold any investigations of these early days:

Ray Wallace said he at first thought somebody was deliberately trying to wreck his contract and he was not alone. However, the local representative of the Humboldt Times, Mrs. Elizabeth (Betty) Allen, set about to investigate the possibility on her own, and discovered beyond a doubt that neither good nor bad publicity, nor any kind of “scare” actually made any difference to Mr. Wallace’s contract. First he was a subcontractor; second he was more than up to schedule; third there was no time set on the job; and fourth, it was basically contracted by Messrs. Block and Company with the Forest Service on a performance, not a time, basis. Ray Wallace got so angry he brought in a man named Ray Kerr, who had read of the matter in the press and asked for a job in order to be able to spend his spare time trying to track the culprit. Kerr brought with him a friend by the name of Bob Breazele, who had hunted professionally in Mexico, owned four good dogs, and a British-made gun of enormous caliber which considerably impressed the locals. Kerr, an experienced equipment operator, did a full daily job: Breazele did not take a job but hunted.

Tracks were seen and followed by them. Then one night in late October, these two were driving down the new road after dark and state that they came upon a gigantic humanoid or human-shaped creature, covered with 6-inch brown fur, squatting by the road. They said it sprang up in their headlights and crossed the road in two strides to vanish into the undergrowth. They went after it with a flashlight but the underbrush was too thick to see anything. They measured the road and found it to be exactly 20 feet wide from the place where the creature had squatted to the little ditch where it had landed after those two strides. Spurred by this encounter they redoubled their hunting forays but their dogs disappeared a few days later when they were following Bigfoot’s tracks some distance from the road-head. They were never seen again though story was told — but later denied by its teller — that their skins and bones were found spattered about some trees. Though this story was denied, there is as much reason to believe that this was done to obviate ridicule as to clear a conscience.

Ivan T. Sanderson, 1961

The road-crossing sighting (shown in the above drawing) on October 12, 1958, of a Bigfoot by Wallace-hired men, Ray Kerr, 43, and Leslie Breazeale [also written as Bob Breazle], 35, is today taken as something less than perhaps fully truthful.

Nevertheless, most books on Bigfoot will include this encounter as some form of proof for Sasquatch, equal to the stories of 50 gallons drums being thrown down embankments around the Wallace construction site that were (dubiously) reported by Ray Wallace’s brother, Shorty.

Around Bluff Creek, in 1958, one begins to see that the witnesses mentioned often turn out to be Wallace relatives, friends, and specially-hired employees, some leaving fake footprints and others telling tall tales of elaborately detailed sightings. Many of these stories have passed into the almost folkloric status of Bluff Creek’s "first" Bigfoot reports as if all of them happened one day after another, when in fact they are spread out in time and space, from August 1958 through November 1959, with many Wallace compatriots connecting the dots.

Master prankster Ray Wallace did not have to be "on-site" for the pranks to occur, of course.
~Cryptomundo

Random Sasquatch Siting from BFRO

2008-10-24T18:28:00.001-04:00

YEAR: 1990- 2006
SEASON: Fall
MONTH: October
STATE: Georgia
COUNTY: White County
LOCATION DETAILS: Poplar Stump Rd. (FS 44)
NEAREST TOWN: Helen
NEAREST ROAD: S.R. 75
OBSERVED: I have a personal experience that would like to relate. I would hesitate to call it an encounter because it was dark and from an undetermined distance. Somewhere between 30 - 50 yards and it was on an elevated plane to us. Just outside of Helen off of s.r.75 north of the Upper Chattahoochee River Recreation Area. If you go to the top of the mountain north of the park clearing thats where my experience was. I had my first experience there in the year 1990. While a group of 5 friends and I were walking late at night we saw something on a near by ridge it stood up clearly visible but only as a sillouette in the moon light and jumped a very large distance. It then seem to stride over the back side of the ridge away from us. It was actually very quiet it didnt make a sound before we saw it stand and we didnt hear it land or stride away, as if it was stalking or observing us! Of course we were all extremely scared after seeing it initially. Again it was at night, and far away so we couldnt get a clear description. But we all saw it and were all struck with a panic like fear!

I also went back with my dad who is a very harsh skeptic in the summer of 2006. We did not "see" anything but I had noted a couple of other things at this later date it was summer. First there was a very strong odor that seem to hang in a centralized area the entire weekend. Secondly the park rangers came by to tell us that the night before in the same place we were camping the last people left food out went into town after night fall and returned to find the camp completely ransacked so we needed to pack our food up or better yet keep it in the vehicles back on the road. They said the bears were forageing and getting brave because of the onset of the drought. Again no sightings but interesting because nobody actually spotted the "bear" either! And lastly along the mountain road at a heigth of 9-10 feet off the ground there was a 4 inch sappling rung and twisted completely around! My dad once spent 3 months in the woods living off the land in the late seventies in north Georgia. Its the number one reason he is skeptical he says that long in the woods and he would have seen something if it was out there. But when I noticed the odor and asked him if it was skunk, he said no not really, more likely a wet bear that got sprayed by a skunk but it had a more dank odor than just skunk. And also when I pointed out the rung tree and asked him what could have possibly caused that he had no clue!

I work in agricultural marketing. My job is to determine the amount of meat that will be derived from individual cow carcasses after slaughter and before they are split into primal cuts. To determine this we have to compare the confirmation of the animal or the ratio of muscling to fat and factor in the skeletal structure of the animal. So if I apply this to what I remember seeing when I was younger this creature was absolutely huge at least 8 feet tall and weighing easily 550 pounds! It was tall but had a slightly more narrow build in shoulder area width than the animal in the Patterson film. It was still too large to be human, wider and thicker muscled than a man but not as stocky as the Patterson footage, that is why I say it may not be heavier.
ALSO NOTICED: Odor noted later (in report). And a tree twisted around.
OTHER WITNESSES: 6 total including myself we were walking to our camp.
OTHER STORIES: Several sightings in the are on this site.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: It was night around midnight. There was only moonlight it was cool not cold.
ENVIRONMENT: Pine trees. Mountain side, logging trails, and high ridges.

~BFRO

Random Bigfoot Siting

2008-10-22T19:27:00.001-04:00

YEAR: 2000
SEASON: Fall
MONTH: October
STATE: Kansas
COUNTY: Douglas County
LOCATION DETAILS: Coming into Lawrence from I-70, you would pull into road off the overpass to haskell(next left after Haskell ave.). Go down to past Coffin Sports Complex to sewage building, take left. Foll trail past grave yard to the end. Continue on foot to past the wood pile, sighting was around fifty yards straight into the woods. Look for fallen tree. Fenceline for nearby factory will be around forty yards to your left of the fallen tree. This is the area of the sighting.
NEAREST TOWN: Lawrence
NEAREST ROAD: I-70
OBSERVED: I was taking pictures for my Photography class at Haskell University near the Wetlands. I had walked over a pile of dead and chopped wood into the woods about fifty feet when I heard something ahead. I looked up and saw something standing there, then immediately take off, and without much of a start jump about 7 to ten feet in distance over a fallen tree which was about five feet high. It disapeared into the bush, and did not make a sound in its retreat. The first moment I thought it was a worker from the nearby factory wearing a big coat, then I quickly realized what it was. It had a full body of dark blonde/light brown hair, about 6'6" or taller, and had a slight slouch to itself. It was also very fast, very illusive, and had seemed to disapear in a glimmer when it took off. I could not hear it beyond the brush where it took off to, so I thought it was still close by. So, as scared as I was but with a camera in my hand I had to follow, but when I got into the brush there was nothing. I didn't hear anything nearby, no bushes moving, no twigs cracking, nothing. Though I felt as if I was being watched, as if something was still there, close by. I just took a deep breath and took off to my car and went home. It was the coolest yet scariest moment in my life.
ALSO NOTICED: Just the fact that there are unmarked graves in the area from old native americans. Near sacred lands called the Medicine Wheel.
OTHER WITNESSES: none
OTHER STORIES: None
TIME AND CONDITIONS: It was between 4 and 5 in the afternoon. It was sunny, a little cloudy, and a little windy. There were no other anilmals in the area, no sounds but the wind. It was a very eery setting. It was in the woods so there was no direct light, but there was plenty of it.
ENVIRONMENT: Small woods, near wood pile, next to small stream with a little bridge. Next to flat land with three trees, and close to Kansas Wetlands.
~BFRO

Japanese team finds "yeti footprints" in Nepal

2008-10-20T17:33:00.000-04:00

An undated handout picture from Yeti Project Japan, received on October 20, 2008, shows what is alleged to be the footprint of a Yeti (left) measured on the Dhaulagiri mountain and compared to a human footprint (right). A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet.

(AFP/HO)

KATHMANDU (AFP) – A team of Japanese adventurers say they have discovered footprints they believe were made by the legendary yeti said to roam the Himalayan regions of Nepal and Tibet.

“The footprints were about 20 centimetres (eight inches) long and looked like a human’s,” Yoshiteru Takahashi, the leader of the Yeti Project Japan, told AFP in Kathmandu on Monday.

Takahashi was speaking after he returned with his seven-member team from their third attempt to track down the half-man-half-ape, tales of which have gripped the imaginations of Western adventurers and mountaineers for decades.

Despite spending 42 days on Dhaulagiri IV — a 7,661-metre (25,135-foot) peak where they say they have seen traces of yetis in the past — the team failed in their prime objective of capturing one on film.

But Takahashi said the footprints were proof enough.

“Myself and other team members have been coming to the Himalayas for years and we can recognise bear, deer, wolf and snow leopard prints and it was none of those,” he said.

“We remain convinced it is real. The footprints and the stories the local tell make us sure that it is not imaginary,” he added.

Photographs of the prints have been posted on the expedition’s website.

The team had set out nine motion-sensitive cameras in an area where Takahashi saw what he thought was a yeti during a previous expedition in 2003.

“It was about 200 metres away in silhouette. It was walking on two legs like a human and looked about 150 centimetres tall,” said Takahashi.

Despite their lack of success this time, the team plans to continue the quest.

“We will come back as soon as we can, and we will keep coming back until we get the yeti on film,” said Takahashi.

AFP & Cryptomundo

Siberian Sowman

2008-10-13T07:46:00.000-04:00

It appears that some footprints have been found. Head over to Cryptomundo.

Random Bigfoot Siting

2008-10-09T17:49:00.001-04:00

YEAR: 2007
SEASON: Spring
MONTH: May
DATE: Mid and end
STATE: Wyoming
COUNTY: Fremont County
LOCATION DETAILS: Along the US Hwy 287 on the route to Yellowstone National Park, near the Wind River Mountain Range
NEAREST TOWN: Riverton
NEAREST ROAD: U.S. Hwy 287 or 26 on the way to Yellowstone
OBSERVED: I work for a tribal government in Wyoming and it is not every day we hear of things that go on in the community such as these sightings. Over the years there have been reports of bigfoots and they were neither investigated or had anyone interested in really going out and finding the truth. These sightings of this creature have been linked to various beliefs as well in the culture.

About 15 years ago many thought the sightings of this creature, or this spirit, was a bad sign or warning. Today, after many years I am again hearing about several co-workers seeing it in the same area. A river runs nearby as well as perfect willow patches and tree areas where something could hide.

A bigfoot was sighted in broad daylight and persons were telling about it at the Health Fair about a month ago in May 2007. I heard of this from some colleagues who would not make something up or embellish it. Another incident happened a week after the Health Fair. My co-worker has a girlfriend he lives with who took her sister home about midnight in the area of where a rodeo grounds and many trees are located. She took her sister home on a dirt road and then they sighted the hairy big creature in front of their car lights walking on the road. They had no other way around it or any way to turn around and the creature stopped and turned to face them directly. It was very frightening to them.

I had a sighting on the reservation many years ago when I was a teenager. I had to open a gate near the highway where I live in Crowheart. I was 15 at the time and I am now 41. I seen in a snow blizzard a tall hairy man that walked rapidly across the road. He was huge. It happened so fast it was almost unreal. As anyone else can tell you the hair stands up on your neck, you get cold clammy hands, and your stomach flips over, and it seems like an eternity if the creature looks directly at you. Now again last night on May 30, 2007, my co-worker states his mother seen something near their house which is in an area with lots of trees. It seems it is hanging around near their home and perhaps they will catch it on camera phone or digital. Meanwhile there may be others that have not yet come forth in this area. Also, I know there must be some validity to this and someone could discover a very real creature since the sightings are becoming more frequent.
ALSO NOTICED: So far I gather that there have been more then four now and it appears to be growing. These are people that claim actual sightings of it.
OTHER STORIES: Yes many years ago the sightings were rampant but no one reported it to news. The local police may have these reports or maybe dismissed them since they were only word of mouth. There was talk that it was appearing because of the bad things that were going on. Most elderly natives here thought it was appearing as a warning since many believe that it shows up during times of bad things going on such as the suicides that were happening years ago. Most Native people will believe in this creature and some may have seen it but didn't report it. Now the younger people and generations of today are willing to come forward because they know there is something here. It won't be long I believe until we have substantial proof of it being around here.
TIME AND CONDITIONS: One sighting happened near midnight and another other sighting occurred in broad daylight. The majority of the other sightings I heard about happened in the dark hours. No rain, clear days.
ENVIRONMENT: The environment is trees but not many and right near a rodeo ground and near some homes that are in the trees. A river runs nearby. There is some willow patches with water and irrigation. Right now the run-offs are coming down as the snow is melting. We have had much colder days in the higher elevations and some snow in May. It is unusually colder and then we get sweltering days of sunshine. It is different this year.

~BFRO

Sasquatch footprint found

2008-10-02T20:13:00.002-04:00

LOCAL SASQUATCH hunter Larry Sommerfield’s convinced he’s in possession of a cast of a footprint of the often-sought but seldom-seen creature.

He’s reluctant to reveal how he came into possession of the 16-inch long cast except to say it was made in mid-August from a footprint found in a gravel pit just east of the Kitselas First Nation’s Gitaus subdivision east of Terrace on Hwy16.

“You can see ... it has four toes. More likely a Sasquatch footprint has five toes, but I’ve also seen three in Thornhill Park, at the fairgrounds,” said Sommerfield last week.

At 16 inches long and 10.5 inches wide, the footprint probably belongs to a creature that weighs around 1,000 pounds and stands at least 10 feet high, he adds.

“I’ve seen footprints as long as 18 inches. The longest was 18 and a half inches. It also had five toes,” Sommerfield continues.

This particular cast was made by pouring expoxy into the depression made the foot. Some of the hard-setting liquid spilled so Sommerfield says he took a grinder to the end product to chew away at the surplus.

Sommerfield has looked for the Sasquatch, also called Bigfoot in other parts of North America, for years, acquiring both stories passed down by others over the years and contacts around the continent.

At one time, he said he had a specimen of Sasquatch droppings recovered from a hillside overlooking the city.

This isn’t the first time Sasquatch footprints have been found in the area.

Some of the earliest and best footprints Sasquatch were found in the Skeena Valley in 1976. The tracks — about a dozen of them 15.5 inches long and 6.5 inches wide — were found by some children near a slough in the Terrace area. According to researchers they had a walking stride of just over seven feet.

A Sasquatch researcher named Bob Titmus lived in the area at the time and made plaster casts from the footprints that were left in the hard clay.

There have also been sightings of the creature in the area. In 2000 a New Aiyansh man, a skeptic by nature, spotted something

At eight o’clock in the morning — in broad daylight — “Mark” was getting ready for work. As he looked out his back window towards a forested area that borders his and his neighbour’s property, he saw a man walking toward his house.

The first thing he recalls is that the man was wearing a shirt the same dark colour as his pants. There happened to be road construction underway just beyond his property and he assumed that it was one of the workers dressed in overalls.

The man was average height, maybe 5’5”, walking upright just like a normal person would. But when the man got closer, 200 feet from the man’s window, he realised that what he saw was neither human or animal. The creature came into the clearing between his house and his neighbour’s and searched out for a branch on one of the trees.

“I just thought it was a person. It’s arm went down to the branch and pulled the branch down and I saw that his arm was hairy,” he said.

“I saw the hair very clearly it was really kind of freaky.”

Sasquatch creatures have different names among different First Nations of the region. The Haida call it Gogit, the Kwakiutl call it Bukwas and Bowis is the name given by Tsimshian.

The Bowis was said to look like small gorilla that lived in the bush. It was known to steal food, throw rocks and whoop or shriek at night.

Terrace Standard, Published: September 23, 2008 11:00 PM

Sasquatch sightings continue throughout Northwest

2008-10-02T20:13:00.001-04:00

Bigfoot appears to be on the move through the wilds of Northern B.C.

A rash of three sightings between late July and August have brought about speculation from paranormal specialists as to what the creature might be up to.

In addition to Houston sightings, Larry Sommerfield, a self-proclaimed sasquatch hunter from Terrace has a cast in his possession that he says is a sasquatch print.

Though he wouldn’t tell The Terrace Standard how he came into possession of the cast, it is 16 inches long, 10.5 inches wide and has four toes.

“I don’t know why there is so much activity but I have a researcher friend in Saskatchewan, who thinks it may have something to do with increased bear sightings” Brian Vike, director of Houston British Columbia Canada (HBCC) UFO Research said. “There seems to be a lot more bear sightings nearing hibernation and as the animals move down from the mountains, maybe something else large and hairy is moving too.”

A second hand report received by Vike, about a sighting in the Morgan subdivision, indicates that another Houston resident saw the enigmatic creature in late July, around the same time as Delores Harrie.

“I haven’t been able to connect with the other lady yet, but she is a very credible witness, she has an important job in Smithers,” Vike said.

Harrie reported a Sasquatch sighting at her home on Buck Flats Road on July 28 to Vike. She made the report 29 days after the sighting simply because she didn’t not know who she should tell.

“It was my neighbour who said Brian was the person to talk to,” Harrie said.

Since her incident, one of the woman’s friends reported a sighting on Telkwa High Road in Moricetown on Aug. 27 and over the summer there have been sightings in Campbell River on Aug. 31.

At the time of the sighting, Harrie heard something crashing outside near her house and her dogs were anxious to get outside.

“I am becoming much more aware of being out here,” Harrie said, adding her home is surrounded by trees and bluffs. “I mean it could have been a moose or something, but you never know.”

At 5:45 a.m. that morning of July 28, Harrie heard her dogs barking at the door. When she went down to investigate she saw that someone or something was rattling the door handle.

She eventually opened the door and the dogs were out like a shot, sniffing out something on he east side of her property.

When she looked out at the side of her house, she saw a creature that was walking on two legs.

“It was huge and it had long hair, not fur — kind of like the kind you see on an ox and a reddish brown, the colour of the trees that are killed by the pine beetle,” said the woman. “And it moved so fast, by the time I opened my door it had run from the porch to the other side of the house.”

Once outside, the dogs pursued the creature it continued along a dried-up ravine and disappeared into a forested area. Her oldest dog didn’t return for three hours.

“I was worried but what do you do, tell people your dog is chasing bigfoot?” she asked. “I drove up and down the road, looking for him and eventually he came back.”

When she went out later that day, she found the area had markings where something very heavy had laid down the grass along the path.

“She was very obviously upset and there was a sighting on Buck Flats near Silverthorne Lake three years ago,” said Vike. “And another one in a different area near the lake.”

When Vike investigated the property, he stood in the same area on the east side of the house where the women had seen the creature in attempt to gauge it’s height.

“I am just over six feet and when I stood there she said she could only see the top of my head,” said Vike. “Whatever the heck she saw that morning, she was able to see from the head to the chest, making it at least seven or eight feet.”

Brian also found that the treed area she indicated the creature disappeared into had disturbances on the path where the grass had been laid down, as if something very heavy had slipped and possibly fallen.

“The creek there is dried up but the ground is still very swampy so I figured I would be able to find some impressions,” said Vike. “I also found what could have been a track with maybe a couple of toes visible but I just can’t be sure.”

Vike didn’t find any other evidence such as hair but he did say that there have been other sighting this summer.

Harrie doesn’t know why the creature would choose to go onto her property, but the experience has left her a little shaky.

“I used to only lock my door once in a while, now I lock it all the time,” she said.

Published by Houston-Today on October 2, 2008

Random Bigfoot Sighting

2008-10-01T17:33:00.004-04:00

YEAR: 2007

SEASON: Fall

MONTH: December

DATE: 01

STATE: Arkansas

COUNTY: Yell County

LOCATION DETAILS: The location is down south of Belleville. Its mostly farmlands till you hit the slough and the river. The area where it happened is rather swampy and borders fields. The only tree lines are along the water sources. There the bushes are very thick.

NEAREST TOWN: Belleville

NEAREST ROAD: Horseshoe Lake Road

OBSERVED: We had begun fishing along a slough a few weeks ago.and we had been catching some good fish along it so we descided to clear out our own spot for camping sessions along its bank. The strange things started happening about maybe a week ago now...We were night fishing along the bank when my friend Jacob spied something across the lake looking at us. I pulled the jeep up and shinned the headlights across the lake and he caught a glint of amber like eyes staring at us. He and Jonathon our other friend said the thing was massive. Saying it could have went eight to nine feet tall easily. It was haunched over in a set of dead grass that stood pretty high. It also had brown wavy furr but other than that I never got a look at it as it apparently fled before I could lay eyes on it. Now just last Friday we all descided to go camping and ignored the previous encounter from that night...We set up late in the evening with the cloudy skys rolling in. It rained on us a little bit but we ignored the bad weather and even grilled some burgers over our open pit fire. Me and Jonathon eventually left Jacob alone while we went out and cut some more wood. After we left my dog who is actually a small dog became real anxious according to Jacob. It would bark and howl towards the woods surronding us...then whimper and whine to my friend...Jacob said he felt like he was being watched but didnt wish to ruin our camping trip. He also smelled an oder because the wind just happened to shift for a moment..He says the oder was like a very smell gym rat after a hard work out...but perhaps magnified by ten. We returned shortly after and eventually I took Jacob home because of his uneasyness. Jonathon and I stayed till about 1 Am when the encounter actually happened. We never saw anything though...Jonathon had been sawing down a small tree for more firewood when a loud whooping/moaning sound echoed just thirty feet behind us. The sound was unrecognizeable as any animal we had ever heard and we have both spent many hours in the woods hunting. He and I debated the sound on the other side of the fire nearest to the water when it came again this time much louder and deeper...sounded even closer. I told him it was time to leave as the hair on the back of our necks stood up. I pulled my dog out of the tent...The dog is usually very hyper and happy but on this night he cowered and refused to leave the santuary of the tent. Once out of the jeep he acted very quiet and sat in the backseat unmoving. I was so afraid by this point I clambered into the passanger seat instead of going around to the drivers side where the sound was heard...We took off and left all of our camping gear...The bad feelings we had seemed to disappear once we had left the area. We came back the next day with our camp in good order still but my tent which had been zipped up at the time was open..I looked for any sort of sign but could not see anything other than the burger patties were missing. Also an old hoe we used to shovel up leaves was half way burnt...It had broken on us that night but we moved it well away from the fire..It was found near the fire and partly burnt. We also found what looked like a foot print near the area of the sound but we could not really identify it...It was bigger than my foot though and I wear size 13s.

ALSO NOTICED: A strange oder was encounterd that smelled like a sweaty person. There were also huge splashes on the oppositte side of us just before the encounter...They sounded like huge rocks being tossed into the water

OTHER WITNESSES: Yes. THree of us me my friends Jacob and Jonathon

OTHER STORIES: Yes but the other incident occured north of Belleville near Spring Lake. My dad and his girlfriend had several strange happenings such as their dog getting anxious and rather nervous...My dads girlfriend actually saw something peering down from the road at them..She thought it was a man in a hood but then realized there were glowing red like eyes on this supposed man. They packed up and left a few moments later after the dog took off after it and returned with its tail between its legs.

TIME AND CONDITIONS: It took place at around one in the morning. The weather was cloudy with light rain occuring around the early part of the night. Otherwise it was cold.

ENVIRONMENT: The environment is mostly farmlands boardering the sloughs..Inside the tree lines near the sloughs its swampy in appearance and dense... The main road to take out ot this location is perhaps a mile or so. The Petite Jean river also runs south of the slough.

~BFRO

New Brunswick's Black Bigfoot

2008-08-27T16:41:00.001-04:00

The New Brunswick Bugle-Observer reports on a possible Bigfoot sighting a few miles east of theMaine-Canada border near Skiff Lake, NB:

It was shortly after 7 p.m Sunday evening, Aug. 17 [2008] and [Dale] Tompkins and his wife Valerie were travelling in the Skiff Lake area, heading home from a visit with friends at Second Eel River Lake. That’s when they spotted it – the creature they both firmly believe to be Bigfoot.…

“We were a half to three-quarters of a mile from the Skiff Lake sign in a densely wooded area when we came around a turn and saw a huge figure on the edge of the road. It looked down towards us then it walked across the road ahead of us just about 250 meters away.”What is being seen in the area is a “Black Sasquatch.” Specifically, it is described as a “pitch-black, sleek, hairy, approximately 8-and-a-half foot [tall] Sasquatch.”There was another set of witnesses in a separate car who confirmed the Tompkins’ account when contacted by the newpaper, but they wished to remain anonymous.

The following disclaimer was expressed, which may become an oft-heard refrain in the coming months.“We don’t want to be involved in what we feel people will only think of as a hoax.”

Valerie Tompkins considered someone may be playing a hoax on them and the couple from Saint John.

"If it was just someone dressed up, they sure did a good job,” she said.

Then she added in a firm tone."We believe we saw Bigfoot”.

Read the full story here.

~Cryptomundo and QuatchWatch

More ways to tell if there is a Sasquatch Nearby

2008-08-25T10:32:00.003-04:00

1. Some say that there is a slight eeriness in the air and a an uneasy quiet around them.

2. A lack on animal activity. (Not just birds)

3. Uneasiness of pets, mostly dogs.

Ice-Squatch

2008-08-23T16:19:00.005-04:00

To me, this looks like some big hunk of shag pillow fur jumbled together. The teeth look like dentures and the rest looks like a typical monkey suit.

I could say more, but I'm too lazy.

How to tell there's a Sasquatch nearby

2008-07-22T09:28:00.000-04:00

This varies greatly from report to report, but it is my job to inform you.

1. Witnesses sometimes tell of a terrible stench in the air when they see Bigfoot/Sasquatch.

2. Some reports come with a lack of birdsong before, during, and shortly after an encounter.

3. Some feel like they are being watched by something.

I'm sure I have left out some of these signs. Contact me with yours.

New sounds from Southern Maine????

2008-07-18T10:11:00.004-04:00

Two nights ago I was outside of my rural home in Southern Maine. There was a cat fight and my brother my mom and I went out to see if it was an animal killing a cat. I heard a faint cry identical to the recordings on the BFRO's website. I don't know whether it was a dirtbike, ATV, chainsaw, or Bigfoot, but it was a little weird.

My Position on Bigfoot

2008-07-10T10:02:00.003-04:00

Well, I do believe in Bigfoot.

I don't agree with the population estimates. There can't be more than 2,000, in my opinion. The population in most likely decreasing. If you factor in the (reported) sighting numbers for this year, there aren't that many. The same goes for last year. 2006, however, was a prime year for Sasquatch sightings.

Of course, there have been many hoaxes and fakes, which should take down the numbers significantly.

I think that these creatures are flesh and blood beings. They aren't alien life forms. They aren't paranormal beings. They are just animals, like me and you.

Why then are there native American legends telling that they have powers like they could be three feet away and you can't see them. I say that they are extremely clever and exceptionally stealthy. Surely you know what I mean.

Follow-up on "Why haven't I seen one?"

2008-06-10T14:02:00.001-04:00

What does this all mean? You have a large bipedal creature that has instincts such as hunting and avoiding humans, intelligence, and can learn new things such as new ways to avoid humans as we encroach on their territory, forage from garbage cans and dumpsters, and do not freeze when they are caught in a car's headlights. This would mean that these creatures are increasingly intelligent. That is, getting smarter on a regularly basis.

Avoiding humans could save their lives............

Skunk Ape & Frame 352

2008-06-05T18:14:00.010-04:00

Both of these are possible Bigfoot photos. Both of them are possible hoaxes. The skunk ape (left) is a possible

Bigfoot-like animal. On a Monsterquest episode, a biologist examined the photo. She said it was likely to be a hoax because the hair "wouldn't be so manicured." So the skunk ape photos ware most likely an escaped orangutan or a person in a gorilla suit. Frame 352 of the Patterson-Gimlin film focuses on a possible Sasquatch. The film was shot near Bluff Creek around the time of a logging operation. The subject is thought to be female.

The film was possibly thought to be real for the years after the film; after that, feelings towards the film were generally unbelieving. Monsterquest recently proved that the subject was NOT human. They used a professional athlete to try to replicate Frame 352. He failed.

Why Haven't I Seen One?

2008-06-04T18:44:00.000-04:00

That depends. If you live near cities or even towards the center of town, the chances are that you won't see one near your house. Your best bet is to live in a rural area or visit a wilderness area frequently. Also, as previously stated many times, these creatures are extremely intelligent. If you have taken a high school or junior high science class you will know that there are three types of behaviors : Learned, innate, and intelligent.

Innate: ALL animals (including humans) are born with these behavior.

Examples: Dogs panting, blinking, dogs snapping or biting when startled, scratching at bug bites.

This also includes reflexes and instincts.

Learned: This behavior includes things like walking and cracking shells. (Squirrels and chipmuncks)

Intelligent: Special abilities, reasoning, analyzing, problem-solving, and understanding.

What does this mean? If you lump all these together, you end up with a very smart animal.

Is there more than one? If so, why aren't there more sightings?

2008-05-31T07:32:00.001-04:00

Well, there obviously has to be more than one.

-How could it survive?

-If you calculate the times of some sightings using the different time zones, some will be pretty close.

Some experts say there are from 2,000-6,000 Sasquatch-like creatures in North America. This number could have decreased some because the infringement of humans on the wilderness areas. Also, because of this, sightings should be on a rise.

Why aren't there more sightings? These creatures are highly intelligent. They have figured out ways to avoid humans. They know to avoid lights at night, especially mobile ones.

Some experts say Bigfoot does not exist because there is not observeable evidence.