Charlotte County, Florida

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Charlotte County Florida (Class A) BFRO

March 2008

Just got up for work and was walking the dogs outside my home. I looked toward the end of the street and it looked like a truck or something in the middle of the road. I turned away for a few seconds and looked back again. It had covered a distance a person couldn't cover and stopped as soon as it saw me looking. The wind was blowing toward the creature so the dogs did not pick up on it till after we were in the house. So we started this little game where I would look away and it would move quickly forward. When I would look toward it again it would freeze. It didn't growl or make any noise. It finally hit me that this was not a game, I was not seeing things and that it was moving directly for me and the dogs. Frankly I really didn't want to believe what I was seeing. Judging by the posts, mailboxes, trees etc. that it stood by it was probably between 8 to 9 feet tall, had long hair, long arms, very muscular, big chested and was HUGE! It was built like a brick building so...

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Charlotte County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Husband and wife have close encounter while roller blading outside Port Charlotte

My family moved to Charlotte County in 2000, bought a house in a quiet area and have been pleasantly surprised with the amount of wildlife in the area. We had moved from Ft. Lauderdale and would frequ...

January 2002

Charlotte County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Fish stolen from a boat, possible knocks and vocalizations near Punta Gorda

I have a few, where I live in Charlotte county, borders the web reserve, and is woods for miles and miles, when I started to build my home, just after hurricane Charlie, I had an rv trailer on my prop...

January 2012

Charlotte County Florida (Class A) BFRO

City planner sees large upright animal while touring property near Punta Gorda

In the spring of 2006 several members of the county's development review team (planners, engineers and legal) were invited to tour a 90,000 acre ranch that was proposed for development. The intent was...

March 2006

Charlotte County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Couple hears an unusual scream while camping overnight on the Peace River

My husband and I have lived in Charlotte County FL our entire lives. We have camped with our families for over 40 years up the peace river (only accessable by boat) into Desoto county...After Hurricia...

October 2005

Houston County Texas (Class A) BFRO

While looking into the woods witness saw creature watching them

This parcel of land was where all of us kids would play at. No adults ever came out so we were free to do what we wanted. One day my cousin and I went out to this pond that was in the middle of this l...

January 1980

Pierce County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Civil War Reenactor sees bigfoot cross railroad tracks

A Bigfoot-like creature was seen at a distance of 20 feet at midnight. Creature stepped out in front of person who was walking along some railroad tracks then the creature crossed the tracks and disap...

June 1991

Washington County Minnesota (Class A) BFRO

While bowhunting, man saw creature walking

I was bowhunting and just sitting in my stand looking around and it walked about 75 yards away. It was a long time ago and I did not know about Bigfoot at that time and told my partner I had seen a sw...

September 1972

Hot Spring County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

Nightime sighting by motorists on Hwy 7 North

A tall (7-8 feet) furry creature was observed walking (on two legs) across the highway, at the outer limits of the high beams on my car. As we passed the spot where the creature crossed the road, we s...

October 1996

Okaloosa County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by Five witnesses of a large, humanoid form.

At Dusk, 4 people and myself witness a comotion in woods nearby. Sounds as if something large is approaching. As it gets closer we see a large humanoid form and flee. This thing is big, upright, and d...

January 1996

Marion County Florida (Class A) BFRO

a daylight sighting by a family on a camping trip

My family and I were hiking on a nature walk in the forest. When we walked across a small bridge over a stream. We stopped to rest and i allowed my two sons to go explore. A few minutes later they ret...

July 1997

El Paso County Colorado (Class A) BFRO

Multi-witness account of an observation of a strange creature on a ridge

The creature was seen during mid fall snow storm from the east bound lane of Highway 24. Traffic was backed up due to snow and ice on the highway bringing traffic to a standstill after stepping out of...

November 1997

Coos County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by two young men on motorcycles

My name is Dustin Anderson and my friends name is Dustin Evernden. We were riding our motorcycles one day and we decided to stop and rest for awhile.When we looked across the valley,we saw a large ani...

January 1996