Emanuel County, Georgia

Near Swainsboro

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Emanuel County Georgia (Class A) BFRO

April 2004

I am mainly submitting this report to see if any one else has recently submitted a report in this location for the same date. On Thursday April 1st at around 9:00 a.m. myself wife and two sons were on our way to Hilton Head for spring break, We were also following my Parents. As we were coming down the hill on Hwy 16 East (about a mile from the Swainsboro exit) which is a four lane highway two lanes on each side seperated by a large median, most of the area in this part of middle GA is swamp or marsh. Fairly heavy traffic was around us too, which I should explain as about 3 cars right around us with about a hundred yard break and then at least 5 to 6 more. The group of cars is where this happened. The group of cars in front of us were approaching a wooded area in the median (which widens even furter at that point, and on either side of the highway was dense woods) at this point something came out of the woods on the right side of the road and sprinted across the road almost right in fr...

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Emanuel County Georgia (Class B) BFRO

Teenage girl startles a gorilla-like animal while walking home in the dark north of Swainsboro

I was walking home from my boyfriend's house about an hour after dusk when I heard a very loud, very deep breath. I felt the vibration under my feet when it moved. I had startled it. I looked and saw ...

September 2006

Emanuel County Georgia (Class B) BFRO

Military man and wife experience loud howling and shaking of mobile home near the Ohoopee River

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November 1982

Emanuel County Georgia (Class B) BFRO

Man and wife recall possible daytime sighting while fishing the Ohoopee River

My wife and I were fishing in the Ohoopee river in a Jon boat when we heard something come running thru the woods towards us. Tree branches and bushes were being snapped off. It stopped short of the e...

September 1986

Hamilton County Tennessee (Class A) BFRO

Nighttime road crossing seen by a couple near Sale Creek

My husband and I were on our way home last fall and we saw what can only be described as a bigfoot walk across the road in front of us. It was a cold rainy night and we were on the back roads to our h...

September 2011

Clark County Wisconsin (Class A) BFRO

Newspaper deliveryman sees large gray colored creature that was walking on two legs and carrying dead animal. (Newspaper account, follow-up by the BFRO and Sheriff's documents included.)

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March 2000

Magoffin County Kentucky (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls early morning sighting while squirrel hunting near Salyersville

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January 1972

Hocking County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by woman visiting an old rural cemetery, near Logan

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July 1998

Humboldt County California (Class A) BFRO

Three children have daytime sighting near Eureka

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January 1958

Washington County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Man spots Bigfoot in field

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March 1969

Bucks County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Bow Hunter Encounters Strange Creature near Argus

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October 2007

Skagit County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Three hikers see something cross their path

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August 1986