Rapides Parish, Louisiana

Near Pineville

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Rapides Parish Louisiana (Class A) BFRO

August 2000

Encounters told to me by Logger Earl Whitstine. Sighting one occurred on Tuesday August 22, 2000 around 1300hrs. Mr. Whitstine stated he was operating his cutter, which resembles a skidder in that the only difference basically is one has huge shear type cutters and the other has a holder. Whitstine was approaching some fallen trees when he saw what appeared at the time to be the rear end of a horse. Thinking this was a nearby resident's horse, he rattled the cutters in an attempt to scare it away, but as he rattled the cutters the object turned and stood up. It was at this time he realized that he was not looking at a horse but a large bipedal creature. He noticed that it was covered from head to toe in thick, long, jet black hair. The hair around the face was also long and he couldn't make out any facial features. The creature turned and began to head for a nearby logging road that ran parallel to Flaggon creek. Whitstine then began to follow in the cutter, and as he got nearer to th...

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Rapides Parish Louisiana (Class A) BFRO

Child has encounter while looking at the night sky

This is in reference to report #3777, its occurance was in Pineville, Lousiana. I believe that throughout the course of my life, (I'm 27 now), I have encountered this "bigfoot" twice, possibly thr...

July 1985

Rapides Parish Louisiana (Class A) BFRO

Witnesses saw Creature next to a Broken Tree

This was in the early 80s,late spring early summer. i was still in High school ( Graduated in 1983) Myself my two brothers and my best friend and his two brothers were in a field with our dogs goofing...

June 1980

Rapides Parish Louisiana (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls seeing a large creature walk across his yard near Tioga

Late one night when I was around 11 or 12 years old. I was awaken by something at the window of my bedroom. As I woke up and looked around my room the light from the street light in the back yard cast...

October 1980

Rapides Parish Louisiana (Class A) BFRO

Witness looked up into the eyes of Bigfoot

We just had a house built. Esler field . buy a set of woods . at the time it wasnt to populated.Well one night my farter and mother had friend s come over on a friday night and play cards there daught...

January 1970

St. Clair County Alabama (Class A) BFRO

Roadside Sighting near Moody

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July 2007

Ontario Canada (Class A) BFRO

Two witnesses (Truck drivers) spot a Bulky, Hairy (Brown Hair) being walking under the bridge

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September 1997

Washington County New York (Class A) BFRO

Hikers find footprints and see 10 foot tall creature outside home

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January 1989

Warren County New York (Class A) BFRO

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

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 i...

October 1992

Allegheny County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting behind business near Allison Park

I was at work with my uncle. Its a family business, and it is located near the forest, with a huge open field across the creek. Anyways, we weren't very busy at work, so my uncle is walkin around and ...

January 2006

Carbon County Wyoming (Class A) BFRO

Witness noticed something out of the corner of his eye

A friend and I were gathering firewood around 5:00 p.m. in the evening, there was maybe an inch of new snow on the ground and a moderate fog had settled in on the mountain side. We were maybe 200 or 3...

September 1989

Skamania County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Department of Natural Resources tree-planting crew views two animals walking upright near Home Valley

In the spring of 1980, I was working for the Department of Natural Resources planting trees on State lands along the Columbia River between the towns of Carson and Home Valley Washington. The whole cr...

April 1980

Camas County Idaho (Class A) BFRO

In the Sawtooth Nat'l Forest, three forestry workers spot a eight to nine foot tall figure walking on 2 legs across a clearing located about 150 yards upslope

Late October of 1977. I'm sorry this report is so old. But the 2 women that were with me (one of which was my supervisor and was the driver) had become very frightened and immediately began dismissi...

October 1977