Lorain County, Ohio

Near Elyria

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Lorain County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

1967

When I was 16 back in 1967 I was staying at a friends house on the next street over from were I lived. It was around midnight and we were watching TV when we heard some dogs barking like they were after something. We looked out the door and we seen something big like a large human running with the dogs chasing it. It ran under a street light but we still couldn't make it out. As it ran it made some terrible screaming like I have never heard before. The next day I went home and my mother asked me if I heard the terrible screaming sound last night. She said our dog ran and hid under the bed and it scared my sister to death. She said what ever it was it ran right beside our house. I went out and did find some very large bare feet tracks by our house in some mud. But nobody thought much about it when I showed them. We are by some railroad tracks and some woods so I believe it was following them and maybe came looking for food. I still can't explain where the dogs came from. My mother still...

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Lorain County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Hunter has dusk sighting in Oberlin area

I was 17 years old and was out deer hunting with my bow and arrow. It was just starting to get dark out when I heard something moving about 200 yds. away in the pinetrees. A couple minutes later I hea...

October 1987

Lorain County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Woman remembers being shocked to see a running, hairy biped in her backyard in Elyria

Mid August 1985 Elyria Ohio- property butts up to Lorain County Metro parks. My husband XXX and I had recently moved into our newly built home. We both worked during the day and Jim had already le...

August 1985

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.)

Initial report received as the associated media article linked below. I spoke with James Hughes tonight and he sounded very credible. Mr. Hughes told me that on the morning of March 28th at app...

March 2000

Magoffin County Kentucky (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls early morning sighting while squirrel hunting near Salyersville

my grandfather told me about seeing a thing he said looked like a ape when he was was hunting at harvest in Magoffin county when he was younger. said he didnt shoot it because he didnt know what it w...

January 1972

Hocking County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by woman visiting an old rural cemetery, near Logan

We went out to an area off of State Route 93 looking for an old Cemetery. One of my hobbies is Cemetery head stones. We turned left onto Bear Run Road, then turned left onto a dead end dirt Road. Then...

July 1998

Humboldt County California (Class A) BFRO

Three children have daytime sighting near Eureka

I was about 10 or 11 years old. My brother 15 month's older and a friend my age. I am now 53 years old. We lived in the country outside of Eureka California. We went fishing at the end of our rural Rd...

January 1958

Washington County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Man spots Bigfoot in field

Richard H., an older farmer and a singularly thoughtful, observant and articulate man, who deliberated carefully before answering questions. Richard was driving the spraying rig along the boundary...

March 1969

Bucks County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Bow Hunter Encounters Strange Creature near Argus

I was bow hunting on October 24th, 2007. Around 5:45 pm I saw a large "sasquatch" like man about 180 yards away walking away from me. He/She was clothed in all one color. He/She was close to 8 feet ta...

October 2007

Skagit County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Three hikers see something cross their path

I left an open can of jack mackerel 20 yards up from our campsite. A couple hours after we went to sleep something wandered into our camp, omitting quiet high pitched noises. Then the can of fish came...

August 1986

Kanawha County West Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Man remembers seeing a large hairy creature in a cemetary near Marmet

I was walking home one evening, I have to walk through the graveyard on a paved road. It was right at dusk when I looked out into the graveyard to a far point over looking the WV Turnpike. I saw this ...

January 1990