Coconino County, Arizona

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Coconino County Arizona (Class B) BFRO

August 2013

My Wife and I went up to the Mogollon Rim north of Woods Canyon Lake to camp for two days. We took our two small dogs with us. I thought if we went during the week there wouldn't be many people there and I was right. We set up camp in the rain at about 2pm. It rained till about 6pm we saw no one just these big trucks going back in forth on the road till about 5pm. It was very dark and we were trying to start a fire but everything was wet and all we had was a dull ax to chop wood. I believe we were being very noise hacking at the dead wood we were trying to cut to size for our fire. After we got the fire going we cook our dinner and ate. It was very quiet no sound at all then we saw a large full moon rising from the east it lit up the sky. We decided to go to bed around 10pm I put some more wood on the camp fire hoping it would burn all night. As we were in our tent the moon was like a big night light then we fell asleep. At about 3:10am I woke up to a sound that was unlike anything I h...

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Coconino County Arizona (Class B) BFRO

Several possible vocalizations heard south of Jacob Lake near the North Rim of the Grand Canyon

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October 2012

Coconino County Arizona (Class B) BFRO

Camper hears possible late-night vocalizations in the Knoll Lake area

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July 2011

Coconino County Arizona (Class B) BFRO

Possible encounter disturbs a camper in a high country forest

It's taken me a long time to write this report because shortly after the incident, I managed to convince myself that it couldn't have been a bigfoot. A few months later, a friend had a nearly identica...

August 2010

Coconino County Arizona (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting by father and son from a campsite north of Mogollon Rim

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May 2010

Hillsborough County Florida (Class A) BFRO

June 1984 Manatee County FL Late evening sighting by 9 yr/old camper off Little Manatee River in Ruskin

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June 1984

Broome County New York (Class A) BFRO

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Teton County Wyoming (Class A) BFRO

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June 2000

Pulaski County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

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Marion County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Brief daylight sighting by hunter near Silver Creek Falls State Park

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October 1995

Christian County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

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March 2013

Midland County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

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Bourbon County Kansas (Class A) BFRO

Witness observes sasquatch run along treeline

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