Inyo County, California

Near Lone Pine

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Inyo County California (Class A) BFE

January 1960

My dad, 2 brothers and I were at mirror lake lake on the Mt Whitney trail, when my dad, while cooking dinner, threw the butt of a loaf of bread a few feet out of camp. While laying on our sleeping bags after a long days hike, dad (still cooking) said "what is that? Kids, do you see what I see?" When we looked up, as far as you could frisbee a piece of bread was a 5 foot or so gorilla looking animal eating that piece of bread, with that same stair a gorilla at the zoo would give you, you know the one that says if I was outside of this cage, I'd rip you apart look. My brothers and I stood up witch made it turn and walk away quickly. We chased it into a huge rock slide,( my dad yelling all the while for us to come back) and started to throw rocks into the huge crevasse it ran into, we even threw an old whiskey bottle we found in the crevasse until dad came and had us come back to camp. Spent a very scary night there and came back down trail the next morning. Never made it to the top of Mt. Whitney because of this encounter..

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Inyo County California (Class A) BFRO

Two men recall a nighttime face to face encounter on lonely Hwy. 395

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December 1976

Inyo County California (Class B) BFRO

Man describes childhood incident, a possible approach at Seven Lakes

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May 1980

Inyo County California (Class A) BFRO

Hiking boy has close encounter in High Sierra

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September 1972

Inyo County California (Class B) BFRO

A large, unseen growling animal breaks large branches as it moves quickly up a hillside

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January 1970

Houston County Texas (Class A) BFRO

While looking into the woods witness saw creature watching them

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January 1980

Pierce County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Civil War Reenactor sees bigfoot cross railroad tracks

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June 1991

Washington County Minnesota (Class A) BFRO

While bowhunting, man saw creature walking

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September 1972

Hot Spring County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

Nightime sighting by motorists on Hwy 7 North

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October 1996

Okaloosa County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by Five witnesses of a large, humanoid form.

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January 1996

Marion County Florida (Class A) BFRO

a daylight sighting by a family on a camping trip

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July 1997

El Paso County Colorado (Class A) BFRO

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

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November 1997

Coos County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by two young men on motorcycles

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January 1996