Buncombe County, North Carolina

Near Arden N.C

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Buncombe County North Carolina (Class B) BFRO

June 2016

I live near Asheville NC. I own a landscaping & Irrigation company. I grew up about an hour east. My parents had 30 acres that was surrounded by 6,000 acres of game land. I've played in the woods, hunted, and camped my whole life. Plus my business also allows me to be outside year round. I was starting up a irrigation system in a large gated & wooded golf community in the mountains of Arden NC basically 15 mins from Asheville. This community joins Pisgah National Forest, approximately 300 square miles of forest. This was around April or June of 2016. I was standing in the back yard facing the control box which is attached to the house. So my back was to the woods maybe 25 to 30 yards to the tree line. And I hear this large crash. The same sound a large tree makes as it falls through other tree limbs when its falling. I turned quickly to see a massive Beach tree rocking back and forth. Leaves were floating down but no tree was falling. I've been in trees this size. I'm 6'2 2...

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Buncombe County North Carolina (Class A) BFRO

Adult recounters childhood sighting on Black Mountain

I was getting ready for bed one night at our upper house here on Black Mountain. There was no development at this time so the woods behind that house would still be considered wilderness. We had a cat...

November 1991

Buncombe County North Carolina (Class B) BFRO

Just after sundown, driver has sighting close to Carter Mountain

in the fall of 1986,i was driving up a mountain road near barnardsville n.c. the road turned to dirt and gravel about half way up it.about 35 to 40 feet after i dropped off the pavement,i noticed some...

September 1986

Harford County Maryland (Class A) BFRO

Large, dark creature seen crossing the road.

I was riding my motorcyle north on Rt 165 having just passed the John Deere dealership. This particular section of road is straight for more then a mile. I was about a quarter of the way into this mil...

July 1984

Columbia County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Unusual tracks found.

archery elk season,opening day. I was archery hunting, I found some very big tracks. I back tracked them to the canyon I had just hunted. These tracks went about 5 or 6 hundred yards along a clearcut....

September 1991

Walla Walla County Washington (Class A) BFRO

BFRO investigator finds tracks in snow 2001

While driving Blacksnake Ridge doing field work I came across large bipedal footprint going across Blacksnake ridge. i got out to investigate the tracks. From heel to heel to prints were 4 1/2 feet ap...

March 2001

Polk County Tennessee (Class A) BFRO

Man sees a bigfoot 100' away, hears twigs break as it slowly walks

I was sitting at camp and could smell the familiar smell of a bear so I started looking around the area. I saw something move and at first I thought it was a man. Then it stood up as if it had been ea...

September 2000

Ontario Canada (Class A) BFRO

A sighting of a gray shape in the bush near the waters edge, large footprints found afterwards

From the Sioux Lookout Bulletin Volume 6 number 36 Wednesday July 2, 1997 a story by John Lynch. (Refer to Media Article #69 for full text of newspaper article)....

July 1997

New Brunswick Canada (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by campers

We were camping in late spring 1983 near Mills Creek. At approx. 7am we were awakened by our 2 dogs running into our lean-too. We had to force the dogs outside only to see them cower under our legs an...

January 1983

Marion County Missouri (Class A) BFRO

Witness saw man-like creature in a corn field.

I was riding a four wheeler at my aunts out in the country. On an old gravel road I saw something that appeared to be a dog two-hundered yards ahead of me in a corn feild on my right side. As I got cl...

June 1997

Greene County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Late afternoon sighting by motorist on I-675 near Beavercreek

About two weeks ago while driving on I-675 northbound inside Greene co, coming toward Dayton, Ohio I looked in a corn field. I observed a dark-colored figure in the middle of the field, the top of the...

June 2002