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Counties in Ohio with reports
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Geauga County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Brothers have sighting in their backyard during the "Blizzard of 1978."
It was in 1978 or around then that my brother and I saw Bigfoot. It was the year we got hit with so much snow that year. We were coming back from our friends house as young boys (10 and 8 years old). ...
February 1978
Washington County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Early evening sighting by two children, near Layman
This may not even be relevant now because it happened so many years ago, but when I was about 10 years old my sister and I were out in our yard playing a yard dart game ( the kind where you throw the ...
January 1978
Medina County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Sighting by motorists along Poe Rd
A strange creature was sighted at the side of the road in the Fall of 1978. I was taking a friend home about midnight. We both sighted what appeared at first to be a large, standing bear. It did not l...
January 1978
Morrow County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Three fox hunters witness a "Freak of nature bear" step over a fence and walk into a thicket.
My brother, dad and I had spent the day hunting behind our home. A ravine ran through the deep woods where we were fox hunting. The pelts brought a good price in those days. I was about 11 years old. ...
January 1978
Preble County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Case report about a sighting by a boy and local rumors about a bigfoot in area.
Case Report by Ron Schaffner Subject - Encounter with large "Ape-like" animal Date - May 18, 1977 Time - 8:30 PM Witnesses - Two 13 year-old boys whose parents request confidentiality Location - Pre...
May 1977
Noble County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Two women driving to work are surprised to see a very large hair covered biped running along the side of their car.
My sister Mary and I were heading to work at an early morning hour driving northeast on County Road 19 out of Calais, Ohio. My sister was lying back in the passenger seat when I noticed in my car head...
February 1977
Morrow County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Children have daytime close encounter near Sparta; UPDATED with Witness Sketch
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January 1977
Scioto County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Sighting at Camp Oyo Boy Scout Camp on Rt. 125
While taking a break during a hike back from the Lou Wetzel cabin, we were sitting at a picnic area just below the Clark cabin when we seen a creature walking upright on it's hind legs with long brown...
January 1977
Defiance County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Midnight sighting by motorist on Coy Rd
While traveling at 55-60 mph I saw what appeared to be a tall being covered with brown hair. It was standing in a ditch beside a cement bridge that was about two to three feet above the road. The bein...
January 1977
Geauga County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Sisters witness a large, dark biped running through the back of their property near Chardon
My daughters, about 12 and 14 at the time, about 1977, were sitting on a small stone wall joining our patio in the backyard and I was up in the front yard. It was dusk, almost nightfall with very litt...
January 1977
Ashtabula County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Rabbit hunter witness's a massive creature running through the woods
During rabbit season in 1976 myself and four other went hunting just off Stanhope Kellogsville Road. It was one of the worst days to go hunting. It was snowing and unbelievably cold. We had been in th...
November 1976
Medina County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
A childhood encounter just outside of Wadsworth, Ohio
I just read of a woman whom now is 39 and her sighting was in 1976. That blew me away, my sighting was the same year. I was 12 years old when my parents built our house right next to my grandparents, ...
September 1976
Stark County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Man sees silhouette of an 8'-9' tall creature looking back at him from a cornfield near Canton
i went to feed the dogs at about 1100 pm an something was coming towards me threw the corn field i thought it was a deer it stopped about 75 feet from me and stood erect it was aclear night and the co...
August 1976
Carroll County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
A woman recounts her childhood sighting near Atwood Lake
Hello, about two years ago, I finally got the courage to tell a Bigfoot researcher in Ohio my story from many years ago. I don't remember his name, but I lost contact with him when my computer got hit...
August 1976
Delaware County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Teenagers wading down the Olentangy River at night have a sighting south of Delaware
This particular siting occured in mid-Summer of 1975. We were 14 and 15 years old at the time. My friends and I often camped out during the Summer months, usually in open fields or down along the Olen...
July 1976
Portage County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Large footprints, area of matted grass and sounds of bipedal footsteps noted along shores of Aurora Lake
In the summer of 1976, I (Laurie) was playing along the shores of Aurora Lake when I came upon a very large set of human like footprints. There was two very clear footprints in clay and a lot more les...
January 1976
Auglaize County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Raccoon hunter in a corn field is knocked down by a large animal running from coon hunters.
we had been coon hunting there were 4 of us we were running 3 black&tan coon hounds. it was a full moon in the late fall of the year.we had just been running the dogs in a 40 acre section one of the l...
October 1974
Ottawa County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Possible night time sighting by hunters in a marsh near Port Clinton
I am 45 years old, ret. Navy and currently work as a correctional officer in Ca. I grew up in Ohio. I've had one visual sighting and on two occasions heard something that I could not identify. The ...
January 1974
Columbiana County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Memory told of a daylight sightling while walking down railroad tracks near East Liverpool
This happened around August/September of 1973 time frame. My friend and I were walking down some railroad tracks near the Ohio river. We were walking from East Liverpool to Wellsville Ohio, just below...
August 1973
Mahoning County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Nightime sighting at a Lake Milton marina
Lake Milton, Ohio: Summer 1972 About the time my siblings and I were entering that turbulent period known as our "teens", my family had the great good fortune of having moved into a house flanked ...
January 1972
Gallia County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
A couple is escorted out of the forest after finding a possible nesting area near Rio Grande
In the winter December to January 1971-1972 my wife and I had quite an experience. I was hunting for deer in an area in southern Ohio, close to the Bob Evan Farm Area off route 35 before you come to C...
January 1972
Columbiana County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Late night sighting by children at a home in Calcutta
This particular incident occured when I was young, approximately 27 years ago. Due to the age of this report, I doubt it will be of much research value however do not dismiss this as a child's fantasy...
June 1971
Washington County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Sighting and vocalizations at a home in Wayne National Forest
I was staying the night with a friends of mine. It was late at night we were watching TV waiting on his parents to come home. We heard a noise out front and I looked out the window in the door to the ...
January 1971
Portage County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Tracks found along soybean field near Edinburgh
Tracked large, human like tracks in mud along soybean field next to stand of old white birch trees laden with grape vines and underbrush. Tracks entered forest at corner of field. Tracked a 100 yards ...
November 1970
Jefferson County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Human-like footprints are found around a garage heading back into a remote hollow
In the late 70s a friend of my fathers had a garage that was back in the woods a hundred yards or so from the road. One winter morning, he contacted my father to tell him that he found something stran...
January 1970