Richland County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Vocalizations heard near Clearfork Reservoir

One day my brother and I were working on our grandfather's property, when we stopped to hear a peculiar sound. It was a loud, distant-sounding groan. It is very similar to Matt Moneymaker's sounds on ...

January 1996

Portage County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

While driving to a job a man witness's an unknown eight foot tall biped cross the road

I was driving my car up a hill at about 60mph when up ahead at the top I saw what I thought was a man carrying a bundle of sticks (about eight feet tall overall) across the road. I reached the spot ve...

October 1995

Summit County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Possible confrontation with hikers at night in Cuyahoga Valley National Park

My incident occurred on the 4th of july in 1995 in the CVNRA in Boston Twp(?), Ohio. I was in the Army, home on leave at the time. Three of us(myself, cousin, and a friend) had just left the Independe...

July 1995

Muskingum County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Night fishermen recall possible encounters near Dillon State Park

This is something that happened 19 years ago while a buddy and me were fishing in the backwaters of Dillion Lake State Park in Muskingum County near Zanesville..Some of this was witnessed by 3 people ...

March 1995

Summit County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Road crossing sighting outside Cleveland - St. Rt. 82 near the CVRA

I know of a friend who saw a bigfoot behind Boston Mills Ski Resort in the Cuyahoga National Recration Area in 1990. He faced it and described it as the pictures others have scripted. I saw a bigfoot ...

March 1995

Stark County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Two friends witness tall, hairy creature drinking from a pond

One morning between 6 & 7am in Feb./March 1995, I was driving west on Baum road in Stark County, Ohio. Just past where (.....edited.....), there's a small pond. At that time, there were large bushes g...

February 1995

Portage County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting by motorcyclist near Atwater

This incident occured in the town of Atwater,OH. One day in the late afternoon my sister and I climbed on my motorcycle and headed back to what was once strip mines.I frequently rode there and knew e...

January 1995

Belmont County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of being startled by a large biped while scouting for deer during the day near Whitney

It was a couple of weeks before the 1994 deer "gun season", which started the week after Thanksgiving. My uncle and I were out checking game trails and picking out places to sit for hunting season so ...

November 1994

Athens County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Evening sighting by squirrel hunter in woods behind old brick Kilns

I was squirrel hunting and walked right past bigfoot. That's what I'm calling it. I was about 3 miles in the woods and something took off running and out of the corner of my eye I saw a big brown thin...

September 1994

Monroe County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Nightime sighting on SR 78 near Woodsfield

A large creature walking across the road. Color seemed to be medium to dark gray. We were about 200 yard from subject and thought at first it may have been a stranded motorist. Until we realized that ...

February 1994

Portage County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Man recounts sighting from his teens near Edinburg

winter 1994 jay lake area west branch state park a friend and i were fishing a pond. the pond was mostly frozen over except for a spot in the middle which we were casting bait into. i dont know how lo...

February 1994

Clark County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Large furry head about 12" by 18" looked in the back door.

In late Aug or early Sep 1993, about 1000 to 1100 pm, an unidentified large furry head (filled roughly 75% of the window measuring 20" by 30", so estimate the head size at about 12" by 18") looked in ...

September 1993

Hancock County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Father and son hear screams identical to the one on the BFRO website.

It was several years ago, the date itself, I am not sure of. It was a dry summer, a very infamous drout if I remember. It wasn't uncommon for deer, raccoons, and other animals of the country side to w...

June 1993

Medina County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Driver encounters an unknown hairy biped just outside of Medina

At approximately 10:00 PM on a Saturday night. I was on my way to Chippewa Lake to pick up my sister in law, I was traveling South on River Styx Rd. between Route 18 and Route 162 when I noticed a dee...

September 1992

Ashland County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Two high school students are chased by large unknown creature

Myself and my best friend at the time were still in high school And we were "investigating" a "supposed" haunted bridge one night. So we went out to this old rail road bridge,(the kind that you can dr...

September 1991

Stark County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Close encounter remembered and possible vocalizations heard and recorded near Minerva

August 1991 Stark County, East Canton OH near to US Route 30 It's hard to say where these stories come from. When I was younger I had always read about them with a grain of salt. I mean you never r...

August 1991

Ashtabula County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Late night sighting by motorists on Austin Road in Geneva

While driving south down Austin Road between Maple Street and State Route 84, a mother and son had just passed the "Welcome to Geneva, Ohio" sign. All of a sudden, from the right side of the road a ve...

July 1991

Lawrence County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Four men have a sighting after vocalizations cause them to leave their campsite near Lake Vesuvius

It was an unusually warm February that year and me and 3 other friends of mine decided to go out and spend the night in the strip mines to kind of get away from things and shoot guns and just have a l...

February 1991

Scioto County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Witness has two sightings, ten years apart in Cut Rock area

I was 18 then just out of high school and was camping with friends behind my parents house in the Shawnee forest. I remember now that one of my friends said that he felt as though we were being watche...

October 1990

Washington County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Three boys playing games witness a huge creature walking through their front yard

My two brothers, cousin, and I were out playing a little war game with our toy guns. We ranged from the ages of 8 to 14 me being the oldest. We divided up in teams of two, my brothers were on a team a...

January 1990

Clark County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

A man driving stops to watch a hair covered creature walk across a cornfield

Well, there is actually two incidents I would like to tell you about. The first being the sounds I heard while night fishing with three other people. It was between 10 PM and midnight, we were fishing...

November 1989

Delaware County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Hikers spot white bigfoot at Higbanks Park outside Columbus, OH

Myself and two friends were at Highbanks Metro Park hiking on trails. As it got dark, we decided to walk back to the car by way of the park's paved roads. We first heard the creature in the woods to o...

August 1989

Montgomery County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Night time sighting by resident near Germantown

After reading some of these reports about sightings, I figured I would go ahead and tell of a few incidents that my friends and I, or I alone have had over the years, from a few years back. Ii grew up...

September 1988

Tuscarawas County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls childhood observation of rock throwing near Urichsville

I grew up in Urichsville, OH right outside of town. I believe the rd was called water co. rd or something like that. Anyway up the hill there was a large unbroken tract of woods we used to play in. My...

September 1988