Charlotte County, Florida

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Charlotte County Florida (Class A) BFRO

March 2008

Just got up for work and was walking the dogs outside my home. I looked toward the end of the street and it looked like a truck or something in the middle of the road. I turned away for a few seconds and looked back again. It had covered a distance a person couldn't cover and stopped as soon as it saw me looking. The wind was blowing toward the creature so the dogs did not pick up on it till after we were in the house. So we started this little game where I would look away and it would move quickly forward. When I would look toward it again it would freeze. It didn't growl or make any noise. It finally hit me that this was not a game, I was not seeing things and that it was moving directly for me and the dogs. Frankly I really didn't want to believe what I was seeing. Judging by the posts, mailboxes, trees etc. that it stood by it was probably between 8 to 9 feet tall, had long hair, long arms, very muscular, big chested and was HUGE! It was built like a brick building so...

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Charlotte County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Husband and wife have close encounter while roller blading outside Port Charlotte

My family moved to Charlotte County in 2000, bought a house in a quiet area and have been pleasantly surprised with the amount of wildlife in the area. We had moved from Ft. Lauderdale and would frequ...

January 2002

Charlotte County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Fish stolen from a boat, possible knocks and vocalizations near Punta Gorda

I have a few, where I live in Charlotte county, borders the web reserve, and is woods for miles and miles, when I started to build my home, just after hurricane Charlie, I had an rv trailer on my prop...

January 2012

Charlotte County Florida (Class A) BFRO

City planner sees large upright animal while touring property near Punta Gorda

In the spring of 2006 several members of the county's development review team (planners, engineers and legal) were invited to tour a 90,000 acre ranch that was proposed for development. The intent was...

March 2006

Charlotte County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Couple hears an unusual scream while camping overnight on the Peace River

My husband and I have lived in Charlotte County FL our entire lives. We have camped with our families for over 40 years up the peace river (only accessable by boat) into Desoto county...After Hurricia...

October 2005

Koochiching County Minnesota (Class A) BFRO

Father relates sighting to son that occurred near Littlefork

I am writing this with what my father had told me after he came home from hunting. he was hunting neer a very small lake in a very remote area. He was about 35 in front of "Bigfoot" and what ever it w...

October 1983

Henderson County North Carolina (Class A) BFRO

Motorist slams on his brakes when a 4-5' brown shaggy creature steps in front of his car near Hendersonville

We were driving back to Wisconsin after Spring Break in Daytona Beach, mid-April 1983. We had dropped off a friend, who was in the Navy, in Charleston. We were driving through North Carolina on a rout...

April 1983

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

Benton County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

Motorist crossing a bridge sees sasquatch digging in the dirt below

In early to mid October of 1981 I was 17 years old. I was working weekends in Fayetteville, a town 28 miles from where I lived in Siloam Springs. I usualy left for work around 5:30am.I would drive the...

October 1981

Routt County Colorado (Class A) BFRO

Outdoorsman finds tracks in snow in Fall ; possible stalking encounter while mountain biking the following summer

1.) October 1996 after the second or third snow of the season. 2.) July 1997. 1.) Huge footprints with a couple inches of snow over them. But the stride was masive and could not be duplicated by m...

January 1996

Logan County Kentucky (Class A) BFRO

Bow hunter encounters large bipedal animal with a short neck and long arms

I had just climbed down from my deer hunting stand and quietly walked to the edge of a large soybean field. The moon was full and I thought perhaps I would see deer running from the field. What I saw ...

October 1972

Tazewell County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting along levee in East Peoria

I saw a creature running on top of a levee just on the east Peoria side of the river.It was all tan from head to feet. It had to be running at least 30 mph. While running its knees were bent.It did no...

February 2013

El Paso County Colorado (Class A) BFRO

Campers report finding large footprints in the snow

Sometime in the late 1970s, a friend and myself were winter camping in the Pike National forest outside of Colorado Springs. I dont recall exactly what month of the year it was, but there was still ab...

January 1980