Bear Lake County, Idaho

Near Montpelier

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Bear Lake County Idaho (Class A) BFRO

September 1981-1982

This report is a long time in coming, and is in reference to report # 1796. I was camped with my dad and friends at our annual bow camp during the labor day weekend in the fall of 1981 or 1982. This particular day our fathers let us out of the truck along the Elk Valley road and told us to spread out and hunt up over the ridge and down through a area known as the Bloody Bucket, they would pick us up on the other side. As I started to descend down the ridge towards a beaver pond I saw three figures standing on the edge of the beaver pond. My first thought was that they were people wearing snowmobile suits. I thought that was strange because it was early September and warm. As I got closer I realized the people were wearing fur suits. Then it hit me what I was really seeing (BIGFOOT). There were three of them, a large, medium, and smaller one. They had dome shaped heads and no fur on their faces. I had no camera with me at the time.I was about 75-100 yards away from them. They walked aro...

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Frank Buck 2019 days ago

I believe for no better reason than the fact that I've had two close encounters of my own.10' and 12' leaves little doubt in my mind.


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Bear Lake County Idaho (Class B) BFRO

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