Whiteside County, Illinois

Near Erie

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Whiteside County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

November 1986

I was about 16 or 17 yrs old. My family lived along the Rock River. My parents and sister had gone shopping and I was home alone. We had a dachshund and a mixed breed that started to go nuts around 7 p.m. I let them out and they took off towards the pasture. I had grabbed my shotgun thinking it was someone trying to steal something. The dogs took off towards the edge of the river and stopped. I looked where they were looking and saw a hairy humanoid figure. There was big footprints in the snow from the pasture to the river.

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Whiteside County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a daytime sighting on a farm south of Rock Falls

The BF I saw was honey brown in color and I witnessed it bang large rocks together. I didn't see its face, its hair was in the way. It was standing sideways. This happened on a farm south of Rock Fall...

November 2006

Whiteside County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Photos taken of possible footprints found on rural property near Albany

Foot prints in the snow. I took some pictures. we had a moderate thaw, but we could see definite toes and a human-like shape, definitely bipedal....

January 2012

Whiteside County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Youth has daylight sighting in corn field near Rock Falls

I believe it was a saturday morning, late summer of 80-81 I don't recall the year exactly, I was 8 or 9 years old been awhile. however the incident is very vivid.... I was in the garage that morning s...

July 1981

Whiteside County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a daylight sighting as a youth near Fenton

I was 14 in 2000, and it was a soggy spring day. Overcast, threatening rain. I had been playing with a childhood friend with whom I've since lost contact on my Grandma's 14 acre wooded property. I...

April 2000

Ontario Canada (Class A) BFRO

Two witnesses (Truck drivers) spot a Bulky, Hairy (Brown Hair) being walking under the bridge

Bulky Hairy (Brown Hair) being walking under the bridge. We are Tractor Trailer Drivers and both saw a bigfoot Sept. 3, 1997 3:00PM Central Time. Hwy. 406 in Hamilton, Canada. We were crossing a bridg...

September 1997

Washington County New York (Class A) BFRO

Hikers find footprints and see 10 foot tall creature outside home

We saw footprints while walking in the woods that must have been 20 inches long and found some tree branches broken down. They were originally about 15 feet high. We decided to head back to his house ...

January 1989

Warren County New York (Class A) BFRO

Stand-off with motorist at 6AM in fall, near town of Brant Lake

It was about 6 am on my way to work at [R**** Ranch] when something came from the right side of the road, out of the woods, and forced me to stop or run into it. It is dark that time of morning so i...

October 1992

Allegheny County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting behind business near Allison Park

I was at work with my uncle. Its a family business, and it is located near the forest, with a huge open field across the creek. Anyways, we weren't very busy at work, so my uncle is walkin around and ...

January 2006

Carbon County Wyoming (Class A) BFRO

Witness noticed something out of the corner of his eye

A friend and I were gathering firewood around 5:00 p.m. in the evening, there was maybe an inch of new snow on the ground and a moderate fog had settled in on the mountain side. We were maybe 200 or 3...

September 1989

Skamania County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Department of Natural Resources tree-planting crew views two animals walking upright near Home Valley

In the spring of 1980, I was working for the Department of Natural Resources planting trees on State lands along the Columbia River between the towns of Carson and Home Valley Washington. The whole cr...

April 1980

Camas County Idaho (Class A) BFRO

In the Sawtooth Nat'l Forest, three forestry workers spot a eight to nine foot tall figure walking on 2 legs across a clearing located about 150 yards upslope

Late October of 1977. I'm sorry this report is so old. But the 2 women that were with me (one of which was my supervisor and was the driver) had become very frightened and immediately began dismissi...

October 1977

Isabella County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Cub Scouts see two different colored creatures

Two creatures. . .walked upright. Hairy from head to toe. One on the east side of the road in the woods, the other in the field on the west side of the road. I was eight years old and in Cub Scouts. F...

November 1974