Franklin Parish, Louisiana

Near Winnsboro

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Franklin Parish Louisiana (Class A) BFRO

October 1980

The only other person to hear this story was my Grandmother,and she has been dead for many years.I was hunting with my Uncle on the Tensas National Wildlife Refuge, in Franklin Parish Louisiana.I had been lost for most of the day and i was trying to find my way out of the woods when i finaly found an old road bed near a place called Hog Lake.I had walked about 200 feet down the road when i heard a noise up in front of me coming through the woods. Thinking it was my uncle looking for me,i moved forward and what i saw was beyond belief.I first saw it as it came onto the road about 50 feet in front of me.It stood about 6 or 7 feet tall and looked like it had the mange.The hair on it's body was short and there was several bare spot's on it's torso and leg's.It probably weighed about 250 pounds,more or less.It's head was round,very small ears,and almost no neck.It stood and looked at me for what seemed like an hour, although the encounter only lasted a few seconds at which time it slowly tu...

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Franklin Parish Louisiana (Class A) BFRO

Man recounts boyhood sighting at home near Jigger

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January 1980

St. Joseph County Indiana (Class A) BFRO

2 young men report seeing "hairy ape-like being"

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November 2000

Defiance County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Midnight sighting by motorist on Coy Rd

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January 1977

Marion County Florida (Class A) BFRO

a close-range, daytime sighting by a 67-year-old Baptist minister

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November 1977

Del Norte County California (Class A) BFRO

Creature observed stepping up and over a fir sapling.

On 12-22-98 at about 5pm I was driving westbound on Lake Earl Drive approaching Highway 101 controlled intersection. Because it just finished snowing, my son was admiring a snow-covered area of a moun...

December 1998

Wood County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Night time road crossing observation

It was the winter of 1996 and we were on our way home from church one Sunday evening. It wasn't dark yet. As we came around a corner we watched what we believe to be a bigfoot cross the road. As it ca...

December 1996

Macon County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Motorist and son observe road crossing near Spitler Woods State Park

Me and my mom were driving home from dropping a friend off when about a 7 1/2-foot-tall creature ran across the road. It had brownish-red fur, its arms were longer than a human's could ever be. The wh...

January 2006

Baxter County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

Backyard sighting near Mountain Home.

While driving to check on my dogs that were being kept at my aunts house in a fenced in area with a ten by ten out building. An adolescent bigfoot ran out of the woods and into my aunts yard it ran be...

May 1995

Bonner County Idaho (Class A) BFRO

Two witnesses discover and document a large three-toed track

Gene Woodruff, a North Idaho sawmill builder, said he and his son found a giant footprint of a Sasquatch the end of May while bear hunting in the northern hills of the Idaho panhandle timber country. ...

May 1997