Marquette County, Michigan

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Marquette County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

January 2007

On Jan.18, 2007 at about 17:35 my wife and I decided to go out into the woods looking for deer and enjoying the snow in our 4 wd truck. We were driving along and we decided to take a DNR access road. Nothing unusual was noticed as we drove along down to the lake other than the the lack of deer tracks that normaly criss cross the area. There had been a recent snow and the area around the lake was for the most part lacking any signs of movement except for a single set of tracks leading up from a bowl like depression and passing by the toilet building. My wife pointed to them and asked me what kind of animal would make that track, when I looked over I noticed that the tracks were that of something walking upright on two legs. I stopped the truck and got out to look closer the snow depth is around 18 to 20 inches. The length between the strides I would estimate to be between 45 to 50 inches the interesting thing was that the tracks were clean in that there were no drag marks just a c...

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Marquette County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Large, unusual footprints observed in deep snow near Bass Lake

April 2,2008 I was attempting to get back to my home in the woods; we had had a very heavy wet snowfall -- blizzard like conditions== the night before which prevented me from driving home that night. ...

April 2008

Marquette County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Possible footprints found in snow outside Marquette

Hello , my name is shawn age 26 . I just heard about the BFRO today from my mother who told me right away about this bigfoot investigation team coming to marquette and this subject is something im ver...

January 2004

Marquette County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Nighttime sighting on CR550 outside Marquette

I had just finished a 12 hour shift at work and I was heading home. I always go slow due to the amount of wildlife that you can encounter on the way home. The road is called 550 the road travels north...

November 2002

Marquette County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Bikers have daylight sighting near Marquette

It was a summer day, 1996. Some friends and I were riding dirt bikes(motorcycles) on this old abandoned highway just south of the city of Marquette. The new highway (Co Rd 553) runs parallel with the ...

July 1996

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