Holmes County, Ohio

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Holmes County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

July 1997

I was on a canoe trip with a bunch of friends from school. There were five canoes, each with two people in them. We had canoed about a mile, when we came to fork in the river. According to the map, the two eventually link up about 1 to 1.5 miles later. So we decided to race. Three canoes went down the fork on the left hand side, that had the road next to it. My canoe and another went down the fork that was in the woods. Upon entering the fork, we became aware of a very pungent smell of decaying materials. Soon we were in the middle and the trees all but blocked out the sky. We stopped for a bathroom break along the river, and on the opposite side noticed a shadow in the trees. We passed it off as a deer. When we continued our trip, we noticed that the smell had gotten closer, and when a female companion glanced toward the smell she silently froze. She said she saw a black 6 1/2 to 7 foot creature observing us. We doubled our paddle speed and noticed that it was following us behind the ...

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Holmes County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Possible nighttime sighting while camping on a farm on a foggy night near Nashville

I saw a shadow of a beast, about 50 feet away from the edge of the field.... It was around 9:47pm and a few people went away from our camp fire to an open field to see the milky way. A dense fog had a...

August 2013

Holmes County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Possible daylight sighting while driving in farm country near Nashville

I have two things to report: 1) I think I saw a bigfoot 2) A few weeks later, I think I heard it Where do you start making a report about this? All I can say is that after what I saw and heard, ...

May 2013

Holmes County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Multiple witnesses watch figure cross road near Nashville, Ohio

We were coming home from our grandson's baseball game on State Route 39 west of Nashville, Ohio. After passing State Route 179 and driving a short distance, something came out of a wooded area into a ...

June 2012

Holmes County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Late night road crossing on SR 39 west of Nashville

Hello, I live in Millersburg Ohio. On June 21st 2012, I was driving home from a nearby town called Loudenville on state route 39 going east toward Millersburg. West of a very small town called Nashvil...

June 2012

Montmorency County Michigan (Class A) BFE

Creature stares down young deer hunter near Lewiston, Michigan

I was 17 years old and bow hunting and had placed apples and Doe estruses [scent] near a stump and went back to sit 60-100 ft cant remember for sure anyway I do remember sitting up hill being heavil...

October 1985

Walker County Texas (Class A) BFE

Deer hunter observes bipedal creature crossing over pipeline near Huntsville, Texas

Me & my dad were deer hunting , myself & a few buddy's built a little camp house out of scrap materials from construction sites where we worked. Dad & I hunted for 2 days , realized we're weren't gonn...

November 1984