Preble County, Ohio

Near Gratis

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Preble County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

September 1978

Looking at your website and specifically the Ohio incidents brought back into mind a lot of strange things that happened in our area while growing up. There were some footprints, but I am sure they were made by a guy from a neigboring farm. There had been a lot of talk previous to this about strange things going on in the area. they included several cattle found dead in fields and their carcasses had been heavily scavenged, but there were no known large predators or dog packs in the area. No bears had been seen in this area since the early 1900's. There was some unexplained property damage to unattended buildings and barns, yet no property was taken. Also there were accounts similar to what i saw on your website reports, such as high-pitched whistles and unusual growling sounds. I myself had an unnerving experience while fishing on Twin Creek near Gratis Ohio, about 10 miles east of germantown. My dog was with me and I noticed that he was acting "funny", meaning that he did little ...

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Preble County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Case report about a sighting by a boy and local rumors about a bigfoot in area.

Case Report by Ron Schaffner Subject - Encounter with large "Ape-like" animal Date - May 18, 1977 Time - 8:30 PM Witnesses - Two 13 year-old boys whose parents request confidentiality Location - Pre...

May 1977

Preble County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Family going fishing find a large, strange footprint in a sandbar near Gratis

We went down to the creek (Twin Creek in Preble county) to fish and saw a big footprint in a sandbar that was way too big to be human. We took a picture next to my husband's foot which is a size 13. T...

June 2014

Preble County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Whooping sound wakes and unnerves a couple near West Alexandria

One night about 4 am I heard strange sounds. It started fairly distant and would repeat on a somewhat long interval. It slowly moved closer. As it closed in the sound went from slow intervals to rapid...

July 2014

Preble County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Possible encounter and print find while deer hunting near Camden

I was hunting in southwest Ohio not thinking I would encouter a big foot its 700 acres of public hunting hardwoods with pine trees in the middle. I was in a hunting chair back in some thicket I went i...

November 2012

Grundy County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Snake hunter has daytime sighting near Seneca

I was just out snake hunting the roads and I saw a spot and thought I would go up and look for some snakes. I heard like a rustling, kind of like something was futher in front of me. There was a tree ...

June 2005

Tennessee (Class A) BFRO

Night sighting by motorist along North Lamar Road

I was on the way home from work about 9PM one night. It was clear except for some ground fog. I saw movement on the right hand side of the road and thought a deer was about to cross so slowed down. Th...

August 1987

Stoddard County Missouri (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls his brief daylight sighting outside Bloomfield

It was winter of 1986, I was skipping school to ride around the Avert in Stoddard Co.MO. area looking for wildlife which I did often. I just crossed the Caster river bridge on the county road that now...

January 1986

Clinton County New York (Class A) BFRO

Daytime sighting by motorcyclist couple, a few miles from Saranac

My wife and I were on a Sunday drive on our Honda Goldwing Motorcycle heading South on the Chazy Lake Road towards Saranac, New York. We live in Cadyville NY which is about 4 miles east of Saranac. Th...

July 1998

Washington County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Daytime sighting by motorists along Hwy 6 near Glenwood

This is a partial secondary report. I accidently sent the previous report before I completed the questionnaire. Bigfoot crossed the road in front of us while we were on Hwy 6 Between I-5 and the coast...

January 1985

Bath County Virginia (Class A) BFRO

A sighting by two motorists

My brother and I were driving back home from a fishing trip when suddenly a small deer ran across the road in front of us. I stopped the car and out of the corner of my eye I saw a large dark shape on...

July 1992

Benton County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Family has many occurrances with bigfoot in Washington State

It was about 2am . I was on a dirt road on the yakima river near the richland washington delta.I was getting ready to leave so I turned on my lights and all of a sudden I saw 2 creatures standing upri...

July 2003

Alberta Canada (Class A) BFRO

Family spot large, manlike "thing" across lake, later find huge footprints near a trash pit

My ex-wife and her family where out in the area of Haig Lake, AB. Her dad was driving a grader for the fire crews, building roads to access the fire area's. There was not much to do so they fished alo...

August 1988