Fresno County, California

Near Huntington Lake

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Fresno County California (Class B) BFRO

July 2005

Camped at Jackass Meadow just below Florence Lake. I was tired from a long day of fishing and driving to Lake Edison, so I ate and fished a little more and retired for the evening. It was a full moon out and everything was really calm for a campground. I went to bed in my tent fairly early and woke up several times during the evening. Every thing was quiet and I got up to store my food in the bearboxes around camp. I didn't hear anything or see any thing when I was awake. I went back to bed and nodded off. I awoke again from my sleep to a noise that I had never heard in the mountains. It was late, and everyone to my knowledge was asleep. The noise was coming from the east of the campground i'd say approx. 1/2 a mile to a mile. I would say that it sounded the same as someone blowing through a conch shell mixed with and large mammal of some sorts. I heard the noise two times after I awoke in five second intervals, right after one another, and then silence. It was fairly loud and I knew t...

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Fresno County California (Class B) BFRO

Possible sighting and howls heard by deer hunters in John Muir Wilderness

It was late October 2006. My hunting partner and I were deer hunting near Heart Lake, which is located off the John Muir Trail behind Florence Lake. We'd been back there for almost a week looking for ...

October 2006

Fresno County California (Class B) BFRO

Hikers describe possible stalking and vocalizations the John Muir Wilderness

I would like to start with my background as a backpacker and hunter. I go to the Sierra Nevada Mountains about 1 and a half hours outside of Fresno, California. Last summer around the time of the sigh...

July 2006

Fresno County California (Class A) BFRO

Hunter has daytime sighting near Huntington Lake

I was hunting at sample meadow above Huntington lake, I had just walked through a marshy area and had gotten into some dense pine trees when I spooked two deer up and I got a glimpse of them as they r...

October 2001

Fresno County California (Class B) BFRO

Hikers find footprints and hair near Huntington Lake

There were three of us hiking through the rock creek area of the Ansel Adams Wilderness. Michael discovered the tracks and brought them to our attention. The tracks were heading in a northern directio...

September 2001

Jefferson County Alabama (Class A) BFRO

Hiker has daylight sighting near Warrior

In the early fall of 1979, my cousin and I were following some trails through the woods near my home. These were trails that myself as well as the other neighborhood kids frequented often on bikes as ...

September 1979

Arenac County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Bigfoot tries to hide under brush, leaves legs exposed

I was coming home from hunting and I looked down the side of a field. I then seen a big, black thing walking down the side of the field and I went back to check it out. The creature seemed to be afrai...

November 2003

Holmes County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

A group of canoers see a large, black creature along the river bank

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, th...

July 1997

Morrow County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Three fox hunters witness a "Freak of nature bear" step over a fence and walk into a thicket.

My brother, dad and I had spent the day hunting behind our home. A ravine ran through the deep woods where we were fox hunting. The pelts brought a good price in those days. I was about 11 years old. ...

January 1978

Holmes County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Young girls have daylight sighting near their home

My brother had built a hut (fort) in the woods right at the edge of the woods by our home. That morning, my little sister (age 5) and myself (age 9) went out to the hut. It was just after daybreak. Th...

August 1976

Butler County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Campers have close encounter with large, hairy creature

I and two other friends were sitting around a camp fire late one night cooking hotdogs and talking. I began to hear leaves rustling and sticks breaking as if something was walking around in the woods ...

February 1993

Ashland County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Two high school students are chased by large unknown creature

Myself and my best friend at the time were still in high school And we were "investigating" a "supposed" haunted bridge one night. So we went out to this old rail road bridge,(the kind that you can dr...

September 1991

Le Flore County Oklahoma (Class A) BFRO

Small sasquatch seen in tree by hunter, near Big Cedar

Primate observed from tree stand. The animal itself was in a tree....

October 2001