Franklin County, Virginia

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Franklin County Virginia (Class B) BFRO

October 2012

I am an avid runner. I run close to 50 miles a week every week. I often run the exact same route. When I trail run I have been followed by deer and other wildlife that comes up from time to time. However, today was different. First I was not on a trail but on a country road near my house. I crossed a main road and was headed out to my turn around point. There is a thick wooded area on the right hand of the road. I heard something in the woods and thought maybe it was a deer or a dog. I kept running but the noise kept happening. It was like someone was in the woods just out of sight running in the leaves as I was running on the road. I would slow down and it would slow down. I would speed up and it would speed up. When I passed a house the noise would stop for a few yards and then pick back up again in the wooded areas. I am an avid hunter. This really sounded like a person or something like a person running along in the woods as I ran the road. Thing is the wooded side of the road is v...

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Franklin County Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Husband and wife hear loud scream from inside their home in the town of Rocky Mount

It was late July 2007 and my wife and I had brought our newborn baby daughter home just a few days earlier. It was about 1 AM and I was in the living room of my house watching television after pulling...

July 2007

Franklin County Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Hunter has daylight encounter near Gills Creek

I was ridding my atv on the family farm going down an old washed out road which you can't drive fast on. As I started down the road looking down at the road then looking up down the road something cau...

December 2004

Franklin County Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Possible pre-dawn vocalization heard by hunter near Ferrum

I have grown up in the outdoors and been hunting and fishing my entire life. From a childhood spent in North Georgia to stints in West Virginia and now (for the past 16 years) in Virginia, I have spen...

November 2003

Klamath County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Driver has daylight, road-cross encounter near Chiloquin

Date: 09/19/2004 Time: Approx. 6:00 PM Conditions: Partly Cloudy w/ clear visibility Location: About one mile or less from Cascade Summit Pass on Hwy 138. I had spent the weekend visiting my kid...

September 2004

Walla Walla County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Girl watches large black sasquatch walk down ridge

witness was ridding with some friends up blacksnake ridge in their suv. They came to a stop to spot Elk, The witness Stephanie was looking in an area called laird gulch when she noticed what she said ...

March 2001

Delaware County Oklahoma (Class A) BFRO

Native American elder observes a deer being chased

Video report filmed by Ron Boles and Larry Newman This report was first made known to Larry Newman and I by this man's daughter. Larry and I went to the residence of the witness which is also the loc...

July 2014

Skamania County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Witness saw something he felt confident few men had ever seen

My grandfather whom was familiar with this region and hunted this mountain country yearly by horseback,saw what i believe to be a Pacific Northwest Sasquatch. Although he never would say for sure what...

January 1967

Independence County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

Duck hunter observes apelike creature across White River

I was duck hunting on the White River in Arkansas from a blind. I saw a large hairy apelike creature across the river flipping over stones and walking oddly. About 100 yards away at the closest. I am ...

November 1999

Macon County North Carolina (Class A) BFRO

Large creature turned and stared at couple

My girlfriend and I were riding the backroads when I noticed some small pine trees moving. Initially I thought it was the was the wind, but suddenly a figure emerged. My girlfriend grabbed my arm in f...

January 1973

Washington County Alabama (Class A) BFRO

Motorist confronted by hairy, man-like creature on roadside

I stopped my car to go to the bathroom because I had to go bad and in the woods next to the road there was a horrible hairy man-like creature. It walked toward me and snorted. I was so scared. It had ...

January 1997

Manitoba Canada (Class A) BFRO

Creature seen walking across a grain field

I was coming home just after dusk. I had slowed down to make my turn onto the gravel road. I saw a shape in the ditch on the west side of the highway and stopped because I thought one of the horses fr...

August 1996