Randolph County, West Virginia

Near Mabie

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Randolph County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

July 2003

Before I say anything more I would like to say that at the time I never considered that Sasquatch were real. I considered it all to be a hoax. I am a student studying wildlife biology. The following happen in West Virgina, Pocahontas County, near the Monongahela National Forest. MeadWestVaco owns and operates 3413 hectares in the Allegheny Mountain range for logging and ecological reseach. It is gated and not open to the public see website. I was participating in a study project studying the distribution and breeding success of songbirds in forest cutting sites. The study was headed by West Virgina University. My job was to search for bird nest of particular species and track their progress from egg to fledge. I was familiar with every kind of bird in the area by call, as it was one of my job requirements and hobbies. I was just coming down from the top of this ridge in a clear cut area with many downed trees, slash and new growth only about waist high. I heard the ...

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Randolph County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Possible vocalizations heard from the Bear Heaven Campground east of Elkins

I heard the whooping and it was very close. Maybe 20 yards at most. It was around 3 AM. There was another off a long way that answered....

August 2013

Randolph County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Possible nighttime encounter while raccoon hunting outside Valley Head

A friend and I were out training my red-tick coon hound on Saturday Aug. 2, 2008. We drove up a familiar dirt road. We drove to the end and were on our way back when the dog had struck out of the back...

August 2008

Randolph County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Possible vocalizations heard by backpackers in Otter Creek Wilderness

I'll be brief since this was only an audio. We were backpacking in the Otter Creek Wilderness near Elkins WV. It was the first week of Jan. '07. It was unseasonably warm. We were out for about 4 da...

January 2007

Randolph County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Family hears possible vocals on summer nights at their home near Dolly Sods Wilderness Area

I used to work as a bartender in Canaan Valley WV and lived at the base of Dolly Sods Wilderness Area. On a mid-summer night around probably 3am, I had driven home, which was about a half hour drive. ...

July 2000

Magoffin County Kentucky (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls early morning sighting while squirrel hunting near Salyersville

my grandfather told me about seeing a thing he said looked like a ape when he was was hunting at harvest in Magoffin county when he was younger. said he didnt shoot it because he didnt know what it w...

January 1972

Hocking County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by woman visiting an old rural cemetery, near Logan

We went out to an area off of State Route 93 looking for an old Cemetery. One of my hobbies is Cemetery head stones. We turned left onto Bear Run Road, then turned left onto a dead end dirt Road. Then...

July 1998

Humboldt County California (Class A) BFRO

Three children have daytime sighting near Eureka

I was about 10 or 11 years old. My brother 15 month's older and a friend my age. I am now 53 years old. We lived in the country outside of Eureka California. We went fishing at the end of our rural Rd...

January 1958

Washington County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Man spots Bigfoot in field

Richard H., an older farmer and a singularly thoughtful, observant and articulate man, who deliberated carefully before answering questions. Richard was driving the spraying rig along the boundary...

March 1969

Bucks County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Bow Hunter Encounters Strange Creature near Argus

I was bow hunting on October 24th, 2007. Around 5:45 pm I saw a large "sasquatch" like man about 180 yards away walking away from me. He/She was clothed in all one color. He/She was close to 8 feet ta...

October 2007

Skagit County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Three hikers see something cross their path

I left an open can of jack mackerel 20 yards up from our campsite. A couple hours after we went to sleep something wandered into our camp, omitting quiet high pitched noises. Then the can of fish came...

August 1986

Kanawha County West Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Man remembers seeing a large hairy creature in a cemetary near Marmet

I was walking home one evening, I have to walk through the graveyard on a paved road. It was right at dusk when I looked out into the graveyard to a far point over looking the WV Turnpike. I saw this ...

January 1990

Sangamon County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Nighttime road crossing between Rochester and East Lake Drive

On September 16, 2017 I left work early. I clocked out around 4:45 a.m., yes a.m. I was driving on Rochester Road getting close to the stoplight at Oak Hill Road when from the left side of the road a ...

September 2017