Gogebic County, Michigan

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Gogebic County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

August 2016

My boyfriend is a hunter and a trapper. He traps trouble beaver for the county. This was about mid-Aug. He was out checking his traps out on the Chaney Lake Rd., south of Wakefield MI. He was heading south, came around the corner, saw something all black in the middle of the road. Being a bear hunter also, he hurried to see if it was a bear. It stood up on 2 legs looked at my boyfriend, took 2 steps to the west and was into the swamp. It passed in front of a curve sign, going into a swamp, that was 9-10 ft tall and only 6 inches of the sign showed above its head!! It was very black with long arms. So he got down there and it was gone. No path, no broken branches, no noise, nothing. Now he won't go in woods without a gun. And this is a man that used to bait bear with only a 10 inch knife!!!! And releases wolves, that get caught in his coyote traps!!! He's seen hundreds of bears and has tracked them in the dark. He said this was NO bear. And he's still rattled about it. We think it was a...

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Gogebic County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Possible daytime road crossing within the Sylvania Wilderness Area

I was camping at the Clark Lake campground in Sylvania Wilderness and went exploring the backroads of the Ottawa Natl Forest on a Saturday morning. I thought I'd go explore Langford Lake, Pomeroy Lake...

July 2012

Tuscarawas County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

A family's encounters with a reddish brown beast outside of Newcomerstown, Ohio

There was several incidents that occurred at my grandparents outside of Newcomerstown, Ohio in Tuscarawas County. The first one was when my aunt was outside by the field and heard a very high pitched ...

January 2001

Cowlitz County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Driver and Passenger Have Nighttime Road Sighting Near Mt. St. Helens

I was near Toutle driving home around midnight. A creature on its hands and knees, furry and brown, was in the middle of the road. This creature was about the size of a 10 year old child and resembled...

June 2014

Park County Wyoming (Class A) BFRO

Sighting near Yellowstone Park entrance by two witnesses cutting wood

I was cutting firewood in a designated timber cut area with my brother approximately half way between Cody and Yellowstone. We were south of the highway, very near the north bank of the North Fork (an...

November 1997

Northampton County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Deer hunter has a dusk sighting near Wind Gap

I went into my woods, I was sitting at my deer spot and after sitting for about an hour a few deer ran through the woods. They acted as if something was pushing them. A few seconds later, a Sasquatch ...

November 2017

Cedar County Missouri (Class A) BFRO

Two young men almost run into a large nighttime visitor north of Stockton Lake

The incident all started at our house in Cedar Springs, MO. we were burning trash in our trash barrel and playing our harmonicas. we then decided to race around the poll barn about 100 yards away. we ...

November 2005

Lawrence County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Bother and sister are followed by a brown, hairy creature walking on two legs

I was at home when my brother called to say that he had run out gas and needed me to walk the gas can down to his location which was about 3 blocks away. Upon arriving at the location, he was looking ...

August 1980

Berrien County Georgia (Class A) BFRO

Man observes a large, hair-covered biped outside his garage south of Nashville

This past wednesday night I was watching TV in my game room above the garage. It was around twelve or twelve thirty when it sounded like something hit one of the garage doors. I waited about five seco...

July 2008

Dade County Georgia (Class A) BFRO

Couple's near-miss road-crossing sighting 10 miles south of Trenton

My wife and I live in rising fawn just off of highway 11 on cave springs rd. We were coming home from visiting family in alabama in February 2020. We were traveling north on highway 11 just after cros...

February 2020