Inyo County, California

Near Lone Pine

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Inyo County California (Class A) BFE

January 1960

My dad, 2 brothers and I were at mirror lake lake on the Mt Whitney trail, when my dad, while cooking dinner, threw the butt of a loaf of bread a few feet out of camp. While laying on our sleeping bags after a long days hike, dad (still cooking) said "what is that? Kids, do you see what I see?" When we looked up, as far as you could frisbee a piece of bread was a 5 foot or so gorilla looking animal eating that piece of bread, with that same stair a gorilla at the zoo would give you, you know the one that says if I was outside of this cage, I'd rip you apart look. My brothers and I stood up witch made it turn and walk away quickly. We chased it into a huge rock slide,( my dad yelling all the while for us to come back) and started to throw rocks into the huge crevasse it ran into, we even threw an old whiskey bottle we found in the crevasse until dad came and had us come back to camp. Spent a very scary night there and came back down trail the next morning. Never made it to the top of Mt. Whitney because of this encounter..

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Inyo County California (Class A) BFRO

Two men recall a nighttime face to face encounter on lonely Hwy. 395

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December 1976

Inyo County California (Class B) BFRO

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May 1980

Inyo County California (Class A) BFRO

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September 1972

Inyo County California (Class B) BFRO

A large, unseen growling animal breaks large branches as it moves quickly up a hillside

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January 1970

Grundy County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Snake hunter has daytime sighting near Seneca

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June 2005

Tennessee (Class A) BFRO

Night sighting by motorist along North Lamar Road

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August 1987

Stoddard County Missouri (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls his brief daylight sighting outside Bloomfield

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January 1986

Clinton County New York (Class A) BFRO

Daytime sighting by motorcyclist couple, a few miles from Saranac

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July 1998

Washington County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Daytime sighting by motorists along Hwy 6 near Glenwood

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January 1985

Bath County Virginia (Class A) BFRO

A sighting by two motorists

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July 1992

Benton County Washington (Class A) BFRO

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July 2003

Alberta Canada (Class A) BFRO

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August 1988