Brown County, Indiana

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Brown County Indiana (Class A) BFRO

May 2012

My husband and I rented a cabin in Nashville. We just came down for a year to Indiana. About 11 PM we went to bed. Within minutes our dogs went nuts. My husband got up to check and opened the front door of the cabin. It is covered by a porch and it was raining hard. The porch light doesn't work so it was dark. He closed the door and told me to bring a flashlight and firearm. I ran out of bed and went to him by the door. He said something was breathing heavy on the porch to the left of the door. At this point it occurred to me that our dogs were strangely silent. Being Akita's that have seen bear, wolf, coyote, and lynx all up close in Alaska this was not normal. My husband slowly opened the door again I sure enough something was breathing very heavy just to the side of the door. It also smelled. It was really strong, musky mixed with soggy old carpet and wet dog We closed the door again while we chambered a round and I lit the flashlight and we did a tactical to the left where we...

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Brown County Indiana (Class A) BFRO

Evening encounter by backpacker in Hoosier National Forest

While backpacking near the horse trails and access point in the county below Brown County I experienced a confrontation with a bipedal primate. It was early March of 1998 and I was alone. Around seven...

March 1998

Brown County Indiana (Class B) BFRO

Two campers hear strange sounds and see the outline of an upright creature.

My cousin and I were camping way out in the woods. We had just got there and built a fire when we heard a scream up on the ridge. After we heard the scream we shot our 12 gauge shotgun into the air an...

May 1995

Brown County Indiana (Class B) BFRO

Campers hear possible vocalizations on Yellowwood Lake

My wife and I were camping At Yellowood State Park this past Saturday night. About 1:00am we both were asleep and were woken by a loud hollering noise. It was a very deep howling noise but it wasn't a...

August 2015

Brown County Indiana (Class A) BFRO

Father & daughter sighting in Yellowwood State Forest

Me and my 11yr old daughter was spring turkey hunting 2020 in yellowood state forest behind our house. She seen it first, then I saw it. I watched in disbelief as it moved away from us. It was approxi...

May 2020

Powell County Kentucky (Class A) BFRO

Pedestrian has nighttime sighting along the Red River

Hello my name is **** and I have a story. I was walking home and I think I saw bigfoot. It was about 2:30 when I was walking down the road in Powell co.I had stop to rest,I heard a big splash in the r...

April 2004

Clearfield County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Bicyclist observes upright, hairy creature use branches to help itself climb embankment

I lived on the very top of the mountain. I rode my bike down the dirt road from our house up the next hill, turned my bike around and would pedal down the main road and then coast up the next. As ...

August 1975

San Luis Obispo County California (Class A) BFRO

Motorists encounter unusual creature on Highway 46 near Paso Robles, CA

During the summer of 1974 my sister in law I am were on our way from Lompoc, California to see our respective grandmothers. My sister in law's grandmother lived in Buttonwillow which is in Kern County...

January 1974

Grundy County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Two teenagers have sighting east of Seneca

I have told my story to very few people for the fact that all they do is laugh. I saw a bigfoot in the summer of 1979 just east of Seneca. I lived there for about 15 years just north of the river brid...

June 1979

Walker County Alabama (Class A) BFRO

Hunters observe creature walking in the woods

Back in 1990 i was having predation problems on some property i was leasing. something was killing and eating my chickens i was raising. so me and my friend bj decided to doa little varmit hunting. we...

January 1990

Limestone County Alabama (Class A) BFRO

Man on his way to work sees sasquatch crossing road in his headlights

The subject that my brother saw was between 8-9 ft tall. It had brown hair covering its body, appeared to have no neck, very long arms, took long strides. It was started to cross a road when he came u...

January 2001

Hamilton County Tennessee (Class A) BFRO

Nighttime road crossing seen by a couple near Sale Creek

My husband and I were on our way home last fall and we saw what can only be described as a bigfoot walk across the road in front of us. It was a cold rainy night and we were on the back roads to our h...

September 2011

Clark County Wisconsin (Class A) BFRO

Newspaper deliveryman sees large gray colored creature that was walking on two legs and carrying dead animal. (Newspaper account, follow-up by the BFRO and Sheriff's documents included.)

Initial report received as the associated media article linked below. I spoke with James Hughes tonight and he sounded very credible. Mr. Hughes told me that on the morning of March 28th at app...

March 2000