Sarasota County, Florida

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Sarasota County Florida (Class A) BFRO

March 2021

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Sarasota County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Passenger on I-75 spots a large animal near Myakka State Park

My husband and I were driving home on I-75, the day after Christmas. Our car just started to accelerate after being in traffic for over an hour due to an accident. My husband was watching the cars clo...

December 2012

Sarasota County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Husband and wife hear early morning vocalizations near back of Myakka State Park

Hello, I just found ur web site, have 2 reports. NO B.S. This occured in North Port, Florida in 1999, in the summer. My wife & i were sleeping & about 2am we both woke up and heard something outside a...

January 1999

Sarasota County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting by fishermen near Venice

Me and my brother was fishing in a local pond for bass on a john boat in the evening and we were just talking back and forth when this thing non human or not a bear bent over from the edge of the palm...

January 1988

Sarasota County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Youths have daylight sighting in wooded area of Sarasota

Me and my brother and our cousin (11, 10 & 12 years old at the time) used to frequent a neighborhood across from ours called Acorn Circle. It was a heavily wooded area that only had about three homes ...

August 1981

Jefferson County Alabama (Class A) BFRO

Hiker has daylight sighting near Warrior

In the early fall of 1979, my cousin and I were following some trails through the woods near my home. These were trails that myself as well as the other neighborhood kids frequented often on bikes as ...

September 1979

Arenac County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Bigfoot tries to hide under brush, leaves legs exposed

I was coming home from hunting and I looked down the side of a field. I then seen a big, black thing walking down the side of the field and I went back to check it out. The creature seemed to be afrai...

November 2003

Holmes County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

A group of canoers see a large, black creature along the river bank

I was on a canoe trip with a bunch of friends from school. There were five canoes, each with two people in them. We had canoed about a mile, when we came to fork in the river. According to the map, th...

July 1997

Morrow County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Three fox hunters witness a "Freak of nature bear" step over a fence and walk into a thicket.

My brother, dad and I had spent the day hunting behind our home. A ravine ran through the deep woods where we were fox hunting. The pelts brought a good price in those days. I was about 11 years old. ...

January 1978

Holmes County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Young girls have daylight sighting near their home

My brother had built a hut (fort) in the woods right at the edge of the woods by our home. That morning, my little sister (age 5) and myself (age 9) went out to the hut. It was just after daybreak. Th...

August 1976

Butler County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Campers have close encounter with large, hairy creature

I and two other friends were sitting around a camp fire late one night cooking hotdogs and talking. I began to hear leaves rustling and sticks breaking as if something was walking around in the woods ...

February 1993

Ashland County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Two high school students are chased by large unknown creature

Myself and my best friend at the time were still in high school And we were "investigating" a "supposed" haunted bridge one night. So we went out to this old rail road bridge,(the kind that you can dr...

September 1991

Le Flore County Oklahoma (Class A) BFRO

Small sasquatch seen in tree by hunter, near Big Cedar

Primate observed from tree stand. The animal itself was in a tree....

October 2001