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Counties in Ohio with reports
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Noble County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Hunter states that vocalizations heard near Batesville are identical to recordings on BFRO site
Im writing with a great deal of hesitation. I'm a police officer and married , family guy etc. and my credibility is sound . I don't want this to change!... I used to do a lot of groundhog hunting aro...
August 1988
Tuscarawas County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Night sighting near Sandyville
My friend Marvin and I were on a double date with our girlfriends. We had planned to take them to an old collapsed train tunnel. We had gone there earlier to "set up" a little scare for them in the wa...
June 1988
Greene County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Possible stalking of ROTC Unit at Indian Mound State Park
In the spring of 1988, my college USAFROTC unit decided to have an escape and evasion (E&E) training scenario. The cadet Lt. decided we should conduct it at the Indian Mound State park in the late eve...
May 1988
Coshocton County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Footprints discovered along a creek on a sand bar
A footprint that was 11 1/2" long, 6" at the ball and 3" at the heel was discovered on a sandbar and cast. The cast indicated that the depth of the foot at the ball was two inches and the depth at the...
May 1988
Jefferson County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Evening sighting by ice fisherman near Friendship Lake
Two large white hairy creatures. The creatures where larger than man, both in build and height. The creatures were carrying a item which appeared to be the size of a pickup truck's bed. They were carr...
January 1988
Lorain County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Hunter has dusk sighting in Oberlin area
I was 17 years old and was out deer hunting with my bow and arrow. It was just starting to get dark out when I heard something moving about 200 yds. away in the pinetrees. A couple minutes later I hea...
October 1987
Jefferson County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Couple horseback riding catch a glimpse of unknown creature followed by a nasty smell and a loud moaning scream
My wife and I had saddled our horses on this day and we decided to take an afternoon ride on an old trail we had rode on many times before. The day was bright and clear. While on our way down this tra...
August 1987
Allen County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Late night sighting by teen at Lost Creek Golf Course
I was walking home from my friends house around 1:00 am. We had been playing video games at his house. I was 15 at the time. I wasn't scared of walking across the golf course, I did it several times. ...
March 1987
Franklin County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Fisherman Observes White Creature Swimming in Antrim Lake
This happened around1986-1987. I was fishing in a quarry pond, Antrim lake in columbus ohio. It was around 6am and the water was calm. Out in the middle of the lake, bubbles started to rise, then it g...
January 1987
Vinton County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
A family is shocked to see a large, hairy creature run across a forest road with a pack of dogs in pursuit
My Mother, Father and I were on a family drive in the fall of 1986 or 1987. I'm still not to for sure which year, but I know it happened in Vinton County, Ohio. We were on a road called Experimental F...
January 1987
Scioto County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Three teenagers witness a "thing" crouched on the road, stand up, take three quick steps, and jump over the reeds down a hill
I was in High School in 1986 and we just came home from an away football game and were cruising around town late one night, about 12:30 or so. My friend was driving and my other buddy was in the back ...
October 1986
Portage County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Man recalls possible sighting while driving at night next to the Ravenna Arsenal
Very early in the morning, 2:30am-3:30am, I was driving home and witnessed a large figure. The large figure was standing behind the fence of The Ravenna Ammunition base. I sighted this figure from my ...
July 1986
Brown County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Young woman has close encounter at night outside of Georgetown
[Editor's Note - Although the narrative is written by someone accompanying the primary witness, it is an important perspective to have, so I'm leaving the narrative intact. The investigator of this re...
July 1986
Portage County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Student hears vocalization near the Cuyahoga River
I lived at the Kent Village Apartments as described in Reports #4967 & #7832 around 1985-86. At that time there was a small wooded patch between a residential road that led back to a small housing dev...
April 1986
Portage County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
A man has heard similar cries in the night for over 15 years that were noted in another BFRO report from the same location
I have just read "A.D.'s" April 1997 report about a loud animal-like noise in the wooded area behind an apartment complex on the East side of Kent. I have lived in this same apartment complex for near...
January 1986
Lorain County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Woman remembers being shocked to see a running, hairy biped in her backyard in Elyria
Mid August 1985 Elyria Ohio- property butts up to Lorain County Metro parks. My husband XXX and I had recently moved into our newly built home. We both worked during the day and Jim had already le...
August 1985
Scioto County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Man recalls seeing a strange bipedal animal during his one and only hunting trip
I was 15 years old at the time, I remember because I didn't have my drivers license yet. My brother and father and I were hunting squirrel. The funny thing was, this was our first hunting experience e...
June 1985
Washington County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
White hair covered creature seen at the edge of a cornfield
It was July 4th, 1984. I was 17 and between my junior and senior year of high school. I went to the fireworks in Beverly, Ohio and had met a young lady (sorry I don't recall her name) who was staying ...
July 1984
Licking County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Two girls witness a large, hair covered baboon like creature squatting in the middle of the road
I was driving north down Brownsville Road towards State Route 16 with a girlfriend. We were both cheerleaders and were heading to Licking Valley High School for a game. We were driving fast down the r...
January 1984
Tuscarawas County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Memory told of observing a large creature while hunting just north of Newcomerstown
I was deer hunting alone in November 1983 near Newcomerstown, Ohio. I was 20 years old at the time. I started my hunting trip in the early pre-dawn hours. I walked on a path from the rear of my house ...
November 1983
Champaign County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Possible tracks found by hunters outisde Mechanicsburg
A couple friends and myself had gone out on a Friday night to "run" one's coondog. It was a warm night, and kinda still, fall was coming. We decided to head back to L's, a spot that had a couple small...
October 1983
Union County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Late night encounter by Coon hunters near Byhalia
A loud scream and an awful smell, loud crashing noises in the woods ...
October 1983
Champaign County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Large hairy creature and footprints seen along fence line on property with past activity
I'd loaned my pickup truck to a friend that moved. To repay in a way they offered me dinner and to prove to me that Bigfoot was actually around their property. It was a small three room building near ...
May 1983
Columbiana County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Nighttime sighting by three in car, on Sprucevale Rd. near Calcutta
This incident occured in 1982 or 1983. I haven't told too many people due to the usual reactions one would expect. I was with my best friend and my girlfriend (now my wife)and we were driving around i...
January 1983
Portage County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Silhouette seen protruding above brushline near Mogadore Reservoir.
I was walking home from a friends house. I decided to walk the road home instead of cutting through the "dark scary" woods. I was about 100 yds from my friends house when I got that strange hair raisi...
January 1983