Recent Sightings

Gila County Arizona (Class B) BFRO

Man recounts a history of possible activity in the Sierra Anchas

I have hunted, hiked and camped the sierra anchas since the early 70s. I found a fresh track in the mud on the old homestead that was about one and a half times my shoesize and I wear a 11eee. Biggest...

October 1981

Seminole County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Foot steps heard in wood line. Weeks later more sounds heard

In the fall of 1981. My next door neighbor and myself, were walking down a dirt road in Casselberry. The road runs along side of a wooded tract of land. The land has been reserved for a bird sancturar...

October 1981

Lawrence County Indiana (Class A) BFRO

Couple view figure standing on gravel road looking at them

This sighting occured in october of 1981.I had just been discharged from the marine corps.I was 21 years old at the time.I have lived in this area of indiana all my life.I am an avid hunter and outdoo...

October 1981

Carroll County Tennessee (Class B) BFRO

Brief dusk sighting near Pillowville

It was late fall shortly after sundown, my girlfriend and I went for a walk down the road that ran infront of her house. The weather was cool and the sky was clear. We walked with the shoulder of the ...

October 1981

Tipton County Tennessee (Class B) BFRO

2 men hear vocalization while calling up coyoties

A friend and I were useing a wounded rabbit call to call up coyoties. We were sitting in a field, about an acre. this thing came up and it sounded like it started to belly ache, I figured, because w...

October 1981

Benton County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

Motorist crossing a bridge sees sasquatch digging in the dirt below

In early to mid October of 1981 I was 17 years old. I was working weekends in Fayetteville, a town 28 miles from where I lived in Siloam Springs. I usualy left for work around 5:30am.I would drive the...

October 1981

Monmouth County New Jersey (Class A) BFRO

Youths have evening encounter near Allaire State Park

I had some strange experiences in my childhood. A friend from up the street, she and I would walk through the woods. There was a path that went in a big circle where the older neighborhood kids would ...

September 1981

Jefferson County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by a hunter on the edge of a road

My wife and I had driven to the area with our pick-up and camper and while she prepared lunch, I took my shotgun and went hunting for band tailed pigeons. I walked along a somewhat open road and not s...

September 1981

St. Clair County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

a family reports repeated encounters on their farm. (From newspaper articles.)

Newspaper article : Idaho Statesman (Boise); November 22, 1981 BIGFOOT BLAMED FOR TROUBLE NEAR EAST MICHIGAN TOWN Yale, Mich. (UPI) - Cindy Barone says it's not the torn- down fences of the ba...

September 1981

Prince George County Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of observing a hairy biped close to Civil War fortifications near Fort Lee

During early fall of 1981 when I was in 9th grade, several of my friends and I were playing war in the woods of the Petersburg National Battlefield. We rode our bikes to one of the wooded fortificatio...

September 1981

Shawano County Wisconsin (Class A) BFRO

Two couples shine owl and observe large hairy primate

Back in the summer of 1981, my then fiance' and his twin brother and his fiancee' were just driving through the "Mooseyards" as young people do, and pulled off to the side to just "sit" and whatever (...

August 1981

Fresno County California (Class B) BFRO

Teenager hears unusual daytime vocalization near Courtright Reservoir

In late August of 1981 I heard a distinct distant wailing animal call similar in character to some of the recordings posted on the BFRO website. I was backpacking with two other people in California's...

August 1981

Humboldt County California (Class B) BFRO

Campers smell foul odor

There was about 10 of us watching the Perseids meteor shower from a clearing near an area where we were building a small cabin. Previously that summer we had heard some moanings or low growlings up on...

August 1981

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

Yavapai County Arizona (Class A) BFRO

Army Vet recalls daylight sighting near Prescott

I was on the Thumb Butte Loop in Prescott next to the city park. While driving I spotted a reddish- brown ape like creature. I stopped the car immediately and observed the creature. The hair on his ar...

August 1981

Shoshone County Idaho (Class B) BFRO

Man tells of his possible daylight encounter as a young motorcycle explorer in the Coeur d'Alene National Forest

After the eighth grade, my family moved to Kellogg Idaho and I purchased a motorcycle with money I had earned from a dish washing job. I spent most of my summer days riding the many forest service roa...

August 1981

Levy County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Woman remembers observing a bi-pedal hair-covered adult and youth while driving near Bronson

I was 18 years old, living in Chiefland, Florida. I just graduated from high school (1981), class valedictorian, and had begun my freshman year at the University of Florida in Gainesville. It was arou...

August 1981

Levy County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Brothers hear howl while trailblazing

My brother and I were standing in some dense under brush at the edge of a very marshy area while we were trailblazing and we heard a howl, but it was a very deep and very loud it echoed in the trees a...

August 1981

Lauderdale County Mississippi (Class B) BFRO

Possible daylight sighting by boy near Meridian

I was about 12 years old at the time. My brother and I spent the summer helping my Uncle build a house in Meridian , Mississippi. We were there for a month or so when I had an encounter. I had gon...

August 1981

Whiteside County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Youth has daylight sighting in corn field near Rock Falls

I believe it was a saturday morning, late summer of 80-81 I don't recall the year exactly, I was 8 or 9 years old been awhile. however the incident is very vivid.... I was in the garage that morning s...

July 1981

Tangipahoa Parish Louisiana (Class A) BFRO

2 mini-bike riders chased by large bipedal creature

Twice when I was 12 years old I had an encounter. The first time my cousin and I were riding my minibike through a new subdivision just north of the manchac swamp in tangipohoa parish in Louisiana, we...

July 1981

Ontario Canada (Class A) BFRO

Man describes childhood sighting at a cabin in Ufford County

Since I was a baby my family would spend 2 weeks out of the year in Ufford Ontario. The camp site was forest rock camp, and our cabin was placed about 50 feet in the bush, from other cabins. One ...

July 1981

British Columbia Canada (Class B) BFRO

Possible stalking and rock throwing in the Fraser Valley

I am a 41 year old high school teacher, but I have had a passing interest in cryptozoology with a particular emphasis on Sasquatch and all his/her relatives. One story I can personally relate was ...

July 1981

Sonoma County California (Class B) BFRO

Couple hear late night scream near Fort Ross

Well I have collected enough information from various bigfoot sites about screams to conclude that I heard a sasquatch on a bicycle touring trip from Portland, OR to Santa Barbara, CA in the summer of...

July 1981

Sawyer County Wisconsin (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls encounter at a cabin on Nelson Lake

This incident happened when I was 13 years old and still I remember the event and the feeling of awe mixed with fear and disbelief I had that night. Today I am 41 and my work involves public safety. I...

July 1981