Recent Sightings

Ontario County New York (Class A) BFRO

Morning sighting by deer hunter near Naples

This was years ago. I'm 38 now, but when this happened I was 14. My father worked with a guy who had some prime property in Naples, NewYork. Being that I was 14, I was not old enough to have a hunters...

November 1979

Franklin County Mississippi (Class A) BFRO

Morning sighting by hunter in Homochitto National Forest near Knoxville

FIRST I WILL SAY THAT A CREATURE REALLY EXIST WITHOUT A DOUBT.I HAVE NOT DISCUSSED THIS WITH MANY PEOPLE BECAUSE IT WOULD DO NO GOOD.IN ORDER TO UNDERSTAND SOMEONE MUST EXPERIENCE A ENCOUNTER PERSONAL...

November 1979

Monroe County Indiana (Class A) BFRO

Daytime Sighting by Caver West of Lake Monroe

After caving in a local pit off of Popcorn Road in Monroe County I decided to wait on the surface while my two fellow cavers did the next pit. I was sitting in the back of my jeep reading. I saw a ...

November 1979

Valley County Idaho (Class B) BFRO

Fish & Game employee recalls following possible tracks while hiking near Little Payette Lake

In November of 1979 my wife and I drove out to Little Lake just east of McCall. The lake is very low this time of year and I went for a walk on the mud flat following the stream that feeds the lake. I...

November 1979

Lamar County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Road encounter with bigfoot near Direct, Texas

I was riding in the car with my friend, she was driving. It was the opening weekend of deer season, full moon, very bright. We were on a one lane gravel road in the Direct Bottoms. We saw less than 10...

November 1979

Liberty County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Squirrel hunter has encounters not far from Trinity River

As a teenager from the early seventies up until 1980, I hunted this area. Numerous times I had mentioned a smell to a friend which I described as somewhere between a skunk and a wet dog. My friend ack...

November 1979

Mercer County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a close daylight encounter behind a home outside Sandy Lake

When I was 12 years old, my mother was cooking my breakfast before school and as she was cooking and looking out the window she said, what in the world is that? I jumped up just in time to see a large...

October 1979

Marinette County Wisconsin (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a sighting by a father and two sons grouse hunting at dawn near Pembine

On October 20th 1979 we saw a dark form cross the road as we headed out grouse hunting in Marionette county. It crossed where there were no roads or house. It was one solid color not carrying any gun ...

October 1979

Siskiyou County California (Class A) BFRO

Hunter/Logger has a sighting in a closed logging area near Hilt

: This sighting occurred quite some time ago, and I haven't told a lot of people. I was a logger for 15 years, in and around northern California, and I was a timber faller, probably 5 years out of tha...

October 1979

Tulare County California (Class B) BFRO

Hunters are awakened by loud, repetitive vocalizations in Monache Meadows

Around 1979-----Norm and I hunt the Monache Meadow area, we had camped at Summers Ridge that night. About 2:00 in the, morning, this loud howl of immense volume, coming from one the meadows, yes it di...

October 1979

Lincoln County Georgia (Class B) BFRO

Man remembers unknown screaming animal passing underneath his deer stand before dawn on Clark Hill Lake

The year was 1978 or 1979, opening day of deer season. We had set up camp the day before and later scouted for the right hunting spot. I chose an area within sight of water from Clarks Hill lake, with...

October 1979

Guernsey County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Two men find unusual brush structure while deer hunting 10 miles east of Cambridge

What myself and brother in law found was a structure built of mainly blackberry vines. We were scouting for deer on an abandoned farm in an area that had been stripped for coal 35yrs prior. Deer were ...

October 1979

Calhoun County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by two teenagers in woods near Albion

This was October just after my birthday. It was getting chilly in the late afternoon. My friend and I were bored so we decided to go walking around in the woods adjacent to my home which was a one roo...

October 1979

Kent County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Bow hunter remembers possible intimidation behavior near Grand Rapids

This incident took place over 30 years ago (1979 or 1980) on the western side of the state, near Grand Rapids. It was the opening of archery deer season ( that would make it Oct?) and I and two other ...

October 1979

Hinds County Mississippi (Class A) BFRO

Witnesses tell of a sighting they had as teenagers outside Jackson - w/sketch by artist

Me and three of my friends were on county line road west, between watkins dr and hanging moss road in Jackson ms. We were at a small pond just off the road,doing what you did back in 1979,drinking a f...

October 1979

Blackford County Indiana (Class B) BFRO

Two brothers hear strange screams while target shooting. Unusual scratchings on a tree discovered the following day

It was about 7:00 PM in September. It was still pretty light outside. My brother who had come home on leave from the military was visiting us. He and I had been target shooting north of Dunkirk in a h...

September 1979

Delaware County Oklahoma (Class A) BFRO

Man remembers seeing a large white hairy man at a cemetery outside the city of Jay

The incident that I am reporting occurred at Jumper Cemetary, Jay Oklahoma in 1979. Jumper Cemetary is located east of Jay on Hwy 20, then turn on the first dirt road to the right, and follow it to it...

September 1979

Red River County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Boy encounters bigfoot while fishing on a pond just north of Detroit

While fishing late one evening in the late summer of 1979 I had a brief encounter with something that I cannot readily explain. I was fishing at a pond in an open field across from some apartments tha...

September 1979

Monroe County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Woman remembers witnessing a tall hairy figure in the Pocono Mountains

It was late at night. We had a St. Bernard that loved to take long drives. We decided to take a drive in the Pocono Mountains of PA. We would take familiar roads, then usually find a woodsy road to c...

September 1979

Siskiyou County California (Class B) BFRO

Son and step Father have a strange encounter on the north/east side of Mt.Shasta

First off, I am a very objective and reasonable person, this is true. In 1979, my father and I went camping in a remote spot on the summit of Mount Shasta, well away from anyone else. At approximately...

September 1979

Baldwin County Alabama (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls a sighting after Hurricane Frederic north of Mobile

It was a few days after hurricane frederic. I was 11 years old at the time. We lived in a trailer on hurricane rd. and my grand parents owned the hurricane landing & fish camp ( what is now perkins la...

September 1979

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

Mendocino County California (Class B) BFRO

Hiker finds an “A” frame type of nest in the Mammoth Lakes area

I believe this event took place in the late 1970's to the very early 1980's. My best guess is 1978 or 1979. My father, mother, younger brother and I were camping in a State Park off of Highway 101, in...

September 1979

Ontario Canada (Class B) BFRO

Possible tracks found near cabin at Otter Lake

I was probably 10 years old, my sister 8. My parents had taken us on a vacation in northeastern Ontario, Canada to a place called Otter Lake. It is a heavily wooded area, and as I recall not close to ...

August 1979

Harrison County Missouri (Class A) BFRO

Woman recalls encounter she had as a youth on rural property north of Bethany

I was visiting my Father and Grandparents during a summer school break. I was about 11 years old at the time. (It has been many years since my sighting; about 34 yrs. ago to be exact, but I remember i...

August 1979