Search Reports
Hamilton County New York (Class A) BFRO
Encounter with Juvenile Creature
In 1979 I was upstate hiking in the adirondacks upstate New York.I got ahead of the group and off the main trail watching beavers working.As I walked back to the main trail I flushed something out of ...
August 1979
Alberta Canada (Class A) BFRO
Two hikers share sighting in which each sees a different creature
Myself and three others traveled from Seattle to do some serious backpacking in the Canadian wilderness.We chose the Dormer Pass trail outside of Banf.The second day on the trail we took a fork in the...
August 1979
Marinette County Wisconsin (Class A) BFRO
Man recalls observing creature in a field near Marinette
I was out looking for deer with my mother and sister, We would drive the back roads and check certain fields and roadways and keep count of the deer.At the time the area was still mostly wilderness. M...
August 1979
Mercer County West Virginia (Class A) BFRO
Family gathering interrupted by 8-foot tall visitor at the kitchen window
I was 11 yrs old and we often visited my dads family during the summer break. We arrived about 11pm and were all sitting around talking (4 men, 3 women & 5 kids). I noticed my grandmother kept looking...
August 1979
Angelina County Texas (Class A) BFRO
Man recalls daytime sighting 30 years ago as a seismic hole driller in the Angelina National Forest
I was doing seismic, drilling in the Angelina National forest for several weeks. Late one afternoon, in a opening, we decided to stop and take a break, on the upper end of an open area in the thick wo...
August 1979
Franklin County Illinois (Class A) BFRO
Youth has sighting along abandoned railroad line on edge of West Frankfort
It was summer, late 70's, I was about 12. I lived a block West from railroad tracks, which ran North/South, and about 1/2 mile North of my home was the edge of a wooded bottomland which is referred to...
August 1979
Collier County Florida (Class A) BFRO
Morning sighting by carpenter crew near Ochopee
As a member of Carpenters Union #1641 out of Naples, Florida, I was offered work disassembling a house in Ochopee. Our crew of about 8 men arrived very early, before the trucks, so we climbed up to th...
August 1979
Tuolumne County California (Class A) BFRO
Girl has daytime sighting near Twain Harte
Around the age of 12 or 13 (I'm 34 now) I went with my parents to Sugerpine Campground in the Sonora/Twain Harte area in California. We were there for two weeks in our 21' travel trailer, and I was co...
August 1979
Saunders County Nebraska (Class B) BFRO
Multiple witness sighting at night, 3 miles east of Mead, Nebraska
First of all this happened in the summer of 1979 on the 4th of July. This is the first of two possible encounters I have experienced over 22 years. The second occurred on November 10th in 2001. We h...
July 1979
Shasta County California (Class B) BFRO
Couple Has Frightening Encounter Near Lake Shasta
This is an old report so I don't know if it will be of any use but my wife and I remember it as if it were yesterday. We had just moved to California from Colorado and didn't know anywhere to hike so ...
July 1979
Plymouth County Massachusetts (Class B) BFRO
Possible vocalizations heard by residents in the "Bridgewater Triangle"
Twenty Five years ago (1979) I heard the most awful and terrifying screams for 3 nights in a row. We had just built a two story addition which is situated further back on a lot (about 150 feet) into t...
July 1979
Pacific County Washington (Class B) BFRO
Hitchhiker hears loud vocalization just outside Ilwaco
I have never spoke to anyone about the night that my friend that I will call Joe and me left Long Beach Wa. on State Route 101. Walking with our packbacks that probably weighed about 70 lbs. a piece. ...
July 1979
Harrison County Ohio (Class B) BFRO
Two fisherman hear commotion of a roaring animal on brushy bank of Clendening Lake
I was 17 years old and fishing on a boat about 25 feet from shore. My father was with me and decided to take a nap on the deck of the boat. Suddenly I heard the sound of footsteps walking through wate...
July 1979
Alberta Canada (Class B) BFRO
Possible sighting by off-road bikers near Buck Lake
I was fourteen at the time and staying with family and their friends at my mothers family homestead / farm in northern Alberta very close to north Buck Lake (Nearest, but very small towns would be Gra...
July 1979
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
Graham County Arizona (Class B) BFRO
Memory told of a possible daylight sighting as a child on Mount Graham
I had never thought about reporting this until I read about the reports on Mt Graham. Lived in the Gila Valley as a child. Visited Mt Graham as a child with relatives from Michigan. I was 10 years old...
June 1979
Desha County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO
Two witnesses observe a Sasquatch at dusk in the White River National Wildlife Refuge
June 14th, 1979 I was traveling with a friend north about 30 mph on the White River levee gravel road in the White River NWR from a June fishing trip at Scrubgrass Lake in Desha County Arkansas. ...
June 1979
Mackinac County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Motorist describes nighttime sighting/encounter in headlights on US-2, west of St. Ignace
I saw what I feel was Big Foot, in 1979. I was traveling home from Minot AFB, North Dakota, in the early summer of 1979 with my family, on leave. We were headed for upstate New York. It was approxim...
June 1979
Langlade County Wisconsin (Class A) BFRO
Morning sighting near Pelican Lake
Northern Wisconsin: We saw something big, smelly, and brown with long straggly hair and after 20 plus years it's like yesterday. I took foot castings and gave them to the DNR but never heard back. ...
May 1979
Riverside County California (Class A) BFRO
Man remembers observing a large creature in a desert setting as he left his residence north of Palm Springs
Was going back to close shop at approx. 10PM in the northern desert above Palm Springs, CA., and saw a huge light tan colored biped with soft blowing hair .Because I was in a small VW bug with the lig...
May 1979
Del Norte County California (Class A) BFRO
While sitting around a campfire witnesses saw a set of red glowing eyes
About three hours after eating dinner I was sitting around a campfire with 3 friends and my husband.We were just sitting around the campfire and talking when we heard a loud crashing and rustling in t...
May 1979
Hocking County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Family has encounters with a large, hair covered creature just on the edge of Wayne National Forest
In 1979, my family and I lived on a farm in Haydenville, Ohio just outside of Logan, Ohio. My dad had just painted our front porch so we had to go out the back door to feed our dog named Wolf (he was ...
May 1979
Thurston County Washington (Class A) BFRO
At night, soldier in training has sighting at Ft. Lewis
I am prompted to submit this story after reading several months ago on this website about the incident that took place in August, 1967 in the same area. It has taken me a couple of months to decide to...
April 1979
Harrison County Texas (Class A) BFRO
Human-like "animal" seen by family while target shooting near an open pasture.
Easter Sunday. My husband, two girls 6 and 9 years old and myself had completed our Easter visits with family and decided to take the girls out his family's land to let them be in nature and give him ...
April 1979
Clatsop County Oregon (Class A) BFRO
Storm watchers on tower observe animal on beach.
The sighting ocurred in the late seventies. I was with my dog at the North jetty, in Ft. Stevens State Park. It was a very stormy day and the surf was high, crashing over the rocks on the jetty and...
February 1979