Recent Sightings

Schoolcraft County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Woman wakes to find sasquatch staring at her son while in her car

My sighting occurred over twenty years ago, in the fall of 1978, so I don't know if this will be helpful to anyone or not. I was driving on highway U.S. 2 across Michigan's Upper Peninsula, which skir...

September 1978

Crow Wing County Minnesota (Class B) BFRO

Husband and wife have bedtime visitors at their window near Emily

We lived on Little Pine Road, Emily, MN for twelve years and frequently heard odd animal sounds coming out of the woods. There was/is uninhabited wilderness for 20 miles North and 15 miles to the Sout...

September 1978

Iowa (Unusable) BFRO

More sightings of a strange creature centering around the town of Ottosen. Other stories told about strange sounds, footprints and animal mutilatations.

Iowa Flap Continues From newspaper account: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- From the Register; September 24, 1978 REPORTS OF HAIRY BEAST...

September 1978

Preble County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Vocalizations heard by fisherman on Twin Creek

Looking at your website and specifically the Ohio incidents brought back into mind a lot of strange things that happened in our area while growing up. There were some footprints, but I am sure the...

September 1978

Summit County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Nine year old playing hide and seek comes face to face with a small ape-like creature

I was playing hide and go seek with my sisters and their friends around September of 1978. I was nine at the time. We were living in Tallmadge Ohio at the time of the incident. We were all inside the ...

September 1978

Stark County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Ron Schaffner case report: The 1978 Minerva Flap

INVESTIGATORS: Ron Schaffner ([email protected]), Earl Jones, Jim Carnes Jim Rastetter, Iona Boyce, Barbara Mudrak,(Akron Beacon-Journal) and James Shannon (Stark County Deputy Sheriff) CASE DATA: All o...

August 1978

Clackamas County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Nighttime sighting by motorist between Barton and Carver

My roommate and I were driving along Hwy 224 between Carver and Barton at approximately 10pm when I saw a pair of eyes reflecting in the darkness on the river side of the road. We frequently went to E...

August 1978

Deschutes County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a daylight sighting while fishing a creek near Crescent Lake Junction

1978 I was 17 yrs old and lived in a remote part of Oregon High Cascades. (Crescent Lake junction). It was a late August day. And I had decided to do some creek fishing. I went thru some private prope...

August 1978

Wilkes County North Carolina (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls his 1978 close encounter with a large hair covered creature in Wilkesboro

I was sitting at Popular Crove Church waiting on my girlfriends parents to go to work so I could see her. I started walking up the dirt road then I cut up on Roten Creek Road still walking on a dirt r...

August 1978

Powell County Kentucky (Class A) BFRO

While observing a footprint, youth looks off the path to see shiny haired creature looking at him

The year was 1978 when my family and I took a summer camping trip to the Natural Bridge State Park. The park is located deep in the Daniel Boone National forest, about 52 miles southeast of Lexington,...

August 1978

British Columbia Canada (Class A) BFRO

Motorists recount incident on the side of a highway near the BC-Alberta border

I saw a bigfoot while traveling through BC years ago. I was with my sister and another friend. We decided we were too tired to drive and that we would pull over and get some sleep. We were in a little...

August 1978

Ontario Canada (Class A) BFRO

Motorists have nighttime sighting near Grimsby

In July of 1978, my then boyfriend and I were out for an evening drive up the escarpment. It was about 9:30 p.m. and the sun as I recall had gone down, because we were using the headlights. We were le...

August 1978

Yukon Canada (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls his daylight sighting as a young fisherman on the Yukon River

The sighting occurred along the Yukon River - just outside of Whitehorse, Yukon - just off a gravel road, near a small power sub-station - in a large grassy field skirted by aspen and pine trees. I...

August 1978

Flagler County Florida (Class A) BFRO

A tree stump moves closer to a group of young boys

Unfortunately, my sighting is not recent at all. It happened in the late 70's in a town called Flagler Beach on the east coast of Florida. At that time the area was still very rural and undeveloped. M...

August 1978

Chelan County Washington (Class B) BFRO

Memory of a possible night-time sighting as a youth playing 'Hide and Go Seek' in Holden Village

When I was 10 yrs old, going on 11, I had a sighting up above Lake Chelan, WA at Holden Village in the summer of 1978. It was after the 4th of July for sure, but I think it was August. My Parents can...

August 1978

Skamania County Washington (Class B) BFRO

Stevenson Ridge vocalization startles father and son

It was on a warm summer night in 1978, as I was watching television at about 11 pm, that my father and I heard some loud, high-pitched screams coming from the forest behind our house. The screams only...

August 1978

San Juan County Utah (Class B) BFRO

Man recalls his encounter that included stomping and tree shaking at Dodge Point

I was outside of the home where my 1st wife was raised at Dodge Point where her father owned some land. I was walking thru a patch of trees when I heard a loud stomping. At first I thought it may be h...

August 1978

Clearfield County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Young boy observes animal chasing family horses

I was about 9 years old in the summer of 1978 and was sitting on an upper deck area of our house when several things happened at about the same time. I was sitting with my dog when he started growling...

August 1978

Middlesex County Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Daytime sighting on Route 17 near Church View

This incident has been bothering me for 25 years. And I'm glad I found your sight a few years ago. In 1978, my girlfriend (now my wife) and I were driving back from Virginia Beach back to Baltimore...

August 1978

Fairfax County Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Retired Military Policeman remembers strange incidents while on guard duty at Fort Belvoir

This was at Davison US Army Airfield, Ft Belvoir Virginia. This was a while back so please hang in there with me. From late 1977 to Dec 1979 I was assigned to Davison as a Military Policeman. The a...

July 1978

Josephine County Oregon (Class B) BFRO

Two young campers have frightful, dawn encounter near Cave Junction

It was in Cave Junction, OR in the late 1970's. My family was visiting my grandparents who lived there at the time. My family, (dad, mom, 2 sisters and brother) were sleeping in a tent trailer. My sis...

July 1978

Ocean County New Jersey (Class B) BFRO

Possible encounter with motorists stopped on the Garden State Parkway in the Pine Barrens

About 25 years ago I was with my husband returning to our home in northern New Jersey from a trip to the Jersey shore. We were just entering the Garden State parkway, and just went through a toll boot...

July 1978

Sussex County New Jersey (Class A) BFRO

Daylight Sighting, 2 witnesses

My friend and I were about 11 years old. We have found some old playboy books and were sitting on a big rock in the woods looking at them, when we heard a small dead tree fall over. We look up and ...

July 1978

Stone County Missouri (Class B) BFRO

Teenagers observe animal hiding behind trees in yard near Cape Fair

It was July, 1978. My family had just moved from Illinois to Cape Fair, Missouri a few weeks before. Our parents went back to Illinois for a funeral and my sisters (ages 16 & 14) and I (12 years old a...

July 1978

Sedgwick County Kansas (Class A) BFRO

Fisherman hears heavy breathing ,turns and sees tall man-like creature

We had been fishing in the river, standing on sand banks. My companion and I had our dog and he decided to walk South in the river to fish downstream. I continued to fish standing in knee deep water o...

July 1978