Recent Sightings

Umatilla County Oregon (Class B) BFRO

Possible screams heard by campers near Indian Lake

My stories begin in the mid 70's at Indian Lake, in Eastern Oregon. It was during the summer youth camp-out. One night at the camp fire, there was this strange yell coming from down the mountain from ...

August 1974

Wasco County Oregon (Class B) BFRO

Boy scout hears repeated screams

Channel 2 News and becoming curious as one day long ago I heard sounds that to this day I can't identify. In August of 1973 or 1974 I believe, I was a twelve or thirteen year old boy scout on a sc...

August 1974

Fayette County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Two boys encounter large creature in daylight

On or about 28 yrs. ago 1974,my cousin and I both who were around 12 yrs.old observed a large hairy creature aprox. 8ft tall.It was in a thickbrushed small wooded area.We must have walked right by it,...

August 1974

Snohomish County Washington (Class B) BFRO

Memory told of screaming creature terrifying campers at Gold Basin Campground along the Mountain Loop Highway

August 1974 I and my three friends Tom, Byron, and Jay went camping with their parents who slept inside their camper while we slept on the ground with a plastic tarp draped over us. It had been rainin...

August 1974

Snohomish County Washington (Class B) BFRO

Teenage dirt bike riders hear screams

This has never been reported... Two teenagers were riding dirt bikes on an old over grown logging road and stopped for a cigarette at a small lake or beaver pond. They were there for just a couple ...

July 1974

Penobscot County Maine (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by a motorist

I observed a large, hairy creature, either dark brown or black, striding swiftly across the southbound lanes from the treed median to the woods on the right side of the road. The creature walked smoot...

July 1974

Washtenaw County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Man recalls family experiencing possible intimidation near Ann Arbor

In late July of 1974, my father, mother, and I decided to take our German Shepherd on an early evening nature walk in the woods by our house. This area is southeast of the intersection of Packard and ...

July 1974

Modoc County California (Class A) BFRO

Man has sighting near Alturas

In 1974, I purchased an arce of land in northern CA in a place called California Pines, a very remote area bordered on 3 sides by a national forest (Modoc Nat. Forest). To get to the property, which w...

July 1974

Broward County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Years of South Florida Skunk Ape stories supported by witness accounts and newspaper articles

In 1974 I was 12 yrs. old visiting my sister M and her family in Davie FL with my cousin A who was 15 at the time. One night we were sleeping on a pull out couch in the sitting room. When we smelled s...

July 1974

British Columbia Canada (Class A) BFRO

Childhood Sighting Near a House in the Okanagan

You cannot believe just how nervous I am doing this. I want to relate an incident that occurred many years ago. I am reticant about relaying this story because of the amount of 'grief' and ridicule I ...

July 1974

Calhoun County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Memory told of a possible sighting on a back road west of Hardin

I was riding with a friend in the summer of 1974, on the back roads at night when we had to stop to relieve ourselves. First thing we noticed upon opening the car doors was the worst odor we had ever ...

July 1974

Cook County Illinois (Class B) BFRO

Man recalls possibly seeing a bigfoot playing peek-a-boo in headlights while parked west of Midlothian

The following on-site interview was conducted by Stan Courtney. The first name of the witness has been changed. Stan - Jim, can you explain what happened? Jim - When I was about 16 years old, m...

July 1974

Nez Perce County Idaho (Class A) BFRO

Camper sees sasquatch across Snake River

I was sitting in a lawnchair in front of the house. We had decided to take the day off and climb a mountain behind the house. We had seen an incredible amount of wildlife that day. I had just sat down...

June 1974

Douglas County Georgia (Class A) BFRO

Unusual incident... a horseback rider's close encounter

I was 18 years old at the time, and riding cross-country endurance for a local ranch. I had been riding for the ranch for 4 years when this event occured. I had been out training a Black Arabian St...

June 1974

Clackamas County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

While sitting on a platform, 6 ft.up in a tree, two witnesses watch a cinnamon coloured creature walk by them

About a week or two after summer vacation started between my eighth and ninth grade years, my brother and I walked down into the woods not too far from our house, on the outskirts of Sandy, Oregon. Th...

June 1974

York County Maine (Class B) BFRO

Camper hears screams while camping in Kennebunk, Maine

In the spring of 1974 my girlfriend and I were returning from a motorcycle rally at Laconia NH.It was late at night and we decided to camp out.I found a small gravel road and we found a remote place t...

June 1974

British Columbia Canada (Class A) BFRO

Woman recalls multiple witness daylight sighting on Shawnigan Lake

When my family lived on Shawingan Lake back in 1972-1974. My three cousins come over for a visit from Calgary Alberta. So, the five of us girls sneaked out for a walk to have a cigarette, I show them ...

May 1974

Monterey County California (Class A) BFRO

Two teenage girls have daytime encounter on Big Sur Coast

I was camping with my friend and her family in Big Sur California. It was 1974. My friend Sylvia and I were sitting on the sand near the beach. I looked up at the cliffs and I saw something big and bl...

April 1974

British Columbia Canada (Class A) BFRO

Two brothers see and verbally confront upright, walking, hairy creature

Richard Noll is transcribing for Thomas Steenburg who investigated this. It is included in his book "In Search of Giants -Bigfoot Sasquatch Encounters", page 85. Thomas writes: Sept, 5th, 2000,...

April 1974

Horry County South Carolina (Class A) BFRO

Security policeman has nighttime sighting at Myrtle Beach Air Force Base

At the time of the sighting I was on duty as a Security Police officer in the U.S. Air Force at the Myrtle Beach AFB, SC. I was patrolling on a security road called the Serpintine at about 9 pm. The t...

April 1974

Cherokee County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls childhood experience with bigfoot

Our family has some property down in deep East Texas at the top of what is called the Piney Woods region. We have about 200 acres with open pasture fronting a farm-to-market road and pushing back into...

March 1974

Gwinnett County Georgia (Class B) BFRO

Witness recounts he and his friend's encounters with a strange creature along with strange sounds and footprint finds

The incident took place in Gwinnet County, a couple of miles away from Norcross - the area used to be much more residential and undeveloped than it is now. The Chattahoochee River was about seven mile...

March 1974

Lee County Florida (Class A) BFRO

5 children observe a very large hairy "man" for several minutes (N. Ft. Myers)

I was a child in Fort Myers Fla., approximately 1973 or 74. We lived in a trailer court, Twin Lakes Estates. All around the perimeter of the trailer court was a canal and beyond the canal was wooded a...

January 1974

Gibson County Tennessee (Class B) BFRO

Young girl has sighting near Milan

I was 9 in 1974. I lived on the same farm land I live on now with my husband and 3 children. My older brother and I would take the trash off to the edge of the woods where there was an old oil drum an...

January 1974

Shasta County California (Class B) BFRO

Man recalls adversarial encounter with an unknown creature near French Gulch

I never thought I would write this sort of thing on this forum, but well...here goes. Way before I joined the Church, my young wife and I worked for a private school at the end of the road near French...

January 1974