Recent Sightings

Park County Colorado (Class A) BFRO

Hikers observe animal crouched next to a pond in the Lost Creek Wilderness Area.

Creature was near a pond, initially bent over he caught sight of us after about 45 seconds of us observing him from about a 45 degree angle looking down and back about 100-150 feet. At first we though...

April 1972

Dade County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Possible collision with vehicle outside Homestead

My parents had a full-sized house trailer in Key Largo during the 1960s and 1970s for weekends and summer vacations. At that time we lived north of Miami and would drive out SR 820 to US 27 to US 1 to...

March 1972

Luce County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Snowmobiler finds large barefoot tracks in upper peninsula of Michigan

While sno-mobiling in a remote area of the county in which I live, I noticed somewhat ahead of me something had walked and left this trail of foot-prints or tracks in the snow. I right away thought th...

February 1972

Yadkin County North Carolina (Class A) BFRO

Young boy startles creature under house porch.

It was in 1971. Maybe 1972...roughly there about. I had just finished eating breakfast. My mother asked me to go and empty the leftovers for our dogs. I went to the side porch, which was about 4 feet ...

January 1972

Magoffin County Kentucky (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls early morning sighting while squirrel hunting near Salyersville

my grandfather told me about seeing a thing he said looked like a ape when he was was hunting at harvest in Magoffin county when he was younger. said he didnt shoot it because he didnt know what it w...

January 1972

Marquette County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Family finds large footprint, and hears unusual sounds

First Incident: When I was about 7 years old we were at Lake Superior on the beach. We found a set of footprints in the sand. They were very large. My parents said they were a lot larger then a normal...

January 1972

Weld County Colorado (Class A) BFRO

creature seen coming up out of a dry irrigation ditch

I was riding in a car full of fellow teenagers out in the country just laughing, talking, and goofing around. It was a moonlit night, and we were foolishly driving without headlights, sometimes stoppi...

January 1972

Bay County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Man recalls childhood encounter with sasquatch

I was a boy of about 12 years of age camping on my parent's land. We had a house atop a hill that sloped down an acre or two, leading to Bear Creek, which is where our property ended. The land on both...

January 1972

Putnam County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Large Creature standing in road

We were driving back from Creasant Beach that night. It was a foggy night around 2am. My friend was driving when he had to swerve to miss this thing standing in the lane we were in. It was standi...

January 1972

Cochise County Arizona (Class B) BFRO

Man recounts boyhood experience of hearing a terrifying scream while hunting near the San Pedro River

My father and I along with one of his close friends named Chuck were hunting along the San Pedro River off of Charlstone Road midway between Sierra Vista and Tombstone. I was only 9 years old at the t...

January 1972

Mohave County Arizona (Class A) BFRO

Two sisters observe a bigfoot creature crossing a highway

My youngest daughter was about 8 when it happened, so that must have been around 1972. We had just passed Kingman, Arizona travelling back to Oklahoma. My sister was with me and our children were asle...

January 1972

Mariposa County California (Class B) BFRO

Possible BF-related incidents around a home near Guadalupe Pass

I was a girl. I think it was 1969-70 and I was 10-11 years old. I was sick and sleeping on the couch in the living room. I heard our dog whining. He never whined. No stranger let alone an animal could...

January 1972

Baxter County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

Teenager has sighting near Ozark National Forest

I was standing about 10 feet down in the forest around a deep ravine not really too far from the house but it was right next to a patch of woods going back further south into the national forest. (The...

January 1972

Mahoning County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Nightime sighting at a Lake Milton marina

Lake Milton, Ohio: Summer 1972 About the time my siblings and I were entering that turbulent period known as our "teens", my family had the great good fortune of having moved into a house flanked ...

January 1972

Alberta Canada (Class A) BFRO

Hundreds of tracks found near Peace River

What was found was hundreds of very large footprints. The toes were in many different positions in many of the tracks ruling out as I see it one solid mold making the prints as well as these prints we...

January 1972

Ellis County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Memory shared of a daylight sighting while searching for bottles along a rural road outside Garrett

My sister and our friend were picking up coke bottles for cash to buy gas for my sister's volkswagon. She was driving while our friend and I walked along side. We heard this extremely loud roar like s...

January 1972

Kitsap County Washington (Class B) BFE

Kids see three large figures crossing snow on distant mountain

Back in 1972 i took a bunch of kids camping on green mountain not to far from Canyon creek.myself i was fishing the creek but left the kids at camp.across the valley from where we camped there was sno...

January 1972

Gallia County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

A couple is escorted out of the forest after finding a possible nesting area near Rio Grande

In the winter December to January 1971-1972 my wife and I had quite an experience. I was hunting for deer in an area in southern Ohio, close to the Bob Evan Farm Area off route 35 before you come to C...

January 1972

Pecos County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Two brothers have early morning encounter

On a summer morning in 1972, can't remember what month.Me and my brother were sleeping and I noticed by our window where we slept a shadow.It was a big head pointing upward,I told my brother not too m...

January 1972

Clarion County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Squirrel hunter turns to see 6 to 7 foot tall beast walking upright for 200 yards

About 25 years ago maybe 1972 I was hunting squirrels with a 12 gauge double barrel shotgun. I was sitting on a giant rock when I heard a noise behind me, I saw a big hairy animal approx. 6 to 7 fe...

January 1972

Crawford County Pennsylvania (Class B) BFRO

Two men driving home in the early morning hours, spot a hair covered man running along the road.

My friend John and a buddy had gone out drinking, but he said they were not drunk. He was driving his friend home, and in his words, his friend lived "way out on a ridge in the middle of nowhere." App...

November 1971

Dent County Missouri (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a close encounter while deer hunting east of Salem

Hi, my name is Kevin, I'm 52 now. I went hunting with my dad in Dent County near what now is called Lake 117 east of Salem Missouri in Mark Twin National forest. I was approx. 1/4 mile from the old fa...

November 1971

Webster Parish Louisiana (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting by squirrel hunter outside Sarepta

While squirrel hunting on Bayou Bodcaw on a clear and sunny morning, I heard dogs running what I thought was a deer on the west side of the creek. I was standing on the east side appx. 20 ft from the ...

November 1971

Boulder County Colorado (Class B) BFRO

Youngster frightened by "monster" peeping in window

This incident occurred after my husband, myself and our 3 children and I had moved up to some land purchased on Sugar Loaf mountain west of Boulder. My husband managed a tavern at the time and had pur...

October 1971

Essex County New Jersey (Class A) BFRO

Small group observed in a remote part of Essex County Swamp, around noon

This sighting happened in mid October 1971 in Fairfield, New Jersey. It was a Saturday, sometime around noon. At the time I was 15 and my friend was 16. We were walking throught a area that is pri...

October 1971