Recent Sightings

Portage County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Tracks found along soybean field near Edinburgh

Tracked large, human like tracks in mud along soybean field next to stand of old white birch trees laden with grape vines and underbrush. Tracks entered forest at corner of field. Tracked a 100 yards ...

November 1970

Kittitas County Washington (Class B) BFRO

Four hunters find large tracks in snow outside their camp

Joe Hester called me about some footprints that they found after setting up an elk hunting camp. They were in deep snow and we tracked them down below snow level. They were 19 1/2 inches long and 9 in...

November 1970

Los Angeles County California (Class A) BFRO

Early 70's, Sighting by a deer hunter, off of Highway # 2, in the San Grabriel Mountains

Dear Sirs: This early 1970s sighting was not of my own. I was a boy when my brother-inlaw of that day and one or two of his hunting friends had an excellant and fairly long term sighting, both via th...

October 1970

Okanogan County Washington (Class B) BFRO

Young man has several possible day-time encounters near Moses Mountain in the '70s

Ok, My great great uncle owned a ranch (long story) on the Colville Indian Reservation in Okanogan County just outside of Omak Washington. Our family would buy beef from my uncle on a yearly basis sin...

October 1970

Merrimack County New Hampshire (Class B) BFRO

Woman recalls scary night while at a Girl Scout campground in Bear Brook State Park

In one part of Bearbrook State Park is the Girl Scout Day Camp location. Across the street from New Rye Rd is the Camping Museum & the Snowmobile Museum. There used to be a nature museum. If you keep ...

October 1970

Pierce County Washington (Class A) BFRO

While watching TV at night, teen has sighting through window in Spanaway

It was October,1970. I was 14 yrs. old. My parents had bought a home on 224th. At that time, our home sat on 5 acres of heavily treed acres. There was a lot of dense brush, trees, and virgin wooded ar...

October 1970

Hood River County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Graceful creature ran by man when he was 15

I was 15 years old, deer hunting East of the Mt Hood National Wilderness Area in Oregon. It was 1970. My Dad stuck me on a huge stump and went off to my right and our neighbor, W. went off to my left....

October 1970

Routt County Colorado (Class A) BFRO

Hunters have an encounter returning from hunt

After an unsuccessful days elk hunting trek of many miles around the heavy timbered area near the Rabbit Ears pass region, my Uncle Bill, Cousin Charles and myself, decided to call it a day and head b...

October 1970

Clayton County Iowa (Class B) BFRO

Memory told of being chased off by frightening thumps and scream while hiking in Pikes Peak State Park

This is an old report, but recently after watching the better bigfoot programs on tv, it dawned on me that what we had experienced was a bigfoot. Every September, my husband I would go hiking to se...

September 1970

San Diego County California (Class B) BFRO

An Interview with a San Diego Sheriff's Sergeant Regarding a Series of Incidents after the Laguna Fire of 1970

"The Zoobies" -- 1992 interview with Sgt. Doug Huse, San Diego County Sheriffs Department MONEYMAKER: Okay, just go ahead and tell me about yourself, when you started working there and so on. H...

September 1970

Baraga County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Dusk sighting by two women near Three Lakes (w/sketch by artist)

The following is a letter written to The Mining Journal in May of 2008: "BIG FOOT, Lock Ness...?" A few weeks ago in your Sunday editorial page you ran a letter in reference to 'Bigfoot' Loch Ness ...

September 1970

Shenandoah County Virginia (Class A) BFRO

A couple remembers their daylight sighting while driving thru the Shenandoah National Park many years ago

My husband and I were traveling west going over skyline drive in Virgina near Strasburg. (this was many years ago 1970) WE saw a large hairy thing. It looked like some of the pictures we have seen abo...

September 1970

Washoe County Nevada (Class B) BFRO

Father and son hear vocalizations on Peavine Mt

I grew up in Northwestern Nevada along the California border in the foothills of the Sierra's. My father was a geologist who preferred working and camping in areas that were as sparsely populated as p...

September 1970

Ocean County New Jersey (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls sighting as a youth, near Bass River State Forest

I was a Boy scout in the early 70"s on a camping trip.on a summer night a friend and myself were walking on a gravel road with tall pine trees on both sides ,it was in the bass river state forest.the ...

August 1970

Shasta County California (Class B) BFRO

Woman describes a childhood encounter outside a tent on the edge of Lake Shasta

I was on a family camping trip. There were a lot of us. I was 13 at the time and I had never heard of Bigfoot. The way our camp was laid out was that all of us girls (two sisters, their friends and a ...

August 1970

Hunterdon County New Jersey (Class A) BFRO

Woman remembers childhood encounter with Tall Hairy Animal in stream

This story goes back many years, it has always been a bit of a joke in my family but there isn't one person who was that doesn't believe that I saw somthing that day. I was about 9 or 10 years of age ...

July 1970

Multnomah County Oregon (Class B) BFRO

Possible nest nest and food remains found by retired soldier near the Sandy River

The Sandy River originates high on the slopes of Mt. Hood, located about 50 miles east of Portland, Oregon. The headwaters are beneath Reid and Sandy Glaciers at 6000 feet in elevation. From there the...

July 1970

Salt Lake County Utah (Class B) BFRO

Woman recalls childhood experience of a terrifying night-time encounter while camping near Kennecott Copper mine

When I was a child before bigfoot was known to me, we went on a family camping trip in Butterfield Canyon in the Oquirrh mountains below Kennecott Copper Mine. There were six people there. Two adults ...

July 1970

Charleston County South Carolina (Class A) BFRO

Various incidents around home with women and children only, near Summerville

I'm not sure how to really explain the thing that my friends and I saw that year. I've not told too many people about it because I did'nt think that I would be believed. I am 47 years old and I can st...

June 1970

Sabine County Texas (Class B) BFRO

Encounter on Toledo Bend

Reported on behalf of a friend who wishes to remain anonymous. While fishing from a small boat close to shore on the Texas side of Toledo Bend, D.R. noticed a strong, musky/fecal odor for several m...

June 1970

Madison County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

Youths riding in back of pick-up have close observation of large biped crossing road

My brother Mark and I were riding in the back of my Dad's green '69 Ford pickup in the early summer of 1970 just outside of Georgetown, Arkansas. My Dad was driving, my grandpa was in the passenger's ...

June 1970

Loudoun County Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a nighttime sighting while joy riding on train tracks near Purcellville

IN MAY 1970 MY BUDDY AND I WERE RIDING IN HIS 1957 WILLIES JEEP IN THE W&O RAILROAD TRACK IN PURCELLVILLE, VA ABOUT TEN PM WHEN WE ENCOUNTERED A LARGE BIPEDAL ANIMAL CROSSING THE TRACKS APROX 70 TO 10...

May 1970

Mecklenburg County Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Youth catches standing figure in flashlight glow during camp-out

From the late 60's to about 1990, my Dad took us camping many weekends in the summer to the John H Kerr Reservoir (hereafter know localy as Buggs Island Lake)wich stradles the Virginia, North Carolina...

May 1970

Jefferson Parish Louisiana (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a nighttime sighting while working as a police officer answering a prowler call in Marrero

8' + tall, upright, bipedal, dark, hair-covered (apparent) hominid, with long arms, crossing a residential street in Marrero, La....

May 1970

King County Washington (Class B) BFRO

Loud vocalizations heard near Stevens Pass

I lived at Scenic near Stevens Pass Washington in the 60--70's. There had been sightings of sasquatch near our home, and at that time my husband and I laughed about that never taking them seriously. I...

April 1970