Recent Sightings

Manistee County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Memory told of a possible encounter while deer hunting east of Manistee

I was deer hunting in a swamp, back end of the Clay Bank Swamp. I was by myself and in my favorite spot that I had picked out when I was about 14, I usually go in before daybreak and don't come out un...

November 1963

Smith County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Coon hunters observe large, hairy "monkey" in pin oak

Only in the past few years have I associated a previous experience with an investigative report. I presumed at the time I was not believing what I saw. I was 16 yrs old at the time and was out with my...

October 1963

McKean County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Teens chased by upright running animal near Bradford

I am now 57 years old. I have told many people this story but never reported it. I lived in Bradford, Pa. Where I grew up. I was 15 years old and we played softball at nights with my friends. This ...

October 1963

Humboldt County California (Class A) BFRO

Teen has daytime sighting near Myers Flat

This was a long time ago where I grew up in northern California. I lived in a small town called Piercy, California about 17 miles from Garberville. This encounter was located in a small mill town call...

August 1963

San Bernardino County California (Class B) BFRO

Eighteen year old young man has strange encounter on a dark gravel road.

This is not a sighting, but I strongly believe it would have been. It happened 40 years ago this past summer. The year was 1963. I had to go out to California with my family. I really did not want to ...

August 1963

Ashland County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Three teenage boys witness an ape-like creature lope across a field into the woods

This incident occurred about forty years ago and may not be of interest, but I'm going to relate what happened anyway. Two other teenage neighbors and I were sitting in a large yard in a rural setting...

July 1963

Glynn County Georgia (Class A) BFRO

Early evening road crossing sighting by motorist on Jekyll Island

THE DATE WAS 1963, I WAS 17 YEARS OLD AND HAD JUST GOT MY DRIVERS LICENSE. I WAS ON VACATION ON JEKYLL ISLAND GEORGIA. AT THAT TIME IS WAS NOT VERY BUILT UP AT ALL. IT WAS 4TH OF JULY EVENING JUST AFT...

July 1963

Latah County Idaho (Class A) BFRO

Boy has a close encounter with a small sasquatch on Moscow Mountain

My incident took place during the summer of 1963.I was eight years old at the time.The incident took place on Moscow Mountain(I believe it was the south side of the mountain.)A small mountain near Tro...

June 1963

Owyhee County Idaho (Class A) BFRO

Night time rabbit hunters spotlight 7' tall biped leaping over 4' sagebrush as it escapes from view

Myself and five members of my family witnessed a strange event while we were out rabbit hunting after dark on a warm and clear night in the spring of 1963. It has been so long ago but I do remember th...

June 1963

Mariposa County California (Class A) BFRO

Two teenagers have late night sighting near Coulterville

When I was 15 yrs. old I and a friend were outside of Coulterville Ca. It was at night on a ranch. We were in bed looking out a window from a dark room. The window was six feet off the ground.There wa...

March 1963

Mendocino County California (Class A) BFRO

Ceature observed at playground

We were all playing and having fun with a bunch of people at the Cook's Valley Campground in Piercy. A bunch of the kids were rough-housing and playing, making a lot of noise, when we all took notice ...

January 1963

Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO

10-Ft. Shrieking Monster reported near Cold Springs

From the Union Democrat, Monday, January 28, 1963: REPORT: 10-FT. SHRIEKING MONSTER A horror tale of a 10-foot-tall man led sheriff's deputies last night into a dark brushy area adjoining Peter P...

January 1963

Tuolumne County California (Class B) BFRO

Large prints found below Cold Springs

From the Union Democrat, Tuesday, January 29, 1963: PURSUIT LED BY SHERIFF King-sized tracks were traced today in efforts to confirm or halt reports a 10-foot monster is roaming Tuolumne county b...

January 1963

Lee County Florida (Class B) BFRO

Large bipedal creature passes child's window near Ft.Myers

In 1963 I was nine years old and living in North Fort Myers, Lee County, Florida. In the weeks before this happened to me, there were several sightings of bigfoot reported in the newspaper. One of the...

January 1963

Alachua County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Memory told of a close encounter with a man-ape outside Gainesville

My sighting was 41 years ago at NW 21 Terr/NW 31 Ave in Gainesville Fl. Back then it was mostly woods and I was going to see a neighbor at a slow jog, looked to my right and we were both surprised. He...

January 1963

Dickinson County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Eight foot tall creature seen standing under a tree at family cabin

Observed a large creature, about 8' tall, covered with short brown hair, man-like face, black or very dark eyes, standing under a tree approximately 75' from my uncle's weekend cabin. When I was 1...

January 1963

Jefferson County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Camping group has night time sighting near the Dosewallips River

I was about 13 or 14 at the time, and went with a group of church kids on a hike up into the Olympic Mountains. There were about 10 kids and 4 adults leaders. We hiked up the Dosewallips River headwat...

January 1963

Stanislaus County California (Class A) BFRO

Youngsters encounter large, grey creature in a sugar beet field

While riding our bike just after sundown my dogs started going crazy, I looked at my dogs and saw that the hair on their backs was straight up. I looked in the direction they were barking and standing...

August 1962

Charlotte County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Boy Scouts have sighting while camping at Quednau Ranch

lived all my life with the Tampa Area as home, still do. While on a boy-Scout campout with Troop 232 of the Good Luthern church on Dale Mabry hwy. in Tampa , at Murdoch area , the strangest smell and...

August 1962

Schoolcraft County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls multi-witness sighting in teen years near Manistique

We were walking facing west toward the sun. A loud guttural sound came from behind us. We had all grown up in and around the woods but this sound was louder and so unusual that we all turned around at...

April 1962

Ward County North Dakota (Class A) BFRO

Hunter describes described being stalked near Minot

While this incident occurred a long time ago, it may be ofsome use, as I have never heard of any such sighting in North Dakota. Whilecoming back from a hunting trip outside of Minot, North Dakota in a...

April 1962

Kalkaska County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls encounter he had as a teenager near Kalkaska

I am writing this for my neighbor Bill (not his real name). I interviewed Bill on December 25, 2010, and for additional details two times again. Bill said that when he was a teenager he went with a...

March 1962

Pemiscot County Missouri (Class A) BFRO

Childhood face to face encounter at dusk in the river bottoms of Bootheel

In the fall of the year 1961-1962 I was out behind our house in the field. It was just before dark I was throwing dirt clods up in the air in front of bats flying around and they would chase it till i...

January 1962

Weber County Utah (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting off Highway 89 in the Wasatch Mountains

This sighting took place in Utah...Wasatch Mtns, 1962...I was five years old at the time. My dad was stationed at Hill AFB. One weekend in the spring my family and two others from the base went on...

January 1962

Portage County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Sighting in the Audubon wildlife preserve, outside Aurora

Rode my bike to the Audobon Wildlife Area. I was 10, 11 years old, i guess. As i entered, i saw a strange man walking south toward the road, Pioneer trail. Maybe 50 (?) yards from me; do not rem...

January 1962