Search Reports
Otsego County Michigan (Class A) BFRO
Witness recalls a childhood face to face daylight sighting near his home and night vocalizations outside Gaylord
I was using the outhouse right after I had woken up at about 9 in the morning. I was in the outhouse when I heard a rustling of leaves and sticks breaking. This wasn't unusual as we have a lot of deer...
August 1950
San Bernardino County California (Class A) BFRO
Sighting along Lytle Creek
Heard whistling and wood-chomping noises and looked towards sounds and saw hairy man-like creature (very muscular). It saw me and stayed there for approx. 2 min. Then walked into the treeline by the e...
July 1950
British Columbia Canada (Class C) BFRO
Camp cook sees a sasquatch at a logging camp while loggers were away from camp
It is a well known story among the oldtimers here that the camp cook at a logging operation in the thick woods saw what she described as a sasquatch when all the men were out of camp falling trees. Th...
January 1950
Skamania County Washington (Class B) BFRO
Mother relates story of daughter sighting a large animal near Mill A School
We lived in Mill A which is a settlement near Willard, Washington, at the edge of Gifford Pinchot forest in the 50's.My husband was in fisheries research. One day our 7 year old daughter and two of...
January 1950
Ventura County California (Class A) BFRO
Daylight sighting on the edge of Sespe Creek (CA Condor Refuge), in Los Padres National Forest
This happened when I was 12 years old, so that had to be in 1950. I was camping in Los Padres National Forest. I was riding along a hill following a trail down to water in the Sespy River. About 50 ya...
January 1950
Graham County Arizona (Class B) BFRO
Daylight sighting by rancher on Mt. Graham
Incident occurred on an old ranch approximately 50 years ago--i.e. around 1950--and was related to us by a native of Safford, AZ who said she and other people have heard the story all their lives, but...
January 1950
Itasca County Minnesota (Class A) BFRO
Girl sees creature while picking blueberries. It follows when she screams and flees
My mother told me this story a few years ago. The incident happened when she was a young in the woods surrounding her child hood home. She said she was picking blue berries one day. It was near dar...
January 1950
Bell County Kentucky (Class A) BFRO
Two teenage boys encounter a white ape-like animal
I was one of two teenage boys playing near coal mine noticed something standing right at the mouth of the mine. It appeared to be a gray or white looking ape type animal on two legs, with one arm hang...
January 1950
Martin County Kentucky (Class A) BFRO
Woman recalls childhood sighting near Warfield
When I saw this creature, I was told not to tell anybody or they would think I was crazy!! In 1950 when I was 12 years old, I lived in a little hamlet called Beauty located in eastern Kentucky, loc...
January 1950
Attala County Mississippi (Class A) BFRO
Creature seen by witnesses
When I was a child, I heard my grandfather, a man who quit school at sixteen, tell stories about something that lived in the Burns Rebrake (a swampy area owned by a Mr. Homer Burns). The stories he to...
January 1950
Okanogan County Washington (Class B) BFRO
Memory told of hearing possible daytime knocking while working as a Fire Guard in the Pasayten Wilderness
HAVING BEEN A FIRE-LOOKOUT ON MONUMENT #83 CANADIAN BORDER 1949, AND UPON COMPLETING MY TOUR ON THE LOOKOUT, I HIKED OUT DOWN THE TRAIL ABOUT THREE MILES TO WHERE IT BECAME FLAT And trail; was wide, a...
September 1949
Madison County Alabama (Class A) BFRO
Recollection of an afternoon sighting on Green Mountain
When I was about 8 or 10 yrs old, I saw a Bigfoot. It was on Green mountain near Huntsville, Ala. It was unpopulated then. Now there are million dollar homes there. I was on my way home from my unc...
January 1949
Coos County Oregon (Class A) BFRO
One audible and two visual, early evening encounters by a coastal witness near the North Fork of the Coquille River
Something was pounding on something like a log. That brought one of my brothers into the house to alert the rest of the family to "Come hear this." We went outside & stood in the driveway, and heard ...
January 1949
Clallam County Washington (Class A) BFRO
Mt. Olympus Incident
Earl Willits (from the Seattle Athletic Club), ? Floyd (a ranger at the time), Bob Ferris (radio personality) and Melrose Stevens were walking their horses quitely along a trail. They were not talking...
January 1948
Putnam County Florida (Class A) BFRO
While riding horse, young teen has day time sighting not far from Palatka
This incident happened around 1947/48. I was about 12/13 years of age. I have held this incident in my mind's eye all these years and have tried to figure out what I had seen. After reading sightings ...
January 1948
White County Illinois (Class A) BFRO
Memory told of encounter at a remote cabin at Sandy Run
I personally did not have an incident but my Aunt and Grandmother did. I am not certain the year. My aunt was a young girl and she is in her late 70's now. My grandparents bought a cabin for a week...
January 1945
Siskiyou County California (Class A) BFRO
Sister and brother see 3 creatures near Yreka
My Name is Margaret Whitney...1944.. I was 9 yrs. My brother was 8. We lived in N. Ca. Just off the Klamath river, on McKinney Creek. We were walking on a dirt road.. passing a clearing. across the cl...
August 1944
Alger County Michigan (Class B) BFRO
Memory told of a possible daylight sighting while playing in the woods in Eben Junction
The age here is 75 but I remember my first encounter vary well. It was in the summer of 1944, I was 9yrs old. It occurred in Alger co. Mich. near a post office called Eben Jct. It was at my grandfathe...
July 1944
Alberta Canada (Class C) BFRO
Second-hand story about a Stony Indian woman's encounter.
In 1973 I was employed as a physical therapy intern for Native People in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I had the pleasure of meeting a lady who would help me understand the traditional belief systems of ...
January 1944
Lonoke County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO
Bus driver encounters ape like creature during an unscheduled stop
I was six at the time. my family on a bus coming from memphis ark. to ft.smith ark. sister and I was in back of bus on the long seat so we could sleep. bus driver stopped bus to use the woods. he...
October 1943
Ashland County Ohio (Class A) BFRO
Man recalls being picked up while child in Mohican Memorial Forest
I would be happy to send you a copy of a colored picture I drew when I was 5 years old back in 1943 of what possibly could have been a bigfoot. I was lost out in the woods while camping with my parent...
August 1943
Harmon County Oklahoma (Class B) BFRO
Sisters observe tall hairy creature running away from them
My mother and her sister were going to get the cows from the pasture to bring them to the barn. They had just gone through a shelter belt of trees into a clearing when they heard rustling like somethi...
January 1942
Manitoba Canada (Class A) BFRO
Moose hunter shoots "bigfoot" to death
This report is submitted by BFRO member, Curt Nelson, and is based on two visits to and many phone conversations with the witness. The body of the report can be seen below....
November 1941
Yakima County Washington (Class A) BFRO
A tall black creature covered with hair and very muscular was seen walking quickly across a clearing
My mother related the story to me in 1969. I remember it clearly. "Your father and I had gone to Mt. Adams to picknick and enjoy his new Ford. We had driven some miles up into the hills when we fou...
January 1941
Costilla County Colorado (Class B) BFRO
Father relates Native accounts from the Sangre de Cristo mountains to teenage son.
Shortly after the Reader's Digest article which discussed the Patterson Film, my dad related something that had been told to him as a teenager in the late 1940s. At that time he was working as a fishi...
January 1940