Portage County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Ongoing Encounters with "Fang" on old family land

I myself have had many different occasions with the creature I have dubbed "Fang". I have come to understand through self experiences that there is more than one creature in our area. I go hiking quit...

October 2003

Miami County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Four teens camping hear grunting or snorting, observe creature walk from corn field into the woods

I was with my friends at one of their houses. We were spending the night in a tent in his back yard and we had a small fire going. We had been hearing strange noises, like some animal grunting or snor...

September 2003

Cuyahoga County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Two ladies fishing in the Rocky River Reservation are startled when a Bigfoot appears in plain sight

My friend and I were fishing along the Rocky River in the Rocky River Reservation. We were up on a rock wall that was about eight feet above the river. We had been fishing there about two hours when w...

September 2003

Muskingum County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Woman observes a sasquatch behind her fence near Zanesville, Ohio.

Just sitting on the patio with my husband talking and I looked out toward the woods behind our home and in the blink of an eye a tall black creature walking on two legs took 2 large steps past our she...

July 2003

Medina County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

A man standing on his back porch watches a large hair covered creature run down the railroad tracks and jump down into the brush

I saw a large hunched over creature about 8 feet tall. It was walking on the elevated tracks behind my house and then preceded to sprint down the tracks and jump down into the brush on the other side ...

May 2003

Perry County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

A family witness's a hairy humanlike face in the cars headlights while pulled off the side of the road

My family and I were on our way back from Chauncey, Ohio visiting a friend. We were on Route 13 just about four miles south of Moxahala, Ohio. I had to go to the bathroom real bad so I pulled off a ac...

May 2003

Ashland County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Footprints and vocalizations culminate in a brief sighting for a family living near Savannah

The first incident for me happened in late winter 2003 around the end of February or early March. I had an exchange student living with me and my family and she had a snow day so we headed outside tha...

April 2003

Madison County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Two motorists have a lengthy sighting along SR56 near the Madison and Clark County line.

My girlfriend and I were driving home from work in the winter of 2003. We had several inches of snow, so we were moving slow. I was driving down State RT 56. I looked to the farm field on my left and ...

February 2003

Butler County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Two ourtdoorsmen chased by a large bear like biped recount 25+ years of strange occurrences.

My friend and I have been camping, hunting and fishing a part of Butler County that would be the last place I ever thought I would be so afraid that I would wet myself. From about 1985 to 2003 he and ...

January 2003

Columbiana County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Possible daylight sighting on horse trail in Beaver Creek State Park

My mother and I went riding that day. Weather was nice and clear, just the right temperature to take a leisure ride through the park. Even the wind was with us, blowing behind us and keeping the bugs ...

January 2003

Jefferson County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Two incidents, years apart, one auditory, one visual, near Smithfield

I have had 2 experiences the first was in hunting season of 1995. While hunting with my friend out of a double tree stand my friend and I was waiting for our dad's to drive out the woods to us. At the...

January 2003

Ross County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

A young hunter witness's a seven foot tall creature less than 25 feet away

I was hunting in the area and was coming back down the trail when I looked up and saw something in the trail walking into the woods and looking up the trunk of a tree. I walked closer to see what it w...

December 2002

Portage County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

A family is hearing howling behind their home identical to the howls on the BFRO website

I listened to the alleged Bigfoot howling on the BFRO website and have came to a conclusion that I'm hearing almost exactly the same type of howling in the woods behind my northern Portage County Ohio...

November 2002

Tuscarawas County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Multiple wood on wood sounds heard in the Beach City Wildlife area

My girlfriend and I left Akron about 1:00 PM to head south for the afternoon. My room mate had given us directions to a waterfall in a little-known back road park on the edge of Tuscawaras and Stark C...

October 2002

Belmont County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Possible vocalizations heard by bow hunters near Malaga

I have been an avid hunter for over 25 years and I am convinced that bigfoots are out there. This encounter happened in mid to late october in the 2002 deer bow hunting season. I was working 2nd shift...

October 2002

Ross County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Camper describes trees shaken and possible encounter near Waverly

I've been an avid outdoorsman in the Pike and Ross county areas for years. (Bow Hunting) On many, many occassions I have heard the growls, screams, holwls, and drum-like beatings; mostly in the early ...

September 2002

Morrow County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Two Motorists Have An Early Evening Sighting North of Mt. Gilead

My wife and I were returning from Galion, Ohio back to our home southeast of Mt. Gilead. As we approached the intersection of SR 61 and TR 75 I noticed a large black thing run (west to east) across th...

August 2002

Geauga County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Woman has two evening encounters twenty years apart

This is the second time I've seen one. The first was at a campground about 20 years ago by Mohican state park (Ohio). I left the campfire to check on the kids. We were camping with a few other familie...

August 2002

Butler County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Couple hears vocalization late at night - son finds prints near Okeana

MY WIFE AND I WERE OUT ON OUR DECK ABOUT 12:30 A.M. ON JULY 14,2002. WE OFTEN SIT OUT ON THE DECK TILL LATE AT NIGHT AND EARLY MORNING. WE ENJOY WATCHING THE WILDLIFE AND LISTENING TO ALL THE SOUNDS O...

July 2002

Hardin County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Young man see's a "huge hairy ape looking thing" under a bridge on the Scioto River

About three weeks ago I was walking down south Leighton St. on my way home. It was around 9:45 or 10:00 PM. As I was crossing the bridge I heard a splash in the water under the bridge. I go fishing un...

July 2002

Greene County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Late afternoon sighting by motorist on I-675 near Beavercreek

About two weeks ago while driving on I-675 northbound inside Greene co, coming toward Dayton, Ohio I looked in a corn field. I observed a dark-colored figure in the middle of the field, the top of the...

June 2002

Athens County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

A series of encounters on Haga Ridge near the Wayne National Forest

This is the second track find we have had since 1999. The first sighting I was contacted and I sent photos to a person who called on the phone. He was supposed to come and check it out, but never did....

May 2002

Columbiana County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Ongoing accounts with a screaming ape-like creature

Well, I'll start out telling you that my aunt has always heard some type of screaming in the late night to early morning hours. She always has said I know that it is Bigfoot. The next incident was at ...

November 2001

Mahoning County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Young man recalls encounter behind his house and close to the Meander Creek Reservoir

8 years ago my friend and I were bored one fall day and decided to hike through the forrest behind my house. The forrest was very deep but also very easy to see through because there was very little b...

October 2001