Girls see tall upright animal shake tree then run off on two feet
Account
Two companions leaving a house through the back noticed sudden silence followed by crashing sounds from a swampy gully below. They saw a large hair-covered bipedal creature standing in the water shaking a tree. The creature ran through the swamp and trees, and the witnesses immediately fled.
What was reported
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Sightings
Sounds
Described appearance
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- Height src
- at least 7 feet tall, maybe 8 feet
- Build src
- thick
- Hair colour src
- very light brown
- Hair length src
- long
- Arms src
- holding on to a tree and shaking it
- Legs src
- visible as it ran off
- Gait src
- ran off on two feet
- Posture src
- standing on two feet
- Age / size src
- huge
- Other features src
- head more humanly shaped than a bear's head
Facts & provenance
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| Date |
July 2001
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|---|---|
| Time of day |
Middle of the afternoon
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| Place |
Bemidji, Beltrami County, Minnesota
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| Map point |
47.4870, -94.8827 (± 15 km)
Census 2023 Gazetteer centroid of Bemidji city (GEOID 2705068), matched from nearest town 'Bemidji'
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| Account type |
First-hand
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| Witnesses |
2
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| Figures reported |
1
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| Witness was |
leaving the house through the backside
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| Witness's word for it |
this huge creature
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| Source classification |
Class A
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Evidence & investigation
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An assistant investigator later visited the site and described the pond, surrounding fields, horse and deer tracks with no sasquatch-like tracks, and barking dogs.
An assistant investigator later visited the site and described the pond, surrounding fields, horse and deer tracks with no sasquatch-like tracks, and barking dogs.
Source timeline
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BFRO report #5525 Primary