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BFRO YEAR: 72-73 Corning, California North//paskenta Nw, Tehama County, California Class A #7731

Hunting Partners Have Early Morning Roadway Sighting

Early one morning in 1972 or 1973 the witness rode with a relative toward a hunting area when headlights revealed an animal leaving an orchard and crossing the road on all fours. The animal turned its head toward the vehicle, showing teeth, then went into a ditch, stood upright and stepped over a fence before disappearing from view. The relative acknowledged an animal crossing but did not see the upright movement and later did not recall the event.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingEyeshineOdor
BFRO YEAR: 1973-74 Redding, Ca, Because French Gulch Was A Town Back In The Gold Rush Days Of Old California. People Still Live In The Area Of What Is Now Called French Gulch., Shasta County, California Class B #26381

Man recalls adversarial encounter with an unknown creature near French Gulch

During midnight rounds at an isolated school compound, the witness crossed a suspension bridge and heard something raiding trash cans by the cookhouse. He threw rocks toward a large dark figure under the eaves, which stood erect, stepped onto the bridge, dodged thrown rocks, vaulted the bridge cables and fled upstream on two legs. He noted glowing eyes and a foul stench, then returned to his trailer without anyone else responding.

SilhouetteEyeshineOdorProperty disturbanceVocalization +3
BFRO YEAR: 1997-98 La Porte, Plumas County, California Class B #2037

Man has interesting experiences outside of La Porte

During extended thesis fieldwork in remote mountain country, the witness found a set of human-like footprints in fine silt on a meander of Upper Slate Creek, noting dermal ridges, five even-length toes, a square shape and no instep, with a 20-inch stride noted in follow-up. Three pieces of mottled brown feces with a faint odor were found with the prints. No creature was seen and no other person was present for this find.

TracksScatOdor
BFRO YEAR: 1982-83 Bear Valley, Alpine County, California Class B #5104

Hunters are intimidated out of their hunting ground near Bear Valley

Two deer hunters reported that after a rock flew over their heads in a meadow, something unseen paralleled them down a trail for about a mile while throwing or rolling large rocks alongside them. Back at camp that night all four hunters heard a large tree fall across the creek after noticing an unusual absence of wildlife all day. Believing something did not want them in the valley, the group packed up and left that night.

Rock throwingMovement onlyTree break
BFRO YEAR: 2001 to 03 Snohomish, Snohomish County, Washington Class B #44489

Witness recalls unknown animal seen crossing road near Snohomish

The witness was driving home at night with a companion when they noticed eyeshine near a swamp. A light-colored animal on all fours crossed the road in front of the car, turned to look at them, then disappeared into darkness. After pulling forward the pair smelled strong sulfur but could not relocate the animal and left.

EyeshineFull-body sightingRoad crossingOdor
BFRO YEAR: 1998,2000 Humptulips, Cosmopolis, Montesano, Grays Harbor County, Washington Class B #1131

Hunter hears strange noises near Montesano

While elk hunting with a relative, the witness reports the relative briefly saw a bigfoot down a side spur that was gone when they reversed to look. They then found grouse beds, piled feathers and a leg, plus one large track and a faint trail leading into the woods. The witness also noted an unusual odor and interpreted the sign as the creature hunting grouse.

Partial sightingTracksOdor
BFRO YEAR: 2005 2009 Trout Lake, Yakima County, Washington Class B #26447

Camper details possible encounters in 2005 and again in summer 2009 near Trout Lake

A group was camping overnight at a remote forested lakeside camp. After hearing distant screams that seemed to shift position and prolonged branch-breaking around camp, the witness stayed awake listening while others slept. The witness heard heavy running and breathing pass the RV and noticed moonlight through the windows dim briefly, then later the companion's son fled his tent to the RV reporting tree-banging, movement, darkness at the tent, and a voice imitation. No one saw anything, and the next morning knocking elicited whistle replies from the woods.

ScreamWood knockTree breakFootstepsVocalization +3
BFRO YEAR: 1952-53 Longview, Cowlitz County, Washington Class A #4353

Young man encounters two large, upright animals near the Columbia River, west of Longview

The witness walked alone down a wooded path to a spring on a relative's farm. Near the spring the witness watched a hair-covered bipedal creature squatting and drinking for one to two minutes. A vocal sound from behind startled the first creature to standing and revealed a second taller creature close behind the witness. The witness ran away through the woods to the path and was not followed.

Full-body sightingPartial sightingVocalizationWhistleOdor +1
BFRO YEAR: 1979-80 Troutdale, Multnomah County, Oregon Class A #7789

Members of Job Corps group have several encounters

Late at night a group gathered above the football field during foggy full-moon conditions. The group noticed a large shadowy bipedal form at a distance that appeared and disappeared in moving fog. Some members started toward it before it vanished in the fog, and the witness reported feeling unable to advance beyond a point. An odor was noted in connection with the sighting.

SilhouetteOdor
BFRO YEAR: 1979-80 Douglas County, Oregon Class B #2274

Late night up-close encounter in the Umpqua Nat'l Forest near Toketee Falls

The witness and a companion were sleeping on the ground at camp while deer hunting after forgetting tent poles. During the night the witness felt fingers touching his beard and smelled a strong odor. After he sat up and shouted, something large moved away through brush on two legs making loud leaf-crunching noise. No tracks were found with a flashlight, and the witness later concluded it was a Bigfoot.

OdorFootstepsMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
BFRO YEAR: 94 or 95 South Of Bend, Deschutes County, Oregon Class B #412

Cousins followed for a quarter mile

The witness and a relative drove into a forested area near lava flows and walked a short distance down a trail to watch the sunset. They heard grunting and other sounds and noticed bushes moving as something appeared to follow them for about a quarter mile. Back at the car, something very close screamed and shook the bushes violently, frightening them into quickly driving away.

GrowlScreamMovement onlyAnimal behaviourPossible misidentification