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May 2001 Johnson, Humboldt County, California Class A #2755

While conducting sound survey project, two team members see Bigfoot

A team of four was conducting a nighttime sound survey from a clear-cut overlooking a river valley while one member did a live radio interview from a parked vehicle near the treeline. The interviewer heard repeated charging sounds, footfalls and a grunt-growl from dense brush a few feet away while two teammates uphill watched with a night-vision device. The uphill observers reported a huge 8-foot-plus figure about 25 feet away leaning side to side to look through the trees and moving its arms. The episode lasted about 30 minutes, followed later by a distant scream, and a next-day search found disturbed soil but no footprints.

Partial sightingFootstepsGrowlMovement onlyAnimal behaviour
March 2001 Twain Harte, Tuolumne County, California Class B #3072

BFRO Investigators detail activity around Twain Harte

Investigators found fresh broken trees, dozens of footprints and two nests where a trail crossed a road and staked out the spot. No creature was seen, but something large moving on two feet approached the stakeout before fleeing downhill through brush when a car passed. The sign was documented the next day with footprint and tree-break measurements and a body-length impression in one nest.

TracksTree breakStructure or nestFootstepsMovement only
January 2001 Richford, Tioga County, New York Class B #7890

Two hunters experience vocalizations and encounter very large unknown animal

Two companions grouse hunting in a wooded gorge heard loud screaming-growl vocalizations from about 30 yards away in dense cover. The source moved around them with audible footsteps in snow and breaking branches, seeming to flank them and get behind them. After several minutes they left the area quickly while looking back and did not return.

ScreamGrowlFootstepsAnimal behaviour
15 October 2000 Summerfield, Marion County, Florida Class B #598

Vocalizations and Footsteps heard

On the night of October 28, 2000 the witness was hosting an adult-only backyard barbecue party with about a dozen guests. Around 10 p.m. the group heard loud unidentified sounds from the woods near the back of the property and heard heavy footsteps breaking branches that sounded bipedal. Two men entered the woods with a flashlight but the source stayed distant and was never seen, and no tracks were found in deep oak leaves.

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1970–1979 St Clair, Missouri #4d4eddad-a9e8-4c49-b10f-5995d8f9225e

Footsteps near St Clair, Missouri (1970)

The guest's sister said that in the 1970s she repeatedly heard something bipedal walking behind her house at night. The next morning her son found long reddish-brown hair on a barbed-wire fence where the sounds had been. In later years she has also reported howl-like vocalizations and heavy breathing from the woods and once made a phone recording.

FootstepsHairHowlVocalization
a few years later Place not stated #c6ab5ec3-e69e-4af6-8817-f682007be113

Vocalization

A few years after the property sightings, the witness camped alone off-trail on the Appalachian Trail. Around 2 a.m. something moved around the tent making odd pig-like or horse-like sounds, which was recorded. In the morning a food bag hung 15 feet up between trees was gone with the knot untied rather than broken.

VocalizationFootstepsProperty disturbance
Date unknown Washington #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/Be6UISlnLqXrqPqtuXoGsqeHv3MDvtCb947ODto7Km8

Footsteps in Washington

The researcher was sitting in a truck with two companions near Mount St Helens when a bluff charge occurred. They heard pacing, a tree knock, heavy footsteps running toward and past the truck, then branches breaking as the animal walked away. No one was struck and activity stopped afterward.

FootstepsWood knockMovement only
Date unknown Missouri #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/Be6UISlnLqXrqPqtuXoGsqeHv3MDvtCb947ODto7Km8

Rock throwing in Missouri

A small research team camped for five days on the Missouri property to document ongoing rock-throwing activity. At night rocks repeatedly struck the tent, table, chairs and vehicle from a ridge above. The team marked piles of rocks with marker and later found marked rocks thrown into camp, along with foot tracks and a handprint.

Rock throwingTracksHandprintFootsteps
Date unknown New Jersey #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/05/05/sc-ep-30-646-716-8791-open-phone-lines

Footsteps in New Jersey

The witness and his partner parked in a refuge at night and made vocal calls. Heavy footsteps approached the van and a dark figure was seen through reeds. After leaving and returning, whoop calls were exchanged. The partner declined to return after that.

FootstepsPartial sightingWhoop
in the fall Ontario #13fdce52-693e-4f85-855a-f19d31393ff4

Wood knock in Ontario

The witness describes a fall investigation in a remote forest north of the city. A prior night vigil yielded stomps, calls, knocks and sounds of something circling camp. Follow-up reconnaissance found sharpened sticks staked across a game trail, tracks along a nearby river, and a very tall teepee structure the next day.

Wood knockVocalizationFootstepsTracksStructure or nest +1
that night, next morning Washington #01e23092-6e9d-4d15-9105-fc0f1c107bef

Footsteps in Washington

Audio recorders left around camp overnight captured three loud steps described as booms. On playback the sound was described as seeming to say a team member's name between pounds. The guest notes the recorder was placed just below where he had been sleeping.

FootstepsVocalization
Date unknown Place not stated #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2015/06/21/sc-ep116-reported-sasquatch-sounds

Chatter

On a day scouting trip the group followed a possible trail to a structure and left a drop-box recorder in a tree at 3 p.m. Audio review later revealed unusual chatter and activity. That night a hike produced distant screams and a large parabolic at camp recorded bipedal walking.

ChatterScreamWood knockFootsteps
a couple of days later, about two in the morning to sunrise Place not stated #7c8e8bba-da6d-4877-b9a2-5b6a33a386b2

Vocalization

Around 2 a.m. the guest heard clicking and movement around tents and vehicles. After hours of activity, something lifted a Dutch oven lid, charged 30 feet, pushed a fist through his tent window and then pushed its face inches from his. He held a pistol, heard a voice telling him to kick his legs, did so, and the group left chirping. Urine, prints and handprints were found.

VocalizationFootstepsProperty disturbancePartial sightingGrowl +1
Date unknown Isabella County, Michigan #d9a91a80-ad70-460e-b711-b005faab97a5

Vocalization near Isabella County

Residents of a central Michigan farm reported frequent night vocalizations over several years. Recorders captured goat-like and horse-like sounds, breathing and banging on a food barrel, and loud knocks from the woods when people moved between buildings. The witness investigated possible human sources and found one distant caller to exclude, but did not see the source.

VocalizationFootstepsWood knockProperty disturbance
Date unknown Hillsdale, Michigan #d9a91a80-ad70-460e-b711-b005faab97a5

Footsteps near Hillsdale, Michigan

The witness volunteered as bait on a southern Michigan property while others monitored with microphones. Operators reported footsteps following the witness along a road. On other nights the group broadcast whale sounds and later recorded similar sounds unprompted, and daytime slapping on a garage was reported until cameras and lights were installed.

FootstepsVocalizationProperty disturbance
summer between my junior and senior year in high school Georgia #683ee452-efc6-4737-8b33-12d87112d2a1

Whoop in Georgia

As teenagers the witness and friends camped and hiked up a reputedly haunted mountain at night to look for a cabin. They were paralleled on both sides, heard whoops and powerful wood knocks and branches being ripped, then a large tree was pushed over close to them and they fled. The running camcorder captured the sounds and briefly illuminated two large almond-shaped red eyes that narrowed and turned away before the tree fell.

WhoopWood knockFootstepsEyeshineTree break
Date unknown Place not stated #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/09/07/sc-ep48-sasquatch-encounters-and-audio-files

Footsteps

The guest was asleep in his tent with his dog when a proximity alarm woke him about 11:45. Something walked around the tent, handled items on his table, then pressed through the tent fabric behind his head and gently manipulated his head and face with a very large hand. He triggered his truck alarm lights, after which it moved off. The whole sequence lasted about nine minutes and was captured on an audio recorder.

FootstepsDoor or window contactProperty disturbanceUnidentified sound
the next day Honobi, Oklahoma #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/CXTyXqtP5pbZ0_NEEWfsxrgth_pGyp9qhJiq_rYObKA

Footsteps near Honobi, Oklahoma

The guest moved the empty tent to another nearby ridge and left a recorder by it. Playback the next day again captured something running by. He said he could think of no natural explanation for the same result on three occasions.

Footsteps
last year Honobi, Oklahoma #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/CXTyXqtP5pbZ0_NEEWfsxrgth_pGyp9qhJiq_rYObKA

Footsteps near Honobi, Oklahoma

A decade later the guest returned alone and set up an empty tent about a mile past his camp with the recorder in the woods behind it. The next-day playback captured the same sound of something running by the tent. He described the tight steps as possibly a young individual.

Footsteps
about 10 years ago Honobi, Oklahoma #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/CXTyXqtP5pbZ0_NEEWfsxrgth_pGyp9qhJiq_rYObKA

Footsteps near Honobi, Oklahoma

The guest and a group left an empty tent with a recorder inside on a ridge in Oklahoma. After about 30 silent minutes the recording captured movement, snapping twigs and small pebbles hitting or missing the tent. Then something was heard running hard toward and right past the tent.

FootstepsRock throwing