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22 August 2000 Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida Class A #446

Security Guards have sighting while on duty near Jacksonville

Around 2:30 a.m. on Sept. 1, 2000, the reporter and a fellow security officer were standing outside a guarded building talking. The fellow officer reacted and said he saw a tall, all-black, heavily built figure near the tree line that moved out of view around another building. The reporter himself saw nothing, and a search on foot and by vehicle found nothing.

Full-body sighting
8 August 2000 Pineville, Rapides Parish, Louisiana Class A #3777

Logger has two encounters over three day period

The witness and a companion were surveying a property line early in the morning when they saw a creature standing beside a large bush near a drying bayou about eighty feet away. One of them shouted at it and it fled north. Tracks and hair found at the site were later documented by an investigator, with the hair analysis determining the hairs were bovine.

Full-body sighting
July 2000 Ft. Jones, Siskiyou County, California Class A #2928

Eighteen campers find hut; videotape distressed bigfoot walking down mountain ridge

A large camping group found a hut-like structure made of snapped boughs and filmed it in detail. While examining the structure, a group member pointed out a distant figure moving along a ridge. The witness videotaped the figure for several minutes as it moved back and forth, gestured, and disappeared behind rocks.

Full-body sightingSilhouetteStructure or nestAnimal behaviour
June 2000 Mescalero, Otero County, New Mexico Class A #1918

Nighttime sightings on Mescalero IR

The reporter woke about 3 a.m. and saw a tall black figure walking up the road near a street light, noticing a dead-like odor. After it passed behind trees, the reporter woke the mother and both watched its figure through trees in a ditch by the road. They described it as playing with a can or object lying by the road.

Full-body sightingPartial sightingOdorAnimal behaviour
February 2000 Conecuh County, Alabama Class A #4743

Nighttime sighting by two teens in southern Conecuh County

Two companions parked a motorcycle on a dirt road late at night and walked toward a nearby residence when they heard loud heavy footsteps and brush crashing approaching from a swampy area. They ran back to the motorcycle and fled as the sounds and heavy breathing closed in. As they drove away, one rider looked back and saw a very large, wide, dark hairy figure leap onto the road, land on all fours, then stand erect and grunt. The figure was silhouetted in bright moonlight, preventing detail of face or hands, and was estimated at about seven feet tall.

SilhouetteFull-body sightingFootstepsVocalization
1998–2000 Georgetown, La Salle Parish, Louisiana Class A #1458

A motorist observed a hunched over, brownish-red creature crossing the road #2. Cast made of a 12" track, only a couple of days old, that was found 1/2 to 3/4 of a mile into the woods by BFRO investigator Scott Kessler

The witness was driving west on a gravel road in the afternoon when a brownish-red creature crossed the road south to north a short distance ahead. The witness estimated it at 6-7 feet tall and over 300 pounds, moving very fast in a few steps with arms pumping and a hunched posture. The witness stopped at the crossing point but noted no odor and found no tracks due to hard ground.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
October 1996 Boden, Guernsey County, Ohio Class A #8042

Bowhunter turns around to see a creature staring at him almost motionless.

Just past dusk while camping on a bow-hunting trip, the witness went to a portable toilet near camp, smelled a strong odor, and saw a white, wide-shouldered creature staring at him from a short distance. He screamed and waved a shovel, and the creature sprinted down into the ravine, breaking branches. The next day he and his companion found large footprints leading toward the ravine.

Full-body sightingOdorMovement only
29 October 1995 Fresno, Fresno County, California Class A #1068

Two fisherman have daytime sighting above Huntington Lake

The witness and a companion were fishing separate pools along a river when the companion called him over. They smelled a strong musky odor and then saw a tall, hairy biped standing about 25 yards upslope. The creature walked up and over the hill on two feet while the men felt unable to move, after which they walked back in silence to their third companion.

Full-body sightingOdor
August 1993 Branson, Taney County, Missouri Class A #41427

Memory told of a nighttime close encounter in the Henning Conservation Area near Branson

Two companions walking a hillside trail at night heard a loud snap and saw two large bipedal figures silhouetted against city lights. After one companion shouted, a second shorter figure stood up beside the taller slumped figure, and both fled on two legs crashing through small trees. The witnesses estimated the taller figure at 7.5 to 8 feet tall, hid at the fire tower overnight, and noted broken limbs and a sweet unpleasant odor in the area the next morning.

Full-body sightingSilhouetteUnidentified soundFootstepsTree break +1
10 October 1990 Mt. Pleasant, Isabella County, Michigan Class A #4325

Nighttime sighting by three in car, near Mt. Pleasant

The witness, his wife, and young daughter were leaving a party by car at night when they saw a tall dark figure stride across the road directly in front of them. The figure paused on the far side, its eyes glowing green, stared for several seconds, then turned into the woods along a trail. The witnesses drove on after a moment and later wrote independent accounts that agreed on key details.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingEyeshineVehicle contact
June 1989 Yacolt, Clark County, Washington Class A #933

Family has face to face encounter with sasquatch in their back yard

In the early evening, a mother and her teenage son pursued a figure that had startled livestock behind their rural home. They observed it at close range across a creek for several minutes in bright sunlight, noting its height, hair, facial features and build. After the mother urged retreat, the creature vocalized and gestured before the family returned to the house and later reported the incident.

Full-body sightingScream
August 1985 Elyria, Lorain County, Ohio Class A #49813

Woman remembers being shocked to see a running, hairy biped in her backyard in Elyria

In mid-August 1985, the witness had just returned inside after kenneling two large dogs when the dogs began barking intensely. From a kitchen window she watched a large reddish-brown hairy biped run toward a creek for about 30 seconds before it jumped from a drop-off into the creek and headed into the ravine. Later that day she found skid-like slip marks and toe impressions on the trail where it had run.

Full-body sightingTracks
1 February 1985 Lewisburg, Marshall County, Tennessee Class A #78519

Man sees chocolate-colored Sasquatch exit woods and cross field near Globe Road in Lewisburg

The witness, then 14, stepped outside at home mid-morning and saw a solid milk-chocolate-colored bipedal figure emerge into a field. The figure turned at the waist to look at the witness, then continued walking uphill out of sight over about 30 seconds. The witness later estimated its height at about 7 to 7.5 feet using a nearby tree limb and estimated its weight at several hundred pounds.

Full-body sighting
1984 Alabama #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/02/28/sc-ep19-bigfoot-stories-with-tim-coonbo-baker

Dogman sighting in Alabama (1984)

Two coworkers driving to work encountered an upright wolf-like creature standing beside the road. It watched them as they nearly stopped beside it, then crossed behind them and ran up a steep bank. The witness later visited the site and found tracks showing it scaled a high dirt bank in two leaps.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingTracks
December 1982 Fieldale, Henry County, Virginia Class B #27472

Man recalls watching a possible late night road crossing from his home outside Fieldale

Around 3 a.m. on a cold clear night during Christmas season, the witness got up for a drink and looked out the back-door window toward a lit road. He watched a tall, hairy, upright figure with long arms climb a steep bank, grip a bridge rail, cross the two-lane road in one stride, and disappear down the opposite bank. The observation lasted about five seconds under a street light.

Full-body sightingRoad crossing
October 1982 White Salmon, Klickitat County, Washington Class A #986

Hunter observes trio of animals near Nestor Peak Lookout

While hunting at dawn in the Nestor Peak area in fall 1982, the witness watched a smaller hairy biped notice him, scream and crouch to hide. A much larger similar animal then approached, touched the smaller one, and stared at the witness while breathing heavily, before the two walked uphill. A third slightly smaller animal joined them at the ridgetop and all three disappeared over the hill into the canyon.

Full-body sightingScream
1982 Warm Springs, Nye County, Nevada #709fe89a-f8a4-48bd-a6d1-57a09af02d1d

UFO sighting near Warm Springs, Nevada (1982)

A family driving across Nevada early in the morning encountered a strange object that approached their station wagon and flew above the road. After a tire blowout, mist, humming and slowed perception, they stopped and hid in brush where a saucer landed and three floating beings took the two children aboard. The parents sought help at a military gate while the children were found the next morning on the test range and later described examinations, pills, a calming ribbon and a map.

Full-body sightingUnidentified sound
18 May 1977 Preble County, Ohio Class A #4970

Case report about a sighting by a boy and local rumors about a bigfoot in area.

Two boys were walking their dog in the evening when they noticed a strong rotten-egg smell and saw a large hairy creature. The creature chased them across a field toward home, taking very large steps, and disappeared from view near railroad tracks and a highway. After reaching home they told a parent, who called law enforcement, and responding deputies searched the area.

Full-body sightingOdorAnimal behaviour
Summer 1977 Osceola, St. Clair County, Missouri Class A #1148

Family camping encounter large, fur covered creature. Footprints are discovered at the campsite

A family camping at Sunrise Beach heard branch-breaking sounds overnight and the next morning found a very large footprint in a dried creek bed. Shortly after, they saw a large brownish hair-covered creature watching them from behind a tree on a hillside, which then walked away toward the campground road. The father also reported seeing it cross the road ahead while lifting a wire out of its way, and the family quickly left the area.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingTracksUnidentified sound
October 1976 Alapaha, Berrien County, Georgia Class A #14525

Evening encounter with fisherman laying catfish lines on the Alapaha River

The witness returned at dusk to check catfish lines on a river on a relative's land after hunting. After hearing loud breathing and smelling a strong odor, the witness saw a roughly six-foot wet fur-covered figure about ten feet away with river scum on its side, which stood still. The witness fled immediately, returned with a relative the next morning to find no tracks but estimate height from a nearby branch, and has since avoided the area.

Full-body sightingUnidentified soundOdor