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May 2009 Shady Spring, Raleigh County, West Virginia Class A #26380

Couple has close encouter with a large bigfoot near Shady Spring

A couple riding an ATV over a small hill encountered a tall black creature standing beside the trail behind a narrow tree. The driver first mistook it for a stump, then realized its size as it turned its head toward them. The wife screamed upon seeing it, and they fled rapidly on the ATV without being followed.

Full-body sighting
29 July 2006 Ridgeview, Boone County, West Virginia Class A #15355

Early morning sighting by bat survey crew

While checking nets during a late-night bat survey, the witness and two coworkers heard a whoop and then saw a tall hair-covered biped cross a dirt road in front of them. The creature looked at them, took two steps up an embankment and disappeared. The group fled and later returned with two more people to find large footprints in mud and trampled vegetation before leaving the site.

Full-body sightingRoad crossingWhoopTracks
12 December 2004 Warwood, Ohio County, West Virginia Class A #10006

A woman has late night sighting when a motion detecting light illuminates her back porch

Late at night the witness went to check on children sleeping in a bedroom that opens onto a porch against a wooded hillside. A motion light came on and the witness saw a tall, dark, shaggy creature standing on two legs at the window, partly obscured by a blind. The figure stood briefly, then left toward the woods. The next morning the witness found slide marks in mud on the hillside but no clear footprints.

Partial sightingSilhouette
10 August 1990 Holden, Logan County, West Virginia Class B #16228

Possible sighting by a security guard at strip mine outside Holden

The witness was working an overnight security shift at a strip mine when he heard movement in brush behind the trailer. Shining a flashlight, he saw a large bipedal animal squatting behind a thicket that covered its face with huge hands before running away. About half an hour later he heard a chilling scream from inside the locked trailer, and he left the mountain for good that night.

Partial sightingScreamFootsteps
Spring 1974 Stonewood, Harrison County, West Virginia Class A #26963

Blacksmith recalls seeing a creature come down a mountainside and shares a sketch he drew

Two teenagers were collecting nightcrawlers behind a rural house just after dark when they heard something moving down through dense briars on a nearby logging road. The witness shone a flashlight and watched a very tall, muscular, hair-covered animal move past about 60 feet away for several seconds. The pair were frightened, and the next day they used a sapling to estimate its height at nine feet.

Full-body sighting
maybe a week after the skull find West Virginia #6f5c50e8-cbf4-4c23-ac9a-3d5f8b308499

Property disturbance in West Virginia

About a week or two after the skull find the witness found a clean bleached deer leg with no meat or hair placed up in a tree limb at the field edge. He left both remains in place.

Property disturbance
here recently West Virginia #6f5c50e8-cbf4-4c23-ac9a-3d5f8b308499

Property disturbance in West Virginia

A visiting relative noticed a sun-bleached six-point deer skull wedged upside down in an oak tree by the woodpile, above adult reach with no scratch marks. The witness had been getting firewood there all winter and had not seen it before.

Property disturbance
the day after the incident, checked the next day West Virginia #6f5c50e8-cbf4-4c23-ac9a-3d5f8b308499

Property disturbance in West Virginia

The day after the sighting the young witness and her father left marbles and a turkey feather in the woods. When they returned a couple days later the marbles were gone and replaced with palm-sized river rocks, and the turkey feather was replaced with a crow feather placed further down the log.

Property disturbance