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April 1961 I Believe Willow Creek, Calif., Humboldt County, California Class B #5232

Hunters have unusual late night experience near Willow Creek

Two companions camped under a large pine beside a mountain dirt road after their car slid near snow. After dark in the tent they heard grunts, loud breathing and bark crunching as something large circled the tent on two feet. After firing shots from the tent and finding nothing outside, they later heard a long loud high-pitched scream some distance away, then slept until morning and found no footprints in the bark.

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March 1961 Hernando City, Citrus County, Florida Class B #28678

Man recalls a possible up-close nighttime encounter on Gilchrist Island

Late at night while returning to his Boy Scout camp on an island, the witness took a shortcut through a clearing and approached what he thought was a stump to about six feet away. The shape stood on two legs revealing a broad, hair-covered bipedal figure that stared at him briefly before walking then running away through palmettos with loud crashing footsteps. He returned to camp frightened and was told by the adult leader to go back to sleep.

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1960–1969 Daingerfield, Morris County, Texas Class A #9879

Two sisters have late-night sighting through bedroom window

The witness and her younger sister were talking in a dark bedroom late at night when they heard twigs crunching outside. Looking out the window in bright moonlight, they saw a very large hairy bipedal animal in the yard. Their grandfather came to the room, knocked out the window screen and fired a rifle at it. The animal bellowed, ran on two legs and stepped over a barbed-wire fence toward a creek, and no sign was found the next day.

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1960–1962 Place not stated #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/07/17/sc-ep236-its-skin-was-charcoal-gray

Object throwing (1960)

Two brothers camping by a river had a rock twice the size of a softball land by their fire where no such rocks occur. Their large dogs growled and clung to them and would not chase. As they walked to the house, they heard something walking in brush alongside them, stopping when they stopped, across a railroad track and fields to the yard light.

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1 August 1959 Graf, Dubuque County, Iowa Class B #36817

Screams and stalking at a Girl Scout camp 13 miles west of Dubuque

In the summer of 1959 the witness was working as a counselor at a wooded Girl Scout camp. Over roughly two weeks, staff repeatedly heard footsteps moving through the tent area after dark, saw a dark figure near a hut, and found a director's tent ransacked, with deputies searching each day without finding anyone. On the final night the group heard extremely loud screams that moved from near a remote tent toward a pond and creek and found a large maple branch freshly broken off, leading the witness years later to wonder if the visitor had been a Bigfoot.

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July 1958 Lake County, California #gid://art19-episode-locator/V0/z0Eeje6JvJvDDeP-HxDjlRGDKYzn-xYslP585x3gsfM

Sasquatch sighting near Lake County (1958)

The witness, then a teenager, was riding with his brother and a friend in an old pickup checking irrigation on his father's walnut ranch when they spotted a tall hairy biped moving through the orchard. They chased it by farm roads as it ran uphill diagonally across a 40-acre block, stopped to watch it pass close by, then followed it across more blocks until it crossed a road and disappeared into dense brush on a neighboring property. Afterwards they inspected its long strides in wet ground and decided not to tell his father for fear of losing their irrigation job.

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April 1958 Aptos, Santa Cruz County, California Class B #16691

Man describes possible sighting during childhood in Hinkley Basin

Two boys were riding bicycles down an old fire road when the witness slowed for mud and saw a dark brown man-shaped figure step from behind a redwood. The figure ran down a steep slope toward a creek while the witness heard two-footed steps on leaves for about two minutes. A companion riding behind also glimpsed the figure.

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1956–1957 Macon, Bibb County, Georgia Class A #27888

Man recalls close encounter at dusk as a youth near Macon

The witness and a companion were walking home from a creek at dusk when they heard loud approaching footsteps and movement through pines. A large hairy bipedal creature emerged on their side of a gully and jogged toward them on the path. After watching for a few seconds, the two fled to the nearby house.

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21 August 1950 Gaylord, Otsego County, Michigan Class A #30753

Witness recalls a childhood face to face daylight sighting near his home and night vocalizations outside Gaylord

The witness was in an outhouse near the home after waking when rustling and sticks breaking were heard approaching. The witness opened the door and saw a tall, hairy, ape-like figure that fled into the woods on being seen. Later that night the witness and relatives heard loud screams or howls.

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Spring 1945 Eldorado, White County, Illinois Class A #49954

Memory told of encounter at a remote cabin at Sandy Run

The main witness was sleeping in the front room of a remote lakeside cabin with a relative when she awoke at night to the porch screen door opening and footsteps. She watched a large, red-haired, bipedal figure pass three front windows and pause at the door to peer inside, bending down to look in. Frightened, she fled to sleep with her grandparents and did not speak of the incident for years.

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late at night Carmacks, Yukon Related account #12088

Footsteps near Carmacks, Yukon

The witness reports recurrent late-night episodes by the lake where footsteps echo her own steps and stop when she stops, which companions also heard.

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The very next night after the vocal incident Bruce Mines, Ontario Related account #12958

Footsteps near Bruce Mines, Ontario

The very next night the wife alone heard loud heavy thumping in the yard that vibrated the floor of the bungalow.

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Last summer Kearney, Ontario Related account #16944

Footsteps near Kearney, Ontario

Last summer while camping in the same area, the witness heard heavy bipedal footsteps pass by his tent at about 1am and noticed a slight skunk odour, but saw no one when he looked outside.

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BFRO YEAR: About 1979 British Columbia Class B #2446

Witnesses hear, smell, and feel something large moving & walking right next to them

Late at night in heavy fog, the witness's wife went to the outhouse and encountered something very close that she heard moving and smelled strongly, then fled back inside. The witness went outside with a gun and flashlight but could see nothing in the fog, though he heard bipedal footsteps, noticed a strong odor, and heard a low screeching sound toward a relative's home. The next morning he found a barbed-wire fence broken down with nails pulled out but found no tracks or hair.

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Spring 1993 mid-morning Place not stated Related account #28740

Footsteps

While fishing with a companion the witness heard heavy footsteps approaching from a mountainside with repeated loud wood breaks but saw no animal.

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1975 Summer Place not stated Related account #28740

Footsteps

During a family tent stay the group heard heavy bipedal-sounding footsteps on gravel over multiple nights and the witness felt a hand-like touch through the tent fabric.

FootstepsProperty disturbance
BFRO YEAR: 1980-81? Mission, British Columbia Class B #15141

Possible stalking and rock throwing in the Fraser Valley

Three companions walking back from swimming along a forestry road felt watched and heard snapping branches and rustling paralleling their movement. When they shouted and threw rocks toward the roadside bushes, rocks were thrown back at them while growling sounds were heard and the accompanying dog barked. Frightened, they ran to a nearby activity centre and later told a parent, who suggested a bear.

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In the middle of Friday night, I would guess around 1-2 a.m. Manchester, Bennington County, Vermont Related account #13345

Footsteps near Manchester, Vermont

The prior night the witness walked alone to a restroom building and back while footsteps in the woods seemed to follow in both directions.

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on the 3rd night Place not stated Related account #9654

Footsteps

At the campsite around midnight, the witness and a companion heard quiet bipedal footsteps circling the site followed by a long deep warbly yell from the woods.

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As I was making camp Fairbanks, Fairbanks County, Alaska Related account #1995

Footsteps near Fairbanks, Alaska

Earlier that evening while making camp, the witness heard a black bear approaching and scared it away before it got close.

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