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November 2000 Moutain Center, Riverside County, California Class B #24137

Young couple encounter something large on Lake Hemet

The witness and a companion drove to Hemet Lake late at night intending a walk and sat by the car. They heard something large breaking branches and moving down a canyon behind them, then smelled a strong rotten wet-dog odor and felt watched, so they left. When they returned about an hour later, a large steel trash bin had been knocked over and had a large circular dent.

Movement onlyOdorProperty disturbance
9 September 2000 Machias, Snohomish County, Washington Class A #1529

Footprint found, scream heard in family corn field

Late at night the witness heard sounds from a large animal in the backyard corn garden while in the living room. The next day a large footprint was found in the garden and corn was missing from the tops of tall stalks with husks left on the ground. A photo of the track was taken.

Unidentified soundTracksProperty disturbance
September 2000 Coleman, Alberta Class B #7394

Hunting trailer violently shook by unknown animal

Three hunters were sleeping in a trailer at a remote camp. In the early morning hours the trailer began rocking violently from side to side, waking the occupants, who armed themselves and went outside but saw and heard nothing further. At daybreak they found indistinct ground marks and large smudged marks high on the trailer's rear corners, concluded an unknown animal had grabbed and rocked the trailer, and left the area.

Property disturbanceUnidentified sound
September 2000 Allumuchy, Warren County, New Jersey Class B #438

Possible encounter at a state park campsite on the Musconetcong River

The witness camped overnight in a sleeping bag by a dying fire after hearing a metallic clink followed by tree knocks that seemed to answer each other from two directions. The witness then watched a dark silhouette showing only head and shoulders peek from behind a tree about 20 feet away. In the morning a tied food bag was gone except for an orange left on the ground.

Unidentified soundWood knockPartial sightingSilhouetteProperty disturbance
7 May 2000 Warsaw, Coshocton County, Ohio Class B #4555

Large footprints found by individual while he was repairing a fence.

The morning after dogs repeatedly barked toward the woods overnight, a resident found fence wires pulled down and a large print in sandy soil near the fence. He searched downhill and found a second similar print on a creek sandbar. The family reported the finds, and investigators visited that afternoon and measured both prints.

TracksProperty disturbance
2000 Virginia #ffa970ff-7711-4667-940d-bb29f00963b5

Scream in Virginia (2000)

The investigator describes a 2000 case near Smith Mountain Lake involving a family experiencing poltergeist activity, orbs in the hallway, triangular UFOs and lights in the woods, crop circles, and woman-like screams. Investigators camped on the property, noted abundant quartz crystal, and collected crop samples for analysis. The family eventually moved away and the investigation was discontinued without identifying a cause.

ScreamProperty disturbance
January 2000 Honobia, Oklahoma #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/01/20/sc-ep11-the-siege-at-honobia

Property disturbance near Honobia, Oklahoma (2000)

On one morning the household found five deer carcasses missing from a backyard shed where meat was hung to cure. On another morning thirty chickens were missing from the coop. A trail of cracked eggs with contents sucked out led back toward the forest.

Property disturbance
2000 Cloudy, Oklahoma #2f7eaa58-0d7a-4bf5-9858-57aac63df1d2

Unidentified sound near Cloudy, Oklahoma (2000)

After the fire died the witness lay in the tent and heard loud breathing approach, stop behind the tent blocking moonlight, shuffle the cooler, then sniff at his head. He yelled and hit the tent, after which it urinated on the tent, hollered loudly and left breaking and twisting high pine branches. Next morning he found large compressed impressions and damaged branches.

Unidentified soundFootstepsProperty disturbanceOdorScream +2
October 1999 Colmesniel, Tyler County, Texas Class A #11687

While checking deer feeders, hunter has encounter on Neches River

A witness went to fill deer feeders in a river bottom in late afternoon and found a feeder tangled in a tree. While investigating, the witness followed glimpses of a shaggy animal through thick cover to a river crossing where it stepped into the open and was seen upright for about 10 seconds before leaving. After it left, the witness heard a loud snap behind and left the area.

Partial sightingProperty disturbanceUnidentified sound
probably summer or getting close to summer of 99 Interlochen, Florida #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2016/04/17/sc-ep211-running-right-into-a-creatureliterally

Property disturbance near Interlochen, Florida (1999)

Trees full of nearly ripe apples and oranges were found completely stripped days later with no fruit on the ground. The witness doubted neighbors or local children took it. An older neighbor showed his own stumps where he had cut down fruit trees without explaining why.

Property disturbance
10 October 1998 Platina, Trinity County, California Class B #596

Possible visitation at a remote campsite in the Trinity NF

A solo backpacker camped overnight at the Mud Springs hunter camp. Around 10:30 p.m. he was awakened by a loud branch snap followed by heavy vibrating footsteps passing very close to his tent. His nested cook pots were then heard clanging and later found unnested and spread out. After finding a long hair on his backpack Velcro he broke camp and drove to Red Bluff.

FootstepsUnidentified soundProperty disturbanceHair
28 September 1998 Woodland Park, Douglas County, Colorado Class A #880

Rockhound startled to find he's being observed

The witness was looking for rocks in a forested area in the early morning and returned to the parked car to find the windshield wipers flipped outward. The witness then noticed a dark crouched mass at the tree line first taken for a bear. After getting into the car and slamming the door, the witness saw the figure stand about 7-8 feet tall and run away over a rock mound, then drove away.

SilhouetteFull-body sightingProperty disturbance
1998–2004 Ainsworth Hotsprings, British Columbia Class B #9069

Possible approaches to a boat ramp on Kootenay Lake

The witness reports sleeping aboard a boat moored in a marina slip and repeatedly hearing a heavy visitor come down the metal access ramp late at night and walk across the floating docks, displacing the dock enough to rock the boat. The steps sound widely spaced and cover the ramp and dock sections unusually quickly. The pattern recurred at least once each summer holiday over several years, with a bucket of fish offal sometimes found emptied afterward and whoop-like vocalizations also heard.

FootstepsWhoopVocalizationProperty disturbance
Spring 1998 Sussex County, New Jersey Class B #1558

Strange bellowing noises heard

Over several weeks the witness was repeatedly awakened at night by loud, drawn-out bellowing sounds that seemed to move and change in volume. A friend, the friend's spouse, and a relative also heard the sounds, and overturned garbage cans were found in the mornings. The sounds were first thought to be cows, deer, or a bear, but the witness later felt they resembled alleged Bigfoot recordings from Pennsylvania.

VocalizationProperty disturbancePossible misidentification
1998 Nowata, Oklahoma #668cc6d0-f876-4ac6-83ca-81af3a71a7b0

Footsteps near Nowata, Oklahoma (1998)

The two hunters arrived late and set up camp and a tree stand in darkness in a hollow bottom. One hunter returned alone to retrieve a phone and heard pacing footsteps, a very loud voice repeating a name, and a laugh, then saw a huge dark shape in tall weeds and fired twice before fleeing. Both hunters were then circled for hours by fast-moving unseen things that stayed out of flashlight range, threw out a poisoned hot dog that was quickly taken by something running on two legs that coughed like a person, and found the heavy welded stand ripped from the tree in the morning.

FootstepsVocalizationPartial sightingMovement onlyProperty disturbance
8 August 1997 Steelville, Crawford County, Missouri Class B #48655

Recollection of seeing a huge bipedal shadow while camping that steals food near Steelville

The witness was camping alone in a tall tent when something large approached at night. A tall shadow with broad shoulders was cast on the tent by an outside lantern. The visitor opened food containers, ate bread, growled, overturned a cooler and carried off meat before leaving toward the river where vocalizations were heard. Large footprints and teeth marks were found the following morning.

SilhouetteFootstepsGrowlVocalizationWhoop +3
August 1997 Campbellsburg, Washington County, Indiana Class A #25793

Campers have campsite visitor on two separate occasions near Campbellsburg

The witness and companions were camping on a hilltop overlooking a valley and creek. Late at night the witness heard heavy bipedal steps climb a steep slope, stop, then run into the forest, sounds the companions also heard. About two hours later the group heard a single very loud scream that briefly silenced forest sounds. Around 2 or 3 AM a companion awoke to see a large arm reaching through the van window for food, and food was found missing and spilled, with gouges seen on the slope the next morning.

FootstepsScreamPartial sightingProperty disturbance
15 July 1997 Neeses, Orangeburg County, South Carolina Class A #993

A teenager witnesses a black, fur covered creature attempt to pull a dog pen out of the ground.

Around midday the witness went to check on barking dogs in a pen behind the home. There he encountered a tall, hair-covered figure pulling at the pen wire, which turned to face him before fleeing toward the forest. A relative who ran outside also saw the figure running away. No physical evidence remained the next day after an overnight thunderstorm.

Full-body sightingVocalizationFootstepsOdorProperty disturbance
1997 Washington #http://www.blogtalkradio.com/bigfoothotspot/2014/08/25/sc-ep45-bigfoot-destroyed-my-camper

Sasquatch sighting in Washington (1997)

The guest's brother and a friend were elk hunting at Mount Rainier. They returned to find their camp destroyed, then slept in the pickup with a camper shell. Around 3:30 a.m. a human-like face appeared at the window, bared long canines, and violently rocked and collapsed the shell until the men fled at sunrise.

Partial sightingVehicle contactProperty disturbance
October 1996 Alexander Springs, Ocala Nat. Forest,Aster, Lake County, Florida Class B #1480

3am observation in Alexander Springs (Ocala Nat. Forest) of tall upright animal. Coolers ransacked

The witness and a companion were camping in a tent at Alexander Springs. After playing cards until about 3 a.m., the companion fell asleep while the witness lay awake. The witness heard surrounding animal sounds fall silent, smelled a skunk-like odor, saw a tall upright shadow on the tent wall and heard a grunt-like noise. In the morning the coolers had been ransacked, and the pair left the campground early the next night after feeling uneasy.

SilhouetteVocalizationOdorProperty disturbanceMovement only