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Dubuque County Iowa (Class A) BFRO

November 2007

Around 7am, let's say the first week of November of 2007, I was making a phone call to try and get some help on a very large roof I was working on. Standing to the right of the house, facing the back, is a large open grassy field surrounded by woods. I was looking to the back staring at this particular tree that stood out to me, when suddenly something very tall, very large, stepped away from the tree looking at me. My arm with the phone dropped and my jaw dropped and I was thinking to myself, "What the **** is that!". It's fur was brown to reddish brown and it covered the entire body that I could see from the waist up. Just as quickly as I had seen it, it made its way across the field in a matter of seconds. I was on the phone but I took note of where I was standing and what was around me. Next to me were a couple of snowmobiles and about 5 feet in front of me was a red quad and I was on the far right corner of concrete pad. The grass was very high because the day before I had not...

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Dubuque County Iowa (Class B) BFRO

Father and son are approached by three large bipeds while fishing at dusk west of Asbury

I took my son Myles fishing behind Sundown Mountain ski resort. We turned west off of Asbury road on to Twin Springs Drive, where there is access to the stream. I had been promising my son some night ...

September 2012

Dubuque County Iowa (Class A) BFRO

Late afternoon sighting of a road crossing on Hwy 52 north of Dubuque

On Aug 31st I was on my way home from work in Richardsville, Iowa. There has been lots of road work on this HWY 52 North so I wasn't expecting to see anything out of the ordinary which is typically de...

August 2011

Dubuque County Iowa (Class A) BFRO

Multiple sightings on family property near Cascade

Well in total I've had 5 encounters the first one being about a year ago I was bow hunting and this big hairy man like thing just came up and sat right under my tree stand I was thinking about shootin...

November 2016

Gogebic County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Trapper has a daylight sighting while driving near Wakefield

My boyfriend is a hunter and a trapper. He traps trouble beaver for the county. This was about mid-Aug. He was out checking his traps out on the Chaney Lake Rd., south of Wakefield MI. He was heading ...

August 2016

Marinette County Wisconsin (Class A) BFRO

Motorist has dusk sighting on Hwy. 41 outside Peshtigo

I had gone up to visit a friend of mine and I was driving home. It was just getting dark. I was South, outside of Peshtigo WI. I had gone to Marinette WI for the weekend. I looked down to turned on my...

June 2004

Shenandoah County Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Early morning road crossing near Woodstock

It was about 4:00 am on April 3, 2014 I was driving to work south on Route 11 towards Woodstock, VA. I saw a tall dark figure move from the east side of the edge of road and go into the brush down int...

April 2014

Polk County Iowa (Class A) BFRO

Six foot tall or taller, black creature was observed leaping into the air and disappearing into the trees on a bike trail near the Des Moines River

I heard the deer coming toward me over to my left. I was going down the trail and the deer was coming in the opposite direction about a hundred feet over to my left. He kept looking over his right sho...

February 2000

Clackamas County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Family is approached near their forest cabin

About 11 years ago, my fiance and I had a cabin on Mt. Hood in Oregon state. We were in the roofing business and I was sorting out some cedar shakes outside the cabin. I had my Rottweiler tied to a tr...

June 1993

Marquette County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting by hunters near Gwinn (Upper Peninsula)

I WAS WITH MY FRIEND RICK. HE WAS DRIVING US DOWN COUNTY RD SW IN WELLS TOWNSHIP, HEADING WEST TOWARDS COUNTY RD 557. WE HAD BEEN MOVING ALONG SLOWLY TOWARD 557. I COULD SEE THE PAVEMENT AND THE SUN W...

January 1990

Tattnall County Georgia (Class A) BFRO

Multiple witness sighting near Beards Creek Church, outside Glennville

Two friends and I were driving out to the country to check out and old graveyard. Near the old graveyard there's a new church and a larger new graveyard. It was late at night probably around ten o...

January 1982

Oswego County New York (Class A) BFRO

Nighttime sighting by motorist near Sandy Creek

I was driving from my grandparents house to my girlfriends house one night in early fall at about 10 pm. The area I was heading to is up in Tughill plateau which is a very dense wooded area. I was abo...

September 1996