Bear Lake County, Idaho

Near Montpelier

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Bear Lake County Idaho (Class A) BFRO

September 1981-1982

This report is a long time in coming, and is in reference to report # 1796. I was camped with my dad and friends at our annual bow camp during the labor day weekend in the fall of 1981 or 1982. This particular day our fathers let us out of the truck along the Elk Valley road and told us to spread out and hunt up over the ridge and down through a area known as the Bloody Bucket, they would pick us up on the other side. As I started to descend down the ridge towards a beaver pond I saw three figures standing on the edge of the beaver pond. My first thought was that they were people wearing snowmobile suits. I thought that was strange because it was early September and warm. As I got closer I realized the people were wearing fur suits. Then it hit me what I was really seeing (BIGFOOT). There were three of them, a large, medium, and smaller one. They had dome shaped heads and no fur on their faces. I had no camera with me at the time.I was about 75-100 yards away from them. They walked aro...

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Frank Buck 2442 days ago

I believe for no better reason than the fact that I've had two close encounters of my own.10' and 12' leaves little doubt in my mind.


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Bear Lake County Idaho (Class B) BFRO

Camper and his three dogs hear possible vocalizations and cut camping trip short in Beaver Creek

I was playing with my dogs about 200 feet from the campfire right before sunset. I heard a weird sound behind me, pretty far up the mountain. I thought that I just imagined it and kept playing with th...

June 2003

Bear Lake County Idaho (Class A) BFRO

Elk hunter observes an apparent family group

Either late august or early september 1982 or 1983 at the opening of archery season. Several friends and myself were camping near Elk Valley with our dads at our annual bow camp. One morning we s...

January 1983

Bear Lake County Idaho (Class B) BFRO

Two campers' night observation of large creature near campground

A dark humanoid form was observed standing in the woods, just outside the campground clearing. Four of us were camping in sleeping bags, no tents, in a clearing recently cut by the Forest Service to d...

January 1968