Bartholomew County, Indiana

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Bartholomew County Indiana (Class B) BFRO

1992

The sighting was witnessed by my brother and a friend. My brother told me of the sighting shortly after it happened in the winter of 1992. He has retold it to me a few times over the years, most recently on New Years Eve '98. The story is always the same and never changes. My brother was in high school at the time and had been at a party. The party was supervised by parents at a friends house so there was no drinking envolved. His friend was driving the family van. After the party, the two boys drove a girl home that lived west of Columbus around the Youth Camp Road area. After dropping the girl off, the boys proceeded east on the road, back towards State Road 46. My brother states that "something" crossed the road about 50-80 yards in front of the van. He said it walked out of the woods on the left side of the road, crossed the road, and entered the woods again on the right. He said the headlights caught a climpse of it as it was re-entering the woods on the rightside of the road. He ...

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Bartholomew County Indiana (Class B) BFRO

Possible indicative sounds heard near Camp Atterbury Military Reservation

I was walking our puppy at 2:30 Am, Puppy training! We live directly across from Camp Atterbury,which is heavily wooded on our side. We also share it with Brown County State park And Yellow wood. I wa...

July 2006

Bartholomew County Indiana (Class A) BFRO

Night sighting near Columbus with vocalization heard.

I was 18 and a senior at Columbus East High school at the time this occured. There is a park directly across the street from my house. It was a warm spring night. I was doing a report for school and i...

April 2001

Jackson County Florida (Class A) BFRO

Upright creature seen by 3 men fishing in a boat 3 miles from Greenwood

It happened about 10 or 12 years ago. Myself, nephew and an elderly family friend Terry, were in this swampy wooded area fishing. They were in a small boat, no motor just paddles. As they were fishing...

January 1990

Medina County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

A man standing on his back porch watches a large hair covered creature run down the railroad tracks and jump down into the brush

I saw a large hunched over creature about 8 feet tall. It was walking on the elevated tracks behind my house and then preceded to sprint down the tracks and jump down into the brush on the other side ...

May 2003

Cattaraugus County New York (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting by hunter outside Salamanca

i live in salamanca n.y.i was hunting down old 17 road and seen a tall dark hairy creature walking on two legs cross the railroad tracks.the area around him had smelt very bad.(skunk smell).before i h...

October 2001

Polk County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Motorist observes bipedal creature crossing highway

I was driving home early in the morning from work when a large creacher cross the hiway infront of my car. It was walking upright and took the road in 3 large steps....

September 2000

Clark County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

A daylight sighting in a cow pasture. The witness also mentioned that some of his cows have been killed

I saw a very tall creature in one of our pastures. It had a medium brown fur coat, but its face was not furry. It made a very loud noise which my neighbors also heard and called our house right after ...

September 1996

Harford County Maryland (Class A) BFRO

Large, dark creature seen crossing the road.

I was riding my motorcyle north on Rt 165 having just passed the John Deere dealership. This particular section of road is straight for more then a mile. I was about a quarter of the way into this mil...

July 1984

Columbia County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Unusual tracks found.

archery elk season,opening day. I was archery hunting, I found some very big tracks. I back tracked them to the canyon I had just hunted. These tracks went about 5 or 6 hundred yards along a clearcut....

September 1991

Walla Walla County Washington (Class A) BFRO

BFRO investigator finds tracks in snow 2001

While driving Blacksnake Ridge doing field work I came across large bipedal footprint going across Blacksnake ridge. i got out to investigate the tracks. From heel to heel to prints were 4 1/2 feet ap...

March 2001