Marquette County, Michigan

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Marquette County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

January 2007

On Jan.18, 2007 at about 17:35 my wife and I decided to go out into the woods looking for deer and enjoying the snow in our 4 wd truck. We were driving along and we decided to take a DNR access road. Nothing unusual was noticed as we drove along down to the lake other than the the lack of deer tracks that normaly criss cross the area. There had been a recent snow and the area around the lake was for the most part lacking any signs of movement except for a single set of tracks leading up from a bowl like depression and passing by the toilet building. My wife pointed to them and asked me what kind of animal would make that track, when I looked over I noticed that the tracks were that of something walking upright on two legs. I stopped the truck and got out to look closer the snow depth is around 18 to 20 inches. The length between the strides I would estimate to be between 45 to 50 inches the interesting thing was that the tracks were clean in that there were no drag marks just a c...

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Marquette County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Large, unusual footprints observed in deep snow near Bass Lake

April 2,2008 I was attempting to get back to my home in the woods; we had had a very heavy wet snowfall -- blizzard like conditions== the night before which prevented me from driving home that night. ...

April 2008

Marquette County Michigan (Class B) BFRO

Possible footprints found in snow outside Marquette

Hello , my name is shawn age 26 . I just heard about the BFRO today from my mother who told me right away about this bigfoot investigation team coming to marquette and this subject is something im ver...

January 2004

Marquette County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Nighttime sighting on CR550 outside Marquette

I had just finished a 12 hour shift at work and I was heading home. I always go slow due to the amount of wildlife that you can encounter on the way home. The road is called 550 the road travels north...

November 2002

Marquette County Michigan (Class A) BFRO

Bikers have daylight sighting near Marquette

It was a summer day, 1996. Some friends and I were riding dirt bikes(motorcycles) on this old abandoned highway just south of the city of Marquette. The new highway (Co Rd 553) runs parallel with the ...

July 1996

La Salle County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Hiker has a daylight sighting in Buffalo Rock State Park

I was standing on the frog effigy in Buffalo Rock State Park in Utica Illinois. I saw and heard the same big foot everybody else describes moving very fast and easily on the side of the steep embankme...

October 2010

Massac County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Youth watches animal digging in burn barrel behind home near Metropolis.

When I was probably ten years old was the very first time I ever seen it. I saw the back motion light come on, I ran back to the back bedroom and peeked through the blinds. It was digging in the tr...

January 1985

Clatsop County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Military man on training exercises witnesses three, black, bipedal animals

Three large bi-pedal hominids\covered with black or very dark brown hair from head to foot\middle creature approximately 7-8' tall...flanked by two 6-7' creatures\tallest BF stood very still...flankin...

April 1993

Davis County Utah (Class A) BFRO

Witness observed one unusual, large, human-like footprint near a "Miners" cabin at the top of Farmington Canyon

I was taking a ride on my motorcycle up the canyon to see how far up I could go before reaching the snow level. I rode almost to the top of the range when an 8'-0 high snow bank blocked the road. At ...

April 1975

Summers County West Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Early morning backyard sighting by newspaper deliverer near Talcott

My son and I were delivering newspapers in the Talcott WV area. We were on a one lane road, I pulled into a driveway to deliver a paper, as I was putting it in the box, my son [23 years old] says look...

September 2001

Lane County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Couple in car observe an upright animal crossing highway

My girlfriend and I were driving westbound on Hwy 58 just west of the summit. When I saw this very large, seemed to be dark in color, come running across the road at a very fast speed!!! I was very ti...

November 2003

Chemung County New York (Class A) BFRO

Witnesses observe creature darting across road

Driving westbound my brother and I were doing approximately 60 miles per hour on Rte. 224. Three fire trucks from the Odessa-Montour fire dept. were coming in the opposite direction with lights and si...

September 1999

Athens County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Evening sighting by squirrel hunter in woods behind old brick Kilns

I was squirrel hunting and walked right past bigfoot. That's what I'm calling it. I was about 3 miles in the woods and something took off running and out of the corner of my eye I saw a big brown thin...

September 1994