Scioto County, Ohio

Near Portsmouth

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Scioto County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

July 2010

My husband and I and three children decided to go camping for the 4th of July weekend at the Shawnee National Forrest Park in Ohio. We left on friday July 2,2010 and came home on July 6th. On July 6th at 4:00 a.m. in the morning my husband was awakened by a very strange noise and thought maybe raccoons were in our trash but then listened and thought that it couldnt be raccoons by the noise it was making. It sounded like it was calling the other one from the woods into the site. We heard the other one walking behind our tent and my husband started to yell "HEY HEY GET OUT OF HERE" and then they ran into the woods and it sounded like stomping.....we then knew it was something very very large. I got the kids and we ran to the car. We drove into Portsmouth for about an hour and half...we couldnt think of any animal that could make that noise or stomp like that through the woods. Maybe a bear but bears couldnt make that noise. So we went back to the campsite this was about 5:30 a.m. and my ...

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Scioto County Ohio (Class B) BFRO

Possible tracks found by a man and his dog at a rest stop near Piketon

2-4-14: 4 miles south of Piketon, OH at State Rest Area (north end) after 12" overnight snow. Stopped by rest area at 1600hrs to let dog out (Rhodesian Lab). Followed septic area fence line to towards...

February 2014

Scioto County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls seeing a strange bipedal animal during his one and only hunting trip

I was 15 years old at the time, I remember because I didn't have my drivers license yet. My brother and father and I were hunting squirrel. The funny thing was, this was our first hunting experience e...

June 1985

Scioto County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Witness has two sightings, ten years apart in Cut Rock area

I was 18 then just out of high school and was camping with friends behind my parents house in the Shawnee forest. I remember now that one of my friends said that he felt as though we were being watche...

October 1990

Scioto County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Three teenagers witness a "thing" crouched on the road, stand up, take three quick steps, and jump over the reeds down a hill

I was in High School in 1986 and we just came home from an away football game and were cruising around town late one night, about 12:30 or so. My friend was driving and my other buddy was in the back ...

October 1986

Jack County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Youth has daylight sighting along Texas highway near Jacksboro

I was driving to Wichita Falls Texas with my family. I was looking out the window and saw this big black figure running fast on two legs. It ran off a hill into a little valley. It was dark black, had...

July 2016

St. Clair County Alabama (Class A) BFRO

Roadside Sighting near Moody

We were riding along cherokee road in Prescot, a comunity near Moody Al.when rounding a curve we saw what looked like an ape man but humanlike exept for the hair,which was all matted and black.it was ...

July 2007

Ontario Canada (Class A) BFRO

Two witnesses (Truck drivers) spot a Bulky, Hairy (Brown Hair) being walking under the bridge

Bulky Hairy (Brown Hair) being walking under the bridge. We are Tractor Trailer Drivers and both saw a bigfoot Sept. 3, 1997 3:00PM Central Time. Hwy. 406 in Hamilton, Canada. We were crossing a bridg...

September 1997

Washington County New York (Class A) BFRO

Hikers find footprints and see 10 foot tall creature outside home

We saw footprints while walking in the woods that must have been 20 inches long and found some tree branches broken down. They were originally about 15 feet high. We decided to head back to his house ...

January 1989

Warren County New York (Class A) BFRO

Stand-off with motorist at 6AM in fall, near town of Brant Lake

It was about 6 am on my way to work at [R**** Ranch] when something came from the right side of the road, out of the woods, and forced me to stop or run into it. It is dark that time of morning so i...

October 1992

Allegheny County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Daylight sighting behind business near Allison Park

I was at work with my uncle. Its a family business, and it is located near the forest, with a huge open field across the creek. Anyways, we weren't very busy at work, so my uncle is walkin around and ...

January 2006

Carbon County Wyoming (Class A) BFRO

Witness noticed something out of the corner of his eye

A friend and I were gathering firewood around 5:00 p.m. in the evening, there was maybe an inch of new snow on the ground and a moderate fog had settled in on the mountain side. We were maybe 200 or 3...

September 1989

Skamania County Washington (Class A) BFRO

Department of Natural Resources tree-planting crew views two animals walking upright near Home Valley

In the spring of 1980, I was working for the Department of Natural Resources planting trees on State lands along the Columbia River between the towns of Carson and Home Valley Washington. The whole cr...

April 1980