Wharton County, Texas

Near El Campo

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Wharton County Texas (Class A) BFRO

1978 or 1979

Let me first start by saying that when I opened my new issue of Texas Fish and Game, it opened right to the page with the picture of the "creature" on it, and the hairs stood on my head. The image of the creature in the background is right on the money for what I saw. At the time, I was probably around 13 - 14 years of age (I'm now 37), and I've never had the opportunity to "officially" tell anyone about this until now. Only my family and close friends have heard this, and everytime I tell it, my eyes water, and the hairs on my head stand on end (I can't explain this reaction). Back then, we were in the process of clearing @ 40 acres of bottom land for farming. I was in the woods alone, operating a Model R John Deere, with an offset plow. I was making a turn under a tree, when a limb got hung on the stack of the tractor. When freed from the stack the limb came towards the rear of the tractor, where I was already on the floorboard, so instead of catching me, and throwing me off the s...

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Wharton County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Woman and her husband have night time encounter near El Campo

I was sitting out on the porch around 10 pm on Tuesday night, August 31st. My dogs (a lab mix and a pit bull) started acting strange and growling. I heard something over to the right of our house. It ...

August 2004

Kanawha County West Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Man remembers seeing a large hairy creature in a cemetary near Marmet

I was walking home one evening, I have to walk through the graveyard on a paved road. It was right at dusk when I looked out into the graveyard to a far point over looking the WV Turnpike. I saw this ...

January 1990

Sangamon County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Nighttime road crossing between Rochester and East Lake Drive

On September 16, 2017 I left work early. I clocked out around 4:45 a.m., yes a.m. I was driving on Rochester Road getting close to the stoplight at Oak Hill Road when from the left side of the road a ...

September 2017

Madison County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Resident has recent daylight sighting while retrieving cattle near Godfrey

I don't like talking about these things because, # 1 I don't believe in it and # 2 I do now. On Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 my cousins cows got out, which was located in Godfrey, Il. which is in Madiso...

April 2009

Bond County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Deer hunters have close sighting along Dry Fork Creek

Me and my son and daughter were hunting deer during the 2006 youth deer season. My son shot and wounded a deer and it ran into the woods. We all three went into the woods looking for it. Something sta...

October 2006

Madison County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Nightime sighting and possible footprints found by homeowner near Edwardsville

Object was standing near a bush. Coloration was a gray or white. Thought it was odd for some person to be standing out in the country at that time of night. Object was about 7 foot tall....

June 2006

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