Smyth County, Virginia

Near Chilhowie, VA

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Smyth County Virginia (Class B) BFRO

September 2011

My husband and I where sitting on the front porch one evening when what I thought was a bear caught my attention on the edge of the tree line. I told my husband to look at the bear and he stated that was not a bear because it was to large. We continued watching for approximately two minutes when a deer darted out from the tree line. The dark mass I thought was a bear then stood up and chased the deer into the woods. My husband and I looked at each other in disbelief at what we had just saw. It was too far away to get great detail of the animal but close enough to tell that it was very large and dark brown / black in color. After seeing it chase the deer on two legs back into the forest, I knew instantly that no bear could have ran so fast and so graceful on two legs. The next evening my husband went to the same spot in the tree line while I stayed on the porch so we could compare the sizes between the animal and him. My husband is 5 foot 10 and what ever we saw was at least 1 and 1/2 -...

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Smyth County Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Deer Hunter describes Pre-Dawn Encounter with a Sasquatch on Glade Mountain 9 miles East of Marion

I was walking to a hunting blind on the first day of muzzle-loader season. It was dark and I was using my flashlight to guide the way. When I veered off the forest road and onto a logging road, I saw ...

November 2022

Portage County Ohio (Class A) BFRO

Sighting in the Audubon wildlife preserve, outside Aurora

Rode my bike to the Audobon Wildlife Area. I was 10, 11 years old, i guess. As i entered, i saw a strange man walking south toward the road, Pioneer trail. Maybe 50 (?) yards from me; do not rem...

January 1962

Rutherford County Tennessee (Class A) BFRO

Sighting by friends walking in woods near Percy Priest Lake

Two witnesses were walking through the woods when they came upon a clearing. When they saw, walking across the other side of the clearing, a sasquatch between 6 1/2 to 7 1/2 feet Tall, it never turned...

January 1987

Pecos County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Two rabbit hunters witness large, upright, hairy creature near the Pecos River late at night

A large hairy creature unlike any thing I have ever seen before, stood up right like a person, but was NOT a person. Found footprints next day, but did not have a camera to take photos.Guessing that i...

February 2000

Harrison County Texas (Class A) BFRO

Deer hunter has encounter with bigfoot carrying deer hind quarter

A 7-foot upright stooped ape like figure, dark brown in color. It had a deer hindquarter in its left hand....

December 2001

Randolph County West Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Dolly Sods; Tracks seen, loud screams and strange odor detected.

Large tracks spotted, too large to be human, estimated size: 20 in. foot size- occurred september 23 , 1997 at 10:30 am- that night we heard loud, piercing screams in the forest and a strange odor- li...

September 1997

Riley County Kansas (Class A) BFRO

Couple reported being stalked while walking along a dark country road.

A women and her boy friend were on a walk on the Junction City side of Fort Riley. They were in a rural area about 10:00 p.m. on a brightly moonlit night. She describes how something followed them for...

January 1978

Union Parish Louisiana (Class A) BFRO

Two witnesses see a large, black creature while loading firewood on a truck

Upon loading firewood into the truck, my grandfather and I saw a large, black, hairy creature about 50-60 yards from our truck. It appeared out of the woods and just seemed to observe us for about 30 ...

November 1977