Inyo County, California

Near Lone Pine

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Inyo County California (Class A) BFE

January 1960

My dad, 2 brothers and I were at mirror lake lake on the Mt Whitney trail, when my dad, while cooking dinner, threw the butt of a loaf of bread a few feet out of camp. While laying on our sleeping bags after a long days hike, dad (still cooking) said "what is that? Kids, do you see what I see?" When we looked up, as far as you could frisbee a piece of bread was a 5 foot or so gorilla looking animal eating that piece of bread, with that same stair a gorilla at the zoo would give you, you know the one that says if I was outside of this cage, I'd rip you apart look. My brothers and I stood up witch made it turn and walk away quickly. We chased it into a huge rock slide,( my dad yelling all the while for us to come back) and started to throw rocks into the huge crevasse it ran into, we even threw an old whiskey bottle we found in the crevasse until dad came and had us come back to camp. Spent a very scary night there and came back down trail the next morning. Never made it to the top of Mt. Whitney because of this encounter..

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Inyo County California (Class A) BFRO

Two men recall a nighttime face to face encounter on lonely Hwy. 395

NOTE: Please see the following included sections for elaboration of details. Two of us were driving home from a day of skiing at Mammoth Mountain California. The road was a two lane highway (opposite ...

December 1976

Inyo County California (Class B) BFRO

Man describes childhood incident, a possible approach at Seven Lakes

When I was a young boy, my father would take me backpacking in the Sierra Nevada mountains every summer. When I was 10 years old, my father decided I was strong enough for a long excursion in the wild...

May 1980

Inyo County California (Class A) BFRO

Hiking boy has close encounter in High Sierra

I do not know whom to contact but I have a story to tell. My name is J. C. and I am a 41 year old Vice President of a bank. I have been harboring an encounter I had for 31 years secretly out of fear o...

September 1972

Inyo County California (Class B) BFRO

A large, unseen growling animal breaks large branches as it moves quickly up a hillside

I have reported this incident before. Perhaps it was not close enough to a sighting to publish on your site. I originally said that the incident occurred at Mcgee Creek. I was incorrect. It was Deadma...

January 1970

Clearfield County Pennsylvania (Class A) BFRO

Bicyclist observes upright, hairy creature use branches to help itself climb embankment

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August 1975

San Luis Obispo County California (Class A) BFRO

Motorists encounter unusual creature on Highway 46 near Paso Robles, CA

During the summer of 1974 my sister in law I am were on our way from Lompoc, California to see our respective grandmothers. My sister in law's grandmother lived in Buttonwillow which is in Kern County...

January 1974

Grundy County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Two teenagers have sighting east of Seneca

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June 1979

Walker County Alabama (Class A) BFRO

Hunters observe creature walking in the woods

Back in 1990 i was having predation problems on some property i was leasing. something was killing and eating my chickens i was raising. so me and my friend bj decided to doa little varmit hunting. we...

January 1990

Limestone County Alabama (Class A) BFRO

Man on his way to work sees sasquatch crossing road in his headlights

The subject that my brother saw was between 8-9 ft tall. It had brown hair covering its body, appeared to have no neck, very long arms, took long strides. It was started to cross a road when he came u...

January 2001

Hamilton County Tennessee (Class A) BFRO

Nighttime road crossing seen by a couple near Sale Creek

My husband and I were on our way home last fall and we saw what can only be described as a bigfoot walk across the road in front of us. It was a cold rainy night and we were on the back roads to our h...

September 2011

Clark County Wisconsin (Class A) BFRO

Newspaper deliveryman sees large gray colored creature that was walking on two legs and carrying dead animal. (Newspaper account, follow-up by the BFRO and Sheriff's documents included.)

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March 2000

Magoffin County Kentucky (Class A) BFRO

Man recalls early morning sighting while squirrel hunting near Salyersville

my grandfather told me about seeing a thing he said looked like a ape when he was was hunting at harvest in Magoffin county when he was younger. said he didnt shoot it because he didnt know what it w...

January 1972