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

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December 1976

Inyo County California (Class B) BFRO

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May 1980

Inyo County California (Class A) BFRO

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September 1972

Inyo County California (Class B) BFRO

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January 1970

Sangamon County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

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September 2017

Madison County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Resident has recent daylight sighting while retrieving cattle near Godfrey

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April 2009

Bond County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

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October 2006

Madison County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

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June 2006

Jack County Texas (Class A) BFRO

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July 2016

St. Clair County Alabama (Class A) BFRO

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July 2007

Ontario Canada (Class A) BFRO

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September 1997

Washington County New York (Class A) BFRO

Hikers find footprints and see 10 foot tall creature outside home

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January 1989