Hancock County, Maine

Near Osborn

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Hancock County Maine (Class B) BFRO

November 2020

Background: I have spent a large part of my life in the woods between Eddington where I grew up and Deblois where my Grandfather built a hunting / fishing camp in the 1920s ' everywhere in between hunting, fishing, camping and hiking. I have walked those woods since I was 4 years old and I'm now 61 ' I know the deer, moose , bear and other wildlife of those woods. I built my camp on Spectacle Pond in Osborn in 1988. I have spent a lot of time in the years since exploring the woods and waters around the camp over the years and know the area between Route 179 and Route 193 better than most and within 10 miles of my camp, better than anyone. Since 2008 when I retired from the U.S. Navy, I have spent one month every year at my camp ' 2 weeks in May, fishing and 2 weeks in November, hunting. I have spent many days and nights in the most remote areas of that part of Maine. On the evening of November 12th 2020, my wife and I had returned to our camp after an afternoon deer hunt, it was dar...

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Hancock County Maine (Class A) BFRO

Two sisters see dark, shaggy haired, bipedal creature standing in middle of road

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Douglas County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

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August 2004

Siskiyou County California (Class A) BFRO

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December 1993

Hillsborough County Florida (Class A) BFRO

June 1984 Manatee County FL Late evening sighting by 9 yr/old camper off Little Manatee River in Ruskin

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June 1984

Broome County New York (Class A) BFRO

Witness spots legs of a large bipedal creature from a distance of 100 feet

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January 1986

Teton County Wyoming (Class A) BFRO

Party of five campers observe 7 foot creature outside their RV

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June 2000

Pulaski County Arkansas (Class A) BFRO

Youth has sighting from his backyard on Air Force Base

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January 1975

Marion County Oregon (Class A) BFRO

Brief daylight sighting by hunter near Silver Creek Falls State Park

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October 1995

Christian County Illinois (Class A) BFRO

Motorist spots a tall hairy biped chasing deer near Edinburg

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March 2013