Pocahontas County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Possible sighting by motorists half mile from Cranberry Mountain Nature Center

My wife and I were taking an evening drive on Highland Scenic Highway 150, from US 219 near Slatyfork, WV, to the Cranberry Glades area on Tuesday evening 9/6/16. We had been stopping at the scenic ov...

September 2016

Pocahontas County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Lone hiker wakes to rock clacks and heavy foot falls on the Allegheny Trail near Durbin

In June I was backpacking the Allegheny Trail going south bound. I had hiked up the trail following the yellow blazes. As I got to the top and started the trek along the ridge line I noticed some of t...

June 2012

Pocahontas County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Fishermen hear loud screams while camped at Wildell

My father and I are both proud Mountain State natives, although we no longer reside in WV. But we do enjoy returning every spring for trout fishing and sometimes smallmouth bass fishing. My father and...

April 2012

Pocahontas County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Possible sighting during BFRO's West Virginia expedition, Spring 2005

My husband and I attended the BFRO expedition in West Virginia in Spring of 2005. The base camp was next to a river in the mountains near the Virginia border. On Thursday afternoon most of the peo...

April 2005

Pocahontas County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Participant observations during BFRO WV Expedition

I was on the BFRO's West Virginia expedition this past April. The expedition lasted ten days all together. I participated from April 7 to April 11, as did over a dozen other people. The base camp w...

April 2005

Pocahontas County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Possible vocalization and stalking near Spruce Flat

I live in Pocahontas county near the Monongahela National Forest. It covers pretty much all of the county. It was on a mountain named Spruce Flat. I can look out my front window and see it. I have hea...

October 2004

Pocahontas County West Virginia (Class B) BFRO

Deer hunters find footprints in Wildell Bottom

My encounter was not a sighting of a creature but a friend and I were tracking a doe that I had shot late the evening before. We came up on a mud hole probably about 12-15 feet long it had three huge ...

October 1991

Pocahontas County West Virginia (Class A) BFRO

Recollection of a daylight sighting while deer hunting near Greenbrier River

It was November 1969, and I was on my first hunting trip with my Winchester 30-30 I had received on my 11th birthday in August. My Dad and I were near Marlington WV at a camp site we frequented a lot....

November 1969