15 Incredible Bigfoot Sightings of the 21st Century (with Map)



Believe me people. The tall hairy creatures known as Bigfoot are seen everywhere. They are witnessed by extremely credible, normal people who have nothing to gain and everything to lose by telling their stories. To help convince you, I wanted to take a stab at compiling the most incredible Bigfoot sightings of the century (and also, Animal Planet has an old list that kinda sucks, so I wanted to bring some energy and passion to the topic). Please reference the comprehensive Bigfoot sightings map at the bottom of the page to understand this phenomena in greater detail.

I guarantee you’ve never heard all of these, so please have a read, a listen, and a watch of the craziest, weirdest, eeriest, and most exciting Sasquatch sightings I could find.

Click here to see the ultimate Bigfoot sightings map.

A Disclaimer: Image credit to the talented Scott Davis. I’d also like to provide complete credit and gratitude to Sasquatch Chronicles and the BFRO for providing a forum where these incredible Bigfoot sightings can be properly documented and explored. The compelling content in this article was produced and retained by these two great entities. This is merely my attempt to provide a collective snapshot of the most compelling Bigfoot sightings I have ever read or listened to. All credit to them. Cheers.

#15 The Mt. Rainier Litter Bug

LOCATION: Joint Base Lewis-McChord, WA

YEAR: 2016



Joint Base Lewis-McChord near Tacoma, Washington, lies between the breathtaking Mt. Rainier and the splendor of the Olympic National Forest. Just to the south, Route 507 runs through a densely wooded area. In May of 2016, just after dawn, a lifelong outdoorsman, familiar with all the local game, headed out on a fishing trip with a couple friends. They saw a figure sitting next to a pile of green plastic garbage bags by the side of the road.

The figure was only three-feet-high while crouched over the bags, although they estimated the overall height would be about six feet. It was covered in shiny black hair, even on its ears. It had a large head with a sagittal crest along the skull. They saw a wide nose, a lantern-shaped jaw, and a protruding eyebrow ridge like a Neanderthal.

The figure extended a long arm, which was covered in black hair to the knuckles, and dropped some garbage. They could distinctly see four fingers and a thumb as the creature twice discarded garbage from its search of the bags.

One of the friends glanced up the hill and spied a larger version of the same creature watching from the treeline. They guessed that this parental figure was guarding the juvenile creature as it foraged by the road. Read the very recent, original report here.

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#14 The Avocado Lake Pig Snatchers

LOCATION: Avocado Lake, CA

YEAR: 2017



Farms and orchards fill the long dusty Central Valley of California. Just east of Fresno lies Avocado Lake. One evening in 2017, a local farmer named Keith spied someone sneaking around his work trucks at the bottom of a hill. He pulled out his binoculars and saw a head pop up from behind the truck. He shouted down to them.

There was no reply, but the head looked around the truck again. Another head popped up by the other end of the truck. Keith took out his gun and threatened to shoot unless they identified themselves.

Again, there was no response, so he fired two warning shots. The pair took off running. Keith hopped in his truck to head them off.

Before he could get there, five or six huge figures suddenly dashed across the road out of the gloom, right in front of his truck. Keith slammed on the brakes and jumped out. With his binoculars he saw five or six “humanoid shapes” running swiftly. One carried a pig on its back but tripped and fell. The creatures jumped a high fence and disappeared, but continued to call back and forth to each other with “weird noises.”

Keith jumped back into his truck to chase the original two intruders. They had already crested the hill and were running straight up a steep mountain effortlessly. As they reached the summit, Keith lost track of their whereabouts.

There have been at least three Sasquatch sightings in five years in East Fresno County, according to Jeffrey Gonzalez of the Sanger Paranormal Society. “What are the odds of three people, three different families, who don’t know each other, within a radius of two to three miles, come and tell me what they witness, and it matches up.”

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#13 Myakka Skunk Ape Photographs

LOCATION: Myakka River State Park, Florida

YEAR: 2000



“Enclosed please find some pictures I took. My husband thinks it is an orangutan. Is someone missing an orangutan?”

In October of 2000, an elderly Florida woman experienced several nights of odd “whoomphing“ noises coming from her backyard near Myakka River State park. The park spans 37,000 marshy acres. If you wanted to snap a Skunk Ape picture, other than the Everglades, this would be a pretty good place to do it. This is one of the few recent Bigfoot sightings where the visual evidence is so unusual that you can’t ignore it.

The witness sent two bizarre photographs and an anonymous letter to the Sarasota County Sherriff’s office.

As her story goes, apples went missing from her back porch for three straight days. Not a big deal, but she wanted to know what kept invading her yard. On the third night of odd sounds, the woman claimed she went outside to finally get a view of the intruder. Rather than a large racoon or a pesky kid, she saw something truly unbelievable:

“I judge it as being about six and a half to seven-feet-tall in a kneeling position. As soon as I realized how close it was I got back to the house. It had an awful smell that lasted well after it had left my yard. The orangutan was making deep “whoomph” noises. It sounded much further away then it turned out to be. If I had known it was as close to the hedge row as it was I wouldn’t have walked up as close as I did. I’m a senior citizen and if this animal had come out of the hedge roll after me there wasn’t a thing I could have done about it. I was about ten foot away from it when it stood up.“

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#12 Zack the Hunter’s Sasquatch Sighting

LOCATION: Michigan

YEAR: 2015



“You cannot misidentify this creature”

When a hunter speaks openly about his or her Bigfoot sighting, it’s probably a very compelling yarn. This creepy story from Michigan definitely does not disappoint.

One November evening a few years back, a hunter named Zack visited one of his favorite hunting spots. It was 4:30pm and becoming dark. He wanted more time to bag a deer, so he headed to one of his most reliable locations on a hillside.

He climbed halfway up a steep hill and positioned himself on the ground behind a large stump. He waited for deer on this incline, holding his 12-gauge shotgun as dusk approached.

As the minutes passed, an eerie silence covered the land. Out of the corner of his eye, a nine-foot-tall, jet-black shape came into view. This shadow moved with enormous strides and looked like it was “on a ramp going up” to the top of the hill. It smelled awful, like “sweet, rotting meat” and a pack of soaking wet dogs. He had seen bears in the area, but this was absolutely no bear.

By the time it made it reached the top, the being was only 15 yards away from Zack and his stump. Then it turned. The hunter sat frozen in fear. The thing looked directly at him for ten full seconds. They made eye contact. Zack’s adrenaline pumped. He was paralyzed, totally unable to ready his shotgun if he would need it.

Zack’s recent Bigfoot sighting paints a remarkable picture. The Sasquatch was covered in hair and ripped like a bodybuilder. The arms were long and muscular. It could body slam a Grizzly bear and “made Hulk Hogan’s arms look foolish.” The chest and torso were “wide as a recliner.”

Its face was covered in hair. The eyes were yellowish green and it looked sick. Its nose was sunken and wide with nostrils as pink “as bubblegum.” He even saw the creature’s genitalia. It was a male.

After the brief stare-down, the creature continued pass the top and away into the darkness. Zack sat motionless for several minutes before fleeing to his car. When he reached a safe-spot he collapsed and vomited for six minutes straight. Zack’s Bigfoot sighting left him physically shaking and drained emotionally. He now completely believed in the existence of these creatures. Listen to the original interview with Zack here.



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#11 Russian Kids Film their Bigfoot Sighting

LOCATION: Russko-Ursky, Russia

YEAR: 2012

Bigfoot sightings span the globe, from the Yowie in Australia, to the Yeren in China…. and the Almasty in Russia. In January 2012, three young Russian boys possibly filmed an actual Almasty.

The three friends closely follow a long line of two-foot deep footprints in the snow behind their village. They excitedly trace each step towards a frozen lake behind a stretch of trees. When the boys arrived at the treeline, a tall dark figure emerged from a line of bushes. The boys hushed. It stared at them for a moment and bolted away into the snowy landscape. The boys ran in terror.

Despite the all-over hair, one of the boys claimed the creature had an all-white face with absolutely no hair on it. The subject in the video appears to lean and dangle its arms just like the beings witnessed in Lettuce Lake, Florida and the Tatra Mountains of Poland. Some Bigfoot Youtubers even claim the supposed Almasty carries a child. Whatever it was, absolutely terrified these three young friends.

#10 Woody and Wes Germer’s Bigfoot Sighting

Location: Yacolt, WA

YEAR: 2012



The eerie Bigfoot sighting that launched the hit radio show Sasquatch Chronicles is truly fascinating. Wes and Woody Germer’s story opened the flood-gates for hundreds of creepy Sasquatch stories. Essentially, the show became a hotline for Bigfoot talk-therapy, since many witnesses described post-traumatic stress after dealing with the creatures. I wouldn’t be surprised if they experienced similar stress after their incredible Bigfoot sighting.

As the story goes, Woody and Wes Germer, two Yacolt brothers, were out of work and grieving over the recent deaths of their father and grandfather. The men hit the rugged back roads around Yacolt Mountain to connect over their recent struggles. They parked on a middle-of-nowhere ridgeline and chatted for a bit. Conversation silenced when three distinct sets of bipedal footsteps scraped through the woods. Wes and Woody pulled out their pistols, fearing the potential of three unpredictable night thugs.

Angry growls described by Wes as “demonic”, moved closer and closer to the car from behind. The two shadows moved closer from the sides. Terrified, Woody backed up the car and turned around to escape the situation. He drove a short way and stopped, simply too shaken to safely navigate down the tore-up road. As Wes screamed at his brother to start the car, Woody saw a figure wrapped around a tree to the left. Wes said it moved like a chimpanzee. On Wes’s side, labored “sick bear” breathing approached his window.



A few moments later a nine-foot-tall, apish body-builder emerged from the treeline and slowly paced in front of the car. It meandered across the road while continuously rotating to stare down the men. After several back-and-forths, the beast mock-charged the car several times. In the final act of his three-part performance he completely collapsed forward and scurried away on all-fours. Utterly shocked, Wes admitted that he “looked just as comfortable on all fours as he did on two legs.”

Throughout this odd display, another creature, white and lithe, shot out the treeline. It bounded across the road like a spiked beach ball and disappeared. The brothers saw their opening and blasted down the road.

So, there it is. As the show gained intense steam, skeptics decided to try and shoot holes in their Bigfoot sighting. Basically, they say it was impossible for moonlight to shine that evening. Alright. Worth looking into I suppose, but it doesn’t break the story. Despite criticism, the show persists on the bedrock of this bizarre, backwoods Washington tale.

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#9 Pastor Has Demonic Sasquatch Sighting on Country Road

Location: Cass County, TX

YEAR: 2014



“I immediately believed I was looking at a demon.”

What happens when a man of God has a Bigfoot sighting?

It was a hot summer evening in Cass County, Texas. The area south of Wright Patman lake enjoys an abundance of forests, creeks, and wildlife. A pastor took his teenage son on a fishing trip. As they came over a hill, he stopped the truck when they saw what looked like a large black bear in the road, a rarity in those parts. To their shock, the “bear” stood up and turned around to face them.

The creature was eight to ten-feet-tall, and almost four-feet-wide at the shoulders. It was covered in dark brown fur about four inches long. The fur around the face was a slightly lighter color and revealed a wide flat nose and dark eyes. One of its massive hands, “the size of a canned ham,” clenched the remains of a dead cottonmouth snake.

The pastor was convinced that he was face to face with a demon. A strongly built man and retired law enforcement officer, he leaped out of his truck to face the creature despite the pleas of his terrified son. He preached gospel at the top of his lungs, and the creature responded with a roar “so loud and deep” he could feel the vibration in his own chest. The creature threw the dead snake well over their heads, then turned and ran with astonishing speed.

The pastor retrieved the snake as evidence and calmly turned the truck around to head home.

Bigfoot sightings in Texas can be especially strange. This report is certainly one of the strangest.

Read the full report here.

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#8 Sasquatch Chases Boys on ATV

LOCATION: Adams County, OH

YEAR: 2012



On November 9, 2012, in Adams County, Ohio, a young man and his four-year-old cousin had a terrifying Bigfoot sighting.

One day the pair went for a ride on the man’s ATV. They slowly climbed a hill on an old cattle road near the back of their family property. The young man casually eyed the terrain with the upcoming deer hunting season in mind. Suddenly, they heard a loud thumping noise and turned around. To their shock, a “large, dark brown, hairy man-like creature” chased them up the hill. The creature was about ten-feet-tall with long arms, a large head, a flat nose, and no visible neck.

The four-year-old cousin pointed at the creature as the young man desperately gunned the engine. The ATV crawled up the steep hill at ten miles an hour until they reached the summit, then suddenly accelerated to thirty. Yet they could not outpace the creature’s ten-foot strides until they reached the dirt road. The creature threw a small log at them, but they were now at a safe distance.

The young man was stunned by the encounter, but the cousin cheerfully remembers the chase of the “big hairy man.”

A year later, the same man returned to the same trail, again on the lookout for deer blinds. A number of deer carcasses in the area had been found with their legs mysteriously ripped off. Just as he finished setting up a portable deer blind, he noticed a large, dark gray, furry head staring at him from behind a tree. The creature swiftly vanished. Two recent Bigfoot sightings on the same property indicate a definite hotspot. Read the full sighting here.

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#7 The Window Peeker Video

LOCATION: Unknown

YEAR: 2015

This chilling, recent Bigfoot sighting took place sometime in 2015. We don’t know much about the witness and video recorder, but a short description accompanied the original upload:

“Every year the fruit just seemed to disappear overnight off my apple pear trees. Also the birdseed used to vanish without a trace. I thought it was raccoon or something and so I set up a camera. This is what was caught on camera. You can make up your own mind as to what it is.”

– Youtuber ‘beautifulplanet’ (a terminated account)

This Sasquatch sighting is simply terrifying. Imagine sitting next to your window in the summer time and this face appears. Actually, what face? Imagine you only see a pair of floating yellow eyes on a hairy, jet-black shape. The eyes have so much character. The hair color is intensely black. It remains on the edge of the window. It looks down into the room.

What could this be? There are dozens of Bigfoot sightings where these things cautiously and intently stare into windows at night. There are also reports of “dog men.” And this one feels much more animalistic than other Sasquatch sightings. Are we looking at a man in a mask with computer enhanced eyeballs, or is this a real Bigfoot?

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#6 I Think I Saw A Skunk Ape

LOCATION: Tunica, Mississippi

YEAR: 2013

“Here is exactly what I seen, I’m not sure what it is but can someone please tell me? Is there a person who can do video analyses or something? I got scared and ran away, i wish i stayed to keep taking the movie.”

– Josh Highcliff, Skunk Ape witness

If you didn’t yet realize, recent Bigfoot sightings occur all over: from the Pacific Northwest rainforest, to the swamps of Mississippi. These “things” are out there. Rarely, videos surface that pull back the curtain of these legendary creatures. This is one of the more impressive pieces of video evidence we have.

A man named Josh filmed this individual at dusk. It appears that the subject is foraging. Throughout the short clip, the dark being crouches in standing swamp water and pulls at the bark of the tree. It stands occasionally. Some Bigfoot video examiners suggest that a baby clings to the creatures back.

Once more, this is another video of foggy origin. No one knows Josh Highcliff. No one knows exactly where this was or any other context. That baby Bigfoot could easily be a backpack. It’s just a few feet too far away and a few pixels too blurry to identify one way or the other.

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The Ultimate Bigfoot Sightings Map

Data visualizer and current NASA employee Joshua Stevens created this Bigfoot sightings map. His map is arguably the best visual representation of encounters spread across the United States and Canada.

Joshua said that this dataset “has to be mapped.” He created this visual through some archival work, but mainly sourced the incredible database over at the BFRO. The organization has amassed thousands of reports. This Bigfoot sightings map charts reports from 1921 to 2013:

Upon first glance, the map seems to parallel basic population centers. The more people in an area, the more encounters, right? Not exactly. In his ‘Bigfoot or Big Population Effect?’ piece, Joshua determined several regions where encounters are proportionally rare. Even though some counties are high population, low sightings; there ARE areas that are low population, high sightings. These include Northern California, Northern Michigan, the border of Washington/Canada, & Coconino, Navajo, and Apache counties in Northern Arizona.

Overall, Washington, Northern California, the Ohio River valley, and Central Florida are the hot spots. This Bigfoot sightings map also includes a nifty timeline of Sasquatch culture to consider sighting frequency vs. overall population vs. Bigfoot popularity/awareness.