Bigfoot reports from the 1980s
1,047 cases, best-documented first. Page 10 of 11.
We map claims, not creatures. A case is what some source says someone saw or heard, with the link to that source. It is not proof that anything was there, and a retelling counts once, not as a second sighting.
Bigfoot · East Tiger Mountain, Washington · 1980s
Witnesses report that apes emerged from the woods, dragged a bear off the road, and violently shook and damaged a truck while three men hid in terror.
Bigfoot · Linn County, Oregon · 1988
Friend reports seeing a tall black figure run up the mountain in 1988.
Bigfoot · Council, Idaho · 1982
Witness reports that his friend, while driving late at night on HWY 95 near Grangerville, Idaho, saw a tall, dark, hairy bipedal creature identified as a "Big Foot" crossing the road.
Bigfoot · Shire of Narrogin, Western Australia · 1985
A girl who worked with the witness reported experiencing weird sounds and potentially seeing shelter-like constructions while walking in Dryandra Forest.
Bigfoot · Golden Trout Wilderness, California · 1987
Witness reports three men repairing a footbridge were frightened by a nine-foot-tall hairy beast screaming loudly and coming down a hillside.
Bigfoot · Humboldt County, California · 1989
Witness reports that children found large footprints on the Trinity River bank and [name] later examined them, noting their size and authenticity.
Bigfoot · Monticello, Utah · 1980s
Witness reports her husband and uncle observed large, bare-foot-shaped tracks in the snow on Blue Mountain that were not bear tracks.
Bigfoot · Stowe-by-Chartley, England · 1986
Witnesses report a large chimpanzee bounding after the stag, stopping to look at them, and bluff charging their vehicle.
Bigfoot · Village of Ellenville, New York · 1985
Witness reports seeing a large, bipedal creature with brown fur at Ice Cave Mountain in 1985.
Bigfoot · Thurston County, Washington · 1984
Witness reports a friend saw a large, upright, hairy creature moving quietly through Christmas tree farms near Patison Lake.
Bigfoot · Adelaide Hills Council, South Australia · 1982
Mrs'C' reports seeing a Yowie peering into her goat shed before it jumped the fence and walked away.
Bigfoot · Maysville, Kentucky · 1980
Witness reports a truck driver saw a 6-7 foot tall ape-like creature with white hair on the side of U.S. Route 68 in Mason County, Kentucky.
Bigfoot · Cessnock, New South Wales · 1983
Witness reports Mr B and friends saw a yowie on the verandah of their house during a storm.
Bigfoot · Anoka County, Minnesota · 1988
Witness reports that their two daughters saw a tall, beige, hair-covered creature in the woods near Hidden Lake and ran home.
Bigfoot · Northern Beaches, New South Wales · 1981
Witness reports Aboriginal elders describing a Yowie with a longer snout looking more like a dog or a bear.
Bigfoot · Dewey County, Oklahoma · 1983
Mr. and Mrs. [name] report hearing footsteps and seeing reddish-brown hair with a strong odor after an animal ran around their house.
Bigfoot · Hocking County, Ohio · 1980
[name] and [name] report seeing a large, muscular, reddish-eyed creature and finding footprints while hunting near Ash Cave State Park.
Bigfoot · Korora Basin, New South Wales · 1980s
Witness reports a friend seeing a silhouette form with no reflection near his car and asking about kangaroo size.
Bigfoot · Kershaw County, South Carolina · 1983
Witness reports that his sister-in-law's father encountered a large, black-haired humanoid creature while helping two women whose car had swerved off the road in Georgetown, SC.
Bigfoot · Boundary County, Idaho · 1987
A businessman reports hearing a terrifying, deep-throated scream from an unknown creature in the timber while walking on a logging road near Bonner's Ferry, Idaho.
Bigfoot · Georgetown, Ohio · 1986
Witness reports her sister saw a large, black, hairy animal running on two legs towards her in the woods near Georgetown.
Bigfoot · Harrietville, Victoria · 1986
Witness reports a large hairy creature thumped and scratched at his caravan for two nights before climbing onto the roof.
Bigfoot · Tiger Creek, Oregon · 1982
Forest Service officials and a volunteer search team leader reported that Mr. [name] claimed to have seen a Sasquatch and left deep footprints in the Watershed near Tiger Creek.
Bigfoot · Bundanoon, New South Wales · 1984
The witness's father found giant footprints in a sand quarry, which the witness later associated with Yowies due to livestock kills.
Bigfoot · Nevada City, California · 1987
Witness reports that he and a friend observed a dark-haired, humanoid creature running down a canyon towards them in late summer 1987.
Bigfoot · Lakehead, California · 1986
Witness reports that a friend named [name] saw a large ape-like creature steal a deer from his property and leave hair on a fence.
Bigfoot · Yancey County, North Carolina · 1988
Witness reports finding deep bipedal tracks in the snow on Mt. Mitchell that appeared to be made by a creature capable of climbing steep banks and leaping over obstacles.
Bigfoot · Roseburg, Oregon · 1989
Witness reports his father saw a grayish, two-legged animal screaming at him in the woods near Roseburg.
Bigfoot · Yale, Michigan · 1981
Witness reports that her daughters and cousin encountered a large, hairy, red-eyed creature standing on two legs in their barn.
Bigfoot · Longford, Victoria · 1986
Witness reports a hunter sighted and shot at a small yowie in the Pine forest at Longford a year later.
Bigfoot · Norfolk, England · 1988
An unnamed witness driving on the A1075 saw a shaggy, bipedal creature around seven feet tall that left drag marks.
Bigfoot · Crawford County, Illinois · 1987
Witness's cousin reports seeing a nine-foot tall bigfoot with white hair take two steps to cross the road.
Bigfoot · Benton County, Oregon · 1980s
Other family members report sightings of a tall furred biped in the early 80s near Benton that harassed dogs.
Bigfoot · Fredericktown, Missouri · 1986
Witness reports that he and his son-in-law found a large, three-toed footprint in saturated ground while cutting firewood.
Bigfoot · Central, Alaska · 1980s
A witness named [name] reports seeing a large figure bent over looking into a shaft door at the bottom of a mine before it darted away.
Bigfoot · Interlochen, Michigan · 1982
Witness reports that their stepbrother and a friend heard something yelling and rustling around their campsite perimeter in the woods near Traverse City, Michigan, causing them to flee.
Bigfoot · Lake Dulverton, Tasmania · 1987
Witnesses report seeing a silvery, ape-like creature about two metres tall near their tent at Lake Dulverton.
Bigfoot · Lenawee County, Michigan · 1980s
Witness recalls a childhood memory of seeing a glimpse of an animal-like creature with four or five people in a car.
Bigfoot · Walkerville, Montana · 1988
Witness reports two bigfoot creatures left massive footprints in frozen snow and ice around a ranch house after following the witnesses' tracks.
Bigfoot · Oberon Council, New South Wales · 1983
Witness and friend claim to have caught a glimpse of the animal running across the road in their headlights.
Bigfoot · LaFayette, Georgia · 1983
Witness reports that three cavers heard a strange vocalization sounding like four different animals while at Cornfield Sink on Pigeon Mountain.
Bigfoot · Truckee, California · 1984
Witness reports her husband found and showed her a large footprint in the dust near a dirt road in the Tahoe National Forest.
Bigfoot · Jackson County, Illinois · 1983
Witness reports that he and his father saw a creature growling on the bank before it pencil-dived into a pond and swam toward them while they were fishing.
Bigfoot · Dewey County, Oklahoma · 1983
Mr. [name] reports finding tracks along the creek after hunting for the animal that had previously been seen by his son.
Bigfoot · Torrington, New South Wales · 1980s
Witness reports their uncle found a dead, hairy creature about a metre tall and feared it was a deformed child.
Bigfoot · Silverton, Oregon · 1980
Witness reports that his wife's grandfather showed him a Big Foot den with hair and branches near the Little Pudding River.
Bigfoot · Vulcan State Forest, New South Wales · 1983
Witness reports seeing a large, seven-foot-tall creature covered in black hair standing among pine trees while riding a trail bike.
Bigfoot · Little Manistee River, Michigan · 1985
Witness reports a coworker confirmed a similar sighting near the Little Manistee River area in 1985.
Bigfoot · Bluff Creek, California · 1980s
Bob Gimlin found tracks at Bluff Creek several more times over the years, including casts of knee and hand prints.
Bigfoot · Carrollton, Georgia · 1982
The narrator reports hearing about a hairy creature who is scheduled to appear at Club Z-6 on March 4.
Bigfoot · Byhalia, Mississippi · 1983
Witness reports hearing a loud scream and awful smell while hunting raccoons with six people in October 1983.
Bigfoot · Teller County, Colorado · 1981
Witness reports that their uncle saw a huge, two-legged creature taller than any animal he had ever seen while working the graveyard shift at a mine.
Bigfoot · Pleasant Hill, Missouri · 1983
Witness reports his father and a friend heard a roar and shriek from a large creature in dense woods and fled.
Bigfoot · Lincoln, Nebraska · 1980
Witness reports a man on a motorcycle encountered a bigfoot-like creature that ran in front of him near the Lincoln Electric Co. building.
Bigfoot · Bellevue, Washington · 1984
Witness reports reading about Bigfoot tracks found under a bedroom window in the suburbs of Bellevue, Washington.
Bigfoot · Lewiston, California · 1982
Witness reports that while driving late at night near Lewiston, they initially mistook a large animal for a bear before realizing it was bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Cannock Chase, England · 1980s
Witness's sister and her boyfriend saw a horse-bodied humanoid creature on the verge of Cannock Chase in the early 1980s.
Bigfoot · Kowmung River, New South Wales · 1989
Witness reports seeing a very tall, extremely hairy humanoid standing in the Kowmung River before it ran up a steep bank.
Bigfoot · Dickson, Tennessee · 1987
Witness reports that his daughter was followed and attacked by a bigfoot at Ruskin Cave Park, which then stood outside their window staring in.
Bigfoot · Elkhorn, Wisconsin · 1980s
The Beast of Bray Road is reported as a hairy biped resembling Bigfoot that walks on its hind legs and was first reported in the 1980s.
Bigfoot · Kernville, California · 1985
Witness reports hearing loud, shrill screams and feeling a palpable vibe from an unknown creature while camping on the Kern Plateau in October 1985.
Bigfoot · Lake County, Florida · 1980
Witness reports that investigators found large footprints in the Ocala National Forest, leading to speculation about a 'skunk ape' despite doubts about their authenticity.
Bigfoot · Dunoon, New South Wales · 1981
Three young bushwalkers report encountering two hairy, man-like creatures that walked on their hind legs and resembled gorillas but were brown with straight legs.
Bigfoot · Centerville, Indiana · 1989
Witness reports hearing loud growling and hollering noises from an unknown creature while camping in Indiana, leading them to suspect Bigfoot.
Bigfoot · Clackamas County, Oregon · 1980s
Friend and her brother saw a giant white monkey walk up a hill away from trash cans.
Bigfoot · Calaveras County, California · 1984
Witness reports seeing footprints in the summer of 1984 near Beartrap Cabin.
Bigfoot · McDowell County, West Virginia · 1988
A family spotted a tall black creature walking on the mountain while driving on the highway ten years prior to the report.
Bigfoot · Drummonds, Tennessee · 1981
Witness reports a friend and he heard a loud vocalization from an unseen creature while calling coyotes in a field at night.
Bigfoot · Lake Dulverton, Tasmania · 1989
A couple from Launceston reportedly saw a tall, hairy figure roaming around the lake at sunset.
Bigfoot · Saint Tammany Parish, Louisiana · 1980
Witness reports that his stepbrother's friend and the friend's father saw a large, dark, hairy creature pull a cypress stump from the mud at the edge of a river in Honey Island Swamp.
Bigfoot · Lake Hughes, California · 1980s
Witness recounts reading a report from the 1980s about someone seeing a big hairy thing by a road in the area.
Bigfoot · Green Cove Springs, Florida · 1986
Witness reports that their mother saw a tall, skinny, hairy creature running across a paved road in Florida.
Bigfoot · Monroe County, Indiana · 1982
Witness reports that he and two companions felt watched by a creature on a ridge near the White River in 1982, which followed them to their truck.
Bigfoot · Emerald, Victoria · 1988
Witness [name] reports being chased by a two-legged black beast with enormous strength that lifted his car and left footprints.
Bigfoot · Emery County, Utah · 1989
Witness reports that he and his friend heard a loud, penetrating scream in James Canyon that resembled a mix of a baby crying, a mountain lion roaring, and a bull snorting.
Bigfoot · East Tiger Mountain, Washington · 1980s
Witnesses report that apes attacked their truck and dragged a bear off the road, causing them to hide in fear.
Bigfoot · North Ayrshire, Alba / Scotland · 1980s
An old miner from Ayr claims to have seen a huge black animal on the Monkton roundabout.
Bigfoot · 1980s
Kanamarí Indians allegedly raised two baby mapinguaris in the Rio Juruá valley before releasing them due to their smell.
Bigfoot · 1980s
Witness reports a dark red, horned Demon-Centaur with a horse's lower body and man's upper torso stared at him from under street lights before running away into darkness.
Bigfoot · Victoria, Australia · 1985
Witness reports his son [name] encountered a brown, hairless-necked female creature with sagging breasts in Four-Mile Creek that smelled like chicken broth.
Bigfoot · New Jersey · 1989
Witness reports seeing a large humanoid over eight feet tall walking on a mound near an abandoned airport in New Jersey in 1989.
Bigfoot · British Columbia, Canada · 1986
Witness reports seeing a nine to ten foot tall black animal on a trail and finding a bed made of huckleberry leaves.
Bigfoot · Queensland, Australia · 1987
An SAS sergeant observed and sketched a creature he initially presumed was a sniper but was actually a yowie.
Bigfoot · Lancashire, England · 1980s
Witness D.B. reports seeing a large, dark, unclothed figure approaching his position during military training in the 1980s, which was illuminated by a tripwire flash and later snarled at him from…
Bigfoot · 1987
Witnesses report a large, hairy, half-man half-animal creature chased their vehicle after jumping from a water tank.
Bigfoot · Ohio · 1980s
A witness working on a farm near the Great Miami River saw something in the tree line that looked like a hunter with a fur coat.
Bigfoot · Minnesota · 1980s
Witness reports a couple saw dark figures moving around their campsite and crossing a dirt road in the headlights.
Bigfoot · Queensland, Australia · 1982
Witness reports Miss [name] and her boyfriend saw a Yowie at dusk in the forest near Springbrook's lookout.
Bigfoot · Victoria, Australia · 1980s
Witness reports that a group of five boys on motorbikes encountered a hairy creature with long arms and a face/neck/shoulders visible while hiding on a hilltop.
Bigfoot · British Columbia, Canada · 1988
Witness reports a 10-foot tall hairy creature walking between cabins and into the woods, displaying yellow eyes and making kooky noises.
Bigfoot · Virginia · 1982
Witness's great grandmother reports a large figure standing outside her window around 3:00 AM.
Bigfoot · Louisiana · 1980s
The speaker recounts an encounter by [name] near Zwollo, Louisiana in the 1980s.
Bigfoot · British Columbia, Canada · 1982
A boy scout leader reports a creature buzzing tents and making weird noises during a campout in 1982.
Bigfoot · North Carolina · 1987
Witness reports seeing a large, hairy creature near his Land Cruiser in the woods while catfishing with his father-in-law.
Bigfoot · Queensland, Australia · 1986
Witness reports a 50-year-old female saw a very large hairy creature with matted dark brown hair and an exposed dark face walking across a walking track at Barron River Falls.
Bigfoot · New Mexico · 1980s
Witness reports a large, black, bipedal creature with a putrid stench and human-like hand attempted to enter a cabin through an unlocked door before running away in the moonlight.
Bigfoot · 1980
Witness reports police and search parties in the triangle found nothing despite calls about a man-beast, though one cruiser was reportedly lifted.
Bigfoot · Arizona · 1982
Witness reports that he and two friends heard an incredibly loud howl while camping in the mountains of Arizona in 1982.
Bigfoot · Victoria, Australia · 1985
Witness reports a tall, stocky, hairy creature jumping over a fence and later throwing rocks at them.
Bigfoot · Queensland, Australia · 1984
Witnesses report a larger black-furred creature with a muscular arm and lighter face reaching out to take the smaller creature away.