Number of Witnesses: possibly a few boys my age.
Length of Observation: Less then 30 seconds.
Animal Description: Sick frightfull emashiated look. Thin boney,suffering in appearance typical of a
rabid animal,except this creature walked on two legs.Had short manged hair with spots missing. It had an exagerated devilish smile.I felt that it didn’t want to smile but its smile was actualy a painfull

’83, early fall, 6-ish pm. I was dirt bike riding, I stopped on the top of a hill, over looking Oriskany creek. Just to smoke, relax and enjoy the woods/area. I was looking around me, down the hill to check out the creek. On a dirt bike trail, approx 75 feet away I saw a 7+ foot thall “thing” standing there, looking at me. I stared for 10-15 seconds until I relized what I was seeing. I took off, I’ve never gone riding alone in this area since. I live 1.5 miles from this spot and still ride. Where I seen this is about .5 miles from a old (’50s, no rides or building left) play ground/amusement park), .7 miles from a landfill/dump, 1 mile from the Flats – a large flooding plain with rail road tracks through it, the Erie canal, the Barge canal and Mohawk river.

Number of Witnesses: 4
Length of Observation: Sighing was 2 seconds, footprints and smell awhile
Animal Description: Fast and dark color
Aprox. Height: ?
Aprox. Weight: ?
Head/Facial Description: Pic of footprint are about 18 inches
Any Odor? If so, Description: Yes , bad feet smell and something dead mix
Vocalizations Heard?: Abnormal noise at just after sun down in summer
Wood Knocks Heard?: Yes
Physical Evidence? : Tracks
Recordings Made?: No
Footprints in march , dog going crazy and smells in may, footprints in July, vocals and wood knocking in aug, footprints in sept, possible sighing in oct and rock thrown at us, march 2012 trail camera tree knocked down pic of poss hand, footprint in may 2012

Number of Witnesses: One – just me as far as I know
Length of Observation: 2 or 3 minutes
Animal Description: Did not see
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Vocalizations Heard?: yes
Wood Knocks Heard?: Yes
Recordings Made?: No
I was in my tree stand hunting. I had noted that for the past week or two, the deer in the area had been acting strange. I thought it was due to hunters, but it seemed like something else might be to blame. My friend had told me that something had growled at his father about 2 miles from where I was situated and that he didn’t know what it was. Just at dusk, I heard a howl come from nearby; I’m guessing no more then 75 yards away. It was the scariest noice Ive ever heard. I know it wasn’t a coyote or bear. It made the hair on my neck stand up. As soon as the howl ended, coyotes for miles around started howling. Then, it repeated its howl and sounded even closer. I heard a shot off in the distance and then everything stopped and it got really quiet. I decided it was time to leave!

Number of Witnesses: over the years about 8
Length of Observation: 3-4 min ov vocalizations
Animal Description: never seen by me
Vocalizations Heard?: yes

Wish to let you know there have been instances around this area (Verona) since 1974, vocalizations. Would hear them for a couple of years then several years of quiet, It has been about 12 years since it was last heard. Curious to know of any reports.

Number of Witnesses: three other people one adult two children 16 and 17
Length of Observation: about 20 min
Animal Description: none
Vocalizations Heard?: none
Physical Evidence? (hold Ctrl key to select more than one): Tracks
Four of us two adults and two children 16 and 17 were hiking on the Lapland Pond trail in the Black
Mountains near Lake George, NY. We were on a three day hiking trip staying at the Lapland Pond lean to and then onto Millman Pond lean to. Our trip started at the trail access at Pike Brook Road trail parking area Friday afternoon Sept 14th, we hiked to the Lapland pond lean to to camp for the night, the weather was warm on Friday and the weather called for a front to pass thru later that night, in the evening the sky got cloudy later that night when the front came thru it had showered at around 2am for about a half hour. In the morning we packed our gear and left for the Millman Pond lean to. As we started out we past the Lapland pond area and headed off the access trail for Millman lean to heading south. It was at this point about a 1/2 mile into the hike we came to a point in the trail where a stream had crossed the trail path.Their was an area in on the trail where the ground was wet an muddy it is here where I noticed a very large footprint in the soft earth on the trail path. As I was in the front of the other hikers we all stopped.I could clearly see toe imprints in the foot print as it appeared to be a right foot based on where the toe was positioned. As we looked around we could see other impressions in the ground most of them were off the trail and in the leaves (woods) beside the hiking trail. From looking at the prints it appears the tracks first start in the woods coming towards the trail almost parallel heading south.at one point the right foot steps onto the muddy area on the trail itself after that their are no other tracks to be found. At this point we decided to take some photo’s of the print the only camera we had were the Iphone . We took several photo in order to get the right angle to be able to get a good shot. As we left the area this was Saturday the 15th we headed for the Millman pond. On our way back on Sunday as we past the area were we found the prints they were still there so I decided to take some more photo with my hiking shoe next to the print for scale. My hiking shoe is 12inches long, the size of
the print was about 15 inches long and about 6 to7 inches wide, the impression in the ground was about an 1 inch deep. You could see where the mud had squeezed up between the toes in the impression. I have one really good photo of the print.

Number of Witnesses: first time in 1965 1 witness. second time in 1980’s 1 witness.
third time in 2010 there were 3 or 4 witnesses.
Length of Observation: Each time was only for a few seconds because of the fear of my family
members.
Animal Description: Very tall reddish brown hairy.
Aprox. Height: 7 to 8 feet tall.
Head/Facial Description: When my brother saw bigfoot in 1965 he said he saw something staring
thru our livingroom window that was covered in reddish brown hair and had red eyes. Second encounter by my other brother was actually footprints in the mud near the canal behind Lewis supermarket in Hudson falls. Last year my nephew and his friends were playing basketball at his home on Leavy hollow road one of them looked towards the wooded area and saw a huge man covered in reddish brown hair staring at them. G*7K48They were terrified and ran into the house to get my brother. By the time he got outside the creature was gone.
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: Yes
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
Please see above in animal description.

Number of Witnesses: Shandellee… myself and my parents. Roundtop… myself.
Length of Observation: Both experiences lasted no more than a few minutes.
Animal Description: Shandellee… vocal and very smelly. Roundtop… very vocal.
Aprox. Height: unknown
Aprox. Weight: unknown
Head/Facial Description: unknown
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Any Odor? If so, Description: Shandelee… It smelled so bad that it woke my parents and myself out of a dead sleep. I can only describe it as a mix of a wet dog, a skunk, and roadkill. Roundtop… it was further up the mountion and out of smell range.
Vocalizations Heard?: Shandelee… mostly low grunts and mutters. Roundtop… started as low gutteral growl and proceeded to a high pitch scream.
Wood Knocks Heard?: Yes
Physical Evidence? Tree Structures Found
Recordings Made?: No
Shandelee, the fall of 1973… Mind you the road we lived on would become a snowmobile route only during the winter months…. Shandelee had a abundance of wildlife, clear water, and many forms of edible fruit and plants… we had an abandoned apple orchard on both sides of the road next to our home… which the local deer herd frequented often. As a hunter I would run across several Indian stoneworks in the woods in the area. Most were only simple flat flagstone structures. There was one in the woods behind the house in a thirty foot clearing in the woods along a path I took as a shortcut to get to the school bus. This one was different than the other Indian stoneworks… this one was a huge “chair or throne” made from very large flat flagstones. My feet would dangle a few feet off the ground when I sat in it. The seat was probably nearly four foot square and it had large wide arm rests. The back was of one stone and was at least ten foot to its top. When I went back there to the “throne”…. I always had the feeling I was being watched. My mom had a compost pit next to the house, and after having the local critters which included the black bear that lived nearby and the coons and other opportunists constantly take advantage of the goodies in the pit, I put a large flagstone over it. Well that kept the little guys out of it but the bear was able to move the stone… so I put a larger stone and piled more on top of that which finally kept the bear out of it. One fall evening we were sleeping with the windows
open when we were awakened by a terrible stench. I went to the window and heard grunts and
mutters… and smelled the worst smell ever. I could not clearly see in the dark night… but the dark
figure I did see at the pit was much bigger than our smaller black bear “neighbor”. My mom came in to my room at this point and asked if I smelled what she smelled and if the bear was back. I was not about to go out and get a closer look at the creature. When I checked the pit in the morning… the stones were literally tossed away from the pit… the bear would basically “slide” the stone from the pit just enough to stick his paw down into it. After all these years I have thought a lot about that stone throne in the clearing in the woods and have come to the conclusion that the early Indians that lived there on Shandelee Lake built that throne to honor the big hairy creature(s) that lived on the mountiantop with them. I did not think to look around for tracks…. there were no stories and shows like there is today which always talks about tracks. Today it is a given to look for tracks.
Roundtop, the fall of 1973…. One night, my school buddy and myself were going to camp out in his tree fort up the side of Roundtop behind his house. He got in trouble and couldn’t go… so I went up the mountian to camp out by myself. The fort was built right over the trail that led further up the mountian.
That night I heard his dog run up the trial barking like he meant it. Right after that the horses came
running hard down the trail whinnying like they were scared out of the heads. I then heard the strangest animal sound I ever heard. It had to be up the mountian toward the top about 500 yards or so. It started out as a low gutteral growl and progressed into a very high pitched scream… this made every hair on me stand straight up. The dog came running back down the trail after the vocalization…. he was whinning and whimpering and scared to death. I sat up the rest of the night holding a very large iron skillet just in case what ever was up there with me stuck its head up through the entry hole in the floor of the fort. I was familar with the wild cats “screams” which was similar to what I heard, but they would sound more like a baby or a female scream with no very low gutteral growl. A few years later I went to see the movie “The legend of Bogie Creek”. In that movie they supposedly had a actual recording of a Bigfoot scream…. to my discomfort, it sounded exactly like what I heard that night.
For all these years, I always wondered why the Pacific Northwest was the only place where bigfoot was being reported… and was I crazy for thinking I had bigfoot experiences in upstate NY? Then recently I seen where the have had very good sightings in Whitehall NY. Maybe I wasn’t mistaken after all…. I know the Catskills mountians have a abundance of animals, fish, fruit, edible plants, and crystal clear water as well as shelter… enough to easily support any omnivore that lives off the land, heck I could live off what I could gleen from the woods up in those mountians… and have done so on many occations when I camped in caves and hunted or fished for chow. If I could do it…. I’m sure bigfoot could do it.

Number of Witnesses: 2
Length of Observation: 20-30 minutes
Animal Description: no visual
Aprox. Height: n/a
Aprox. Weight: n/a
Head/Facial Description: n/a
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Any Odor? If so, Description: there was a distinct odor it was putrid,and heavy around the area so
much that i thought it was still there ,the odor was that of a foul nature like a fridge that was un plugged and left in the sun with stuff in it then you unwhittingly open it!
Vocalizations Heard?: yes there were screams but they were from quite a distance like 200-300ft
away but even at that range they were very disturbing,unnatural
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Physical Evidence? : Tree Structures Found
Recordings Made?: No
I was home sleeping as I worked nights at the time, my friend came up to my room and woke me up and was frantic,she said grab your gun and come with me,she didn’t tell me what was the problem till we were driving to the spot, we went into the woods and she brought me to this spot that was unlike anything I have ever seen, I have been shooting scince I was 5 off my uncles lap and been fishing scince I was 3 on pecks lake,been hunting scince I was able to,what I saw defied any logical explination,there were sapplings of iron wood,and ash from 3-5+ inches in diameter that were twisted off about 2-3 inches from the ground,then what ever did this cleared out an area that was at my best guess 25′ by 55′ and used the twisted branches like it was weaving between the saplings it had left standing ,this structure was like a fish trap,that I have seen in multiple survival books,this was not for fish,but rather I think deer,there was a second “fence” if you will running parralell to the inside one with these like jut ins ,and there were jut ins along the outside “fence” that opposed the ones on the inside ,when we got to the spot my friend was very nervous,we smelled this foul pugnent odor that seemed to linger there as we approached the spot it grew stronger,we were there checking it out,when we heard this scream off in the distance and one that seemed a bit closer, that was our cue to skid out,we were both very nervous when leaving having the feeling of being watched by someone or some thing. I will be going in to this spot soon around may first as turkey opens I will not walk into these woods unarmed, my friend
will be bringing his new camera with a very powerful lense, we will try to photograph the spot if it is not over grown there should still be the remnants of the sapling that were twisted off any new info will be conveyed to you thank you for reading my story.

Number of Witnesses: 1
Length of Observation: Approx 10 minutes
Any Odor? If so, Description: No
Vocalizations Heard?: No
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
While ascending a tree using a climbing treestand I began to hear something approaching. It was
stomping one foot and stepping normally with the other. It continued this until it got to where I had
came through. It had stopped at my trail. At that point it was dead quiet. I tried to shine my light in that direction but the light would not penetrate that far. I whistled to try to see who was there. At this point it was about 60 yards away. All of a sudden whatever it was started back where it came from while stomping one foot and stepping normally with the other. There were not a lot of branches breaking either. The trees it had come through were pine trees while all the other trees around were hardwoods. I was pretty scared at that point and thought someone was playing a joke on me or trying to scare me.
Alltogether I thought the experience was very strange.
I sent out an email to the witness (Greg ), on this past weekend ( 5-13-2012 ) and received a reply on Tuesday ( 5-15-2012 ). He was quite pleased and surprised, he actually got a reply from NESRA.. so quickly. He had submitted a report with the BFRO (first), and has yet to get a reply. He stated that the “Finding Bigfoot” series got him interested enough, to want to submit his report. He described the incident in more detail, in his email to me. As well as something “stomping” on the game trail at around 5 AM while still dark out, there was an large object tossed his way.. what he thinks was a either a rock or piece of heavy wood, by the sound of it crashing through the trees. He told me, he considered it being a meteor or something natural..more than another human (or creature) being out there at that hour, and throwing something his way. The only thing that presently has me questioning this incident.. is the conflict in the year that this incident happened. In the report, he states it was 1995. When he emailed his response and further details.. he told me he thought it happened in 2002. I have suggested, that we meet sometime for breakfast, and strongly hinted… that I would like to see the area and location this incident happened. At that time (or in future email conversations), I am going to ask him.. again, about the year it happened (casually) and note any reaction (or confusion). Will follow up further, as things hopefully develop. After a few email exchanges with the witness (Greg) .. he is not interested at this time, in meeting with me, or taking me to the location, and told me he will consider it fore the future. He
has agreed to stay in touch, and I encouraged him to join the NESRA forum. That is about all I can really do, at this time… regarding this report.