Number of Witnesses: Myself
Length of Observation: Aproximately 5 sec.
Animal Description: Black?? Very Huge!!
Aprox. Height: Approx 8′- 9′
Aprox. Weight: 400+ my guess
Head/Facial Description: Big head!
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: Yes
Any Odor? If so, Description: No smell!!!
Vocalizations Heard?: YES
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
My 2 brothers and myself were fishing in town (Pottersville). Sun was starting to set. My mother showed up to  return us back home. She asked me if I wanted to put my bike in the trunk of the car, I replied “No” I’ll ride it home. My 2 brothers went with her. As I got to Landing Hill Rd. (which i lived) It’s a long steep paved rd. with no street lights!!And I lived at the top. The sun had set and it was dusk!! And by the time i got to where i encountered this figure,which is approx.1/2 mi. from town. I got this weird feeling something was watching me!!! So being I did’nt want to push my 10 speed bike, i shifted it to first gear!!! very slow but better than walking!! I could see uphead of me about 40′ or so. All of a sudden out of NOWHERE!!!! This Huge Black figure Jumped out in front of me into the center lane!!!! I was appoximately 20′ from IT!!!!! It GRUNTED Something Like “GET OUT OF HERE”??? Very deep grunt!!! SCARED the living S@#T!!!! RIGHT OUT OF ME!!!!! Spun my bike around so fast and hitting every gear i could, I hear this thing which sounded like small rocks hitting the road beside me!!!! Trying not to wreck focused my sight on the solid yellow line!!!! Finally at the bottom of Landing Hill i waited under the streetlight for about 2 hrs. until my dad came looking for me!!! asked me what was wrong!! told him what happened he laughed. Asked me on the way back where i saw this thing!!!! Showed him where!!! So he decides to stop and gets out!!!! He told me nothing could jump to the center lane, the way i explained to him, because there was a bank which was about 15′ to the centerlane with heavy woods. The banks were of dirt and sand. To make matters worse he say’s There’s no Tracks!!!! So needless to say He never believed me!!!!! I KNOW WHAT I SAW!!!!! I never rode my bike or walked up or down this rode at night ever again!!!!! I’ve Told people of my experience and most say If it was bigfoot???? They can’t speak!!!!! WANNA BET!!!!!!!

Number of Witnesses: one, me
Length of Observation: about 100 feet away
Animal Description: very tall couldn’t be any human
Aprox. Height: about 8 to 9 feet tall
Aprox. Weight: about 200 to 400 lbs
Head/Facial Description: hairy, his face looked like it was looking for something
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Vocalizations Heard?: long howl, but there are many dogs on this street
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
i was sitting on a medium sized rock hunting with a pellet gun, and i heard, out of the blue, a long howl, almost like a moan and i heard leafs scrunching like some one was walking around and that’s when i saw him. Bigfoot himself.

Number of Witnesses: 1
Length of Observation: 3 – 10 minutes
Animal Description: See below
Aprox. Height: 7 – 7.5 feet
Aprox. Weight: 400-500 lbs.
Head/Facial Description: Facial profile had a blunt nose and a protruding chin and brow. Investigator
Commentary from Witness Interview: Witness described head as large and rounded atop a
thick/muscular neck with a heavy brow ridge. Witness said the size and breadth of head gave it a dome appearance like a helmet. Witness said head structure and facial features were similar to a Chimpanzee head and not like Gorilla Head (crown was not heavily saggital or pointed).
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: Yes
Any Odor? If so, Description: Yes, a strong “musk” smell – not really a stench but more like you
would have with a large group of animals in a pen.
Vocalizations Heard?: A grunt – see encounter details.
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
While breaking the limbs for my fire, I heard a rustle in the underbrush and thought it was a red fox that had visited near my “camp” areas before begging for bits of hot dog. I did not pay much attention to it but then I heard a limb break in response to the one I had broken. I turned, expecting to see one of the other kids that live in the area. I saw, instead, a crouching dark brown, hair-covered figure. At first I thought it was a bear, but it then stood up on two legs. It was at least seven feet tall with long arms and huge “hands” (not paws.) It looked like it had a recent injury to its right leg, as the hair was not as thick and the skin in the area was what looked like to be a dark pink. Its eyes were large with dark brown on black coloring. It seemed more curious than threatening, but at 16, I was scared. We both heard what sounded like an ATV and it turned its head in the direction of the sound. The face profile hand a blunt nose and a protruding chin and brow. I think it growled or grunted at the sound and then looked back at me then started off at a quick pace up the hill toward a denser area of trees. It became obvious it was a
male as it left, as identifiable anatomy was present.

Investigator Commentary from Witness Interview:
Witness estimated the time of encounter somewhere between 3-10 minutes and said he was very
unnerved about sighting and with adrenaline rushing, couldn’t say for sure exactly how fast things
happened.
Witness indicated his purpose at the encounter location was to do some hiking and wildlife watching as well as search for some caves rumored to be in the area. The greater area around this location is noted for its numerous caves and caverns (some of which can be toured commercially at Howe Caverns or Secret Caverns.) The witness said he was (and still is) a spelunker and was looking for caves in this area that were rumored to exist from various acquaintances he spoke with. No one he spoke with had been to these caves nor could confirm the exact location of them, so he was scouting the area. Witness never did find the caves. He started hiking in the AM and planned to build a makeshift lean-to/campsite for the evening and cook some hot dogs for dinner and retire.
Witness said the creature approached his campsite from the woods and made snapping sounds that got louder on approach. Witness estimated the approach lasted approximately 5 minutes and he initially thought the approach sounds/branch snaps were from a “friendly” fox, deer or possibly another human. Witness was snapping gathered branches in preparation of starting a fire in the fire ring for cooking. After the approach sounds stopped, witness began to hear branch snapping mimicry at close range – witness would snap a branch and then hear something do the same almost immediately. After a few mimic snaps, witness became intrigued and looked to right of fire pit in a westerly direction to where he was hearing the mimicking snaps and saw the creature crouched at about 10 – 20 ft. away. Creature was partially obscured from witness, crouched behind large a large oak or maple tree trunk.
Witness said creature stood up as soon as he spotted it. Both the witness and creature stood and
observed each other intently for a period of time.
Additional Creature Description Details:
Witness said creature stood with its left arm up holding on to tree branch above it and right arm
hanging by its side. Witness indicated the arms of creature were unusually long (compared to a human). Witness described creature had what looked like a healing injury on its right leg just below knee. Witness described the area as a patch without complete hair and pinkish scar. Witness described normal skin of creature was much darker – see blow.
Hair on Creature: Witness described the creature’s coat was definitely more hair-like than fur-like and hair was fairly clean with little matting.
Color: Brown with auburn highlights
Hair described as having a “nice sheen”
Hair density described as heavy on the arms and legs and long in these areas (3-4″ in length)
Hair density described as thinner on the chest and shorter in these areas (1-2″ in length)
Hair on back of feet and hands very thin and none on palms or on foot pads. Hair was thin
around face and portions of chest.
Witness described the hair around the face and ears was more “silky” than the hair atop the head and said the hair on top blended down the back with the back hair. He described an indent were the head hair ended at the neck and the back hair started. The hair on head seemed shorter than on back and not as thick and closer to the skin whereas the back hair seemed a bit “shaggy”.
Hands & Feet: Witness described the creature’s feet looked like “furry slippers” with no hair on bottom or edges and feet skin appeared calloused and thick. Witness described hands as large with clearly- defined opposable thumbs and “leathery” palms. Witness noted the thumb appeared longer than a human’s proportionally and described the thumbs as “more elongated”. Witness said hair on back of hands and feet was less dense and thick than other parts of body and there appeared to be no hair on palms or on the foot pads or edges of feet. Skin: Witness described skin color on most of body, feet and hands as very dark dark brown to charcoal. Witness described skin tone of face as a “sandalwood dark brown”. Eyes: Witness described eye color as “dark brown or black-on-black” with no discernible whites in the eyes noticeable. Witness said that this characteristic of the eyes was particularly unnerving.
Locomotion and Gait: Witness described creature’s gait as a forward-leaning, gliding motion like a
cross country skier. Witness noted that the hill on which the creature retreated was very steep (45-50 degree angle) with loose rock and branches. Witness said he was intrigued with the ease and speed with which the creature traversed this difficult terrain without the need to hold on to trees as it moved or the fact that it never slipped and lost its footing. After the ATV was heard, the creature vocalized/grunted and turned northerly and retreated up the hill towards a thicker patch of woods. Witness said as the creature retreated, it stepped over an old 4′-high pasture rock wall with ease. At the time the ATV was heard, witness noted that animal had to turn its head and upper torso as it turned in direction of the sound – it did not turn its neck independently.
Vocalization: Witness described that the creature “grunted” at the sound of an ATV approaching and described the grunt as a deep, bass-y, gruff grunt that lasted 1-2 seconds long. Witness characterized it as a seemingly “annoyed grunt”.
Additional Notes:
Post-Encounter: Immediately after creature retreated, witness said he grabbed his gear and ran out of the area. Witness said he lost a hatchet and a emergency blanket in the rush leaving and never found them when he returned to area. Witness said he was partly getting away from the creature and also trying not to been seen by the people on the ATV.
Witness said he knows of no other encounter reports in his immediate area, but did say he has heard of reports from neighboring counties (Otsego, Schenectady, Albany).
Witness also said, around time of encounter, there was a rash of activity that many locals were
attributing to a nefarious black bear. Most notably, a local farmer’s grain silo had been broken
into/damaged and grain feed stolen and/or consumed. Also, he was hearing complaints from
friends/acquaintances about animal traps (mostly rabbit snares) being raided – the snared animals taken and traps torn up.
Witness also noted that his dog, a medium sized shepherd mix, began behaving oddly for a few days before and a few weeks following the incident and would not leave his yard and refused to enter the wood line behind his house as the animal had always done .
Interview conducted by NESRA Investigator, C. Bartow, 7/14/2012.
5/30/2012 – Accepted encounter assignment and sent witness email requesting interview follow-up.
7/14/2012 – Completed in-depth phone interview with witness. Witness said exact location of encounter happened across the road from his rural house in West Richmondville off Rt. 7 near crossroad with Mill Street, Northwest from intersection. Witness estimated he was approximately 1 mile from the edge of Rt. 7 at time of the encounter. Witness requests exact location be kept confidential, as he found out later he was on private property/tresspassing. Witness indicates property is still privately-owned, but he does not know who the current owner is. GPS Coordinates: 42.641031,-74.581718 (approximate location of Rt. 7 entry point to woods)

Number of Witnesses: 1
Length of Observation: The man who saw him said it was over within 3 seconds.
Animal Description: Over 6 feet, brown, almost ape-like, but more human.
Aprox. Height: Over 6 feet
Aprox. Weight: Maybe 300lbs.
Head/Facial Description: Didn’t see much of it.
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Any Odor? If so, Description: Yes, like a garbage dump.
Vocalizations Heard?: no
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
It was crossing the street in front of witness in the dark. Only the headlights caught it.

Number of Witnesses: 1
Length of Observation: A few seconds while driving.
Animal Description: Large dark brown to black beast walking upright. Think legs and arms. Bipedal,
arms/forelegs were swinging by the sides, not out in front like a bear.
Aprox. Height: 7 to 8 feet tall
Aprox. Weight: 250 to 300 pounds
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: Yes
I was driving to work at Water Safari when I happened to look up away from the main road and down a dead end side road and caught a large, dark colored, bipedal animal walking through a clearing just off the side road. The arms were down by the side of the creature as it strode through the clearing. The unknown animal was a solid dark brown to black color.

Number of Witnesses: 4
Length of Observation: A minute, maybe a minute and a half. Not very long at all.
Animal Description: 8 feet tall. Reddish brown hair that was longer on the body than on the head. No
hair on face. Head came to a point. Slightly stooped over. Legs bent slightly at knees. Small eyes with reddish tint/eyeshine.
Aprox. Height: 8 feet
Aprox. Weight: 400 or 500 lbs
Head/Facial Description: Head came to a point at the top. Did not see the ears. Nos barely visible. No
hair on face.
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Any Odor? If so, Description: A very fowl odor. Like a combination of skunk, BO and urine.
Vocalizations Heard?: It grunted once
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Physical Evidence? (hold Ctrl key to select more than one): Hair Samples
Tracks
Recordings Made?: No
It was october 25th 1995. Myself and three other friends were driving back to Delhi from Oneonta. We took the mountain road as it is a short cut between the two towns. It was about 6pm and we were driving around a sharp bend in the road when my friend who was driving literally slammed on the brakes. We saw a very large hairy creature sitting on a large rock. It looked like it had been eating tree roots. When he heard the car he stood straight up and proceed to cross the road in front of the car, about 10 feet away. It only took about 1 and a half strides for it to get across. As it was crossing it turned for a moment to look at us and grunted. It proceed down a very steep/deep ravine and disapeared into the trees.

Number of Witnesses: 1
Length of Observation: LESS THAN I MINUTE
Animal Description: n/a
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: NOT THAT I SMELLED
Vocalizations Heard?: CRY & THEN SNORT
Wood Knocks Heard?: Yes
Physical Evidence?Tree Structures Found
Recordings Made?: No
WHILE TAKING A HIKE ON OUR PROPERTY ON EDDY RD IN HADLEY, WHICH I HAVE DONE MANY TIMES ,I HEARD LOUD BANGING OF WOOD OR SOMETHING ON THE TREES ABOUT APPROX 30 YRDS IN FRONT OF ME. I THOUGHT MABEY SOMEONE WAS TREASPESSING ON MY PROPERTY SO I CONTINUED TOWARD THE BANGING ,THERE IS DENCE BRUSH & SAPLINGS ALL OVER THE AREA SO I COULDN’T SEE MUCH BUT  THEN I HEARD WHAT SOUNDED LIKE A HIGH PICTHED CRY AND THEN A GUTTERAL GRUNT OR GROWL IF
YOU WILL ,I WAS ARMED AT THAT TIME AND YELLED VERY LOUD THINKING IT WAS A BEAR OR BUCK OR ? THEN I HEARD THRASHING COMING TOWARDS ME IT SCARED THE HECK OUT ME BUT THEN IT SEEMED TO RUN OFF .THE NEXT DAY I WENT BACK TO THAT SPOT AND FOUND SOME OF THE SAPLING TREES HAD BEEN PULLED OVER AND SNAPPED IN HALF

Number of Witnesses: Two in our camp and two across the lake – they heard the
splash
Length of Observation: Heard huge splaaaaash (not kerplunk) and not a tree… too big to be a beaver tail. We immediatly grabbed our lights and scanned the lake as did the pair of people across the lake. Neither of us saw what made the sound and, stranger than that, there were no ripples on the water anywhere. A while after that, my girlfriend of twenty plus years, went to releive herself and heard very heavy footsteps coming from behind where our tent was and they stopped when we shined our lights in the woods. Well, we went to bed around 12-12:30 am. Something came into our camp walking very heavy on two feet and woke her up. She, in turn, woke me up at which point I grabbed my 12 gauge shot gun and she the light, opened the tent and she shone the light around the camp and we saw nothing. Threw more wood on the fire and laid back down. 20-30 minutes later it came back. This time I worked the action on my 12 gauge and said out loud “I WILL SHOOT YOU!!” Then, we went to look outside the tent again – still saw no eyes or animals. The third time it came back I went out of the tent and stayed out for a while trying to use my ears to locate the animal’s movement and it was silent for a very long time. I think it knew what I was doing – maybe watching us! Finally, I grew tired and went to bed. The “animal” did not touch our food, as it would have been easy for a bear or raccoon to move the rocks I had piled on our small cooler – it was undisturbed, as was our dry goods and garbage tripple bagged and hanging like 12-15 ft in a tree over a thin branch. The other pair of campers left at first light. We never got to talk to them except to ask what that huge splash was to which they replied “I dont know.”
Animal Description: No visual contact
Aprox. Height: n/a
Aprox. Weight: Very heavy footed. Felt the vibration in our tent through our sleeping bags no foam –
just a thin ground cloth
Head/Facial Description: n/a
Any Odor? If so, Description: None noticed as whatever it was was down wind of us
Vocalizations Heard?: Not in this encounter but had another like five miles from there as the crow
flies. Northwest of this location with 2 witnesses present.
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
My girlfriend and I were hellbent on going canoeing into this spot, even though it was raining profusely. She never gets much time off and we had a baby sitter for our dogs. We went anyway, even though all of the people that were supposed to go canceled on the count of the rain.
We paddled in and looked at the first site and saw what looked to be bear tracks in the mud very deep. I sunk in up to my shins as i got closer to examine the tracks, which i found very strange, as like 10-15 yards away there was a much easier way into the lake. I rinsed off my legs there. As we walked up the path to this spot, we were both spooked out like something was not right. We went down the lake and checked other sites till we found one that felt comfortable to us. We set up camp and then went in search of wood and brought our fishing poles with us caught one nice bass which I took pics of then let go at camp. While at other sites, we noticed no wildlife present – no squirrels, birds, chipmunks… nada! We got back to camp and got fire going, but the wood that we found was like 20-28 inches around so I had to use a small hatchet to whittle away at it; using a bigger peice to hit the back of the hatchet head to drive it through the wood. Did this for several hours. First night, nothing but a mouse that came up begging like a dog as we ate. I held him there with my shoe then let him go – couldn’t squish him. The next day a family walked around the lake via a path that goes all the way around. Then, just before dark, a couple came in and camped accross the lake from us setting up just before dark. We cooked dinner and just got our dishes cleaned up and evrything put up and away, when my girlfriend went to relive herself and came back startled and said “Theres something big walking around back there, breaking big branches.” I said, “Quit being a wussie!” I stopped cutting wood and turned the radio down and heard something pretty big moving around and dissmissed it. A little while later we heard this huge
SPLAAAASH!! We grabbed our lights and already had the shotgun out and immediatly scanned the lake in the direction the splash came from as did the other 2 people accross the lake. We saw no ripples and no sign of what made the splash. I yelled accross the lake, “What was that?” They replied, “I don’t know.” We stayed up for a while and then went to bed around 12-12:30am. My girl woke me up saying that there was something in our camp, terrified. I whispered, “You shine the light. I got the gun.” We opened the tent and she shined the light out behind us and all around and saw no eyes, animal – nothing. I threw more wood on the fire we went back in the tent. About 20-30 minutes later, it came back. I got up and we did the same thing, except I worked the action on the shotgun and said “I WILL SHOOT YOU” but not loud enough to startle the folks accross the lake. I remember that I said that so that if it was a man, he would know I wasn’t joking. We, again, saw nothing. I stoked up the fire and sat there with my light and gun across my lap for about an hour, trying to use my ears to locate any movement but felt like I was being watched or that it knew what I was up to. I finally went to bed around 4 am.
I don’t think it was after our food, as our coolers were by the canoe, covered only by a few good sized rocks that might have kept a raccoon out but not a bear. Our dry goods and garbage and a lot of other peoples’ garbage were hung over a 2 inch branch 12-15 ft off the ground. The folks from across the lake left earlier than I got up. We didn’t get to talk to them. We will go back but with more people next time!!
5/6/11 – Sent witness follow-up email requesting interview and provided him with PDF copy of his report.
5/11/11 – Witness responded via email. He had a few errors/revisions he wanted corrected in report and advised he has some site photos that warrant a look. Shots of loons on the pond next to their campsite. Shots show something moving from frame to frame across pond in background – something he did not notice at time of pictures. Awaiting email for hi-res images to review and then will call witness for interview.

5/12/11 – Witness sent hi-res image of camping area (attached) and indicated that he believes
there is something in the bushes to the right of the tree with the trail marker on it – but that one needs to zoom in to see it. I do not see anything definitive there. Also, witness indicated he has more hi-res photos he will send. I responded asking him to send the additional photos and that I would call him after I have reviewed them all for interview/follow-up.

6/18/11 – Have yet to receive additional photo images so I emailed witness again inquiring about them.

6/22/11 – Witness emailed me another 10 images of
the campsite and adjacent pond. I have attached images to report. Also, witness states he believes the lake and campsite are on Good Luck Lake and that this lake is near Powley Place in Hamilton county – but he needs to check with his roomate to verify

Number of Witnesses: 1
Length of Observation: roughly 45 minutes to 1 hour
Animal Description: large, dirty brown color, mix of human and ape
Aprox. Height: 7-8 ft.
Aprox. Weight: 400-500 lbs.
Head/Facial Description: almost human like large black eyes a kind of wide flat nose big nostrils
coarse nappy fur dry elbows
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: Yes
Any Odor? If so, Description: horrible musty wet dog smell
Wood Knocks Heard?: Yes
Physical Evidence?  Pictures of Structures Taken
Recordings Made?: Yes
i was on top of my gazebo making some repairs when all of the sudden i hear twigs and branches
snapping behind me at the tree line approx. 50 ft. away. i turn around thinking i would see a dog or
possibly one of the coons that knock over my garbage cans. instead i see a gigantic dirty brown
creature about 7-8 ft. tall walking towards me. i was frightened to the point that it felt like time stopped.
once i collected myself i was able to get a picture of it with my phone. we both just stood there for a
while perfectly still. after about 15 minutes it just retreated back into the woods and it continued to
almost patrol the tree line for another 30 mins or so. i have not seen it since.

Number of Witnesses: Just me
Length of Observation: About five minutes
Animal Description: None. Vocalization and activity sounds only.
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: No odor at the time.
Vocalizations Heard?: Yes! I heard what started off from a low growl to a horrendous shriek. It scared the hell out of me.
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
At the time this occurred my parents lived in the town of Northville. I was heading home for
Thanksgiving and was coming back a bit late due to work. I took a back road that I love because it is a beautiful drive through the country-side and is a neat road with an old fashioned stone wall that runs along it. This road is a great way to get to Lake George from Northville. Basically the path less taken. I knew there was a pull off and since I had to make a quick pit stop, I decided to do my business at this spot as long as nobody was there. I wasn’t too worried as there is hardly any traffic on this back road. I pulled my car over and stood facing down the hill taking a piss. As I was sitting there doing my business, all of the sudden I heard the most horrendous sound I’ve ever heard. It started off as a low growl and built up to an inhuman shriek. As the shriek ended, all of the sudden i heard something huge crashing through the bushes and coming up the hill at me at a pretty good speed. I didn’t wait around to see what the hell was coming up the hill. I zipped up in record speed, got in my car and drove off as fast as I could put the keys in the ignition.
I asked game wardens what could make a sound like what I heard and they told me that a Bobcat can make this sound. Whatever was coming up the hill sounded bigger and heavier than a Bobcat and from what I know of that animal, it’s not one to come at someone (unless it’s rabid). I wish I had the presence of mind to stick around and see what the heck that was, but I guess I’ll never know. I think it’s very interesting though that the recordings I’ve heard of Bigfoot vocalizations sound very much like what I’ve heard. Hard to believe one is in NYS though.