Number of Witnesses: 1
Length of Observation: 2-3 minutes
Animal Description: Large ape like. It stood strait up like a man, and was covered in Black Fur.
Aprox. Height: 8′
Aprox. Weight: 400 lbs
Head/Facial Description: It was the only part not covered in hair. Dark skin color
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: Yes
Any Odor? If so, Description: Not known. I was in my truck
Vocalizations Heard?: no
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
I was driving to work headed towards Albany just passed exit 27 at 430 am or so. When this tall black furry animal like man that ran faster than anything I ever saw right across the thruway way up in front of me. It was so tall it stepped right over the guardrail with no trouble, and ran right up into the woods. It never looked anywhere but forward. It was like it was chasing a deer or something up into the woods on the side of the road. It could not have been a dear or any type of animal I have ever seen before. It looked like an ape standing strait up as it ran. It ran faster than a man could. It could not have been a man because there were no houses in the area, and people are not allowed to walk by the thruway day or night

Number of Witnesses: 3 adults and 3 kids
Length of Observation: 1 to 2 minutes
Animal Description: N/A
Aprox. Height: 8 to 9 feet in height
Aprox. Weight: 400 to 500 pounds
Head/Facial Description: brown hair all over its body including head
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: Yes
Any Odor? If so, Description: creature was downwind from us (no odor)
Vocalizations Heard?: None
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Physical Evidence? (hold Ctrl key to select more than one): Pictures of Structures Taken
Recordings Made?: No
While hiking with my family at Letchworth state park, we kept hearing noises coming from the
surrounding woods off from trail #2. After 15 minutes or so of walking with caution we came to a turn in the trail and looked towards the end of the continuing trail. I saw a huge silhoutte move and stop at the end of the continuing trail. It was dark brown in color. I inmediately told the girls to keep the kids together and move faster towards the turn in the trail without telling them what I have seen. We were in the middle of the woods with 3 kids and two babies, the last thing I wanted at this point was to get everybody scare. As we walked away from the path I proceeded to take a picture of the trail and I belive there is something clearly seeing in the picture once you maximize or amplify the view. I’ll send you the picture and you tell me. I believe there was something following us close and observing my family as we walk deeper into the woods and my wife confirms the sounds of breaking branches we heard as well.

Number of Witnesses: 1
Length of Observation: about 5 minutes
Animal Description: I never saw the animals, I was too scared to look out the windows of the
converted school bus because of the “keening” sounds and the vibrations of the ground near me.
Aprox. Height: no knowledge
Aprox. Weight: had to have been heavy, at least two animals
Head/Facial Description: not seen
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Vocalizations Heard?: yes, a high pitched keening and low growls
Wood Knocks Heard?: No
Recordings Made?: No
I was at our old school bus that we used as a base for deer hunting. We owned over 150 acres which joined over 1000 acres of uninhabited land owned by different families in this area.
This was about a week before deer season opened. I had come up to camp to spend Saturday night/and most of the day Sunday. no one had spent the night there since the previous deer season. The only items I had with me were a baby ben alarm clock, and a flashlight. I had had a wood fire burning in the camp stove. When the fire died down I climbed in my sleeping bag in the old army cot I slept in, in the back of the bus. It was a very clear, moonlit night. I had almost fallen asleep when I heard what I can only describe as a high pitched keening sound. and it was coming closer to my camp.
Then I heard another sound answering the first one. I heard the first calling and the second on
answering with the same kind of keening noise. within a matter of minutes I felt the ground in the
nearby clearing shaking, it felt like whatever was making the keening noise must have been very heavy, either that or I was so afraid by the noises I heard that I was trembling. These two whatever they were
were drawing closer to the school bus, like they knew I was there and were investigating me. Finally, I decided that I would make the alarm clock ring to scare them away. I didnt even dare to raise my head from the bed, I was so scared. I wound the clock and set the alarm off. As soon as I did the keening got louder and their footfall was right outside the bus. I was so scared I actually passed out from fear. The next thing I knew several hours had passed and daylight was breaking. I never heard or saw these creatures again, and I never told anyone about my experiences until just a few years ago, I told my wife, son and daughter about it.

Number of Witnesses: 2
Length of Observation: we stopped our vehicle and watched as the creature stepped into the
highway, turned to look in our direction and then slowly move off the other side of the road, about two minutes I would say. We drove up to the spot where it disappeared into the forest, but could see nothing of it after that. Animal Description: it was about 5 to 6 ft tall, had dark fur, long arms that hung down and swung as it stepped forward, it turned its whole upper body when it turned to look at our car. I told my husband that it looked like an ape, and that is about as close an animal that I could compare it to.
Aprox. Height: 5 to 6 ft
Head/Facial Description: ape like
as described above, we viewed this from our vehicle at a fairly close proximity. Close enough to know it was not a bear or any other animal that I have ever seen in the Adirondacks. It remained in our view for two minutes and then casually walked off into the woods, leaving us stunned and confused as to what it was that we had just seen. It walked upright, arms gently swinging at its sides, turning to look in our direction before going on its way back into the forest.

Number of Witnesses: 1 (myself) viewed the creature, although many of us in our
group heard the “wood-knocking” incident that occurred on our hike to T-Lake very close by, the first day.
Length of Observation: Approximately 4 to 5 minutes
Animal Description: What I observed was the back and back arms of a gorilla-like creature, robust-
looking, from the waist to the shoulders. I had seen many bears and gorillas at several zoos in New York City, where we lived. What I saw was a shiny black-haired creature’s back, extremely large. It would have stood, I estimate, at 7 to 8 feet tall, assuming it had a “normal head” proportionate to the body that I observed. It’s head was hidden beneath the branches of a pine tree. He was about 30 feet away, just behind a row of bushes that lined the lakeshore in that area. The bushes were about 4.5 to 5 feet tall from the ground, and I could clearly see its waist, back and back arms and elbows
Aprox. Height: The shoulders stood about 6 to 6.5 feet above the ground where it stood. He would
have been 7 to 8 feet tall counting his head.
Aprox. Weight: It looked heavy, about 600 lbs, maybe more, I estimate.
Head/Facial Description: Could not see its head or facial features, but his body (what I could see of it)
was definitely hairy, with shiny black hair, probably about 4 to 6 inches long.
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: Yes
Any Odor? If so, Description: No particularly strange odor emanating at the time, except that of pine
trees, I recall.
Vocalizations Heard?: None
Wood Knocks Heard?: Yes
Recordings Made?: No
It was probably the first or second complete day we spent at T-Lake’s south shore; we were a group of about 10 to 12 persons, some going on their first camping trip in their lives. I decided to take a mid-day swim, not far from the group, while many of my friends volunteered to look for wood and help cook lunch for us all. I swam about 50 feet east of where we set the tents (we set camp right on the clearing where the trail veers westward parallel to the south shore of T-Lake, after coming northward right to that clearing on the south shore). I swam around lazily swimming around and floating on my back, with my head partially in the water up to my ears. At one point I looked toward the shore and I froze in fear, momentarily. I thought, “A BEAR!” But almost immediately, I said to myself “That doesn’t look like a bear.” I kept quiet, because I thought, “That looks like the back of a very large gorilla!” The more I quietly observed it, the more I was convinced it wasn’t a black bear. After all, I was tired of seeing the bears at the Central Park Zoo and at the Bronx Zoo, and I had seen the gorillas there too. I then began thinking, “What is he doing?” It almost seemed like he was hiding his face within the pine branches so he wouldn’t be seen, like a child would do. I remember thinking to myself, “This can’t be a BIGFOOT creature, since they are supposingly inhabiting the forests of the Pacific Northwest USA, and are not found in New York.” (I had read a little about Bigfoot, Nessie and other monsters in a book I recall, “The Maybe Monsters” by an author whose last name was ‘Gardner’ or ‘Garner,’ when I was in Junior High School. So I was somewhat familiar with the legend of Bigfoot.
Anyway, I was terrified that if I made noise, it might see me and jump in the water and attack me. I
stayed in the water trying to stay afloat for a few minutes, but I realized I couldn’t do this forever. I
started praying that whatever that thing was, it would not hear or see me. Nevertheless, I thought it
strange that it had not seen me when I initially arrived at the spot, since I had been thrashing around in the water. After at least 4 or 5 minutes, I decided that I was going to swim ever so gently so as not to create any sound, so I could get back to the group that was still busy cooking and working the fire. When I finally reached the group, I was helped up to shore and I immediately told the group that there was something big, an animal, over that area (I pointed there). My sister and some friends asked, “what kind of animal was it, a bear?” I knew it wasn’t a bear, but I thought that I would be judged as a ridiculous fantasizer if I told them what I knew I had seen. So I answered, ” I think it was a bear…. I don’t know for sure. Just go out there and see for yourselves.” About three of the male friends went a few feet east, but nowhere near where I was urging them to go and see. Their curiosity was short-lived. I warned them just to keep an eye open, and not to venture off alone or far from the group.
Important to note: when we were hiking toward T-Lake, we made several stops to rest on the trail.
During one of the stops, I looked up to notice something very strange. It was a very tall tree that had a thick branch protruding about 12 feet about the ground. The branch was partially twisted and broken, but not completely. It was at least 7 inches in diameter, and it was a healthy tree. I could see the yellowish white and green color of the fiber where the break was. I made mention to some friends that it was strange, that it seemed like someone or something heavy reached the branch and tried to break it off, or maybe hung from the branch before trying to twist it off to break it. During the next resting stop on our hike, we were perplexed by the noise, very close by, of something like someone hitting a large tree with another piece of wood, or like the sound made when you use a thick carton tube to hit a tree or a wooden object. We heard it just above the cliffs to the right (east) of the trail. We got an uneasy feeling when I mentioned that the sound was not of someone using an axe to shop wood, and that there were no houses, I was sure, in that area. (I verified this with a Park Ranger when we came down from T-Lake the final day and shared our concerns about what we had heard and seen during our hike. Normally, campers would camp near the lake, where they’d have access to water.
The ranger explained that there weren’t any houses near the trail to T-Lake for many miles.
It was only a couple of years ago (2007) that I read about what Bigfoot investigators call the “wood- kocking” behavior. I’ve since heard some recordings of these, and definitely they sound like what we heard on our way to T-Lake during that trip. I’ve only recently read that Bigfoot sightings are common in various parts of the Adirondack Mountain State Park (near Sabbath Day Point off Lake George, for example, and Washington and Warren counties). This is why I am sharing this experience with you.

Number of Witnesses: 2
Length of Observation: About a half hour.
Animal Description: No actual sighting. Heard loud vocalizations from at least two different animals.
Loud knocking coming from our side of the pond and the other side. Heard a heavy bodied animal
moving through the brush about ten meters from the tent. We listened as the two animals continued to knock and vocalize as they traveled off in to the woods. Heard the knocking again the next day way off in the distance. Wrote down the experience in the leantoo log.
Vocalizations Heard?: A series of loud growl/ cries. Hard to describe but couldnt match the
vocalization to any sound clips of local animals.
Wood Knocks Heard?: Yes
Recordings Made?: No
My friend and I were awoken about midnight by a loud seiries of knocks and loud vocalizations. We both stayed silent, and were a tad frightened. The brush was cracking, and loud steps came close to our camp. Another one of the animals could be heard on the other side of the pond knocking on ocassions, and vocalizing. We listened until they were far off in to the woods. Neither of us slept well that night. The next morning we heard knocking far off.

Number of Witnesses: 1
Length of Observation: 25-30 seconds
Animal Description: very shaggy, moss in its hair, brown to dark brown in color
Aprox. Height: 7′
Aprox. Weight: 300lbs
Head/Facial Description: back of the head looked like the rest of it, fur or hair about 3-5 inches long,
wouldn’t turn its head so I could see a face
I was hiking in the Adirondacks alone just to get away from everyday activities. I was just scouting
around the state land and came into an area with tall pines that looked like an old stand that had been planted not wildly grown. I smelled something that wasn’t right with the pine smell that usually
acompanies a grove of pines. It smelled of a musty cellar or a stagnant swamp. Then I noticed someone walking away from me about 30 yards away. Only the someone was very tall and covered with brownish hair. It walked hunched over with long swinging arms and at least a 4 foot stride. I whistled to it and it just kept moving, never looking back. I immediately followed it to look for tracks but the dry grounds and pine needles yielded no impressions. I would have followed it further but wasn’t armed at the time and wasn’t taking any chances.

Number of Witnesses: 1
Length of Observation: few seconds
Animal Description: Manlike with reddish hair covering him.The eyes were bigger then any deer I had
ever seen.Usually with a deer you only get one eye glare from deer.I got two from this thing.
Aprox. Height: 9 to 10 foot
Aprox. Weight: maybe 400 lbs.
Head/Facial Description: reddish orange hair.
Can Witness Provide a Sketch of Animal Seen?: No
Vocalizations Heard?: no but in the middle of the night there is a sound we hear that noone of use
hunters can Identify and we know them all from the area.If one starts this sound you start to hear it
from other locations like some kind of commmunications.
Recordings Made?: No
I was born and raised in that area.I have hunted all my life in that area.I have seen all the animals in the area even those rare ones.I was headed to work as usual at a high rate of speed.You have to be extremely aware on everything because of all the deer and such jumping out at you.I myself have hit few  deer..So your always paying extrem attention.When I approached the stop sign to wihch I always make a rolling stop.I saw the eyes reflect my head lights which drew my attenyion to look.When I looked to the right of me where my head lights were still on him.I saw an out line of him and starred more.The way the head lights hit him you could see his hair was reddish.I said to myself I just saw big foot.Although I know its against the law I was always speed on this road and my senses are always high.When I came home from work during daylight hours though I had shrugged off what I had seen in the dark I still looked over to where I had seen it.Even though I thought It was really big that night after looking in the day I realized he was down in an inbankment and I was only seeing him from his knees up.I think the only reason I had even caught him in my lights is becuase of the high rate of speed I travel.I would never even tell the guys I hunt with because I know they will make fun.
Contacted by WItness, 6/4/2012 Following was added by the witness: 6/5/2012: Hello…………..It was some years ago.In the Town of Day,Saratoga County in Upstate NY,on Shippee Rd..It seems to pass through the area in the spring and then again in the fall.The one episode that I actually did not see it but thought something bad was going to happen to me.It would make a strange call/cry off in the distance and with each cry it would be closer to the tent.This was between 1 and 2 am .I could hear it breathing so heavy right over top of me while in a pup tent.I could tell this was huge.It never made a sound during the whole episode of approach.The wooded area this happened has been de-wooded heavily.I know this may sound crazy but I swear it was looking to mate.After only a few seconds hovering over top the tent it was gone with out a sound.Anytime I have had an episode concerning what I say is a Big Foot….

Number of Witnesses: four
Length of Observation: tracks only
Myself and three family members were small game hunting in the wooded, swampy area off south
greenfield road, about 4″ of snow on the ground, we came across large footlike tracks. The shocker was the distance between the tracks, about 2X the gait of an adult male, 4-5 ft between the steps, bipedal, humanlike except for the size and length of step, we followed the tracks for appx 1/2 mile, then went a different direction. Even today we jokingly refer to the time we found the “bigfoot tracks”, but I never had a better explanation.

Number of Witnesses: One, my camping partner that was waking up, and also
heard the loudest wood knocks
Length of Observation: No observation, but heard wood knocks during 10 minute or so span of time
Wood Knocks Heard?: Yes
Recordings Made?: Yes
Was woken up to the sounds of some very excited Blue Jays overhead, while sleeping in my tent. I heard some wood knocks and started up my recorder. I made a 4:13 recording of the event. There are scattered single knocks and a few double wood knocks throughout the recording. The sound of the knocks is wood on wood. Before we had turned in for the night, we were owl calling and wood knocking next to our small campfire, but received no replies. This was around 5 hours before the recording was made.