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Bigfoot sighting near Elkins, West Virginia
Jul 2012 · Elkins, West Virginia, United States
A hiking couple in Otter Creek Wilderness, West Virginia, saw a dark silhouette on a ridge and heard a monkey-like call around 5 pm in July 2012.
Facts
- Reported as
- Hiking couple has brief sighting, then hears primate vocals, then sees tree shaking, in Otter Creek Wilderness
- Date
- Jul 2012
- Place
- Elkins, West Virginia, United States
- Point
- 39.043, -79.652
- Time
- about 17:00, daylight
- Witness was
- hiking
- Witnesses
- 2
- Distance
- 91 m (300 ft)
- Duration
- 30 s
- Behaviour
- vocalizing
- In the account
- family lore, felt fear, likened to ape, near water, on trail, only silhouette, repeat location, ridge or mountain, told no one, witness fled
- Account
- firsthand
- Sources
- 1 independent
Sources
- BFRORead the report
Nearby sightings
- Daylight sighting by fisherman 6 crow miles NE of Elkins
- Possible vocalizations heard from the Bear Heaven Campground east of Elkins
- Bigfoot sighting near Davis, West Virginia
- Family hears possible vocals on summer nights at their home near Dolly Sods Wilderness Area
- Hunter has close sighting of a primate-like creature in the Canaan Valley National Wildlife Refuge
- Man recalls his daylight sighting while hunting in the Monongahela National Forest
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