Bigfoot sighting near Steamboat Springs, Colorado
26 Jun 1996 · Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States
A lone fishing witness saw a large hairy bipedal creature standing and crouching about 20 yards away at Lost Lake near Rabbit Ears Pass, Colorado, around 2 pm in June 1996.
Facts
- Reported as
- Daytime sighting on the edge of Lost Lake, near the Continental Divide
- Date
- 26 Jun 1996
- Place
- Steamboat Springs, Colorado, United States
- Evidence
- visual
- Point
- 40.452, -106.653
- Time
- about 14:00, daylight
- Witness was
- hiking
- Witnesses
- 1
- Creatures
- 1
- Distance
- 18 m (60 ft)
- Duration
- 10 s
- Height
- 2.1 m (7 ft)
- Described as
- massive, medium length, biped
- Behaviour
- crouching, standing, walking, watching
- In the account
- alone, ape like face, bare face, broad shoulders, cave or rocks, crouched, eyes seen, face seen, human like face, likened to ape, long arms, looked at witness, near water, no neck, reported years later, ruled out bear, snow on ground, thought bear first, told no one, very tall, walked upright, witness fled, witness froze
- Account
- firsthand
- Sources
- 2 independent (5 listings)
Sources
- BFRORead the report
- BFRO (full-text copy)Read the report
- BFRO (KML copy)Read the report
- ManganiRead the report
- BFRO (Renner copy)Read the report
Nearby sightings
- Outdoorsman finds tracks in snow in Fall ; possible stalking encounter while mountain biking the following summer
- Hunters have an encounter returning from hunt
- Possible tracks found by snowshoers near Steamboat Springs
- Elk hunters find series of tracks in Mt. Zirkel Wilderness
- Daylight sighting by woodsman of two bipeds stalking an elk
- Bigfoot sighting near Jackson County, Colorado
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