Hello and welcome to the program.
You'll have a warning in this episode we're talking about
Bigfoot in Idaho. That's correct, Bigfoot in
Idaho. Now this first sighting actually
involves 2 separate sightings, one in 2023 and one in 2025.
The first one we're looking at says the date on this is May
4th, 2025, Ada County, Idaho. They've got a lot of good
pictures here of the area where it's taken at.
Really neat. It says these campsite
coordinates are accurate. However I want to clarify that
the other coordinates mentioned for the sound locations, see a
map and coordinates below are approximate guesses as to where
the sounds originated based on my experience as a hunter and
listing for game. Nearest town Boise, nearest Rd.
Bogus Basin Rd. Observe.
I have two stories to share, 1 from 2023 and the other from
2025. I understand this report is
supposed to be concise and factual, but I'm combining both
stories here for context now. May 2023, night time 4 friends
and I hiked the number 78 Dry Creek Trail approximately 10
miles north of Boise, ID. The trail followed Dry Creek
heading north. Well hiked about 6 miles and
found a campsite one of our group had used before.
It was just off the trail and secluded.
We stayed one night that year. I went to bed with inadequate
bedding and couldn't sleep all night, but that allowed me to
hear 3 distinct howls in the valley.
I can't say how much time passed between the house, but each one
sounded exactly like the well known Ohio howl recorded by Matt
Moneymaker, only longer. I would estimate each howl
lasted about 10 seconds, roughly 5 seconds longer than the money
maker recording. The howls came from different
positions in the valley we had passed through earlier.
My head was facing southwest and two howls came from that general
direction. The third came from the South or
SE closer to the South, the angle about 30° eastward.
Estimating distances would be inaccurate, but I'll give my
best guess based on my position. The first how roughly 4 to 500
yards southwest on top of the valley West of our trail.
The second how about 500 yards on the opposite side, east of
our trail, also on top of the valley.
The third howl quieter and further away, SE echoing as
though bouncing off the mountains.
The first two howls had different sound qualities due to
their positions, but were similar in volume.
After the 3rd howl, there were no more.
That night none of my friends heard them, only me.
Now on to the second sighting. May 4th, 2025.
Night time the same group of friends and I returned to the
same trail and campsite. I slept in a different spot with
my head pointing northwest. This time I didn't sleep much
better, but I had warmer gear. I sometimes experience what I
call blink sleeping where you blink in a couple of hours seem
to pass instantly from the same general area as the third.
How? In 2023 SE I heard tree knocks.
I don't recall the exact number, but I believe it was 9 distinct,
evenly spaced knocks. Steady like a metronome, loud
but distant. The knocks echoed through the
valley. That was the only time I heard
knocks on this trip. I've been hunting since I was 16
and 100 and I've heard elk from 100 to 1500 yards away.
This experience helped me approximate where the sounds
came from. Some might wonder why a Bigfoot
would be so far down in the Canyon below heavy forest cover.
The campsite sits where north facing slopes were densely
forested while South facing slopes are grassy.
At this time of year, the Canyon floor is probably warmer than
the upper basin where snow may still linger.
It makes sense that they would move upslope later in the summer
when valley temperatures rise. And then it says other witnesses
four others were with were with me, but I was the only one awake
and light sleeping enough to hear the sounds of the stories.
None time and conditions. Nighttime, no ambient light.
Cold environment. Pine forest with a nearby Creek.
Few wildlife sounds, mostly small birds and occasional
squirrels. No artificial structures.
Then we have the follow up investigation by BFO
investigator Matthew Moneymaker. I spoke with the witness JVOA 27
year old Idaho resident who grew up in this area and spends
considerable time outdoors. He currently works for a large
lawn care company in Boise. He is credible and precise about
what he heard and where it seemed to come from.
The likelihood of these sounds being misinterpreted diminishes
greatly because they occurred on separate occasions and included
both Howls and Knox. The sounds came from the area
where Dry Creek crosses the county line between Ada County
and Boise County. Although Bogus Basin Rd. appears
close on a map, it might as well be many miles away.
At its nearest, it's still half a mile up a steep Canyon slope.
There is no access to Dry Creek from that road by foot or
vehicle. Even if it were a major highway,
it still would be functionally remote from this campsite.
The only connection is a faint, rough mountain bike path nearly
3 miles down Dry Creek Trail. As of this report, it is likely
that Bigfoot still frequents this area.
They may even be heard in the in the early morning hours from
Bogus Basin Rd. if wind conditions are calm.
Wind is common on mountain ridges but tends to die down
early in the morning. Wow, isn't that wild.
Yeah, very cool Siding or herring, I guess we should say.
This next sighting is dated fall 1983.
It says submitted by witness on Sunday, March 28th, 1999.
Elk Hunter observes an apparent family group.
This was around Bear Lake County.
Location details Elk Valley and Bear Lake County east of
Montpelier, ID near Wyoming, specifically at some Beaver
ponds called the Bloody Bucket. Nearest town Montpelier observed
this occurred in either late August or early September of
1982 or 83 during the opening of archery season.
Several friends and I were camping near Elk Valley with our
dads at our annual Beau Camp. One morning we started our hunt
at the top of a thick timber area.
I had never been in this area before, but my instructions were
to make my way through the forest and walk straight
downhill. After a while I was told I would
come out into a clearing where there would be a saddle with a
few rocky knolls draining into some into some ponds at the
bottom. The entire area was known as the
Bloody Bucket. Why?
I don't know and I didn't ask. The plan was for my friends and
me to slowly walk through this area, hoping to scurry out a
mule deer or bull elk so that the animals might cross pass
with another hunter in our party.
We were spread out so far apart that we couldn't see or hear
each other. As I came into the opening,
everything was exactly as described.
I can see where I needed to end up, though it was some distance
away. I came out in the middle of the
opening, walked to a rocky area, stopped to catch my breath, and
looked around. Suddenly, about 100 yards down
to my left, I saw what appeared to be 3 upright dark brown
figures walking quickly down a trail near the trees.
They were in order of height with the tallest leading
followed by a slightly smaller one than the smallest which
seemed to be struggling to keep up.
As I stood there trying to process what I was seeing, the
lead figure turned around and waved his arm as if urging the
small one to hurry. They then continued at a fast
pace into the timber and disappeared.
I was shocked, nervous and somewhat frightened.
My heart was pounding. I just sat there in amazement
for about 15 minutes. I didn't go down to look for
tracks or the science. Instead, I went on to the bottom
as instructed and said nothing to anyone.
At the time, I didn't think anyone would believe me.
Anyway, a few years later I ran into one of the friends who had
been hunting with me that day. I was relieved when he said, do
you remember that year when we haunted the Bloody Bucket in Elk
Valley? Well, I've got something to tell
you. He then described exactly what I
had seen. It turns out he had been
slightly ahead of me and to my right in the trees about 75
yards away. Neither of us had realized we
were so close to each other or that we had witnessed the same
thing. It would have been nice to have
had someone to back me up at the time.
Since then, I've told a few people about the encounter.
I also heard that the same summer there was a sighting near
Montpelier Reservoir a few miles West of Elk Valley.
It's ironic that the only time I would probably experience
something like this, I didn't have a camera or camcorder and I
was too stunned to investigate further or tell anyone right
away. No sounds were heard, no
physical evidence was collected. Just my word.
But I remember it like it was yesterday.
That's amazing, isn't it? Also heard it says of sightings
in Montpelier. Other witnesses, one other
stories, reports near Montpelier reservoir.
Time and conditions, morning environment, Aspen Pines,
clearings, ponds are approximately 7000 foot
elevation Elk Valley near Montpelier at Idaho.
Well you know seeing one of these things would be amazing,
but seeing a whole family of them, that just takes it to a
whole new level doesn't it? Now this sighting was submitted
February 21st 2001 but it goes back out of ways.
Summer of 1967 July 29th it says Bonner County, Idaho.
Submitted by a witness on Wednesday February 21st, 2001.
close daylight sighting of Animal Crossing Rd. near Spirit
Lake. Location details.
Use this information as you wish, but now but not head
defamatory away please. I believe the big I believe the
big cross the road in the westerly direction based on my
geographical memory, though it felt like a northerly direction
as well. The sun was ahead of us and
slightly to our left as we traveled along the road nearest
town, Bonners Ferry, the road to Monastery from Spirit Lake near
Shroad, Observed I. Stephen Reeves of Paradise, CA
was spending the summer of 1967 in Spirit Lake with Steve Shaw
at his father in stepmother's home.
Mr. and Missus Ruth Shaw, Steve Dale Skellinger and I were
bucking hay at the Harold Glab farm about 10 to 15 miles away.
We were returning to Spirit Lake in Dales.
Red 1956 Ford pickup truck along a narrow, dusty Rd.
The road had thick strands of lodge bull pine on both sides.
As we drove, the hair in the back of my neck suddenly stood
up, prompting me, seated in the middle to turn around and look
behind. What I saw was a tall, quiet,
long haired bipedal mammal covered in hair from head to
toe. It crossed the road in just four
steps. As soon as we passed the spot,
the creature stepped onto the road and made it across before
the distance and dust obscured it from view.
It never looked at us or reacted to our passing.
Complete disregard. I kept this to myself for years,
wanting to protect the creature from harm, which was common back
then. I never mentioned it to Steve
Wardell, so I don't know if they saw it in their mirrors.
A few days later I was separated from them when I was put on a
bus with some of my California friends.
Steve's brother Bruce had taken up a collection for gas money to
make the trip from San Francisco Bay Area to Spirit Lake to be
the letter Steve's mom had mailed asking Mr. Shaw to keep
Steve in Idaho. I have not seen Steve since.
That's hilarious. In 1993, my wife and I made a
trip to Spirit Lake to find Steve.
We managed to locate Dolly to try to get a message to him.
We met the town historian and when I explained who I was, she
immediately remembered the events of that summer.
She was middle-aged at the time and delivered newspapers.
A very nice person. It was Boots and his black model
A Ford. He even drove it backwards to
show us where Dolly lived. All this information will check
out. I would even submit to voice
testing if you wish. PSI wish no harm ever comes to
these things. Wow Time and conditions says
late afternoon around 4:00 PM. Clear weather with a light
breeze of three to four mile per hour.
It was hot in the fields, but the stream running through the
farm kept our beers cold and the boss didn't mind.
About BFR Investigator Nancy L Jones Nancy L Jones is an NBA
currently doing occasional special projects for her
husband's business while being a full time mom.
She formerly worked as an IT project manager for Hewlett
Packard and attended the 2007 Central Oregon Expedition.
Very cool sighting. Happened a long time ago but
this person still remembers it seems like just like it was
yesterday. The sightings dated November 4th
at 2006 Bonneville County. Location details just above kept
crossing on Willow Creek nearest town Idaho Falls nearest Rd.
Boone Rd. Observed On November 4th, 2006,
my family and I were driving through the foothills above
Idaho Falls near Willow Creek when my sister, fiance, daughter
and nephew said they saw something off to the side of the
road. I stopped and turned it around
so I could shine the Broncos headlights on whatever it was.
When we got turned around, the lights couldn't reach it so I
decided to step out with the flashlight.
When I shined the light on it, the creature stood up on its
hind legs about 30 feet away. It was standing in a barrel pit,
and it was at least a foot taller than me.
I'm 6 feet tall. When I first saw it, I started
yelling at it. Every time I made noise.
It ducked down, and when I stopped, it began to rise his
head again. Then when I backed up and got
into the Bronco, it suddenly jumped up and ran off after us,
chasing us for quite a distance. We all saw it, but none of us
can make out any facial features.
I've heard stories from friends and family about sightings in
this same area over the years, but I've never paid much
attention. I'm an avid hunter, fisherman
and have spent my whole life in the outdoors.
I've haunted and fished this area for years and have seen
elk, deer, antelope, Badgers and bear.
But just about every just about everything that walks, crawls or
swims. I have never seen anything like
what we saw that night. It was bigger than any bear I've
ever encountered. I've haunted the sell way where
there's a large bear population and this was definitely not a
bear man. So imagine that thing.
Just kind of almost like I spent a little bit of hide and seek
with it. Also, I noticed several times
before we had seen figures standing on hillsides but
couldn't tell what they wore. After we saw the creature and
drove some distance down the road, we stopped and rolled down
the windows. We heard a scream or howling
noise unlike anything I've ever heard before.
Another time we heard what sounded like a baby whimpering
down by the bridge. We tried to find the source but
couldn't. We reported the incident to the
Sheriff's Department, but nothing was found under other
witnesses. There were five of us all
together. We were just out for a drive
heading home when we saw it. Other stories too numerous to
count. Many reports from different
people. Time and conditions.
It was around 8:00 PM night time, but fairly light because
of a full moon environment. Thick willows along the Creek,
lots of sagebrush and cedar in the higher areas where we
spotted it. And it's this follow up
investigation by BFO investigator Nancy L Jones.
I spoke with two adult witnesses by phone for about 30 minutes.
They recalled additional details about the encounter.
The adult male witness said the animal was very dark brown or
black huge, with extremely wide shoulders, over half as wide as
Bronco itself. He estimated the animal was
about 9 feet tall, considering it was standing 1 foot taller
than his 6 foot height while in a 2 foot deep Burrow pit.
He said the animal chased their Bronco, which was moving up to
30 miles an hour. It ran alongside the vehicle in
the Burrow pit and crossed the road behind it at several
points. OK, they're saying Burrow pit.
I'm assuming this, that maybe this is the ditch along the
road. I don't know.
The road was gravel and winding, making even 30 miles an hour
difficult to drive safely. You can imagine from the first
moment he saw the creature, he heard it making a strange
growling, whiny noise. Kept this up as it ran.
One of the adult female witnesses, the driver's fiance,
confirmed these details. She had a better view once they
began driving away and added more physical description.
Its arms were very long, over half its total body length.
The hair was thick, longer than a bear's.
It ran while looking into the vehicle at the passengers no
more than 20 feet away. She said the animal was very
large and fast and had no trouble keeping up with the
vehicle in the darkness. No facial details weren't
visible. She added that everyone in the
vehicle was screaming and crying in fear.
She also mentioned another incident in July 2006, possibly
related while driving in Clark County with her fiance and his
daughter. The daughter said there's a
naked black man running through the hills.
At the time, the adults ignored it, assuming it was a child's
imagination. Looking back, they wonder if it
was the same or a similar creature.
The two locations are about 60 miles apart.
Wow, that's really something. Wow, scary stuff.
OK, we'll do three more here and wrap this up.
We're told the sighting is submitted by witness Stephen D
Barber on Friday, October 24th, 1970.
Nineteen 97 in the Sawtooth National Forest 3 forestry
workers spot an 8 to 9 foot tall figure walking on 2 legs across
a clearing about 150 yards up slope.
It's interesting now the actual sighting. 1977, October Late in
the month Thomas County, Idaho location details Sawtooth
National Forest, Kamas County, Idaho, about 30 miles north of
the town of Fairfield on a temporary logging Rd. about 3 to
4 miles northeast of Smokey Dome Rd.
Observed in late October 1977, I witnessed something unusual.
I apologize that this report is so old, but the two women who
were with me, one was my supervisor and the driver became
very frightened and immediately began dismissing what we had all
seen because that I figured there was no point in reporting
a story that they were going to deny.
Perhaps this will help someone's research now.
I saw a figure walking on 2 legs across a clearing located about
150 yards up slope from the road we were on.
I was with two young female Co workers, US Forest Service.
They insisted it was nothing but a man in dark clothing but I
disagreed. I'd walked across the same
clearing while hunting and knew there were scattered saplings in
the area. Judging the relative size of the
trees, the comparative height of the figure and the speed at
which it crossed the clearing, I calculated the figure could not
have been less than 8 to 9 feet tall.
It covered at least 150 yards and no more than 20 seconds at
what appeared to be a leisurely pace.
I later went up to check for tracks, but unfortunately the
ground was too grassy. I tried to cover the same
distance myself. Even at a full run, it still
took me nearly a minute to cross the same ground the figure had
covered in only 20 seconds. I don't know what I saw that
day, but it was no human being. Wow.
It's amazing how these things are reportedly moved so fast.
And man, you know, it kind of makes me think of a lot of these
missing person cases that David Pilates does such a good job on
it. And you find sometimes victims
or you find the remains of victims miles and miles away
from where they disappeared at and, and you're just left
perplexed. How can they cover that much
space, Man, It makes you wonder. There's not some kind of a
connection there. Other witnesses, 2 female Co
workers. We were driving back from a
single installation project environment.
High Alpine area at over 10,000 feet in elevation, approximately
60% forested with high altitude spruce and large very steep
terrain. Loggers had to use the highline
method because it was too steep for skidders.
Man boy, they're really up there aren't they?
What a cool place though. This sighting actually happened
on August 9th, 2007, it says Cassia County, Idaho.
Location details South of Hanson Rock Creek Rd. almost to the ski
lodge nearest town. About 22 miles from town in the
Sawtooth Forest. Nearest Rd. about two miles from
the highway on a dirt Rd. observed.
I live in Kimberly, ID While my grandson was visiting we drove
to the South Hills in the Sawtooth Forest.
We turned off on dirt Rd. called Wolstrom Hollow.
I have been there many times to look at the Beaver dams.
We drove as far as we could, then parked my pickup and walked
about 1/4 mile further through the trees.
I saw a silver object and thought I heard people talking
near the Beaver Dam. I stopped and noticed a lot of
elk and deer droppings and a very strong smell.
I asked Brandon if he smelled it, but he said no.
He said he kept hearing loud sticks banging together or
against rocks. I couldn't hear that, but I kept
smelling the strong odor. Then Brandon said he saw
something scary. At the same time my dog, who was
on a leash, barked loudly with her hackles up.
I said let's get out of here. On the way back to the pickup,
Brandon said he thought it was falling us and my dog kept
looking back. I told him to keep walking
because I didn't want to look like prey.
At the time, I didn't know exactly what he had seen.
We got into the pickup and drove out.
Brandon then told me he saw a large hairy creature hunched
over, very tall, bigger than a bear, with piercing yellow eyes.
He said looked him right in the eyes and scared him so badly he
couldn't move or talk. Please let me hear from you.
I had to tell someone. Later I talked to a friend who
hunts, rides horses in the mountains and has cattle in that
area. He said that someone reported a
Bigfoot sighting there about 3 years ago and had seen tracks.
I'm too afraid to go back there alone.
I think we stumbled upon it while it was eating an elk or
deer. Carol Sherman That's some scary
stuff, man. Also noticed, I remember the
smell clearly. I have been in what that area
before and I had not seen any elk or deer droppings.
This time there was a concentrated amount of elk
tracks and droppings as well as deer.
And then just other witnesses. Myself, my grandson and Brandon
is 17 years old. Other Stories A friend, Bertie
Brown, who was 83 years old, told me about a report from
three years ago. People from town saw Bigfoot
tracks and thought they saw the creature itself, but my grandson
said it looked him right in the eyes.
It was very scary for him and for me.
Time Conditions Approximately 5:30 PM.
Weather was warm with no winds and no clouds.
Environment Pine forest with lots of quaking Aspen.
Dirt roads No bridges. Wolfstrom Hollow turns off from
Rock Creek Rd. Turning drive on the dirt Rd.
for approximately 2 miles. Veer left at the fork and go
about a half a mile. Yeah that is really cool and
they did do a follow up investigation on it.
Lots of neat stuff. We'll do one last one here and
wrap this up. This last sighting happened on
October 20th, 2015. Clark County, Idaho Location
details Camp locations 16 1/2 miles North by Northwest of
Dubois, ID as a crow flies nearest town.
Spencer, Idaho. Nearest Rd.
Interstate Hwy. 25 observed October 20th, 6:15 PMI observed
2 Bigfoot walking up the trail while I was hunting.
My father, brother and I were camped at the head of Swampy
Draw on Pleasant Valley Creek during the cow elk muzzleloader
season. Our camp was located at 16 1/2
miles North by Northwest of Duo, Idaho as a crow flies at an
elevation of 7054 feet. The general topography consists
of pine covered mountainsides with grassy and mix Alder
sagebrush valley floors. We had been hunting elk and deer
for five days and saw many deer on the hillside above camp about
250 yards away. Range Finder, reading and a few
elk. After exploring the area for
days, we decided to hunt the deer close to camp.
My father's 83 and walks with a cane, so he stayed close to camp
for the evening hunt. We walked about 100 yards up the
hill behind camp. My brother positioned himself a
few 100 yards along the base of the hillside.
I decided to take my ATV up a swampy draw and sit at its head
for evening. This way we covered a larger
area. Swampy Draw has an old logging
Rd. running through it, but access from Pleasant Valley is
difficult. I managed to ride my ATV up the
road, leaving camp at 2:30 PM because I wanted to be in
position early and let the area settle before prime hunting
hours. Before the evening hunt, I
explored A skid Rd. that climbed the east side of the draw and
looped back toward camp. After disturbing the area, I
returned to the main logging Rd. turned toward the head of Swampy
Draw and got into position for the evening hunt at 6:15 PMI saw
two figures coming up the trail toward me at about 200 yards.
I first thought they were hunters ruining my evening hunt,
but as they came into full view I saw they were black in color.
Most hunters wear some blaze orange or camouflage, but these
figures were not dressed at all. They walked side by side and I
suspect there were a male and a female pair, although the
distance was too great to confirm.
One was about 8 feet tall, the other about 7 1/2.
I couldn't make out facial features, but they appeared
incredibly tall and rather slender.
When they saw me, they turned to my left and disappeared into the
tempered hillside. As they turned I saw very long
arms almost reaching their knees, swinging in long arcs
like a human power Walker. It was then I realized I had
left my 454 Castle pistol at camp and only had my single shot
54 caliber muzzle loader, a mistake I won't repeat.
The sighting lasted about 20 seconds.
Since the creatures were between me and camp and there was only
one way out, I waited 10 minutes before heading back.
I kept my rifle across my lap as I rode.
The camp was just over a half a mile away.
Halfway back, I encountered a new roadblock in a small Creek
that hadn't been there earlier. The creatures had placed a large
log across the trail. As darkness fell, I pushed my
ATV over the smaller end of the log with some difficulty.
The next day I returned and found the barricade reinforced
with additional logs and stumps too heavy for three men to lift.
There were no signs of dragging. They had been carried at
enormous feat. To make things stranger, my
father kept mentioning a stick Fort about 200 yards from camp
at the base of the hill. My brother thought Boy Scouts
had built it, but nobody uses this area.
I checked it out. A large tree was bent in an arc
and masses of sticks were woven into the frame, forming a hollow
area about 6 foot by 12 feet. No three men could have bent
that main tree. My father said it looked
recently used. I believe the sequence was this.
I distributed the creatures when I explored the spur Rd. above
the structure. They built the barricade, then
they came up the road and revealed themselves as if to say
hey, we're here and you shouldn't be.
I never went past that barricade again.
I looked for footprints but found none in the hard gravelly
ground. On the evening of the sighting,
my father and brother counted over 30 deer near the structure.
After the sighting we saw no more deer for the remaining four
days of our hunt. One night I heard my horse
traders tack door open and shut. I had stored food inside but
nothing was missing. The latch requires fingers to
open and I know I had secured it tightly.
Wow this is about me. I'm 62 years old and have spent
a lifetime hunting and fishing in Montana, Colorado, Wyoming,
Idaho, Oregon, Alaska and other and northern Minnesota.
I have had other close encounters but this was the only
time I clearly saw the creatures.
Seeing as believing the debate is over for me I guess.
So that kind of sums it up. You know the debate is over once
you see when it's things. Myself, I've never seen one, but
there's just so many eyewitness accounts.
I have to think that there's something out there, out there
in the wilderness. Until next time, this is UFO
warning over and out.