Explore public witness records represented in the Observatory. Each profile preserves testimony, source history and later updates without treating visibility as a credibility score.
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Explore witness record →In a publicly attributed written report submitted in August 2026, Terra Filmer-Larson describes a brief dusk sighting of a large, dark, upright figure moving through forest near Lake Crescent Lodge employee housing in Olympic National Park, Washington, around late August 2006.
View witnessPublicly identified as Sean and recording artist Shadowyze, the witness recounts a 2022 field-survey encounter near Chipley, Florida, in which he and a coworker briefly saw a tall indistinct figure and later a fur-covered form moving through swamp water.
View witnessReported August 23, 2026 nighttime visual encounter in Larue County, Kentucky after apparent knocks and a whistle response.
View witnessReported August 19, 1966 close visual encounter near Cadiz, Kentucky while a large hair-covered figure pursued wild pigs.
View witnessReported May/June 2025 Oregon visual encounter after vocalizations and other claimed activity.
View witnessReported childhood face-to-face visual encounter in Ona, West Virginia.
View witnessNamed witness James Lady describes a mid-September 2016 southern Ohio nighttime sighting after deliberately spending several nights seeking a Sasquatch; he also reports later Michigan experiences and audio recordings.
View witnessNamed bowhunter who submitted BFRO Report 82619 concerning two unidentified howls heard at 07:30 on 2026-09-28 at Diamond Bay, Lake Norfork, Baxter County, Arkansas.
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MediaA witness profile is a source-linked research record, not a credibility score. Earliest testimony, later interviews, media appearances and changes over time remain chronologically distinct.
Bigfoot Society: “Hunter Looked Up—and a Blond Bigfoot Was 20 Feet Away.” Classified as stable/repeated detail relative to the earlier Whiteface Reservoir account.
Fouke stories and third-party reports are not Joel firsthand encounter evidence.